BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 11:02 PM

Flynn's White Soda.

Don't ask and I won't throw up. It was in the same category as Vernor's Ginger Ale is.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 01:29 PM

Diet drinks are universally awful tasting, and the truly ironic thing is that they are probably quite a bit worse for your general health than the regular sugared drinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 01:24 PM

No luck Bobad, the better half doesn't know.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 01:01 PM

There was a whole dark period of history when any diet soft drink that I knew of was "sweetened" (poisoned?) with sacharine. Every so often, some one would serve me a soft drink without warning me that is was the "diet" version. It never took more than a mouthful to tell that something was seriously wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: bobad
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 12:59 PM

Beer, there also was a real good ginger beer in the Townships but I don't remember the brand name, it came in a brown bottle -- maybe Judy remembers.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 12:47 PM

Bobad, that is the one. I will bring you back a few bottles next time I visit.
http://www.bulls-head.com/en/history.html


Ed,
"Sussex" is correct, sorry for the miss spelling and thanks for the Lime Rickey read.
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Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 12:39 PM

Dr Pepper had its origins in the early 1900s as a patent remedy for constipation. The old labels used to display a clock face with 10, 2, and 4 in bold print. Those were the times of day you were supposed to imbibe in order to stay regular.

Now I like Dr Pepper, but the flavor that many people object to in it is associated with its supposed anti-constipation properties....prune juice.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 12:12 PM

When I've been to India the soft drink of choice is a home grown equivalent of Coke called "Thums Up" (no "B"). It truly is vile: it's apparently supposed to taste like a cross between Coke and the betel nut... say no more. Similarly unpleasant and almost radioactive in hue is the lime drink, Limca, which apparently was sold to India by the Italians when it was discovered that it was too carcinogenic for domestic consumption. This story may or may not be true...

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 11:12 AM

Beer,could you mean Sussex Ginger Ale (I was once told that the name sounds funny in French)?

Sussex


I believe Seaman's in PEI (now owned by one of the big soft drink companies) still produces Lime Rickey.Lime Rickey

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: bobad
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 10:56 AM

Beer, I remember Bryant's Bull Head ginger ale from many years back in the Townships. I thought it disappeared a long time ago -- glad to hear it's still around -- I loved it.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 10:44 AM

My all time favorite drink was one from Nova Scotia called "Lime Rickey" Don't know if it is made any more. my second was "Success Ginger Ale" from New Brunswick. However, last time I was down that way I bought a bottle of it and I don't like it any more. Must have changed the recipe. I did find a great replacement in the Eastern Townships of Quebec called "Bull Hear Ginger Ale". Small company making a great ginger ale.
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Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Charmion
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 09:42 AM

EdT -- Golden Glow is a nightmare from Halifax circa 1976; only the young could drink that stuff and walk away.

Patsy -- Pernod is strictly for people who like it, and those who like it, like it a lot. It is best served over ice with a little water. I will happily take responsibility for your entire life's share of Pernod and all its cousins: absinthe, anisette, arak, ouzo, pastis, raki ...

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 09:29 AM

Ice Cream Soda with a float of ice-cream has to be my all time favourite and is usually a hit with most of the youngsters I've known. You can experiment different flavoured ice-creams with lemonade and it keeps them amused for a while.

Least favourite non-soft drink has to be Perno I only tried it once and I was ill for days - nasty stuff, never again.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: raredance
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 12:44 AM

Sprecher's Red Apple soda. Sickingly strong artificial apple flavor with a load of cinnamon in a bright red fluid. I tried mixing it 1 to 3 with Coke but it still overwhelmed. Threw the last bottle (of a 4 pack)away

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:40 PM

Soft drink floats are the beat

:))))

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:15 PM

It's very strange that most Europeans detest root beer. Ice cold root beer from a frosty mug is a real treat on a hot day, and a root beer float - ice cold root beer in a frosty mug with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream, is just heavenly. But I've never met a European who tried root beer and liked it.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 03:59 PM

Oops, The two worst alcohol drinks I ever tasted were:)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 03:57 PM

I ran out of soft drinks.

The two worst alcohol drinks I ever tasted was:

1) Green Chartreuse liquor (alcohol, sugar, 130 plants and flowers) Chartreuse



2) "Golden Glow" Apple Cider, (East Coast Canada, Hardcore Cider) it came in a big jug (in the 60's and 70's)with a handle on it, so you could chug from the bottle.

Testimonials from:
Golden Glow


""On my 16th Birthday weighing in at a hefty 135lbs I drank a liter in under an hour. I have never been sicker, I spent the night into the morning being hosed down in a shower vomiting violently. I broke every blood vessel in my face and ...pulled my muscles stomach to shoulder, I felt it for a month.""


""I was the only one of my friends to drink this steadily and not get terribly sick. They called us Glow Worms, we called it "Corpse Juice""

""bumwash""

""burp""

""I just threw up a little in my mouth thinking about it""

""bahahaha, the memories with Golden Glow... One Bottle would last me a couple nights hahaha! gets you drunk Off your ass... And a very ugly drunk at that""

""This shit was the shit. Unfortunately they dont make the shit anymore. Dammit. It was great shit while it lasted though.""

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 02:49 PM

I remember visits to the root beer stand when I was a kid- a special treat. Now that sassafras has been replaced for health reasons, the drink is no longer palatable.

At one time (I was a teenager), ammonia cokes became popular at the soda fountain in my city. The sodajerk (no longer a polite term?) would add a few drops of ammonia to the coke. Was this popular elsewhere?
My, where have those times gone?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 12:40 PM

By the way, does anyone remember making 'sugarelli water' by shaking a bit of liquorice about in a lemonade bottle full of tapwater? I seem to recall it was quite nice, but just after the war, anything was nice!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Charmion
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 12:39 PM

In 1967, the Pure Spring pop company, which dominated the Eastern Ontario market up to about 1970, produced "Expo Chocolate" in celebration of the centennial exposition in Montreal that I'm sure you all remember. Expo Chocolate was dire -- almost as bad as Swiss Creme Soda, another Pure Spring product, which was fluorescent pink and tasted of sugar and not much else.

Those were the only losers of the Pure Spring line. Their ginger ale was wonderful and I miss it sorely.

Tab Cola was my first experience of artificial sweetener. It was, indeed, vile. Fresca has improved considerably since it first appeared; the grapefruit flavour assorted very oddly with its original sweetener, saccharine, but is now actually quite palatable.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 12:38 PM

Yes Patsy, I remember those lemony crystals, but not their name. That PLJ, it would clean the drains beautifully. Probably neat citric acid! Irn Bru is lovely, drank a lot of it in Edinburgh and Glasgow. It would need to be freeze-proof up there!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 11:51 AM

Fizzies .. dah ... yup you are right now I remember .. should have dawned on me when I said fizzy ... My brother and I would dare each other to try one ... for some reason my cousin always had them in his house. Maybe his dad thought they were alka selzer Lol

when I was in college "Boones Farm Apple wine" was one of the favorites of the college crowd .. cause it cost 89 cents a bottle ... My gosh that was bad stuff, however it wasn't a soft drink. Get hammered on that stuff and you could spend the next day on the toilet

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Saor Alba
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 11:45 AM

I left some cans of Irn Bru in my car over the winter - the temperature was down below -12 and it never froze. Now there's a drink!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 11:42 AM

I think it's a close run thing for me between Lucozade and Supermalt

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 11:32 AM

On my only visit to the States in 1968, as most of our student party were under US drinking age (though over UK drinking age), folks kept offering us cola or root beer. Those of who were over 21 still kept being asked for ID in bars, which still rankles! I've never drank either cola or root beer (what the hell was that?)since.

RtS
Little ole wine (or real beer or Greek brandy)drinker me.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 03:04 AM

Eliza do you remember a drink made with lemon sherbert like crystals I think it was called Eiffel Tower, it had the loveliest lemony smell? The worst lemon cordial back in the day was called PLJ non- sweetened it was so sour it felt like it would take the roof of your mouth off. It was designed that way as part of a diet to make anything sweet taste revolting (I think!). As a little girl I used to dare myself to drink it and keep from wincing.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 12:39 AM

Great aura song, LEJ! LOL!!! I have to wonder what Shane's aura looks like?

Now, excuse me, cos I have to go check out the acronym thread... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: LadyJean
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 12:34 AM

A genuine cherry Coke, made at a soda fountain with cherry and Coke syrups is one of life's joys.

Cherry Coke from can or bottle tastes like cough medicine.

IBC made a cherry cola that tasted like the real thing. But they've stopped. Instead they're offering black cherry, which isn't anything like as good.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 10:00 PM

My nephew was drinking cherry-flavored Mountain Dew. Of course, he is still young....

Those tablets were called "Fizzies". If you swallowed them dry you'd explode, or so it was said.

I will add: any powdered drink mix issued with US military C-rations: coffee, Kool-aid, cocoa mix...whatever.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Les from Hull
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 09:15 PM

I've just remembered Malta Guinness, a non-alcoholic sweet drink, produced in Nigeria and exported to the UK, East Africa, and Malaysia (according to Wiki). It shames the good name of Guinness.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:48 PM

Here y'are Spaw!, and only 10 bucks a case!!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Ref
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:38 PM

@OldDude:

"Fizzies" is what you're looking for.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:18 PM

I once bought a can of some Oriental Health drink that had tiny green leaves in it. Nice flavor, but I could NOT finish it. It had so much sugar in it (which the Chinese tradition say is good for you!) that I was sated for hours!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 06:55 PM

Eliza
how could I forget that ovaltine commercial ... good grief ... and those little pellet of artificial chocolate something or others ... My goodness, the first time I tasted it as I kid I thought, this is it .. this is what all the hype is about ... yuck

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 06:22 PM

Well, I only like diet sodas (diet coke and diet ginger ale especially) because now the regular sodas taste too sweet. I don't drink straight soda all that often. At home my favorite drink is iced tea mixed with diet ginger ale - it gives the tea some fizz and zip. And I often make my own 'sodas' - seltzer water mixed with some orange juice, cranberry juice, etc. I do enjoy fizziness!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 05:11 PM

"..orange tang ... yup from the space program"

They were gonna try different flavor combinations, and had prune-tang all ready, but someone decided it...ummm...well... was not good publicity.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 05:09 PM

Oh good gracious, yes, GHASTLY Ovaltine. Tastes like cardboard. Do you remember "We are the Ovalteenies, happy girls and boys"?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:41 PM

ah yes and remember Ovaltine ... yee gads

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:39 PM

orange tang ... yup from the space program ... another yummy drink (NOT!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:38 PM

In the very early sixties there was this fizzy tablets that you threw into a glass of water and it made a cherry flavored drink ... what was the name of that ... my God was that awful ... It was like alka seltzer but was a soft drink for kids ... that was another one that was terrible.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:14 PM

LHIAA.....See the acronym thread.

For those of you who never tasted Ale8One, you have no idea what you're missing. I've brought it home from Kentucky by the case and had friends returning from somewhere south bring me some on their way home. I haven't had any for over a year now and I have got to find a transporter!

I was gonna' send some to Leej once but before I got around to it, it was gone.....................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: ClaireBear
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:14 PM

I must agree about Moxie. I wanted to like it, and I've tried twice, but I think I'm done.

I had a Russian blackcurrant soft drink that was fairly vile recently, too, but the Moxie was far worse.

Has anyone here ever tasted that six-pack of bottled soft drinks flavored like the components of Thanksgiving dinner? I'm thinking the turkey gravy one must really be something....but I can't say for sure.

I am strangely fond of Cheerwine, but that may be temporary insanity.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 03:49 PM

I've been reading lotsa detective/lawyer/court books. Every damned time someone reaches for a drink that has no alcohol, well, be gollied, it's a Diet Coke.

I think some folks got no tastebuds.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 03:43 PM

Only one responder named TAB, far and away and hands-down the most awfullest soft drink ever. NASTY stuff! The only explanation I can imagine is that too few of us are old enough to remember it.

Tab was one of the very first artificially-sweetened "diet" sodas and had the most obnoxious aftertaste. It was a Coca-Cola product and supposedly "the same" as Coke but with saccharine instead of sugar, but it really didn't taste anything at all like regular Coca-Cola. What it tasted like, I suppose, was saccharine.

Female consumers bought it for it "non-fattening" properties, but consumption of Tab was virtually unknown among boys and men ~ not at all like today's Diet Coke, which is very popular among people of all genders (especially software developers, who are apparently conscious of the sedentary nature of their occupation and the subsequent need to cut calories).

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 03:27 PM

I very rarely drink soft drinks now - too sweet.
Back in the 1950s I used to love tizer, it had a lovely caramel taste as far as I can remember, but either my taste buds have changed or the taste of tizer has changed, because after reminiscing about it recently I bought a bottle. It was horrid. No other flavour apart from sickly sweetness.

I used to know an elderly Scottish lady who couldn't drink tea for medical reasons so when other people were having tea she would have a cup of hot water. She called it 'silver tea'.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 03:20 PM

I will also add the 1 gallon of lime flavored laxative I had to drink for my last colonoscopy ranked right up there LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 03:19 PM

My vote is the same at Rap's Yoo-Hoo chocolate-flavored soda.
I could never stand for that stuff ... yuck but I had cousins that thought it was a gift from God

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 02:38 PM

That's interesting, EdT. I've been drinking a whole pint of milk daily, sometimes TWICE a day, all my life, I adore it. (Full milk that is.) But I don't think people do nowadays, they just put a drop in their tea or coffee. In school, we were all provided with a third of a pint in a glass bottle (just after the War) None of my friends (of all ages) actually drink a glass of milk. Yogurt is very popular here, but generally 'low fat' YUK! I don't much like drinking fizzy drinks or alcohol, so milk is my 'tipple'.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 02:29 PM

""How CAN people drink skimmed or even semi-skimmed milk? When I was a girl, it was given to the pigs!""

I grew up on a farm and we also gave skim (separated) milk to the pigs. It was not that it did not taste good.

The only reason was there was no local market for drinking milk, we could only sell cream, to make cheese, ice cream etc. And, we had too much for ourselves and our neighbours, who also had dairy cattle.

Today, in Canada, there is a supply marketing system. Unless farmers have a milk quota, they cannot sell milk to the dairies. Quotas are fixed, and expensive to purchase. That keeps the price in stores controlled and high.