okay gang, just a bit of quick and funny silliness here. we're going to have a laddered tournament of soft drinks battling it out to the death, with only one carbonated beverage making it into the victor's circle. first step is gathering together the combatants. Rules as follows: Nominate only ONE soda per person. Beverage nominated must be carbonated. If the soda is unique to your country or region, please provide a link to a site with more information. No alcoholic beverages. I'll go first and nominate Ginger Beer.
I nominate Frostie vanilla Root beer, Leading Edge Brands :: Frostie, Tampico, KIST and other great beverages! Leading Edge Brands, Temple, TX 76504 since 1939. Very tasty, very carbonated.
I nominate Sarsaparilla. Sioux City Sarsaparilla - 24 Pack - BeveragesDirect.com Online Ordering Fear the cowboy coming through the doors!
Traitor! Well, I suppose that someone has to stick up for the little Georgian upstart. I nominate Coca-Cola Classic.
Actually, Let the Georgians fend for themselves. I'd rather nominate [WIKI]birch beer[/WIKI] instead. Hanks brand.
The Russian text says "Rassol" by the way, which of course makes all the difference if you want to order it by phone.
You mean it is regular old sauerkraut juice. I can get that at J&Bs*. If it isn't carbonated it isn't a soda is it? *I haven't and I probably wouldn't but I have seen it.
it'll be a laddered tournament, with all entrants paired off randomly. then i'll either do polls or just roll a die or something.
I nominate red lemonade. Simply because it generally creates conversation (read:sometimes arguments or being laughed at) When a person from Ireland goes to a bar in another country* to order an alcoholic beverage eg Vodka. Generally we would say ..'I'd like a vodka and white' This means a vodka and white lemonade (sprite/7-up) If ordering whiskey red lemonade is sometime the preferred option. Here's what it says on the web: Red lemonade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edit to add: In Northern Ireland were I'm from we call it brown lemonade to confuse things just a little bit more * I am that person
The Russian Cure |GlobalHangoverGuide® [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]Fizzy cabbage juice -[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica] the russian cure for hangovers Russians enjoy several public holidays in the first half of May culminating in Victory Day on May 9 to celebrate the end of the Second World War. That means drinking - and for years the favoured hangover remedy was salted brine from pickled cucumbers or tomatoes. This year they will be able to buy Rassol, cans of salted, carbonated cabbage juice. [/FONT]
I nominate Fernandes. It's a incredibly sweet drink from Suriname. My nickname for it was 'lollipop in a can'. I'll provide a link or something asap.
I call it that too. (Being Irish, it's natural that I would!) Brown Lemonade is wicked. Can I have Beer?
Well I'm taking Solo (the drink called lemon squash here, kind of like lemonade buts its yellow with actual lemon juice in it rather than lemon flavouring)... And I choose it because it will make me a man! YouTube - Solo (Australian ad) 1986 YouTube - Solo Man
I know Classic Coke has already gone so i would like to use Diet (cos i'm back on one) Cherry (cos you need 5 fruit and veg a day) Coke (cos every one needs drain cleaner)
First of all, mad props to both Bradthewonderllama and Garner for plugging my homeland's favorite hangover cure . Long live pickle juice and the lives it saved through the ages! Second, since both cream soda and sparkling cabbage juice (I just love the weird ways capitalism manifests itself back in the old country - "Your grandma's hangover cure - now SPARKLING and in a cool-looking soda can!") are already nominated, then I put forth ... ..kvas! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvas It tastes like beer, only sweet and, to the anti-beer, girlie-drink-guzzlers like myself, actually drinkable!
Whoah... this is the second time in my life I've heard of red lemonade - first time being from a book by a Scandinavian author Tuve Janson (sp?), called "Mummi-troll and the comet". This was about 20 years ago, and I've been wondering about what makes a lemonade red ever since . Mynona and Kapten - does that mean there's red lemonade in Sweden, too?
I read that mummin-troll book a looong while back. It was really odd. I don't remember any red lemonade.
It's Tove Jansson, and she was finnish (hence the Finn Family Moomintroll book). The books are... well some would say weird, some would say typically finnish, some (i.e.: me) would say that weird and typically Finnish is often the same thing. :lol: And as KK will point out if I don't, Finland is not scandinavian. But yeah, I love the moomins, and I remember red lemonade being mentioned now you say it...
Dr. Pepper would have been my first choice but Rock & Rye comes in a close second and it now comes in new old fashioned glass bottles. Which are a cool but kind of a pain because the caps don't screw back on very well and I now have Rock & Rye all over the floor of my car.
How does this work now we have chosen our fizzy drinks? do we get to maim people with our bubblicious drinks of choice?
oh no. later this week i'll put the drinks into a tournament ladder. then i'll figure out how the winner gets determined, and we determine the winner of each match up.
Om, I think I want a bottle of that, if only because of the label on the bottle. I would like to nominate Bionade, a lemonade-like drink produced by fermentation, but absolutely non-alcoholic. I don't know wether that is within the rules though, because it is not as such carbonated, but sizzly due to the fermentation process. (It is a lot more, well, digestible due to that.) BIONADE. Welcome I know it sounds too healthy to taste good, but it does!
Fermented and Non Alcoholic. Is it possible for those words to go together. I feel that if they've taken the time to ferment something then it should make me fall over.
er, yes... yes... there's absolutely NOT a tradition of me utterly forgetting to follow through with my ideas.
Okay, here's the proposed ladder: Ginger Beer Ginger Ale Dandelion & Burdock Caramel flavored colas (Coke, Pepsi, etc) Frostie Vanilla Root Beer Sarsaparilla Pschitt Dr Pepper Irn-bru Fizzy Cabbage A&W Root Beer Cream Soda Red Lemonade Fernandes Soda Water Pocari Sweat Solo Diet Cherry Coke Rock & Rye Tommyknockers Almond Creme Birch Beer Lilt Bionade Must i'll go set up the voting for the first one now.
Thanks Kat. :smile: My grandma makes a wonderful lemonade out of blackcurrant. It has a dark red colour, similar to red wine. Could that be it?
One of the greatest home made "lemonades" (non-sparkling) I ever had was made by Swedish friends of ours, mainly from rhubarb. It was pink and amazingly delicious.
