The teetotalers thread

If that's a euphemism for vomit, then yes.

edited 25th Mar '11 12:40:46 PM by nekoalexa

Nope, no euphemism intended.

Oh, okay. Well, that's what happened. She got really sick for a day or so after that.

Probably too much acid ...

I discovered this stuff called La Croix. Ye gods is it naaaaaaaaaaasty, the can makes you think it's sparkling flavored water, but it's actually scented seltzer water.

That's just disturbing.

I agree.

Sodas taste better if they are packaged in glass bottles, that way the aluminum or plastic doesn't leech into the soda.

La-Croix is terrible, my mother used to drink it all the time.

My favorite drink is probably Coke. Mexican Coke is better but harder to find so I usually drink the high fructose stuff.

Jarritos makes some very good orange soda and mango and... pretty much every flavor is tasty.

Jarritos tamarind flavor is tastier than actual tamarind juice. Probably because the later has enough sugar in it to kill Wilford Brimley on the spot.

edited 9th May '11 2:49:01 PM by Justice4243

Avdet, try Home Depot. You probably won't find cases of the stuff, but they carry a lot of it.

Also, if there's one in your neighborhood, Costco. They do carry cases of the stuff. :D

It's freaky how much coke Home Depot goes through. For reals, I had to do the re-stocking one time and I went through four cases of regular coke a dozen or so sub-flavors (including Mexican Coke) and couldn't even finish one case of Mr Pibb. Poor poor Mr Pibb.

Is anyone else addicted to Diet Coke? When I'm not rationing myself, I get through six cans a day at a minimum. Both my siblings, my boyfriend and several friends share the same plight.

diet anything is evil IMO.

I just ended my long-standing relationship with Dr. Pepper, because it started to give me heartburn. For some reason beer does not, so that has taken the place of my once-favored soda.

I can't drink much of any non-diet fizzy drinks. They just make me feel really full.

I am terrified about all the phosphoric acid in my system. It's like I can feel my bones crumbling. But I get a very specific kind of yearning when I haven't had a coke in a while - my brother refers to it as "the coke thirst".

I just find it so creepy that people can become so reliant on a soft drink.

Caffeine is mildly addictive.

I do love a good cup of coffee or soda, but I partake sparingly. It's milk and fruit juice for me, most of the time.

Okay, my metabolism has started kicking into summer mode. I can knock back about two gallons of water a day and keep going. It's freaky.

My favoured sodas are tough to find, mostly because I'm in Canada, and they're Brazilian and Scottish, respectively :/

Er, the Brazilian one would be Guarana (Guarana Antarctica being my preferred brand thus far of the ones I've tried, although there was one I had a couple of days ago that wasn't too bad... except I don't remember the name >.<). Absolutely delicious, but you can't drink too much or you'll get pretty wired (incidentally, Guarana is what makes Bawls actually taste better than the average energy drink- it tastes like they've got a fair bit of it in there). Mind you, it's kind of a cousin to caffeine or something in it, so... yeah, no idea and I'm babbling.

The Scottish soda is, naturally, Irn Bru. And yah, I know. I like it anyways

Random aside: a 1:1:1 ratio Orange Juice/Pineapple Juice/Gingerale drink is pretty good.

I work with a guy who's half Japanese, half German, and raised for half his childhood in Scotland. He's an Irn Bru addict. And 6'3".

I don't like Dr Pepper as much as I did, but that's because I'm a crusty old bitch who remembers what it tasted like before they toned down the spiciness and increased the sweet to ridiculous levels. I keep meaning to order some from the bottling plant in Texas, where they still use cane sugar and see if that's any better. Oh, and for some reason it tastes best from a glass bottle.

Other favorites: Fresca and Canfield's 50/50 (I much prefer them to 7-up or any other lemon-lime,) because they're grapefruit based, so the flavor is sharper.

Iced coffee, sweet, with milk. Ideally, the coffee is served hot, and the ice cubes are on the side, so that when I put the ice into the coffee and take a sip, I get this collision of temperature from the cold ice-melt coffee and the hot coffee that the melt hasn't cooled down yet.

For hot coffee, I prefer dark-roast Sumatran.

@Maddie: I once ordered a case of the Texas Dr. Pepper. It's expensive but very much worth it as a treat.

I stopped in that town once. It wasn't bad.

Have you tried hot Dr Pepper with a shot of lemon juice?

I'll have to be on the loo-out for "old time DR. Pepper"

I actually like the super-sweetness of most of the soda now compared to the sugar ones, but spicer Dr Pepper sounds like something worth trying.

I like coke, but everyone likes coke, so to avoid people drinking my soda, I have started getting Ginger ale exclusively.