# Cola With Lemon and Lime
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** soda-softdrinks
**Created:** [June 24, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785 "2022-06-24T18:49:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/21 "2022-08-03T15:37:11Z")
What is virgin rum? Virgin Islands Rum?
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Or just any cola – citrus oils are one of the basic flavors of the beverage, with different brands having more or less emphasis on it, or certain on specific citrus flavors vs others (like Pepsi is more citrussy than Coke, but both have citrus.)
I’d always read that they’re essentially spiced citrus sodas, in much the same way that Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb are both spiced cherry sodas, so adding lemon or lime is just changing the balance more than it’s adding new flavors.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/22 "2022-08-03T15:47:18Z")
Dr Pepper is more almond, but that’s a flavor we associate with cherries, too (like Maraschinos).
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/23 "2022-08-03T15:54:11Z")
> [@bump](#):
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> What is virgin rum? Virgin Islands Rum?
No, a virgin drink is one without alcohol. To get a diet coke with lemon/lime wedges he orders a virgin rum & diet coke. It’s a joke, sort of.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/24 "2022-08-03T16:00:41Z")
Thing is, they actually do have non alcoholic rum. And, no, I have not tried it nor are my expectations high. They are supposed to be, from my understanding, used primarily in mixed drinks. I can see a non alcoholic gin working maybe. In my experience NA beers have gotten to being good, NA wine is just god awful from what I w tried so far, and I haven’t even touched the NA spirits.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/25 "2022-08-03T16:14:57Z")
I just finished a 12-pack of Dr Pepper cream soda. It was really good, but I didn’t see it again when I went to the supermarket yesterday. I hope it hasn’t been discontinued.
My dad spent a lot of time shmoozing in cocktail lounges, even though he was a teetotaler. (He was pals with some entertainers.) He took me with him sometimes, so I was introduced to Shirley Temples at an early age. (They were occasionally called Hopalong Cassidys.)
I now keep Grenadine, cherry syrup, and vanilla extract in my pantry, so I can mix my own kiddie cocktails whenever I want.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/26 "2022-08-03T16:18:16Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> In Las Vegas, some bartender tried to convince me there was a specific name for diet cola with lemon or lime
They may have been confusing it with the drink that is made up of Coke, Rum, and Lime juice, which is called a Cuba Libre.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/27 "2022-08-03T17:16:39Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> . (They were occasionally called Hopalong Cassidys.)
Or, as I knew them in my youth, Kiddie Cocktails.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/28 "2022-08-03T17:39:46Z")
No, they were not confusing these with ones containing rum. Now I’m trying to remember what they call Cuba Libres in Cuba. I think the bartender was perhaps either trying to coin a new word for diet cola with added flavour, or be pretentious. But maybe he was parroting something he was told - it’s not like I know if there is a word used commonly, and it is hardly out of the realm of possibility.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/29 "2022-08-03T19:59:49Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> I just finished a 12-pack of Dr Pepper cream soda. It was really good, but I didn’t see it again when I went to the supermarket yesterday. I hope it hasn’t been discontinued.
I’ve been buying it for a long time now, and it’s still available. I only buy the zero sugar version, though.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/30 "2022-08-04T01:16:57Z")
Finally, an apropos moment to reference [one of my favorite—or at least, most imprinted-upon—Pit threads of all time.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332) (And I mean “all time”, good heavens, that thread from November 2001 is almost old enough to have alcohol in its cola instead of citrus.)
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> # [You put de lime in de Coca-Cola…](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-put-de-lime-in-de-coca-cola/93332)
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> > [@Lightnin](#):
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> > … NOT LEMON! […]
For 20+ years I have been humming that song parody line whenever I add citrus (lemon or lime, I am not a purist on the matter) to cola.
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785/31 "2022-08-04T01:36:15Z")
That was 21 years ago?!
Fffffffffuuck I feel old, now
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