There are monks that made a stout they could drink for all of lent. Nothing but stout for 40 days. Each serving was enough nutrition-dense to act as a meal replacement without causing alcohol intoxication.
After quitting soda and sweetened beverages for a while, my tastes adjusted and now soda of any sort is insipidly sweet and syrupy. Basically the entire history of humanity was spent drinking unsweetened beverages, all of a sudden our species can’t abide to drink plain water?
Coke had one out for a while that was half sugar half Stevia. That wasn’t so bad for me. It still had a bit of the aftertaste but it seemed like a good compromise. They discontinued it.
Not that you should be attempting to drink more of the stuff... but I figure it's a form of harm reduction. Sugar is certainly worse for your health if you have this vice.