Fairly mundane. I went to a large American supermarket this morning. The soda selection included:
Coke
Diet Coke
Cherry Coke
Diet Cherry Coke
Vanilla Coke
Coke Blak (wasn’t that discontinued?)
Mountain Dew
Diet Mountain Dew
Mountain Due Extreme
Diet Mountain Dew Extreme
Mountain Due Code Red
Oddly, what you cannot buy is Coke (or Mountain Dew for that matter) in a glass bottle. Go figure.
Mountain Dew also has three new flavors, all three being some sort of berry plus ginseng. There’s also Baja Blast, the Black grape one, and the Orange one.
Plus Amp.
Where’s the Coke Zero and the Cherry Coke Zero? My favorites.
If the store has an “ethnic foods” or “Hispanic foods” aisle, you can usually find the glass bottled Coca-cola there – it’s from Mexico and is actually still made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. It’s a special treat I will get for the kids occasionally.
And no Diet Caffeine Free Coke?
I can often find cases of this stuff at Costco. Sweet heaven it is!
It’s not an official flavor, but in the Balance Kitchen of Horrors[sup]TM[/sup], we recently created DrunCola. DrunCola is produced by adding large quantities of cane sugar to Coke Classic and fermenting the result like wine. The result was mildly alcoholic and surprisingly tasty, although we haven’t yet gotten it to (re)carbonate properly. (Credit–or blame–for the name goes to my niece.)
Jones Soda is also made with cane sugar, and their cola tastes a lot like proper cane-sugar Coke. Some of the other flavors are quite tasty, too.
Yeh, on the rare occasion I drink pop, I drink Jones’ Cream Soda. My son prefers Boylan’s root beer, as it is cane sugar, as well. We don’t drink pop often in the house – that’s why it’s “an occasional treat.” Most of the time, if there’s pop in the house, it’s because we have had or are going to have company over.
I just wish they made caffeine free cherry (or vanilla) Coke. I’ve only ever seen the diet versions.
Be sure to check the labels on made in Mexico Coke. I’ve seen some bottles labeled cane sugar, and some labeled cane sugar and/or HFCS. I wonder if it has soemthing to do with which bottler made it or maybe fluctuations in sugar prices.
And while we are on the subject, why is it the “Frederick Coca-Cola Bottling Company” outside of town with a coke bottle on the roof no longer bottles Coke? It seems to be some sort of warehouse now. It used to have a production line you could watch through the plate-glass window.
Yep, we buy Mexican bottled Coke by the case at Costco and or Sams Club.
Real sugar > high fructose corn syrup
MMMMMMMM… sugar
No Coke, Pepsi.
Pepsi, Pepsi
All you need is Coke Zero. Delicious.
I was a big fan of Pepsi One when it launched several years back; it must not be doing so well because supermarkets near me carry it less and less.
They didn’t have any Diet Coke with Lime? That’s the best of all. My liquid crack. (Well, except that I only drink one can every 2-3 days because otherwise I’d drink it all day!)
Coke Zero is repulsive. Any Coke product with Splenda is repulsive. So much icky sweetness it makes even regular Coke made with real cane sugar in the itty bitty bottles that my Grandpappy used to give us when we visited in my distant youth seem nearly sour by comparison. Blech to Coke Zero!
Please tell me more about this. Real Coke (Coke in bottles made with sugar) is something I’ve never seen at the local Costco, I have to go down to the Latin American grocers to buy it. If it’s generally available at Costco, I’m VERY interested.
Yes, they had coke with lime. I forgot that one. So something like seven types of Coke.
Is Coke Blak just Coke with double the caffeine? As opposed to Caffeine-free Coke?
What’s Mountain Dew Extreme?
Coke Blak is a treacly artificially-sweetened coffee-flavor and corn-syrup sweetened Coke blend. The coffee flavor is akin to that of a “Coffee Nip” candy. I think it’s got a bit more caffeine than a regular Coke.
I can regularly buy Coke in glass bottles in normal supermarkets. Most markets around here carry 6 packs of non-returnable 10 oz. glass bottles at a premium price. They even had replicas of the old pre-contour bottle a while back. (The Mexican bottles mentioned above are similar to the old 16 oz. returnables.)
Off the top of my head, you can get the following Coke-branded drinks fairly easily here: Coca-Cola Classic, Caffeine-Free Coke, Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Splenda (at some Wal-Marts), Diet Coke Plus, Diet Coke with Lime, Caffeine-Free Diet Coke, Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke, Diet Cherry Coke, Black Cherry Vanilla Coke, Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke, Coke Zero, Cherry Coke Zero, Coca-Cola Blak.
Interestingly, I saw last night that Pepsi has relaunched, for the umpteenth time, Lemon-flavored Pepsi and Diet Pepsi. Now it’s an NFL-themed “limited edition.”
So that would be:
Freaking ridiculous.
Coke Zero isn’t sweetened with Splenda. It’s sweetened with a mixture of two artificial sweeteners, aspartame and acesulfame potassium (ace-k). It’s chemically similar to regular Diet Coke (the variety NOT sweetened with Splenda) except it has half the aspartame and has 31 mg ace-k to Diet Coke’s 0.
It opens a .pdf, but it’s the best source since it comes right from the Coca-Cola company.