Soft Drinks....

[SAM32]

I've heard a rumor that regular drinks of pepsi and coke have alcohol in em'
is this true??

 

[Jaboldinho]

Nope. They do have heroin though.

 

[Alex]

They have neither (Jab I realise/hope you're joking).

Shifty, I realised after I wrote that that the cans I get were 355. Guess I assumed they were 330, as they were clearly smaller than our cans, so I assumed they were 330 like the UK ones.

Guess they're both 12 ounces. 12 American Ounces and 12 imperial ounces.

Like a Pint glass, compared to a Starbucks Venti, both being 20 ounces, but well different sizes.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Oh really? That's weird because I don't see many people drinking out of cans, it's usually 20oz bottles. Cans seem too small

Also yours have corn syrup instead of cane sugar which is like 10 times worse for you

 

[Sir Calumn]

While we're on that subject, there are no alcoholic drinks that don't cause cause some problem or the other.

Well then I'd better stick with the booze...

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Also yours have corn syrup instead of cane sugar which is like 10 times worse for you

You'll hate this, but I mostly drink diet soda because I don't want to get enormous.

When I buy coke I'll buy the stuff in the glass bottles in the Mexican section which has cane sugar. And I think the Sprecher stuff that I posted earlier uses honey.

 

[Alex]

Yeah, that's the worst thing about the imported Dr Pepper. The high fructose corn syrup. Though they had some with the "original cane sugar recipe" for a while.

When I'm drinking Coke now, I generally drink Zero though. Still not good for you, but doesn't make me fat

 

[Alex]

Still don't get why loads more companies don't use stevia. Natural, sweet, no calories, and no funny after taste like artificial sweeteners.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

One thing that you guys should be very upset you will never drink:

 

[Jaboldinho]

Hate cherry lemonades.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

This is a cola

 

[Sir Calumn]

That looks fantastic..... cherry AND vanilla may just be too much infact, but I would love to try it! Is it still on sale?

You'll hate this, but I mostly drink diet soda because I don't want to get enormous.

When I buy coke I'll buy the stuff in the glass bottles in the Mexican section which has cane sugar. And I think the Sprecher stuff that I posted earlier uses honey.

Well I do criticize you for drinking diet soda for aesthetic reasons but actually if I was in the states I would be a lot more choosey because that corn syrup is really nasty stuff apparently, because we are not equipped to process it as we are with sugar it can do gradual but very severe damage to the liver and kidneys which are organs we heavy drinkers can hardly afford to put at even greater risk!

 

[Back Door Skip]

You can always just go for the original and drink Dr. Pepper, no need for wild inventions.

 

[Alex]

You can always just go for the original and drink Dr. Pepper, no need for wild inventions.

That's what I was thinking. Every time I try something else, I'm left thinking that it's a nice change but Dr Pepper wins.

 

[Alex]

This is a cola

Exactly what I was going to say. Since when has Pepsi been anything like lemonade.

 

[Sir Calumn]

You can always just go for the original and drink Dr. Pepper, no need for wild inventions.

Oh yeah but we have Dr Pepper in plentiful supply, I really like it but it doesn't have the "novelty value" that these import drinks have......

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Dr Pepper is disgusting and part of your dollar will probably be purchasing Romney ads this fall.

 

[Jaboldinho]

In Finland lemonade (limonaadi) is used for all soft drinks, not just lemon drinks.

They used to sell Cherry Pepsi here years back, and I hated it. And Dr Pepper is ******* horrible. There. I said it.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Don't give a ****. More Dr. "Ambrosia" Pepper for those of us who dont have retarded taste buds

 

[Alex]

In Australia the marketing was what killed Dr Pepper. People didn't know what to expect, and we don't have much at all over here using that artificial cherry/almond (think Amaretto and you'll know what I mean) flavour. One of the famous things flavoured with that chemical (it's the one chemical for both cherry and almond) is children's cough syrup.

So without knowing what to expect, loads of people thought DP tasted like cough syrup.

We didn't grow up with Dr Pepper either, it was launched new in the nineties, and failed miserably as it was a shock to the system for those expecting a cola sort of flavour.