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06 Mar 11 - 02:57 PM (#3108285) Subject: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk My vote is for Pepsi. Dreadful sickly-sweet stuff. It could gag a dead squirrel, in my opinion. ;-) |
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06 Mar 11 - 02:59 PM (#3108289) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: pdq Diet Fresca. |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:01 PM (#3108293) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Q (Frank Staplin) Gatorade. |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:08 PM (#3108298) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: pdq 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". |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:08 PM (#3108299) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Rapparee 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:13 PM (#3108304) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Morticia Tab. |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:16 PM (#3108308) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: frogprince Mountain Dew |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:24 PM (#3108317) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza Root beer. And the best? Irn Bru! |
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06 Mar 11 - 03:48 PM (#3108333) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Dave MacKenzie Does anybody actually drink Gatorade, or is just used for giving winning Head Coaches a fluorescent shower in the NFL? |
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06 Mar 11 - 04:36 PM (#3108362) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: gnu 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? |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:07 PM (#3108376) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 Does anyone in Canada remember Kik Cola. |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:13 PM (#3108388) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Q (Frank Staplin) Does anyone remember Delaware Punch? |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:19 PM (#3108394) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: bobad "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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:23 PM (#3108398) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Jon Cream Soda. - Best comes from our garden. Blackcurrant cordial and a fantastic apple juice. --- Never seen Iron Bru, Eliza but I've heard of it... |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:24 PM (#3108399) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: saulgoldie It has to be "Ssip," the drink you don't want to spell backwards. Saul |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:49 PM (#3108424) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk Oh, yeah...diet drinks. Yuck!!! They're even worse for your health than the regular stuff, and they taste worse too. ;-) |
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06 Mar 11 - 05:52 PM (#3108429) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D Now I understand, Little Hawk.... *I* favor Pepsi.... worst...well, some of sickly-sweet things imported from Latin America. |
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06 Mar 11 - 06:12 PM (#3108448) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: gnu Water, skim milk, alcohol... and one of them isn't good for you... why would you drink anything else? |
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06 Mar 11 - 06:40 PM (#3108462) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 I've stayed away from water ever since I found out that fish fuck in it. |
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06 Mar 11 - 06:46 PM (#3108466) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer Cherry Coke ad. |
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06 Mar 11 - 06:48 PM (#3108468) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D 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." |
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06 Mar 11 - 06:50 PM (#3108470) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Jeri Yeah Bill, but there's a load of fish jizz in the water. It's worse, though, because beer has water in it. |
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06 Mar 11 - 06:55 PM (#3108472) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 07:11 PM (#3108481) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: gnu 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 07:19 PM (#3108491) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Jack Campin 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 07:26 PM (#3108495) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D 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** |
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06 Mar 11 - 07:39 PM (#3108507) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. ad. |
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06 Mar 11 - 07:40 PM (#3108508) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 07:43 PM (#3108510) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:08 PM (#3108524) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:12 PM (#3108525) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 When I was younger, the calcium in milk products were touted to be beneficial for bone development. So, I'm wrong. |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:13 PM (#3108527) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Jeri 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:39 PM (#3108539) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D 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! |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:40 PM (#3108540) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T Red or white (somewhat clear) cream soda was the worst for me. I also found Dr. Pepper's bad tasting |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:44 PM (#3108544) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: EBarnacle It's pretty close between Dr. Pepper and Moxie. |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:46 PM (#3108546) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T Anyone recall fizzies? fizzies |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:48 PM (#3108549) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D Oh...fizzies...sure. I was not a great consumer of them. |
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06 Mar 11 - 08:51 PM (#3108551) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 Threads like this remind me of Nero Wolfe. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:00 PM (#3108561) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bee-dubya-ell Anything red. That Big Red crap they have in Indiana. Strawberry or cherry sodas. Hawaiian Punch. If it's red, it sucks. No exceptions. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:11 PM (#3108567) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,kendall Moxie. dreadful brew. Second is Duggans Dew O' Kirkintillock. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:13 PM (#3108568) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:39 PM (#3108582) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: bobad 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:43 PM (#3108584) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 Food's one thing, bobad. BUT, it shouldn't be mixed with scotch. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:52 PM (#3108589) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Jeri If you eat pickled herring roe and then pickled "milt", are you in danger of having your intestinal tract colonized by pickled herring? |
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06 Mar 11 - 10:00 PM (#3108592) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk I'm not sure, Jeri. How about you try it out as an experiment and report back in a week or two? |
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06 Mar 11 - 11:25 PM (#3108630) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. |
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06 Mar 11 - 11:33 PM (#3108635) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: J-boy 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? |
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06 Mar 11 - 11:38 PM (#3108636) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Sandy Mc Lean 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! |
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06 Mar 11 - 11:44 PM (#3108640) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Sandy Mc Lean The worst was a bottle of recycled sewer water that a large retail chain sold as a house brand. |
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06 Mar 11 - 11:48 PM (#3108641) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. ad. |
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06 Mar 11 - 11:56 PM (#3108644) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,David E. 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:01 AM (#3108645) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: J-boy I miss the old Moxie man with his perfect haircut and Eisenhower era suit. That guy was sharp! |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:05 AM (#3108646) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Rapparee Bubble-Up. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:08 AM (#3108647) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Sandy Mc Lean 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:16 AM (#3108649) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer "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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:22 AM (#3108652) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Lonesome EJ 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:26 AM (#3108653) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ebbie I'd forgotten 'Bubble Up'! Where is it now? |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:27 AM (#3108654) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. ad. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:29 AM (#3108655) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer Post meant for Sandy. Sorry again. Good nite. |
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07 Mar 11 - 01:15 AM (#3108669) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: catspaw49 Leej and I have similar tastes............ Anyone who would drink green tea would eat shit and run rabbits...... Spaw |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:06 AM (#3108716) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:12 AM (#3108720) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:26 AM (#3108724) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 My favourite soft drinks are Ginger Beer and Spruce Beer. |
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07 Mar 11 - 05:27 AM (#3108773) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 05:55 AM (#3108791) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: gnu 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:01 AM (#3108822) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Shimrod 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! |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:33 AM (#3108835) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:34 AM (#3108837) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:37 AM (#3108841) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: EBarnacle What is Tizer? |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:38 AM (#3108843) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler 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? |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:45 AM (#3108848) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: bobad Here's one for you, 999. |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:53 AM (#3108850) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Jon I quite like dandelion and burdock. |
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07 Mar 11 - 09:11 AM (#3108883) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk 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) |
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07 Mar 11 - 09:44 AM (#3108902) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Rusty Dobro When in France I've often enjoyed a good Pschitt! |
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07 Mar 11 - 09:58 AM (#3108912) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Rapparee 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 10:22 AM (#3108926) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Les from Hull 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 10:54 AM (#3108948) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Nancy King 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 11:29 AM (#3108964) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:13 PM (#3109006) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Lonesome EJ 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'. |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:40 PM (#3109028) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D ♫I have SEEN your aura, and it's ugly.♫ |
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07 Mar 11 - 12:58 PM (#3109033) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Lonesome EJ I Can See you're Rotten to the Core |
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07 Mar 11 - 01:33 PM (#3109046) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: DMcG 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 |
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07 Mar 11 - 02:24 PM (#3109072) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza 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! |
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07 Mar 11 - 02:29 PM (#3109076) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T ""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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 02:38 PM (#3109082) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza 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'. |
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07 Mar 11 - 03:19 PM (#3109108) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude 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 |
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07 Mar 11 - 03:20 PM (#3109109) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude I will also add the 1 gallon of lime flavored laxative I had to drink for my last colonoscopy ranked right up there LOL |
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07 Mar 11 - 03:27 PM (#3109114) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST, topsie 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'. |
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07 Mar 11 - 03:43 PM (#3109128) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: PoppaGator 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). |
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07 Mar 11 - 03:49 PM (#3109131) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,999 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:14 PM (#3109147) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: ClaireBear 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:14 PM (#3109148) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: catspaw49 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 |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:38 PM (#3109159) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:39 PM (#3109160) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude orange tang ... yup from the space program ... another yummy drink (NOT!!) |
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07 Mar 11 - 04:41 PM (#3109162) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude ah yes and remember Ovaltine ... yee gads |
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07 Mar 11 - 05:09 PM (#3109180) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza Oh good gracious, yes, GHASTLY Ovaltine. Tastes like cardboard. Do you remember "We are the Ovalteenies, happy girls and boys"? |
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07 Mar 11 - 05:11 PM (#3109182) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Bill D "..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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 06:22 PM (#3109224) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST 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! |
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07 Mar 11 - 06:55 PM (#3109244) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude 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 |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:18 PM (#3109260) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: The Fooles Troupe 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! |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:38 PM (#3109277) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Ref @OldDude: "Fizzies" is what you're looking for. |
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07 Mar 11 - 07:48 PM (#3109282) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Lonesome EJ Here y'are Spaw!, and only 10 bucks a case!! |
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07 Mar 11 - 09:15 PM (#3109327) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Les from Hull 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. |
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07 Mar 11 - 10:00 PM (#3109343) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Rapparee 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. |
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08 Mar 11 - 12:34 AM (#3109399) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: LadyJean 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. |
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08 Mar 11 - 12:39 AM (#3109400) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk 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... ;-) |
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08 Mar 11 - 03:04 AM (#3109429) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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08 Mar 11 - 11:32 AM (#3109677) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Roger the Skiffler 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. |
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08 Mar 11 - 11:42 AM (#3109689) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine I think it's a close run thing for me between Lucozade and Supermalt |
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08 Mar 11 - 11:45 AM (#3109691) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Saor Alba 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! |
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08 Mar 11 - 11:51 AM (#3109696) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: olddude 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 |
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08 Mar 11 - 12:38 PM (#3109725) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza 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! |
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08 Mar 11 - 12:39 PM (#3109726) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Charmion 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. |
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08 Mar 11 - 12:40 PM (#3109728) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Eliza 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! |
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08 Mar 11 - 02:49 PM (#3109819) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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? |
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08 Mar 11 - 03:57 PM (#3109870) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T 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."" |
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08 Mar 11 - 03:59 PM (#3109872) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T Oops, The two worst alcohol drinks I ever tasted were:) |
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08 Mar 11 - 07:15 PM (#3110018) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Maryrrf 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. |
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08 Mar 11 - 07:40 PM (#3110027) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T Soft drink floats are the beat :)))) |
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09 Mar 11 - 12:44 AM (#3110123) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: raredance 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 |
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09 Mar 11 - 09:29 AM (#3110325) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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09 Mar 11 - 09:42 AM (#3110331) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Charmion 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 ... |
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09 Mar 11 - 10:44 AM (#3110358) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. Ad. |
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09 Mar 11 - 10:56 AM (#3110361) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: bobad 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. |
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09 Mar 11 - 11:12 AM (#3110370) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Ed T 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 |
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09 Mar 11 - 12:12 PM (#3110416) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe 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... |
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09 Mar 11 - 12:39 PM (#3110434) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Lonesome EJ 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. |
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09 Mar 11 - 12:47 PM (#3110444) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer 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. Ad. |
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09 Mar 11 - 12:59 PM (#3110451) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: bobad 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. |
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09 Mar 11 - 01:01 PM (#3110453) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: frogprince 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. |
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09 Mar 11 - 01:24 PM (#3110473) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Beer No luck Bobad, the better half doesn't know. |
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09 Mar 11 - 01:29 PM (#3110479) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Little Hawk 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. |
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09 Mar 11 - 11:02 PM (#3110831) Subject: RE: BS: Worst Soft Drink Ever From: Rapparee 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. |
