Soft Drinks....

[Sir Calumn]

I dont think I've ever had one but God they look horrible. Kids with blue mouths and sticky hands running down cinema isles appear in my nightmares.

 

[Back Door Skip]

This used to be my favorite drink before they discontinued:

 

[Sir Calumn]

That looks like it should be discontinued.... if not banned by law

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I dont think I've ever had one but God they look horrible. Kids with blue mouths and sticky hands running down cinema isles appear in my nightmares.

Hahaha, yeah I wouldn't want to be around a bunch of kids drinking them.

 

[Alex]

Haha I guess I'd just never encountered a Porter before. Weird.

Hmmm maybe I would enjoy it, but I have NEVER seen it in Britain. Dont forget we dont have seven-eleven franchises in Britain, convenience stores just dont have slushy machines or any fountain drinks at all really, the most I ever see are a red and a blue Slush Puppy machine in cinemas, which look horrible. Next time I am in the States I will make an effort to try one.

If I recall correctly, you are a bit of a soft drink expert? Like in terms of the corporate history of the major companies and the differences in franchising across the world and that kind of thing?

7 Eleven here don't sell Frozen Coke, they sell Slush Puppys I think (or some other brand of iced drink). 7 Eleven own the brand I think, so only sell their own. At least that's the case everywhere I've been.

But here you can get frozen coke at McDonalds, Hungry Jacks (ie. Burger King elsewhere) which probably counts you out Calumn. But also the movie cinemas, and most shopping mall donut/ice cream shops.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Oh well maybe it's in British fast food restaurants, I wouldnt know, though I think I would have seen those plastic cups lying around....

We are a bit behind the curve when it comes to snacks and beverages.

 

[Mint]

Got to be Lucozade, even though i do like Relentless every now and then.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Today I found a shop which sells imported cases of 12 cans of Vanilla Coke for £10...... I know that's obscene for a soft drink but cheapest I have seen it before that is £1.50 per can so I bought a couple of cases anyway and my God it's delicious.....

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Don't care for vanilla coke. Rediscovered my love of this stuff while on their brewery tour.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Vanilla coke is my very favourite, exemplified by the fact it was only available here as a special edition for about a year about a decade ago and has been very difficult to track down ever since..... if I was able to get it all the time I'm sure the novelty would wear off.....

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I probably can't beat £10 if you include international postage, but if you ever get really hard up I'll ship that **** to you by the case. You could also try amazon, although the price I see is $8 for a 12 pack, which seems like about the price for 24 at a Walmart.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Mate after carrying those cases home I know how ******* heavy they are they would cost minimum £10 each just to ship........ but I very much appreciate the offer!

 

[Ebonix]

Found a place in a town by me that sells Vanilla Coke by the case. Don't know how much though, I know the single cans are like £1.50 though. They also sell Mountain Dew; which is something that I'm particularily fond of.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Found a place in a town by me that sells Vanilla Coke by the case. Don't know how much though, I know the single cans are like £1.50 though. They also sell Mountain Dew; which is something that I'm particularily fond of.

Yeah I like Mountain Dew too, another good place to look for that is in Islamic grocery shops, they often have it in glass bottles and its even nicer from glass than it is from the can! Another top US import store drink is Wild Cherry Pepsi!

If it's £1.50 a can then it will be £15 a case, that is the prices it has been at every other place I have ever seen it before the place I found yesterday.

Also have you noticed how the US cans are about 20ml bigger than our cans? That 20ml makes a big difference!

 

[ShiftyPowers]

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

 

[Back Door Skip]

Cans seem to be only consumed here at cheap parties. 20oz bottles are the norm.

 

[newbie original]

Red Bull for when I'm studying, but only the original.

I think that France and Denmark had banned it until recently.

It contains components that lead to blood dilution (cerebral hemorrhage is a possible consequence of this).

Regular consumption has the potential to cause a sequence of irreversible nervous and neuronal diseases.

Should I keep going?

Doctor told me to cut out the iced tea because of some enzyme problem I got for only drinking that **** for years.

There are very few non-alcoholic drinks that don't cause some problem or the other. Even if you, for example, walk into the Sonoran desert and personally squeeze, and then drink, the juice right out of the nopal cactus fruit (the juice-producing part of this fruit is protected by several layers of fleshy skin, not to mention cactus spikes), you are still not guaranteed to be getting a problem-free drink because you don't know for certain that the fruit is 100% ripe. Neither you nor anyone else has been monitoring it over time - you don't know for certain if the color is what it needs to be for safe consumption. It may have just started to go stale. The color looks roughly good and you're not an expert so you don't know better. You just pluck it and drink the juice. Furthermore, a pinhole sized opening may exist in the body of the fruit introducing germs and opssibly poisonous elements into it - you've not examined the fruit carefully enough and have missed this. That, infact, applies to any fruit.

Additionally, if you eat a fruit with skin on it, yeah the skin might not be harmful but it has been subjected to sun, dust and animal droppings among others.....you're injesting filth and smiling when it tastes good.

Furthermore, if consumed in large enough quantities, any food/drink can cause problems. Even too much water, over a shrot period of time, can cause brain swelling and excess pressure on your kidney.

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

 

[Alex]

What do British cans contain? I thought they were 330mL like the American ones? I'm sure they were when I was there.

Australian cans are 375mL, and that makes a difference. Also our bottles are 600mL, where as UK has 500mL (or at least did when I was there). If American ones are 20oz (and American oz, not British/Imperial oz) than that's more like 600 I think. 20 British ounces is a pint, which is 568mL.

Loads of little stores around here get imported American cans which is good, because we don't have Dr Pepper, Cherry Coke, Cherry Pepsi, Code Red Mountain Dew, etc etc

Our normal Mountain Dew actually just became caffeinated. It was originally basically identical flavour to US MD, but no caffeine (there was some silly law come had put in place about non-cola drinks not being allowed to contain added caffeine). We finally joined the rest of the world about a month ago.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Cans are 12 oz, so 350 mL is what google says, British probably 330 then.

 

[Mandieta6]

Cans of anythig in Eurppe arw 330