You Big Softy! - Your Favourite Soft Drinks

[J. M. Stovall]

Also, check out this report done recently on NPR:

Pepsi, Mountain Dew Launch Retro Drinks

All Things Considered, May 5, 2009 · Pepsi and Mountain Dew have both launched Throwback, two retro variations of the popular drinks that use sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Steve Tanner, of BevReview.com, a Web site that provides reviews of soft drinks, talks about what this means for the beverage industry and consumers.

Crud! How did this slip past me! I have to go find some MD today!

 

[DanielJones]

I love a good cream soda, but on an odd day nothing beats a good old Shasta Black Cherry soda. Takes me back to childhood summer.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[lolly_loisides]

Any other Australians remember Passiona? I haven't had it for years - yum!

 

[cecil]

Passiona is great! I called it "the fizzy drink for mums" the other day when a friend and I both said that it was out mothers' favourite. It's DELICIOUS.

check it out, 50s passiona shop display:

 

[Forgotten Man]

Sidral Mundet!

The green apple is one of my favorites... a Mexico tradition since the 1920s. It is often no more then .75¢ a bottle at the Ranch Market down the street! Funny, I found Amazon.com has it for sale... and they're asking over $2.00 a bottle!!! lol

 

[Ethan Bentley]

My wife tried a root beer float yesterday, I hadn't had one in ages, she loved it!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

My wife tried a root beer float yesterday, I hadn't had one in ages, she loved it!

i couldn't drink root beer if my life depended on it. i cannot stand the taste.

 

[John in Covina]

Root beer, Birch Beer and saspirilla have a flavor that is similar to some of the original toothpastes. I guess you gotta like toothpaste.

 

[Fletch]

I mostly don't drink sugar, but since Canada Dry Bitter Lemon isn't made any other way, I sometimes have that (the gin or vodka counteract much of the glucose) - or create my own with diet tonic plus lemon juice.

Also enjoy Jones Sugar Free Black Cherry (not Boylan's, which tastes like envelope glue), diet ginger ales such as Vernors (a Detroit favorite - actually a ginger beer), and my grad student gasoline of choice, Coke Zero, which I've even been known to drink room temperature.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Root beer, Birch Beer and saspirilla have a flavor that is similar to some of the original toothpastes. I guess you gotta like toothpaste.

Interesting that you say that her first comment was "it's like going to the Dentist" but after that she said it was pleasant. I wish my dentist gave me root beer.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Crud! How did this slip past me! I have to go find some MD today!

I am sipping some throwback MD as I type this, very nice, not quite as zany and lurid as it successor. Pepsi throwback was good too.

Thanks to Kitty for the heads up.

 

[lindylady]

Pomegranate tea and Cheerwine. You can only get Cheerwine in the Mid-Atlantic/ coastal regions, I believe.

 

[Fletch]

When I visited Morganton, NC, on business some years back, Cheerwine was ubiquitous. There was even Diet Cheerwine.

The name sorta reminds me of a long-gone grape pop, Vin Fiz.

 

[Arcot]

Favourite softdrink, thats an easy one, or two at least.

Bickfords Creamy Soda or Original Kola

http://www.bickfords.net/products/prod_old_style.html

 

[JennyLou]

Jones Green Apple soda is good but too sweet. Since I don't usually drink sodas, I guess all of them seem too sweet to me.

 

[Diamondback]

I mostly don't drink sugar, but since Canada Dry Bitter Lemon isn't made any other way, I sometimes have that (the gin or vodka counteract much of the glucose) - or create my own with diet tonic plus lemon juice.

Fletch, where do you get Bitter Lemon? I can't find it anywhere on the Left Coast, and haven't even in Florida where I first encountered the stuff. (I still have ten-year-old glass bottles on the shelf I'm rationing... )

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Fletch, where do you get Bitter Lemon? I can't find it anywhere on the Left Coast, and haven't even in Florida where I first encountered the stuff. (I still have ten-year-old glass bottles on the shelf I'm rationing... )

Diamondback, I've just come back from Florida and got Canada Dry Bitter lemon in an ABC Liquor Store and in Walmart. I was in Orange county.

 

[Diamondback]

Thanks for the intel, Ethan! Maybe we were just in the wrong part of the Orlando suburbs last time (usually, we prefer to book hotels or rental-houses out in Kissimmee/St. Cloud)...

 

[John in Covina]

Bitter Lemon is considered a mixer not a soda pop so it is often found in a Liquor department or liquor store with other mixers. Here in California Beer wine and liquor is available in Supermarkets. If I can't find Ginger Ale with the sodas I usually can find it with the mixers by the liquor area.

 

[djhatman]

I do not drink much pop but when I do I love Mt. Dew with a shoot or two of vanilla flavor. Call me crazy