I am a die hard soda drinker, and there are a lot of areas for debate in the world of carbonated soft drinks. Soda or pop? Coke or Pepsi? Diet or regular?
What I am curious about today is your preferred method of beverage delivery. I have been buying two liter bottles more and more lately, because they are cheaper and there’s less to recycle. When I am being super virtuous, I stick with the Sodastream, because there is no waste and bubbly fruit juice is better for me than soda. However, I can not deny that my absolute favorite drink in the whole world is a cold Mountain Dew in a can. The hiss and crack of opening a can, that first drink of cold sweetness, it’s like nothing else.
How about you? Tell me about your favorite way to enjoy a frosty beverage.
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2ltr bottles. I never buy cans or single serve bottles. I have to have it in a glass, over ice.
Pepsi from a can. I hate drinking pop out of plastic bottles, for some reason.
If I’m buying for the house it has to be cans. If I’m grabbing something from the 7-11 while I’m running around, anything non-diet in a glass bottle. I swear it just tastes better in a glass bottle, whatever it is.
Fountain soda or GTFO.
Best: cold Coke in plastic bottle straight from the fridge, with ice. Though I really don’t want more than half of it cos it makes me burp for hours. Sexy.
Can. Alright, you can’t move around with it that much, but it’s a tiny cold present. Bottles are ..too efficient.
I get cans for my lunchtime Coke because otherwise I’d drink way more than 12 oz. Sometimes I’ll pick up a 2-liter root beer to have a glass with dinner because they’re cheaper than the 20 oz bottles at Stewart’s and that’s just silly.
Diet Coke in a can, the colder the better. So good! It’s just not the same out of bottles… it’s not as “crisp,” if that makes sense. Next in the hierarchy would be Diet Coke out of a soda fountain, then plastic bottles dead last. Far, far below the Diet Coke hierarchy are things like Diet Pepsi and Coke Zero. A while ago when we were trying to save money, we started buying store brand diet sodas, and they were generally awful.
I prefer glass bottles because that is what I grew up with in Africa. What I liked about their system is that you would buy a crate of soda (which I think was 20 bottles) to bring home. After drinking all the soda, you would bring the crate and empty bottles back to the store, which gave you a slight discount and the empties were sent back to the bottling factory where they were sterilized and reused. I think it’s a great system!
Oh I used to looove the glass returnable bottles when I was living in Belize for a while, they were all scratched and whatnot from so much reuse. Plus pretty much every other country I’ve lived in used real sugar in their sodas, making them taste infinitely better. Or maybe it was just the cold glass bottles on the 95F days…
Cold glass bottles are soooo nice on hot days! :)
Agreed. I’m not much of a soda drinker, but I loved the pineapple fanta in glass bottles that I had over in Africa. I drank way too much of that stuff.
Pineapple Fanta! That was a rare flavor in my area, but I loved it when it popped up! :) SO good!