Favorite type of soda?

[Roadgeekteen]

Because everyone loves to talk about soft drinks.

[Max Rockatansky]

Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, and Fanta probably are the top three for me.

Edit:  IBC Root Beer is up there also.

[Brandon]

Arm and Hammer.  All of the choices given are for pop.

[hotdogPi]

Arm and Hammer.  All of the choices given are for pop.

How is orange soda not a type of soda, with "soda" in the name?

[SignGeek101]

I think there was a thread on the naming between "soda" and "pop".

Anyway, I don't drink any of them (too much sugar) but when I did, I just preferred Coke.

[7/8]

Coke is my favourite type of pop!

[hbelkins]

This is heresy for a Kentucky native to say, but my favorite is probably Vernors. I actually prefer it to Ale-8. Of course I typically drink the diet versions of both.

My normal drink of choice is Diet Coke. Over the years I have gotten accustomed to its taste. I don't like Coke Zero because it tastes too much like regular Coke, which is too sweet for me.

If forced to drink a Pepsi product, I will choose Diet Dr Pepper (which is typically distributed by Pepsi in my area; I know in some places it's distributed by Coke) or Diet Mountain Dew. Diet Pepsi is a vile, nasty substance which I will only consume if desperate and always under protest.

Occasionally and for a change of pace, I will get a diet version of Sprite, 7-Up, root beer or orange (usually Sunkist is what's most readily available).

[english si]

San Pelligrino Blood Orange as SP hasn't given in to Jamie Oliver's war on sugar* and polluted its drinks with sweetners that I can't drink without problems, and, while I like the other flavours, Blood Orange is the most drinkable. There's a couple of others that still haven't fallen to Fatty's Nannying - CocaCola (their UK webpage used to say that the spiking wouldn't alter the taste, and then on the same page said that red-Coke is not being done as it changes the taste. Sadly they spotted that and fixed it) and IrnBru. But pretty much everything else went - Fever Tree mixers, I guess, but given they mostly make tonic water, I'm not treating them as soft drinks as I'm normally mixing it with gin.

They've even spiked Lucozade, replacing half the sugar with aspartame - a drink who's selling point used to be that it was a glucose-ladened 'Sports Drink' (and before that sold in chemists as a medical product aiding recovery from illness) FFS! Diabetics used it to recover from hypoglycema. When they introduced diet Lucozade, everyone laughed and it bombed, because it missed the point.

Every drink had diet/max/zero varieties with no sugar anyway, and some even had 'half-and-half' reduced calories. Now there's no real choice for almost everything: either half-and-half or all sweetners. There's no "no sweeteners" varieties.

And this war on sugar has meant that some quacks are declaring war on fruit - I can understand "don't overdo fruit juice" as a message, but that became a mainstream "don't drink fruit juice other than very rarely" (dentists had been somewhat opposed for a while, but then the obesity police chimed in) and now there's an increasing "don't eat fruit" message that is just harmful.

*it's like he has shares in sucralose or aspartame production. Until you read his recipe books and realise that podgy-Jamie doesn't practise what he preaches there.

[bandit957]

Every drink had diet/max/zero varieties with no sugar anyway, and some even had 'half-and-half' reduced calories. Now there's no real choice for almost everything: either half-and-half or all sweetners. There's no "no sweeteners" varieties.

The gum business has gotten really bad with this.

[DaBigE]

Since we're going to be nit picky on soda vs pop terminology...

Favorite type of soda is cola, with vanilla colas being a close second, and fruit-flavored a third (cherry, grape, orange).

Favorite brand of soda is Coca-Cola, followed by Dr Pepper, then Pepsi if there's no other alternative.

[Pink Jazz]

Diet Cherry 7-Up.

[hotdogPi]

My choice is now listed as "Dr. Pepper". I chose Other.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Several choices in the poll aren't avalaible in my country. These include Mountain Dew, Sprite, orange soda, and Dr. Pepper.

That being said, I like Coke and Pepsi equally, as they taste different to each other.

[1995hoo]

Generally I'll go for Diet Pepsi. Diet Coke if they don't have that. Sometimes diet root beer instead (IBC if I buy it at the store, usually Barq's if I see it at a fast-food place).

I drink the diet stuff because the regular is simply too sweet for my taste. I will buy regular if I need it for something, such as a barbecue sauce recipe that calls for regular Coke.

[LM117]

I used to drink Mountain Dew for many years until I ended up in the ER by ambulance due to a high heart rate (132 beats per minute) and skipping beats in 2014. Turns out I was having random bouts of Sinus Tachycardia and Premature Ventricular Contractions, though not always at the same time. I still deal with PVC's, but not as often as I used to. They're still a bitch when they hit, though.

They told me I needed to quit caffeine and so I did, cold turkey. I tried the caffeine free version of Mountain Dew and it tasted like shit to me so I gave up Mountain Dew altogether.  Now I just drink water and fruit juices, with some V8 here and there.

[cjk374]

I used to drink Mountain Dew for many years until I ended up in the ER by ambulance due to a high heart rate (132 beats per minute) and skipping beats in 2014. Turns out I was having random bouts of Sinus Tachycardia and Premature Ventricular Contractions, though not always at the same time. I still deal with PVC's, but not as often as I used to. They're still a bitch when they hit, though.

They told me I needed to quit caffeine and so I did, cold turkey. I tried the caffeine free version of Mountain Dew and it tasted like shit to me so I gave up Mountain Dew altogether.  Now I just drink water and fruit juices, with some V8 here and there.

As healthy as they seem to be, you gotta watch the V8s. They are high in sodium which will boost up the blood pressure.

[jwolfer]

I stopped drinking soda a few years ago and lost 25 lbs in a few months... I drank a lot of soda.

I will occaisionally have a fountain drink soda, because they are cheap.  But i have recently started drinking sparkling water with lemon flavor...

Artificial sweeteners are horrible for your health

LGMS428

[Roadgeekteen]

I stopped drinking soda a few years ago and lost 25 lbs in a few months... I drank a lot of soda.

I will occaisionally have a fountain drink soda, because they are cheap.  But i have recently started drinking sparkling water with lemon flavor...

Artificial sweeteners are horrible for your health

LGMS428

I rarely get a chance to drink it, but when I have the chance, multiple cups are getting drunk.

[bandit957]

I like Mello Yello, but you can't get it around here anymore. Just like a lot of things.

These days, I usually only drink soda at meals. I ignored the dentist's Allowed Cloud that ordered me to stop drinking it altogether.

[freebrickproductions]

I don't drink soda, or any carbonated drinks of any kind. Personally not a fan on the carbonation part of it.

[roadgeek01]

Sodium Bicarbonate.     Yes, that is baking soda, if you were wondering.  I don't drink soda, and a somewhat funny story to go with.  So, in first grade I had this gym teacher.  She was very friendly, and made gym fun with games such as, get this, toilet tag.  Anyway, she was telling everyone about how soda is all bad.  Most everyone else proceeded to ignore her, but not me.   The only time I've drunken soda since was when I was at a Chili's and accidentally drunk a sip of my brother's Sprite, thinking it was my water. 

[hotdogPi]

I don't drink soda, or any carbonated drinks of any kind. Personally not a fan on the carbonation part of it.

Same with me, but my choice suddenly got changed to "Dr. Pepper" (probably due to an addition in the poll), and I have no way to change it.

[hbelkins]

I don't drink soda, or any carbonated drinks of any kind. Personally not a fan on the carbonation part of it.

I'm the opposite. I like the carbonation. That's why I'm not a fan of plain water. It doesn't have the fizz.

[LM117]

I used to drink Mountain Dew for many years until I ended up in the ER by ambulance due to a high heart rate (132 beats per minute) and skipping beats in 2014. Turns out I was having random bouts of Sinus Tachycardia and Premature Ventricular Contractions, though not always at the same time. I still deal with PVC's, but not as often as I used to. They're still a bitch when they hit, though.

They told me I needed to quit caffeine and so I did, cold turkey. I tried the caffeine free version of Mountain Dew and it tasted like shit to me so I gave up Mountain Dew altogether.  Now I just drink water and fruit juices, with some V8 here and there.

As healthy as they seem to be, you gotta watch the V8s. They are high in sodium which will boost up the blood pressure.

I drink the low sodium version. Luckily, I've never had blood pressure problems. -knock on wood-

https://www.campbells.com/v8/vegetable-juice/low-sodium-v8/

[english si]

The gum business has gotten really bad with this.

Gum went sugar-free not because of anti-obesity drives, but because of the branding as something good for teeth.