This - not overly fond of colas, but I find ginger ale reasonably palatable.
Class it up and use Squirt as a mixer.
“Do you have Canfield’s Diet Chocolate Fudge?”
“???”
“…and keep 'em coming!”
Do it, MOL!! Then when the bartender asks, “Squirt?” you can get all offended.
I actually recoiled just reading that. How drunk were you when you tried this?
I drank a bad bad thing
I’ll drink Diet Pepsi in place of Diet Coke, but I certainly prefer the Coke.
Pretty damned drunk. Freshman year college. I hated gin. Needed to mix it with something. Only fizzy drink available was cream soda. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Somehow, I did not vomit, but it wasn’t like the happenstance meeting of chocolate and peanut butter you saw in those old Reese’s commercials.
What do you call a gin and Squirt cocktail? I spent three weeks drinking them at a Dublin, OH hotel bar and the bartender kept calling them Gin things. (I think that’s what she called them?) (I think it was Dublin, OH?) It was a really long training school.
A squint.
I have no idea! I’ve never had one that wasn’t poured out of the back of someone’s pickup at a tailgate party, or at the kind of bar where most of the patrons’ parents are cousins.
They’re good though, right?
They were very good. Not too sweet or hard, like whiskey and cola drinks.
This situation is increasingly irksome to me. I would prefer a caffeine-free Diet Pepsi (Coke is also acceptable), but no, I always have to choose between a caffeinated diet cola or a caffeine-free fructose-laden drink (usually Sierra Mist or something of that ilk). The ONLY place I’ve found that offered a caffeine-free diet option is the food court at HyVee stores. (I’m sure there are other exceptions but I haven’t found them yet.)
I have always been baffled at the hardcore Coke/Pepsi partisans. The two brands just aren’t that different to me. I have noticed that most of my “Coke or nothing” friends seem to be southerners, and their Coke loyalty seems to be tied to their strong regional self-identification.
I agree 100% with your first point, I have even written letters- why a place could have EIGHT different soft drink flavors and none of them be sugar & caffeine free is beyond me. One place (Camera 12) even has Coke Zero and Diet Coke, which are nearly the same.
I agree 90% with the second point. Only about 60% of drinkers can even tell the difference. Oddly of them, 60% prefer Pepsi (poll numbers vary of course). Even hard core COKE!!! drinkers usually can’t tell or would prefer Pepsi if it came in a red can.
Now, I can tell the two apart, but once you add a lime or lemon wedge, Diet Coke is perfectly OK by me, even tho I slightly prefer Diet Pepsi.
I drink water, or iced tea. I don’t care for soda, any flavor. I will drink Diet Coke in the summer, though, when I start dragging in the afternoon heat, but only for medicinal purposes!
Gin and Squirt? Try sloe gin and Mountain Dew. It’s ever so much better than it sounds. Mix it half and half.
The situation is different depending on if it’s just me.
Walk into a store, feeling like a pepsi max and they only have diet coke? I’ll get some other, non-cola drink.
In restaurant with friends, you only have ammonia with brown food colouring? Sure, whatever.