# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/41 "2014-03-24T22:01:49Z")
Pineapple soda? What that is??? Is that a Jaritos flavor? I think 50/50 is kind of a grapefruit thing, and grape soda always seemed too much for me. I voted orange. If lemon/lime (7 up) was a choice, I’d have made that one. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/42 "2014-03-24T22:04:11Z")
I always use pineapple soda in my fruit dumpling recipe (otherwise called Cinnamon Crack Buns). The original recipe called for Mountain Dew. Someone upthread mentions cherry-lime. I didn’t think of that, but it shares my vote with fruit punch. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/43 "2014-03-24T22:15:29Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Dr. Pepper would be my second favorite after Fresca. I drink it a lot more often because it’s more available than Fresca. Dr Pepper is often my soft drink of choice because I like the taste and it contains caffeine. But I think it tastes like almond rather than fruit. I chose “orange” in the poll because I like that flavour too and because I didn’t know Dr Pepper could be considered an option. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/44 "2014-03-24T22:29:29Z")
Diet Cheerwine (cherry flavor; carbonated; lots of caffeine). ---
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/45 "2014-03-24T23:25:24Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > 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.) There are a lot I didn’t include on the list (peach, for instance… yum!), I just listed the four I thought were most popular. Dr. Pepper I would rank as a fruit flavored soda. Growing up we all called it carbonated prune juice. ---
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/46 "2014-03-24T23:27:34Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > 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. Where do you get Pineapple Fanta? I can’t find it anywhere, even those Coke freestyle machines that have several flavors but no pineapple! Grrr ---
**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, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/47 "2014-03-24T23:35:43Z")
> [@Gretchion](#): > > Where do you get Pineapple Fanta? I can’t find it anywhere, even those Coke freestyle machines that have several flavors but no pineapple! Grrr You usually find it in glass bottles in Mexican stores, though my local Walgreen’s is now carrying it. When I went to South Texas seven years ago it was all over the place. And to whoever mentioned Cheerwine thank you! Not only did it taste great but it was perfectly carbonated. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/48 "2014-03-24T23:58:52Z")
If I thought of black cherry in the same category as the others I would have put that. Stewarts or Doctor Brown’s. Instead I picked orange. About once a year I get a craving for an orange soda. Black cherry I could drink everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Henna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Henna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henna)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/49 "2014-03-25T00:57:32Z")
fruit punch ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/50 "2014-03-25T03:08:13Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > 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. True. Student Driver mentioned Manzanita Sol; that’s more apple-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/51 "2014-03-25T03:22:06Z")
Liiiime. Pineapple’s good, too, and ain’t nothing wrong with orange or grape. Haven’t had strawberry soda in decades. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/52 "2014-03-25T06:36:55Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > 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.) FYI: that label says “ **Cola** -flavored carbonated beverage”. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/53 "2014-03-25T14:46:53Z")
> [@Gretchion](#): > > Where do you get Pineapple Fanta? I can’t find it anywhere, even those Coke freestyle machines that have several flavors but no pineapple! Grrr I usually see it in 2-liter bottles at local grocery stores here in the Chicago suburbs. Jewel-Osco always has it and I’m pretty sure our Super Target has it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403/54 "2014-03-25T15:00:34Z")
If I’m not drinking Dr. Pepper, I’m drinking Squirt. Fresca is ok, but it has a kind of aftertaste I’m not real fond of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fruit-soda/684403.md?page=2)