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Coca Cola, Pepsi, 7UP, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Cream Soda, Orange Crush and other tasty beverages. What's unique?

Doodski

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I went to the local Husky gas station where everything is 200% to 300% of what the stuff costs in a proper grocery and bought some Pepsi Cola because they do not sell Coca Cola. Firstly it was warm as was all the other stuff on any given day when I bought stuff there for convenience in the off hours. I usually buy Coca Cola, Orange Crush and Cream Soda. So, what is your favorite soft drink beverage in your local area that you enjoy? What are off brands that are tasty and refreshing. Do you go for fruit juice or soft sugary drinks? How do you get your FiZZ!?! What is great in your area? Do you have a PoP dispenser in your home or carbonated water?
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SIY said:
Any proper Juggalo drinks Faygo.
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Unfortunately, a few years back Faygo started putting sucralose in their non-diet (!) drinks. A few other companies started doing it around the same time. It's just enough to make it taste 'off'--the first time I experienced it, I thought they had mislabeled a batch of diet drinks as regular, but then I opened a bottle of another flavor and got the same nasty taste, and I looked at the label and saw sucralose listed toward the bottom!
 
Doodski said:
Why invert the bottle before opening?
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Because all the good stuff settles to the bottom. Bundaberg ginger beer is as good or better than the ginger beer my mum used to make in the early 1970s. Lots of capped beer bottles blowing up under the house...
 
restorer-john said:
Because all the good stuff settles to the bottom. Bundaberg ginger beer is as good or better than the ginger beer my mum used to make in the early 1970s. Lots of capped beer bottles blowing up under the house...
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Haha. We made root beer in old beer bottles and they would explode too.
 
My favorites of all time, sadly no longer available:

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Since Canada Dry and Vernor's are produced by the same parent company now, I think they were afraid Canada Dry Bold would just cannibalize sales of Vernor's, so they discontinued it. Cinnamon Coca-Cola was listed as a "limited time" flavor for the holidays, but I had hoped it would come back each Christmas, but sales must not have been great. Oh well, I shouldn't be drinking sugary crap anyway haha!
 
I like vanilla Coke. Cream sodas and root beer are favorites too. Not new, but on a really hot day it's got to be a very well shaken cold YooHoo.

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My favourite was The Pop Shoppe, Black Cherry.

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Now I use a Sodastream, just plain old carbonated water, no flavour...

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Hugo9000 said:
Unfortunately, a few years back Faygo started putting sucralose in their non-diet (!) drinks. A few other companies started doing it around the same time. It's just enough to make it taste 'off'--the first time I experienced it, I thought they had mislabeled a batch of diet drinks as regular, but then I opened a bottle of another flavor and got the same nasty taste, and I looked at the label and saw sucralose listed toward the bottom!
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This will not faze a true ICP fan.
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Used to love this stuff as a youth...
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I don’t drink any soft drinks, but if you put a Jones Cream Soda or Lurisia Chinotto in front of me, it would be hard to resist!
 
This right here is why health care systems all over the developed world are collapsing under the weight of mass chronic disease.
 
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Cheerwine Soft Drink – Uniquely Southern Since 1917

Cheerwine has a unique & fizzy wild cherry taste. Made in Salisbury, North Carolina for over a century–this soft drink is an icon of Southern food and culture.
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not wine (not even close) -- it's a soft drink. It's actually very Dr. Pepper-esque, but it's a thing down south, and we always have some when we're visiting friends and relatives in NC or SC.

Our daughter-in-law hails from the environs of Detroit. She's quite enamored of this:

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Vernor's Ginger Ale | Detroit Historical Society

One of the nation’s oldest soft drinks, Vernor’s Ginger Ale was first served to the public in 1866. The drink was created by Detroiter James Vernor, a well-respected pharmacist with a reputation for meticulous care with his prescriptions.James Vernor began his career as an errand boy at Higby &...
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