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For soda drinkers only

Coke or Pepsi?

  • Coke

    Votes: 28 52.8%
  • Pepsi

    Votes: 11 20.8%
  • Other?

    Votes: 14 26.4%

  • Total voters
    53
I had to quit about a year ago due to stomach problems, but I was a Diet Coke guy. I did drink Pepsi as a teenager. For the diet stuff, I agree with you COKE.

Edit : The tap water here has got to be the worst crap this side of cattle country.
 
Diet Dr. Pepper.
 
Krogers carries RC down here. I get the double decker moonpies at Sams. I remember the big 16 oz bottles of RC.

We don't have Kroger's in south Georgia. :( I can get moon pies all over the place, though.
 
Seltzer guy here...gave up the soda.
Funny story, my paternal grandfather only drank seltzer because he "refused to drink water that came from a pipe out of the ground". Back in Frankfurt they had their own natural spring, so he drank the spring water, but once he emigrated to America it was seltzer only. He didn't trust the municipal water.
They had the old fashioned glass seltzer bottles.

I guess a Sodastream or similar unit is reminiscent of the old seltzer bottles.
Doesn't anyone here use either of these units?



Hubs wanted a soda stream, but I didn't want to buy one if he wasn't going to use it that often. I found one at a garage sale for $10 with the canister still full.

He's used it once. :lol: Glad I paid $10 instead of $100.

The soda tasted OK but didn't have the fizz that I like in soda.
 
Hubs wanted a soda stream, but I didn't want to buy one if he wasn't going to use it that often. I found one at a garage sale for $10 with the canister still full.

He's used it once. :lol: Glad I paid $10 instead of $100.

The soda tasted OK but didn't have the fizz that I like in soda.

The Sodastream CO2 cartridges are proprietary and expensive as hell to refill.
You have to give it the right amount of spritz in order to get the right fizz ratio.

The truth is, anybody can manufacture their OWN equivalent just using a few fittings and a paintball CO2 canister.
It is not rocket science, you're just infusing gas into water under pressure.

I'm not really motivated, but if I was, I would just go buy or cannibalize the fittings from a restaurant fountain system and build my own rig and use a paintball canister to charge the water.
 
Coke or Pepsi? This has been asked since the beginning of, well, soda. I am a Coke girl. Well, Diet Coke. My husband is a Diet Pepsi guy (probably only because I am a Diet Coke girl, because he has always been Coke over Pepsi).

So I am currently out of Diet Coke in the fridge, and he has Diet Pepsi in there (BECAUSE HE NEVER DRINKS IT BECAUSE HE PREFERS COKE - I SWEAR THIS IS A POWER THING WITH HIM). So I begrudgingly took one of his nasty Diet Pepsis, and it tastes like cleaning products. There is a slight taste of soap in there somewhere.

Sorry, rant off.

And no need for anti-soda Nazis to come in and tell me that soda will kill me, because I do not care. I have very few vices - this is one that I will have until the day I die (even if I die from soda intake).

If you are against soda nazis are you also against nazi sodas? Here is a video mocking fanta since the soda was originally a nazi creation.
 
The Sodastream CO2 cartridges are proprietary and expensive as hell to refill.
You have to give it the right amount of spritz in order to get the right fizz ratio.

The truth is, anybody can manufacture their OWN equivalent just using a few fittings and a paintball CO2 canister.
It is not rocket science, you're just infusing gas into water under pressure.

I'm not really motivated, but if I was, I would just go buy or cannibalize the fittings from a restaurant fountain system and build my own rig and use a paintball canister to charge the water.

Yeah... I wouldn’t use paintball CO2... you want beverage-grade CO2.

The cost difference is minimal, but it’s worth it if you avoid a few PPM of benzene.
 
Coke or Pepsi? This has been asked since the beginning of, well, soda. I am a Coke girl. Well, Diet Coke. My husband is a Diet Pepsi guy (probably only because I am a Diet Coke girl, because he has always been Coke over Pepsi).

So I am currently out of Diet Coke in the fridge, and he has Diet Pepsi in there (BECAUSE HE NEVER DRINKS IT BECAUSE HE PREFERS COKE - I SWEAR THIS IS A POWER THING WITH HIM). So I begrudgingly took one of his nasty Diet Pepsis, and it tastes like cleaning products. There is a slight taste of soap in there somewhere.

Sorry, rant off.

And no need for anti-soda Nazis to come in and tell me that soda will kill me, because I do not care. I have very few vices - this is one that I will have until the day I die (even if I die from soda intake).

For a cola, Coke. But I do think Pepsi has a deeper bench of products. Thank you for your time.
 
We don't have Kroger's in south Georgia. :( I can get moon pies all over the place, though.
Moon pies? How dare you raise them among St Baird and her baked miracles.

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I'm very disappointed in you and I'm sending over a gang of ninja's to tie you down and force feed you her pies.

I know the joke you're thinking about using, don't do it.
 
Yeah... I wouldn’t use paintball CO2... you want beverage-grade CO2.

The cost difference is minimal, but it’s worth it if you avoid a few PPM of benzene.

Well thank you for that.
Yes, if I was motivated, I'd definitely be thanking you for that good advice.
I'll probably never bother to do it but I'll pass it on if anyone ever ponders out loud about it.
 
This is sweetened with stevia, rather than aspertaeme


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Coke or Pepsi? This has been asked since the beginning of, well, soda. I am a Coke girl. Well, Diet Coke. My husband is a Diet Pepsi guy (probably only because I am a Diet Coke girl, because he has always been Coke over Pepsi).

So I am currently out of Diet Coke in the fridge, and he has Diet Pepsi in there (BECAUSE HE NEVER DRINKS IT BECAUSE HE PREFERS COKE - I SWEAR THIS IS A POWER THING WITH HIM). So I begrudgingly took one of his nasty Diet Pepsis, and it tastes like cleaning products. There is a slight taste of soap in there somewhere.

Sorry, rant off.

And no need for anti-soda Nazis to come in and tell me that soda will kill me, because I do not care. I have very few vices - this is one that I will have until the day I die (even if I die from soda intake).

Ditto. And Coke really is the real thing. Remember those Coke vs the P-word smell tests back in the day? I participated, and yes indeedy and of course, a true Coke-aholic, which I am, can always tell. My grandparents let me have Coke when I was a toddler, and that's how it all began. In elementary school I'd sit in class fantasizing about how when I was a grownup, I was going to have a Coke fountain just like the water fountain out in the hall. :lol:

Best Coke ever: The fountain Coke at the downtown Atlanta Woolworth's back in the '90's. Burned all the way down. Wonderful!

Best diet sodas: 7-up cherry limeade (and DDP and Diet A&W are good too).

But I mainly drink unflavored/unsweetened sparkling water, sigh. All the burn, but none of the sugar.
 
Seltzer guy here...gave up the soda.
Funny story, my paternal grandfather only drank seltzer because he "refused to drink water that came from a pipe out of the ground". Back in Frankfurt they had their own natural spring, so he drank the spring water, but once he emigrated to America it was seltzer only. He didn't trust the municipal water.
They had the old fashioned glass seltzer bottles.

I guess a Sodastream or similar unit is reminiscent of the old seltzer bottles.
Doesn't anyone here use either of these units?



Got two of the latest model as gifts. Buy alternate cartridges from a local balloon and party place, 10 for $12. They last about for about 20 1 qt uses each, bring them back to get the $12 price. Great for 2¢ plain used in egg creams for the grandkids. UBet Chocolate Syrup is a must. My wife uses them for mixed drinks, scotch and soda, wine spritzes, whatever. Better than club soda, no salts. I also use it to make nonalcoholic lime ricky's for the kids during the summer. Fresh squeezed lime juice, a bit of cherry syrup and a spritz over ice in a tall glass with a straw and a lime wedge on the rim. Add a bit of gin for the adults.
 
On 90+ degree day in Houston this was the answer. It was the right amount. No watered down super size. When it came out it was sweaty cold and ready to addict any child. Had it been a Pepsi machine things might be different. Coke it was and is till I die.

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This is sweetened with stevia, rather than aspertaeme


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And apparently manufactured out of pure unobtanium, but I will try to order some online.
Wifey has been a good girl and deserves a soda, she gave up Pepsi to save her one kidney.
 
Not a big soda drinker unless it's got a mixer, but generally I take Pepsi over Coke. But a nice cold root beer also hits the spot.
 
And apparently manufactured out of pure unobtanium, but I will try to order some online.
Wifey has been a good girl and deserves a soda, she gave up Pepsi to save her one kidney.

It's actually at our local grocery store..... that's where I found out about it. I like the ginger ale version. It's expensive, so I only get it rarely to treat myself
 
I stopped drinking soda pop when I was about 10. I realized that I needed to rinse out out my mouth with water after drinking soda; so I cut to the chase and switched to water.
 
Hubs wanted a soda stream, but I didn't want to buy one if he wasn't going to use it that often. I found one at a garage sale for $10 with the canister still full.

He's used it once. :lol: Glad I paid $10 instead of $100.

The soda tasted OK but didn't have the fizz that I like in soda.

There's a control mechanism for the level of carbonization the user wants. Check the online manual for your model. Their syrups are ridiculously expensive. My grandfather owned a candy store with a soda ice cream fountain during the depression. He made his own syrups except for coke. Different places used different amounts of syrup when they served the finished product. His store was a front for the card game in the back, and the numbers betting at the counter. My mother had to work the fountain after school as a teenager, but hated it, especially the cold ice cream freezer, and dishing it out. But the heavy duty gamblers in the back room would tip her nicely on the way out, and of course make passes at her, knowing if they succeeded my grandfather's wrath would descend upon them. Worse, they'd have to deal with her male cousins. :) A very rowdy bunch, to say the least.

We also had seltzer delivered when I was a kid, and bottles of Hoffman soda with weird flavors like grapefruit, coconut, dark and pale ginger ale, sassafras, birch, and all the fruit and berry flavors. They both taught me to mix a tablespoon of jam or preserves in a glass of seltzer, which I still do. Doesn't have that clinging sugar aftertaste.

There's a whole bunch of boutique soda makers here, with their products in the Delis and the Bodegas. I particularly enjoy bottles of Manhattan decaf diet coffee sodas, which I now find in the local supermarkets when it isn't sold out. Also bottles of Jamaican brewed ginger ales, dark, thick, and sweet. Sold in 8 ounce bottles and very intensely ginger flavored. A rare indulgence for me because they raise my blood sugar levels. I can always taste the difference between sodas made with corn syrup as opposed to cane sugar, and only buy the cane sugar sodas for the kids in the family as a treat. Otherwise we serve them fruit punches and iced teas. The kids like black cherry beers as opposed to root beer. Can't imagine who taught them to call them beers. :)
 
Coke or Pepsi? This has been asked since the beginning of, well, soda. I am a Coke girl. Well, Diet Coke. My husband is a Diet Pepsi guy (probably only because I am a Diet Coke girl, because he has always been Coke over Pepsi).

So I am currently out of Diet Coke in the fridge, and he has Diet Pepsi in there (BECAUSE HE NEVER DRINKS IT BECAUSE HE PREFERS COKE - I SWEAR THIS IS A POWER THING WITH HIM). So I begrudgingly took one of his nasty Diet Pepsis, and it tastes like cleaning products. There is a slight taste of soap in there somewhere.

Sorry, rant off.

And no need for anti-soda Nazis to come in and tell me that soda will kill me, because I do not care. I have very few vices - this is one that I will have until the day I die (even if I die from soda intake).

I'm with you, girlfriend. Coke is the preferred drink to go. I like Diet Coke, too.
 
Coke or Pepsi? This has been asked since the beginning of, well, soda. I am a Coke girl. Well, Diet Coke. My husband is a Diet Pepsi guy (probably only because I am a Diet Coke girl, because he has always been Coke over Pepsi).

So I am currently out of Diet Coke in the fridge, and he has Diet Pepsi in there (BECAUSE HE NEVER DRINKS IT BECAUSE HE PREFERS COKE - I SWEAR THIS IS A POWER THING WITH HIM). So I begrudgingly took one of his nasty Diet Pepsis, and it tastes like cleaning products. There is a slight taste of soap in there somewhere.

Sorry, rant off.

And no need for anti-soda Nazis to come in and tell me that soda will kill me, because I do not care. I have very few vices - this is one that I will have until the day I die (even if I die from soda intake).

There is some evidence that our genetics determines some of how we taste or smell different things. For example, some people just can't smell or taste certain particular things at all. It has to do with the exact protein structure of the receptors on our taste buds or in our nose. Personally, I drink lots of both Coke and Pepsi, and have a tough time telling the difference. They're both great.
 
It's actually at our local grocery store..... that's where I found out about it. I like the ginger ale version. It's expensive, so I only get it rarely to treat myself

I'll try looking for it at some of the other supers in the neighborhood.
It's okay if it's expensive...well, a LITTLE bit expensive.
If you knew what I spend on coffee beans, you'd think I was buying illicit street drugs.

But I don't drink alcoholic beverages, (Well, I make an exception maybe two or three times a year) I'm too much of a lightweight to be able to be a regular pot smoker and I've already given up tobacco and I stopped being a cocaine addict almost twenty-five years ago.

Coffee? From my cold dead hands, beeyotch. :lamo
 
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Moon pies? How dare you raise them among St Baird and her baked miracles.

bcfd456c3135c42e564dce42f57fa622.jpeg


I'm very disappointed in you and I'm sending over a gang of ninja's to tie you down and force feed you her pies.

I know the joke you're thinking about using, don't do it.

Never heard of them.
 
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