Do you drink soda / pop?

[Square Wheels]

I gave it up about a year and a half ago.  I still have a few a year, but it's essentially out of my diet.  I found it helped a lot with my weight loss.  I never liked diet, and I hear that's worse for you anyhow.

 

I still miss it, a lot.  I love Pepsi and Dr. Pepper.

[jsharr ★]

I seldom drink soda.  I try to drink iced tea or water, and will sometimes have an Arnold Palmer.   We do not keep soda in our house.  We do not buy soda for Scouting campouts, etc.

 

Used to guzzle the stuff though.  I found that aspartame is a trigger for my gout, so I avoid all diet sodas, etc.

[Randomguy]

Dr. Pepper makes nice belches.

 

I drink about half a dozen pops (I am from Ohio, so that is correct) a year, mostly Boylan's.  I remember being a teenager and drinking Dr. Pepper to burp really loudly, that was fun.

[Dirtyhip]

Now and then. I really enjoy the pellegrino blood orange, but the price makes it tough for me to consider buying.It's like 6-7 for a 6 pack.

 

I love soda, but I don't drink it all the time.  Maybe once every couple weeks.  I hear soda is bad for our teeth too.  

[jsharr ★]

Also, if we are talking regional names for sugary carbonated beverages, in Texas, they are all "coke".  You ask someone if they want "a coke" and if they reply yes, then you ask "what kind?" or you list off what you have, like Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, etc.

 

The more I think about it, the more I realize what strange ass people us Texans really are.

[SuzieQ]

I never had soda growing up so never really liked it, so never drink it.  I would much rather have water than soda any day.  I don't like sweet drinks, or carbonation

[SuzieQ]

unless it's champagne

[Mr. Silly]

I like ginger ale.  I'll have a couple a year.  Diet ginger ale is one of the few sodas my son with Type I diabetes can drink so we often have it in the house.  It tastes OK.

[2Far ★]

Also, if we are talking regional names for sugary carbonated beverages, in Texas, they are all "coke".  You ask someone if they want "a coke" and if they reply yes, then you ask "what kind?" or you list off what you have, like Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, etc.

 

The more I think about it, the more I realize what strange ass people us Texans really are.

I've heard that in MS, AL & GA too.

[KrAzY]

Yes

I would rather drink coffee all day

[2Far ★]

I don't reguarly drink much soda/pop/coke, etc, but when I'm driving long distances, I'll have a diet DP or MD.

[Kzoo]

Maybe one every other month.  Always a Sprite or Sierra Mist.  I drink water with meals.

[Dirtyhip]

Also, if we are talking regional names for sugary carbonated beverages, in Texas, they are all "coke".  You ask someone if they want "a coke" and if they reply yes, then you ask "what kind?" or you list off what you have, like Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, etc.

 

The more I think about it, the more I realize what strange ass people us Texans really are.

 

Coke is a brand.  Normal people call it soda.  

[Former member]

Coke is a brand. Normal people call it soda.

Texans aren't normal people

[Rocketman]

Not like I used to ... I haven't had an actual coke  ( I don't remember what kind it was jsharr, possibly Coke) since Thanksgiving, and couldn't tell you when the time before that was.

 

I do drink these though

 

We also have a Sodastream, but I drink the Country Time Half Tea/Lemonade 

 

I like the bubbles

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Coke is a brand.  Normal people call it soda.  

So is kleenex but you don't hear normal people ask if you want a tissue.

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Not a soda drinker, maybe six per year.  Mostly water and unsweet tea.  We have to say that here or you get a beverage with more sugar than a liter of coke.

[Former member]

So is kleenex but you don't hear normal people ask if you want a tissue.

that's a bad example.

[Randomguy]

So is kleenex but you don't hear normal people ask if you want a tissue.

 

Out here, you do.  Must be nice to get all that free marketing.

[kingtermite]

I stopped drinking it when I was about 19. 

 

Now I only drink it certain circumstances. I'll use it as a mixer for whiskey sometimes (usually 7-up or similar) or if I go to a place that has fountain drinks only and I'm not in the mood for water (usually I'll get a root beer). On average, based on the above, I probably drink about a 2-liter or two per year.

[Rocketman]

that's a bad example.

How about Xerox?  People my age and older  still xerox things ... although I haven't seen an actual Xerox machine in probably a decade.

[jsharr ★]

Coke is a brand.  Normal people call it soda.  

Did you not see where I wrote this "The more I think about it, the more I realize what strange ass people us Texans really are."

[tybeegb]

I quit with the soft drinks (I'm from Georgia and that's correct)  with caffeine in 1999.  Once in a great while, maybe once a month, I'll have a Sprite if I eat fast food.  Other than my glass of milk in the morning, and the PBRs I consume, water is my only other drink.     

[jsharr ★]

I quit with the soft drinks (I'm from Georgia and that's correct)  with caffeine in 1999.  Once in a great while, maybe once a month, I'll have a Sprite if I eat fast food.  Other than my glass of milk in the morning, and the PBRs I consume, water is my only other drink.     

I used to work with a guy that loved Schlitz Malt Liquor.  Not sure why your PBR made me think of Tommy.  Anyway,on a hot summer day, he would take a SML and pour it over crushed ice and then squeeze and entire lemon into it.  

[shotgun]

I usually throw caution to the wind and have a pop (12 oz Coca Cola) on Fridays. Sometimes, I even drink two pops within a week. 

[tybeegb]

I used to work with a guy that loved Schlitz Malt Liquor.  Not sure why your PBR made me think of Tommy.  Anyway,on a hot summer day, he would take a SML and pour it over crushed ice and then squeeze and entire lemon into it.

Years and years ago, during a deployment in Panama, we went to play golf on a really hot, humid day.  After nine holes we took a break  and the bartender said we needed a Shanty.  Sure, we said.  Frozen twenty-four ounce glass mug, filled with ice, filled halfway with Canada Dry Ginger Ale, and the other half with Budweiser.  I think we ran him out of frozen mugs before the day was over.   

[petitepedal ★]

I keep trying to cut back....on a bad day (at work, not feeling well...or not much sleep) I might have 2 20oz diet cokes...although TAB was my diet drink of choice back in college.  I never got into coffee.  If I work at it...I will have a pot of tea in the AM for the caffeine and I can go with just water....

 

I also realize the diet soda isn't doing me any favors and the caffeine isn't all that great either...but meh it is what it is...so far...no plans for soda or pop today.

[Longjohn ★]

I used to drink Scotch and soda but I haven't had that in many years. My usual drinks, coffee, tea, water, dark beer, cranberry juice, or skim milk.

[jsharr ★]

I used to drink Scotch and soda but I haven't had that in many years. My usual drinks, coffee, tea, water, dark beer, cranberry juice, or skim milk.

I like my scotch neat.  I will mix cheap blended scotch into hot toddies.  I can home one night to find my wife using a 15 year old single malt for a hot toddy and I headed to the liquor store the next day!

[az_cyclist]

when I drink soda,  I prefer Coke, decaff or regular.  sometimes Coke Zero.  Coffee in the morning, iced tea at lunch and in the afternoon. water at other times

[Gump]

The only time I might is if I'm sick, then I like ginger ale.

[Scott in MN]

Pop is one of weak points.  I have 3 full octane pops a day.  Cutting them would make a big difference for me but I am weak.

[jsharr ★]

[Zephyr]

We've only ever called it pop.

In my early 20's I drank close to 2 Litres a day, always Coke.

Now we only ever have pop when we have family pizza night once every couple weeks

[Road Runner]

I drink at least a couple 2-liter bottles a week.  I prefer Diet Cherry Dr Pepper, but also drink Decaf Diet Dr Pepper.

 

If it wasn't good for you, a doctor wouldn't sell it. 

 

[Former member]

It was called tonic where I grew up(north of Boston), but now I call it soda. I don't drink much of it, but ginger ale is my favorite(dry not golden).

[Dottleshead ★]

It's really weird but the only time I drink a coke is when I have Mexican food. 

[bikeman564™]

Yes, Vernors or Coke mostly. W/ the occasional Rock n Rye

[Airehead]

Very rarely, If I am sick I want ginger ale and nothing else will do. Mr. Aire keeps some cans of that on hand because I am miserable and cranky if I don't feel well and he is tired of needing to go to Wegman's at 3AM

[Airehead]

Very rarely, If I am sick I want ginger ale and nothing else will do. Mr. Aire keeps some cans of that on hand because I am miserable and cranky if I don't feel well and he is tired of needing to go to Wegman's at 3AM

[Road Runner]

Best damn soft drink, ever.

 

Founded in my hometown of Salisbury, NC.

 

[Road Runner]

Nothing better than a North Carolina chopped pork barbecue sandwich with a glass of Cheerwine.  Heaven on earth.  

[MoseySusan]

I drink diet soda at least twice a week.  

[Pokey]

I'd love some Carolina BBQ pork....with the vinegar type sauce right about now. With creamy cole slaw on the sammie.

 

Vernors, RC Cola, Seagrams Dry Ginger Ale.