The best soft drink

7-Up

Viv VansiCola

San Pellegrino Chinotto

Sanpellegrino Aranciata Amara

Chinotto is a close second.

wine

Dad’s Old-Fashioned Root Beer is good too.

Vodka Soda

Cherry Diet Pepsi

sacrilege... no jolt or dr brown's?

Moxie

Barq’s Root Beer

^ All these answers are WRONG. The correct answer is Dr. Pepper.

Diet Coke

r13

Diet Dr. Pepper

Caffeine-free Diet Coke = brown ditch water.

Fresca and Squirt top anything on that list. Cherry Pepsi third.

Dr Pepper if you eat something sweet, Cocacola if you eat something spicy.

Squirt. And A&W Root Beer. (but not at the same time...)

I'll admit I am addicted to Coke. If I drank as much as I wanted to, I'd weigh 300lbs. I limit myself to one a day and then switch to Coke Zero.

Cactus Cooler

Hawaiian Sun, Cactus Cooler, Dr. Browns, and Tahitian Treat.

Cherry Coke Zero

Tru-Ade (non carbonated, lowers your carbonated footprint!)

Royal Crown!

RC tastes faintly of flea powder.

Irn Bru

Hires Root Beer- unfortunately they stopped making at many years ago.

Big Red makes me bilious. It didn't help watching my hillbilly relatives make fish bait out of it.

RC Cola, baby!

'Mountain Goo' isn't a real soda, OP. It's a parody of Mountain Dew from 'Futurama.'

A pity. You could have given that spot to 7 UP, Frosty Root Beer, Crush, Nehi, or Mello Yello.

I'm partial to Orange Crush myself.

[quote] 'Mountain Goo' isn't a real soda, OP. It's a parody of Mountain Dew from 'Futurama.'

[quote] A pity. You could have given that spot to 7 UP, Frosty Root Beer, Crush, Nehi, or Mello Yello.

I think I made the right choice.

Did you think 'Mountain Goo' was a real soda?

Squirt. This is DL after all.

Here ya go, R31:

Pepsi Western Intermission

Same storyline as above, but with 7 UP (notice Spencer Milligan, who played Rick Marshall in Krofft's 'Land of the Lost' 1974).

Coke Zero is the only soda.

For you, OP, straight from the early 1970s:

I didn't know Brio was Canadian. Sam Pellegrino chinotto is better.

Do you have Brio in the states?

Coke.

Tab.

Vernors

The best soft drink people, is the ask, people. It's not asking you to throw in names of any soft drink you like that is not on the list.

Squirt.

The best soft drink, R48, is not in the list, R48.

The only correct answer is Pepsi-Cola

Dr Pepper out of the poll choices, but the correct answer is actually Cheerwine

I just found out that they still make Nehi. I want to try it, but I'm worried that it won't taste the same.

Spezi-German soda which combines Orange Fanta with Coca Cola

Pepsi Mango-it reminds me of Spezi

Cherry Pepsi

Dr. Brown’s Cherry Soda

Dr. Pepper

Orangina. Yum yum.

Or Coke.

diet sunkist

Ewww who is voting for pepsi?

Ahem.

Any orange soda

My aunties stayed slim with TAB, Ayds, and rainbow diet pills.

Faygo Rock & Rye.

Mr Pibb, you philistines!

Orange Crush

I was hooked on Coke Zero for years, but I've given it up and have become hooked on Sprite Zero.

As far as my favorite sugared soft drink goes, I do love Nehi Peach. I drink it rarely though. Too much sugar for a hypoglycemic.

Mexican Coca-Cola with no HFCS, in a 12 oz. glass bottle.

[quote] Did you think 'Mountain Goo' was a real soda?

For the most part, Futurama accurately depicts real life, so it stands to reason I'd think Mountain Goo is a real life beverage.

Shasta and Faygo are for The Poors.

Be glad, R29. I worked with someone married to a member of the Hires family. As hardcore Trump as you can get. You can spend your money on A&W.

Pop

Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Tonic.

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[quote]R67: For the most part, Futurama accurately depicts real life, so it stands to reason I'd think Mountain Goo is a real life beverage. —OP

Oh, you poor dear! :D

(Mind you, I'm laughing 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ you, and not 𝑎𝑡 you.)

I choose Fanta. But did any of you know that Fanta was the nazi alternative to Coca Cola?

Yes, R74, I was aware.

(BTW, are you the same person as 'Digby' from the IMDb message boards?)

Canada Dry Ginger Ale, especially for an upset stomach, it beats taking Prilosec, Nexium etc band getting esophagus cancer!

Donna and a Black Michael Jackson

Whoops! My bad!

You lost me at "soft" drink

Ginger Ale (any brand) is the best for many reasons: It quenches thirst on a hot day, a great mixer for cocktails, and helps soothe a queasy stomach. Love it.

Actually, r80, I think you might be right. As much as I love Dr. Pepper, Ginger Ale is all around the best soft drink.

Peach Crush is the best, but almost impossible to find these days out of the Deep Red South. Kroger used to have a store brand version at King Soopers, but that disappeared many years ago.

I agree with Fresca and Squirt as being the best.

Fresca + Strawberry Stoli is fantastic

Squirt and Gin is also good - a Squirt Engine

Adding crushed strawberries make both cocktails better.

I don't care for Fresca and Gin.

Your poll sucks OP. How do you not include ginger ale.

My favorite soda is Mash blood orange & mango.

^ Your favorite soda sounds disgusting, r83. Like an elixir made of vomit and air fresheners.

I loved apple Slice in the 80’s.

New York Seltzer- peach flavor

R85, have you tried Manzanita Sol, and if so, is it anything like Apple Slice?

Fresca is still available?! I remember Fresca had an awful chemical aftertaste.

Mello Yello Grapico Sun Drop Nehi Crush

Yes, I do live in the South. Why do you ask?

Ginger ale

Grape Nehi

Green Apple Jones Soda

When I was a kid I used to love Lime Rickey from the Pop Shoppe. A friend of mine used to say that it was good for kicky sugar highs. What he actually would say was "A Lime Ricky for a kicky sugar high!"

[quote]R88: Fresca is still available?! I remember Fresca had an awful chemical aftertaste.

It doesn't have the aftertaste anymore, not since aspartame.

Barq's Red Creme Soda. Has a very different taste than regular Creme Soda. Followed closely by Cherry Dr. Pepper

Birch beer

Ginger Ale.

Cherry 7 up

Best Ginger Ale: Canada Dry.

Worst: Seagram's, it tastes like it has pepper in it.

Reed's Extra Ginger Brew is the best of the ginger ales and beers, and it's a great mixer.

I don’t drink soda but when I did, I’d say Canada Dry.

Mountain Goo? Big Red?

I’ll have a crab juice.

I've never heard of a lot of these soda brands and I grew up in NYC. I don't drink much soda these days, but I do notice certain brands. Most listed here seem obscure, only sold in different areas or no longer available.

Reed's Extra Ginger Brew? Is this a new brand? I only see Canada Dry Ginger Ale and the awful Seagram's being sold at supermarkets, chain drugstores and Costco only carries Canada Dry..

I know them on the West coast, but Reed's products are carried by some Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and Gristedes in Manhattan and by Wegmans regionally, so they have a presence there.

Is Cheerwine cherry cola any good?

Anyone remember Upper 10? It was so much better than Sprite or 7up.

Coke better than Pepsi because it has a sharper taste with diet coke an even sharper one. Diet cherry coke even better than that but absolute best of all is Diet Lime Coke which has been DISCONTINUED!

According to Billy Wilder 'Kremlin Cola' was the Soviet substitute to Coca Cola. Maybe they'll bring it back.

I guess this is no longer a gay forum.

Back in the day, TAB would have won hands down.

I can’t tell the difference taste-wise between Dr. Pepper and Cherry Dr. Pepper.

[quote]R102: Mountain Goo? Big Red?

'Mountain Goo' is a fictional soda, a parody of 'Mountain Dew,' from the animated series 'Futurama.' See R35.

You've never heard of 'Big Red'? It's pretty popular in Texas, manufactured in Waco in 1937.

Poisoned Dragon you are ON IT with this topic.

Are you a soda fiend? I am a (diet) soda fiend.

Pommac

Not really, R113, especially for the past ten years or so. I'm extremely diabetic, so it's got to be diet soda. About four years ago, I discovered that the colas were giving me kidney stones, so I rarely drink them anymore. If it has to be a cola, Diet Pepsi is my go-to drink, because it's not cloyingly sweet like the 'Zero' sodas often are. I like Canada Dry Zero Ginger Ale, but I wish it wasn't so sweet.

I like unsweetened sparkling waters, especially lime-flavored. I have a 33oz of that almost every day. It helps me reach my hydration quota.

As a kid, I tried all sorts of sodas. If the carbonation level was capable of burning my throat and sinuses, I was impressed (favorable mention of Dr Pepper, Orange Crush, Frosty Rootbeer). Throughout the late 70s and through the 80s, I was mostly a Dr Pepper guy, or 7 UP.

In the late 80s, I went through a spell where drinking sodas used to bring on almost instant urinary tract infections, so I stopped altogether for a while. The transition from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup was also a watershed; pretty much all soda tasted different after that, which further discouraged me from drinking them.

Today's 'Zero' formulations are great, but they all taste too sweet to me. If they could just kick it down a notch - but I know they won't. So sparkling water it is.

Schweppes Black Cherry Ginger Ale and Schweppes White Peach Ginger Ale are both fairly new and quite delicious and refreshing.

Ginger Ale

I love ginger ale but never tried flavored. Thanks for the suggestions.

I got some Mountain Dew Zero Sugar Spark (Raspberry Lemonade) today. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds promising.

I see that they have a Flamin' Hot Mountain Dew now. I didn't get any of that one. I don't like my beverages full of hot peppers. Also, no diet version.

[quote]R119: Also, no diet version.

That's what beats me out of trying most new flavors, assuming they interest me (and I have to admit, 'Flamin' Hot Mountain Dew doesn't). But last week I ran across a 'Zero' version of Dark Berry Dr Pepper, which my brother insisted that I buy. It's not bad.

I've been looking for the Dark Berry Dr. Pepper in the stores - but haven't run across it yet. I really want to try it!

Ginger ale

I'll stick with Canada Dry Ginger Ale.

Curious, do all you regular soda drinkers have bad teeth?

My dentist told me, the combo of the acid in soda, the sugar and the carbonation all wreck havoc on teeth.

Pepsi, everything else gets flat too quickly

Cheerwine.

R106 Cheerwine is not a cola, it is a very bubbly cherry soda made with red and black cherries. It is fantastic.

I bought some kola powder to see if I could make my own soft drink. Unfortunately, kola powder is extremely bitter and I don't know what to do with it.

Kickapoo Joy Juice.

Diet lime coke.

Just had Vanilla Coke Zero. It was decent. But not the best. Maybe I should have posted in an ‘underwhelmed’ thread.

Years ago, when Vanilla Coke first hit the shelves, I drank a ton of it while repainting my bedroom. Now, all the variants of Vanilla Coke remind me of latex paint when I drink it. I am sure that latex paint tastes nothing like Vanilla Coke, but that is what I think Vanilla Coke tastes like.

[quote] Just had Vanilla Coke Zero. It was decent. But not the best.

I agree-- it sounds like it'd be so good, but actually it's not all that.

Stewart's Root Beer.

Whenever I’m in the neighborhood I make a point to stop at Galco sodapop shop. It’s in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Right off the 110 freeway south of Pasadena. The store has such an array of interesting sodas! Coke is my favorite but I like to try different sodas sometimes. I found a Shirley Temple soda there. It was surprisingly good! The guy who owns the store is friendly & really fun to talk to as well.

The store will also ship soda to you!

Cactus Cooler

Klarbrunn Pomelo Grapefruit or Black Cherry for sparkling water - Coke Zero by far for soft drink

R61 don’t forget about smoking a pack of Virginia Slims a day!

R99, R101 have you ever tried cranberry Canada Dry ginger ale around the holidays? It’s really good!

R135 that guy is adorable.

And he reminded me of Manhattan Special. So good!! I never see it in the PNW. Even the sugar free one is good. A sweet, fizzy caffeine bomb.

I love Boylan grape soda. Goes great with salty, crunchy snacks like popcorn!

Purdey's

R82 I used to drink Squirt and vodka. I wonder what that’s called? Maybe a fizzy greyhound?

Crystal Light

SOLO soda was interesting, I tried the cream soda, it tastes like bubble gum. The only real plus, it's made with real sugar, not corn syrup.

btw, the Coke from Mexico tastes much better than the US Coke. The Mexican Coke is made with real sugar and it comes in glass bottles, not plastic.

This post has given me diabetes.

Dr. Brown's black cherry or cream soda

Polar Diet Double Chocolate Fudge.

I only find it when visiting family on Long Island.

For colas, it's gotta be Coca-Cola. I don't understand how anyone can prefer Pepsi.

Dr. Pepper is good on an upset stomach. 7-UP is good, especially in punch.

A nice, strong root beer is heavenly.

That's about it. Lots of crappy soft drinks out there.

Royal Crown Cola ya'll.

I'm sure I ever drank RC cola but I really enjoyed their commercials from ca. 1975 to 1978.

^ That's a nice commercial. My grandmother really did only drink RC. It was basically a Southern product. I wonder if I can find some diet version here in New York.

Since I visited 300lbs once, I don't touch the stuff.

Team Teem

I resent that Fresca isn’t listed!

RC should replay those Nancy Sinatra commercials. I'm sure she would appreciate a little money.

They changed 7-UP. It’s terrible now, so watered down.

I am really surprised that Pepsi is so far down on the list. Also a warning, I learned the hard way that anything with seltzer will pull the moisture/water from your muscles and the older you get the worse is. I also think it helps cause dry mouth and dry sinuses because the seltzer dries everything up.

I can speak to your tip, R159. I’m cat sitting where seltzer is in the fridge and last night I chugged some. And I had awful dry mouth in the middle of the night.

Sad pointless poll. There is no choosing between junk. Junk is junk. All junk is junk.

Do a poll on the best bottled water next, why don't you?

I pity you fools.

I miss China Cola.

My store in Brooklyn does not carry RC. I wonder where it's available in NYC.

R3 I love chinotto. You can fake it by adding tonic water to Coke. With a wedge of lemon of course.

I have a seltzer machine, as do all my friends. It's ecological and economical. Put whatever you want into your seltzer. I use Italian, French and Swiss bitter-sweet liquors. Or apricot syrup.

I was about to post "I can't believe none of you guys likes chinotto!"

But R164 restored my faith in the humanity of DL.

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Pepsi Zero Sugar in the black can.

As a child I enjoyed Jolt Cola

I love all of the Polar brand seltzer’s. The bubble size is unique.

Also love diet cream soda. Mmmmmm…..cream

OMG. No wonder you’re all so fat.

Soda is just liquid candy with bubbles! That’s terrible for you!

Do most in this thread have diabetes? Missing any toes yet?

If not now, you will very soon.

I love Sprite but I love Orange pop, Red Pop, and Rock n’Rye.

Crystal Light Concord Grape

Crystal Light Fruit Punch

Crystal Light Classic Orange

Soda scolders, my toes are falling off!!

Pepsi Mango seems to have been discontinued at CVS stores in NYC and I’m pissed.

This summer I’m very into Sprite Zero.

Fizzies do-it-yourself soda.

I am also partial to limoncello Lacroix.

Dearest OP,

I'm not sure why you'd even have to ask this silly question, much less have a poll with all those inferior brand choices.

Blessings,

[quote]Soda scolders, my toes are falling off!!

You must have gorgeous teeth too. The combo of carbonation and sugar is terrible for teeth. I know this for a fact, my parents were huge soda drinkers, it was always in our home, always served with meals. I've spent most of my adult life rectifying their many mistakes and serving soda was one of them. I've spent thousands on my teeth.

Sometimes laboratory engineered drinks are best not sold to humans. For you youngsters reading this, Fizzies were horrifyingly awful. Take the effervescent properties and retch inducing taste sensation of Alka Seltzer and throw in a shitload of the banned sweetener sodium cyclamate, some citric acid and artificial fruit flavor and you have a soda treat for the ages!

Soda is very pleasant. I’m 50, good teeth, no diabetes. Mostly drink diet, sometimes regular. I don’t drink alcohol. Soda is my fun drink.

Wild Cherry Pepsi Zero Sugar 🍒

What about Fantaaaaaa?

R185, I just tried it and it didn’t suck.

I’m seeing Cherry Sprite again after a few years. It’s damn refreshing.

I need a Cherry Sprite Zero, if it exists. Cherry 7up Zero is ok but I need to compare. To consume!!!

I got hooked on Mr Pibb when I lived in the South. It's hard to get in Massachusetts unless I go to Chipotle.

Water.

R190 likes to live wild.

Frank’s. A mid Atlantic regional brand of sodas. Their cream soda is to die for…

r192 Frank's Cream soda was the best of its kind BITD. The same could be said for many of their other great flavors: Black Cherry Wishniak, Orange and I think they had a knockoff Seven-Up as well.

Dr. Brown's Black Cherry is tasty and snappy.

Cherry Coke is my go to when I'm eating pizza(don't judge)

Another vote for Canada Dry Ginger Ale.

The Holy Grail though has to be Schweppes Bitter Lemon soda. Readily available years ago, now impossible to find in stores. The Big A has it, natch, but I'm not taking out a second mortgage to buy some. You had to carefully swirl the bottle to redistribute the solids(mostly lemon bits) that had settled to the bottom, and then be very careful popping the top because it fizzed up quite a bit. It was supposedly a great mixer, but I enjoyed it just as it was. VERY tart and bitter, I'll bet there was a bit of quinine in it that helped it to have the sharpness that it did. It had a rather odd, pale greenish/grey color, but it didn't detract from the enjoyment. I wonder what happened to Cmdr. Whitehead(?), the veddy British gent that was their spokesman?

^^^^ .....WHO was.....

Mea culpa!

I haven't heard of at least half of these, if not more - and I'm 53. However, soda/soft drinks were forbidden in our home, so I only really knew about the ones that advertised on TV.

I do drink soda sometimes, but I never buy it for myself to keep in the fridge. It's almost always when I eat out/take-out. I prefer diet Coke because diet Pepsi sucks. But I've noticed that Pepsi products have really taken over the lionshare of restaurant business which sucks.

My fave is Jarritos Tamarind soda.

Have any of you tried Dr. Pepper Zero and Dr. Pepper Zero - Cherry. Game changer!!!

Boston area friends insist that Moxie is delightful, yet I've never had one. What's it like, and is it worth the fuss?

There’s a Mexican soda. An apple flavored soda. I can only buy it from the Mexican restaurant around the corner from my house.

I once had a Mexican green apple soda at a gas station in Idaho. It’s a Proustian memory.

I’m enjoying a glass of Diet Rite Pure Zero Cola. It’s made by Dr. Pepper/7 Up. Mrs Southwick used to drink a glass of it every afternoon with 1/2 of a peanut butter sandwich as a snack. She went to dialysis 3 times a week for years and she told me her doctor said Diet Rite was milder to the system than Diet Coke/ Coke Zero or Diet Pepsi / Pepsi Zero Sugar. It tastes pretty good for being calorie, caffeine and salt free.

I tried Moxie a few times in Boston last summer. Not a fan.

The Mexican sodas are made with real sugar, not that disgusting corn syrup!

I largely quit drinking sodas several years ago, but I will always have a soft spot for RC as the underdog cola.

R195 I think restaurants switched to Pepsi because it’s much cheaper. I hate it!

^^i prefer Pepsi products over Coke

Vernors, the Original Ginger Soda. Vernors Zero Sugar is also delicious and makes a great cocktail mixer. Vernors has a bolder, more refreshing taste than boring ginger ale. Squirt is also a very tasty soda and is the rare "refreshing" ones.

TaB, you fat whores. TaB!!!

It's not at all guaranteed that Mexican sodas contain only cane sugar these days. I've been to Mexico recently and many products including some Coke and Pepsi products and Dr. Pepper, had corn syrup in them.

Moxie.

r210 I hate spunk, but I like Moxie. 😉

AFAIK it cannot be found on grocers' shelves outside of New England(I only ever saw it in Maine) It was made by an independent company but Coca-Cola owns it now. Look to the sainted Amazon if you get the jones for it.

r84 Ginger Juice is superior above all else....

but so few of them and so many of us.

Cherry Vanilla Coke No Sugar

Fanta

Hansen's grapefruit (the original, not the diet).

R211 this place has it! But it looks pretty $$!

You can get Moxie and Diet Moxie at Price Chopper/Market 32 and Hannafords in Vermont and at many smaller stores. I'm not sure if Shaws has it.

I don't like it. It tastes like liquid ashtray.

It’s got a different taste, that’s for sure. Just once was enough, thanks.