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Soda, Cola, Pop, whatever you call it, talk about it here.
Matthew
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I admit that this seems like a rather frivolous thing to make a thread about, but when has that ever stopped a PA forumgoer?
Yes, this thread is all about Soda
Cola
Pop.
You know, that stuff?
What's your favorite? Is it some kind of local, micro-brewery stuff? Or is it one of those big name chains (you can admit it, we won't laugh.) Is it Big K? (if so, you got poor taste man)
My own is probably this stuff i've been trying called Virgil's. Pure Sugar cane soda.
http://www.reedsinc.com/virgils/
They call themselves the Ben and Jerry's of pop. (Frankly I prefer Graeters to B&J's but that's another thread) They are however, creamy and delicious.
But what's yours?
Yes, this thread is all about Soda
Cola
Pop.
You know, that stuff?
What's your favorite? Is it some kind of local, micro-brewery stuff? Or is it one of those big name chains (you can admit it, we won't laugh.) Is it Big K? (if so, you got poor taste man)
My own is probably this stuff i've been trying called Virgil's. Pure Sugar cane soda.
http://www.reedsinc.com/virgils/
They call themselves the Ben and Jerry's of pop. (Frankly I prefer Graeters to B&J's but that's another thread) They are however, creamy and delicious.
But what's yours?
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I'm one of the few people I've met who doesn't have a preference between Pepsi and Coke. Pepsi is sweeter, but Coke has a nice bite to it. Generally though, I try to avoid soda these days because my activity level is poo, and HFCS is like extra horrible when you're not burning the energy off. Sometimes I'll drink a pepsi or root beer when I'm over at my parents place, or maybe get a big soda when I'm at the movies.
Best soda is Cream Soda though.
Then I compromised and decided it's only a despicable term when applied to brands that originated in the south, like Pepsi and Coke.
And I can totally taste the difference, and absolutely prefer pepsi. Always have.
I remember back in the day when Surge and Mellow Yellow were around, sometimes the servers at restaurants would take my order for Mountain Dew and not tell me that they didn't have Pepsi products, and just bring me Mellow Yellow or Surge instead, which was always an awful surprise because those both taste terrible to me.
Anyways I like Pepsi. I drink way too much if it's available. It's why I don't drink beer. If I can't stop drinking Pepsi just imagine how bad off it would be with beer.
I strangely don't like Pepsi Throwback. It has a filmy taste to me which is odd because everyone says the opposite is true - regular Pepsi has it.
Lately, I have been drinking Dominion Root Beer (pretty sure it's local) and it's made with honey. It's probably the best bottled Root Beer here in N. VA. I bought a couple different brands just yesterday to taste test to confirm.
Traveling the world I realized that Sprite taste way different in every country. AFrican Sprite (the kind bottled in Burundi I believe) is more lime flavored then lemon and amazingly crisp when near frozen. It's not as a good as a Fanta Citro over there though.
Arab Pepsi and Pepsi from Isreal both mess with my stomach for some reason.
But maybe I'm just too raised on canned soda to notice.
Not to mention legally actionable. Hence the song and dance you get.
Apparently us rednecks call it all coke.
There's an old style soda fountain shop here in town, and they make fountain drinks the old fashioned way.
Their 0-calorie sour apple is fucking delicious.
The only "other" I can think of is fizz
Alternatively cream soda, which I can only seem to get in chippies here.
You do realize we're 2.5 times the size of TEXAS, right?
We're practically several states stuck together anyways, with VAST distances between regions, so it's not surprising we're so schizophrenic when it comes to pop culture trends. Plus we're always a few years behind the lower-48 when it comes to trends.
I hear all of your youngsters have decided that wearing your pants around your fucking thighs, instead of pulling the them the fuck up, is no longer "hip." If that's true, I envy you people.
Whenever I travel or see something new though I usually buy one or a case and drink them on special occasions. Last year I really liked that super sour version of Mountain Dew but was blown away when the people at large voted for the flavorless white one.
You can find some incredible sodas traveling though. Weird berries, pie flavors turned into soda, warm dr. peppers, strange cola relics from the bygone medicinal days, it's crazy. You haven't lived until you've had a real strawberry soda.
As for fountain drinks you need to find someone who cares about them. The only major chain that does it right is Sonic, but there are plenty of old timey soda jerks at various pharmacy counters that have survived and can make up some absolutely terrific drinks.
And does anyone anywhere like the way plastic 20oz bottle soda taste? It's horrible.
I've never really discerned a difference in taste due to storage medium. Obviously fountain is different, but that's because it's literally made on the spot instead of in the factory.
But I've never noticed a real difference between can and plastic bottle in terms of taste.
From my experience, everyone in Canada uses the correct term: Pop
Although if you use Soda, no one will blink an eye.
Call something not Coke "Coke" though and they will stare at you like you are a fucking madman.
I will order a Diet Coke
and sometimes they don't have Coke, because they're a Pepsi-licensed establishment, and the server will be like
"Is Diet Pepsi ok?"
I am always like "Yeah that's fine."
But every now and again I get the temptation to be like "WHAT! HOW DARE YOU?!" and table-turn and storm out as a gag
Used to just do rootbeer floats, but recently been addicted to orange soda float.
I heard "tonic" once in Massachusetts.
A friend of mine is on a lifelong goal to sample every generic version of Dr. Pepper out there. He's up to a dozen different brand names now.
I remember hearing a story about a guy who did that. Had a rating chart and everything.
Cheerwine floats are remarkably great.
Most of my floats in the last year have been beer. Beer beer, not soda beer... although I do remember being someplace where they had a keg of locally made Birch Beer freshly tapped. That was some incredible soda.
Re: map - wtf St.Louis, trying to compromise? I thought I remembered you being a "Coke" city.
My grandfather doesn't call it that. Did you ask the guy about his service in the Great War?
Pretty much this. Everyone calls it pop. Though there's nothing wrong with Americans who call it soda. The coke thing I just don't get though. Fucking Atlanta.
As a young kid I really disliked the fizzyness of pop so I never got addicted to it like my peers - something my parents were very thankful for - and I had friends who would drink several cans of Coke a day while the only sweet drink I ever enjoyed was sweetened ice tea.
I'll buy Coke for mixer, or at a vending machine if I'm thirsty, but to this day I haven't ever bought pop as a standard grocery item to bring home and drink regularly.
I am ashamed to say though that I got it in my head growing up, somehow, that I hated root beer (which I tried once) and ginger ale (which I never tried). I had both for the first time in about a decade a year or so ago.
I'm not quite sure what I was thinking.
Again, it's not that they want to, it's that they have to. Coke can, will, and has sued over the serving of non-Coke product when Coke product was requested.
It was a waitress, and I was like 8. She asked me if I wanted one, I panicked and said no.
I know, it's just that they say it with such caution and concern I feel like I want to justify that with over-reacting as a joke.