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richard
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response 4 of 149:
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Jan 7 01:34 UTC 2006 |
re #3 you could switch to Mello Yello :)
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johnnie
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response 5 of 149:
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Jan 7 02:36 UTC 2006 |
Rock n Rye can't be beat. I also like a 50/50 mix of Vernors and cola.
I may also be the only person who liked New Coke.
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klg
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response 6 of 149:
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Jan 7 03:12 UTC 2006 |
(Is Richard really that Bubba guy from Forrest Gump? "Dey's uh,
shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried,
stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp,
pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and
potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich" Or maybe he's actually
Forrest hisself.)
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gull
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response 7 of 149:
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Jan 7 04:07 UTC 2006 |
My favorite is Dr. Pepper. (Or Mr. Pibb -- I find the two pretty much
indistinguishable.)
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mcnally
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response 8 of 149:
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Jan 7 04:47 UTC 2006 |
re #4: No, I couldn't. It's not sold here. I used to prefer it
and drank it when I lived in Seattle but it's hard to find there
now and not sold at all here.
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slynne
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response 9 of 149:
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Jan 7 06:25 UTC 2006 |
I mostly dont drink pop. But when I do, I dont have a regular type. If I
am at the cafeteria at work, I sometimes get ginger ale or coke when a
drink is included in a lunch special although usually I get juice or
iced tea. Occasionally I will get a mountain dew from the pop machine
but mostly I just drink tea or coffee and, of course, water.
I have recently decided to stop eating or drinking artificial sweeteners
but before that, I drank a lot of Diet Pepsi. I generally prefer Pepsi
over Coke and Mountain Dew over Mellow Yellow and Diet Pepsi over Diet
Coke but it isnt a strong preference.
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bhoward
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response 10 of 149:
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Jan 7 07:03 UTC 2006 |
Mike, are the soft drinks sold in Ketchikan or elsewhere in Alaska
bottled locally or shipped in from out of state?
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mcnally
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response 11 of 149:
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Jan 7 07:49 UTC 2006 |
I believe they're all shipped in from out of town (Seattle, most likely.)
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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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