I stopped drinking soda for a reason too boring to tell but quitting incidentally mostly cured my heartburn. Now I have two sodas a week. It’s too much trouble to get anything fancy. I third the props for Inca Kola, though.
It was only in the UK that I discovered that Dr. Pepper was supposed to be carbonated prune juice.
My favorite (steeped in nostalgia) was my grandmother’s “Elderflower Champagne”. We’d collect elderflowers from the lanes near her house and put them in bowls of water for a day to leech out all the nectar. Then we’d mix that with sugar and water and bottle it up in old Ribena bottles and stack them under the stairs. A few would always explode, but after a week or so we’d have a carbonated elderflower-flavored drink. I’ve tried to recreate it with a Sodastream and IKEA elderflower syrup, but it’s not the same.
(the 1968 ads aside: it’s not even a bad cola, less sweet and more caffeine than the rest of the pack. but I prefer tap water over sugar water nearly every time)
…this was the 68 Afri Cola commercial…
Dirt Benoit’s…
Okay Android keyboard, let’s try that again.
Diet Vernor’s is a relatively unobjectionable diet drink, and good for whiskey gingers, mules, etc. Especially when you’re making yourself 2-4 an evening. Otherwise all that sugar would be unhealthy.
Fever Tree makes a great bitter lemon. I wish it weren’t so damn hard to find.
Back when I lived down the street from a Korean grocery I was addicted to aloe drink. This specifically:
It’s soooo good, like a grape bubble tea.
Did they ever sell Virgin Cola (in the allegedly Pamela Anderson inspired bottle) in the US?
Or so absurdly expensive.
I used to live near an outlet that sold Fever Tree in retail distribution packaging (1L x 8 or 250mL x 24) at near-wholesale prices. Those were the days.
Is it a “virgin” because it’s wildly less curvy than Anderson?
Discovered on honeymoon in 1999, loved ever since. Not easy to find in the US, but there are places that have it.
that stuff is way too strong… I use it strictly as a mixer.
I deeply miss Ale-8-1, which was my go-to pop when I lived in Kentucky.
These days my standard beverage is…
I also love San Pellegrino and sometimes buy it by the case from Trader Joes. It’s so refreshing when cold, but not very tasty when room temp.
The sweet corn sounds like the most palatable of the bunch. If that’s wrong I don’t want to be right. Besides I want to try all of them, especially the ranch flavored soda. Yes it sounds awful but that’s precisely why I want to try it.
Oh, it IS awful.
