The Only Good Diet Soda (Diet A&W)

I hate diet soda.

You know that movie in which Tom Hanks is stranded on a deserted island and he talks to a volleyball because it's the closest thing he has to a companion?

Diet soda is like that volleyball.

The only diet soda that isn't is Diet A&W.

Why? Because it actually tastes good. And it doesn't taste good in the way that other diet sodas do--you know, the way they almost kinda sorta remind you of the real thing, if you can get past the nasty chemical diet taste.

Diet A&W tastes like root beer.

I have tried to detect the chemical diet taste. I have tried to convince myself that it really doesn't taste good, that I have been away from the real thing for too long, in the same way that if you're away from Chicago for too long, that stuffed pizza you ordered in Missouri actually tastes like the real deal.

But I drink enough non-diet root beer to know.

If you don't like root beer, you probably aren't going to like Diet A&W. I can't imagine why you don't like root beer, but it's a free country. If you do like root beer, go get a bottle or can and try it out.

I'd offer to refund your money if you're unsatisfied, but I'm poor. And you won't need a refund anyway. You'll like it.