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Sioux City Sarsaparilla. In glass bottles.


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World's most interesting Pan wrote:
I dont always drink soda, but when I do, its ginger beer with a shot of whiskey.

Bundaburg also makes rum and adding that to Bundaburg ginger beer is called a Dark & Stormy...Great drink for sitting on your veranda on a hot summer afternoon.


The 8th Dwarf wrote:
World's most interesting Pan wrote:
I dont always drink soda, but when I do, its ginger beer with a shot of whiskey.
Bundaburg also makes rum and adding that to Bundaburg ginger beer is called a Dark & Stormy...Great drink for sitting on your veranda on a hot summer afternoon.

I've never seen Bundaburg, but Gosling's Black Seal Rum is supposedly the definitive Dark & Stormy. With any good ginger beer.


Mmm... Stormy Rum! *drools*


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I.B.C. root beer, cream soda or black cherry.

Radiant Oath

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Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

It was Fallout: New Vegas that actually persuaded me to drink soda for the first time in over 20 years, so my favorite will always be a good ol'-fashioned sarsaparilla.


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I hope to make the journey to New Vegas soon i hear tell they could use some good ole fashioned rampaging.

Like the time when Moira asked me to get radiation poisoning or when i had to get nearly decapitated by Super Mutants so i could tell her how it felt to have to hold my arm on while i let loose with the rain of Frag Grenades.

Good times, good times.

Rampage!!


Pipefox wrote:
Rootbeer for me, please. The Henry Weinhard kind! ^_^

I'm partial to Boylan.

Scarab Sages Owner - Game Knight

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Sprecher Vanilla Cream Soda. So sickly sweet, love it.

Scarab Sages

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I'm a traditionalist. Pepsi with real sugar.


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Brother Harsk the Constant wrote:
I'm a traditionalist. Pepsi with real sugar.

I'm a reconstructionist. Coca-Cola with cane sugar, kola nuts and coca leaves.


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Have you seen the Atlanta episode of Drunk History, one of the stories they do is the origins of Coca-Cola, super awesome episode:-)


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captain yesterday wrote:

Why doesn't anyone ever live in Madison, Wi.

its a pretty big town:-)

I used to get my comics shipped in from Middleton, WI.

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captain yesterday wrote:
lucky7 wrote:
I once tried a curry flavored soda. I like curry, but the soda was so terrible I drank it over the course of a week.

This is the best part, i would've thrown it out right away, but no you kept drinking it, dragging it out even! now before you get mad and call me a jerk, my wife would totally do (and has done) the exact same thing as you did:-D

Awesome stuff, really:-)

Two Christmases ago, I got two pounds of 85-86% cacao dark chocolate... with ground hot chiles in it. Now I really like chiles and I love dark chocolate, but the two together tasted awful. But, but, high cacao dark chocolate... it took about 6-7 months, but I made myself eat it all.

But then, I've eaten a 1 lb bag of stale peppermints too.

More than once.


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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:


But then, I've eaten a 1 lb bag of stale peppermints too.

More than once.

I'm pretty sure I've eaten two year old candy canes before.


I've been to Westfield, they've got a lot of comics :-)


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old candycanes are soft and chewy and stick to your teeth.

it's kind of weird.

Liberty's Edge

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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Brother Harsk the Constant wrote:
I'm a traditionalist. Pepsi with real sugar.
I'm a reconstructionist. Coca-Cola with cane sugar, kola nuts and coca leaves.

So regular Coke made with cane sugar? Since coke still has kola and coca in it.


thejeff wrote:
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
World's most interesting Pan wrote:
I dont always drink soda, but when I do, its ginger beer with a shot of whiskey.
Bundaburg also makes rum and adding that to Bundaburg ginger beer is called a Dark & Stormy...Great drink for sitting on your veranda on a hot summer afternoon.

I've never seen Bundaburg, but Gosling's Black Seal Rum is supposedly the definitive Dark & Stormy. With any good ginger beer.

Bundy (as its affectionately known) is an Australian company. It's named after the city of Bundaburg in the state of Queensland. It's in the Tropical sugar cane growing part of the state. Lots of sugar meant Rum.... For some strange reason Bundy have a polar bear as a mascot.... A square bear is a 1.25 litre bottle of Bundy Rum, and it's good stuff, while the Dark & Stormy may have originated in the Bahamas it's a very popular here as well.

I grew up in the sugar growing region of my state in a small coastal town, our produce was macadamia nuts, tropical fruit, dairy, sugar cane and fish.

They have stopped doing it now but before harvesting the sugarcane they used to set fire to the cane fields, at night you could see the glow of the fires all around the town. It looked so cool, It was kind of apocalyptic. Then the next day soot & ash would waft down putting black marks over everything.


thejeff wrote:
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
World's most interesting Pan wrote:
I dont always drink soda, but when I do, its ginger beer with a shot of whiskey.
Bundaburg also makes rum and adding that to Bundaburg ginger beer is called a Dark & Stormy...Great drink for sitting on your veranda on a hot summer afternoon.

I've never seen Bundaburg, but Gosling's Black Seal Rum is supposedly the definitive Dark & Stormy. With any good ginger beer.

Gosling also makes their own ginger beer. It's pretty good too. It's often sold in the larger liquor stores.

For mass market soda I drink Pepsi Max, and Mountain Dew (especially Baja Blast or Livewire when available) most often.

Otherwise, I try to find a decent brand of root beer, sarsaparilla, or cream soda - as long as it isn't any of that stuff with licorice in it (in too many small market root beers for my taste).

Although when Roddy Piper passed away, I did have an "All Out of Bubblegum' soda in tribute.


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

old candycanes are soft and chewy and stick to your teeth.

it's kind of weird.

The soft and chewy thing may have been my favorite part. *shifty eyes*


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Pepsi (regular), soda with lemon&cactus flavor.

Silver Crusade

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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
But then, I've eaten a 1 lb bag of stale peppermints too.
We know.
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
More than once.

We. Know.

Silver Crusade

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Growing up in Tennessee I was raised on a strict diet of Luzianne and Mountain Dew, and its Prestige Class, Livewire.


Krensky wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Brother Harsk the Constant wrote:
I'm a traditionalist. Pepsi with real sugar.
I'm a reconstructionist. Coca-Cola with cane sugar, kola nuts and coca leaves.
So regular Coke made with cane sugar? Since coke still has kola and coca in it.

But do we know that for sure? The formula of coca-cola is a trade secret. ;Þ


Rennaivx wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

old candycanes are soft and chewy and stick to your teeth.

it's kind of weird.

The soft and chewy thing may have been my favorite part. *shifty eyes*

Yeah I honestly kind of liked it more than regular candycanes.

Then again, as I've been asked many times, I've been raised by wolves. They were very nice wolves, too.


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I grew up in northern New England (New Hampshire and Maine).

My favorite soda has to be Moxie.

So... just make it Moxie for mine!

(And, yes, I know that you have never heard of it unless you've lived in New England or are over 80 years of age.)

They don't sell Moxie where I live. Whenever I go back to New Hampshire to visit family, I always bring back two or three cases of the stuff.

Liberty's Edge

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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Krensky wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Brother Harsk the Constant wrote:
I'm a traditionalist. Pepsi with real sugar.
I'm a reconstructionist. Coca-Cola with cane sugar, kola nuts and coca leaves.
So regular Coke made with cane sugar? Since coke still has kola and coca in it.
But do we know that for sure? The formula of coca-cola is a trade secret. ;Þ

Well, if they're not using coca leaf extract, why are they buying it? ;)

I was mistaken about the kola nut though.


Pepsi is my current favorite. Nothing quenches my thirst as well as a tall glass of Pepsi and crushed ice, truly the greatest thing ever.


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Aranna wrote:
Pepsi is my current favorite. Nothing quenches my thirst as well as a tall glass of Pepsi and crushed ice, truly the greatest thing ever.

checks mail for Arannas endorsement check


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Haladir wrote:

I grew up in northern New England (New Hampshire and Maine).

My favorite soda has to be Moxie.

So... just make it Moxie for mine!

(And, yes, I know that you have never heard of it unless you've lived in New England or are over 80 years of age.)

They don't sell Moxie where I live. Whenever I go back to New Hampshire to visit family, I always bring back two or three cases of the stuff.

Or in your case, both!

More seriously, I heard it's an acquired taste.


I don't like Soda - I rather have a pint of craft beer!

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Christian Torstensson wrote:
I don't like Soda - I rather have a pint of craft beer!

Then head on over here.


My daily caffeine source is Pepsi Max. Higher caffeine and no calories. I usually use a splash of those squeeze-bottle flavors to bump it up. A little citrus in diet soda disguises the diet flavor.

When I'm out and don't want caffeine, then Sprite. With Mango syrup when available. For those in the know, Sierra Mist was named in two different languages. Spanish and German.

At games, I usually drink the liter bottles of flavored sparkling water.

For taste I love Cactus Cooler and once or twice I've been able to find Jolly Rancher green apple soda. Tasted just like the candy.

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As for residue in the multi-drink dispensers, simply run water or soda water for a couple of seconds and then your drink. That'll clear out the nozzle enough.*

*not valid for people with super-human senses of taste or people with delusions that they can taste the residue.

Pan wrote:
Christian Torstensson wrote:
I don't like Soda - I rather have a pint of craft beer!
Then head on over here.

Do they have one for cider? That's what real Americans drank before prohibition ruined it and made everybody switch to beer.


All my caffeine comes directly from coffee:-)


captain yesterday wrote:
All my caffeine comes directly from coffee:-)

Truth. Although I'm beyond sacrilegious - 95% of the time, I'm drinking instant coffee.

:O

In my defense, though, two things:

1) Most of the time I'm drinking coffee is at work, and the coffee they have in the machine there is vile, so instant's actually an improvement. (Like, terrible to the point of physically making me sick. Serious.)

2) At home, I'm the only one generally drinking it, and I drink it at home maybe once a week at most, and I have a teeny tiny kitchen. So instant avoids waste and saves having to have another small appliance on the counter.

Plus, when you make your instant coffee by heating up milk and adding the granules straight into the warm milk, it gets much more pleasant. :)

(The other 5% of the time is buying my weekly coffee-stand coffee on my way to playing Pathfinder. The gal has our order memorized, and sometimes I get a fortune cookie with it, too. :D)


1. Mountain Dew
2. Pepsi
3. Dr. Pepper/Chery Dr. Pepper
4. Cherry Coke (only Coke I like)

Honorable mentions to: Root Beer (IBC, Stewart's, etc.), Sprite/7-Up/Sieera Mist/etc., and IRN BRU (had it when over in Scotland, but hard/expensive in the States)


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Tea. Pepsi. Coca-Cola. Occasional Cherry Coke. Dr Pepper was a mild disappointment when I tried it for the first time when I was in UK last year.

I am drinking much less carbonated sweet drink these days than in the past.

Sovereign Court

Philo Pharynx wrote:


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Do they have one for cider? That's what real Americans drank before prohibition ruined it and made everybody switch to beer.

No cider thread, but if you want to post in the beer thread. While not my regular brew I have done cider from time to time.


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Thumbs up to Talonhawke for saying RC Cola.

My favourite soda? Raspberry Ginger Ale. Liquid Ambrosia, that is. I love Ginger Ale, and adding raspberry is incredible.

I've only had Schweppes' brand raspberry ginger ale, though I have tried Canada Dry cranberry ginger ale. Still good, just not as good.


Trigger Loaded wrote:

Thumbs up to Talonhawke for saying RC Cola.

My favourite soda? Raspberry Ginger Ale. Liquid Ambrosia, that is. I love Ginger Ale, and adding raspberry is incredible.

I've only had Schweppes' brand raspberry ginger ale, though I have tried Canada Dry cranberry ginger ale. Still good, just not as good.

Ginger Ale is my second favorite soda. I liked the cranberry, but the raspberry sounds yummy. I'll have to see if I can locate some.


The only major national brand of ginger ale I like is Vernors, which is pretty awesome. The rest just taste to me like fizzy sugar water with a vague weak "ginger" flavor.


I almost forgot, black berry flavored soda.


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Freehold DM wrote:
Haladir wrote:

I grew up in northern New England (New Hampshire and Maine).

My favorite soda has to be Moxie.

So... just make it Moxie for mine!

(And, yes, I know that you have never heard of it unless you've lived in New England or are over 80 years of age.)

They don't sell Moxie where I live. Whenever I go back to New Hampshire to visit family, I always bring back two or three cases of the stuff.

Or in your case, both!

More seriously, I heard it's an acquired taste.

I'm not that old! Of course, I do remember the Ford Administration...

Unless you grew up with it, Moxie is a an acquired taste. Moxie is much less sweet than most sodas, and has a complex herbal flavor, with a slightly bitter aftertaste. I grew up drinking the stuff, and don't remember ever not liking it. I've heard the uninitiated say it tastes "medicinal" or more specifically, "a bit like Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup." Honestly, I don't really see that myself.


Haladir wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Haladir wrote:

I grew up in northern New England (New Hampshire and Maine).

My favorite soda has to be Moxie.

So... just make it Moxie for mine!

(And, yes, I know that you have never heard of it unless you've lived in New England or are over 80 years of age.)

They don't sell Moxie where I live. Whenever I go back to New Hampshire to visit family, I always bring back two or three cases of the stuff.

Or in your case, both!

More seriously, I heard it's an acquired taste.

I'm not that old! Of course, I do remember the Ford Administration...

Unless you grew up with it, Moxie is a an acquired taste. Moxie is much less sweet than most sodas, and has a complex herbal flavor, with a slightly bitter aftertaste. I grew up drinking the stuff, and don't remember ever not liking it. I've heard the uninitiated say it tastes "medicinal" or more specifically, "a bit like Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup." Honestly, I don't really see that myself.

The fastest way to lose my interest is to describe a taste with the word 'bitter'. I can't even eat much milk chocolate (and that's the sweeter kind) before the bitterness creeps up on me, and dark chocolate is right out.


Freehold DM wrote:
Aranna wrote:
Pepsi is my current favorite. Nothing quenches my thirst as well as a tall glass of Pepsi and crushed ice, truly the greatest thing ever.
checks mail for Arannas endorsement check

lol That would be awesome. Heck they could even hire me as the latest spokes model. But I am probably too old for that now.

My old favorites were: (in order from most recent to least recent)
-Cherry Coke
-Dr Pepper
-Faygo Rock n Rye
-50/50

I like perfectly blended flavors and the farther in the past you go the more prone I was to loving unique flavors.

But really Pepsi on crushed ice slices apart thirst like a ninja without the sticky feeling most sodas leave in your mouth afterwards. It's like the ice washes it all away.


Gisher wrote:
Trigger Loaded wrote:

Thumbs up to Talonhawke for saying RC Cola.

My favourite soda? Raspberry Ginger Ale. Liquid Ambrosia, that is. I love Ginger Ale, and adding raspberry is incredible.

I've only had Schweppes' brand raspberry ginger ale, though I have tried Canada Dry cranberry ginger ale. Still good, just not as good.

Ginger Ale is my second favorite soda. I liked the cranberry, but the raspberry sounds yummy. I'll have to see if I can locate some.

For the ginger ale lovers if you have some free time and money give this a try its great!


Haladir wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Haladir wrote:

I grew up in northern New England (New Hampshire and Maine).

My favorite soda has to be Moxie.

So... just make it Moxie for mine!

(And, yes, I know that you have never heard of it unless you've lived in New England or are over 80 years of age.)

They don't sell Moxie where I live. Whenever I go back to New Hampshire to visit family, I always bring back two or three cases of the stuff.

Or in your case, both!

More seriously, I heard it's an acquired taste.

I'm not that old! Of course, I do remember the Ford Administration...

Unless you grew up with it, Moxie is a an acquired taste. Moxie is much less sweet than most sodas, and has a complex herbal flavor, with a slightly bitter aftertaste. I grew up drinking the stuff, and don't remember ever not liking it. I've heard the uninitiated say it tastes "medicinal" or more specifically, "a bit like Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup." Honestly, I don't really see that myself.

The medicinal quality is sourced from gentian violet, which of course is one of many ingredients in bitters, which is why Moxie is the elixir of the Deities.

Mind you, I'm from Maryland originally, my first taste of the stuff was love at first sip.

I love me some Jones Green Apple too, miss when Snapple made sodas including a Cherry Lime Rickey and the most awesome grape ever, and when New York Seltzer was a thing and more sodalike than 'seltzerish'. Kickapoo Joy Juice is okay, anything by Sprechers is heavenly (especially the Ravin' Red and Grape), the Bundaberg Ginger Beer (and Ale) are both tasty but I like their Blood orange and Peach too, I try to get the cane sugar versions of any soda I can find (though sadly you can't get Tahitian Treat that way, and Cactus Cooler isn't made anymore), and in esssence I am so fond of the stuff that I started making my own sodas, though nothing of a distributable quality in my far from humble opinion.

There's a few sites that I'm rather fond of, but the general inspiration comes from my other love - tea. One of my fave sodas is an Orange-Hibiscus cooler that would be incredible if I were to caffeinate it, but...meh. It's a hobby, and until I develop the poer to spontaneously generate money it's not something I'd want to go pro at...

Though I wish I had more time to experiment with varied brewing methods - I prefer to force-carbonate but I won't deny that half of the the appeal of Fentiman's, for me, is that it IS brewed. The closest I've done is a more Victorian style lemonade using yogurt whey for the lacto-fermentation. My ginger bug experience was less successful, though.


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Pan wrote:
Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.

Blech. I hate those. Coke, unfortunately, seems to be pushing them pretty hard. They're terrible.

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It's not hyperbole. They have a main corn sweetener, aspartame sweetener, and sucralose sweetener areas. Then flavor packs for every coke product (coke, new coke [read diet], barqs, sprite, high c, mellow yellow, powerade, minute maid), plus flavored syrups (cherry, chocolate, grape, lemon, lime) and an option for dasani (just filtered tap) which you can also add the syrup to.

Winds up being well over 100 options.

Don't forget the few additional "local" options they tend to add in a given dispenser, like the peach soda they have at our Moe's (which is, against all odds, pretty good, by the way).

I have discovered something interesting about these things, though: I don't think it's the flavor of all the other drinks, despite coming out of the same spigot. I think it's all of the flavors of that drink that you're getting at the same time: regular, diet, alternate, zero, plus syrups.

So my coke doesn't taste like sprite, it just tastes like diet/regular/new/zero/caffeine free/cherry/grape/lemon/lime/etc. coke and is just a mess because of it.

(This is, it must be made clear, comes after lots of fascinated and horrified testing of the local three or four machines that have slowly and insidiously invaded all of my favorite places.)

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
That's too way too many options for my simple adhd-addled mind to handle.

You, and everybody else in the line. Sigh.

Krensky wrote:

And contrary to Pan's statement the flavors don't mix. The Freestyle machine uses a whole series of technologies originally developed for the pharmaceutical manufacturing, compounding, and dispensing industry.

They don't need fiddly adjusting of the water, syrup, and CO2 mix, laborious cleaning (which way more places then you want to believe skimp on), tell Coke and the vendor what they're selling and what needs replacing, and (for the moment) draw customers in with flavors unavailable elsewhere.

They are better in every conceivable way than the old machines. Well, other then having a higher rental fee, but I've been told the total cost is less when accounting for waste, labor, etc.

Nice sales pitch. The reality is very, very different. I experience it in at least four places I used to enjoy the drinks. Now I taste everything.

Lest this be "it's all psychological" or somesuch:
- a) I was very excited when I first went to try this, but was disappointed
- b) folk who didn't know there was a new machine (as I'd acquired their drinks for them) commented on the strange tastes
- c) the restaurants are no strangers to complaints about the flavors, indicating it's not just a limited subset (I try not to approach it as a complaint, but casual conversation)

Anyhoo, my favorite is probably Coca-Cola, followed closely by cherry Dr. Pepper. I used to be all Mountain Dew, but then I took a vow and surrendered it as a sacrifice. Haven't had any since (except once when I casually promised a friend that "anything you hand me, I'll drink it!" and, since he didn't know*...) and haven't really missed it for quite some time.
[ooc]Incidentally, Dr. Pepper is neither Coke nor Pepsi. Instead, it is by the same company that does Snapple, and is licensed to either Coke or Pepsi or both (in different venues) for local distribution. Just in case that's ever caused confusion. It did me.)

I enjoy root beer and ginger ale, but haven't really craved it in ages, and I heart myself the occasional ginger beer (whatever brand it is that you get in the Bahamas, specifically the Abacos - I don't know it anymore, and it's been even longer than root beer or ginger ale since I've had it), and rarely I'll get the hankering for Cream Soda or an obscure local or indy soda. Or RC cola, though that's pretty rare here, too.

(I've never had Moxie but, despite never living in New England, I'm very aware of it. Also, not eighty. Less than half that. Alas.)

While I hypothetically (and often) prefer sweet tea, there are a dearth of places that make good sweet tea, our home water turns ours into a brown opaque cloud, and (Arizona Southern Style aside**), it's not as regularly attainable as sodas.

* I kind of skirted by on a technicality, here, since the thing I was actually addicted to specifically was regular Mt. Dew, and that's what I specifically gave up. I was handed one of the variants. Hence, even though I avoid those, it wasn't technically violating my vow. Still felt bad about it though. Trapped between hospitality+honor and honor! Alas!
** And, much as I like it, there's really only so much of this you can have.


Tacticslion the odd flavors might be an improper setting for the mixtures on the machines themselves. I have seen this happen with other fountain drinks that came from improperly adjusted machines. You might just be dealing with a bad technician rather than bad machines.

I haven't tried a freestyle machine yet, and the closest one I know about is in Cedar Point amusement park. So it may be some time yet before I get to try it myself.


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I forgot one I really like; Jarrito's Lime.

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