I wonder if "Hotlips" Houlihan tried that stuff:D

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Very refreshing!

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Also very good!

I had strawberry fanta in the Gambia that contained sugar instead of corn syrup, enjoyed it much more but have only been able to find it with corn syrup since :(

Is anyone familiar with Nicaragua's Kola Shaler?
I rarely drink soda, but if I do, it's either a Japanese limited-edition pepsi, a plain jane coke, Reed's ginger beer, or a new carbonated flavor to jot down in the book. The coffee one was awful (that was from Surabaya), and the most recent one was banana bought at a Grenanaese (a combo of Grenada and Guyana because I can't remember which) store in the Bronx. I couldn't gulp down more than a few sips. Also, carbo juice/soda (don't recall which) from a halal store in Detroit, that took a bit of gumption.

Now, to focus more on the sweetest soda that doesn't yet exist, I reckon giving the bubble treatment to gajar halwa would render me incapacitated for a couple of weeks...

I just did the drive from London to Mongolia and ayran is indeed very refreshing, especially in that baking heat. Unfortunately, when I got to Mongolia I was offered airag, which I misheard as ayran.:D

Just ran into apple beer at a soda fountain in Rhode Island... new one to me.

Bilz and Pap, sigh... Oh, yes, it's all so very virtuous to decry the influence of American fast food chains on your children's waistlines, but then you bottle Bilz and Pap locally and give it to them from infancy on as if it were really fruit juice... At one point when I was living in Chile I read that it led the world in per capita consumption of carbonated beverages. Coke, mostly. Never saw people drink so much Coke before.

Orange Fanta is big in Chile for mixing with beer on hot summer days--I forget the name of this concoction. Anyone remember? Apparently to the dismay of serious wine lovers in Chile, mixing orange Fanta with Champagne is a thing there too, or so I've read, but in 10 years living there, I never saw anyone do that. I suppose it's not too far from a mimosa.

I once got drawn into a conversation with some Chileans who wanted me to confirm or deny definitively that there was a blue version of said soft drink available in the US. Took me a little while to figure out they were talking about grape Fanta.

I was turned on to Limca in India which was fantastically addicting and tooth-rotting. Great stuff!

Club Orange
 

My son went to Ireland with his high school marching band and they fell in love with Club Orange. I searched high and low to find it in the U.S. I was able to buy some bottles from an Irish bar in Seattle.

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hahahaha! However fermented milk is not that bad.

Rather enjoyable in fact. Here's grapefruit kind (in inner mongolia)
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I also really enjoyed Inka Cola while in Peru and bought it a couple of times in NY. One our recent trip to SE Asia, my wife enjoyed Pocari Sweat.

Has anyone tried Mauby in Trinidad & Tobago? It is very popular there but I couldn't stand the taste...

In Inner Mongolia, they call grapefruit "grape pomelo?" At least in southern China, it is "xixiu," or "western pomelo." If you know the brand MengNiu, did you see any products that you thought were germane to Inner Mongolia?

My daughter loves it.

I know the brand, I toured their factory :D

Inner mongolia has amazing dairy products, but some really weird cheeses, ever tried banana flavored cheese? Chocolate?

I love the MengNiu peach and oat berry yogurt, yogurt is definitely a staple of the IM culture, and pride. I found the MengNiu yogurts to be among the best I have ever had, anywhere.

They do dig their yoghurts up there, and in Xinjiang, too bad it hasn't spread to the rest of the country...I'm with you on the oatberry ones. Quite nice. Really, you could tour the factory? Is it in Hohhot or Baotou or...?

Chocolate cheese, yeah, it wasn't a rollicking good time, but Guangming also makes it: http://buildingmybento.wordpress.com...colate-cheese/ .