Carbonated Soft Drinks?
3Yes? Just certain ones? No?
I’m adding this branch to the discussion because beer is not the only thing carbonated and/or canned.
Besides, I found a few bottles of Cherry Coke Zero lurking near the fridge, and decided to see if this one would be better than the last one. It wasn’t. I may have to see if I can find a piece of suitable tubing to build a gas gun so that I can use the rest as mortar bombs.
The only carbonated soft drink I’ve consumed more than twice in the past 20 years would be ginger ale/beer. And I’m very annoyed that Blenheim isn’t what it used to be.
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I like a lot of carbonated soft drinks but a rarely drink them. I hate that sugar is so deadly or I would drink them all the time.
@yakkoTDI Same, although I often find that when I get a Coke or something it’s not as good as I remember it being.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI
Do you remember the bottled cokes from the 50’s and 60’s?
Those were incredible. Such a great burn going down.
/giphy burn
@f00l @Kyeh I am not old enough to remember those.
I am not a fan of bubbly / fizz in any form. I never drank cola (save with rum back when I did that sorta thing at a too young age), but loved root beer (old real thing), cactus cooler, and a few other things back then. When I was pregnant, I gave up soda, and after that it was just too sweet. I don’t like sweet drinks at all really, well save meade. I love mead. And ice wine
But no soda
Never drank soda, which is probably a good thing. Cranberry juice, maybe. Prefer water, but not bubbly. Or Bublé.
Do not like soda pop as I do not like the carbonation (and even flat a lot of it tastes bad). I am a milk, fruit juice, milk shake, water person.
Back when we were in a tent top trailer (as a kid) the tail end of a hurricane hit where we were camping on the sand dunes. All the snaps tore out that held the tent top to the trailer. Mom and Dad bought a ton of pop because they wanted the rings to sew them to the tent top to then hook over the snaps that stayed snapped on the trailer and so they could hook the rings over them. Every kid was in 7th heaven but me.
@Kidsandliz
Very ‘McGyver’ move!
@chienfou yes you learn how to jury rig things when you’re camping.
@Kidsandliz
BTDT!
I was never a big ”soda” fan even as a kid. Exceptions would be the better “root beer” of the time, maybe with ice cream, like at A&W, and the Sarsaparilla mentioned in another thread. I also remember the “Tab” of the 1970s.
I do sometimes like carbonated water, aka also “seltzer,” and sometimes buy commercial ones or make it myself with a home carbonator using my own filtered water. I’ve heard different stories about this is generally good for digestive comfort and health, or if it actually is a net negative. Either way with no sugar or HFCS makes it more pleasant and seems healthier for me. Well, maybe with a bit of whiskey.
I like the taste of quite a few sodas but I don’t like overly carbonated drinks due to the ‘bite’ or ‘burn’ you get. This is why I LOVE Nitro Pepsi and really hope they aren’t actually planning to stop making it. The nitrogen makes the fizz much smoother and imparts a creamy taste to the Pepsi that is unlike anything else, and solves the carbonation problem.
Yes, soda. All day long. The fizzier the better. Coke is better than Pepsi because it holds a fizz longer. Nothing beats a Coke/Diet Coke/Coke Zero (I have traversed this spectrum from sugar to zero-calorie over the years) from the fountain at McDonald’s. Root beer? Sarsaparilla? Ginger ale? Cream soda? Yes, to all of that. Mountain Dew, in various weird “exclusive flavors”? If you’ll give it to me in a zero-sugar version, absolutely. The zero-calorie Dr. Peppers in all their variations have become my latest weakness. The weird Coke variations haven’t been quite as dear to my heart the last couple of years, maybe because they all seem to taste the same to me, or maybe because Oreo Coke might just not taste great, but “Dream Flavored” and “Pixel Flavored” are just nonsensical. Soda is 100% my vice and weakness, and the acesulfame and aspartame may kill me one day, but I went into it eyes wide open and taste buds fizzing.
@tondaanderson Those weird Coke flavors alwasy get me at least trying them. Have yet to find one thats actually a good drink. The orea one is trash, coke/ cream bull honky. The only one I actually weirdly bought more then once was the space one. An odd cotton candy /ish concoction.
@bravowhiskey @tondaanderson Yeah, Coke Starlight was really good and I miss it. A shame they parade all these flavors in front of us and then take them away!
I generally like carbonated soft drinks, especially Diet Dr Pepper and/or ginger beer etc. I don’t drink them that often, but will still partake given the opportunity. I don’t keep them around the house, choosing instead to drink flavored waters. I’ll take one of the packets designed to flavor a half liter bottle of water and put it in a half gallon of water instead. That gives it sufficient flavor to make it more palatable to me. Never been a fan of just plain water.
Oh, and ice… Lots of ice! (I’m the guy that will fill his travel bottle half full of ice cubes before leaving the house to go to the airport. Since ice is a solid they won’t take that away from you at TSA, and when you go through security you can then add part of a flavor packet and water to the ice for the rest of your trip!)
@chienfou ICE, yes!!! I put glass mugs into my freezer with about 2 oz. of water frozen in the bottom; it keeps things cold longer than cubes. Also sometimes freezes in cool ways. I love your travel idea, that’s brilliant.
Not sure how this one happened!
@Kyeh
So far TSA has never challenged me on it.
I’ve never been a pop drinker, it’s always water. But If I do drink it, it’s either Dr Pepper, vernors or Dr browns cream soda. I try and stay away from all the sugar.
I pretty much quit drinking sodas 20 years ago - I was trying to cut down on sugar and just lost my taste for them. I do still occasionally enjoy a Dark&Stormy or Cuba Libre cocktail, though (with lime to cut the sweetness).
I love the carbonated burn
Have a thing for seltzer, water, and Gingerale
Have a thing for most of the cola, but I don’t do sugar
I’m sure the artificial sweetener is terrible, but I do it anyway
I started going for caffeine free though
I allow myself a cup of coffee, but I don’t sip caffeine all day now
I use to drink a coke (or two) everyday until about twenty years ago and I developed a kidney stone. Not sure if it was entirely attributed to the sodas but not taking any chances. No sodas for me since.
Yeah, those are real fun. Not. Mine announced its existence in August of 2015. I had to drive home from Idaho to Houston with it.
@werehatrack I’ve driven through Houston. Almost as bad as a the kidney stone. Almost.
@januarymick I grew up and learned to drive in Miami. No traffic anywhere in North America has heen able to scare me. Chasing cabs down Fifth in Manhattan in a one ton van was fun. Boston held no terrors.
I’m a big seltzer fan, but for some reason my taste buds (and intestines) are getting more sensitive. I’ve been watering down my food and drink the past few years
I love sparkling water and wine. Sodas, not so much. I have been a fan of carbonation ever since I was small. In those days, we seldom had soft drinks. They were a special treat. Coca-Cola in the six ounce bottles were 5¢, or in a six pack carton 25¢. Pepsi came in 10oz bottles but RC (Royal Crown cola) came in 12oz bottles at the same price. I never turned down an offer of a “Coke,” which in the South is the generic name for any carbonated soda. A “co-coal-ler” was how it was usually stated by a native.
I used to purchase seltzer water cartridges and carbonate my own in a spritzer many years ago. That proved to be fairly expensive as those little CO2 cartridges were pricey. I graduated to purchasing seltzer water in cans, and would go to a grocery and clean off the shelves of plain soda water.
When SodaStream came out, I got one right away. It was a better deal than purchasing carbonated water from the grocery, but I quickly grew tired of being overcharged for CO2 refills from SodaStream. I went to the 60-L tanks, but one could only exchange them for a full tank at certain places which was less expensive but inconvenient.
About 15 years ago, I got wise and purchased a Kegerator, in which I keep a constant supply of 4x 5gal kegs. I have always have had water, never once beer in my Kegerator. I purchase CO2 from a local welding supply where they are nice enough to fill my 20-lb CO2 tank once or twice a year. We are on a well, so our water tastes good; no chlorine. This gives me the best tasting sparkling water equivalent to premium brands at an absurdly low price.
I am not a big fan of flavoring my carbonated water, except maybe from time to time with a bit of lime juice. And occasionally, I will add some tonic syrup, and a wee bit of gin to that. Scotch also is a wonderful flavoring agent, just sayin’.
I still use my SodaStream to carbonate cheap wine. Champagne is usually a chardonnay or pinot noir or mix of the two grape varieties, so if you can find good deals, such as occasionally on Casemates, one can have “home made” champagne at bargain prices.
Of late, the imported Italian prosecco at either Sam’s Club or BJ’s is hard to beat in terms cheap wine pricing.
The SO loves Coke Zero, so we buy that on sale in cans as I can no longer get the Coke Zero syrup from Sam’s Club, which was something we did for a number of years.
I used to be a Diet Mtn Dew fiend, but stupid heartburn made me switch years ago to Cherry Coke Zero which doesn’t use citric acid.
yay old.