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I know I am unusual, so here goes...Coke or Pepsi?
Neither. I don't drink carbonated beverages. I also don't drink anything with artificial sweeteners. No Powerade. No Gatorade.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
Soda
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
I drink black coffee or unsweetened tea in the morning, and unsweetened tea for all other meals. If those are not available, I drink water.
Bottle, can, or glass.
Glass, if possible, then bottle. I avoid cans whenever possible.
Anything else about drinks?
I don't drink alcohol. I try to limit sugary drinks of any kind. I will drink non-fat/skim milk on rare occasions.
What do you call carbonated drinks?Wasted calories, and the diet forms are awful IMO.
If I have to choose, though, it is Coke. Pepsi is too acidic for my stomach. And, I once had a roommate who drank 10-15 bottles of Pepsi a day, which made my stomach hurt.
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
Bottle, can, or glass
Water, I drink 5-8 bottles a day. But it must be ice cold. I keep bottles frozen in the freezer, defrost halfway, and then I have a bottle of water with ice in it.
In the morning, I have at most 2 cups of coffee. In the Fall and Winter, I drink tea after my fill of coffee, maybe 2-3 cups a day.
Coke or Pepsi?The only soda I like is probably Sprite. I'll drink others if it's the only thing available, but I rarely choose it. I don't even keep any soda at home.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
Spicy water ;) (That's actually what I call carbonated water.)
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
I don't eat breakfast, but I guess I have coffee or tea in the morning (and sometimes in the afternoon). I do a lot of
Bottle, can, or glass.
I don't have a preference, but mostly cans just because that's what the spicy water comes in. I recycle it all anyway.
Anything else about drinks?
I don't drink enough water. -_-
As I read this, I am drinking my "usual" - a cup of hot herbal orange tea sweetened with honey.I used to love coke (especially on a hot day) and loved coffee. I've given up all caffeinated drinks, due to health reasons. I've also learned to substitute honey for sugar and would like to reduce the amount of honey I use.
Around here, we call carbonated drinks "pop."
Coke or Pepsi? This includes brands made by each. Powerade vs Gatorade Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Fairlife Milk, Smartwater on and on.Diet Coke, pretty much exclusively as my carbonated beverage and also source of caffeine. I do occasionally spring for a Smart Water when out and about and I'm just tired of plain water. But I've scaled way way back how much Diet Coke I drink, replacing it with water. I occasionally make iced tea - unsweetened - using whatever mix of tea bags (often pretty fancy and exotic) I have in the house and I dislike the bottled ice teas. I really don't like sweet drinks. I also will do just seltzer, but prefer it flavored. In fact, I keep pomegranate or cranberry juice, even orange juice, around to flavor plain seltzer to drink when I'm tired of plain water.
I drink a lot of water these days.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
Soda.
Funny story - when I was in law school, I was in Buffalo, NY to attend a friend's wedding. There was a picnic/backyard BBQ on one of the days before the wedding, and when I arrived I was asked what I wanted to drink. I'm not that much of a drinker of alchohol and almost never beer, so I said I wanted a 'soda' (this was early 1980s). The host looked at me oddly and asked if I was sure that's what I wanted. I said yes and he proceeded to hand me a bottle of tonic water! I drank it as I didn't want to make a fuss and I also wanted time to figure out what I had said wrong. Listening for a while, I realized that 'pop' is what they consider carbonated drinks like colas, and 'soda' was the tonic water mixer or possibly seltzer too if they had that. It as a real learning experience.
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
First up is a glass of water. Then I switch to my caffeine choice of Diet Coke. Then I usually do water until late afternoon when I need another dose of caffeine to get through my evening meetings. Somewhere in there I might mix in a flavored seltzer or two.
Bottle, can, or glass.
Bottle with screw top, can if nothing else available. As a lawyer you learn to only drink out of bottles with tight caps that are replaced every time you take a drink. That's the result of having a cup of coffee or can of coke sitting on the table at a closing or document signing getting knocked over and ruining original documents. If someone comes in with a cup of coffee even if it has a lid of some kind, it has to sit on the window sill or credenza or even on the floor but not on the table. Bottles are all that I allow on my desk as I'm working.
Anything else about drinks?
I rarely drink hot beverages. I much prefer cold, regardless of outside temps, temp in house, etc. I have always preferred cold beverages, even as a young child and I really believe it is because I tend to be hot.
I dislike coffee - taste and smell. If I drink a hot beverage, it will be tea or hot chocolate. But that's pretty rare.
I talk a lot more about drinking alcohol than I actually drink. I am fine being the designated driver, LOL. I bartended in college and became quite disgusted with how people ruined really good alcohol with mixers, developing a taste for straight drinks or ones with few mixers -- though I do love a good Bloody Mary! In fact I developed a taste for Scotch on the rocks that's become a single malt snob preference. But I make that one drink last. I drink wine mostly with food, and the only time I drink beer is when traveling in Europe and there's no carbonated beverages that aren't super sweet to be had.
Although, as a student backpacking through Europe, I managed to drink a liter of Beer at a Biergarten in Munich .... Hofbrau House in Munich actually - and smuggle the 1L mug out past the door checkers! It was pouring rain and I had a big purse, put it in the bottom with the damp umbrella on top and all my other crap including Let's Go Europe guidebook, on top. No one else in the group successfully smuggled one out. That was 1976. I still have it - holds my wooden spoons and such.
I still mix some pretty good drinks though, sufficient that a friend and I started a tradition of Cocktails in the Park on Sunday during lockdown and the pandemic - we'd meet in Riverside Park and solve the world problems, have a picnic - year round - and we continue it. I have 2 large opaque water bottles that are perfect for bringing a cocktail.
Definitely Coke. Didn’t you work there for a time? They have their huge center in Atlanta. But many offshoots of that. My favorite go to drink in a restaurant is a mix of cranberry juice and ginger ale. I just love it.
Theresa - we match in favoring Diet Coke in the can. It doesn't taste the same in a bottle and definitely not at a soda fountain. I used to like Diet Coke with Lime but they stopped making it. Now I found I like Dr Pepper Blackberry (also no sugar). Also we match in not liking the taste of smell of coffee, and my husband is the same - no coffee ice cream, no mocha. I have replaced some of my diet soda drinking with fizzy water like Bubbly, Waterloo, and other brands. I should drink more plain water than I do.I drink hot tea in the morning. I like fruit flavors and have special ones I order - "Queen of Hearts" - Black Currant from St. Louis, "4 Red Fruits" from Kansas City, Blood Orange and Mango/Pineapple from Chicago and a fruity one called Tower of London from Harney Teas (I think based in New York State). I also like a basic black tea like English Breakfast with lemon, and Earl Grey. Never with milk and never with sugar. I drink caffeinated tea in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. In winter I sometimes drink herbal tea (also fruity) at night. In the summer or at a restaurant I will sometimes order iced tea with lemon. I usually don't order sodas at restaurants because I think they are too expensive and don't taste right.
I have never liked the taste of beer, though cider is ok and I can tolerate shandy if it is half lemonade. I learned to drink wine in Paris but never drink it at home, or any other alcoholic drinks. I just don't care enough about them, and neither does my husband. But we have several friends who are wine aficianados with cocktail hour daily. I order wine or alcohol in restaurants even less than soda because again I am too cheap. And I have a mantra about drinks/juices/smoothies in general - "I would rather chew my calories".
If I'm at an event, with a bar I will often drink gin & tonic without the gin, that is tonic water with lime. That's the part I like anyway. I don't have a moral objection to alcohol but it has never done anything for me other than make me feel dizzy and sick.
I grew up saying soda in the East, moved to Minnesota where it is "pop", then Wisconsin where it is "soda". My daughter lived in St. Louis which is the frontline of the pop/soda war. For more on this and many other regionalisms, I love the book Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide. It can pinpoint your location (or where you grew up) almost exactly.
Interesting that both Theresa and Robin say soda when I grew up such a short distance from them and said pop as a kid. Once I moved to California, I adjust some of my vocabulary. PE instead of gym class, tennis shoes rather than sneakers, dinner instead of supper, coke instead of pop.Like Joy, I no longer drink coke, soda or pop. We have a water filtration system so I drink that throughout the day.
For imbibing liquid my schedule is as follows:
Coffee, caffeinated with half and half about 1 1/2 cups before breakfast
Breakfast- a glass of milk
Lunch - water
Afternoon- continued sips of water
Dinner -glass of wine
After dinner - more water.
My fizzy drink of choice - with Sunday family dinner - is Bundaberg diet ginger beer (or ‘ginger bear’ as Little Miss used to call it). Very very occasionally I’ll have a Coke Zero when I’m out and desperate for some sweet flavour with my caffeine, but generally I avoid other carbonated drinks. Apart from the empty calories, I have to strictly limit my sugar because it plays havoc with my joints, and artificial sweeteners are bad in other ways. The morning is coffee, coffee and coffee (with milk). Thank goodness for the Nespresso machine or this little addict would get no work done.
After lunch, I switch to tea (English style black tea with milk). I do like fruit herbal teas (particularly blood orange) and love a good Oolong, but usually am too distracted to think about careful brewing, so a plebeian teabag in a cup tends to suffice. (Or ‘gumboot tea’ as it’s known here)
I enjoy wine, especially champagne, and love a good single malt whisky (strictly Scotch rather than other pretenders). But I actually rarely drink alcohol and when I do, it’s a limit of a single glass because drinking more ends up with me under the table. Cheap date. And I can’t drink at all if I’m going to drive. My husband is delighted - he has a near-automatic designated driver.
I've never liked cola nor pop (aka soda) either and haven't drunk any of that chemical stuff since I was young and had no choice, not including the below when I was under age 20.As a child I liked nearly flat orange and grape crush BUT it was the only brand we could get in my tiny community, so I have no idea if I'd have liked another brand.
Later mostly flat root beer, but the only root beer I'd like now if I drank it is Virgil's or any other that makes it the original way, and ideally organic. As a teen half flat Dr. Pepper or, horror of horrors, half flat Mountain Dew and 7-Up/Sprite (not sure if I liked one better than the other, but probably 7-Up) after it had been open a while.
We never buy pop/soda since my husband isn't a soda drinker (he's from back east, so he says soda) but he'll drink a beer on a hot day in the summer. For holidays we buy carbonated apple juice for everyone but me. As you may have ascertained, I've never been big on fizz.
One of my favourite airport signs is at the Chicago O'Hare airport in a concourse (can't find a photo of it online with a very quick search) that basically says you can have soda/pop in the morning and pop/soda in the afternoon (can't remember the order) because the term changes from east to west in the States. I stopped flying through there after an unpleasant night stuck there during storms.
My preference is Coke, and I usually call carbonated drinks "pop". But growing up, they were all "coke". To be honest, since I was pre-diabetic a few years ago, I alternate between Coke Zero and Pepsi Zero. Although, I really don't drink pop very often. One or two cans/month, maybe? (But now I think I want some... LOL!)
Oh, bottle, can, or glass? My preference would be a bottle, but mostly I can only find them in cans here. In a restaurant, obviously it comes in a glass. But I also prefer it with ice.
I try to drink water more, but it has to be super-cold. As soon as it starts to warm up, I'm not a fan, and will often switch. I like (Canadian!) iced tea. :-) I will not order iced tea if I'm in the US. LOL! I learned that when I was a kid.
For hot drinks, I do drink tea (no coffee) or sometimes hot chocolate. For maybe obvious reasons, I drink more hot drinks in the winter.
Oh, I don't drink alcohol at all.
I am not super fussy about this since I rarely drink any of them. I will drink any brand, because it's so rare I don't have a preference. If I am drinking something sweet I like the "designer" soft drinks. Vernor's is a favorite, but don't find that very often here.What do you call carbonated drinks? Pop
I will drink tea or hot cocoa in the morning. The rest of the day it's almost exclusively water. Still or sparkling, doesn't matter. Flavored or plain, both work. My doctor just told me I need to drink more water, so I am making an effort to do that.
Bottle, can, or glass. Doesn't matter.
LibraryCin wrote: "My preference is Coke, and I usually call carbonated drinks "pop". But growing up, they were all "coke". To be honest, since I was pre-diabetic a few years ago, I alternate between Coke Zero and ..."
I was shocked that Canada, with its British roots, only sells iced tea as sweetened Liptons in a can. I was never able to get actual tea over ice,
Amy wrote: "Definitely Coke. Didn’t you work there for a time? They have their huge center in Atlanta. But many offshoots of that. My favorite go to drink in a restaurant is a mix of cranberry juice and ging..."
I do currently work for one of the bottler/distributors of Coca-Cola as a Business Development Manager. I work for Coca-Cola Bottling Company United.
So, since I work for Coke, I only drink Coke Products. Dr. Pepper is the exception, as it is its own company and franchises rights. Where I live, Dr. Pepper is distributed by Pepsi but in areas close by, Coca-Cola distributes Dr. Pepper. You can tell by the shape of the bottle in the convenience store. Does the bottle look like the Pepsi bottle or the Coke bottle. I try not to bore y'all with my wealth of beverage knowledge.
I love milk. I drink a lot of it. Fairlife is the Coke Brand, but Aldi's sells a less expensive ultra pasteurized milk like Fairlife, so I drink that. I also drink Core Power when I work out, its a Fairlife Protein drink.
Coke Zero for me if I drink a soft drink, sometimes I will go with Pibb Zero. I have moved away from sugar drinks except the tea we make at home or a half and half tea (sweet and unsweet, not lemonade) out to eat. We make a pitcher of sweet tea almost daily. We refrigerate it so it's cold and we still pour it over ice. All cold drinks are served over ice even if it's already cold.
I drink room temperature bottled water, and I would say that is the majority of what I drink with meals. Water or sweet tea.
BodyArmor is my favorite drink. It's a hydration drink (I won't go into a sales pitch haha) but they do not have a good meal acceptable flavor.
I don't drink much alcohol. We keep some beer in the house but mainly for social occasions. I'm not a beer drinker. I like wine with a nice meal and which I knew more about it. My alcohol is a scotch on the rocks. Single Malt. I sip it and enjoy reading while I do. But I haven't even had a glass of that is a few months. Bourbon and brandy are acceptable substitutes and sometimes I'm in the mood for some straight gin. Gin is great when camping.
I prefer a 20oz bottle but that's probably because Coca-Cola beats the 20oz bottle in our heads. My segment of the business mainly sells bottles and is the most profitable package for Coca-Cola.
All soft drinks are Coke. "You want a coke?" "yes!" "What kind?" Real life conversations. Georgia is COKE!! Atlanta being the world headquarters for Coca-Cola.
Fun fact, Coke Zero and Diet Coke are two separate product with separate customer base. Coke Zero is the diet version of Coca-Cola. Diet Coke is a different formula. A different product.
Core power is a Coke product? I think we drink that in our house.
Robin P wrote: "I was shocked that Canada, with its British roots, only sells iced tea as sweetened Liptons in a can. I was never able to get actual tea over ice..."I don't like (well, they are ok) the canned ones (the premade ones). In a grocery store, you can buy powder to mix in with water yourself, so you can also control how much gets mixed in. That's the one I prefer (there may be only one brand that does this: Goodhost).
It's actually the Goodhost that I make myself at home that I prefer.
Jason wrote: "Fun fact, Coke Zero and Diet Coke are two separate product with separate customer base. Coke Zero is the diet version of Coca-Cola. Diet Coke is a different formula. A different product..."Oh, that's really interesting!
Amy wrote: "Core power is a Coke product? I think we drink that in our house."Yes, Coca Cola Brands
Coke,
Sprite,
Pibb,
Mello Yello,
Barqs,
Fresca,
Fanta,
Seagrams (just ginger ale)
Minute Maid (both breakfast juices and lemonades)
Dunkin Donuts (just distribution rights)
Dasani
Smartwater
Powerade
BodyArmor
Fairlife
Monster
Reign
NOS
Full Throttle
Topo Chico
Gold Peak
Peace Tea
Simply
Vitamin Water
Might have left a few
I've visited the Coca Cola tourist center in Atlanta - it was a really fun and interesting afternoon. I particularly loved the display about the Olympic torches. But what I want to comment on here is that there's this area towards the end where you can sample so many different Coca Cola Beverages that they sell around the world. I couldn't believe how overwhelmingly sweet most of them were! But still fun to sample so many different beverages designed for different cultures.
Theresa wrote: "I've visited the Coca Cola tourist center in Atlanta - it was a really fun and interesting afternoon. I particularly loved the display about the Olympic torches. But what I want to comment on here ..."I attended a corporate meeting there years ago. It's a cool place, even for those of us who don't use their products.
IF I drink a carbonated beverage it's Diet Coke or tonic water (usually the store brand, sold in liter bottles, but I did bring three 10-ox bottles of White Rock tonic water with me to the hospital... helps prevent / reduce leg cramps)
I grew up in Iowa saying pop, but when I moved to Minnesota the word soda was used there. I've moved back to Iowa now, and tend to use the words interchangably. And I'm a Coca-Cola girlie all the way - usually Coke Zero.
A few years ago I had a long layover in Atlanta. I went to a sit-down restaurant in the airport that I liked. When I asked for a Coke, they told me that they only had Pepsi products - that the airport had contracted with Pepsi. Whhaaaatttt???!!!! In ATLANTA????
Don't know if it's still this way, but this blew my mind. Pepsi must have made a deal with the devil to get the airport contract in Atlanta.
Doughgirl5562 wrote: "When I asked for a Coke, they told me that they only had Pepsi products - that the airport had contracted with Pepsi. Whhaaaatttt???!!!! In ATLANTA????..."Wow, that's crazy!
In the Atlanta airport 2 years ago, Coke was the default. I noticed because the other airports had only Pepsi products and I was sure Atlanta would be Coke. They must have won the contract back. Funny that nobody here said they preferred Pepsi. I always found the regular one too sweet and I've never liked the taste of the diet one. When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, we used to see ads on TV for Dr. Pepper - not a cola, not a root beer - and I thought "What is it?", since it wasn't available anywhere near me. Then I went to college in Minnesota and it was everywhere. Some years later there was a big ad campaign about Dr. Pepper coming to NYC.
It always fascinates me when I'm somewhere and you can only order in a restaurant chain or buy at a concession stand a bottle of pepsi (usually) or coke, that both are not available. I just experienced that on one of my flights to/from Santa Fe. I can't remember now if it was at LaGuardia or Dallas Fort Worth, but one of them only has pepsi at the concession stands. It's true of universities and colleges too - and when I ask about it they all say the same thing: an alum is a big shot for (it's usually) Pepsi and that's where the concession went - presumably in exchange for a hefty annual donation. Fordham University is Pepsi for that reason. Of course, I'm sure the same thing occurs with Coke but I don't notice it because I'm a Diet Coke drinker and only notice when I can't get it.
You know, one thing I notice from time to time in NYC - there's a hold-up in the diet coke deliveries and everyplace is out of it for a short period. It's not frequent but does pop up - there is plenty of regular coke and all the other products, including pepsi but no diet coke. That makes me think Diet Coke is the big seller at least in NYC.
LibraryCin wrote: "My preference is Coke, and I usually call carbonated drinks "pop". But growing up, they were all "coke". To be honest, since I was pre-diabetic a few years ago, I alternate between Coke Zero and ..."
Wow, that must have been local or for your province, because it was pop my my home province.
Robin P wrote: "LibraryCin wrote: "My preference is Coke, and I usually call carbonated drinks "pop". But growing up, they were all "coke". To be honest, since I was pre-diabetic a few years ago, I alternate bet..."
I was born and raised in Canada and have seen iced tea poured over ice zillions of times, including in restaurants. Which part of Canada were you in? It might have been specific to that area.
People made it all the time in the summer. These places don't use powder or cans! https://afternoonteaing.com/afternoon... and they are in business now.
But obviously fast food places don't have that, and I can't speak for all restaurants across the country.
When I saw the film Canadian Bacon, I thought the beer stores and the term "hoser" were made up just for the movie; it turns out those things are from the province of Ontario. I found that out when I moved to Ontario and had to eat my words.
Theresa wrote: "It always fascinates me when I'm somewhere and you can only order in a restaurant chain or buy at a concession stand a bottle of pepsi (usually) or coke, that both are not available. I just experie..."As Robin pointed out with airports, it's by contract. That's Big Business for you :)!
Karin wrote: "Wow, that must have been local or for your province, because it was pop my my home province...."In all honesty, calling all the pop "coke" when I was a kid... I don't even remember if that was common in town, as a whole, or if it was just my family!
LibraryCin wrote: "Karin wrote: "Wow, that must have been local or for your province, because it was pop my my home province...."In all honesty, calling all the pop "coke" when I was a kid... I don't even remember ..."
Aha, if it was our shared heritage, then that would make sense! My dad didn't say that in my memory, but I can see that sticking there.
Coke or Pepsi? This includes brands made by each. Powerade vs Gatorade Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Fairlife Milk, Smartwater on and on.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
Bottle, can, or glass.
Anything else about drinks?