# How much Soda do you drink Today, compared to your teen and young adult years? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [December 12, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258 "2017-12-12T03:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/61 "2017-12-15T11:57:34Z")
About the same: I have soda once or twice a month. I didn’t like it any more than that as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/62 "2017-12-15T15:14:41Z")
I go thru about four liters a day–so waaaay more. I figure I’m poisoning my self with. . . something. Stay tuned. I’ll probably be a good case study on the long-term negative effects of diet soda some day. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/63 "2017-12-15T15:27:43Z")
I drank a fair amount of soda back in my teens and 20s. Now, almost none at all. I had no trouble burning off the calories back then. That’s not the case anymore, so I’ve long since given up sodas for calorie-free alternatives. Diet sodas taste like crap to me, so switching from sugared to diet sodas wasn’t something I even considered. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/64 "2017-12-15T17:40:16Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Today people are buying 3 liter bottles of Soda. Constantly refilling their glass all day. It goes flat fast in those big bottles and that encourages people to drink it quicker. That’s just not healthy. That’s actually one reason Mountain Dew was my soda of choice. It was the only one I found that didn’t taste like complete ass when it was flat or warm. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/65 "2017-12-15T17:59:48Z")
There was a time in my early 20’s I drank almost nothing else. I liked to fill a 32-oz cup all the way with ice, top it off with soda, wait a couple minutes for it to get super-cold all the way through, then drink the whole thing in just a couple of gulps. I would repeat this maybe a half dozen times a day. Now I buy a 20 oz. soda at lunch on Monday, and usually still have an inch or two left in the bottle when I leave the office Friday. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/66 "2017-12-15T18:36:08Z")
Almost none, I’ve mostly lost the taste for sugary drinks. Exceptions… Mixers in cocktails, especially ginger ale. Root beer with pizza. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law. (or should be). ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/67 "2017-12-15T19:40:19Z")
I’d say about the same amount (the occasional soda can). Unless carbonated water counts, in which case it’s a lot more (like two gallons or more a week). ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/68 "2017-12-15T19:51:13Z")
I drank a lot of Coke when I was younger. A Coke with lunch, a large slurpee on the way home from work sometimes, a Coke with supper, and two or three Cokes during the evening while surfing the net, playing games, whatever. Now I don’t drink any at all, because I have type II diabetes. (-: ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/69 "2017-12-16T06:15:27Z")
It was a special treat at our house growing up. We kids had milk or any of various juices. There was also Tang and Kool-aid and on Sunday we had sweet tea. Sodas were for parties. Coke, Sprite and Dr. Pepper with an occasional Tab for the diabetics. I drink about 2 liters of diet soda every day. At least. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/70 "2017-12-16T13:15:22Z")
Significantly less, that is, zero. Coke (no, not Coca Cola) was only consumed at parties or restaurants when I was a kid. I drank more at college because that was what was served at Chuck-n-puke Dining hall. I can’t stand coffee, so Mountain Dew and Jolt got me to graduation. I never cared for lemon-lime, so I would drink Mountain Dew and Coke if I was out of the house. I was fortunate to grow up with delicious well water, so that’s what I drink at home. At one point, I was forced to avoid caffeine, so I quit for five years, and when I tried again, I found them far to sweet and at the same time acidic. I seriously dislike the side effects of carbonation, so only ginger ale for an upset stomach; water and iced tea for every day rehydration. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/71 "2017-12-16T13:46:21Z")
> [@Gus\_Gusterson](#): > > I don’t drink any soda because I’m a grown man. Soda is a child’s drink… Anyone else picturing Gus sitting cross-legged on the floor playing X-Box, chewing Twizzlers, and wearing a baseball cap insisting to all that he’s a grown man and he can do as he pleases? 🙂 mmm ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258/72 "2017-12-16T15:07:36Z")
I drank soda a lot as a tween, and 13- 14-year-old, but I developed a weird aversion to it when I was about 15. I didn’t drink it at all for several years. Then, when I was 20, I was in the dorm in DC (Gallaudet), and the water in DC is just terrible. I used to drink a lot of plain water and tea, but plain water, and tea didn’t taste right. So I took up coffee, and started drinking soda again. I became a pretty heavy coffee drinker until I finished college; now it’s pretty much one mug (about 12 ounces) in the morning, and that’s it. I tried to give up soda again in my 30s to cut back generally on stuff that isn’t good for me, but decided I liked it too much. I did cut back a lot. I couldn’t stand diet Coke, but when Coke Zero came out, I decided I actually liked that, so now that’s what I drink. I drink less soda than I did in my 20s, but more than I did in my teen. I picked “the same,” in the poll, because I figure it averages out. Even though I drink it almost every day, I am really not a heavy consumer. I rarely drink more than about 8 ounces a day, and that has always been true. Considering how many people I know who drink 1-2 24 ounce bottles a day, I drink very little. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-soda-do-you-drink-today-compared-to-your-teen-and-young-adult-years/804258.md?page=3)