Diet beer. Yuengling light most of the time its about the best cheap beer around here. Can't have a beer its water. Once in a great while I'll get a Coke with lunch.
Coke, if I'm drinking real pop, but mostly it's diet. Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper, which hasn't been readily available in these parts for months. I've taken to drinking Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry. No pop is any good unless chilled to near freezing first and then iced. You gotta get the Walmart Ozark Trail 40 oz. Tumbler or it won't keep over five minutes either.
I have a Soda Stream and make my own. Usually less than one every day.
Presently it's tart cherry with lime, as Costco had a decent deal on a coupla jugs of tart cherry juice and I found if I use a quarter lime's worth of juice in it it sure tastes good. usually no sweeteners, sometimes a half teaspoon or so of honey dissolved in a dash of water before adding the other stuff.
Have used all sorts of other juices too. A favorite it the juice from a can of chunk pineapple, no sugar added kind. Mixed with those "Kern's" nectars the Soda Stream works well too.
Conrad's choices when out and about are excellent for the commercial stuff.
I like a Mt Dew sometimes when driving long distances and I'm tired of coffee. A root beer is nice on occasion too, especially in a float.
I drink only a few a year and I prefer coke. I used to buy Red Rock at a little store on South Carolina. I loved that stuff. Don't know if they make it any more or not.
Hanco: Coca-Cola is my go to soft drink when in the rare mood for such. And I really enjoy the bottle, tall, "Mexican Coca-Colas" that a local "Mexican" restaurant offers at a premium. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Stopped drinking soda over 35 yrs ago. If I was to have a soda for a mixer it would be a Diet Coke to go with Rum. I did drink some Sprite every day for a week or two when I was sick and throat was sore from the breathing tube I had in there for 3 weeks. Sprite helped soothe my throat, actually anything cold did.
Flavored sparkling water from Kroger, Walmart or Dollar general. Zero calories, basically no sodium, and relatively little potassium. I drink a liter bottle every day. About the most kidney-friendly soft drink I can find besides water.
Coke or Mello Yello. Coke has deteriorated in taste dramatically the past few years. It also varies quite a bit. One bottle may be ok, the next is bitter as hell. Even fountain Cokes will vary from place to place. Never get a Coke at Wendy's. ugh.
I even took the Pepsi Challenge when I was a kid! I picked Coke.
If I still had good well water, that would be all I drank.
I don't know how anybody can drink Big Red or Ski. That stuff is horrible.
Flavored sparkling water from Kroger, Walmart or Dollar general. Zero calories, basically no sodium, and relatively little potassium. I drink a liter bottle every day. About the most kidney-friendly soft drink I can find besides water.
Most flavors actually even taste good.
Nothing with phosphoric acid. Brown colas mostly. All bad.
However root beer is citric acid.
You prob know all the basic though.
Doc told me mt dew was ok. Dentist would disagree. 😃
Flavored sparkling water from Kroger, Walmart or Dollar general. Zero calories, basically no sodium, and relatively little potassium. I drink a liter bottle every day. About the most kidney-friendly soft drink I can find besides water.
Most flavors actually even taste good.
Nothing with phosphoric acid. Brown colas mostly. All bad.
However root beer is citric acid.
You prob know all the basic though.
Doc told me mt dew was ok. Dentist would disagree. 😃
Yep, I miss iced tea bad but they told me it was a no-go too.
If you haven't tried those flavored sparkling waters, try one sometime and see what you think. Citric acid instead of phosphoric, and they are pretty good except for the cherry and mixed berry flavors (taste like cough syrup).
The ones at Kroger only have 120 mg of potassium per liter bottle.
I used to drink RC, but can't now, it tastes like plastic (so does Pepsi). I think they've all changed (meaning cheapened) their formulas quite a bit over the years.
A lot of Oldtimers in my parts like Moxi. Efffff that schiiiiiit. Nasty! T’aint root beer, t’aint cola, t’aint the doctor nor any of them in-between. Though that’s what they’d tell you. Crap is junk, is what it is. I remember being so thirsty when I was about 12 and had a quarter in my pocket when I got off my bike at the center of town. And grabbed the first orange colored can I saw assuming it was a nice orange soda. Bitch at the counter DID ask me if I was sure that was the drink I wanted,.... “well hell yes it is, lady! I’m parched here!”. Spat that [bleep] out clear across the store floor soon as it hit my pallet. And nope, she wouldn’t give me my quarter back for a different drink.
I figured he was more of a TAB guy the original sugar free cola!
Tab (stylized as TaB) is a diet cola soft drink created and produced by The Coca-Cola Company, introduced in 1963. Coca-Cola's first diet drink,[2] Tab was notably popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Further, several variations were made, including a number of fruit-flavored, root beer, and ginger ale versions. Caffeine-free and clear variations were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
I have a pop once in a while, but depends on what I am doing.
If I am having a pizza, I like a Pepsi.
With burgers and such, I like a 7up.
pop! Damn Yankee!
A woman who I worked with related that, years earlier, she had worked at a business across the street from a motel which had a soda vending machine. One day she asked her boss "is it okay if I go across the street for a pop?"
Mostly coke, especially the Mexican bottles. I like Mountain Dew but only in cans for some reason. Stewart's root beer is another favorite. I try to stay with water but sometimes I gotta have a soda.
I have been drinking Ski, a soda bottled and sold regionally, for 50 years. Drink one every morning after I have my 2 cups of coffee, and usually that's it for the day. I will on occasion drink a Coke or Pepsi. I absolutely love those Mexican Jarrito brand mandarin orange drinks, the ones with the cane sugar, but that's just too much sugar intake for me. Can't stand diet drinks of any kind, except for Coke Zero.
I've been a Mt Dew guy since the early 70's, but sometime in the late 80's/ early 90's?, the batch to batch quality went down the toilet and sometime around that time, the taste changed too. It became much flatter and often kind of syrupy. The fountain drinks sometimes have the original taste, but their batch to batch quality sometimes sucks too.
The last few years, I've been drinking a lot more Mello Yello than ever before- although it's almost impossible to find since the Wuhan Flu.
I rarely drink soda anymore but when I do it'll be either IBC or Saranac Root Beer in a root beer float with vanilla ice cream. However, the one soda I'll buy on the rare occasions that I encounter it is Moxie. I like it's spiciness.
I purchase Mt. Dew this time of year to put in our Yellow Jacket traps. Nothing works better.
Nov. 1970 in Vietnam one could buy a case of Fresca ( 24 cans ) for $2.40 mpc. When I left in Nov. 71 the price had dropped to $0.10 a case and still didn't sell. ------- Moxie , Dr. Pepper, Coke , and Sarsaparilla for me
Me too, with or without the gin. Lime is too hard on the old tum-tum now. Prefer Schwepps when I can get it. Fever Tree is awesome, but the price! I save that for the good gin. Store-brand tonic universally sucks.
Ginger ale is good, with or without dark rum. Schweppes again, with Appleton Estate 12year-old.
Sprechler’s Root Beer is the best of the best, but not widely available here.
I go in phases, Dr Pepper and Coke mostly, with an oddball Pepsi or orange Fanta thrown in, and a Mtn Dew for good measure. Tall glass bottles of Mexican Cokes at the hole in the wall taco joints.
Might go weeks without any of them. Then have one a couple days in a row.
My favorite pop is Diet Pepsi, followed by Diet Dr. Pepper. To me diet cola's aren't like drinking syrup like the full strength pop and still have fizz after sitting for awhile and getting warm. Actually if there is coffee, I drink that all day! Yes, it is pop. Soda is what the guys from back east called pop. Soda's have ice cream in them!
Not much around here since the kids got all grown up.
Im holding out hope they bring this one back someday.
How old is that stuff? Shasta was the cheap pop our mom's and dad's would get for us for after baseball games. Best part of the game was the pop after. I don't remember no Chocolate though.
I've been a Coca Cola fan all my life. I like an occasional Sprite or 7 UP. I went through a Diet Coke phase for about 25 years but had to have a twist of lime with it. But couldn't mix it with alcohol very well. It sucked. But Coke Zero with Black Jack, Weller, George Dickle white label goes great. Pepsi Sucks big ones especially the diet. Yankees drink Pepsi because they haven't been edumacated properly.
Now to clarify, I started off drinking Sour Mash and Coke back in the late 60s. But later graduated to drinking my whiskey with water. My son inlaw's grandpa out at Olivia TX had a well (Ain't no City Water in Olivia TX) that had the best whiskey water on the planet. I would fill a glass with ice and fill it half full of Jack Black then dribble a little of that water on top. If I wasn't out at Bob Vickery's listening to my Son inlaw and his buddies play Blue Grass I just bought some Evian water. But lately I've reverted back to drinking whiskey with Coke but it's now Coke Zero.
BTW, anybody here from around Denver Co.? My son in law is in a blue grass band from there called High Plains Tradition. He's the fiddler. No, he's not from there but was a cop there and met the band and they loved his fiddle playing. He's been with them about 16 years and flies to wherever they're playing. He's a great fiddle player. OK thread hi jack over. Oh wait, I forgot to say I do love a gin and tonic on a hot day. I drink mostly Sourmash or sometimes I like wheated bourbon. But I do like a shot of good scotch now and then. And it doesn't have to be single malt. I love Johnny Walker Black but the smoothest Whiskey I've ever had was Glen Fiddich 12 year old. It goes down like water.
Not much around here since the kids got all grown up.
Im holding out hope they bring this one back someday.
How old is that stuff? Shasta was the cheap pop our mom's and dad's would get for us for after baseball games. Best part of the game was the pop after. I don't remember no Chocolate though.
Sometime in the late 70's they dropped the regular chocolate flavor then in the middle 80's dropped the Diet version.
RC Cola /Royal Crown Cola-----I haven't seen or heard of that stuff in years. My grandpa used to work in a filling station here in town after he sold the ranch. The filling station was on the main highway before the interstate and He told me that every "darkie" that ever came in the station asked for Royal Crown Cola. In those days he would only see a couple of them "darkies" a month.
I think that's right. Still, at just 67 cents for a 2 liter bottle, I buy Dr Thunder every time.
Now that Dublin Dr. Pepper is gone the only way to drink Dr. Pepper is the cane sugar kind.
Sadly, Dublin Dr Pepper is no longer made. Dr Pepper sued them and won. Now they make a knockoff version there but it’s not the same. And Dr Pepper’s cane sugar version is not as good as the old Dublin,TX made stuff.
Not much of a drinker, but step-dad had a nice assortment of the hard stuff that he would get as gift bottles from his talks with the speakers bureau. I inherited it when mom moved, so I had to devise some way to make some of it palatable. My cognac and Diet Pepsi recipe drove my drinking buddies a little crazy.
As a kid, it was always a choice between 12oz Coke or 16oz RC cola, depending upon how thirsty you were. Coke tasted better, but RC had a third more pop. Pop was 10 cents, hard to get that money out of the folks. Had to find five 2 cents apiece redeemable pop bottles.
Folks never bought soda when my sister and I were kids. It was Kool-Aid or the hose in the summer. However, one day they came home with a 24 bottle wooden case with a variety of cold pop. Dad said it was ours and we could drink as much as we wanted whenever we wanted to. Immediately we went at it, I drank six and my sister four. Both got stomach aches. Dad laughing, it was a setup to see how we would react and how fast till it was gone. RIP Dad.
I do remember when I was a kid that a soft drink came in a 12 oz. can or a 12 oz. glass bottle. Smaller glass bottles came out of a machine at the fillin’ station. I remember when 16 oz. glass bottles first came out. Nowadays, they have single serving plastic bottles that are a liter...!
NO votes from the NE, New York, PA and that area too for...............................................
Birch Beer..................Red or White?
Favorite? Probably not.
But I do like a good Birch beer. As a rule prefer Red/Brown.
But I really like Frozen Run. It's clear.
I really miss Hires Root Beer. The absolute best. A&W is good, generic is better than Mug or Barfs.
Never even heard of birch beer til you guys mentioned it.
How's it compare to root beer, taste wise?
Ever smell or taste fresh birch? Wish it weren't so, but shipping on pop would be a bitch. Otherwise I would send you some Ma's and Frozen Run. Ma's is like generic, but it's good Birch beer. 4or 5 cans to the buck.
NO votes from the NE, New York, PA and that area too for...............................................
Birch Beer..................Red or White?
Favorite? Probably not.
But I do like a good Birch beer. As a rule prefer Red/Brown.
But I really like Frozen Run. It's clear.
I really miss Hires Root Beer. The absolute best. A&W is good, generic is better than Mug or Barfs.
Hires was a good one.
Can't remember the name, a place "upstate" from NYC we stopped at when I was a kid had big bottle to go. Memory serves it was the best I tasted to that point, be we left that area before I hit 4th grade
I might have to search around for a birch beer now that we've been talking about it. Maybe I can locate a bottle or can somewhere, been years since I had one.
Loved the old Root Beer Floats From A&W when I was a kid. Served in that great big ole frosty mug that weighed about 5 lbs !
A homemade Dr Pepper float nowadays is pretty good. 😜
One like this
Gets used almost every day. Matter of fact, will be getting filled with that concoction I mentioned in an earlier post, Tart Cherry juice, squeeze of lime, and Soda Stream soda water, as soon as I'm done here and start my HOCKEY game.
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