Squirt is available anywhere here on the west coast. I like grapefruit flavored drinks a lot. Even better than Squirt is Izze grapefruit.
http://www.izze.com/
I remember the old A&W drive-ins were often shaped like giant barrels. My hometown had one. I can’t seem to google up a photo, though, which makes me doubt my own memory.
I liked Faygo “Rock and Rye”. I wonder what it actually was because it didn’t taste like anything else.
That’s big over here, too.
Just about all the kids–and some adults–in Caribbean Colombia drink Pony Malta. There’s also a Russian malta I’ve seen in stores here, called something like “Kbac.”
I’m surprised Cactus Cooler is still around.
A-Treat, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, also has some unusual flavors, including raspberry, black cherry, and pineapple sodas.
I, for one, still mourn the passing of Rondo, a sort of Solo clone marketed for awhile in Texas at least.
As for Big Red, folks in Waco are still sore about being deserted by Dr. Pepper. I figure they’ll keep making Big Red forever, out of spite if nothing else.
Mmmmm, Fanta. It’s Nazirrific! 
Yeah… it’s a nice story, but I’m pretty sure it’s not true. I’ve seen people liken root beer to cough mixture before, but they seem to be trying to explain the strange, sort-of-medicinal taste it has, without having a name for it. I’ve never found cough medicine here that actually tastes of root beer.
I’m pretty sure that the objectionable flavour in root beer is the wintergreen component, which I’ve never come across here in cough syrup (or anything meant to be taken orally). It is an ingredient in antiseptic ointment and liniment, though, and that’s what most people will associate with the smell and taste, even if they can’t quite put their finger on it.
Some people (e.g., my wife) find licorice and anise highly unpalatable due to childhood associations with an antiasthmatic.
Me, a number of meds were flavored with licorice, the flavor and sometimes even the smell are nauseating to me.
A lot of Star Trek fans were deeply disappointed when they tried “Earl Grey Hot” for the first time. Bergamot is used as a medicinal flavoring here.
Pop The Soda Shop has an awful lot of the brands mentioned here including Cel-Ray and Moxie, and they ship. Makes the sodas not cheap, though.
I find licorice unpalatable because it is licorice.
Last fall I took a vacation to the States with a truckload of Norwegians, and my eldest son and I got them all to try root beer. A couple of them liked it, but the others were unanimous that it tasted like toothpaste.
Is Euthymol toothpaste popular in Norway? That has wintergreen in it.
Nope. Don’t know of a single toothpaste here with a wintergreen flavor. If they used another term, they said it was minty, but none of them said minty like chewing gum - they all said minty like toothpaste.
Oh, well, more for me.
You mean besides Life Savers, Rolaids, and the like?
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My favorite type of soft drink is birch beer. Birch beer is related to root beer, but instead of the root extracts, etc., birch beer is/was brewed using oil of birch bark.
It turns out that the oil is almost identical to wintergreen oil and I will say that the fragrance and flavor are wintergreeny.
My current favorite is Boylan’s brand Creamy Red Birch Beer. They make an excellent brown birch beer, too. It is stronger, but not as smooth.
When I said “here” I meant in the UK, where I am. No Life Savers, no Rolaids.
I’ve lived in Pittsburgh my entire life, and have hardly ever seen sarsaparilla sold anywhere, nor anyone drinking it.