Courtesy of my good friend, Chris Sawyer, who saved me from buying a 4 pack at Food Lion. I’ve had the original Frostie & the diet Frostie before. The original is pretty good, if average, and the diet should never be mentioned again. There’s plenty of diet root beer options out there before you should buy the diet Frostie. Now this option, the vanilla root beer, it is easily the best one of the bunch. It’s rather creamy and the vanilla is really prominent. It’s still an average root beer but I would recommend this one over the other two.
It’s been years (2019) since I reviewed the original Fitz root beer. I haven’t tried it since largely because with a few exceptions (Sprecher, Barq’s, A&W, & Dang) it’s onward to new root beers I haven’t tried before. It’s been so long since I had Fitz’s, the pride of Missouri, that I had to re-read the review to get my mind set for the diet version. I said the original version was clean, crisp, light tasting with a nice vanilla aftertaste. And honestly, that would be a good description of this one. It’s incredibly light tasting and because it’s diet, it’s not sweet at all. I got a little whiff of aspartame in the aftertaste but unlike a lot of diet drinks, it’s barely noticeable. For a diet drink, this is totally serviceable for those looking to save some calories & considering there wasn’t anything that turned me off and grading on a no sugar curve, it’s an above average drink. If I ever completely run out of root beers to revi. 
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