DIET VS. REGULAR DR. PEPPER

It's no secret that I love Dr. Pepper. So today when someone suggested that Diet Dr. Pepper is the best remake of a regular, I was interested. He went on to claim that he didn't believe you'd be able to tell the difference between a half and half Diet-Regular mix, and the normal soda. Sure that a discerning Dr. Pepper enthusiast such as myself could do so, I took the challenge.

He left the room and brought back four paper cups. The deal was, he wouldn't tell me what was what, or how many mixes there were, or if there were some that were only diet, so I'd have to guess on my own. I went down the row and tasted them all. The problem was that at some point, I got that diet-flavor in my mouth, and it tainted the tastings. But I was still pretty sure I had it nailed.

From right to left, I guessed: regular, mix, mix, diet.

The right answers: mix, regular, diet, mix.

I got them all wrong. Turns out, when you pour Dr. Pepper and the diet version into paper cups, it fools my mouth.