Although a big soda drinker when I was young many, many years ago, now it’s pretty rare. I will get kosher Coke (yellow cap) when it comes out for the Passover and Rosh Hashanah holidays as it’s the real sugar version.
Look for 12-packs of Heritage Dr. Pepper. I have occasionally seen it in the 20 oz. bottles sold singly in stores also.
Mexicoke tastes just like regular coke, its just in a fun glass bottle.
I prefer Mountain Dew Throwback for the retro cans. I drink whatever type of sugar the pop is made with. I gave up on the diet pop a month ago as it exasperated my verbal ticks and I could hardly keep my eyes open for the blinking. I also don’t have a permanent sweet taste in my mouth any more.
If Coke would come back with the 16 oz. returnable green bottles, and fill it with sugar coke, I’d be in soda heaven.
Of all the sodas in bottles from the 70’s, only coke brings back positive memories. Coke in those little 6 or 8 oz. bottles. pulled out of an ice chest or one of those soda machines that dispensed bottles was the best.
As for the rest, I’d prefer sugar, but it’s been so long since I’ve tasted anything but corn syrup or sugar substitutes, I honestly can’t remember any other specific tastes.
But coke in that thick green bottle? mmmmm
On those rare occasions that I partake of soft drinks, it is inevitably one of Boylan’s selections-either their (non-red!) birch beer, or their root beer. That way I don’t need to wait for the Coca-Cola or Pepsi companies to decide to go retro before I can quaff a non-fructose corn syrup drink.
The store next door to work sells mexican coke and the 7-11 across the street sells pepsi throwback. I prefer the glass bottles of the mexican coke, but i think pepsi tastes better. I tried throwback mountain dew and it was horrible.
Ditto South Africa.
And of course you would check the bottom of the bottle to see where the bottle came from and he guy with the farthest bottle was the ‘winner’.
It’s not retro (they’ve always used cane sugar), I drink Fitz’s root beer.
I enjoy Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, though they both seem to have a peculiar aftertaste that the “regular” varieties don’t have. It sort of reminds me of diet soda aftertaste, but not quite as strong. I’ve had Mexican Pepsi which is also made with real sugar, and it doesn’t have that aftertaste, so I can only assume that it’s a matter of how the sugar syrup is sourced and processed by American bottlers vs. Mexican bottlers.
By and large, I find that the Mexican versions of sodas are more “drinkable” - that is, you can down the whole bottle in one or two gulps a lot easier than you would a comparable bottle of the American variety.
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I voted ‘no’ because I really don’t like the throwback soda, which was not the point at all. Sorry for skewing the poll.:smack:
Yes, I have tried them and bleh, they taste horrible.
We tried Mexican Coke, hated it, and had a hell of a time giving it away. I’ve tried Pepsi and Mt. Dew throwback with similar results. Cool concept, like the retro packaging but the taste, she stinks.
I would but I’m mostly a Dr. Pepper guy and they don’t sell the throwback version where I live. If they sold it here, I’d buy it.
I keep real Mountain Dew in stock, although I don’t drink more than one can a month.
Where do you find them? And, is this “all sugar” business as opposed to “corn syrup” or “high fructose corn syrup” as the sweetner? Where do I find it and/or how would I recognize it?
As for the throwback editions, they’re pretty easy to spot on the shelf. Different labeling.
It’s high FRUCTOSE corn syrup. It’s sugar. There may be a difference in taste, but there’s no difference in health benefits. The (possible) reason for the increase in diabetes isn’t because they started putting HFCS in Cokes. It’s because they started putting HFCS in everything.
We don’t drink sodas often, but I’ll sometimes by Blue Sky sodas and they are all made with cane sugar and they are all awesome.
For me, Pepsi Throwback > Coke > Regular Pepsi. Unfortunately, I can’t find Pepsi Throwback up here anymore.
Based on my best recollection of drinking sodas from the late 50s until now:
Original bottled Coke had a more bitter, less sweet taste than any Coke now. To me, the Mexican Coke is what I remember original Coke to be - a lighter taste, not quite a overwhelming carbonation - a more subtle taste, instead of the expected stronger taste.
I can drink Mexican Coke and appreciate the difference, but for just chugging down a cold soda, Coke Zero works fine for me.
Never cared for Pepsi, which just seemed to be a sweeter version of Coke.
Original bottled 7-Up also had a less sweet, slightly bitter taste to it than now. I have tried Sierra Mist and felt that it was very much what I remember original 7-Up to have tasted.
I like Spite okay, but it always seemed to just be a sweeter version of 7-Up.
I haven’t had any Dublin or Heritage Dr Pepper, but original DP was my favorite soda. The old stuff had a much stronger flavor, almost like if you got a fountain DP that had extra syrup and less carbonation. I haven’t tasted a good DP in decades.
Back when diet sodas used cyclamates, they tasted pretty much like the real sugar sodas. I drank a lot of Tab back then because it really tasted like a regular Coke. Cyclamates are the only artificial sweetener that I ever experienced that had a true sugar taste and no after-taste.