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I know I am unusual, so here goes...Coke or Pepsi?
Neither. I don't drink carbonated beverages. I also don't drink anything with artificial sweeteners. No Powerade. No Gatorade.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
Soda
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
I drink black coffee or unsweetened tea in the morning, and unsweetened tea for all other meals. If those are not available, I drink water.
Bottle, can, or glass.
Glass, if possible, then bottle. I avoid cans whenever possible.
Anything else about drinks?
I don't drink alcohol. I try to limit sugary drinks of any kind. I will drink non-fat/skim milk on rare occasions.
What do you call carbonated drinks?Wasted calories, and the diet forms are awful IMO.
If I have to choose, though, it is Coke. Pepsi is too acidic for my stomach. And, I once had a roommate who drank 10-15 bottles of Pepsi a day, which made my stomach hurt.
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
Bottle, can, or glass
Water, I drink 5-8 bottles a day. But it must be ice cold. I keep bottles frozen in the freezer, defrost halfway, and then I have a bottle of water with ice in it.
In the morning, I have at most 2 cups of coffee. In the Fall and Winter, I drink tea after my fill of coffee, maybe 2-3 cups a day.
Coke or Pepsi?The only soda I like is probably Sprite. I'll drink others if it's the only thing available, but I rarely choose it. I don't even keep any soda at home.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
Spicy water ;) (That's actually what I call carbonated water.)
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
I don't eat breakfast, but I guess I have coffee or tea in the morning (and sometimes in the afternoon). I do a lot of
Bottle, can, or glass.
I don't have a preference, but mostly cans just because that's what the spicy water comes in. I recycle it all anyway.
Anything else about drinks?
I don't drink enough water. -_-
As I read this, I am drinking my "usual" - a cup of hot herbal orange tea sweetened with honey.I used to love coke (especially on a hot day) and loved coffee. I've given up all caffeinated drinks, due to health reasons. I've also learned to substitute honey for sugar and would like to reduce the amount of honey I use.
Around here, we call carbonated drinks "pop."
Coke or Pepsi? This includes brands made by each. Powerade vs Gatorade Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Fairlife Milk, Smartwater on and on.Diet Coke, pretty much exclusively as my carbonated beverage and also source of caffeine. I do occasionally spring for a Smart Water when out and about and I'm just tired of plain water. But I've scaled way way back how much Diet Coke I drink, replacing it with water. I occasionally make iced tea - unsweetened - using whatever mix of tea bags (often pretty fancy and exotic) I have in the house and I dislike the bottled ice teas. I really don't like sweet drinks. I also will do just seltzer, but prefer it flavored. In fact, I keep pomegranate or cranberry juice, even orange juice, around to flavor plain seltzer to drink when I'm tired of plain water.
I drink a lot of water these days.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
Soda.
Funny story - when I was in law school, I was in Buffalo, NY to attend a friend's wedding. There was a picnic/backyard BBQ on one of the days before the wedding, and when I arrived I was asked what I wanted to drink. I'm not that much of a drinker of alchohol and almost never beer, so I said I wanted a 'soda' (this was early 1980s). The host looked at me oddly and asked if I was sure that's what I wanted. I said yes and he proceeded to hand me a bottle of tonic water! I drank it as I didn't want to make a fuss and I also wanted time to figure out what I had said wrong. Listening for a while, I realized that 'pop' is what they consider carbonated drinks like colas, and 'soda' was the tonic water mixer or possibly seltzer too if they had that. It as a real learning experience.
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
First up is a glass of water. Then I switch to my caffeine choice of Diet Coke. Then I usually do water until late afternoon when I need another dose of caffeine to get through my evening meetings. Somewhere in there I might mix in a flavored seltzer or two.
Bottle, can, or glass.
Bottle with screw top, can if nothing else available. As a lawyer you learn to only drink out of bottles with tight caps that are replaced every time you take a drink. That's the result of having a cup of coffee or can of coke sitting on the table at a closing or document signing getting knocked over and ruining original documents. If someone comes in with a cup of coffee even if it has a lid of some kind, it has to sit on the window sill or credenza or even on the floor but not on the table. Bottles are all that I allow on my desk as I'm working.
Anything else about drinks?
I rarely drink hot beverages. I much prefer cold, regardless of outside temps, temp in house, etc. I have always preferred cold beverages, even as a young child and I really believe it is because I tend to be hot.
I dislike coffee - taste and smell. If I drink a hot beverage, it will be tea or hot chocolate. But that's pretty rare.
I talk a lot more about drinking alcohol than I actually drink. I am fine being the designated driver, LOL. I bartended in college and became quite disgusted with how people ruined really good alcohol with mixers, developing a taste for straight drinks or ones with few mixers -- though I do love a good Bloody Mary! In fact I developed a taste for Scotch on the rocks that's become a single malt snob preference. But I make that one drink last. I drink wine mostly with food, and the only time I drink beer is when traveling in Europe and there's no carbonated beverages that aren't super sweet to be had.
Although, as a student backpacking through Europe, I managed to drink a liter of Beer at a Biergarten in Munich .... Hofbrau House in Munich actually - and smuggle the 1L mug out past the door checkers! It was pouring rain and I had a big purse, put it in the bottom with the damp umbrella on top and all my other crap including Let's Go Europe guidebook, on top. No one else in the group successfully smuggled one out. That was 1976. I still have it - holds my wooden spoons and such.
I still mix some pretty good drinks though, sufficient that a friend and I started a tradition of Cocktails in the Park on Sunday during lockdown and the pandemic - we'd meet in Riverside Park and solve the world problems, have a picnic - year round - and we continue it. I have 2 large opaque water bottles that are perfect for bringing a cocktail.
Definitely Coke. Didn’t you work there for a time? They have their huge center in Atlanta. But many offshoots of that. My favorite go to drink in a restaurant is a mix of cranberry juice and ginger ale. I just love it.
Theresa - we match in favoring Diet Coke in the can. It doesn't taste the same in a bottle and definitely not at a soda fountain. I used to like Diet Coke with Lime but they stopped making it. Now I found I like Dr Pepper Blackberry (also no sugar). Also we match in not liking the taste of smell of coffee, and my husband is the same - no coffee ice cream, no mocha. I have replaced some of my diet soda drinking with fizzy water like Bubbly, Waterloo, and other brands. I should drink more plain water than I do.I drink hot tea in the morning. I like fruit flavors and have special ones I order - "Queen of Hearts" - Black Currant from St. Louis, "4 Red Fruits" from Kansas City, Blood Orange and Mango/Pineapple from Chicago and a fruity one called Tower of London from Harney Teas (I think based in New York State). I also like a basic black tea like English Breakfast with lemon, and Earl Grey. Never with milk and never with sugar. I drink caffeinated tea in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. In winter I sometimes drink herbal tea (also fruity) at night. In the summer or at a restaurant I will sometimes order iced tea with lemon. I usually don't order sodas at restaurants because I think they are too expensive and don't taste right.
I have never liked the taste of beer, though cider is ok and I can tolerate shandy if it is half lemonade. I learned to drink wine in Paris but never drink it at home, or any other alcoholic drinks. I just don't care enough about them, and neither does my husband. But we have several friends who are wine aficianados with cocktail hour daily. I order wine or alcohol in restaurants even less than soda because again I am too cheap. And I have a mantra about drinks/juices/smoothies in general - "I would rather chew my calories".
If I'm at an event, with a bar I will often drink gin & tonic without the gin, that is tonic water with lime. That's the part I like anyway. I don't have a moral objection to alcohol but it has never done anything for me other than make me feel dizzy and sick.
I grew up saying soda in the East, moved to Minnesota where it is "pop", then Wisconsin where it is "soda". My daughter lived in St. Louis which is the frontline of the pop/soda war. For more on this and many other regionalisms, I love the book Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide. It can pinpoint your location (or where you grew up) almost exactly.
Interesting that both Theresa and Robin say soda when I grew up such a short distance from them and said pop as a kid. Once I moved to California, I adjust some of my vocabulary. PE instead of gym class, tennis shoes rather than sneakers, dinner instead of supper, coke instead of pop.Like Joy, I no longer drink coke, soda or pop. We have a water filtration system so I drink that throughout the day.
For imbibing liquid my schedule is as follows:
Coffee, caffeinated with half and half about 1 1/2 cups before breakfast
Breakfast- a glass of milk
Lunch - water
Afternoon- continued sips of water
Dinner -glass of wine
After dinner - more water.
My fizzy drink of choice - with Sunday family dinner - is Bundaberg diet ginger beer (or ‘ginger bear’ as Little Miss used to call it). Very very occasionally I’ll have a Coke Zero when I’m out and desperate for some sweet flavour with my caffeine, but generally I avoid other carbonated drinks. Apart from the empty calories, I have to strictly limit my sugar because it plays havoc with my joints, and artificial sweeteners are bad in other ways. The morning is coffee, coffee and coffee (with milk). Thank goodness for the Nespresso machine or this little addict would get no work done.
After lunch, I switch to tea (English style black tea with milk). I do like fruit herbal teas (particularly blood orange) and love a good Oolong, but usually am too distracted to think about careful brewing, so a plebeian teabag in a cup tends to suffice. (Or ‘gumboot tea’ as it’s known here)
I enjoy wine, especially champagne, and love a good single malt whisky (strictly Scotch rather than other pretenders). But I actually rarely drink alcohol and when I do, it’s a limit of a single glass because drinking more ends up with me under the table. Cheap date. And I can’t drink at all if I’m going to drive. My husband is delighted - he has a near-automatic designated driver.
I've never liked cola nor pop (aka soda) either and haven't drunk any of that chemical stuff since I was young and had no choice, not including the below when I was under age 20.As a child I liked nearly flat orange and grape crush BUT it was the only brand we could get in my tiny community, so I have no idea if I'd have liked another brand.
Later mostly flat root beer, but the only root beer I'd like now if I drank it is Virgil's or any other that makes it the original way, and ideally organic. As a teen half flat Dr. Pepper or, horror of horrors, half flat Mountain Dew and 7-Up/Sprite (not sure if I liked one better than the other, but probably 7-Up) after it had been open a while.
We never buy pop/soda since my husband isn't a soda drinker (he's from back east, so he says soda) but he'll drink a beer on a hot day in the summer. For holidays we buy carbonated apple juice for everyone but me. As you may have ascertained, I've never been big on fizz.
One of my favourite airport signs is at the Chicago O'Hare airport in a concourse (can't find a photo of it online with a very quick search) that basically says you can have soda/pop in the morning and pop/soda in the afternoon (can't remember the order) because the term changes from east to west in the States. I stopped flying through there after an unpleasant night stuck there during storms.
Coke or Pepsi? This includes brands made by each. Powerade vs Gatorade Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Fairlife Milk, Smartwater on and on.
What do you call carbonated drinks?
What is your drink of choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, middle of the day.
Bottle, can, or glass.
Anything else about drinks?