Happy NATIONAL CARBONATED BEVERAGE WITH CAFFEINE DAY

What is your favorite Carbonated drink with caffeine?
Diet coke....has to be the real thing though

 

Pepsi!!!

 

Coca-Cola. I only buy it at Christmas, and I splurge on Mexican Coke because my son is convinced it tastes better.

(My second-favourite carbonated beverage, Canada Dry ginger ale, does not have caffeine)

 

Dr Pepper for 49 years but can no longer drink it because of the carbonation and caffeine.

 

Coca-Cola, love the caffeine (wish it had same effect, as when younger).. 7-up if tummy upset

 

Hard pass, let me know when it's national broccoli day

 

Yahoo! I'm completely hooked on Diet Coke. It's my "coffee" in the morning. Lol.

 

Yep ... I drink Pepsi as my morning coffee ... a can of Pepsi + a cheese stick = breakfast of champions!

 

Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi, or Diet Dr. Pepper. Nothing else really...

 

My grandmother is 102. She has a Coke, and 2 Milano Cookies for breakfast. This has been her thing since I was a little girl. It's amazing! I hope to follow in her footsteps. She does have some teeth issues now, so little tiny bites.

 

Diet Coke or Celsius

 

I really love Dr. Pepper and Sprite light, but I'm trying to drink just plain water.

 

I gave up soda years ago. Now it tastes funky when I have a sip of one.

 

I'm not a big fan of carbonation or caffeine but when I was little I loved Pepsi. Now my soda of choice is red cream soda or Fresca.

 

I am totally addicted to Coke Zero-- and drink it instead of coffee in the morning. As a person with ADHD, I crave caffeine in the morning, but I also can sleep pretty easily after drinking a late-evening Coke Zero!

 

I used to be able to drink Pepsi all day long and into the night w/o it affecting my sleep, then I couldn't. I still drink the occasionally Pepsi after 5PM and invariably regret it.

 

Your post gave me a smile.

I decided to stop drinking soda in 2000 as part of my preparing to start having children. I can't remember specifically why soda was something considered so bad. I didn't stop eating anything else. But I never regained interest in soda. I will drink sparkling cider to celebrate the new year, because it's a tradition, but don't care about it really.

I did drink soda growing up in the 1980's though, and in restaurants in the 90's.
Briefly, the first and only soda I would drink was orange soda. I must have enjoyed some other flavors like grape around that time too because I remember my sister and me and some neighborhood friends would walk a mile to a grocery store to buy them.
Then, as a preteen, I decided Dr. Pepper was the best.
In high school, I preferred Coke, and enjoyed cherry Coke a lot.
In college, I usually chose Sprite.

 

There are carbonated water with hints of lime or lemon etc here that I'll have in summer (Mount Franklin make some that I believe are a subsidiary of Coke? ). They don't have sugar or artificial sweeteners that I don't like either but there's too many documented links btwn sugary fizzy drinks & health issues for me.
The other thing I find interesting (never having liked them even as a kid apart from being given flat lemonade when I was sick occasionally) is that DH who drinks coke zero now reckons coke tastes quite different in different parts of the world, like the 'recipe' is different, but I know high fructose corn syrup, for example, is nowhere near as frequent in foods here because of regulations as in imported foods so that may be part of it. I can say that I'm really glad DD (19y.o) can't stand fizzy anything & is part of the growing group of teens that aren't interested in drinking alcohol either despite some peer pressure. Her stubbornness has finally become beneficial! Lol

 

These days it's Pibb for me (the Coke version of Dr. Pepper because it's got a little more fizz/burn). I drank Dr. Pepper for a while, then was hooked on Mt. Dew for decades. I now realize that part of that was probably due to undiagnosed ADHD, and the Mt. Dew was helping me survive/function. Probably also why I'm a sucker for carbonation. Sensory seeking. To me, there's nothing quite like the perfection of a McDonald's Coke... they do it just right.