I’m always buying Safeway brand Cola, which I find tastes like Coke.
I also like their Dr.Skipper, which tastes close enough to Dr.Pepper.
(It sounds odd, doesn’t it? Like you aren’t very health-conscious. Also comes in Diet Skipper, which sounds like it has extra calories, not less.)
When I’m broke, I buy wal-mart Sam’s Club sodas because it’s only 25 cents a can out of the machine, 2/3rds less than Coke… their cola tastes really bad but Dr Thunder (their version of Dr Pepper) isn’t that bad.
Not a store brand, but… I am the only person I know who likes to drink RC Cola…
As far as cola goes, I only buy Coke or pepsi as I find the others taste like crap. But as far as lemonade and the other flavours go I normally buy the store brands as they don’t taste too bad at all and saves you a fair amount of money.
If you want proof that COnsumer Digest isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, read the “special” issues where they rate soft drinks. They invariably claim that every supermarket/generic cola is infinitely better than Coke and Pepsi (ha!).
I’ll never be thirsty enough to drink generic colas.
I’ll drink the generic brand of any soda except Dr Pepper. Now people may say that Mr Pibb or the store brand tastes the same or close enough but that is just not true. I can taste the difference and it’s different enough for me to dislike the knock-off brand. I went to the store on Friday and stocked up on sodas and bought generic of everything and then also bought a 2-liter Dr Pepper.
I used to drink them when there were more diets on the market in generic, and usually I preferred the ones which used sodium saccharine as a sweetener.
Now I am addicted to Dt. Mountain Dew, which is only available in generic pop with sugar (hate that sugar aftertaste).
I kinda like the Meijer’s brand stuff, except for the cola. I do prefer Coke, but if I’m going on one of my monthly grocery shopping sprees and I’m going to stock up, I’ll buy the cheaper stuff.
I like all the extra flavors you get with store brands, like Pink Lemonade, Pineapple pop(not juice), Iced Tea, and Raspberry.
The only one store brands do really bad is rootbeer. It’s like they have no clue at all, and it’s one of the oldest flavors, so there must be a million free recipes available.
Yes.
I like to buy W/D brand soda’s from time to time because they’re cheaper, plus often taste better than some of the main brands. Like their lemon/lime soda doesn’t have like 8 tons of L&L in it. so it tastes a bit lighter, and to me, more pleasant.
I liked coke until they packed it in plastic bottles, which, to me made it loose some flavor. It comes in glass bottles also – but a small 6 pack at Walmart is over $3!! I also enjoy the different flavors of store brands. It often reminds me of the good old days when Nehi soda was out in force and the favorite of all of us local kids because of the different flavors.
Nehi needs to be in the hall of fame somewhere.
Root beer, however, if in a store brand, I tend to avoid. It seems watered down and I like good rootbeer. A&W brand. Birch beer is hard to find now days. So is celery soda and sassafras. I like brand name ginger ale, mainly Canada Dry and Vernon’s (Vernon’s has a bite to it). I tried some fruity flavored soda from Mexico - in the Mexican section – and decided that they don’t like things either very flavorful or sweet.
There is/was a brand of root beer on the market that is made the old way, where they use yeast to create the carbonation. I tried some and it is good! There is a faint, yeasty after taste that is quite pleasant and the soda is very good – but I can’t recall the name. I think it came from over seas, like the Bahamas. They have ginger beer, (soda) like ginger ale, but with a lot of ginger in it that will definitely get your attention.
I still miss the good old soda fountain soda, mixed right there from the spout, served over crushed ice in a big, heavy clear glass! None of the premixed stuff they have today.
Cola - no
Root Beer - depends on store brand
Cream Soda - yes
Black Cherry - yes
Ginger Ale - yes
Seltzer - yes
Sometimes, especially Sam’s Choice stuff. But I prefer the REAL thing…Coca-Cola…or Dr. Pepper. MMMMM, Excuse me while I go get a Dr. Pepper…
We’re lucky in Michigan. We have a very high quality, cheaper brand of pop. Anybody else out there have Faygo?
It comes in a bunch of different flavors. And, apparently, has been immortalized in some song or songs by a band from Detroit called Insane Clown Posse, because the younger brother of a friend I visited in Arizona recently begged me to bring him some Faygo for this reason.
Me too!
Somewhere along the way (I must have been trying to lose weight), I switched to drinking diet Mt. Dew and diet Coke. When I tried to switch back, the regular version were WAY too sugary.
I am a route salesman for Pepsi and have discovered the following things over the past 15 years:
Store brand pop (not soda, I’m from the midwest) varies greatly in taste and quality, even tho some of it is produced by the BIG bottlers.
I, of course, prefer the taste of Pepsi, but will not hesitate to order the “other” cola in a restaurant.
Children do not have the sense of taste that adults have and therefore will drink anything labeled “pop” and be satisfied.
Generally a person’s pop preferences are no longer bound by brand loyalty, but by price… whatever’s on sale, they buy! And if the big guys aren’t on sale, the store brands fly off the shelf.
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I usually buy generic myself. I’m not a big pop drinker, so I don’t notice enough of a difference to spend more on the major brands. Sometimes the Dr. Pepper isn’t quite as good, so I’ll buy the real thing there.
It must just be a Michigan thing. I have loved Faygo forever. Any flavor, I love it, (except for that blue stuff, I’ve never been able to understand how anyone can like it.)
Did ICP do a cover of the “Faygo” song?
“Remember when you were a kid,
well part of you still is,
and that’s why we,
drink Faygo”
I have been known to drink Ralphs brand soft drinks. (Ralphs is a large supermarket chain in S. Calif.) Ralphs cola is OK, but I prefer Pepsi. I have drunk their grape soda, and other flavored sodas, which are fine.
Once in a while I like RC, as well. (Just like racinchikki!) In fact, for a while RC had a sort of “vintage” version - put in long-necked bottles, and it seemed to have a different taste to it. I really liked it, and I can’t find it anymore.
Funny, someone mentioned Mr. Pibb…it was considered a “delicacy” in our household when I was growing up. My family couldn’t find it in LA County (well, not anywhere we looked) but we saw it when we were on vacation, either out-of-state or in Northern CA. So we’d always bring back a six-pack or two. It tasted fine, but that wasn’t why it was a “delicacy” - it was because we couldn’t get it locally. So Mr. Pibb was Big Deal to my family while I was growing up. I still think of Mr. Pibb with fondness today.
Growing up in Ontario, I liked the Faygo Red Pop, and Rock & Rye and ginger ale.
In central PA our local authorized beer store in Williamsport (Mid-State Beveridge Co., IIRC) sold Faygo. Personally, though, I preferred A-Treat, especially the orange flavor.
Now that I’m in the UK, though, my favourite is Marks and Spencer “American-style” cola. Still expensive at 50p (~75 cents) for half a litre, it also doubles as a migraine cure if you take it with your prescribed medicine of choice.
Good news! Diet MD is now available and it rocks!
I used to drink tons of brand x sodas, but since having to change over to diet, I can only handle Safeway/Von’s Select diet orange, black cherry or cream soda.
…and howcum I can’t get diet grape or fruit punch anyway?
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