Mine is the Orange Cream Coke Zero. I’ll be devastated when they inevitably discontinue it.
Barqs red creme soda, or birch beer
Vanilla Cola. I don’t buy American soda anymore but Coca Cola…I haven’t found any of the Vanilla variant in a couple years now anyways.
Vanilla coke is the bomb and I’ll be forever resentful that they made it so scarce. There was a brief moment where it came back for me, but it’s gone again now.
I still drink it tho (as a zero cal) since it’s basically just Cola of your choice mixed 50/50 with a clear cream soda.
Bondi Cola from Australia.
No longer produced, contained ginseng, and named after Australia’s most famous beach Bondi (bon - dye).
NOS.
The only thing I hate about it is the price. This shit is expensive (like $5/can) 😩
Creme Soda. Oddly enough the cheapest ones seem to be the best in my opinion.
Root beer. It’s insidious.
Belvoir Rose & Elderflower Cordial, I love floral flavors and it’s so interesting and complex. It’s perfect watered down on a hot summer day or mixed with some white wine and ice and I’ve never seen anything else like it for sale. Unfortunately, hard to come by where I live.
I like ginger, so I also enjoy Reed’s Extra Ginger Ale. Most commercially available ginger ales don’t have much or any actual ginger in them, and use artificial flavorings, but Reeds is legit and seriously gingery.
For a go-to soda to have on a regular basis I like Ollipop low sugar sodas, especially their ginger lemon flavor.
Birch beer, followed by Dr. Pepper and the cranberry ginger ale.
I like to get the ones with “cane sugar” not corn syrup, otherwise its root beer - probably the only one I’m not too picky about brand.
Baking
I love Moxie, but it’s a regional thing from Maine and it’s rather rare here in the bible belt.
As a mix drink, 1 part gin, 1 part jager, 1 part amaretto, 2 marachino cherries, and 6 parts moxie, wide glass on the rocks. It’s like drinking the holiday season in a snowy evergreen forest.
Ginger beer. It’s a great drink, and it’s helpful if you have a tummy ache.
https://www.manhattanspecial.com/
Manhattan Special Espresso soda. The original energy drink. Three bottles will give you palpitations.
Bawls.
I like the soda.
I hate calling in companies to ask if it’s in stock. “Excuse me do you have any Bawls?”
Root beer.
Sarsaparilla is also great, if you can find it.
I struggle finding good ones. Too many of them are syrupy sweet and don’t have that minty bite.
The mojave wasteland almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
specifically Sprechers
I’m a basic diet cokehead. But I tried a Stoney Tangawizi on holiday once and was instantly in love. I find it very frustrating that with the sheer variety of ethnic shops around the DC region*, I couldn’t find it locally!
*when I lived there anyway, in the before times
