[Closed] Favourite fizzy pop

Root Beer. Too expensive this side of the pond:-(
APF

Irn Bru - very cold and before they changed the recipe!

Canadian Mountain Dew (due to laws about clear caffeinated drinks there the recipe is different to here, and the US)

Mine used to be Fanta or Dr Pepper.

Don't like many fizzy pops now they have loaded them with sweeteners instead of sugar.

Coca-Cola full fat is now probably the only one I can drink that doesn't leave a rotten sweetener aftertaste.

Can understand the need not to drink 14 litres of sugary drinks a day, but pushing everything to contain sweeteners to make them 'better' is rather annoying 🙁

Cresta orange, or lemon & lime...(ohh to be a 10 year old again in the mid-70's..)

Ginger or Root beer here

Vimto, still or fizzy.

Very rarely drink any these days but it would have to be dandelion and burdock

Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque 2000, or Hattingley or perhaps a Coates & Seely. #DrinkLocal 😎

That aside, either ginger beer or Orangina.

Coke.

Lemon Fanta, it’s an occasional treat for me though and always tastes better on holiday.

Marsh's sass. You'll never know the joy, sadly see the link below, basically the secret ingredient stopped being made 😭
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mystery+that+threatens+cult+soft+drink.-a060206032

Top deck lager and lime, Jamaica ginger beer.

Diet Dr Pepper or Diet A&W root beer. Unfortunately can't find either in the UK, so must load up in the US.

Quatro or Lilt

ooooh, a quattro and a bag of fish and chips (the baked snack version) from the the vending machine at the swimming baths, pure nostalgic bliss.....

a bag of fish and chips (the baked snack version) from the the vending machine at the swimming baths

I think there must have been a harmonious balance on the palate of these mixed with chlorine and teenage hormones.

Diet coke, has to be fridge cold.

Pol Roger

Diet

Whaaat? Are you serious? Full fat for crying out loud.

Depends on mood. Sometimes only an ice cold full fat coke will hit the spot. If I’m feeling ropey then a sprite (but can taste the artificial sweetener) or a ginger beer. Other than that lemon Sanpellegrino

Can understand the need not to drink 14 litres of sugary drinks a day, but pushing everything to contain sweeteners to make them ‘better’ is rather annoying 🙁

Amen. Quite frustrated at not being able to get 'made of sugar' varieties, or being served up sweetners. Ribena, Sprite, the can of Old Jamaica Ginger Beer I got served the other day when I was looking forward to taking the edge off a mild hangover.

I can probably count on one hand the cans of fizzy drink I have in a year, but when I have one, I want it to ruin my endocrine system.

Used to be Dandelion and Burdock or Vimto.

Then...

There can only be one.....

Pepsi Max Cherry 🍒

Pepsi Max or San Pellegrino lemonade

Diet Dr Pepper or Diet A&W root beer. Unfortunately can’t find either in the UK, so must load up in the US.

We have Diet Dr Pepper provided in our fridges at work, so it must be available somewhere.

Yeah, like I know all about their past... their current raping of the countryside in South America, the litter, the abysmal human rights for their workers and the corruption..

But a very cold bottle of this is simply sublime... full fat, and only from a bottle..

Wonder if different people have different reactions to diet / sugar free things. Sugar free anything, invariably with saccharin or aspartame (iirc) tastes downright nasty to me.

Aside from the horrible aftertaste, they don't taste nice either.

Cresta Creme Soda. It’s frothy man. Or not in the 80’s SAN Pellegrino lemon

An ice cold coke (from a glass bottle or can, not plastic) on top of a mountain pass on a hot day is sublime.

Sucralose gives me violent bottom issues.

Council pop

ooooh, a quattro and a bag of fish and chips (the baked snack version) from the the vending machine at the swimming baths, pure nostalgic bliss…

Dr Pepper from the swimming pool vending machine in Parr around 1985. The drop was just right for 2/3rds of the can to hit the foyer ceiling when you opened it

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Nothing beats a can of cold coke after a ride where you've run out of water and the will to live.
Well nothing apart from the huge buuuuurp after you've downed it in one straight out of the can.

Anything else is just fannying around or pretending to be posh.

Blood orange San Pellegrino

A Bollinger Grande Annee always goes down well.

But assuming soft drinks, proper Coke from a glass bottle over ice. I drink it very rarely but it’s a treat when I o.
Honourable mention to Orangina too, a throwback to holiday as a kid in France.

A Bollinger Grande Annee always goes down well.

see the last bit of my post above. 😉

Full-fat high fructose corn syrup A&W Root Beer (as imported and sold by my local garden centre - they have diet, and proper American cherry vanilla Dr Pepper as well for anyone that wants..)

Votes here for dandelion and burdock and orangina.

That energy drink whyte make.

More seriously Dalton Fizzy Rhubarb.

Rola cola

+1 for Fentimans Curiosity Cola

Diet Dr Pepper....available in Sainsbury’s and weirdly enough Poundland.

In no particular order:
Barrs Cream Soda
Dandelion and Burdock
Citroen Presse
Cherry Coke.

Shandy Bass.

beer flavoured pop FTW !

Another for Dandelion & Burdock*.
Served with chips & curry sauce !
I used to love “Underwood’s”- West Cumbrian pop ,delivered to my Nana’s on the pop van obvs. 👍

Used to be Pepsi Max, but I haven't knowingly had any caffeine for about 6 years now.

So now, San Pellegrino Lemon (or Lemon and Mint) or Fentimans Dandelion and Burdock.

You're all going to tell me that D and B is full of caffeine now...

Coca Cola from a glass bottle or a tin of fizzy Vimto. Both have to be ice cold.

(genius thread by the way, I love it when you take another thread and mangle it 😀 )

The Iggy Pop thread is a parody of this thread. Hats off to the other guy.

Edit - sorry, it's "chapeau" round here isn't it?

Badoit

Tab.

Otherwise Coke, just off frozen and only in a can. Plastic bottles can get tae ####

I sold out long ago to the marketing giants. Full fat Coca Cola.

Edit: From glass preferably. Not much chance of that in the UK and glass bottles have been harder too find on the continent mostly in France over the last 15 years. Which is a pity given the current drive for saving the planet.

Schweppes Agrum, not a uk based drink of course!

Only one I normally drink is co-op's own brand diet bitter lemon, ice cold from the fridge. But I'll drink anything if its cold and I'm thirsty enough.

Ben Shaws Space Special Mmmmmm!

Full fat Coke or Pepsi - rarely drink it, but hate the diet stuff.

My son drinks a lot of the diet stuff - he's Type 1, so other than water, it's diet drinks, or a shed load of insulin.

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As a teetotaler with a sweet tooth a mile wide I'm somewhat of a soda gourmet.

Loving

Fentimens Cherry Tree Cola
Virgils Cherry Cream Soda
Bunderberg Root Beer or Peach
Fitz Cola

Greggs lemon fizzy stuff or lidls tonic water from the cans

I drink ridiculous amounts of pepsi max, just love the taste tbh

Does tonic water count as fizzy pop? Fever Tree is lovely although it costs almost as much as gin.

This evening's tipple is lemon Fanta.

San Pellegrino - "Tory Fanta"

Morrison's sugar free berry crush is a delish thirst cutter.

I have to agree that a 4 deg C full fat coke from the glass bottle is
sublime. But as type 2 it's a no no.

Really liked the drinks in Czech Republic this summer (besides beer....) Kofola is a bit like herby coke, and various fruit flavours of Birell.

Found another..

This is an SS1E not a Fizzy... mine went pop quite a few times... BITD.

Full fat Coca Cola, or Ben Shaws American Cream Soda..remins me of the 'pop man' from my childhood.

Tonic water, FeverTree of preference. Over ice, with a slice of lime.

Probably a good quality ginger beer as a treat but too expensive and sugary to have regularly so usually go with Pepsi Max Cherry (it's the only diet cola that doesn't taste like it's a diet one to me).