Best Soda???

[pkt77242]

Voted Coke.

1. Coke
2. Mountain Dew
3. Mr. Pibb
4. Barqs
5. A&W Vanilla Cream Soda

 

[dshans]

Sir dshans:THAT I DO remember. During the years following WW2, Mom and Dad could afford each of us three kids [at the time/ four more to come] 25cents allowance. That got you into the saturday matinee movie plus popcorn and a "coke", plus two Marvel comic books at 5cents each. Sometimes the drugstore soda vendor would "pull" us kids a "coke" for free just to be "neighborly". Simple nice days to be a kid, and long before anyone told us we were poor so we didn't notice.

I remember many such acts of "concerted kindness." Something of a "hangover" from the Depression years, I think. I spent my early, formative years (six through eleven) in St. Pete Beach, Fl. My parents had no qualms about my riding my bike wherever I wanted on the 5 x 1 mile island. Holloween was a gas. Two grocery bags of candy and no worries.

Gathering coke/pepsi/miller (etc.) returnable bottles got me enough coin to get into the Saturday matineé double feature of Roy Rogers and The Three Stooges. The surplus kept me flush for lemon cokes.

 

[BGIF]

I remember many such acts of "concerted kindness." Something of a "hangover" from the Depression years, I think. I spent my early, formative years (six through eleven) in St. Pete Beach, Fl. My parents had no qualms about my riding my bike wherever I wanted on the 5 x 1 mile island. Holloween was a gas. Two grocery bags of candy and no worries.

Gathering coke/pepsi/miller (etc.) returnable bottles got me enough coin to get into the Saturday matineé double feature of Roy Rogers and The Three Stooges. The surplus kept me flush for lemon cokes.

Is that what they called it in St Pete Beach?

Was it celebrated on All Hollows Eve?

 

[ACamp1900]

I grew up just off of Roy Rogers Drive in Victorville CA... and live not too far from his and Dale Evans' house in Apple Valley now...


just throwing that out there.

 

[BGIF]

I grew up just off of Roy Rogers Drive in Victorville CA... and live not too far from his and Dale Evans' house in Apple Valley now...


just throwing that out there.

I've driven past your house!

 

[ACamp1900]

I've driven past your house!

lol... most people (all really) who have driven to and from Vegas to LA have...

 

[DomerInHappyValley]

I refuse to vote on the grounds that you do not have Mt. Dew listed.
Voting for anything else is just choosing the lesser between 2 evils.
And I don't know what you guys are talking about I go through a 2 liter of dew a day and I have never had any anything wrong with my teeth.

 

[ACamp1900]

I refuse to vote on the grounds that you do not have Mt. Dew listed.
Voting for anything else is just choosing the lesser between 2 evils.
And I don't know what you guys are talking about I go through a 2 liter of dew a day and I have never had any anything wrong with my teeth.

says you

 

[DomerInHappyValley]

says you

Don't do that to me! Now I'm gonna have nightmares.
But I do have dental records not even a cavity.
Of course I did put my dentists kids through college as a child.

 

[ACamp1900]

seriously though,... maybe she is wrong as she is human like the rest of us, by mom (again, as a Dental assistant) has a serious phobia about Mountain Dew... and this is from a woman who drinks abot three Del Taco Diet Coke Cups a day...

 

[dshans]

Never heard that. When I moved here with my carpetbag and asked for a "coke" all I got was a rednecked blank stare. Damn hippies.

Easy now. Not all we hippies were coke fiends. I'm not about to say that I've never "used." I tend to discount/erase my first "taste" at a party the week before my graduation from ND. I was pretty well baked by beer, mary jane, LSD and bourbon consumption. The cocaine, expensive as it was, had little effect other than to keep me awake.

Not what I really needed at the time.

 

[DomerInHappyValley]

seriously though,... maybe she is wrong as she is human like the rest of us, by mom (again, as a Dental assistant) has a serious phobia about Mountain Dew... and this is from a woman who drinks abot three Del Taco Diet Coke Cups a day...

I know I've never had any problems with it.
Though I may just be lucky like that.
Seriously I needed something to go right in the span of 4 years I took a hockey stick, an elbow, a baseball, and the bottom of a pool all to the same tooth causing it to be repaired each and every time(dad's insurance loved me I'm sure). That's not factoring in my cousins head which caused a root canal to a bottom tooth when I ripped it straight exposing the root.
Or the time I ran into a tree playing football in my friends backyard and ripped the braces off.

 

[ACamp1900]

Easy now. Not all we hippies were coke fiends. I'm not about to say that I've never "used." I tend to discount/erase my first "taste" at a party the week before my graduation from ND. I was pretty well baked by beer, mary jane, LSD and bourbon consumption. The cocaine, expensive as it was, had little effect other than to keep me awake.

Not what I really needed at the time.

post of the year???

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

says you

ACamp, you axed me for a pic. I trusted you to keep it twixt you and me.

 

[phork]

Yo. Retro Pepsi for this cat. Made with Real Sugar and not High Fructose Corn Syrup.

 

[Buster Bluth]

Also, Sprite.

 

[sportallyr]

RC Cola. Best, smoothest soda ever! Second place is Pepsi. Coca Cola is crap!

 

[sportallyr]

Oh yeah, and best Diet Soda by far is Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper. Good by itself, but fantastic with a nice dark rum.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

I did me a full physical exam one day. Full figured, large breasted, and slim physician assistant got on her knees and told me to drop my pants.

I am shy. I need to get more physicals here in Cali...

What were we talking about? Oh yeah...I used to drink a 12 pack of Coca Cola a day. That physical exam showed my blood sugar at about 450. After the physician assistant was done with my pp she was ready to put me in the hospital based on my blood sugar level. . I axed, "wait. can you let me stop drinking coca cola first?"

She slurped and said "K".

My blood sugar nosedived after I quit coca cola.

 

[IrishInFl]

I work for Coca-Cola, so... Coke (or any Coca-Cola made or distributed (Dr. Pepper is distributed here in Tallahassee by us) products).

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

I work for Coca-Cola, so... Coke (or any Coca-Cola made or distributed (Dr. Pepper is distributed here in Tallahassee by us) products).

What happened to "Coke"? I remember a long time ago Coca Cola tried an experiment and cut the coca cola name and said they were now using a new recipe called simply "Coke." It did not last long. That was during the time that Pepsi stepped up its challenge on Coke with taste tests and stuff.

I'm, well, I used to be, strictly a Coca Cola guy. RC was my next favorite. (And of course sprite and 7 up and orange crush...for change of pace...) Pepsi has always been too sweet and wimpy.

 

[mgriff]

The Swiss cream soda is great, as well as Cherokee Red. Birch Beer is the bomb, and PA spoils me with soda. Crystal Club, woot woot. Crystal Club Soda is delicious | Facebook

 

[IrishInFl]

What happened to "Coke"? I remember a long time ago Coca Cola tried an experiment and cut the coca cola name and said they were now using a new recipe called simply "Coke." It did not last long. That was during the time that Pepsi stepped up its challenge on Coke with taste tests and stuff.

I'm, well, I used to be, strictly a Coca Cola guy. RC was my next favorite. (And of course sprite and 7 up and orange crush...for change of pace...) Pepsi has always been too sweet and wimpy.

I never understood the taste tests. The people were like, "wow! I've drank a pepsi!"

 

[GO IRISH!!!]

I quit drinking sodas about three years ago. I lost 30 pounds in about 4 months and I didn't change anything else about my diet or excercise regimen. Just cut out soda. Now, I have a Coke if I am really, really hung over, but that is all. Maybe two or three a year.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

I quit drinking sodas about three years ago. I lost 30 pounds in about 4 months and I didn't change anything else about my diet or excercise regimen. Just cut out soda. Now, I have a Coke if I am really, really hung over, but that is all. Maybe two or three a year.

Exactly me. But I lost about 90 last year (with other not so cool inducements...). But quitting soda cold turkey helped. I also quit cold turkey. I only eat hot turkey now.

 

[DaBLKIrishman]

A&W Root Beer hands down!!!!

 

[Veer option]

Coke owns my soul.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

Coke owns my soul.

My friend, we would buy Coca Cola by the caseload several times a week. Just for me and my lady. Well, just for me. Our garage had stacks of cases of Coke. A neighbor would say "Good morning" and I would say "Coke." That kinda thingy. Geez, Good thing I gave it up and now focus on alcohol and drugs. It saved my life.

 

[Veer option]

I quit the Coke for a while, I gained clarity and independence, but like the siren song of a long lost love I came running back.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

Nah, not me. I learned my lesson. It is strictly illegal drugs and hard alcohol, and hanging out with people of ill repute from now on.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...