For some reason when I see a specific list like this I want to just go out and buy the 35 or so I haven’t had stick out my tounge and say so there like a 8 year old …
Am I the only one ?
I don’t drink soda’s hardly ever. But most don’t taste that great to me anyway. I prefer Pepsi with cane sugar.
Those are just regular sodas that make you fat by having a lot of sugar. Followed by diet sodas that make you fat by having no sugar.
No liver sausage and horseradish flavors to be seen.
That article is complete bullshit. I like or even love many of those. They weren’t even trying. Barq’s root beer, Mellow Yellow and lots of others are all great.
There is no mention of Moxie to be found although, in fairness, my New England raised daughter claims that she somehow loves Moxie. I tried to call bullshit on that one too by buying her a six-pack over the course of a weekend but she didn’t even blink so I guess she is telling the truth somehow.
There are definitely some nasty sodas out there. However, this article didn’t even try to find them.
I am not clicking through each one of those. But from the title, I thought that this was about worst-tasting sodas, not worst for you. Although I admit there may be some overlap, there.
I like Coke but only if it is sweetened by hand-cut, free range sugar cane harvested by a sustainable slave population.
I like a wee bit of aspertame in my Jack Daniels. Either coke, or more betterer, ginger ale, diet style.
The article doesn’t appear to know the difference between Tonic Water and Club Soda. Tonic Water runs 120 to 130 calories and is sweetened with HFCS. They declared (on the page where some other soda is referenced to have quinine) that Tonic Water is harmless. Their whole article can be reduced to “sugar bad.”
Wife is diabetic and asked me to buy her some diet tonic. “But you hate diet anything,” I protested.
“I figure the quinine will cover up the weird taste of Aspertame.”
Looking at the bottle I said, “Canada Dry agrees, so they use sacharrine. If anything can cover up the taste of that stuff it would be quinine.”
[Boldness added.]
Actually, it’s more like “sweet things bad”. I realize many of the anti-sugar and anti-HFCS advocates are genuinely concerned for the health and welfare of people but I can’t escape the suspicion that more than a few of them base their findings on the puritanical viewpoint that regards all things that taste good (especially sweet things) as bad for your body and soul.
I like Moxie as an occasional thing - there’s a store near me in Atlanta where I can buy it. It’s got a root-beerish thing that I like.
But I only drink soda once or twice a year at this point, when there aren’t other options at hand. My dental visits go so much better now - that alone is worth not drinking them (even with brushing and flossing as instructed, I was having major issues. I now haven’t had a filling in 5 years.)
Especially if they think aspartame is bad, despite it being one of the most-studied substances on Earth with absolutely no ill effects to its name if you use it the way actual human beings do, as opposed to lab rats. That’s just pure woo.
If you’re in Atlanta or Las Vegas visit World of Coca Cola and sample their 100 different Coca Cola products. Some of them are … interesting.
http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/explore/explore-inside/explore-taste-it/
Edited to add:
Does anyone delude themselves into thinking soda is a healthy choice? Moreover, the article seems to oscillate between OMG HFCS is horrible then says: " In other words, your body can’t tell one from the other—they’re both just sugar." Dumb article is dumb.
You know that’s not even an article, right? It’s a paid advertisement on MSN by the “eat this, not that” Web site.
I only drink diet soda. I don’t delude myself that it’s healthy, but I don’t find it harmful, either.
I’ve run into more than one bartender who had the same problem.
I haven’t drunk enough truly awful sodas in my 55 years to make much of a list.
I hate all root beers, even the highly rated ones. Other than that, I’ve tasted many sodas that weren’t very good, but hardly any that were flat out terrible. Even generic sodas are usually tolerable, though rarely enjoyable.
Barq’s was totally awesome, when you could only get it in and around Biloxi, Mississippi. The minute the Coco Cola company got its hands on it, it fully deserved to be on the worst list, along with all their other global-market shit. That was the inventor’s real name, by the way, Gaston Barq, ended with a Q.
Start with Moxie. You won’t even want to try any of the rest of the list.
But yes, it does have enough of a market to stay in production somehow.