Sampled the Green River lime soda last night. I had high hopes for this one since they listed lime oil in the ingredients. Sadly, it’s just too sweet for my taste(bud)s. Bundaberg’s is still the main contender in this race.
Does anyone know of a decent lime soda on par with San Pellegrino’s Limonatta? I want a good tart beverage without the neon dayglo nuclear waste coloration. Is this asking for too much?
PS: Scribble, I tried to warn you about the potential mastic flavoring in Limca, really I did. And would you listen?
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It’s not really all that odd, but it’s not something you find at the corner supermarket in most areas either - Orangina. Love that stuff when I can get hold of it. I especially like the little odd bottle it comes in.
Now, back the whole Moxie thing - having grown up in Massachussets and Maine (and, my folks summer in Union, Maine, where Moxie was first made!) Moxie was an almost daily treat when I was a kid. I’m now convinced that our elders got us into Moxie so that cough medicine and castor oil and chemotherapy medications wouldn’t seem to taste bad… It’s funny, I drank the stuff by the case when I was a little one, but if I take a slug of it today, it pretty much makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and my stomach starts doing flippity-floppies.
TVGuy, if you like Orangina, you’ll probably love San Pelegrino’s Aranciata (orange) soda. Like their Limonatta drink, it is made with natural flavors and extracts. Neither of them are so cloyingly sweet as Murican type soft drinks.
hajario, how was the Bundaberg’s Lemon Lime Bitters? I’m going to chill down one of those little suckers in a while as it’s a scorcher outside. Your impressions, please.
Really glad to hear that you liked the stuff, haj. Don’t quite know how I missed your post to that effect. I’ve yet to find anything that remotely approaches the quality of Bundaberg’s. Their ginger beer is rather respectable as well, but the lemon lime bitters is in a glass by itself. Thanks for responding.