It takes you two hours to drink a glass of soda? Wow. My soda doesn't even get a chance to prove its freshness potential for that long.

But I do always prefer it in a glass as well, if not for freshness, because it stays cold for a longer time in a glass.

Anyway, this thread is cracking me up... all this serious discussion on soda. Everyone's got their own name for it, their own philosophies regarding it, etc. Such a diverse subculture of the bubbly. :p

"When I first moved to CA (from Michigan), that's one of the first things people would notice. All my life it was "pop". Now, after 25 yrs. I've been saying "soda" so long that when I go back to Mich., I laugh when they say "pop.""

TIS,
I have the same experience. I grew up in Northern Ohio (Go Buckeyes-Beat Michigan) and have lived in TN for 20 years.

And now for your viewing pleasure, I found this site that has old tv shows on video, but also old commercials. For my more "mature" peers, you'll even see "Speedy" the Alka Seltzer puppet and you can even buy "Sky King."

About halfway down the page is my favorite Dr. Pepper commercial with David Naughton, who went on to be "The American Werewolf In London."

There's a coke commercial I haven't checked yet, but was hoping it was "I want to teach the world to sing."

Commercials

TIS

A Green River in the bottle...another suppressed memory the BB has recovered...you couldn't beat it.

Now it's all two-liter plastic and I believe the plastic along with the bad habit of not replacing the cap tightly that has led to soda pop that doesn't keep or age nearly as well as bottled soda with a crown cap. In fact, I still buy I.B.C. Root Beer in their six-pack of bottles just because I believe it tastes better than anything in plastic or cans.

Better yet, install a fountain and get pre-mix from your local soft drink distributor.

tony b.

I still say no. In my house the cap is notorious for being screwed on too tight, which often leads to very bloody wars.

As for the plastic, it was never glass to begin with, it was always plastic. The soda going bad after a while is something
new I've noticed. As I said, I believe something is added into the drink to prevent stockpiling during sales.

Or maybe some preservative was taken out, for the same reason.

I was cracking up about the cap starting bloody wars... It's true, I always get yelled at about my flat soda too. I guess people like their soda the way they like it, and no other way.

Try Boylan's if you can find it, storing it in glass bottles makes the world of difference (i only buy coke in glass bottles, expensive, but you can taste the difference) also, Boylans uses more natural ingredients like cane sugar, not high fructrose corn syrup, again, it matters... boylans is a great for those of us who grew up with Brookdale soda which was delievered to the house daily just like milk (now i am showing my age, this was the 70s)

You had a soda man and a milk man?? I thought my grandmother was the only person who had a soda man. Did you get the seltzer with the nozzle?? I LOVED those bottles. And the orange soda was made with REAL orange juice!!!

I don't know if it was Brookdale or not... there was a soda in the mid-80's that I ONLY ever saw at work, and it was great! Brookdale, not sure... it began with a B, tho. lol

Coke sucks, I don't care how they deliver it! I'm a Pepsi man... and I actually prefer RC (and that B-cola) over Coke. At least the drinkable Coke.... lol

You suck. Coke (the cola) is awesome!

RC > Pepsi > Generic store-brands > Coke

Give me a Code Red anyday.

Coke is the original, and, the most widely recognized logo in the world... even in some of the most remote parts of the world... but I guess that is an argument that will go on forever... I can tell you I am fond of coke for many reasons, most of which, when I got to a small remote village in sicily where my mother was from, i went to the corner bar (the only one in the region) and they served me coke in a glass... somehow, something you have been drinking all your life suddenly takes on different meaning... all depends on your surroundings... As for the seltzer bottles, we had some old antique ones, but by the 70s they started using C02 cartridges, and the soda man and milk man were in Bloomfield, NJ, we didnt have that further up in the suburbs of Caldwell... there was a vegetable guy too that came by everyday... ah the good old days!

I love RC and when I go to México that is all they have and Squirt how can I forget about Squirt.

Today I drank a few cherry cokes for the first time in awhile. I hardly drink soda at all anymore. Water is the best.

caffeine Free Pepsi for me since my fiancee is prego. Wild Cherry Pepsi is also very good.

It's pop around here.

Glass or cans only.

Plastic tastes like shit.

I don't see 7Up too much anymore, that used to be great.. i guess sprite just muscled it off the shelves... as for cherry coke, for me, that is basically Dr. Pepper, which i LOVE with rum!

Do they still make Moxie in New England? It is God-awful, but the natives used to love it.

Dr. Pepper is the greatest soda EVER...and it makes for a great mixer with Crown Royal.