# Favorite fruit soda **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [March 24, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403 "2014-03-24T00:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/21 "2014-03-24T11:49:45Z")
Grapefruit, for the most part. I love Fresca and Squirt/Diet Squirt, and wish I could find the added-flavor variants (Fresca has a couple, including a sublime peach/grapefruit blend, and Ruby Red Squirt). Not a big fan of store-brand grapefruit sodas, though. Second are the Mexican apple sodas like Manzanita Sol and Sidral Mundet. Sidral does both the normal apple version and a green apple version that tastes like a carbonated Granny Smith. Always thought Apple Slice tasted a bit like alcohol, and don’t like Jones Soda’s green apple flavor. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/22 "2014-03-24T12:06:41Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > One of the great pleasures of living in Mexico was enjoying apple soda. Several popular brands – Sidral is just apple soda, but Mirinda and Cristal also have apple among their flavors. Odd it never became a popular flavor in the US. (Cristal also makes delicious strawberry soda, and barley soda, and a flavor they just call “black” which isn’t cola). > > In the Caribbean they make a nice grapefruit soda called Ting. Sidral is available in the States if you can find a Mexican Grocery. To me it doesn’t taste much like apple, just very sweet, but hey to each his own. Does it have to be carbonated? I have to confess a soft spot for Snapple Apple. It tastes only vaguely like apple but It’s really good. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/23 "2014-03-24T12:08:46Z")
Another vote for Fresca here. Mmm… grapefruit! ---
**Author:** ![Donegal\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Donegal\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donegal_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/24 "2014-03-24T12:38:19Z")
I have always liked Schwepps Bitter Lemon but am having trouble finding it recently. It is a mixture of lemon with quinine. Definitely for people who are not into too sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/25 "2014-03-24T12:44:27Z")
Really good watermelon, when I can find it. Tends to be a small bottler specialty. Good strawberry is a little easier to find. My daily tipple is diet cherry 7-up but it doesn’t really taste like a fruit soda. More like a slightly sweet light beer, which is why I like it. Used to love a Schweppes bitter lime even they made it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/26 "2014-03-24T13:33:57Z")
There are some nice flavors in the vietnamese store near my work. From all the different continents (except Ant). Some fruits I had never eben heard of. Some are kind of nasty… ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/27 "2014-03-24T14:03:52Z")
No Dr Pepper on the list? It’s marketed as a fruit-flavoured soda. Or at least, every can I’ve seen in Europe has the text “CARBONATED FRUIT FLAVOUR SOFT DRINK” (or the local equivalent) on it. (Here’s the back of a [UK can of Dr Pepper](https://lh3.ggpht.com/-gZM1IdTCGBU/Ty-cAhimz4I/AAAAAAAADo0/0tDlnuWWvo8/s1600/drpepper1.jpg) which has been exported to Israel.) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/28 "2014-03-24T14:35:48Z")
Dr. Pepper would be my second favorite after Fresca. I drink it a lot more often because it’s more available than Fresca. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/29 "2014-03-24T14:47:24Z")
I have always wondered why the mainstream U.S. market doesn’t have certain flavors. We have lemon-lime, but no lemon or lime sodas. I think a lemon OR lime soda could be great, done correctly. A good straight sour cherry would be good, too. Black raspberry (NOT red raspberry!!) would be heavenly if done right. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/30 "2014-03-24T14:57:02Z")
Thought of more- Winn-Dixie’s Chek house brand has a good green apple soda and a good black cherry. Kroger’s Big K peach soda is the best peach I’ve found. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/31 "2014-03-24T15:59:47Z")
San Pelligrino Lemon ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/32 "2014-03-24T16:03:50Z")
I don’t always (hardly ever) drink fruit soda, but when I do, I drink Strawberry Crush on ice on a hot summer day. Stay thirsty, my friends! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/33 "2014-03-24T16:07:16Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > San Pelligrino Lemon I like this one and the Blood Orange soda they do, as well. I’ve found that I tend to like European fruit sodas way more than the American ones - for instance, the Orange Fanta in Europe tastes way more like actual oranges than here in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/34 "2014-03-24T17:22:54Z")
Villa Italia grapefruit soda. Trader Joe’s sells it. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/35 "2014-03-24T17:29:51Z")
Black cherry … the absolute best! :o ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/36 "2014-03-24T18:59:24Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Does anyone make coconut? Or pineapple-Coconut? > [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Goya makes a Coconut soda that’s really good. There’s also Puerto Rico-based Coco Rico, all they do is coconut soda. Really wish I could find diet coconut soda but maybe that wouldn’t be as good. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/37 "2014-03-24T19:24:11Z")
Lime and peach ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/38 "2014-03-24T20:09:32Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I’ve never seen strawberry, grape or pineapple. > > I prefer lemon. Isn’t Crush available in all three flavors (as well as Orange)? I’m also familiar with Fanta Grape and Strawberry. > [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > There used to be a soda called ‘Apple Slice’. Slice had a ton of different flavors and that was my FAVORITE. The flavor really tasted like biting into a really good apple. That’s because Slice contained some fruit juice - even in diet (which was something like 10 calories per 8 ounces rather than “zero”). Anybody else remember Shasta soft drinks? They made an apple soda that had a decent apple taste. (They also made a diet apple soda that tasted nothing like an apple, but that’s another story.) Apparently, they still exist, but in not quite as many flavors; in some cases, this is a good thing (anyone who tried their diet chocolate soda probably agrees with me). ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/39 "2014-03-24T20:14:04Z")
Black cherry. It makes yummy floats, too! Unfortunately, I can’t find a diet version in my local grocery stores, so I do without. Alas… ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/40 "2014-03-24T21:09:59Z")
In order: Strawberry soda. Strawberry Crush is so good it’s the only soda I’ll swirl in my mouth just to get the aftertase. Pineapple, preferrably Fanta but Big Pineapple (tho pretty sweet) will do. Cherry Limeade (Frosty’s if you can find it). Orange, though it tends to be too sweet. Grape–this a flavor nobody gets right. Every maker of it tastes more like Kool-Aid then any grape I’ve tasted. When they were available, Pomegranite 7-Up and whatever flavor Green River was were instant buys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403.md?page=3)