If ice cream is involved, A&W rootbeer.



Ps - I detest coke, esp coke zero.

I keep it on hand so that when I get a migraine I take two Excedrin with some Pepsi and my pain is relieved.

Has notes of spice and vanilla that Pepsi lacks.

Fun fact: Coca-cola created the iconic red coat wearing, high-BMI Santa Claus that we all know in 1931. Prior to that many depictions were gaunt and some wore green coats.

https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/about-us/faq/did-coca-cola-create-santa-claus

But when I did it was Pepsi !

...all the time

When I do have one, it is a Root Beer - lots of sugar and no caffeine. When the urge for Soda hits now, I will usually make ZipFiz. It's kind of like a soft drink but good for you.

Flavored Seltzer water the rest of the time.

I used to loooove Coca Cola but quit drinking it about 25 yrs ago. Pepsi = too bland.

Even now when I drink a Coke it’s not as good as when they put real sugar in it.

......Folks always like it cause it's so different.

It's been rare since I moved away from home.

Sorry Deb! Gave up soda a long time ago.

I would drink it everyday if it were not so damn expensive

Where available?

Costco has it sometimes which is the cheapest I have found. Market Basket sells it but again really expensive.

Will check around, but not optimistic.

it was Dr Pepper.

......I've always tried to open to anything and enjoy most things. Nice to see you back, Deb, hope you are well.

Crystal Lite decaf tea with lemon if I run out of the Zero decaf.

Every one was Barq’s root beer.

Make sure the glass bottle has a red cap - those have sugar not corn syrup.

Sometimes our local store here in NM has Mexican glass coke bottles with the green cap - those will not list the ingredients on the bottle-and everything is written in Spanish. You have to go online to view ingredients. Green cap has corn syrup.

but ginger ale most of the time.

both taste like "malted battery acid." https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2013/06/27

Pepsi pours it on!

20s, it was Schweppes ginger ale. Don't touch the stuff anymore. Never liked "dark" soda (the colas, root beers).

pepsi aand or coke , depends what is being served @ tthe fountain. ginger aile.

where you live you may be able to find Canfield's or Graf's. Those are really good as well as some of the ones you can get from micro-breweries.

I did go thru a phase of drinking Reed's Ginger Ale or Beer. And I don't think I've ever turned down a root beer float.

Schweppes Bitter Orange or Sunrise Orange Soda when I was younger. Then the original formula Mountain Dew. A&W Root Beer on tap again the old formula from the '60's. Now it's various seltzer waters, Diet Coke etc. I like a good flavored seltzer. Less "flavor heavy" than a Diet Coke. The carbonation comes through nicer also.

We used to have some regional soda companies that had some good things. White Rock had really good orange, raspberry, cherry and other flavors beyond the cola thing and their lemon-lime was way better than 7-Up because it was lighter on the flavoring and the carbonation was more pronounced. Black Bear had tons of flavors. Graf's Root Beer or Ginger ale were some of the best ever bottled but after changing hands so many times it isn't the same.

Jarritos. I like the Fruit Punch, Mandarin and Lime.

Now I drink Soda Stream doet ginger ale and, if I run out of CO2, Diet Vernors (A Michigan tradition -- it's a type of spicy ginger ale)

Love Dr. Prpper.

Easily my worst vice.

I don't drink coffee, but I'll be drinking a Coke at 6 am and ending at midnight. I will not under any circumstances drink Pepsi; if that's all they serve, Dr Pepper is acceptable, but nothing else. Can't stand Diet Coke or Coke Zero.

Used to be able to drink it anytime between 9am to 9pm, not anymore though.
When I was pregnant and sick the whole 9 months, drank straight Coke syrup which I had to get in gallon bottles from the drug store, you know what they made "fountain cokes" from.

Can't have anything with bubbles. Reflux.

It's Dr. Pepper, Baby. Ice cold DrP, YES!

I don't drink coffee or tea. Coke is the one sweet thing I'll allow myself in moderation. Mexican coke taste like the original.

I may only have a soda every month, or 2; these past 2 1/2 years.
I usually in the past found Pepsi to be too sweet.

Last year at a restaurant here in way upper Mahattan I had a Coke that tasted different- somehow it had more fizz in it than usual. 😄

I always hated Dr Pepper. It was big with one set of NJ Aunts & Uncles. Whatever herbs etc they included...

Now that was when I was a very picky eater. My palate has expanded like 500%+ . I might dislike it now, vs hate It. Or barely tolerate it. 😄 I'd be a bit surprised if I sort of liked it; been like 62 years since I had one! 😁

I also like (but not it's in the closeby small supermarket, will have to take the bus to a regular size one) the "Simply Juice" brand. Their watermelon(!), and Lemonlimeaide I've had. I just saw Peach (on line) - will have look for that.

any more?

Wishing you a speedy recovery Miss Deb My husband has been using an oxygen concentrator over 5 years now, so I understand how you must want to get off the O2 as soon as you can. His COPD and pulmonary hypertension slow him down, but we still go out and enjoy ourselves, especially to baseball games and old car shows in the summer. We stay home a lot in the cold weather because it gives him bronchospasm; thank goodness winter is over!

I am drinking one as I type.

I will be 72 in June.

Pepsi has always been my choice.

We did a taste test at my high school.

One of my teachers stated that I couldn't taste the difference between Coke, Pepsi, or RC cola.

I identified all there correctly.

If I drink pop, it’s usually ginger ale or a lemon-lime drink like sprite.

And our favorite local Mexican place has it in glass bottles from Mexico, those are great

They sell it at our grocery store. I'll take a look if I remember.

a Barq's or a Dr. Pepper.
A Sprite if I'm sickly.

I am in Canada and you know ........ Trump trying to annex my country. But I'm not good at quitting things.

pushing of Coke Zero in Europe. Coke Zero is NOT a substitute for Diet Coke, as it's designed to appeal as sugar free option for Coke drinkers.

However so many places over here will now only stock Coke and Coke Zero 😭

Y'know that flavor in Dr. Pepper that causes people who don't like it to complain that it "tastes like medicine"? Well, I just LOVE that flavor. Dr. Pepper has been my go-to soft drink since I was in my middle teens. That's 60-plus years. "It's the most original soft drink ... "

— Ron

Cherry Coke and rootbeer

I haven't used carbonated drinks for years.

Back in the day. I heard they may start making it again. Not sure if it will be the same.

I haven't had a soft drink in 10 years though.

There is a very swanky subdivision outside of Chapel Hill, NC called 'The Governor's Club'. I worked for the surveying company that laid it out. When we started, it was just woods and an old farm. (The new lots were going for $500,000... the empty lots. And this was in 1988!)

Every day, my friend and I would carpool to the site. We would stop at the only convenience store close to the site. We would both get our 'Breakfast of Champions'... a king size 5th Avenue and a 20oz Jolt Cola.

I wonder why I am in such bad health these days...

I generally purchase Mexican coke because it is made with regular sugar, not the high fructose corn syrup

Topo Chico is my favorite carbonated beverage

I switch between all three.

Here in Michigan, we have a brand called Faygo. Every so often, I have a craving for what we call red pop, no doubt left over from my childhood.

All these years, I thought Faygo was only in Michigan. When I was a kid, my mother and I would ride bikes to the park on Sunday and we'd each bring a bottle of Faygo, cream soda for her and red pop for me.

When I lived in Nashville, I was working at a restaurant and served a table of gentlemen from Detroit. I mentioned how much I missed red pop and for three years in a row, when they came back, they'd bring me a six pack of it!

Good memories. Do you have Vernor's in Pennsylvania as well?