Favorite type of soda?

[Roadgeekteen]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

mountain dew at 2 am?

That is also know as "college life."

You would get a f in all your classes if you did that.

[cjk374]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

mountain dew at 2 am?

That is also know as "college life."

You would get a f in all your classes if you did that.

In 5-6 years, you will understand young grasshopper. 

[kkt]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

mountain dew at 2 am?

That is also know as "college life."

You would get a f in all your classes if you did that.

In your late teens-early 20s, your body's resilience is strong.

And a good thing, too.

[csw]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

mountain dew at 2 am?

That is also know as "college life."

You would get a f in all your classes if you did that.

In 5-6 years, you will understand young grasshopper. 

Can confirm, I am constantly amazed at how much people can drink in college and still function properly.

[MNHighwayMan]

Can confirm, I am constantly amazed at how much people can drink in college and still function properly.

Caffeinated beverages or alcohol...?

...Yes.

[CapeCodder]

I don't drink soda(pop) as much as I used to. Too much sugar and I don't really care for diet sodas.

Favorite brand was Dr. Pepper. Favorite cheap as hell brand? Vess.

25 cents a can.

yes, you read that right. People would buy flats of the stuff for like 5.00. Favorite flavor of Vess was the cream soda.

[Roadgeekteen]

Can confirm, I am constantly amazed at how much people can drink in college and still function properly.

Caffeinated beverages or alcohol...?

...Yes.

Or water.

[1995hoo]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

Given what you state for your age, the boldfaced text kind of astonishes me. I find it hard to imagine someone your age having dental issues that would be aggravated by soda. [Pauses to knock on wooden table] I've never had a cavity, though I've seldom consumed "regular" (non-diet) soda in the past 25 or so years.

[AlexandriaVA]

Canada Dry ginger ale....with bourbon

[Revive 755]

At the moment my favorite soda is one that I'm not paying a penny per ounce tax on.

[Otto Yamamoto]

That's odd, since at least around here, Dr Pepper is partnered with 7up and Snapple, with the home office given as Plano, TX. Pepsi comes out of Purchase and Coke has an operation in Newburgh, interestingly Pepsi cans sold in NYC are specifically marked 'New York'

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[Otto Yamamoto]

The usual is some variety of Pepsi.I like 7up and Sprite, and occasionally I'll go for a local favourite  known as Kola, which isn't cola at all or for Squirt or the Jamaican version, 'Ting Now and again I'll have a ginger beer, either alcoholic or non, but the good stuff tends to be expensive.

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[Roadgeekteen]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

Given what you state for your age, the boldfaced text kind of astonishes me. I find it hard to imagine someone your age having dental issues that would be aggravated by soda. [Pauses to knock on wooden table] I've never had a cavity, though I've seldom consumed "regular" (non-diet) soda in the past 25 or so years.

Most kids my age don't seem to care about their teeth.

[MNHighwayMan]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

Given what you state for your age, the boldfaced text kind of astonishes me. I find it hard to imagine someone your age having dental issues that would be aggravated by soda. [Pauses to knock on wooden table] I've never had a cavity, though I've seldom consumed "regular" (non-diet) soda in the past 25 or so years.

Most kids my age don't seem to care about their teeth.

I'm sure dentists in the Northeast are about to pad their retirement plans, then.

[HTM Duke]

Cola drinks are easy: Coke, probably till the day I die.

However, I am far more willing to sample various root beers.  The only commercialized stuff I can stand is Barq's and A&W; the rest is garbage to me.  I am much more into third party producers, though, with a preference for Virgil's and Saranac.

[cjk374]

Cola drinks are easy: Coke, probably till the day I die.

However, I am far more willing to sample various root beers.  The only commercialized stuff I can stand is Barq's and A&W; the rest is garbage to me.  I am much more into third party producers, though, with a preference for Virgil's and Saranac.

Abita Brewery down in Abita Springs, LA makes a delicious root beer.

[1995hoo]

I don't care. I'll drink whatever type of soda, pop, coke - you name it, I'll try it.

However, for the sake of my teeth, I had to give it up. That doesn't mean I'll still have some when I get the chance.

Given what you state for your age, the boldfaced text kind of astonishes me. I find it hard to imagine someone your age having dental issues that would be aggravated by soda. [Pauses to knock on wooden table] I've never had a cavity, though I've seldom consumed "regular" (non-diet) soda in the past 25 or so years.

Most kids my age don't seem to care about their teeth.

I can't say as I thought much about my teeth at age 14 either, but I still brushed and flossed and went to the dentist for a cleaning every six months (my mom made the appointments back then, though I still go to the same dentist 30 years later). Are you saying you don't brush and floss? Talk about a turnoff to the chicks.....

[TravelingBethelite]

Cola drinks are easy: Coke, probably till the day I die.

However, I am far more willing to sample various root beers.  The only commercialized stuff I can stand is Barq's and A&W; the rest is garbage to me.  I am much more into third party producers, though, with a preference for Virgil's and Saranac.

Abita Brewery down in Abita Springs, LA makes a delicious root beer.

What does everyone think of Vernor's various products?

Also, to be truly on topic: I live and die for Diet Pepsi. Regular Pepsi - meh, Coke - pretty good, and Diet Coke - BLEH...just doesn't taste like the "real" thing. If I can't get a Diet Pepsi when I'm hankering for a soda, Coca-Cola or its no-sugar varient (this thread and various news stories have confused me about its current name) are all that'll do.

[inkyatari]

Minhaus Brewing of Monroe Wis. makes a great Blueberry Creme soda under the name of "Blumers"

[MNHighwayMan]

What does everyone think of Vernor's various products?

I love their ginger ale (I actually really like ginger ale in general, definitely in my top five for favorite pop). I didn't know they made anything else, though. The ginger ale is the only thing I can find around here.

[SP Cook]

That's odd, since at least around here, Dr Pepper is partnered with 7up and Snapple, with the home office given as Plano, TX. Pepsi comes out of Purchase and Coke has an operation in Newburgh, interestingly Pepsi cans sold in NYC are specifically marked 'New York'

Soft drinks have a three tier structure.  At its simplist, the soft drink corporations do not make soft drinks nor sell directly to you, but rather make syrup which they sell to the bottlers, who add carbonated water to it and sell to stores, who sell to you.  Bottler territories are generally by county line.  There is a set of maps done by an outfit called Beverage Digest, but they are very expensive and they strongly protect their copyright.

Coca-Cola's corporate HQ is in Atlanta.  Until about 10 years ago, in most of the country, the packaging actually said who the bottler was.  Something like "Bottled under the authority of the Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia by (name of bottler) (city, state).  But they changed that to a fictional "Coca-Cola Bottlers Association, Atlanta, GA".    The main bottlers of Coca-Cola are Coca-Cola Refreshments, which is the company itself, it having bought out a lot of bottlers in a long story and which it is now in the process of reselling off these territories; CC Consolidated, a stock company out of Charlotte; CC United, a private company out of Birmingham; CC Northern New England, a part of Japan's Kirin Brewery; and Swire USA, a part the huge Hong Knog conglomerate Swire. 

Pepsi's corporate HQ is in the NYC suburb of Purchase and their products will say bottled by under the authority of the Pepsi Cola Company, Purchase, NY.  It is not an indication of where it was actually bottled.

In the USA, the owner of Dr Pepper, 7-UP, Snapple, RC, Schweppes, A&W, Sunkist, Canada Dry and lots of other soft drinks are under the Dr Pepper Snapple Group located in the Dallas suburb of Plano.  Thus its products are labeled as "Bottled under the authority of the Dr Pepper-Snapple Group, Plano, TX"  Again this is not an indication of where it was actually bottled or who bottled it.   Because all of these brands were once seperate companies, and because bottler contract are forever, there is a crazy quit of bottlers.  In one county the Coke bottler might own Dr Pepper, but the Pepsi bottler own 7-UP, in the next county the Pepsi bottler might own both, in the next a "third tier" bottler (a bottler that does not bottle Pepsi or Coke) might own both.  With yet more complex rights to all of the other brands. 

[busman_49]

In a tie for first, it's Pibb Xtra (though I'd love to have a plain old Mr. Pibb again) and Vernors.  Dr. Pepper comes in at a solid #3.  I'm more of a Pepsi person than a Coke person when it comes to cola, thoush I do have some respect for an RC too!

[MNHighwayMan]

That's odd, since at least around here, Dr Pepper is partnered with 7up and Snapple, with the home office given as Plano, TX. Pepsi comes out of Purchase and Coke has an operation in Newburgh, interestingly Pepsi cans sold in NYC are specifically marked 'New York'

Soft drinks have a three tier structure.  At its simplist, the soft drink corporations do not make soft drinks nor sell directly to you, but rather make syrup which they sell to the bottlers, who add carbonated water to it and sell to stores, who sell to you.  Bottler territories are generally by county line.  There is a set of maps done by an outfit called Beverage Digest, but they are very expensive and they strongly protect their copyright.

Coca-Cola's corporate HQ is in Atlanta.  Until about 10 years ago, in most of the country, the packaging actually said who the bottler was.  Something like "Bottled under the authority of the Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia by (name of bottler) (city, state).  But they changed that to a fictional "Coca-Cola Bottlers Association, Atlanta, GA".    The main bottlers of Coca-Cola are Coca-Cola Refreshments, which is the company itself, it having bought out a lot of bottlers in a long story and which it is now in the process of reselling off these territories; CC Consolidated, a stock company out of Charlotte; CC United, a private company out of Birmingham; CC Northern New England, a part of Japan's Kirin Brewery; and Swire USA, a part the huge Hong Knog conglomerate Swire. 

Pepsi's corporate HQ is in the NYC suburb of Purchase and their products will say bottled by under the authority of the Pepsi Cola Company, Purchase, NY.  It is not an indication of where it was actually bottled.

In the USA, the owner of Dr Pepper, 7-UP, Snapple, RC, Schweppes, A&W, Sunkist, Canada Dry and lots of other soft drinks are under the Dr Pepper Snapple Group located in the Dallas suburb of Plano.  Thus its products are labeled as "Bottled under the authority of the Dr Pepper-Snapple Group, Plano, TX"  Again this is not an indication of where it was actually bottled or who bottled it.   Because all of these brands were once seperate companies, and because bottler contract are forever, there is a crazy quit of bottlers.  In one county the Coke bottler might own Dr Pepper, but the Pepsi bottler own 7-UP, in the next county the Pepsi bottler might own both, in the next a "third tier" bottler (a bottler that does not bottle Pepsi or Coke) might own both.  With yet more complex rights to all of the other brands.

I'm glad you bring this up, because it was something I learned from my father at a young age because he is a huge pop nerd (and has a pop can collection to boot! Here, I'm not talking about the aluminium can variety–I'm talking before then, when steel was used to make beverage cans.) The primary example I'll use to support this was that he really loved Dr. Slice (a Slice-branded ripoff of Dr. Pepper). Slice, as you might know, is a Pepsi brand, and this particular variety of Slice was only sold in places where the Coca-Cola bottler controlled the Dr. Pepper brand. He spent an awful lot of time trying to figure out who owned what and where and tracking down that particular soft drink over many years, which led to me going on a number of road trips with him, as a child, to hunt down that particular beverage.

So many fond memories came from that, including visiting the Willmar (I think that's where it was, but it's been at least a decade now) Pepsi bottler to buy an entire pallet of Dr. Slice for both himself and for resale on the Internet. (Early 2000s that was.)

[Otto Yamamoto]

That's odd, since at least around here, Dr Pepper is partnered with 7up and Snapple, with the home office given as Plano, TX. Pepsi comes out of Purchase and Coke has an operation in Newburgh, interestingly Pepsi cans sold in NYC are specifically marked 'New York'

Soft drinks have a three tier structure.  At its simplist, the soft drink corporations do not make soft drinks nor sell directly to you, but rather make syrup which they sell to the bottlers, who add carbonated water to it and sell to stores, who sell to you.  Bottler territories are generally by county line.  There is a set of maps done by an outfit called Beverage Digest, but they are very expensive and they strongly protect their copyright.

Coca-Cola's corporate HQ is in Atlanta.  Until about 10 years ago, in most of the country, the packaging actually said who the bottler was.  Something like "Bottled under the authority of the Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia by (name of bottler) (city, state).  But they changed that to a fictional "Coca-Cola Bottlers Association, Atlanta, GA".    The main bottlers of Coca-Cola are Coca-Cola Refreshments, which is the company itself, it having bought out a lot of bottlers in a long story and which it is now in the process of reselling off these territories; CC Consolidated, a stock company out of Charlotte; CC United, a private company out of Birmingham; CC Northern New England, a part of Japan's Kirin Brewery; and Swire USA, a part the huge Hong Knog conglomerate Swire. 

Pepsi's corporate HQ is in the NYC suburb of Purchase and their products will say bottled by under the authority of the Pepsi Cola Company, Purchase, NY.  It is not an indication of where it was actually bottled.

In the USA, the owner of Dr Pepper, 7-UP, Snapple, RC, Schweppes, A&W, Sunkist, Canada Dry and lots of other soft drinks are under the Dr Pepper Snapple Group located in the Dallas suburb of Plano.  Thus its products are labeled as "Bottled under the authority of the Dr Pepper-Snapple Group, Plano, TX"  Again this is not an indication of where it was actually bottled or who bottled it.   Because all of these brands were once seperate companies, and because bottler contract are forever, there is a crazy quit of bottlers.  In one county the Coke bottler might own Dr Pepper, but the Pepsi bottler own 7-UP, in the next county the Pepsi bottler might own both, in the next a "third tier" bottler (a bottler that does not bottle Pepsi or Coke) might own both.  With yet more complex rights to all of the other brands.

I'm glad you bring this up, because it was something I learned from my father at a young age because he is a huge pop nerd (and has a pop can collection to boot! Here, I'm not talking about the aluminium can variety–I'm talking before then, when steel was used to make beverage cans.) The primary example I'll use to support this was that he really loved Dr. Slice (a Slice-branded ripoff of Dr. Pepper). Slice, as you might know, is a Pepsi brand, and this particular variety of Slice was only sold in places where the Coca-Cola bottler controlled the Dr. Pepper brand. He spent an awful lot of time trying to figure out who owned what and where and tracking down that particular soft drink over many years, which led to me going on a number of road trips with him, as a child, to hunt down that particular beverage.

So many fond memories came from that, including visiting the Willmar (I think that's where it was, but it's been at least a decade now) Pepsi bottler to buy an entire pallet of Dr. Slice for both himself and for resale on the Internet. (Early 2000s that was.)

A curiosity around here is that Tinned Pepsi sold in NYC is marked 'New York'. That only applies to NYC as far as I've seen. Also, I've noticed that Pepsi and Coke are marked as Kosher, I don't know if that applies elsewhere,  and about five years ago there was actually a 'Kosher Pepsi', labelled as such sold to the religious community.

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[Otto Yamamoto]

That's odd, since at least around here, Dr Pepper is partnered with 7up and Snapple, with the home office given as Plano, TX. Pepsi comes out of Purchase and Coke has an operation in Newburgh, interestingly Pepsi cans sold in NYC are specifically marked 'New York'

Soft drinks have a three tier structure.  At its simplist, the soft drink corporations do not make soft drinks nor sell directly to you, but rather make syrup which they sell to the bottlers, who add carbonated water to it and sell to stores, who sell to you.  Bottler territories are generally by county line.  There is a set of maps done by an outfit called Beverage Digest, but they are very expensive and they strongly protect their copyright.

Coca-Cola's corporate HQ is in Atlanta.  Until about 10 years ago, in most of the country, the packaging actually said who the bottler was.  Something like "Bottled under the authority of the Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia by (name of bottler) (city, state).  But they changed that to a fictional "Coca-Cola Bottlers Association, Atlanta, GA".    The main bottlers of Coca-Cola are Coca-Cola Refreshments, which is the company itself, it having bought out a lot of bottlers in a long story and which it is now in the process of reselling off these territories; CC Consolidated, a stock company out of Charlotte; CC United, a private company out of Birmingham; CC Northern New England, a part of Japan's Kirin Brewery; and Swire USA, a part the huge Hong Knog conglomerate Swire. 

Pepsi's corporate HQ is in the NYC suburb of Purchase and their products will say bottled by under the authority of the Pepsi Cola Company, Purchase, NY.  It is not an indication of where it was actually bottled.

In the USA, the owner of Dr Pepper, 7-UP, Snapple, RC, Schweppes, A&W, Sunkist, Canada Dry and lots of other soft drinks are under the Dr Pepper Snapple Group located in the Dallas suburb of Plano.  Thus its products are labeled as "Bottled under the authority of the Dr Pepper-Snapple Group, Plano, TX"  Again this is not an indication of where it was actually bottled or who bottled it.   Because all of these brands were once seperate companies, and because bottler contract are forever, there is a crazy quit of bottlers.  In one county the Coke bottler might own Dr Pepper, but the Pepsi bottler own 7-UP, in the next county the Pepsi bottler might own both, in the next a "third tier" bottler (a bottler that does not bottle Pepsi or Coke) might own both.  With yet more complex rights to all of the other brands.

When we were kids and ate out, our parents preferred sit down diners to fast food, we'd get bottled cokes and always look at the bottom to see where they were bottled

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