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We've been talking about faith for so long we've forgotten a much more important question:

What is the Greatest Cola-Flavored Carbonated Beverage of All Time? (Or at least in known History.)  :drink:

In this corner, we have the original in a new cocaine-free formula. The one, the only, Coca-Cola!

And in this corner, we have the Challanger. That Patriotic colored (for U.S. and British voters) bottle of sweetness, Pepsi Cola!

And, what's that I here running into the arena? From Nehi to Cadbury, to the Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group and Cott Beverage company (depending on the region), the oft forgotten (but still tasty) early 20th century late-comer, RC Cola!

Oh, and now I see others coming in! King Cola, and Shasta Cola, and Vesp, and the dollar store band, and more! They're all here! Ready for the melee! Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the best cola of them all?  :wink:

Please explain your choice. (It's not much fun otherwise.) And happy thirst quenching!

Dunno, I almost never drink soft drinks, but then again I'm a vegetarian and (according to my mother) borderline anorexic.

Since I can't vote for Irn Bru I'd have to go with Coca Cola. If I am having a bourbon, Pepsi just doesn't taste right somehow.

You have to ask?  :wink:

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And not just because it's "RC" or endorsed by me-er-Bela. Mainly because it's cheaper. Only 89 cents a bottle!

You mentioned Nehi- boy that brings back memories! Back in 1970 we lived in 3 Mile Lake Trailer Park. Near the park laundry mat they had one of those old pop machines where the necks stuck out of the machine. all different flavors of Nehi. You put your quarter in and yanked out the bottle by the neck. But me and my brother Mike learned a trick-I put the money in he grabbed 2 necks and I grabbed one with my free hand-2 free pops! Plus a dime change! Woo-hoo!

As a Kentuckian, it pains me to see people put cola in their bourbon (though many Kentuckians do so as well).

Of course, I drink most of mine with ice, and there are many here who would be appalled at that. I have had upscale bartenders refuse to serve me a fine bourbon with ice.

I would mix cheap bourbon that wasn't good enough to drink straight with ginger ale instead (maybe even try ginger beer?)

Anyway, on topic, I only drink sugar free cola now (too many empty calories in soda), and Coke Zero is greatly superior to Diet Pepsi. Pepsi does have a new formula coming out, though. I grew up drinking more Pepsi than Coke, but never really cared which one I was served.

Still on topic- what do you call it where your from? When I was in New York-it was soda. Here in Michigan most-including me- call it pop.
But the when we lived in Indiana in 1969-it was soda pop.

Oh and Rev-I agree-whiskey should only be drank straight. (Of course I drink it straight out of the bottle...)  :drink:

If I am drinking a good whiskey then its water or ice. If I am drinking JD or Jim Bean then I don't mind adding something to that.

It seems like scotch drinkers don't usually go for bourbon, and vice-versa. Taste-wise do they have flavors that are highly different?

Coke is my personal fave.
This reminds me of the 80s taste tests between Pepsi and Coke.
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And hey, how come NEW COKE isn't a poll option?
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"Some women may find a roofie in their New Coke!  Dawwwwwwww!!!"

I go with Coke...any movie that features in a Jimmy Cagney movie has to be cool!

I like both, but I don't know my Scotch very well. Yes, the flavors can be very different. Bourbon is smooth and a little sweet, Scotch can be smoky and "peaty."

Soo off topic but a bartender in Amsterdam once tried to serve me Jack Daniels, calling it bourbon, and I said "that's not bourbon" and he refused to serve me anymore. I was thinking of real Kentucky bourbon, which has a list of requirements (most importantly aging in charred oak barrels), as opposed to Tennessee (or other) whiskey. In Europe they call any American-made whiskey "bourbon." I felt like a French wine snob.

To get back on topic, I also can't tell much difference between "Mexican coca-cola" (still made with cane sugar) versus American coke, although everyone else says the Mexican version is much tastier.

They do have very different flavours, although to be honest individual brands of both tend to have a big variation on flavours. Certainly the bourbons you get over here tend to be a bit smoother to drink, whereas scotch burns your throat a bit more. It's just a matter of preference.

Here in Texas, Dr. Pepper is the one soda that rules them all!
  (Or, for us aging and pudgy types, Diet Dr. Pepper!)

there was, at one point, a beverage called Cajun cola that was the g.o.a.t.

It's coke.  Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Mt. Dew... it's all Coke. 

As for the best, put me down for Dr. Pepper. 

I didn't know you were from Kentucky.  Maybe I just never paid attention.  I'm from Tennessee myself.  Tradition states we are now rivals.   :twirl:

Seeing as how we're on a bad movie site, can Tennessee boast a director as bad as Kentucky's "pride," William Girdler (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320852/)?

I am torn between choosing coke or pepsi, but I prefer Coke.

On the weird side-I've run into deep south hillbillys who call every pop "coke". WTF is with that?

It's coke.  Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Mt. Dew... it's all Coke. 




THATS what I'm talkin about-It aint all coke!  :buggedout:
Thats crazy talk!

Gotta go with Dr Pepper.

Never thought of Dr. Pepper as a Cola; it's it's own unique flavor. No kola nut in it.

Most brands offer both a cola and a DP equilivant. Ah well.

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regional cola. it tastes kind of like necco wafers

I thought of you over the weekend when I saw cans of Dr Pepper in our local supermarket: ZAR16.00 per can!  :drink:

It's not just backwoods hillbillies; even large cities call soft drinks Coke. I think it's just Coca-Cola's brand prominence down south; like Kleenex or Xerox in other industries everywhere else.

I usually use the term "soft drink" or "soda." Most people I know call it "coke," tho I've heard "pop" was the popular term decades ago.

On a side note, does anyone still call it "Tonic Water?"

Tonic water is its own thing, once used to prevent malaria, now drank almost exclusively the mixer for gin and tonics. It's on every supermarket shelf.

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Good to know.

In Lawton-it's POP. I never heard it called anything else. It's pop.
Of course Lawton is a very small backwoods town-and I've lived her my whole life,mostly.
I was born in NYC-but I was raised here.

Mountain Dew.  

Growing up in the 80s, my mom and her family were Pepsi folk. I like Pepsi enough. Don't dislike it at all. But was never around Coke. Tried that and whatever Cokes Mt Dew equal is (Mello Yello?) But Mtn Dew always tasted best.

Coke for me.  I normally only drink Pepsi products if I'm thirsty and have no other choice. :teddyr: 

I live in Philly and it's called soda. People from outta town stop in places and ask for Pop, etc, and it's like "It's soda here, but what flavor."

Gotta be Coke for me (Diet coke specifically), Pepsi is nice once in a while but there Diet and sugar free options are awful compared to Diet coke/Coke Zero...

...On a somewhat related note I recently tried Crystal Pepsi for the first time (Living in the UK where Crystal wasnt sold and also not being of age to drink cola or even exist when the original run of crystal pepsi came out meant that I spent a good 8-10 years absolutley baffled by the idea of a "Clear cola") but I managed to sample some of the 2016 re-release Crystal Pepsi...and after years of wondering what it tasted like I was bitterly dissapointed to learn that Crystal Pepsi basically tastes like Diet Pepsi with just a hint of Rubber Pool Toy...occasionally I got a hit of what tasted vaguely like Cinnamon but that was it...Definately wasnt worth the £8 ($10.50) I paid EACH for 2 bottles...Still...it was an experience xD

Should also say that if were talking more broadly about soft drinks that if push came to shove I am strictly a Dr. Pepper/Mountain Dew kind of guy...though I had to curb off my Dew habits recently as I was getting "shakes" xD Most definately a pepper though! god that stuffs nectar!

I'd just about rather die of thirst rather than drink anything diet or having artificial sweetener like aspartame in it. :thumbdown:

Coca-Cola. Though it's now mostly because of whiskey and Coke to cope through some Dingo Pictures nonsense.

i'm the other vote for RC. i can drink coke, but not pepsi,ever...an eternal debate between me and my hubby, so i have also learned to drink 7up, if necessary.
   and having grown up in a small town in massachusetts,it was called tonic when i was young. took me about 10 years of living in wichita to call it all pop. a soda is made with ice cream, inmy book.
   and for the liquor debate, i got thrown out of a bar once for forscing the bartender to admit that drambuie is SCOTCH, NOT BOURBON!  i even showed him on the label,he still threw me out. so i left and most of the crowd followed me and i bought a round of drambuie for all in the bar down the street where the very nice bartender was shocked that ANYONE could think drambuie was bourbon.