The age old question. Coke? Pepsi? Store brand? Any other?
I’m personally a Dr Pepper guy myself.
Barqs Red Crème soda. IYKYK
I don’t drink carbonated sugar, but I always enjoyed Coke’s superiority. Class.
Coke is so superior that you can semi-reliably judge a restaurant’s quality by whether they offer Coke or Pepsi products. If you’re on the fence and they’re a Pepsi place, that’s your dealbreaker. It’ll work out in your favor if you trust the system.
Calpis Soda
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The discontinued Hansen’s Soda Lemon Mint Green Tea soda. I near bought the whole pallet when it showed up at an outlet grocery store over the course of a summer after college.
Fuck I sound old.
I’ve been into vanilla coke zero sugar for a while now.
Sprite zero sugar if you want no caffeine.
Both work well with alcohol. Bourbon or spiced rum with the coke. Vodka with the sprite.
On those funky Coke machines in some restaurants, there was an option to get Raspberry Coke Zero for a long time. I grew to love it. Now it looks like they’re taking it away in most places.
Huge soda fan so picking just one is super hard but I’d say:
Oronamin C or Sweet Blossom’s Rose soda
Oronamin C is a Japanese soft drink with a taste that is often described as “drinking (American) Smarties”. It’s incredibly refreshing and delicious. Sweet Blossom is I think an eastern European beverage company and they make a rose flavored soda that is to die for. It has far and away my favorite quality of carbonation (very fine, soft bubbles).
Other honorable mentions include Ocean Bomb: Sailor Mercury (i.e. pear flavor), and as a big fan of cherry colas, Bawls Guarana Cherry Cola and Fentiman’s Cherry Tree Cola.
Sadly doesn’t exist anymore (and hasn’t in decades), but the answer is Josta.
Late to the party, but chinotto. I don’t have a favorite brand yet but everything I’ve tried, I like. The blend of spice and bitter is fantastic.
those glass bottles of coke
aside from that, flavored iced tea with sprite (or honestly any lemon lime soda, its all the same) is great
Not just any glass bottles of Coke, but the Mexican Cokes with real cane sugar. I’ve been fooled by non-cane sugar glass bottle Cokes before.
wait those exist? I thought all the glass ones were mexicen
Any of them is pretty good if your goal is to develop cancer
Colombiana or Ambassador!
It’s so good you can mix it with beer (we call it Refajo)!
Perrier carbonated water
It’s subtly bubble and has a very mild flavor
I’m partial to Vanilla Coke, IBC Root Beer and Barq’s in a bottle. I had a bottle of Mystic River Root Beer years ago and it still is my favorite. Finally fresh sasparilla yum. Oh an Birch Beer of any kind. I don’t really drink soft drinks often, but those are my favs.
Sprite does it for me.
Sprite is pretty amazing.
Try starry. More lime flavor ftw.
Starry is so much better
Water