Best Soda

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: Best Soda

If you're a soda drinker, please respond....

[bif]

1. Best Pop? Vernors.

n/t

[jumptheshadow]

8. Vernors is my choice, too

Although I take a lot of ribbing for it.

[bif]

12. It's funny...

I was out east many years ago and was working with this New Yorker. He tried to introduce me to Dr. Borwn's Celery Soda.Wow was that ever horrible. He was originally from Cleveland and new about Vernors. I didn't get the celery thing and he never understood Vernors.

[jumptheshadow]

13. I have to import it from Buffalo

The stores don't sell it out here so my family brings it when they visit me.

[mac56]

18. Stewart's Ginger Ale is a pretty good Vernors knockoff.

Not as good as the original, though.

[Nevernose]

2. Diet Dr. Pepper-

I swill it.

[FlashHarry]

49. Yep. Diet DP. It's the only Diet that tastes any good.

Except for maybe Diet A&W.

[DianeK]

3. not much of a soda drinker but

Stuart's is by far the best

[Beaker]

4. "vanella" coke??

ever hear of Root Beer? A&W, Dad's, Sprecher...

what about Squirt? Mountain Dew? Grape Nehi for God's sake.

no JOLT cola?

[mac56]

22. Ever had Henry Weinhard's Root Beer?

Exceptional. They also made a cream soda, not as good.

[Richardo]

35. Does Henry Weinhard's still make REAL beer?

I used to like it quite a bit in my post-college days.

If I can find the root beer, I'll give it a try.

[mac56]

42. A couple of the brands are being brewed by Miller these days.

A couple others by Full Sail, a microbrewery in Hood River, OR.

Can't find any information about the root beer.

[woofless]

57. Yes, Henry is still going strong

up here in the Northwest. Very good quality and affordable.

[rusty charly]

5. fresca

refreshing grapefruit goodness

[Forkboy]

6. What kind of soda poll

doesn't have Mountain Dew?

[THUNDER HANDS]

20. a good one

Mountain Dew tastes like what I'd imagine Nuclear runoff would taste like.

[Forkboy]

24. so your poll is biased

for only sodas you like? :D

[jmowreader]

55. Mountain Dew is the Intelligence Analyst's Best Friend

The military trains some of its intelligence analysts at an air force base in Texas. The schoolhouse is inside a cyclone fence with armed guards at the gate.

Inside the fence is a little building with soda machines in it. There were twelve of them in 1986, and three of those were stocked with nothing but Mountain Dew. (The other nine machines had it too, but three of them were only MD.) Mountain Dew has more caffeine than any other soda on the face of the planet with the possible exception of Jolt Cola, and even that's questionable.

[demnan]

7. Snapple Root Beer

[jmowreader]

56. You mean the clear stuff? Absolutely right!

O man, I forgot about Snapple root beer. In New York state I used to get it all the time. They don't have it in Fayetteville and the Snapple man won't get any.

[JI7]

9. pepsi and dr pepper

i really like soda, especially pepsi with dr pepper a close second. for some reason i just like the way it tastes and feels and like to drink it more than anything else. although i do drink more water just because it's healthy and try not to drink too much soda.

[BarbaRosa]

10. Diet Sprite

Diet Sprite is my favorite soda but I've not been able to find 2L. bottles of DS anywhere for a number of years now.

Can anybody find 2L. bottles of DS in their area?:shrug:

[trotsky]

11. Dr. Pepper followed closely by 7-Up.

Squirt is also yummy!

[Whitacre D_WI]

14. Mr. Pibb!

SO much better than "Texas Champagne" (though I have been known to be a Pepper at times).

And why no mention of Moxie?

[trof]

15. Ale-8-One

Ale-8-One, the soft drink unique to Kentucky, has been bottled in Winchester since 1926.

Still a closely guarded family secret, the Ale-8-One formula was developed by G.L. Wainscott in the 1920's after experimentation with ginger-blended recipes he acquired during extensive travels in Northern Europe. He sponsored one of America's first "name the product" contests, and "A Late One" was the winning entry. The drink's logo, Ale-8-One, was adopted as a pun of its description as the latest thing in soft drinks.
http://www.ale81.com/companyhistory.html

AND


Try the fruit-juicy, thirst-quenching appeal of a sweet, tangy Grapico and reward your taste buds!

Produced and marketed in Birmingham, Alabama by the Buffalo Rock Company, 111 Oxmoor Road, Birmingham, Alabama 35209, [phone]
http://www.buffalorock.com/products/grapico.htm

An ice cold Grapico with an Ollie's barbecue was one of my childhood pleasures.
:-)

[On the Road]

23. Hey, I Remember Ale-8-1 !

I went to high school in Cincinnati and was a camp counselor during the summers in Northern Ky. I never got the "a late one" thing until your post.

My vote, however, was going to be for Vernor's. And I used to like Wink, a grapefruit soda from Canada Dry, but I don't believe it's made any longer.

[Spirochete]

16. Squirt

[MrBenchley]

17. Royal Crown

don't think they make RC anymore....

[bif]

26. It's still around

I'm pretty sure I've seen someone drinking it recently.

[HuckleB]

33. I had one last night.

There's a twelve pack and two-liter of RC in my basement, and plenty more at Fred Meyer, Safeway and Albertson's.

[WoodrowFan]

19. Does Diet Coke count as Other??

cause that's how I voted!

[Muesli]

21. Some Belgian product

named Spa fruit exotique.

[Kellanved]

25. Orangina

Or hero Cassis.

[Richardo]

27. I'm on an A&W root beer jag....

...that seems to have lasted for almost 8 months now.

Don't know where that came from, I've never been a huge root beer fan before. :shrug:

Anyway, It's my current drug of choice in the soda realm.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

53. I vote for A&W Root Beer as well, but

it's so much better served in a frosted mug at a drive-in than in a can or bottle.

Otherwise, Diet Doctor Pepper was my favorite all through college. I kept a record of spending at the time, and nearly every day, there was an entry for "DDP."

[BlueJazz]

28. Vernor's Ginger Ale

.

[MissMillie]

29. Love the clear ones....

But prefer 7-Up to Sprite, and prefer diet to regular.

[HuckleB]

30. RC cola, Fanta Limon (Spain version), Fanta Orange (France version)

.

[joeybee12]

31. Diet Cherry Coke--better than sex!

Not that I have recent experience to compare that to!

[HuckleB]

32. Ol' Bob Miller's Sasparilla!

That stuff rocks!

[LincolnMcGrath]

34. Do the Diet Dew!

Dew/Do? the Diet DewDew?
Ice cold over crushed ice from the side by side. mmmm

[xJlM]

36. None of the above

Give me coffee in the morning, and hot or iced tea after that and I'm happy.

[RedEarth]

37. I live in the "interior"

and I like Dr. Pepper and Root Beer.

[Drifter]

38. Sam Adams

Cheers
Drifter

[youngred]

39. MOUNTAIN DEW/CODE RED

AND NO I HAVEN'T HAD ANY TODAY...

IT'S NOT SODA IT'S POP!

[The_Gopher]

52. hells yeah.....code red is el magnifico

.

[JM]

40. Rock & Rye

I can only seem to find it in Detroit. Sickly sweet, I have a strong emotional bond with it since it was always wHat we drank at my Grandparents' house. I left a 6 pack of it at the cemetary for them. Actually I couldn't resist so I let them duke it out for the remaining five cans...B-)

Later,
JM

[bif]

46. I love Rock & Rye

Also Black Cherry and Cream Soda (the clear kind). Atlas pop from Hamtramck is what my grandparents always had. A wooden case in their pantry filled with quart bottles.

[HEyHEY]

41. Wow, I thought only I loved Dr. Pepper

[trogdor]

43. Tab?

You gotta be kidding!

[THUNDER HANDS]

44. my dad drank it religiously

back in the 80's. I wonder what happened to it?

[underpants]

45. HELLO!?!?!? Stewarts Cream Soda and Orange 'n Cream

What planet are you from anyway?

[mitchum]

47. Blenheim's Ginger Ale

[BrotherBuzz]

48. Delaware Punch

Gee, I'm not even sure it would be considered a soda, but I sure liked the sugar rush.

[watercolors]

50. Old fashion cream soda

some how it dosen't taste like it did when I was younger.

[SmileyBoy]

51. Mello Yello!!!

Drink it from the fountain, not the bottle or can!!!

[Loyal]

54. I love all of them...

but I must ask a question of the Rat: WHY IS MOUNTAIN DEW NOT ON THERE? :(