Poll - Favorite soda

[SubCog]

Not counting diet varieties, or most brand differentiation beyond coke and pepsi. I'll include an option for "other" as well.

Keep in mind that there is a right answer, and it's



I would also accept this as a close-to-right answer:

[Lazy8s]

A&W is best served with vanilla ice cream, but amazing on it's own too.

Coke sucks for everything but cleaning rust.

Pepsi is worse.



edit: You slid Cream Soda in there...that gets my vote.

[Nascar24]

But Coke keeps me a fine tuned machine!

Hookers help to.

[Nascar24]

Where's Squirt?

[pax]

Diet Crack (Coke). Or when not available Crack (Coke) Zero...

[kytprice]

Mt.Dew my caffeine fuel.

[Nunz]

Pepsi or Root Beer, but I rarely drink soda ever.

[ice]

Soda makes me sick as well as anything else with tons of sugar. I drink mainly flavored seltzer water after getting used to it.

[SubCog]

These days I drink diet sodas pretty regularly, as I've dropped my sugar consumption down to pretty much zero. The idea of drinking a full sugar soda is pretty disgusting to me now.

[bob saget]

so glad i never got addicted to soda... chocolate and ice cream on the other hand....

[Payne3d]

diet coke...for reasons mentioned already. too much sugar in regular stuff.

it doesn't particularly taste that great, but it serves it's purpose when complimented with certain things like pizza, or whatever.

[DaJMasta]

Pepsi Max. It's diet, but it's more flavored and a bit sweeter, definitely doesn't taste like normal diet.

[Nagorak]

Dr. Pepper all the way (and Mr. Pibb when Dr. Pepper is not available--they are close but don't taste exactly the same).

[SubCog]

Dr. Pepper all the way (and Mr. Pibb when Dr. Pepper is not available--they are close but don't taste exactly the same).

[JZL]

A&W Diet Root Beer and A&W Diet Cream Soda for the good of humankind.

[ice]

Curious to see why you guys drink diet stuff... Fake sugar garbage is worse than regular sugar.

[Greasy]

Dr. Pepper all the way (and Mr. Pibb when Dr. Pepper is not available--they are close but don't taste exactly the same).

I like Pibb better, but both are awesome.

[Crawdaddy79]

Barq's because root beer is the best soda and only Barq's has caffeine.

Tahitian Treat was my previous favorite but they stopped caffeinating it sometime in the early 2000's.

[bill dennison]

a&w root beer zero sugar

and coke with coffee zero sugar

[bill dennison]

Curious to see why you guys drink diet stuff... Fake sugar garbage is worse than regular sugar.

i can eat sugar and drink real sugar soda or a mix like Life coke that they stopped making

what sends blood sugar off the charts is high fructose corn syrup

[KAC]

I selected Coke because there was no Diet Coke option. Pepsi is for retards.
Also I have a soft drinking problem.

[nutcrackr]

Orange or Lemon usually. I don't drink a lot of it these days.

[Silent-Runner]

Water, simply water, no soda and sure enough no so called diet bs-drinks. As Ice alread pointed out, "diet" is even worse than the normal stuff.

[GSGRUNT]

5-6 AM - Black coffee no sugar.
Rest of the day, tap water.
Beer or Scotch whiskey after golf.

[Munkus]

Soda makes me sick as well as anything else with tons of sugar. I drink mainly flavored seltzer water after getting used to it.

I gave up soda in general and switched to flavored seltzer water as well. I wasn't crazy about it at first, but I found some flavors that I really enjoy. It's all I drink now.

[DeathKnight]

When I do drink some (which is pretty rare these days) it'd have to be Dr. Pepper. Although I do like Kroger's The Fizzicist made with real sugar. Similar to Dr. Pepper but tastes a little better IMO.

[Silent-Runner]

it also helps to maintain our six/eight/ten-pack. Well, at least those who still can see their own feet

[curio]

Barely pops

[MangaSpawn64]

Pepsi is my drug. Coke tastes like those soap gums they sell as a joke.

Best soda I ever had is Steward's Orange cream soda... I could drink 6 bottles of that stuff back to back.

[UberBeavis]

Mexican Coke is the best, but not always available where I live now.
Dr. Pepper is my drug of choice.

[Cyko]

Barely pops

Is this another way of saying beer?

[Crawdaddy79]

Ah - he probably meant "barley". I get it now.

[SubCog]

Geez, Dr. Pepper is as popular as Coke. Weird, and kindof disturbing, that so many people would choose the worst option.

[MyTMouse]

I drink plain water 90% of the time and rarely ever "pop"...when I do however I enjoy Root Beer the most.

I also like Cream Soda (some)
Pepsi
Coke
way long ago we used to be able to get Strawberry Crush which was awesome

[curio]

Ah - he probably meant "barley". I get it now.

Yeah whoops - barley

[Jasef]

Curious to see why you guys drink diet stuff... Fake sugar garbage is worse than regular sugar.

Water, simply water, no soda and sure enough no so called diet bs-drinks. As Ice alread pointed out, "diet" is even worse than the normal stuff.

What do they use in diet sodas where you are? Asparthame over here and it has been shown over and over again to be far superior to regular sugar.

[Meteor_of_War]

I honestly can't remember the last time I drank soda without whiskey, bourbon, or gin in it.

The stuff is so unhealthy I better be getting drunk for the damage its doing to my body.

[Silent-Runner]

What do they use in diet sodas where you are? Asparthame over here and it has been shown over and over again to be far superior to regular sugar.

Chemical sweetener: is aspartame harmful?

Aspartame is produced synthetically and is safely consumed by many in Diet Coke, chewing gum and other light products with the actual goal of eating healthier diets and saving calories. Many do not know what aspartame actually is and what it actually contains. It consists of toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde and methanol that normally no one would ingest voluntarily. In too high a concentration, these toxins can damage the nervous system, attack the brain cells and they are also suspected of being responsible for cancerous tumors. What is the truth of the health concerns and how much is aspartame harmful?

What is in aspartame and why is aspartame harmful?

Aspartame is a very popular sweetener because it doesn't have the typical slightly bitter aftertaste of a sweetener. The improved taste has its price, however, at the expense of health: aspartame consists largely of phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol and is usually known as the abbreviation E 951, NutraSweet or Canderel. However, these amino acids are also contained in many other foods, e.g. in milk, fruit and vegetable juices, fish, etc. There even in some cases in an even higher concentration than in a Diet Coke. Nevertheless, it is strongly recommended to consciously avoid aspartame. So it's better to forego a diet cola and drink a fruit spritzer instead. Because whoever consumes aspartame consciously and intensively with diet products can damage his health in the long term. In large quantities, aspartame is harmful and can cause neurological disorders and other acute symptoms such as asthma, arthritis, diarrhea, hair loss, high blood pressure, headaches, sleep disorders, vision loss and many more. Aspartame is also said to increase the risk of cancer and to be responsible for tumors in the brain, lungs and liver. 40 miligrams per kg of body weight per day are considered permissible and were classified by the EU as not hazardous to health in 2002. As a rule, however, that much is not consumed during the day. However, critics vehemently warn against the consumption of aspartame, even in the smallest amounts. People who suffer from the metabolic disease phenylketonuria should consistently avoid aspartame because they cannot break down the source of phenylalanine, which can cause mental disorders and epilepsy.

Stevia instead of aspartame?
For some time now, stevia has also been approved as a sugar substitute and started a revolution among sweeteners. The stevia plant, honey herb, comes from South America and has long been used there for low-calorie sweetening. However, the sweetener called stevioside is not completely natural: it is also obtained through a chemical process and thus natural stevia is no more than an industrially manufactured product - but at least healthier than the fully synthetic aspartame.

just one of hundreds of articles about it...

[MyTMouse]

just one of hundreds of articles about it...

You can literally find dozens of articles on just about anything saying that X is the worst thing for you or it's the best. We live in an age where misinformation is all over the place and, especially with nutrition, tons of scientists and nutritionists can't agree on the same stuff. How many times do we hear that a certain food is deemed terrible and then years later it's considered fine or even good for you...happens all the time.

Everything I've seen on the science when it comes to aspartame is that it's just fine for you so long as you don't consume very large quantities of it..depending on the organisation they say between 15 to 18 cans of diet soda a day which is a lot, although some could possibly consume that much.

There are some rare conditions that make aspartame toxic like Phenylketonuria or Tardive dyskinesia with which aspartame can trigger uncontrolled muscle movements.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science...says-chemistry

The biggest thing with aspartame for some people is that it can cause them to actually gain weight as your body is being tricked into thinking it's getting calorie-filled sweet food and then, because there are no calories there, can start craving sweet food and people can start to take in more calories. It can also affect gut bacteria which has several effects on it's own.

For the vast majority of people, aspartame is just fine

[Silent-Runner]

if you search long enough you can find articles pretending Nunz is a white guy, although we all know that's fake news. So, yeah, the question is: Based on what kind of information you decide what to do? And the answer is: You can't.

Personally i can't stand aspartam and other artificial sweeteners, i actually get digestive problems. But what do i know. In the end it's your body/health, so everyone can do what he/she think is ok.