Austrian supermarkets are excellent for various (flat) elderflower cordials. They seem to be popular. There are even "own brands" as well as nationally known ones like darbo. btw I tried the strawberry and elderflower which is new this year from Bottlegreen in the UK, and much preferred their cherry vanilla. Wasn't too impressed with their other new coconut one although I am sure some will like it.

For me, whenever I am back in Scotland, it is mandatory for me to drink IRN-BRU:D

Pepsi and yogurt flavour??? Gee, I wonder why that didn't catch on? :confused:

While waiting in line for Franklin Barbecue they walked past with a box of cold beverages- I tried the Big Red along with another FTer- twere interesting but very sweet. The wait was worth it though...

I agree. Amusingly, when I waited at Franklin's two girls came around selling coffee. Pretty smart too as it was 10 AM on a Sunday.

I did a search and was surprised that nobody in this thread has mentioned "Club Cool" (formerly "Ice Station Cool") at Walt Disney World. This is an attraction inside EPCOT Center (in Orlando), sponsored by Coca-Cola, that features a bunch of Coke brands from around the world. Free sample-size soda, and serve yourself!

Some of the flavors offered, according to Wikipedia:

Smart Watermelon (China) - A very refreshing watermelon flavored drink
Kinley Lemon (Israel)
Fanta Kolita (Costa Rica) - A very sweet cherry flavored soda
VegitaBeta (Japan)
Lift Apple (Mexico) - An apple flavored beverage
Mezzo Mix (Germany) - Coca Cola with a taste of orange
Beverly (Italy) - A very bitter non-alcoholic apéritif
Krest Ginger Ale (Mozambique)

I remember a Teem drink... where was that from...? It was once sold here in Argentina, but I doubt it was a pure local brand. Perhaps a discontinued Coke brand...? Or was it Team... cant remember the spelling.

Gingerino from Italy.....

Do you mean this:

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It is a Pepsi brand. I remember seeing Teem in the United States as well, but I do not recall ever drinking it.

Dont have a picture, but had a Turkish drink in Allentown,PA at a Turkish restaurant 10 days ago. During Ramadam so that helped. It was a "yoghurty" milky drink with a salty aftertaste. Very refreshing. Sorry forgotten its name.

A HS friend went to the USSR in the 80's. She brought me back a bottle of Pepsi. (I collect bottles.) It was so weak you could almost see through it.

She also told me a funny story about the vending machines. Do you remember the kind that would drop a cup and mix the syrup, ice, and CO2 for a fresh cup of each time? You would take and enjoy the drink. In the USSR, the cup was tethered to the machine. You drank the soda and put it back for the next customer!!! YUCK!

Ah yes, ayran can be very refreshing with kebaplar (kebabs). A mix of water and yoghurt with salt, I've also seen a mint flavour in NY. Definitely a staple drink in Turkey, and can also be found in other countries in that region.

I do love the Spanish Fanta! It's great in a number of other countries, too, just not the U.S.

I had Kofola in Bratislava recently, it's similar to coke but with more of an anise flavor.

Hotlips soda from Portland, Oregon. I love the boysenberry!

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.

http://www.club.ie/

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/ .

It is technically Hohhot, out at the remote campus for IMNU. It is an incredible facility, the cows live indoors in an AC environment with clean floors and even some TVs, really quite odd!

When we went, this was actually over 3 years ago now, we were the first non 'expert' westerns to be there. Now the entire area has exploded in size, across the street now is a Coca Cola bottling plant, there are multiple datacenters and call centers in construction. Sadly it looks like the days of seeing the shepherds tending their herds of sheep and cows are over, I only saw one last month, prior I had seen dozens. the old villages where they cows slept in the abandoned homes, are all piles of rubble or new strip malls. Housing development everywhere. I know there are people there and progress if good, but seeing some of the 'old ways' and even a couple authentic yurts before, was quite nice.

not to get too far off topic!
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it goes on and on, there are multiple buildings like this, very impressive facility, and only a handful of people there but milk being put into tetrapak continually! Mostly it is run by the robots you can see in the one larger picture here.
They also have some non tetrapak milk for the local area, very good, a lot better in fact as it is not requiring UHT. However they mostly do UHT, as vast majority is UHT shelf safe milk due to the lack of long term old storage, or putting priority to the yogurts and other snacks.

I have Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry, Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper and Cherry Coke Zero thanks to a cross-border trip this weekend. Mmmmmmmm, tastes like cherry :D

no cherry vanilla?!

I love vanilla coke and dr pepper in the US, i took socks to the US the last time i went (in June when the last thing i needed to wear was socks lol) just so i could bring cans home 'safely' in my checked baggage..

I didn't see a diet cherry vanilla - not keen on regular soda (cokes etc) because they make my teeth feel icky!

Xiexie Steph3n, for the unexpected tour! That looks quite clean AND organized too! Did you just stroll up to the door and say, let's have it, or you had local contacts who suggested it? Is it clear that MengNiu didn't mind you taking photos? Did you tour many other factories while in China (Inner Mongolia) too? Do you see signs everywhere in Hohhot for Ordos cashmere? Oops, way OT...

I typically despise mainland leche, as the unrefrigerated types taste like something fierce, but at least in Shenzhen, Guangming and Kowloon Dairy products are almost always kept cool.

Oh right, soft drinks. Can any of the RGN-mistake fare candidates comment on the difference between Burmese Star cola and the newly reintroduced Coca cola?

Actually, I thought you were on-topic and the discussion was quite interesting, for what it is worth — but the FlyerTalk member who launched this thread may disagree with me...

I had never had Irn-Bru before moving here to Scotland, but I really like it now. It is very sweet though. Back home in Adelaide, Australia we have a drink called Sno Drop (and a knock off Sno Top), which is kind of a darker, almost cola version of Creamy Soda. I actually miss it. My dad loves the stuff.

Here's a tasty one...

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Probably have brought 5 cases of Birch Beer home in 2012... :eek: :p