This is slightly diverging from the OP but there is a local barbecue place that stocks a bunch of vintage/regional soda brands in glass bottles.
I had an iced bottle of Diet Cheerwine from there today and it was delicious.
Cola is an orange drink. It’s a brown-color orange-flavor drink. Except in countries where ‘cola’ is generic for ‘soda’, in which case it may be any flavor.
I don’t know what oranges you’ve tasted, but this is a ridiculous statement.
I don’t say that coca cola tastes like oranges. It tastes like orange drink - fanta, whatever, because it’s the same flavor base. Unless you’re talking about Cherry Cola or Vanilla Coke – they don’t taste like Orange Soda.
So it doesn’t taste like oranges and any mention of oranges for a non-orange drink is a ridiculous non sequitur.
It has an orangey flavor if you add Grand Marnier to it, which is really tasty.
Or if it’s the new Orange Creamsicle (?) Coke flavor.
(Which I bought because a store employee said “It’s really good with Cap’n Morgan.” He was right.)
Without the orange flavoring it tastes like …
… Coke.
I thought you were going to say ass.
Coca-Cola is not an orange drink. That’s crazy talk. If the “cola” flavor can be characterized, it’s more of a a caramel-vanilla-cinnamon flavor with a kick of multiple citrus oils. To the extent that there is orange in it, it’s completely subsumed by the other flavors.
In Germany they had Mezzo Mix which is coke flavored with orange. That and th orange vanilla coke they make here in the US now are the only ways I know for cola to have an orange flavor.
if Wikipedia is to be believed, it still uses extracts of kola nuts and coca leaves among other flavorings. Supposedly the extract of coca comes from a pharmaceutical firm after they’ve extracted all of the psychoactive compounds.
Ya, ünd zey do that mit der bier, also!
Saw an article about the history of the brand and thought of this thread.
“We paid €100 to make our faces look nice,” says Mirco, now 44. “We asked our neighbour to use Photoshop to create it, and we paid €70 for the brand registration, and we created our Fritz-Kola font.”
You mean, mit dem Bier ? Are you sure you are German? 
Not just Germany; Wikipedia tells us “Shandies are popular in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada”.
Hehehe, I read the same article. Thanks for the heads up, though.
I’ve now noticed Boylan’s in a few more places, so I’m going to go with Boylan’s as the hipster-focused third cola around here.
So Fritz-Kola (and also Afri-Cola) has 250 mg/L of caffeine, while Red Bull has 320. Makes me wonder, are there any extra-powerful Colas that fill or eliminate that gap? Club-Mate is only 200, for comparison.
This chart doesn’t answer your question, perhaps, but it’s fascinating – Caffeine chart | Center for Science in the Public Interest
I don’t look in the pop (yes, pop) aisle anymore, but I would assume it was Faygo, even if cola is probably not one of their best selling flavors, given that the flavors that they make that no one else does are almost certainly what they’re known for. However, I should mention that for years at Costco I got a 4 * 6-pack of Faygo, which had one 6-pack of Orange, Grape, Redpop, and Lemon-Lime, but starting a year or so ago maybe, they weren’t stocking it anymore. I ended up eventually getting a 24-pack of some craft root beer (that was probably way more expensive) once I ran out of Faygo for good (I always preferred restocking well ahead of time because of Costco’s known issues about sometimes being out of things - but the lack of Faygo went on for a very long time).
Of course, now I drink strawberry lemonade Bai much more often, but that’s another story.
So, yeah, Faygo.