The new Coke Zero tastes a lot like … the old Coke Zero

I’m in the camp of folks who prefer the taste of the regular cola, and so I agree with the first taster on my starting point. And I could still detect that aspartame tang in the new Coke Zero, but it seemed ever so slightly less prominent than in the previous iteration. In fact, I could allllmost imagine someone slipping me a Coke Zero in place of the very occasional fountain soda I drink, a la those old Maxwell House ads — as long as there was plenty of ice to distract me, and a cheeseburger, probably.