Overrated/Underrated: Soft-drink edition

Bundie ginger beer is good. And its iconically Aussie.

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The above also contain an undocumented mix of peptides.

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I started buying the Schweppes lime soda water but it has sugar in it… so now I dilute it with regular soda water.

Also good with vodka.

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Underrated: L&P from New Zealand

Overrated: Any post mix

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It’s farking disgusting!

Chinotto on the other hand is wonderful

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Passiona✅️

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Sarsaparilla is not disgusting. If it keeps away plebs like you, there’s a benefit.

Chinotto, Limonata, Aranciana…all great.

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Coke Zero
Raspberry Fanta
Ginger Beer
All v good

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I remember as a little kid my parents used to preorder Slades soft drink delivery. I used to be so excited when the box arrived, but also knew in every box there was at least one damn bottle of Sarsaparilla which I’d get confused with cola!

I still recall it tasted like 80’s medicine.

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Overrated : not just the drink, but actual people who drink Monster energy and any of the no sugar variants of soft drinks.

Kombucha. WTF?

Underrated:

Bondi Junction Cola - I think it was a ginseng based cola, might’ve had a tram on the label, back in the early 90s maybe late 80s.

Tarax black label - king of lemonades, just the right amount of everything.

Canada Dry - ginger, but not sweet.

As others have said, these ones are great for sipping:
Sarsaparilla
Chinoto

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Overrated: Sugary soft drinks.

Underrated: Water

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Loys crate.

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Apologies but Sarsaparilla was my go to before bullant hunting. Glenhuntly.

LA ice only

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Thread is definitely a repeat, because I know I posted this, or a better version.

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But anyway….
Under-rated: Solo from a can after a hard summer day’s labour. Unbeatable.

Also a fan of Cherry Coke.

Over-rated: All Pepsi.
The appropriate response to ‘is Pepsi okay’ is a disappointed groan.

Edit: Mrs Wim alleges Pasito is over-rated. I do not concur.

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About the only soft drink I will buy these days

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Anecdote:
Fanta Friday is a phrase in the LMW lexicon.
We didn’t have soft drink in the house. No judgement, just how we rolled.
But a young girl deserves a treat at the end of a hard week at school, so while it wasn’t always Fanta, it was always a Fanta Friday.

Which somewhat distracted from the six pack I picked up for myself.

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Down in Tassie we used to down a litre of the good old Abbotts after a hard summer day’s labour not this 200 ml girly stuff

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I just buy this now from the supermarket has the bubbles bit of flavour no sugar

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