Anyone ever drank Tab?

[Placebo]

I know it's been around since like the 1960s and for some reason is still here, but I've never tried it.

What does it taste like exactly? :P

[Redleg]

1. I remember it tasting very bad. Bitter, synthetic tasting stuff.

Of course I could be wrong.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. They used say TAB stood for Totally Artificial Beverage

:)

[Redleg]

14. I don't doubt it.

It was a real space-age drink.

[St. Jarvitude]

2. Tastes like bad.

That's the only way I can describe it.

Think of Diet Coke mixed with pig urine. Think of how gross that must be.

Then add mud to it. And you get TAB.

[Denver Socialist]

8. Y'know what?

I just saw a 12 cans of Tab in a box in Target just last week. I was *considering* trying it. Tab has been around forever, and supposedly tastes like Lite-Diet-Coke.

-DS

[JimmyJazz]

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[Denver Socialist]

35. Thanks! I appreciate the welcome and the hug

Makes me feel loved :)

[JimmyJazz]

36. Oh, and we share the same hobbies!

:hi:

[qnr]

3. late 60's I think. Or early 70's at the latest.

Never tried it. I always figured it was the pre-diet coke diet coke, didn't even know it was still around.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. It tastes like really bitter cola only not that good.

:)

[Left Is Write]

5. Yes, and it's been around since long before the 1980s.

It was introduced in 1963.

Before Diet Coke came along (in the early 80s), many of us used to jokingly call Tab "Diet Coke."

[flamingyouth]

10. I remember the pre-Diet Coke days

Tab and Fresca were it. :D

[qnr]

15. I tried a Fresca or two. It didn't kill me.

Wasn't that bad actually, but not something that made me want to come back for more.

[Left Is Write]

18. If you don't like grapefruit juice...

...there's no appeal in Fresca.

Every once in a great while, I'll have a Fresca if there's one around, but I don't think I'd seek it out.

[Liberal Veteran]

19. Fresca was passable....Tab was just nasty.

A cold Fresca tasted ALMOST like a 7-up until you hit that saccharine aftertaste.

[qnr]

20. For the Coca-Cola gang --- but Diet Pepsi was introduced in 1964.

Edit: I still remember those "Girlwatchers" commercials for Diet Pepsi, - I guess I was about six or seven at the time.

[Catch22Dem]

6. Haven't seen tab in a long time

I never cared for it. It's a diet soda, and I'm not a fan.

[qnr]

31. I'm cutting back on sugar, so now I pretty much stick to

Diet Pepsi Vanilla ---- quite tasty, actually, for a diet.

[madrchsod]

7. crap-

like drinking the can

[Liberal Veteran]

11. Actually, I think the can itself would taste better.

:)

[MuseRider]

12. High School

All us girls were drinking it. NASTY stuff.

[realisticphish]

I love Tab

dont know why, but i love it; i would actually say its sweeter than other cola, not bitter


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[TexasSissy]

24. It was THE first diet Cola. I remember it well. I liked it a lot, though

I never loved it like I love Diet Coke. It's really been sort of replaced by Diet Coke & Diet Pepsi, etc. I think Tab is maybe not quite as sweet. I didn't know it was being made anymore. Last time I drank it was years ago, and it was made with that other sweetener, not aspartame. That gave Tab a little bit of a bitter or kick kind of taste.

I like Diet Coke better. But I'd go back to Tab if they quit making Diet Coke.

[realisticphish]

26. yeah

i prefer diet coke, but its so DIFFFERENT tasting cola that i almost dont consider it in the same category


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[NVMojo]

13. like artificial coca cola...only worse

[POTGNE]

21. Two Words......

Tab, YUK!

[Gloria]

17. Didnt know it was still around...I just remember that I had one

of those TAB glasses...sort of hourglass shaped, with TAB on it...in yellow? can't quite recall

[demgrrrll]

22. Tab with a fresh lemon wedge, laying out in the sun slicked down

with baby oil. Huge white sunglasses.

[Liberal Veteran]

25. It also had a texture...

[Minstrel Boy]

23. No. But I've been craving Wink lately for some reason.

And I think that's discontinued.



I don't think I ever saw this can, though. Only bought it in glass bottles.

[politicat]

27. I'm one of the few people on the planet that likes it.

To me, it tastes like Coca-cola without sugar and with saccharine. (Diet Coke tastes like new coke tasted - i.e. oversweet and under-flavored.) It's far closer to Mexican or Canadian coke in flavor than to US coke since the re-introduction. I believe it's still around because there are a lot of people who claim to have aspartame issues and for a long time, Tab was the only diet soda without aspartame.

Tab now has aspartame in it, FYI. It also has saccharine, both in small amounts. I know people who can't handle aspartame who can drink Tab. (Now of course, I'm pretty certain that the "aspartame syndrome" is at least partially psychosomatic, but then again, I expect people to use the scientific method, too...)

If you can handle the taste of saccharine, it doesn't taste bad. Not everyone likes saccharine, though.

If it was not a product of Coca-cola, I'd probably still drink it, but as it is, it's on the boycott until further notice list.

Pcat

[Left Is Write]

28. Does anyone here remember Rondo Citrus Soda?

The reminiscing about Tab and other drinks made me think of it.

[azoth]

29. I have three twelve-packs in my garage. Love the stuff.

It's less fizzy that Diet Coke and much less bitter than Diet Pepsi.

[Garbo 2004]

30. One could develop a taste for Tab (and someone mentioned Fresca)

But Tab didn't taste like cola really, it had its own flavor. And Fresca didn't taste like a regular lemon-lime soda either. Haven't had a Tab in many years and was surprised to find out a while back it was still around.

Wow, flashbacks. LOL B-)

[qnr]

32. Fresca wasn't lemon-lime, it was grapefruit. n/t

[Garbo 2004]

43. Thanks 4 the memory refresher. The little gray cells...they go poof !

But I didn't think it really tasted like grapefruit either. ;)

[azoth]

37. Actually, I have Fresca in my garage too. Hmm...too much pop around here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. My sister is addicted to it

It's gross.

[crimson333]

34. Have a friend who drinks it all the time

[Paranoid_Portlander]

38. Why did they name it tab?

Is it bat spelled backwards? Just asking.

[Left Is Write]

39. According to a "World of Tab" website...

"Its name was a play on the notion of people keeping "tabs" on their weight."

[Cadence]

40. It wasn't good.

:puke:

[floridaguy]

41. I prefered Mr. Pibb! (n/t)

[Garbo 2004]

44. I thought Mr. Pibb was awful...know some folks who loved it though. nt

[saracat]

42. Wow! I haven't thought of Tab in years. You had to put lemon in it to cut

the tate. Awful stuff.My Mom drank it . It was the only diet stuff they had when I was a kid. Beside Fresca. I almost liked Fresca and have seen it recently! We didn't want to drink Tab by mistake! Yuck!