Guess it's not coming back

[dvandom]

Just saw the Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr Pepper ad on TV...remixed to have regular Diet Dr Pepper instead. So I guess we won't be seeing the liquid Tootsie Rolls again, sigh.

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[foomf.livejournal.com]

May I introduce you to the world of http://www.torani.com/ and http://www.davincigourmet.com/ ... flavored syrups sweetened with Splenda are available from both.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Hm, Torani is supposedly carried by the Krogers conglomerate. Never seen it before, but I'll give another look next time I'm there.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

The Splenda version of "simple syrup" is a godsend. The rest are good too.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Most stores carry SOME of the flavors in sugarfree.

But very very few carry more than vanilla and hazelnut.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Vanilla would be fine too. :)

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, Dillon's has Torani, but only the sugar syrup versions. However, Target's "Archer Farms" brand has a few Splenda-sweetened syrups, so I grabbed the vanilla and caramel flavors to try out. So far, they seem a bit too mildly flavored, need to use a lot of it to taste. Maybe it'll take less to flavor milk.

Edit: Oooooh yeah. A little bit really sweetens milk up. I guess these are more "sweet" than "flavored", and the sweet part vanishes against the background of Dr Pepper.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

I found that the Torani wasn't as strongly flavored as the Da Vinci, but both of them tend to be a little sweeter than I like, and if I want to flavor an already-sweet soft drink like Diet DrPepper I usually use a non-sweetened extract.

I'm being cautious in that there is some evidence that Splenda's sugar-shaped structure triggers the same insulin surge as the real thing, and hence, may increase the insulin-insensitivity side of things.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I've done a lot of looking at extracts, but no one seems to sell a chocolate extract.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Wal-Mart has DaVinci, but no chocolate there either. Unless Kahlua is chocolate. From the bottle shape, I'm guessing that the Archer Farms stuff is relabeled DaVinci.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Odd. I did a google for chocolate extract and got page after page.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

And yet, I haven't found any in stores. Not grocery stores, not baking specialty stores. Nothing in a brick and mortar.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Oh! That! There might be two places here in Portland where I could find them in the store proper. It's HARD to find extracts in stores - though you can ask and they will order them for you.

It's much more reasonable to order them online.