BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever

Subject: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 02:57 PM

My vote is for Pepsi. Dreadful sickly-sweet stuff. It could gag a dead squirrel, in my opinion. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: pdq
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 02:59 PM

Diet Fresca.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:01 PM

Gatorade.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: pdq
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:08 PM

If it doesn't have to come from a bottle or can, it might be the un-sweetened strawberry KoolAid the Army liked to serve, commonly called "beetle juice".

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:08 PM

Yoo-Hoo chocolate-flavored soda.
Nesbit's Orange.
Anything by Nehi, but especially grape.
Cherry Vanilla Flavored Diet Doctor Pepper.

Does beer count? Because Lucky Lager was/is a pollution of good water.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Morticia
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:13 PM

Tab.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:16 PM

Mountain Dew

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:24 PM

Root beer. And the best? Irn Bru!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 03:48 PM

Does anybody actually drink Gatorade, or is just used for giving winning Head Coaches a fluorescent shower in the NFL?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 04:36 PM

Gatorade... nobody but jocks... or people with intestinal flu or those about to have an innuendo. Gatorade is good stuff if you need it.

As for sugar stuffed and carbonated or not crap, including pure fruit juices, saving cranberry or grape juice, why?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:07 PM

Does anyone in Canada remember Kik Cola.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:13 PM

Does anyone remember Delaware Punch?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: bobad
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:19 PM

"Does anyone in Canada remember Kik Cola."

I was married to a girl from the Point -- Kik was the mother's milk of the Point.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:23 PM

Cream Soda.

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Best comes from our garden. Blackcurrant cordial and a fantastic apple juice.

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Never seen Iron Bru, Eliza but I've heard of it...

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: saulgoldie
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:24 PM

It has to be "Ssip," the drink you don't want to spell backwards.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:49 PM

Oh, yeah...diet drinks. Yuck!!! They're even worse for your health than the regular stuff, and they taste worse too. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:52 PM

Now I understand, Little Hawk.... *I* favor Pepsi....

worst...well, some of sickly-sweet things imported from Latin America.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 06:12 PM

Water, skim milk, alcohol... and one of them isn't good for you... why would you drink anything else?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 06:40 PM

I've stayed away from water ever since I found out that fish fuck in it.

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

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

I think fish just lay eggs that are fertilized without them touching.... but it's a classic reason. ☺

Even better: Guy says "I tried Scotch & water... got drunk... tried Bourbon & water...got drunk. Same thing with Vodka, Gin. The common element was water, so I'm gonna give it up."

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 06:50 PM

Yeah Bill, but there's a load of fish jizz in the water. It's worse, though, because beer has water in it.

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

I prefer water and/or Green Tea to most other drinks, but I am partial to various fruit juices. Barely ever drink any carbonated drinks at all, but I thought it would be fun to single out Pepsi as the worst of them. Even back when I did drink soft drinks a lot, it was Coke I favored. I really did not like Pepsi at all. As for the diet sodas, I never drank them by choice. There's some interesting literature out there about the chemicals and harmful substances that go into making them.

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

Pepsi. I don't like any of them but I never heard of a guy named Coke. Pepsi? Yah. Pepsi Landry is my city councellor. If his name was Coke Landry I woudn't have voted for him.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 07:19 PM

Milk. Whose bright idea was it to get sentient life forms swallowing the glandular exudate of enormous smelly farting ruminants with chronic diarrhoea?

Closely followed by tea with milk and coffee with milk.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 07:26 PM

Coke has more... ummm.. 'zing'. I worked at a place that had only Coke in a machine, and I drank Coke there for 3 years. I just prefer Pepsi...though I ONLY buy it on super sales anymore. The price has gone thru the roof.(I think the 'regular' price has almost doubled in the last 7-8 years. If I want a cola, and there's no sale on Pepsi, I'll buy Safeway's house brand...or just drink iced tea.


"... but there's a load of fish jizz in the water."

I have a filter....**grin**

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Beer
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 07:39 PM

I'd drink Pepsi before coke any day. Except with rum that is. For some reason Pepsi just does not taste right with rum or any other alcohol.
Short story, but to protect the innocent i was just an observer.

Remember those dispensing machines that you lifted the cover placed your coins in a slot then take the bottle by the neck and drag it through until it came to a holding area and you would lift and the latch (door) would pop up and you would take your drink out? Well they installed one of those in our high school and in a few minutes all the bottles were emptied without leaving the machine. A simple bottle opener took care of the caps and a straw took care of the drinks. Needless to say the soft drink machine was remover shortly after.
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Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 07:40 PM

I eat fish eggs regularly when I eat at Japanese restaurants. So what's the problem???

I didn't mention milk, because it's not a soft drink. If we're going to mention all kinds of drinks, then milk (cows' milk) is my choice for the very worst. It's awful stuff, no good for your health, tastes lousy, causes congestion, screws up your digestive system, just generally fucks you up bigtime, in my opinion. I don't drink it. I find it ludicrous and tragic that I live in a civilization which tries to get human adults to drink cow's milk every day of their lives.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 07:43 PM

I read somewhere that the five countries in the world with the highest per capita rates of osteoporosis are also the five biggest consumers of dairy products--a finding that is shocking.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:08 PM

Factors influencing osteoporosis include amount of sunlight, vitamin D intake, protein, exercise, etc.
Recent research indicates that vitamin D helps calcium adsorption.

Directly relating dairy products to osteoporosis incidence is not valid.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:12 PM

When I was younger, the calcium in milk products were touted to be beneficial for bone development. So, I'm wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:13 PM

Jack, you say that as if you didn't like milk!

Seriously, I love almost anything dairy. Milk, cream, butter, cheese, yogurt. I probably will have osteoporosis one day. Oh well, no soft drinks involved.

Ad, I tried some of the "throwback" Pepsi (sugar, no hi-fructose corn syrup) with Black Seal rum. HORRIBLE! There's an aftertase of licorice. I like licorice, but not in my rum & cola. Meyers works better. Anyway, the "throwback" Pepsi is less unhealthy, but I don't think I like the flavor that much. Luckily, I don't drink sweetened soft drinks very often, and usually prefer ginger ale.

One thing I once drank that surprised me by tasting pretty good was celery soda.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 08:39 PM

Jones sodas... nuff said


..and yes, Beer... there was one of those machines at a local gas station near me 55 years ago, but we only seldom got to try the straw trick, as it was right in front of the building....but the IDEA was instantaneous!

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

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 - 08:46 PM

Anyone recall fizzies?

fizzies

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: 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: 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,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: 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.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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