I didn't know that - So thanks for the input. *filing away that tidbit for trivia night*

Good grief, I drink more than that a day. Every day. Diet Coke.

I am a bad person.

given the choice based purely on flavor and enjoyment...i'm all about a nice glass bottle of Mountain Freakin Dew (goes great with a nice fat jernt). FU, jinx.

buuuuut.....when it comes to what I actually would choose in real life with my fatness in mind....Diet Coke. Caffeine free, no less. I use it to color my Captain Morgan.

Coke Zero.

I cant stand Diet Coke, but love Coke Zero. I always love Dry Ginger Ale (great for morning sickness) or Ginger Beer...plus 95% of the time its Zero.

Stewart's Key Lime
Boyland's Black Cherry

Coca-Cola Goes Nutritive?!
 

I'll have to look into that root beer, Spexx. I like a good root beer.

The latest wrinkle in Diet Coke is the blue-and-rainbow-labeled one --


with the vitamins added. :eek6: and maybe :crazy: .

I like it, though; it tastes about midway between old Diet Coke's astringent bite and CokeZero. We just bought us a twelver.

I think whether your sugar is beet sugar or cane depends on where you are. I grew up in beet-sugar country in the interior but I never see the stuff at all now that I live on the coasts. I figure it's the shipping costs that decide it, considering how low sugar prices are.

Reed's Ginger Beer would be my Other selection. Zippity do dah, this is what made the preacher dance. Probably made him burp, too. Strong ginger flavor. It'd be the right ginger brew to take with ginger Altoids.

For about the last two years I've been cutting back on Coke, also, but not enough. A friend of mine recently referred to it as "liquid diabetes."

The "real sugar" debate reminds me of the Colorado DOT claiming that they don't use salt on the roads, they use magnesium chloride. From what chemistry I remember, magnesium chloride is salt.

I took a Behavior Mod class a while back. A bunch of folks took the opportunity to break their soda habit... It is wicked hard if you've been at it a while.

I drink the occasional Coke, but am going to cut even that back. All this stuff is nasty nasty.

I completely forgot about my most favorite pop in the world! Mint Ginger Ale! Can't wait to go back home and bring like 8 bottles back with me.

Secret hint for those who want sugar and not HFCS: you have to cross the border for the good stuff (or just drop in at your local Latino mart)

Oh, and keep your soda unless it's being used as a mixer.

IBC Cream Soda

If I have a soda, I like Orangina or whatever brand of ginger beer I'm lucky to find around here. If a store near me stocked ginger beer all the time, I'd drink it a lot more.

Occasionally, one big swig of icy Coke really hits the spot.

I've never noticed packaged sugar being labeled as to the plant source. Don't have a package in the house to check, though. Cattle love the dried pulp left over from extracting sugar from beets.

Dr. Pepper.
Then, Root Beer, Orangina and Ginger ale/beer (there is a good Jamaican brand you can get here in FL that is strong and good)

Send it to Philly, please!