Soft Drinks From Around The World
 

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These are some really strange flavors of Pepsi — including ice cucumber and white yogurt.

What soft drinks have you encountered in your travels around the world? Please list the strangest, most delicious, most vile or whatever other category on which you would like to report, along with a description.

Thank you in advance.

Wow, where are these from? I guess you could have the yogurt one for breakfast.

There used to be (may still be) a orange soft drink I encountered in Germany called Cilly Minora...very tasty.

Pepsi cucumber, pepsi blue hawaiian & pepsi white are mentioned here
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...ft-drinks.html

pepsi shiso here
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...l#post11959583

No idea about the boabab flavour but within http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...l#post16804611 an intrepid FTer bravely tried the caribbean gold flavour

I've only had the pepsi white. tab mixed with calpis is a good description. I like calpis, but the tab flavour ruined it. :td:

I asked my parents to buy me Antesite whilst they drove through France, but not the version with aniseed. I got an email today saying they found some. One of the bottles is apple and cinnamon flavour, that should be interesting (Antesite is one of the strangest soft drinks I've ever tried. It's made with liquorice extract and this is naturally sweeter than any sugar, so you get these intense flavoured sugar free concentrates and you add a few drops to a glass of water. I guess it's an acquired taste and is horribly difficult to get hold of, especially if you're a fellow aniseed hater)

EDIT: I just realised that when Pepsi Azuki was mentioned it wasn't a joke. :( Urgh!
http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/a...ist_custom.jpg
This ranks high on my vile list - perhaps even more (but not much more) than Dr Pepper

Moxie! It tastes like Jägermeister and as far as I can tell is only available in certain counties in Maine.

It's "good for what ails you" or something like that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie

When in Atlanta hit up the Coke museum.

You can try as they say on their web site

Take your taste buds on a trip around the world. Sample over 60 different products through five tasting stations arranged geographically, and a sixth station dedicated solely to Coca-Cola® brands. Sip, mix, and savor to your heart's delight!

The bitter stuff from Italy is always the weirdest.

Wow. Of all the soft drinks in the world, you picked the one that leapt to my mind. Although it's an acquired taste, my entire family has acquired it. That's bad news for me -- I brought a 12-pack home from PWM last week, and it was gone before I got home again from my next trip.

http://www.mainethingstodo.com/mttd/...5-drink-moxie/

Moxie is actually more widely available than you might think. I was surprised to find it in the cooler in my local (Memphis area) Fresh Market.

If you're looking for a food pairing for Moxie: Think whoopie pies.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Histo...PieHistory.htm

There is everyone's favorite, Inca Kola, from Peru. Looks like pee, tastes like bubble gum!

Really? We have it in Spain too (Bitter Kas), in the UK there's Angostura Bitters which is really refreshing when you add a few drops to a glass of lemonade.
There's such a history of bitter drinks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters
And it's so widespread across the world - especially in HOT countries and regions - it's hard to think of them as weird. They are so good at stimulating flagging appetites.

If you end up craving a bitter taste on a particularly hot day there was a Japanese recipe I came across some time ago that I really enjoy. The gist of it was that you take a bitter melon - goya in Japanese
http://image.rakuten.co.jp/oki-nanay...o-ya-1kg-h.jpg
finely grate some and just add it to the soda of your choice.
You can add it to club soda but I like it mixed in with a sweeter carbonated drink.
Here's a ready made version from Japan
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~tacchini/img/goya-man1.JPG
I'll take bittermelon soda over melon soda any day

+1

Moxie is the first thing I thought of also. Only soft drink I crave. Every time I visit my place in NH I pick up some to take back. Last time I took a 12 pack it tasted like crap, though. My first thought was they changed the recipe or it was from a different bottler. Finally I noticed on the bottom of a can that it was over a year out of date!

As my husband says, "Moxie is a warrior's drink" (channeling Worf from Star Trek). To me it's Dr. Pepper on steroids.

I like Ting, but for the prices charged around here, I'll save my money and drink it in the Caribbean.

The Coke tasting room was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. I remember tasting a Lychee drink that was kind of weird.



My best remembered favorite was a dry lemon carbonated soda in England, but I can't recall the brand.

Guarana- Not really that exotic but a pretty tasty citrus soda

One few people have probably heard of which is one of my favorites.....Pop-Cola from the Philippines. It is a cola taste, but not really like any I have had in the states.

I've always been struck by the feeling that the closer one gets to the Equator, the sweeter grow many of the popular soft drinks. Maybe the prevaling local temperature makes them taste that way.

To be avoided, especially by oenophiles, the Mexican "Jarritos" brand "sangria-flavored" (NA). "Gag a Maggot" is the description my eldest daughter used to describe it.

Oh, I thought the lychee drink was the best!