Steve, I haven't drank any soda in twenty-five years or more.  I switched to flavored water for a while, but during the Great Recession it got too expensive for me, so I gave that up as well.  Now, I drink a lot of water, ice tea, and coffee, but with the price of coffee getting so expensive, I may have to give that up as well.  

I’m a diet Pepsi drinker. Have been for many years. I used to drink regular Coca Cola but then an article came out saying colas of any stripe decreased calcium absorption for the bones. Being over six-feet tall and gangly I decided that I needed all the calcium I could get. Years later I read a clarification on the study for that previous article and it stated the calcium concern was centered on women. By that time I was a bit older and there is a family trait (mom’s side) of being tall and slim but getting a belly. 
 

Now, as a Gay man out and about I had no interest in falling into the family trend. So when I started drinking cola again — Diet Pepsi filled the bill because it tasted better than Diet Coke. People would ask me why I drank diet pop when I was so skinny? I thought the answer was obvious: I wasn’t downing sugary drinks all day and risking the look of that rounded belly. 

Ick. I can’t drink sugar-free anything; they taste horrible. As far as colas go, I think I remember a long ago TV commercial where people chose one of Coke, Pepsi, or Royal Crown (RC). If I were to part in that commercial, I’d have been edited out. I can’t tell the difference from one brand to the next. So I’m happy drinking whatever’s cheapest. Sam’s cola, you win.

All the diet sodas taste like crap to me.  I love me some Big Red...  But truthfully, rarely drink any soda, just sort of stopped drinking them, no particular reason.  Water, Tea hot or iced, and a variety of juices tend to be my go to.

As always, thanks for the look back at the past week.  

Never have I ever drunk a glass of cola.  Whoops wrong game! Used to be a big Fanta limón fan but now go with Schweppes limón cero.  Strong flavour of lemons and sugar ‘free’.   

I can't stand coffee in any form, and I am from a family of bitter black coffee drinkers without any sweeteners. When my mom had her first cataract surgery, they had to reschedule because she was so jittery from not having her multiple cups of coffee prior...go figure, and the last thing she did was to have a cuppa just before bed...

I was an inveterate Coke drinker for years as my morning cuppa...When I was told to lose weight, I tried Diet Coke, and I loathed the metallic taste so bad I swore off carbonated caffeine and became a grump. When Coke Zero came out, it was a blessing from the caffeine gods. It is a drink far superior to the pretend wanna be, Diet Coke...hands down! Leastways, that's how I see it here in the center of the universe, Central Massachusetts...

As an aside, we had frigging snowshowers yesterday, so I lit the woodstove and hunkered down with a couple of good reads...

Oh...I nearly forgot, last week's Wall St Journal had a very timely article on the Coke Zero vs Diet Coke debates...

Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero: Inside the Soda Civil War - WSJ

1 hour ago, drsawzall said:

As an aside, we had frigging snowshowers yesterday, so I lit the woodstove and hunkered down with a couple of good reads.

Yes please! We went for a short walk with the evil wieners at the beach. Car temp was 36°c on return.   And it’s not June for another six hours! 😱

1 hour ago, centexhairysub said:

All the diet sodas taste like crap to me.  I love me some Big Red...  But truthfully, rarely drink any soda, just sort of stopped drinking them, no particular reason.  Water, Tea hot or iced, and a variety of juices tend to be my go to.

As always, thanks for the look back at the past week.  

Yay, a fellow crap-hater. And I hope you mean Code Red. It’d be hard to drink chewing gum. But what’s funny, when I drink Code Red, the Big Red jingle always pops into my head.

I drank Diet Pepsi growing up but once I was able to buy my own soda, I started to drink Dr. Pepper.  I stopped drinking soda entirely when it started to cause issues with my teeth, and I haven't been able to stand it since.  It just tastes too syrupy.  

2 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

I don't drink pop anymore

My favorite pop was 

Found the northerner.  

In the cola wars, I prefer RC Cola (once known as Royal Crown).  Coke Classic is okay.  Pepsi has too much caramel color in it for me.  But I usually drink Mountain Dew.  I also like pomegranate juice and fruit juices with blueberry or cherry in them.

On the diet front, I will sometimes drink Diet Dr. Pepper or Diet Mountain Dew, but I have to limit myself to one 12 oz can per day due to sensitivity to Aspartame. 

I've said my piece with you already @wildone, you never listen. That's why you stay in trouble.

All of it is ick. Addictive icky nonsense. I said what I said. 

@Krista, get well soon.  Hope it isn’t caused by fizzy drinks! 
🥰 

I let my mood speak for me 

I drink Pepsi Max, no ice, no lemon!  
 

If a restaurant doesn’t have Pepsi I prefere regular Coke.. no ice, no lemon thank you very much! 

6 hours ago, Lee Wilson said:

Yay, a fellow crap-hater. And I hope you mean Code Red. It’d be hard to drink chewing gum. But what’s funny, when I drink Code Red, the Big Red jingle always pops into my head.

No, I mean Big Red Soda...  It is truly a Texas or maybe slightly a Southern drink.  I rarely see it out of this region.  I love to make a ice cream soda with it.  A big frosty mug of vanilla Ice cream with the Big Red poured over it...

Give the choice of colas, I take Diet Pepsi if available. Otherwise it's iced tea (unsweetened)  or water.