Soft Drinks From Around The World
Sep 16, 2011 | 12:16 pm
#76
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 6,964
I rarely drink sweet drinks and prefer carbonated water.
I did present a colleague with a bottle of Pocari Sweat once as a gift (didn't seem odd to me as I am very familar with the product but it made an impact on him)
I do like Beverly, which the WDW fan crowd seems to enjoy mocking. It is much more to my tastebuds.
I do like Pret a Manger gingerbeer, and elderflower drink, because they are not overly sweet. The sweetest I will go is the various Orangina products but they are variable and have changed since changing ownership.
I did present a colleague with a bottle of Pocari Sweat once as a gift (didn't seem odd to me as I am very familar with the product but it made an impact on him)
I do like Beverly, which the WDW fan crowd seems to enjoy mocking. It is much more to my tastebuds.
I do like Pret a Manger gingerbeer, and elderflower drink, because they are not overly sweet. The sweetest I will go is the various Orangina products but they are variable and have changed since changing ownership.
Oct 14, 2011 | 4:53 am
#79
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: 127.0.0.1
Posts: 947
Conspicuously absent from this list are the "orange cola" drinks from Germany:
Mezzo Mix, Schwip Schwap, Spezi, and other brands. It is basically 80% Coke with 20% Fanta/Orange soda. It's pretty good.
Also missing is the Russian Kvass drink and also Tarragon lemonade.
I love Irn Bru. When I am in Scotland, I divvy my drinking between tea, beer, Scotch, and Irn Bru.
I have purchased it in the U.S. at the Richmond Highland Games in 2009.
Mezzo Mix, Schwip Schwap, Spezi, and other brands. It is basically 80% Coke with 20% Fanta/Orange soda. It's pretty good.
Also missing is the Russian Kvass drink and also Tarragon lemonade.
Which leads me on to my country's "other national drink" - Irn Bru. There's nothing quite like it (unless you go to Peru and drink Inca Cola, which is actually quite similar, but much less orange). In its "native" state, it's banned in the US. However, it's incredibly Scottish, and often claimed to outsell all other soft drinks.
I have purchased it in the U.S. at the Richmond Highland Games in 2009.
Oct 14, 2011 | 5:01 am
#80
Join Date: Jan 2008
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My favourite Soft Drinks are American Standards but not common in Europe:
- Mountain Dew (just "relaunched" in Germany and in UK as "Mountain Dew Energy", very expensive and somehow not as tasty here)
- Arizona Ice Tea (Green Tea+Honey) (available at select Restaurants at ridiculous prices, discovered that the German Drug Store "Rossmann" is now selling them for 1/can and always get strange looks when I carry out 48 cans at a time).
- Dr Pepper
Generally I feel that even Standard Drinks must be mixed differently in different countries. I love Mountain Dew in the US and UAE but not much in Europe.
Also whenever I am in UAE, I much prefer Pepsi over Coke, appears much more thirst quenching, where as it's the other way around in Europe.
At least Red Bull will come from the same factories in Austria, whereever you buy it in the world.
I am a bit of a "Soft drink nut" and used to fill up my luggage coming from the US with cans up to it's weight limit. I even once brought a whole suit case filled with nothing but Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew White Out, etc.
It upsets me that in the States you get like 12 cans for $4? That 12 cans may set you back $16 + $4 in "can deposit" in Germany...
- Mountain Dew (just "relaunched" in Germany and in UK as "Mountain Dew Energy", very expensive and somehow not as tasty here)
- Arizona Ice Tea (Green Tea+Honey) (available at select Restaurants at ridiculous prices, discovered that the German Drug Store "Rossmann" is now selling them for 1/can and always get strange looks when I carry out 48 cans at a time).
- Dr Pepper
Generally I feel that even Standard Drinks must be mixed differently in different countries. I love Mountain Dew in the US and UAE but not much in Europe.
Also whenever I am in UAE, I much prefer Pepsi over Coke, appears much more thirst quenching, where as it's the other way around in Europe.
At least Red Bull will come from the same factories in Austria, whereever you buy it in the world.
I am a bit of a "Soft drink nut" and used to fill up my luggage coming from the US with cans up to it's weight limit. I even once brought a whole suit case filled with nothing but Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew White Out, etc.
It upsets me that in the States you get like 12 cans for $4? That 12 cans may set you back $16 + $4 in "can deposit" in Germany...
Oct 14, 2011 | 4:08 pm
#81
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Cambridge, England
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Mountain Dew Energy is missing the orange juice that is found in Mountain dew in the US 
and is made with sugar instead of corn syrup
and is made with sugar instead of corn syrup
Last edited by fredandgingermad; Oct 14, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Oct 18, 2011 | 9:59 pm
#85
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You have to try Inca Kola at least once, but it's disgusting for more what it looks like, than for what it tastes like.
Oct 19, 2011 | 3:44 am
#86
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Location: Lima, Per
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I've only tried Guaran Antrtica... I like it, but it tastes different.and I'm told that Inca Kola is an acquired taste :P
Oct 19, 2011 | 11:46 am
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