Thread: quality soda pop

I'm not sure if the drink is a different recipe or not, but once and a while I enjoy a Coca-Cola in the small glass bottle. For some reason they seem to taste different than those in a can or plastic.

Around here anything with carbonated water & syrup is considered a "coke".

I think I've only ever said "soft drink(s)".

If you like ginger ale, go straight to the top and get the red cap.

Originally Posted by northpaw

I think I've only ever said "soft drink(s)".

If you like ginger ale, go straight to the top and get the red cap.

That stuff is awesome, the price however has recently went from 6 bucks for a 6 pack to $9, so I quit buying it. Just not worth it at the price anymore to me.

Originally Posted by shooter74743

I'm not sure if the drink is a different recipe or not, but once and a while I enjoy a Coca-Cola in the small glass bottle. For some reason they seem to taste different than those in a can or plastic.

Around here anything with carbonated water & syrup is considered a "coke".

Around here the glass bottled coke/fanta is often referee to as "Mexican soda" reason being the best place to find it is Mexican grocery stores, the difference you may be tasting is regular coke is made with corn syrup, glass bottled coke is made with cane sugar.

Here we call it soda I can always go for a good root beer or birch beer.

I'm a Throwback Pepsi fan myself. Love the cane sugar versus the high fructose corn syrup. I usually call them pops or cokes (regardless of brand). But when ordering in a restaurant I ask for Pepsi.

I hate to be a wet blanket but AFAIC "quality" soda pop is a contradiction in terms. I call it sugar water and haven't touched it in a decade. YMMV.

Does anybody who grew up in northern NJ remember Hoffman's sodas from Newark? Those were my favorite growing up... nothing out there today that I've tried even comes close.

we called them cokes.........

i have only drank soda on rare occasions in a bit over a year.... *(only when the restaurant had bad tasting water)...... that stuff is really bad for your insides....

Originally Posted by silks

Does anybody who grew up in northern NJ remember Hoffman's sodas from Newark? Those were my favorite growing up... nothing out there today that I've tried even comes close.

Also don't forget Cott and the Mission Brand from years past. Cott made the best chocolate soda in the world.

Forgot to mention.

As a kid getting a bottle of this was always a huge treat. Have not had it in over 30 years so for all I know it may suck but the memory of it was good