BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 02:24 PM

Ebarnacle, Tizer was a drink from the 1950's, red, fizzy and delicious.
All these people who don't like milk! It's gorgeous! Especially thick and creamy Jersey milk. Get it down ya!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: DMcG
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 01:33 PM

I suppose mine must be a Caribbean sorrel cordial drink I bought about 3 years ago from a (UK) local market. I've had one glass ... and it has moved house with me twice

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:58 PM

I Can See you're Rotten to the Core

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:40 PM

♫I have SEEN your aura, and it's ugly.♫

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:13 PM

Green Bean Casserole, Cranberry, Mashed Potatoes with Butter, and Fruitcake.Bill
The mashed potatoes might be tasty as long as there aren't any lumps.



I'm too ethereal for a drink like Coke now. It pollutes my aura... Little Hawk
Actually, laboratory tests show that the presence of cola drinks can be detected in your aura for up to 50 years after their consumption. My aura is actually dark brown, fizzy on the edges, and tastes a bit like a Cuba Libre'.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 11:29 AM

That is nothing, Nancy...compared to their early efforts.

History of Jones from wikipedia...

from that article: "In 2004, it offered a complete, drinkable Thanksgiving dinner—five bottles—as a box set for $16. Turkey & Gravy was brought back, and the rest of the flavors were unique to this offering: Green Bean Casserole, Cranberry, Mashed Potatoes with Butter, and Fruitcake. The limited edition pack sold out in under an hour, temporarily crashing the company's email and Internet servers. As in 2003, people resold some seasonal bottles on auction sites such as eBay, with bids reaching as high as $100 a pack.

I SAW some of those, but was not smart enuf to buy some for resale.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Nancy King
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 10:54 AM

My favorites are regular (NOT diet) Coke, and Orangina.

Tried some blueberry soda in Maine a couple of years ago. Sounded like a fine idea, but -- Ptui!

And some of the Jones flavors Bill linked to sound absolutely awful. "Blue Bubble Gum" soda? Ewww.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Les from Hull
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 10:22 AM

My least favourite soft drink is one I've never drunk! But there's a 'root beer' flavoured jelly bean that tastes disgusting, and if it's anything like the drink then I'm extremely happy to have never drunk it.

Diet drinks are often sweetened with aspartame. If you belive what a lot of people say on the internet you'll avoid this additive. I mainly avoid it as I prefer sugar.

But for the finest soft drinks I've found in any country, might I recommend Fentimans.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 09:58 AM

Then there are Royal Crown, Double Cola, and Kool-Aid, the last being only useful for hiding the taste of water retrieved from the wells in rice paddies or the over-chlorinated stuff from water points.

The mention of green tea (which I can sorta stomach) brings up the various flavors of "white tea" now available. I had a sip once. Like decaf coffee, I fail to see the point.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 09:44 AM

When in France I've often enjoyed a good Pschitt!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 09:11 AM

Every time I sit in my favorite Sushi bar and sip hot green tea from a Japanese cup (no handle) I am comforted by the thought of how ineffably superior I am to the wretched heathens who guzzle Coke, watch NASCAR, and read old Cheech Wizard comics. ;-)

Someone asked how I like Coke as compared to Pepsi. Well, I always liked Coke the best of soft drinks and I didn't like Pepsi at all, for the same reasons LEJ gave...Pepsi's too sweet and Coke has more oomph. New Coke was dreadful. At any rate, I don't drink Coke anymore. It was the drink of my youth, but no longer. I'm too ethereal for a drink like Coke now. It pollutes my aura... (grin)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:53 AM

I quite like dandelion and burdock.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: bobad
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:45 AM

Here's one for you, 999.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:38 AM

I can't stand dandelion and burdock and I know that it's because I was given some medicine flavoured with it at an early age.
Why didn't they flavour it with something like pepermint?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: EBarnacle
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:37 AM

What is Tizer?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:34 AM

If I have to drink milk at all it has to be flavoured with something to make a frothy milkshake rather than raw.

Some people used to talk about Dandelion and Burdock, I've never tried it but it sounded like it would have a really disgusting taste.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:33 AM

I drank TEQUILA in Cuba that had a similar taste to the first warm flowing from a garden hose on a warm summer day. I suspect it had the taste of the container it was stored in.

I refuse to drink any booze from a plastic bottle, as seems to be on the increase. I can taste the plastic.

Canned orange juice, and Tang also tastes bad to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:01 AM

Dr Pepper is definitely the 'Worst Soft Drink Ever'. It's never taken off here in the UK and it baffles me as to why Americans seem to like it. It tastes like some sort of medication - more suitable for rubbing on your chest than drinking!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 05:55 AM

As for milk, drink only skim milk for two weeks and then try regular milk. Make ya sick. Yeecchh! I drink little milk but it's skim milk.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 05:27 AM

How CAN people drink skimmed or even semi-skimmed milk? When I was a girl, it was given to the pigs!
Ahhhhh... Tizer.. yum! And those lovely glass bottles, you got money back on them. Anyone remember Jubbly, and the frozen one? We made ginger beer at school, with a 'ginger beer plant'. It stank and tasted dreadful.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:26 AM

My favourite soft drinks are Ginger Beer and Spruce Beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:12 AM

Cheap Panda fizzy pops in any flavour made as an affordable drink with youngsters pocket money in mind and small enough not to be wasted. The taste is so synthetic especially the bright red cherry flavour and it looks really nasty too. I haven't seen them in shops for a while so I am assuming that shops have hopefully stopped selling them.

Although not the worst I was disappointed with the taste of Doctor Pepper I thought it was going to be a lot different and would make me want to buy it as a regular drink like Coke or Pepsi but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it.

My favourite was the 'old' Tizer in a glass bottle not the updated version that is around now. With Coke and Pepsi I find the plastic bottles they come in spoil the taste of both brands anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 04:06 AM

The worst in my memory is the "New Coke" that they tried about 15 years ago. Reminded me of Pepsi. It was quickly abandoned. I rarely drink carbonated sodas, (preferring beers for my maintainance cabonation). I like the lemon-limes.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 01:15 AM

Leej and I have similar tastes............

Anyone who would drink green tea would eat shit and run rabbits......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:29 AM

Post meant for Sandy. Sorry again.
Good nite.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:27 AM

Oh! my goodness my gosh!! I just got a brain wave that I could stop in Moncton and pick up Gnu. What a time we could have. Bruce will certainly come. i'll throw him in the back of the truck for weight.
Sorry L.H. just having a little fun. back to you.
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Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:26 AM

I'd forgotten 'Bubble Up'! Where is it now?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:22 AM

Worst- Mountain dew, without a doubt.
Best- probably Vernor's Ginger Ale, or Ale8one, if you live in south central Kentucky.

I like Coke, and find it has more punch and is less sweet than Pepsi.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:16 AM

"My uncle loved his scotch and would say that it should only be mixed with spit"

I'm coming home. You got me laughing and crying at the same time. Thanks for the memories. In fact, when I gets there this summer, I'll give you a call and we could meet for a drink of Pepsi!
Sounds good to me.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:08 AM

Well Beer, I hear you loud and clear but my black rum runs at 151 o/p. I only knew one man, a friend of my father in law, who could down half a water glass of that stuff strait. My uncle loved his scotch and would say that it should only be mixed with spit. My father would take his drop like yours. They called it a sandwich; a bit of water, a shot of rum, and a bit of water as a chaser.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:05 AM

Bubble-Up.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: J-boy
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:01 AM

I miss the old Moxie man with his perfect haircut and Eisenhower era suit. That guy was sharp!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 11:56 PM

I have an old tin sign in my garage with Ted Williams on it: "Make Mine Moxie." Classic player on a classic team but an absolutely horrible drink. I'm with Kendall, worst drink ever? Make mine Moxie!

David E.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 11:48 PM

Well Sandy, in the village where i grew up, you never asked for a mix. You got it straight up and were asked if you would like a little water as a chaser. A mix was never in my fathers house and probably never in your's as well.
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Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 11:44 PM

The worst was a bottle of recycled sewer water that a large retail chain sold as a house brand.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 11:38 PM

Bruce, I remember Kick cola. It was not as good as Coke but better than Pepsi when mixed with black rum. Coke still rules but never drown the rum!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: J-boy
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 11:33 PM

Diet Coke gets my vote. Not because I hate it. Quite the opposite. I need to drink at least three of those motherfuckers a day. Wait...maybe I do hate it. What the hell are they doing to us?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 11:25 PM

Curious L.H. why you picked Pepsi and not mentioned Coke as a negative as well. You know, Pepsi and Coke are always competing and I am wondering if you like Coke. The drinking kind of course.

I would like to see a thread started on the good side as well. Like what is your favorite soda drink. ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 10:00 PM

I'm not sure, Jeri. How about you try it out as an experiment and report back in a week or two?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:52 PM

If you eat pickled herring roe and then pickled "milt", are you in danger of having your intestinal tract colonized by pickled herring?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:43 PM

Food's one thing, bobad. BUT, it shouldn't be mixed with scotch.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: bobad
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:39 PM

Don't know what you all have against fish jizz (aka milt) -- it is food to some.

From Wikipedia:

In Russian cuisine, herring milt (молока, "Moloka") pickled the same way as the rest of the fish, but eaten separately, sometimes combined with pickled herring roe.

In Japanese cuisine, the milt (白子 shirako 'white children') of cod (tara), anglerfish (anko) and pufferfish (fugu) are a delicacy.

In Sicilian cuisine, the milt of Tunafish is called "Lattume" and is used as a typical pasta topping.

I mysel have often eaten it in a marinated herring dish my mother used to make.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:13 PM

Celery soda!! must try it.

I always wondered what the soda was in the big bottle from way before my time called "Jumbo". It had an embroider(not sure this is correct to say. Maybe, impressed in glass?)picture in the glass of the bottle of an elephant and was called soda. I sold one of these bottles a few years back at a garage sale for $25.00.
I'm guessing it was a form of ginger ale maybe.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:11 PM

Moxie. dreadful brew.
Second is Duggans Dew O' Kirkintillock.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:00 PM

Anything red. That Big Red crap they have in Indiana. Strawberry or cherry sodas. Hawaiian Punch. If it's red, it sucks. No exceptions.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:51 PM

Threads like this remind me of Nero Wolfe.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:48 PM

Oh...fizzies...sure. I was not a great consumer of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:46 PM

Anyone recall fizzies?

fizzies

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:44 PM

It's pretty close between Dr. Pepper and Moxie.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:40 PM

Red or white (somewhat clear) cream soda was the worst for me.
I also found Dr. Pepper's bad tasting