# Unusual soft drinks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [April 10, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885 "2011-04-10T18:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/61 "2011-04-12T19:26:03Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > Pocari Sweat! Tastes like its namesake! _pukes_ > [@carnut](#): > > I like Inca Cola. I assume Aztec cola is similar. > > A favorite of mine that can be hard to find is IBC’s Cherry Limeade. It’s a rare treat for me. I like Inca Cola too but I don’t get it too often. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/62 "2011-04-12T19:39:05Z")
I have tried bunches of specialty sodas from gift shops and out of the way places. Most of them have been good or not very memorable so I don’t know details except for things like watermelon something or birch beer. The only one that really stands out for me as well is Moxie and, unfortunately, it isn’t that rare around here. I would prefer if that nasty shit went extinct once and for all so I wouldn’t ever have to look at it on a store shelf again. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/63 "2011-04-12T22:49:06Z")
I used to love “Squirt” (grapefruit flavored soda. Unfortunately, it seems to have vanished from New England. Dr. Brown’s celery soda is pretty weird-it really does taste like celery-the question is…why? ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/64 "2011-04-12T22:59:52Z")
While traveling in Italy, I found a love for [La Limonata](http://green-24.de/bio-feinkost-delikatessen/product/9/65034/Campari-Lemonsoda-La-Limonata-Lemon.html). It’s basically sweetened, carbonated lemon juice. You can get some other branded versions at World Market, but it’s not quite the same. Love that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/65 "2011-04-12T23:38:21Z")
There’s an excellent orange soda here called [Green Spot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Spot_(soft_drink)). ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/66 "2011-04-13T01:31:51Z")
In Epcot I tried an Italian coke product called Beverly. It was vile. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/67 "2011-04-13T03:03:19Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > In Epcot I tried an Italian coke product called Beverly. It was vile. That’s a common experience for people visiting the Coke exhibit where [it’s often tried on a dare.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_CSJ7ecnI&feature=related) It should be mentioned that [Beverly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_(drink)) is [an apéritif](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap%C3%A9ritif) and not meant to be guzzled down like your typical soft drink. I tried Beverly when I was at Epcot. To say it’s an acquired taste is putting it mildly. Still, I liked it better than Moxie. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/68 "2011-04-13T03:07:27Z")
I love Ting, it’s a Jamaican grapefruit soda and the most awesome thing ever on a hot day. I’ve occasionally found it here, but rarely enough that it’s always a treat. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/69 "2011-04-13T06:12:52Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > I love Ting, it’s a Jamaican grapefruit soda and the most awesome thing ever on a hot day. I’ve occasionally found it here, but rarely enough that it’s always a treat. Hey mon, pass me dat Ting™ What ting? Dat Ting™ right over dere, mon. Which ting are you talking about? I see a whole room full’a tings. DAT Ting™ RIGHT THERE, MON! Gwon wit dat, you bumbaclot . . . ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/70 "2011-04-13T06:40:09Z")
¡Colombiana! ¡La nuestra! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/71 "2011-04-13T06:52:44Z")
Japan has Pepsi White. It’s Pepsi! With yogurt flavoring (or yogurt in it, sources differ). ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/72 "2011-04-13T07:32:44Z")
Discovering the Jamaica/Sorrel connection, only ever having drunk the Egpytian Roselle as sweettea, I pondered upon other “[Sorrels](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorrel?show=1&t=1302679836)”. Which is really any sour juice? I wonder what other sorrels there are? Anbody made a sorrel beer, yet? Well, If they don’t, they will now. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/73 "2011-04-13T17:24:54Z")
I had a brown-bottle ginger beer at the sandwich shop in Colonial Williamsburg a few weeks ago that was fantastic–dry and very spicy with a sludge of grated ginger at the bottom. My sister thought it was vile, I think it’s the best I’ve ever tasted. I really can’t understand the love for Reed’s, especially with the pineapple juice… blurgh. Seconded on the Inca Cola assessments. I couldn’t have a Cuban sandwich without it, but it does taste like “not quite right bubblegum”. I once had an arinchiata-type drink that came in a tiny, dark glass bottle, similar to the original Thai Red Bull. It was very bitter, probably more intended as a digestif or something, and tasted like orange oil. I wish I could find it again. The next time I saw “arinchiata” on a drink menu, I was bummed to get my drink and find out that I’d paid five bucks for canned OJ (the San Pelligrino arinchiata). I love birch beer and will never pass up a chance to try a new microbrew cream soda or ginger ale. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/74 "2011-04-13T18:57:10Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I am in the midwest, I’m sure I might be able to find Jamaica somewhere, but I haven’t been there yet. Did you know that “Jamaica” comes from “Jamaica Flores (Flowers)”. Jamaica is quite the western hemisphere producer of hibiscus… known as “sorrel” there. If you know anywhere around you that has a Mexican population, check to see if they sell Jarritos-brand soft drinks. They’re pretty much ubiquitous here in Chicago, don’t know what their availability is out where you’re at. [This is what the bottles look like](http://www.donjuliomexicanrestaurant.com/attachments/CropImages/76f90a3efdbe700a4072654206aaa865.jpeg). They have a Jamaica flavor. As for brewing with hibiscus, yes, it’s been done. I made a Belgian white ale flavored with it last year, but I know I’ve seen commercial breweries do it as well. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/75 "2011-04-13T19:00:34Z")
Inca cola. It tastes just like bubble gum. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/76 "2011-04-13T19:17:51Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Those seasonal novelties Jones puts out. One of my favorite passages about the Jones Soda holiday flavors, from [this taste test](http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0920/): > [@](#): > > Everything is a facsimile, but when we’re talking about facsimiles of green bean casserole in liquid form, it’s still an idea **gross enough to warrant throwing up eight times with flailing arms.** Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/77 "2011-04-13T19:38:01Z")
I had Moxie in a restaurant while traveling and liked it but was never able to find it in stores. My ex and his family lived on Malta, but I just thought it tasted like liquid bread or thick non alcoholic beer. Does the kumquat drink mentioned actually exist? I’d love to try that. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/78 "2011-04-13T19:41:22Z")
Grass Jelly Drink. It was given to me at my last job by a Chinese customer who told me it was very important to drink it with a straw. It came in a can with a picture of grass and what looked like a bowl of black… jelly on the front. I didn’t have a straw so I just took a sip off the top. It tasted of honey more than anything, cloyingly sweet but not too bad. Then on my break I got a straw, put it in the can, took a big slurp… And got a mouthful of what I"m assuming was the grass jelly in question, which had the consistency of cooked egg white (I can haz barf smiley??) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/79 "2011-04-13T19:52:54Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Canfield’s Diet Cherry Chocolate Fudge. Like drinking a chocolate-covered cherry. I’ve never had the cherry, but [Canfield’s Diet Chocolate Fudge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield's_Diet_Chocolate_Fudge) was pretty popular when I was a kid. And I remember it being not-awful. I always wondered why they didn’t make a non-diet version, but it seems the whole idea was to offer a calorie-free chocolate fix. Apparently they still make it, but I haven’t seen the stuff in many years. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885/80 "2011-04-13T20:22:51Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > Grass Jelly Drink. It was given to me at my last job by a Chinese customer who told me it was very important to drink it with a straw. It came in a can with a picture of grass and what looked like a bowl of black… jelly on the front. > > I didn’t have a straw so I just took a sip off the top. It tasted of honey more than anything, cloyingly sweet but not too bad. Then on my break I got a straw, put it in the can, took a big slurp… > > And got a mouthful of what I"m assuming was the grass jelly in question, which had the consistency of cooked egg white (I can haz barf smiley??) If we’re including non-carbonated beverages that come in a can under “soft drinks”, there’s also the [Thai basil seed drink](http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Basil_seed_drink.jpg/60px-Basil_seed_drink.jpg), which looks to me like frog eggs suspended in a milky white liquid. It’s not bad, but it’s certainly _different_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-soft-drinks/577885.md?page=5)