What is your favorite soft drink?

[Rolo]

Originally Posted by chronoaug

Isn't there sometimes a special brew of coke sold made with real sugar and not high fructose corn syrup? I thought sometimes they put it out.

You can get it around Passover. I've only seen it on the East coast. Corn is a leavening agent and thus corn syrup is a no-no.

 

[Rolo]

Originally Posted by PITAronin

The diet version of Blenheim's ginger ale is excellent (but has no distribution in Atlanta and so has to be ordered from the factory.)

Blenhheim's Ginger Ale (No. 3) is my absolute favorite soda. Unfortunately, this is one where the diet version tastes nothing like the sugary one. I like the diet version, but it's not as spicy and not very sweet. It's almost herbal. I think the No. 3 (Hot Hot) is better than the No. 5 (Hot). I avoid the Ginger Beer altogether. The Ginger Beer is good, but no where near as spicy as the ginger ales.

I'm also embarrassed to admit that I've grown very fond of the peach-flavored Fresca.

 

[FLMountainMan]

Originally Posted by zacharydschroeder

I think some of you feel your soft drinks are a lot more local than they really are. RC, Cheerwine and Squirt are all still nationally distributed, just not in the mega-chain stores like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart even carries Mexican Coke in my hometown (a rural Minnesota town of 13,000).

I have always had an affinity toward the original, plain old Coke. However, I find myself drinking a lot of Diet Mountain Dew lately. Also, I view energy drinks as over-priced soft drinks, so I'll mention Monster and Rock Star as some of my other favorites.

Aside from ordering on-line, Cheerwine is only available in fifteen states. That's nine more than you could get it in ten years ago, but it is still not "nationally distributed." Sorry, Minnesota is not one of the lucky ones....

http://www.cheerwine.com/find_cheerw...toDistributors

TMYK

 

[thepataphysician]

coke zero is pretty delicious, but recently I have been drinking club soda with a few dashes of bitters.

 

[Tarmac]

Mexican coca cola is available all over northern california now, thanks to costco. I find it horribly tasty.

 

[LabelKing]

What of, the Jarritos?

 

[dastig]

Pelligrino water and torani syrup.

 

[Master-Classter]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

What of, the Jarritos?

Oh! I gotta add, I was at this mexican place the other day and had some coconut and pineapple Jarritos juice, it was just great!

 

[sho'nuff]

i really love the fruit sparkling water

 

[Steve B.]

I do the Dew.

So does Chuck Norris.

Any questions?

 

[ts4them]

I love the "baby cokes" in the small glass bottles; they just taste better. Also love Dr. Pepper.

 

[staralfur]

Dr. Pepper. It's too bad it's not sold here (Australia) any more. They tried it here for a while and it just didn't sell.

 

[jpeirpont]

Polor Orange Dry is pretty good.

 

[SamIam33]

Diet Coke.. but even the diet ones aren't good for you.... I only drink it if I'm out at dinner....

 

[Brad]

Originally Posted by hopkins_student

Ale-8-One

What a great soft drink, it's unlike anything else out there. We used to drink it all the time while climbing at the Red River Gorge. Then we'd stock up and take cases back to Bloomington .