They have very good soda.. They need to get their crap together. I bought a 8pack of Hansen Cola flavored Cane soda ($3.00). Got it home popped one open drank half of it before realizing it was diet. At first I thought maybe I messed up and bought the wrong one. I went back to the fridge to check and low and behold... it a case for regular cane sugar soda. Drinking diet soda isnt going to kill me. However, a person with PKU.... this aint so good. Their diet coke has splenda, true its not phenyline, but still. I used to have a friend in Chicago who was PKU. She said she could not even have splenda. She said she never drinks pop for fear of them mixing it up (like fountain drinks).
The can of Diet Cola and regular Cola look remarkable alike. Cola is silver with white dots. Diet is white with silver dots. I think that when they were packing the case, somebody messed up and put wrong diet cokes in the hopper to be packed. I mean they are so similar, it could honestly happen. I put this assumption on the fact that there was on regular soda in the pack, but the rest were diet. I called up the company last night to try to get ahold of somebody who could investigate and maybe do a recall. Of course, its all a maze there only thing you can do is leave a message. Nobody to get ahold of in case of emergency. I called up Ralphs and spoke to Celeste (the manager) I told her about it and suggested she either check the cases or pull them. She said she would. I left a message on the Hansens website. Obviously nobody there today as its 4:30pm here. I just hope nobody gets hurt from this, otherwise, there going to be a hell of a lawsuit. Might sound silly for those of you who arent familiar, and if thats so.. check out PKU.
PS. Had a second thought that maybe they put the wrong soda in the wrong can. I've never had their diet pop, but it tastes super sweet. Again the cans look so familiar that maybe they messed up there. I wish I could stop obsessing, cause now Im thinking maybe if a diabetic drinks this soda.. they can be injured too. I tried calling FDA... after waiting on hold for 20 min they told me to call food safety dept on monday. I told that lady she could either pass it on, or just forget it. I'm tired of making calls though, I've done all I feel obliged to do. I'm saving two of these sodas just in case. (as proof). read more