Soda! Soda! Soda!
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What are your top five sodas?
This is a bit tricky, since I'm not much of a soda drinker. But, here goes...
1) Lemon squash -- Is anyone really surprised by this answer? I only raved about it constantly after our trip to Australia. For a bit of background: when I was a kid, Canada Dry test marketed a soda called Wallaby Squash in parts of California... my Aunt (the same one who just had neck surgery, actually) got me hooked on the stuff when we were visiting my grandparents. My great-grandmother used to ship six packs of Wallaby Squash to me wherever we happened to be living... until they stopped making it around 1981. I kept looking for something that tasted similar, with no luck until we visited Australia a few years ago and I discovered that Wallaby Squash was actually lemon squash... a drink available EVERYWHERE in Australia. I now mail-order it off the internet for a treat (importing it is way too pricy to drink on a regular basis).
2) Dad's Root Beer (in the glass bottles) -- Harder to find around here now that Larry's Market has closed... Dad's Root Beer does a special version of their product in glass bottles using their old sugar only recipe. Yum!!!
3) Passiona -- Passionfruit flavored soda! What's not to love!!
4) Bundaberg Ginger Beer -- Mmmm... Ginger Beer. Actually, I like a number of brands of ginger beer... but Bundaberg is my favorite, followed closely by Cock & Bull.
5) Mountain Dew -- My caffeinated beverage of choice. I only indulge in it every few weeks or so, usually when I'm trying to kick some lung issues (impending bronchitis, asthma attacks, etc.) or if I'm on a roadtrip and need the boost to stay awake. The only soda I'll drink that has high fructose corn syrup, but because of that I really have to be in the mood for it.
entrenous88...What are your top five sodas?
This is a bit tricky, since I'm not much of a soda drinker. But, here goes...
1) Lemon squash -- Is anyone really surprised by this answer? I only raved about it constantly after our trip to Australia. For a bit of background: when I was a kid, Canada Dry test marketed a soda called Wallaby Squash in parts of California... my Aunt (the same one who just had neck surgery, actually) got me hooked on the stuff when we were visiting my grandparents. My great-grandmother used to ship six packs of Wallaby Squash to me wherever we happened to be living... until they stopped making it around 1981. I kept looking for something that tasted similar, with no luck until we visited Australia a few years ago and I discovered that Wallaby Squash was actually lemon squash... a drink available EVERYWHERE in Australia. I now mail-order it off the internet for a treat (importing it is way too pricy to drink on a regular basis).
2) Dad's Root Beer (in the glass bottles) -- Harder to find around here now that Larry's Market has closed... Dad's Root Beer does a special version of their product in glass bottles using their old sugar only recipe. Yum!!!
3) Passiona -- Passionfruit flavored soda! What's not to love!!
4) Bundaberg Ginger Beer -- Mmmm... Ginger Beer. Actually, I like a number of brands of ginger beer... but Bundaberg is my favorite, followed closely by Cock & Bull.
5) Mountain Dew -- My caffeinated beverage of choice. I only indulge in it every few weeks or so, usually when I'm trying to kick some lung issues (impending bronchitis, asthma attacks, etc.) or if I'm on a roadtrip and need the boost to stay awake. The only soda I'll drink that has high fructose corn syrup, but because of that I really have to be in the mood for it.
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Date: 2007-02-06 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-07 08:35 am (UTC)Heh Really it's a sweet citrus drink with an orange/grapefruit flavor and the slight bitter aftertaste of caffeine.
The last bit is why it's so popular when it was first marketed as Kickapoo Joy Juice (which you can still find) it flopped as just another fruit punch. So the bright boys at the botteling plant re tooled it as Mt Dew and dumped in a whole lot of caffeine and suddenly it started to sell. For a long time it was the soda with the most caffeine, Then came Jolt and ninety bazillion energy drinks.
Right now I think it's either #3 or 4 in nationwide soda sales.