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tsty
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response 12 of 149:
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Jan 7 09:06 UTC 2006 |
i do not drink either soda nor pop ...
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richard
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response 13 of 149:
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Jan 7 16:44 UTC 2006 |
gull said:
"My favorite is Dr. Pepper. (Or Mr. Pibb -- I find the two pretty much
indistinguishable.)"
Down in Texas, if you said you couldn't distinguish a pedestrian soda
like Mr. Pibb from the official state soft drink of Texas, Dr. Pepper
(which was invented there and where its made), you'd be escorted at
gunpoint to the Oklahoma state line and kicked over the border.
Because they'd just assume any idiot who can't tell Mr. Pibb from Dr.
Pepper MUST be from Oklahoma. :)
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kingjon
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response 14 of 149:
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Jan 7 16:51 UTC 2006 |
I don't drink any carbonated beverages if I can at all help it.
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keesan
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response 15 of 149:
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Jan 7 21:38 UTC 2006 |
Are there times when you are forced to drink them? No water available?
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richard
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response 16 of 149:
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Jan 7 22:21 UTC 2006 |
re #15 maybe if he was in a foreign country. once when I was in this
village in Cambodia, the local restaurant had only two drink options,
ice water and bottles of coke. Yes its true, its hard to go anywhere
in the world where you can't get coke. Since the ice water was not
bottled, I chose to ignore the waiter's insistance that it was
pottable (drinkable). Drinking the water in a third world country if
it doesn't come in a sealed bottle is never a wise idea unless you
have a strong stomach. I had the coke.
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kingjon
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response 17 of 149:
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Jan 7 22:52 UTC 2006 |
I've been out of the country only once in my memory, and that was to Stratford,
Ontario (with a stop for food en route). The one time water wasn't available
was in Chicago at the Rainforest Cafe as a part of a tour in fifth grade, when
there was specific items of food and drink set for us, and what I thought was
water was actually Sprite. My mom (who was a chaperone) came up with the
solution of getting as much ice as possible and letting the ice melt and the
Sprite flatten. (It's the carbonation I object to, not the taste.)
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gull
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response 18 of 149:
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Jan 7 23:16 UTC 2006 |
Well, to be fair, I've never had Mr. Pibb in a can -- only from a
fountain. Fountain pop is routinely watered down so much that subtle
flavor differences are hard to notice.
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charcat
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response 19 of 149:
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Jan 8 01:34 UTC 2006 |
The vernors sold now (a pepsi product)is a shadow of what it once was.
It used to be "aged in barrels 4 years" and almost burned to drink
(sneezing was a side effect trying to get it past your nose) the pepsi
version is disappointing to those who remember the real stuff.
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keesan
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response 20 of 149:
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Jan 8 02:18 UTC 2006 |
Jon, why couldn't you ask the Cafe for a glass of water, or epmty the Sprite
down the bathroom sink and fill the bottle with tap water?
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klg
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response 21 of 149:
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Jan 8 03:36 UTC 2006 |
The PC police won't allow you to get coca cola in a UM dorm.
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kingjon
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response 22 of 149:
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Jan 8 03:39 UTC 2006 |
Fifth grade, remember? And the trip (which Milan Middle School, or now Symons
Elementary School, fifth graders still make every year) was *highly* rushed.
I couldn't ask for a glass of water, if I recall (but my memory is fuzzy),
because there wasn't much in the way of service -- we were set up in this room
and ignored, with the meal paid for ahead of time. It wasn't a bottle of Sprite
but a pitcher, and of all the fifth-graders in the room (probably a third of
all the students of that grade in the school at that point) I was probably the
only one who didn't like the stuff.
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eprom
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response 23 of 149:
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Jan 8 07:09 UTC 2006 |
I hear theres a bottling operation down in Texas that makes Dr Pepper with
sugar cane instead of the high fructose corn syrup they use now. They sell
it online, but it's like $15 (with S&H) for a 24 case of 12 oz cans.
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keesan
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response 24 of 149:
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Jan 8 18:14 UTC 2006 |
For people with corn allergies?
I don't like soda either, but there is always a water fountain or bathroom
around.
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eprom
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response 25 of 149:
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Jan 8 18:53 UTC 2006 |
sugar prices in this country are kept artifically high...so most soda pop use
corn syrup now-a-days. The Dr. Pepper with the sugar cane is what was used
in the original recipe.
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tod
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response 26 of 149:
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Jan 8 21:03 UTC 2006 |
Sugar cane is neato
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bhelliom
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response 27 of 149:
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Jan 9 05:19 UTC 2006 |
I can't stnad most water from the tap; I have to have it filtered now.
I know, I know, poke fun!
As for soda, my favorite hands down is Diet Dr. Pepper.
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jadecat
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response 28 of 149:
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Jan 9 14:03 UTC 2006 |
Yes, Diet Pepsi is my standard drink 'o choice. Nice to know it has less
caffeine than many other brands.
Anywho, I will on occasion diverge off the normal path and try something
like Diet Pepsi with Lime (which is pretty tasty- though I would rather
just buy a lime and cut a slice off into my drink). Also, Wild Cherry
Pepsi is nice, as is Dr Pepper.
Rock-n-Rye is fabulous to make ice cream floats out of.
In college I used to drink whatever was on sale of Diet Coke or Pepsi-
which is when I actually first had Diet Pepsi- I grew up in a Coke
drinking household.
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richard
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response 29 of 149:
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Jan 9 15:23 UTC 2006 |
re #28 ever have Pepsi One? I like Pepsi One better since they re-
formulated it using Sucralose (Splenda) as the sweetener.
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edina
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response 30 of 149:
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Jan 9 15:59 UTC 2006 |
I am trying to cut caffeine out of my drink repertoire, so I'm finding myself
loving caffeine free diet pepsi.
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jadecat
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response 31 of 149:
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Jan 9 16:11 UTC 2006 |
re resp:29 no. Don't drink Pepsi One. I like my aspartame. ;) Actually
it's more habit and availability. I can count on Diet Pepsi being much
more available than Pepsi One in vending machines, or at
restaurants/movie theaters, etc. I would rather have a primary drink
that was available.
re resp:30 The Plan includes cutting back on my caffeine intake, but
slowly. Good to hear that the caffeine free version of my addiction is
pretty good. :)
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tod
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response 32 of 149:
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Jan 9 17:01 UTC 2006 |
I'm having a diet coke with my wrap this morning.
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ric
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response 33 of 149:
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Jan 9 17:18 UTC 2006 |
coke Zero and Diet Coke have drastically different tastes. Coke Zero tastes
a lot like regular Coke. It has that classic coke "bite".
Diet Coke does not.
I hate Diet Coke, and I do not drink it - ever. I'd rather have water. But
I do like Coke Zero, and I usually have one every morning.
Coke Zero is for people who like coke. It is NOT for people who like Diet
Coke. Most Diet coke drinks I know are not fans of Coke Zero.
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jep
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response 34 of 149:
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Jan 9 17:28 UTC 2006 |
I switched from Pepsi to Diet Coke 8 years ago when I started work at a
company who gave employees free pop. Diet Coke tastes a lot more like
Pepsi than Diet Pepsi.
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ric
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response 35 of 149:
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Jan 9 19:09 UTC 2006 |
IIRC, Diet Coke was formulated at a time when Coke was starting to lose market
share to Pepsi. So they purposefully made it taste more like Pepsi (which
I hate).
Based on the popularity of Diet Coke, and the continuing decline of the market
share of Coke v. Pepsi, the Coca Cola Company reformulated their flagship
product to what we all now know as the New Coke. New Coke was fabulously
popular in all the marketing tests they did. The taste tests were great.
Everyone liked New Coke.
Of course, market testing isn't everything.
Coke market share increased dramatically after they reintroduced the original
formula as Coca Cola classic, and while Coca Cola Classic still dominates
Pepsi today, both companies make a lot more money off their Diet brands.
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jadecat
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response 36 of 149:
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Jan 9 19:29 UTC 2006 |
I never drank regular Pepsi, growing up it was always Coke. Then when I
was in my teens somewhere we started getting Diet Coke for my mom and I.
She still drinks Diet, but prefers hers flat.
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