I don’t have as much interest in drinking soda anymore. It’s been several months since I had a Coke at a restaurant. I prefer iced Tea with lemon. I mix 1/3 sweet tea and 2/3 unsweetened tea at restaurants. I rarely make iced tea at home, unless my daughters are visiting. I’m just as happy with the filtered & chilled water from my refrigerator.
I’ll buy a six pack of IBC Root Beer during the summer and it will last a couple months. I almost never buy six packs of Coke anymore. Once in awhile I’ll crave one and will split a 20 oz from the vending machine with my wife.
I’m not sure why I lost interest in Soda. I’m not on a health kick. I just don’t crave it like I did during my teen years. Coke burns your throat as it goes down. I notice it more as I’ve grown older. Ordering a Coke with a meal was automatic during my tenn and young adult years. We always had a 2 liter bottle in the dorm fridge.
I said less because even in college I didn’t drink as much as Trump, but I suppose it could be significantly less. Today I have one can with lunch and maybe one after dinner. In college I had soda at lunch and dinner, and our dorm got shipments of 16 oz Coke bottles, in cases, from the bottling plant across the Charles.
I’ve resisted drinking more these days even when I was at work where we had free soda.
It is easier to substitute Iced Tea today. I don’t recall it being an option at the Burger places in the 1970’s. You could get Tea at restaurants. It was unsweetened and I hated trying to dissolve sugar packets in cold tea. Stir and stir and stir. The sugar still settled on the bottom of the glass.
I’m glad we have a choice of soda or tea at burger places today.
In high school and college, I drank at least two liters of Pepsi a day. That segued to Diet Coke when I became a diabetic, but I was still drinking it constantly. I had money issues a few years back and could barely afford to eat, so I stopped, and when the money started flowing again, I just never started drinking it again. Today a six-pack of soda will last me a couple weeks, and longer in cold weather.
Seldom drank pop as a teenager, drank even less as a young adult. I will occasionally have a root beer today and once in a blue moon something like Orange crush, or ginger ale if something like iced tea or plain water isn’t available. But I’ll often go for weeks without it, same as back in the day.
My wife drinks diet coke, so there is usually some around on the off chance I want a hit in my bourbon. But even then, it’s usually just like 10 or 12 diet coke molecules.
But having said that, even as a teenager I never came close to 2-liter a day consumption. I’m not a coffee drinker, so I almost always have a soda with lunch. Lately I’ve been trying to reduce that by only buying the airplane-sized mini-cans. So too much for me is more than one can at lunch.
I rarely drink alcohol. If my doctor told me I had to stop drinking alcohol completely it would be no problem at all. But I do love my soda at lunch time - cutting that out would be hard.
I beat Trumps diet coke addiction by about 4, I was bad. I went to zero several years ago because of acid reflux was killing me. Now I drink unsweetened tea. I know, I know southerners love their sweet tea. I just can’t do it. I make it all the time for the family. I rarely ever drink a coke now. It’s coffee, tea and lots of bottled water.
I also chose ‘other’ because there was no option for ‘none’.
I drank a fair amount of Diet Coke in high school and college (3-4 a day, I guess), but I gave it up completely at least 6 years ago. Now, if I want bubbles, I drink the occasional La Croix, but 99% of my liquid consumption is water and coffee.
Used to average perhaps 32 oz a day, and could easily drink 2 l in a sitting.
Now, I have 1-2 cans a week at most. Partially replaced by coffee, partially just trying to cut my sugar intake, partly I just don’t care as much. But in any case it wasn’t difficult. I do still like the taste and so have some on weekends, but I mostly drink water with a small amount of lemon juice.
It was an uncommon treat in my home as a kid, a couple of times a month and special occasions usually, and even when I got older it was rarely sold at school either, I usually got flavoured milk or fruit juice there. So I kind of went a bit crazy with it once I was an adult.
I’ve reduced a little over the past 20 years, slowly, but I still drink too much of it. As justification, Coke Zero is technically sugar-free.