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   linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 03:27:06 JST linear cannon

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   sucralose is the worst. it tastes overpoweringly sweet, to me, even in small amounts. maybe, it tastes concentrated? not sure. but it also seems like it's not supposed to be sweet, like the sweetness somehow stands out from the rest of the flavors. it's like when a teenager tries to hide the smell of weed in their room with a lemon-scented air freshener.
   
   aspartame mostly tastes fine, but the taste lingers and has a bitter quality to it. i can drink things with aspartame, i just don't like it much
   
   stevia is weird because it *doesn't* taste sweet at first, it takes a second to taste it, and it leaves a weird slick feeling in my mouth

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 03:27:07 JST linear cannon

     it really irritates me when drinks have artificial sweetener and are not prominently labeled as such
     
     it seems they do it because they want to counter bitterness of an additive without adding calories - it especially seems to happen with caffeinated variants of an otherwise non-caffeinated thing, as one example, but it happens for other stuff too.
     
     it also irritates me that i can tell which artificial sweetener it is by the taste