I drink (diet) soda because I need caffeine in the mornings. I am not a morning person and never have been. Without caffeine, I will not be mentally alert before 11am.
I hate the taste of coffee, so soda it is.
I hate the taste of coffee, so soda it is.
Twice the caffeine of cola, but half the caffeine of coffee.
If that were true, coffee would never have become a beverage anywhere.