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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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: 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: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:05 AM

Bubble-Up.

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: 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.
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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: 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: 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: Beer
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 12:29 AM

Post meant for Sandy. Sorry again.
Good nite.

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: 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: 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,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,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: 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,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: 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,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: EBarnacle
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:37 AM

What is Tizer?

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: bobad
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:45 AM

Here's one for you, 999.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 12:58 PM

I Can See you're Rotten to the Core

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: 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: 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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 04:41 PM

ah yes and remember Ovaltine ... yee gads

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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 12:40 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 07:40 PM

Soft drink floats are the beat

:))))

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.