OT: Favorite pop?

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bored on a tuesday. what's your favorite kind of pop? Mine is Vernor's.

DISCUSS

skipinmich

April 28th, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^

It's hard to decide between Coke Zero and Diet Vernors.  I've also observed that there are by far more Coke lovers responding to this than Pepsi.

Zarniwoop

April 28th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^

Said pop my entire life until I left home.  After about 8 cities in 20 years, I've switched to soda.

That said...

My favorite is a toss up between Virgil's cola and Virgils cream soda.  Virigl's orange cream is amazing also.

Best ginger-ale you've never tasted is Bundaburg from Australia.  Would never have come across it except for marrying an Australian.  It's absolutely incredible. I HIGHLY recommend you try this if you love ginger ale like I do.

For nostalgia - A & W root beer.  I used to watch them make it at this one place I went and it was INCREDIBLE.  Just so cold the glass would frost over. Obviously, its not as good since I can't go there anymore.

gbdub

April 28th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^

Hooray for Bundy! Best pop I ever had was a Bundaburg Dark n' Stormy (yes I know a cocktail is kind of cheating) floating over the Great Barrier Reef. You can get Bundaburg ginger beer (and sometimes some of their many other flavors) at World Market.

Really any cloudy ginger beer is great.

Oddball choice: Cherry 7-Up. Mix it with amaretto and it tastes just like a red Tootsie-roll Pop.



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Lakeyale13

April 28th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^

Anyone find that certain Pop / Soda just tastes better at certain places? I don't mean that a certain meal or venue makes them taste better, but that objectively they taste better when purchased from "X" than at "Y". I have always found that Coka Cola Classic from McDonalds tastes better than Coke anywhere else. I bet they sprinkle Meth in it.

The Claw

April 28th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^

Funny story.  In college co-op working at Toyota in Georgetown, KY.  Go to out to eat with my KY born and raised roommate and he orders a Coke. The waiter says, What kind?  My roommate says, Dr. Pepper.

I ask him what gives and he explains that in Kentucky everything is called a Coke. Then you have tell them what kind of Coke you want.  Pepsi. Coca-cola. Dr. Pepper. Etc.

Still to this day it floors me for some reason.

 

Brewers Yost

April 28th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^

Primary beverages are water, coffee, some form of alcohol in that order.

When I do drink pop/soda I prefer:

Rock N' Rye

Ale-8-One - Really any type of ginger ale or root/birch beer.

Tab

Coke zero/ diet Pepsi/Coke

rob f

April 28th, 2015 at 6:31 PM ^

for Sonny Eliot

... Detroit Classics... Sonny Eliot selling some delish *towne club* POP 

...it's good enough for me!

I just learned, when searching for pictures

... ACL Soda Pop Bottle: full orange TOWNE CLUB - 12 oz ACL POP BOTTLETowne Club Pop 

 

of this fine product, that the company is still in business! As a kid who grew up guzzling 12-oz bottles of the stuff back in the late 60's and 70's, I thought it had disappeared with my youth decades ago.  But it's back, now looking like this

... -made Faygo, Towne Club Soda and Great Lakes Potato Chips to Menu 

.  Gotta get ahold of some!

 

LSAClassOf2000

April 28th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^

Having grown up in SE Michigan, I grew up with "pop", but having married a native Chicagoan, I have somehow found myself - over the years - injecting a certain amount of "soda" into my life, if you will, even though many linguistic maps that I've seen show "pop" as being prevalent in Chicago (although perhaps to a lesser degree than in Michigan). 

As for my favorite, I personally am a fan of Dr. Pepper, although Coca-Cola is a close second. I would be remiss as a Michigan native if I failed to give a shoutout to Vernors and Faygo (Rock'n'Rye in particular), which also find their way into the rotation.