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Diet Mountain Dew is the best soda. But I would put A&W a close second, if I'm feeling like a cola.
...I still miss teh Original: Got me through many a long night of coding back then.
"All the Sugar and Twice tjhe Caffiene"
Same computer but using Blender - much faster renders for me. I don't like Iray.
Of course it does.
It just isn't the only correct spelling.
When I was a kid Surge was all the rage. Nasty stuff but it kept you awake during study hall. lol
diet Mountain Dew, bought it accidentally on sale, not even a dash of cinnamon schnapps could save it, just no
I loved that stuff! I think it came back last year, at least for awhile. Still tasted the same to me.
You can, at least I've seen it in Auckland, but it's not where you'd expect. You best bet is to look in Asian and other specialty import grocery stores, since DP isn't made by either Coke or Pepsi (Coke has a copycat flavor called Mr. Pibb that they sell in many markets). Since the mid-80's DP has been part of the same company that also makes 7Up and therefore isn't licensed for bottling by anyone in NZ or OZ. It does get imported though, usually from the U.S. At least, that's regular Dr. Pepper. Diet DP is even rarer outside of the States, though there used to a vending machine in Akihabara Japan that sold cans of U.S. Diet D.P. for 400 yen a can.
They brought it back a few years ago and you could buy it at Dollar General and on Amazon, but only in cans. Jolt Gum is still available though.
A&W isn't a cola, it's a root beer. Cola's contain the essence of the Kola nut while root beer's distinctive flavor is originally based on a root extract from the sassafrass plant.* Cola's are also natually caffeinated (unless they've been specifically decaffeinated) whereas Root Beers are naturally caffeine free... though a few brands, like Barq's, actually add caffeine. A&W is caffeine free, btw.
*and then there is birch beer, which tastes almost identical,but is based on birch rather than sassafrass.
It did? I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I'd like to try one again, just to see if it tastes the same. I remember I didn't really care for the taste back then but I drank a truckload of it because of the high caffeine and sugar content. lol Sometimes it was the only way to get through those early morning classes. I'd love to taste it again for nostalgia's sake. :)
I know. But I'm one of those weirdos who calls all brown sodas "cola".
That's OK. My weird husband calls all food a burger. Figure that one out.
US regionalisms on this are weirdly interesting. There's a big stretch across the southeast where all carbonated soft drinks are "coke" or "cola", no matter what they actually are. (Not unusual to hear "I'd like a 7up coke, thanks" or something like that.) Northeast is soda, I think; midwest is "pop" (or sometimes "soda pop", and the west pretty much does all of it. I don't remember the theories about why this is so.
(Also, this thread is like the weirdest lite beer commercial ever. "Soda pop! new store software!" And the only actual disagreement of any type is in the "Soda pop!" section.)
Back when I was a management consultant I ended up in a part of the US where "coke" just meant "soft drink". "You want a root beer coke or an orange coke?"
Yeah, and having lived all over the US, it was even weirder to me that some people in the deep south call every drink that's not water or beer, coke. Even iced tea. It is so strange.
When I wasaround 10 + we use to buy a soda called Moxie . its one of the first sodas ever sold that I can remember & been around forever. it has a taste of licorice & cream soda with cough surpy mixed in..lol .
Is there a better hint of the timeframe for the changes to the site with the new store software?
Agreed. I love Mountain Dew, but diet is just disgusting to me
I grew up calling it "pop", and then at some point, for no reason I can discern, transitioned to "soda".
It's hard for me to imagine Barq's ever being anything but vile. If I ask for root beer and you give me Barq's, there might be violence.
There are a few A&W restaurants near where I live, and the root beer there is brewed fresh and so delicious. My favorite root beer by far, though, is Thomas Kemper. There was a short-lived (no surprise) root beer store near me a while back, so I bought a whole bunch of craft root beers before the store vanished into the æther. Nothing could unseat Kemper, though.
Is that a husband thing? Mine calls chicken sandwiches "burgers". lol His logic is that if it has a bun it's a "burger".
Well thats a novel solution to the great Hot Dog/sandwich debate at least
I live in South Central Pennsylvania. Here, we all call it soda. In the western part of the state toward Pittsburgh, they call it pop.
we just call them all soft drinks down here, soda or pop would get weird looks
There's an old-style candy called horehound which has a taste someone between mild licorice and ginger and that's what Moxie always tasted like to me. It's definitely an acquired taste, though nowhere near as strange as some others soft drinks I've tried. In Scotland there's a beverage called Irn-Bru (pronounced Iron Brew) which is insanely popular and actually does contain a small ammount of iron and tastes.... for lack of a better description... like quinine water with just a hint of rust. And it's really not bad at all once you get used to it. In New Zealond the big drink is L&P, which is basted on the taste of water coming out a popular mineral spring mixed with lemon, and I've lost track of all the oddball things I've tried in Japan, including cabonated milk and every possible combination of fruit and cola flavors, including Coke+ which has vitamins added, and where the most popular sports drinks have the appetizing names of Calpis (pronounced unpleasantly close to Cow Piss) and Pocari Sweat. Yeah, at this point it should be clear that I'll try almost anything once...
That logic wouldn't hold up in Japan, where they use both hamburger and hot dog buns for all kinds of interesting stuff - tuna salad, egg salad, cut-up meat and fish cutlets of varying types and even refried mashed potatoes. My absolute favorites, though, are the yakisoba sandwhiches, which are generous helping of ramen/soba noodles in varying flavers dolloped on a hot dog bun with a bit of ginger and/or Japanese pickle. Damn... now I'm wanting one of those...
Yep. I was a NASA brat as a kid so we moved all over the country and it was always a trick to get used to calling soft drinks the same things that the other kids did. I mostly use sodas now, but mainly because I tend to prefer Pepsi products. But if you think there are a lot of regional nomenclatures for soft drinks, that's nothing compared to all the different names for what's generically called a sub now... subs, submarine, torpedos, hoagies, heroes, grinders, poorboys, Phillies or Philadelphias, Italian sandwhiches, long rolls, zeppelins, blimpies and, weirdest of all, in parts of Boston they called them spukies, which is short for spucadellas.... (and I'm not even counting the specifically ethnic varities like banh mih, cubanos aka cuban sandwhiches, tortas or those oddball sandwhiches served wtih a dipping sauce like french dips)
I've heard them called all of those except for "torpedos" and "spukies" - all the rest I've heard them called at various times and parts of the US. Oh and Banh Mi is just AMAZING! I love Banh Mi! The one near me has the best bread - a bit crispy on the outside and warm and soft on the inside with just a little bit of a "chew" - just enough to make the sandwiches a bit more hardy than the average "sub" type sandwich. And stuffed with the most delicious meat and veggies! AHhhhhh It's been far too long since I've had one.
damn I want a bahn mi now but the Vietnamese bakery down the road is shut now until Monday
I recommend diet colas from Kroger. They've a big variety of their house brands. I've started my 2nd diet since 2017 and lost 19 pounds since Jun 1st (the 1st one worked but did you know that simply eating abou 150 - 200 extra calories a day will put about 55 lbs on you in 2 - 3 years in you're 6' and 155? Now I do. My weight returned to it's orginal 208 lbs weight like a homing pigeon. 155 is my high school weight and apparently 'not natural or appropriate for my body decades later'
). So instead this time I will continue to log weight & calories & vitals after the diet is over so I don't unknowingly overeat) so I know diet soda in big two liter bottles is indepensible to staying hydrated and staying full (when I overeat it's invariably because I'm thirsty not because I'm hungry). I recommend Kroger for their multitude of Diet K sodas: lemon-lime, Mountian Dew (they call it different), cola, cherry cola, black cherry cola, cherry, Dr Pepper, orange and seems like there is one or two more I'm forgetting. In contrast to that WalMart has only diet: Cola, Lemon-Lime, Dr. Thunder, Mountain Lightning but it is 17 cents cheaper at WalMart ($0.62 instead of $0.77) per two liter bottle.