Cola

Craig1981 · 2 Jul 2019 at 23:17

Cracked open first can of Coke orange vanilla. Its quite nice. Good blend of orange and vanilla flavours

roccles · 3 Jul 2019 at 09:44

Don't often drink fizzy drinks but when I do fancy one I do like Fentimans Cherry Cola.

CircleFaust · 5 Jul 2019 at 11:31

i tend toward Coke Zero these days, pepsi max is pretty good though
good stuff

Vexr · 5 Jul 2019 at 12:05

Have to agree that Pepsi Max is the tastiest. It's surely far more popular than the cherry version - I've found Pepsi Max to be low or out of stock several times while the Cherry Pepsi Max shelf is practically overflowing. Personally I hate the latter and it seems I'm not alone.

I seem to go through cycles of addiction to Pepsi Max, sometimes ending up drinking 2L+ of it a day in busy high stress times. I know it's filth and am glad to currently be detoxing from it on my week off.

esoteric · 7 Jul 2019 at 22:39

esoteric said:
I've been calling Pepsi MAX ambrosia for years. It's my favourite soft drink and nectar of the gods.

Last time I had it Tesco Xero cola was very nice. BARR also do a Cola you can find in Farmfoods, 2 bottles for £1.50 and it's very nice too.

These days I mostly drink water with 1 or 2 cups of coffee or tea in the evening. Prices went up in 2016 after Brexit vote, no more £1 bottles of 2L Pepsi MAX from ASDA, and despite being sugar free after the sugar tax prices went up again.

I need to amend this. I bought some of the Tesco Xero cola yesterday that I mentioned in my previous and quoted reply and it's nothing like I remember, it's actually very very meh, tastes flat, very little fizz.

Craig1981 · 9 Jul 2019 at 07:02

I've started drinking Pepsi max raspberry. I love the taste

Bubo · 9 Jul 2019 at 12:51

Pepsi Max raspberry also just arrived in my local Asda, only in 1.5L bottles mind, although currently discounted so it is actually cheaper by volume than a 2L bottle of the normal stuff. Agree it is absolutely fantastic. My patented watering down method also works with this, half a glass of Raspberry and half of normal pepsi max, and the flavour hardly diminishes at all. Might do be doing this regularly if it stays in 1.5L bottles long term.

uvarvu · 10 Jul 2019 at 13:44

I never thought I'd say this but I think the new raspberry flavour is better than the cherry.

Mr.Q · 10 Jul 2019 at 21:31

Can we all agree that Dr. Pepper is the king of colas?

esoteric · 10 Jul 2019 at 22:52

Mr.Q said:
Can we all agree that Dr. Pepper is the king of colas?

Is it actually classed as a cola though? also you should be busying playing Sekiro by now.

Craig1981 · 10 Jul 2019 at 22:58

esoteric said:
Is it actually classed as a cola though?

I've never heard it described as a cola.

Mr.Q · 10 Jul 2019 at 22:59

esoteric said:
Is it actually classed as a cola though? also you should be busying playing Sekiro by now.

So according to Quora its not a cola, you learn something new every day.
Let's just agree that it's the king of soft drinks.
Also, does this make you my first stalker?

esoteric · 10 Jul 2019 at 23:18

Mr.Q said:
So according to Quora its not a cola, you learn something new every day.
Let's just agree that it's the king of soft drinks.
Also, does this make you my first stalker?

Looks that way doesn't it, but no, I've posted in here previously

now stop wasting time and go save Japan. And Pepsi MAX is best.

Mr.Q · 10 Jul 2019 at 23:24

You could have played along, having a stalker was doing wonders for my ego.
Pepsi max can have the top cola spot, sure, but the one and only king is Dr. pepper.
Will go and buy Sekiro now, thanks for getting me back on track.

Akagi · 11 Jul 2019 at 15:34

Just had a diet coke. It tasted very watery and sweetenery and the aftertaste left in my mouth is reminiscent of chewing gum which you have chewed for far too long. Not the best!

Nitefly · 11 Jul 2019 at 16:54

Had some Fettimans curiosity cola the other day. Hmm sort of tasted like the cola bottle sweets. Was alright. Still a Pepsi Max man <3

Akagi · 11 Jul 2019 at 17:11

Nitefly said:
Had some Fettimans curiosity cola the other day. Hmm sort of tasted like the cola bottle sweets. Was alright. Still a Pepsi Max man <3

They've even reduced the sugar content in that massively, despite it being a deliberately niche oldy worldy product.

Efour · 14 Jul 2019 at 16:30

Not many ginger flavoured drinks available here that don't fit into the health/lifestyle bracket hence a ludicrous premium.
Pepsi Max Ginger has satiated my cravings

Of all the Zero sugar cola drinks Pepsi is miles ahead of the others on taste and consistency.

Psycho Sonny · 17 Jul 2019 at 18:06

i bought a bottle of fentimans i remember having it 5 years ago or around then. will see what the new one tastes like but pepsi is the clear winner for taste. the green coke was good don't see it much anywhere now. it used stevia.

irn bru was king until they changed the recipe. in fact most recipes have now changed. the sugar tax needs to go. if people can't understand fizzy drinks are full of sugar then tbh they deserve the consequences. rubicon mango tastes awful now, need to buy deluxe to get the old recipe which still doesn't feel quite right but much better than the new recipe.

Efour said:
Not many ginger flavoured drinks available here that don't fit into the health/lifestyle bracket hence a ludicrous premium.
Pepsi Max Ginger has satiated my cravings
Of all the Zero sugar cola drinks Pepsi is miles ahead of the others on taste and consistency.

asda now do a still ginger in their fridge "fruit juice not from concentrate" range and it's £1 per litre.

i mainly drink it with vodka / rhubarb and ginger gin rather than on it's own.

Blackjack Davy · 22 Jul 2019 at 11:14

omnomnom said:
Lidls version is seriously close to Pepsi Max if anyone hasnt tried it. £0.39p a bottle aswell.

Co-op diet is 59p tastes a little bit different but your taste buds adapt very fast. Its also 1/4 of the price of Coke which is obscenely expensive.