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Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:47 pm
by TMurphy
Best: Dr. Pepper. Absolutely love the stuff!

Worst: Diet Vanilla Coke. The original Vanilla Coke was bad....but the diet version....gross.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:21 pm
by THE TUBA
schlepporello wrote: Best: Coke.
It's been my drink ever since I was a pup.
Yep, I'm a Coke-a-holic. I can quit, but I don't want to. :wink:
The King of Sodas
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Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:26 pm
by The Big Ben
schlepporello wrote:OK, in my opinion:
Worst:Tab
Don't know if it's made anymore. If not, GOOD!
Tasted like something that was watered down in order to mimic watered down Coke.
Hmmmm. I haven't seen it for awhile either. I think CoCola replaced it with Diet Coke. I liked it.

Worst: Root Beer- any variety. My brother loves the stuff so I let him drink all of mine.
schlepporello wrote: Best: Coke.
It's been my drink ever since I was a pup.
Yep, I'm a Coke-a-holic. I can quit, but I don't want to. :wink:
Coke is too sweet for me. I never drank it as a kid so I guess I never developed a sweet tooth for it (or Pepsi).

Best: I've developed a taste for store brand black cherry soda. Most any brand.
Diet Pepsi is good too.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:36 pm
by tubatom91
Worst:Mt. Dew Code Red/Other non-Orignal Mountain dew variants (except Livewire)
Best: Coke Zero/Coke (regular). I am quite fond of Coke zero, I drink way too much of it to be healthy.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:37 pm
by Dylan King
Coca-Cola is the best. The soda on the far right of this photo (the one with the tuba) is by far the worst. It almost made me vomit when I tried it.

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Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:54 pm
by tubaguy9
Worst: Big Red cream soda. Tastes like absolute garbage. Once had a 12 pack and I had to basically chug it down to get rid of it. Doesn't even resemble real cream soda.
Best: That stuff from Canada, known as Jones Cream Soda. Expesive, but amazing.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:32 am
by TexTuba
the elephant wrote:I am sorry that you did not enjoy your Big Red drinking experience. I shall send you $1,000,000 in Monopoly Money so that you may attempt to purchase some other beverage more to your liking. (My wife will not drink Big Red unless you hold a loaded weapon to her head. As I said, I am a highly biased South Texas boy in this regard!)

Big Red rocks! :lol: :lol: :lol:
I may be reading your post wrong, but I believe he is talking about the "Big Red: Cream Soda" that is available. It is a variant of Big Red, and IMO, a bad one. If that is the stuff you were referring to, then my apologies.

Back to subject:

Best: I have many that I really enjoy, but I always go for Sunkist if it's available.

Worst: Diet A&W Root Beer. A&W is above and beyond my favorite root beer to drink. However, their diet just about made me vomit the first time I drank it.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:39 am
by Nick Pierce
Best: Vanilla Cream soda.

Worst: if energy drinks count, Red Bull.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:58 am
by eupher61
Best: none of 'em, but I drink Dr Pepper far too much

worst: any caffeine free/diet beverage. Colored water with fake flavor??

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:21 am
by scouterbill
Worst: Fresca...the lemony version of Tab...mmmm
Finally someone reached back to remember the absolute worst ever. Not quite lemony, but a hint of grapefruit? Definitely no Sugar!

Best: you've hinted around it, IBC Root Beer

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:41 am
by oldbandnerd
Best soft drink :
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You folks in N.C. know what Sundrop is. Looks like Moutain Dew but way better.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:10 am
by bort
Best: Josta...last made by Pepsi about 10 years ago. :( I loved this stuff.

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Worst: Any orange soda. I just don't "get" it, if I want orange, I'll buy juice. :)

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:44 am
by lgb&dtuba
I don't know about the best, but the worst was some stuff I don't remember the name of that they gave us on the Coca-Cola tour in Atlanta. They even said it was terrible and they only sold it somewhere in the far east, so it's not available around here. Thankfully.

It took a number of beers to get the taste of that stuff out of my mouth.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:57 am
by Uncle Buck
Hate to be a "go along with the crowd" kind of guy, but here's another vote for plain-old-Coke as best. Some things really are just that good.

I don't have a vote for worst.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:13 am
by timdicarlo
Best: Orange Crush, hands down. Dunk a scoop of French vanilla ice cream in there, and you have yourself one hell of a float.

Worst: Dead tie between TaB and Mountain Dew: Code Red. TaB tastes like ditch water with bubbles and Code Red tastes like carbonated cough syrup. Both are exquisitely nauseating.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:51 am
by Tubaryan12
bort wrote:Best: Josta...last made by Pepsi about 10 years ago. :( I loved this stuff.
YES! without question, the best.

The worst is diet Red Bull.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:11 am
by bort
Tubaryan12 wrote:
bort wrote:Best: Josta...last made by Pepsi about 10 years ago. :( I loved this stuff.
YES! without question, the best.

The worst is diet Red Bull.
Awesome! Almost no one remembers Josta!

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:11 am
by windshieldbug
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Making their country more lead free, one bottle at a time.

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:31 am
by dtemp
Best: Room temperature Fresca

Worst: OK Soda. We were one of the few test markets for this stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Soda

Blech!

Re: best/worst soft drink ever

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:44 pm
by cjk
If any of y'all find yourself in Atlanta, the Coke museum is a quite neat experience. You can sample coke products from all over the world.

Worst: Beverly
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Best: Diet Coke Plus (yeah, really)
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