Conference back40::soapbox

Bottled or canned - Classic Coke - always and often.

On draft - Regular Cherry Coke.

-Jack
   (One-time soda jerk who knows how to make a cherry coke from scratch)

  Where in New England (preferably Mass or NH) can one get coke/diet coke in
  glass bottles?  (or even Dr. Pepper in bottles?)






 Jim

Now there's a poser. I haven't seen any carbonated beverage
except IDC Root Beer in a glass bottle in years, Jim.

Re: <<< Note 236.1 by MOLAR::DELBALSO "I (spade) my (dogface)" >>>

>>   (One-time soda jerk who knows how to make a cherry coke from scratch)

Cherry Coke or Pomegranate Coke?  (cherry syrup or Grenadine?)

                                Roak

Jes plain old cherry.

    	I'll drink whatever people are serving.  (Beggars can't be 
    	choosy.)  :^)
    
    	Most times one doesn't have a choice.  In a restaurant or
    	fast food or bar or whatever, they have only one or the other.
    	It doesn't matter to me.
    
    	If I have a choice, I'l take whatever is already opened.
    
    	I prefer Dr Pepper, or Root Beer.  Actually I prefer cream
    	soda, and even more I prefer sarsparilla, but those two are
    	rarely choices that are available.

Coca-Cola or nothing.

 re .3


 Notice how on all the commercials they're drinking from glass bottles..pullin'
 them out of big buckets full of ice...that's when I really get a hankerin'
 for one of them things..



 Jim

    I Canada, Diet Coke.
    
    In the U.S., Fresca.

I am Pepsi-Cola in a Coke town.  It's great, they practically give Pepsi 
away down here.  $1.29 for a sixer sometimes.  I discovered a RC Cola 
machine at a shopping center recently.  I hadn't had it in years.  RC may
be better than Pepsi and Coke.

Paul

    
    Do we still sell Fresca here?  I haven't had it since high school, and
    that was in England.
                  
    Give me freshly brewed iced tea any day, no sugar, big hunk of lemon, 
    and certainly not the Lipton dreck in the cans 8^p.
    

    I know a lot of females enjoy the tatse of my very special coke.

    
    What's a tatse?

    
    
    Re .13.
    
    Dougz,
    Me finks your tellin' porkie's mate. Those females tell me they
    could'nt pull the ring off the can , when it did come off it"tatsed"
    flat, and smelled like rotten cheese!!!!!
    
    
    Keiff.
    

    
    
    BTW.
    
    I'm a Pepsi Max man myself!!
    
    keiff.

    re.14    My finger slipped ya bam.8-)
    
    Dougie

    
    What's a "bam"?

    To elaborate on "bam" it is Scots dialect short for "Bam-pot" which
    basically means "yerawankayatoolthityiur".Judging by your relpies,I
    think you come into this catagory!!!!8-)))))))))))).

    
    What are "relpies"?

    re-1 
    Full circle go back to .17 8-p
    
    

    re-1
    Not that I was implying (sp?)that full circle is your name 8-).

RE:  <<< Note 236.12 by POWDML::LAUER "Little Chamber of Warm Moist Rogering" >>>

    
   > Do we still sell Fresca here?  I haven't had it since high school, and
   > that was in England.
    

    We have it in the vending machine at my church.

              
  >  Give me freshly brewed iced tea any day, no sugar, big hunk of lemon, 
  >  and certainly not the Lipton dreck in the cans 8^p.
   
   Yes! (though I prefer sugar).



 Jim 

    
    Dougie, pet, your spelling has improved already 8^).

    Shaw's store brand cola is better than both Pepsi and Coke. Reminds me
    a lot of RC cola. Would love to know who is bottling it for Shaws. Plus
    it is much cheaper-sometimes $1.88 for a 12 pack. The price stays down
    because they don't spend millions on ads as do Coke and Pepsi. What
    does interest me though is how many people who shop there haven't even
    tried it. 

    First choice - Dr. Pepper, second Mountain Dew, third Pepsi,
    fourth cream soda, fifth ice tea, as you can see, I usually
    go through a few options before I'm left with no choice
    but Coke. The only think I'll pick it over is root beer,
    and I HATE root beer.  Diet Coke is slightly better, though
    I don't like Nutra-sweet.
    
    Mary-Michael
    
    

    Coke. Coke. More Coke. The breakfast of programmers. Sometimes, I'll
    drink IPC Root Beer in the glass bottles. But Coke is definitely the
    stuff.
    
    Both Fresca and Tab made a comeback! Neither was available for years
    and then returned by "popular demand". What I think happened was they
    did not translate well from saccharine to nutrasweet... so they were
    taken off the market until people "forgot" what the old versions tasted
    like and then were reintroduced.
    
    I suppose I should drink diet soda if I'm going to drink the stuff at
    all, but what the hey... I like it. Can't reasonanbly drink beer or
    wine during the day, and truth be told I can't drink it much at all due
    to non-alchohol related liver problems. So I tend to limit myself to a
    combo of 3 or 4 glasses of beer or wine a week. I love Scotch, but
    that's really trouble... and Mai Tais (I make a killer Mai Tai). A
    couple drinks a month with "hard liquor" is about all I do. Like
    Foster Brooks, I kid around about alchohol much more than I actually
    drink it!!!!
    
    -b

 re .25  I'm a regular at Shaw's and I've never tried their cola...I'll have
 to give it a shot.  I like RC as well..




 Jim

        This, by you, is an un-debate???  Feh, this is a puffballfest.

    
    Snapple!
    

    
    
    i like most tonics.  i prefer pepsi over coke anyday.  pepsi also
    tasted better in the can (the aluminum kind, not the bathroom).  i like
    fresca and tab as well.  love dr pepper (or mr. pibb, depending on what
    part of the country you are in).  if i go out, i usually end up
    drinking wate or iced tea, no sugar please, with lemon.
    
    

     Pepsi's too damn sweet. Coke is it. But it's still not the Coke we
    used to buy, which was even better. 

    PepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsiPepsi.....etc.

    Diet-Pepsi on principle as a boycott of Cca-Cola Inc.  A small vintner
    in Upstate N.Y. was prohibited from using his last name on his private 
    labels for his renamed vineyard after Coke bought the largish family
    operation.  Coke sued and won in federal court ostensibly stripping him
    of his rights to using his name for anything business related.  The
    court costs almost ruined him.  
    
    If possible, I will drink one of the new yuppy iced teas as a preferred
    alternative to Diet-Pepsi. 
    
    Brian

    
    I suddenly feel those pangs of guilt resurfacing somewhat like the ones
    I felt when we were supposed to be boycotting Nestle in the late
    seventies.

    re: .34
    
     Sounds like a Gallo issue.
    
     What was the vintner's last name?

    I have been a Pepsi stockholder for several years but I prefer
    Coca-Cola Classic to drink.
    

    Taylor, Walter S. Taylor, late of Bully Hill on the shores of Keuka
    Lake, Hammondsport N.Y.  Very eccentric, mildly crazy, bohemian
    extrordinaire.  The wine was decent at one time though the last bottle 
    I had was horrible :-(.  He was forced to recall all of his wines and
    magic marker the name off the labels.  Many of the bottle are worth
    several thousand dollars as collectibles.  He also did water colors
    which he made into labels.  One of the more famous ones was the Space
    Shuttle series.  He had a Space Shuttle Red and White.  The labels were
    pretty cool, the wine not bad (INO).  It was not available in a box.  
    
    Brian

Re: <<< Note 236.6 by MOLAR::DELBALSO "I (spade) my (dogface)" >>>

>>Jes plain old cherry.

Yuck.  I never did like cherry syrup in Coke; Grenadine (sp?) I always felt
tasted much better.  One to three tabelspoons (to taste) to 12oz of Coke.

                              Roak

    .3
    
    that's iBc.  best root beer available.  part of being old is getting
    your glasses prescription updated.  no need to thank me.
    
    coke is too damn sweet.  i can't stand the sugar high.  when i drink
    cola, it's pepsi.

    >Funny how some tastes differ.  I judge Pepsi to be much sweeter than
    >Coke.
    
     Supposedly it has something like 40% more sugar in it than Coke.

    
    
    i think coke tastes sweeter...not better, just sweeter...
    
    

    
    i prefer pepsi which is somewhat of a sacrilege living in atlanta.
    
    coke is too carbonated for my taste.  it chokes me almost every sip.
    
    actually, i prefer the diet versions in any case.  haven't you ever
    thought - if all the folks at the park would just buy diet drinks for
    drinking when they're in the park, none of us would have to fight the
    blasted bees and bugs drawn to the sweet drinks?!!!
    
    
    jeff

    Striktly Coca-Cola,and striktly never Diet or caffeine free crap.
    
    I`m very wary indeed of blokes who drink diet coke.
    

    Jeff, if the carbonation in coke is too much for you, don't try Vernors
    ginger ale out of Detroit.  Zounds!  It is a fizz fest indeed.  Always
    made me sneeze something fierce as a kid.  Only correct solvent for a 
    Boston Cooler though.
    
    Brian

    Be wary of me then, striktly speaking.
    
    Glenn/Deirdre/Pamela/Franny/Ned/Dierdre/Anton/Sean/Alice/Jimi/Pauline/Rex/
    Nathan/Melanie/Ursula
    
    
    
    

    Er, that would only be part of you, yes? 

    	If Carbonation is a problem, why not open the can/bottle a day
    	ahead of time an leave it in the refrigerator for the next day...

    
    yuk, joe!  some carbonation is preferable.  none is sickening, to me!
    
    jeff

Vernor's ginger ale is an acquired taste.  I haven't noticed the amount of
carbonation, but there's definitely vanilla in there.  When my Detroit-born
wife was a kid, she was given some Canada Dry.  After one taste she said,
"But I wanted ginger ale!"  BTW, I've seen it sold in the gourmet foods
section of a supermarket far from Detroit.

    Also try Canada Dry "Chelmsford" Golden Ginger Ale.
    
    As for Dr. Pepper, I don't know if the ingredients are good for me,
    but I do know that after drinking one I feel as if I can start even
    when it's thirty below zero.
    
    Whoops... I just checked an old empty can of Dr. Pepper sitting on the
    desk here, and they don't have propylene glycol in it anymore, so I'll
    have to take back the above paragraph.
    
    Pre-Nutrasweet, I liked Tab and Fresca.  Unfortunately, Nutrasweet
    makes me dizzy (I've heard of others being affected like this too),
    so now I have to stick to the non-sweetened flavored seltzers, which
    actually have a more subtle flavor that grows on you (Poland Spring
    lemon seltzer is my favorite).
    
    When I have the occasional Coke now (my old vice and nemesis), it seems
    almost too strong and sweet (and seems to be changing again, perhaps
    this time without all the attendant publicity?) .  It's great when
    you're sick, though.
    
    Anyone remember Pepsi Light from the mid-70's?  Saccharine, of course,
    but also a strong lemon flavor mixed in with the lighter cola flavor.
    It was essentially a diet lemon cola, pretty good stuff.  Gone now,
    of course, another victim of the NutraSweet power play.
    
    Chris

    
    Oh dear, Glenn's up to 15 personalities now.

    	re .50
    
    	OK.  SO just leave it open for a few hours.  Experiment to
    	find your balance of karma.

    Coke, normally...especially if I have an upset stomach (don't need the
    extra sweetness of Pepsi).
    
    Nothing beats the root beer from the old A&W drive in's though. 
    Haven't seen one of those in some years, though.
    
    Maybe I'll try some of this expensive bottled root beer one of these
    days...
    
    -steve

RE:    <<< Note 236.55 by CSOA1::LEECH "annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum" >>>

       
   > Nothing beats the root beer from the old A&W drive in's though. 
   > Haven't seen one of those in some years, though.
    
    
   When I first moved to Colorado some 18 (!) years ago, we stayed with
   some friends who lived about 100 yards from an A & W..went through a
   lot of root beer..



Jim

    	There is a restaurant here in Colorado Springs that specializes
    	in Root Beers.  As some restaurants have an extensive (and even
    	inclusive) beer list, Froggymeisters has an inclusive root beer
    	list.  In fact, if you bring them a 6-pack of a root beer that
    	they don't have on their list (other than generic and store-
    	specific brands) they will give you a free dinner.

    
    
    
       I'll take Pepsi,......love that carbonation. Coke is just too
       sweet and flat,.....unless it's on "tap".
    
    
    
       Ed
    

We seem to have a range of opinions:

Coke is sweeter than Pepsi.
Pepsi is sweeter than Coke.
Coke is more carbonated than Pepsi.
Pepsi is more carbonated than Coke.

    
    i checked my bible.
    
    pepsi is sweeter than coke.
    coke is more carbonated than pepsi.
    
    amen.
    
    jeff

    A reading from the Book of Carbonates perhaps?
    
    -b

Which translation?

	 Moxie roolz.

I think we can agree that Pepsi is sweeter than Moxie.  As is Coke.

    	Now there is a beverage I hated.  Moxie.
    
    	Maybe I got a bad can of it when I tried it...

    
    
    Okay, I'll look foolish......what the heck is Moxie?

    it's a carbonated soft drink drink available in new england.  very odd
    flavor.  made famous by mad magazine in the 1950s.

	good for washing down horehound drops

    What was that stuff they sold in a can that was kind of like a
    chocolate milk shake? (only non-dairy) I remember trying it
    once and definitely _not_ liking it.
    
    I don't like "cream soda" either. Yuck. And the new "foo foo
    waters" in which they add a drop of some artificial fruit
    flavor in a gallon of otherwise plain seltzer water. Yuck.
    
    -b

>    What was that stuff they sold in a can that was kind of like a
>    chocolate milk shake? (only non-dairy) I remember trying it
>    once and definitely _not_ liking it.

Yoo-Hoo?

    	Yoo-hoo!
    
    	And cream soda ROOLZ!
    
    	(Cream soda is basically vanilla-flavored soda.)

    Bingo! Thanks Gerald!
    
    -b

Moxie used to be available all over.  I think it used to outsell Coke maybe
100 years ago.  It's got gentian in it.

    
    Soda without gin ?
    
      bb

    BTW it is pop.  Not soda, not tonic, and not coke used as a generic soft
    drink catch all.  
    
    Soda is a nasty tasting carbonated water 
    Tonic is a sweeter tasting carbonated water
    Coke is short for Coca-Cola 
    
    HTH
    

    
>>    Soda is a nasty tasting carbonated water 

	"soda water" is.  it's not "pop" - it's "soda pop".
	so "soda" is an acceptable abbreviated form of either.
	so there.  ;>

    
    There is no beverage in the world more disgusting than diet tonic
    water.  Oh ick, that stuff makes me retch.
    
    In this case only, I'll take the calories, tyvm.
                       

   >>Oh ick, that stuff makes me retch.


	...she said, whilst sipping daintily on a glass of buttermilk.

    
    Buttermilk is the nectar of the gods!

 I used to be able to drink buttermilk and loved it...but just the 
 thought of it now sends me into retching fits.



Jim

re: .40

Er, thankyou for the correction to .3, Richard - You're right about
the glasses, I fear.

Speaking of Ginger Ale, I bought a case of 24 12 oz bottles from
some outfit that was advertising in the New Yorker. Can't remember
the name right off, but it starts with a B and they're down in
the Carolinas somewhere. $24 for a FedEx delivery. The stuff comes
in either "HOT" (#5) or "Medium" (#3). I got the #5.

If you like Ginger Ale with a ZINNNGGGGGGG! this is the stuff for
you. It's the only ginger ale I've had which, after a few sips,
you go looking for a glass of water.

I got the #3 and the #5 mixed up - #3 is the hot.

 It's Blenheim Bottlers in Blenheim, sc, 803-528-3561.


They even send you a bumper sticker with your order.

    As long as they don't send you any #2! :-) :-)
    
    -b

No - but they do have a #9, which is diet.

    tab, tab and more tab.
    
    re: chris ralto-no nutrasweet in tab, just saccharine, known to cause
    cancer in laboratory rats :-)
    
    hope this helps.

    It takes a brave person to laugh in the face of cancer.
    
    8^)

    well, these days, just about any thing one likes to do is gonna
    getcha, so may as well enjoy it while i can :-)

    Pepsi, pepsi, pepsi,
    Pepsi, pepsi, pepsi,
    Pepsi, pepsi, pepsi,
    All day long.
    
    Hey ! Nice Pepsi !!

    RE: Saccharine
    
    Nutrasweet has unknown long term effects on the body.  It was rushed
    through FDA approvals so fast, some heads are still spinning.

    ... wasn't that the stuff they fed lab rats that equated to 1
        person drinking it with 175 cups of coffee per day with a
        possible risk of cancer developing?
    
        personally, i think it's lab techs that are causing cancer
        in rats.
    
        Chip

    
    that blenheim bottler, did your bumper sticker say 'over the border'?. 
    the same guy that owns this cheesy mega-souveneir shop right inside
    south carolina also owns the bottling company your getting your drinks
    from.  when you stop in their place,you get a bumper sticker on your
    car whether you like it or not.
    
    jeff

    
    
    South of the Border is what you are referring to.  All those signs
    along the highway, "Pedro says......"

    yeah, that's it.  i've seen too many taco bell commercials, i guess.
    
    ffej

    
    As seen on I-75 North and South between Mackinac City and Miami :-(
    
    Only 535.5 miles to South of the Border!
    Only 535.4 miles to South of the Border!
    Only 535.3 miles to South of the Border!
    Only 535.2 miles to South of the Border!		
    |
    |
    |
    |
    Only 127.1 miles to South of the Border!
    
    Blech!

    
    Kinda like Wall Drug in South Dakota 8^).

    Yeah, except for Wall Drug it starts in NYC and S.F.  Only 1237.4 miles
    to Wall Drug!  :-)

No South of the Border indications on the Blenheim BS.

    re: Tab
    
    That's interesting... last time I checked several years ago, they
    actually used a mix of saccharin and Nutrasweet, and they'd also
    changed the flavor to something much sweeter, yeech.  If they've
    gone back to all-saccharin, that'd be great.  I'll have to check
    the ingredients again; a few years ago, they listed "aspartame"
    (which is Nutrasweet!) quietly in the ingredients list, but didn't
    make a big thing of it on the rest of the label.
    
    Chris

    Cola-snarf!

Glenn,
   I was talking with someone this weekend who mentioned that the reason
   for the difference between US and Canadian Coke has to do with the
   fact that the Canadian bottlers are constrained from using increasing
   amounts of high fructose corn syrup (as has happened in the US over
   the years) and they have continued to use a higher amount of cane
   sugar, thus staying closer to the original formula.

Do Canadian sugar beet farmers have the same kind of sweetheart deal that
U.S. sugar beet and cane farmers have?  Domestic sugar costs almost 50%
more than world sugar, and it's (practically?) illegal to import sugar.
Hence the increase in the use of high-fructose corn syrup.

    Jack,
    
    	There also must be regulations around quantity of aspertame in diet
    drinks too. All I know is, I notice the difference.
    
    Glenn