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Wolf
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Aspartame? Don't get me going on this...
I would prefer cyanide!

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I'm more of a cream soda kind of guy.


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Ordinary standard coke all the way. That diet stuff tastes really plasticy and nasty.


Orangina is nice as well.

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I love sodas.
But I should not drink them. They tear up my stomach like crazy always giving me extremely painful stomach aches.
But they're sooo goood

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Quote: "Aspartame"
Errrg!! The FDA says your body breaks it down into 3 regular enzymes, and nothing else so is isnt hamrful! The only reason it give lab rats cancer is because they dont have the chemicals to digest it properly whereas we do!

Quote: "It doesn't leave your teeth feeling like they have had an acid bath"
Same here!



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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 20:40
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Interesting Facts About Bottled Water

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Dr. Pepper < Vanilla Coke < pepsi < coke=mountain dew voltage

Then there's stuff like Jarritos soda, root beer, or cream soda, but I don't know where those fit in, and I don't drink em often enough.

If we were to include other beverages, I'd have to add like three or four different brands of iced tea (Arizona iced tea? peace tea? sweet tea?)


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Dang, its all a marketing thing. People are very capable of simply buying a water bottle and reusing it over and over--it's that simple, but people buy bottled water anyway. All the time i see a vending machine selling bottled water for a $1.20 and next to it is a water fountain; i almost never see anyone use the fountain....



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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 23:32 Edited at: 12th Jul 2011 23:33
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Quote: "Dang, its all a marketing thing. People are very capable of simply buying a water bottle and reusing it over and over--it's that simple, but people buy bottled water anyway. All the time i see a vending machine selling bottled water for a $1.20 and next to it is a water fountain; i almost never see anyone use the fountain....
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You do realise it's because bottled water is supposed to be better for you? Instead of tap water which is usually filled with chemicals to kill bacteria.



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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 23:37
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But the water is so pure that chemicals from the plastic diffuse into the water from the bottle itself--would you rather drink chlorine or plastic? At my house i have well water so at least i dont need to worry about any bad chemicals.



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Quote: "You do realise it's because bottled water is supposed to be better for you? Instead of tap water which is usually filled with chemicals to kill bacteria."


Again, a victim of advertising. Do a little research on bottled water. Study after study has shown that bottled water is dirtier and has more bacteria than tap water. Plus, a large percentage of bottled water is tap water. Tap water is much more strictly regulated.

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Tap water is treated. Bottled water is "filtered through layers of volcanic rock for pure volcanicity."

The AUP limits me on my real opinion of that, but it's along the lines of male cow excrement. I'm pretty sure water treatment does a better job than sandstone.

What is all the fuss about anyway?
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PLUS tap water has minor amount of beneficial chemicals that keep you healthier and better looking long before they kill you. (says the person who only ever drinks soda, iced tea, or water from the fridge which i'm pretty sure has a filter on it xD)


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drinking bottles atm for ONE reason lol, we have this parasite in our "tap" (right?) water atm, and if we drink it we are at risk to become very ill for up to 2-4 weeks

however bottled water does actually taste better, also keeping water in the refrigerator - win

but usually i drink about 90% soda/day, which i know is very bad and stupid lol, atleast its better than coffee xD which tastes horrible

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Quote: "Do a little research on bottled water. Study after study has shown that bottled water is dirtier and has more bacteria than tap water. Plus, a large percentage of bottled water is tap water. Tap water is much more strictly regulated."


I'm not sure any of these things apply to where I live. Regardless of whether it's true or not, I can't stomach tap water. It just tastes awful.



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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 01:18 Edited at: 13th Jul 2011 01:20
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Chlorinated tap water does taste awful, i personally think Aquafina tastes worse however. I live in the mountains and thus i have tap water, which i think tastes awesome. I have heard before that well water is much better for you anyway.

Lol, this thread has turned from a 'what's your favorite soda' thread to a 'bottled water vs. tap water' thread.



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Oh don't get me wrong, I hate tap water...well water in general. The water here in Anglia practically has bricks ground into it it's so bloody hard.

I always at least add squash to it. Drinking tap water is an emergency situation for me, but I feel exactly the same about bottled water. Just that if I can buy bottled water, I can buy juice which is better.

What is all the fuss about anyway?
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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 01:39
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Squash? I am actually not too familiar with the squash, but do you squeeze its juice in or what do you do?



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I can only drink a little bit of tap water after brushing my teeth because it masks the chlorine / flouride flavor. Tap water is horrible as well as being very unhealthy. It smells like a pool.

I always try to drink filtered water from my pitcher I keep in the fridge. Much better taste. It's crisp and refreshing.

As for pop, I can't stand diet pop. Initially it tastes about the same as regular pop, but if you wait for the aftertaste it's quite unpleasant. Also the fake chemical sugars are awful for you (yes, I understand that the high fructose corn syrup in regular pop isn't much better). I definitely prefer pop that uses pure cane sugar whenever possible! A good brand off the top of my head is Stewart's. It comes in glass bottles too. Win!

Best pop of all time hands down, however, is ice cold Dr.Pepper straight from the can!

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Quote: "Also the fake chemical sugars are awful for you"
And look at what i said:
Quote: "Errrg!! The FDA says your body breaks it down into 3 regular enzymes, and nothing else so is isnt hamrful! The only reason it give lab rats cancer is because they dont have the chemicals to digest it properly whereas we do!"
Aspartame is totally healthy.

Just take a look at this site and decide for yourself.



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Pepsi. Hot damn, Pepsi is amazing.

Quote: "Diet Pepsi
and Diet Coke...I'm not even kidding. I've yet to work out why they're different other than the marketing. They taste the same and have no sugar."

Literally the only difference is that Pepsi has lemon juice, Coke has orange juice.

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??????????????????????????? I never knew that!



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Quote: "They taste the same and have no sugar."


I've heard that before, but not to me. They definitely taste different.

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FDA tells the public what they want to hear. Aspartame used to give me splitting headaches.

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Some people have allergies to the small amounts of formaldehyde generated (it is metabolized well, so no worry) by the digestion of aspartame. It can cause all sorts of weird stuff, so maybe you have allergic reactions to the formaldehyde. Again, they are safe levels of formaldehyde, even though you are reacting to them.



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You know what's funny? I'm from the Netherlands, in Europe, and I love Coca Cola. I drink that stuff in unhealthy amounts - it's my form of coffee. People around me tend to wonder why I don't die due to sugar poisoning. That kind of guy, me.

A few months ago, I headed to GDC in San Francisco. First time in the States, I was all psyched and happy and looking forward to having a great time. We visited a breakfast in Downtown San Francisco and had some crepes and where everyone drank a coffee or juice, I ordered a Coca Cola.

The first sip destroyed my hope for having a good time.

It turns out them Americans drink Coca Cola with the sugar replaced with something called corn syrup. Now, corn syrup - as far as I'm concerned - is the equivalent of Satan himself as a food product. It tastes absolutely like herbal tea, instead of the synthetic sugary mess I want to drink, it sticks to your teeth and palate and I mean seriously what the hell America?

Some locals explained to me that if I wanted 'real' Coca Cola, I had to buy Mexican Coke - which sounds like a drug; it actually is Coca Cola imported from Mexico - it took me a few days to find a shop that sold 'em (and at exorbitant prices, mind you) - but I bought a dozen.

I had a pretty good time anyway, but next time I'm in the States, first thing I'm doing is stacking up on Mexican Coke.

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tha_rami eindelijk een mede nederlandse cola verslaafde

But really, cola is the best thing in the world when watching movie's or when playing games. Way better than that dog piss they call redbull.
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Saw the thread title, couldn't resist

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Mountain Dew, if that is not available, Classic Coke. I hate Pepsi's watered down taste.

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@ tha_rami:

Yeah it's high-fructose corn syrup that's in an annoyingly high amount of food here. Whenever a product requires sugar it's eventually replaced by the cheaper corn syrup. What has happened in America in the last 20 years is an increase in the amount of corn everything has. Corn is really cheap to grow so the government has been encouraging people to grow more and more of it. So much so that the government gives billions in subsidies to farmers to keep corn at a low price and get them to grow more and more of it. We feed it to our cows that (of course) aren't naturally designed to eat corn so the cows are pumped full of antibiotics and other medicine because their constantly sick from their all corn diet. And the media engine keep telling us that it's a good thing we have corn fed cows because it's somehow "better". If you go to our stores and pick up any food item in a can/box/bottle and look at the ingredients you'll always find "corn" somewhere in it.

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@knxrb

You God...

Also Coca-Cola is delicious. We can't really have an argument on tap water because one person might live somewhere where there's good filtration and treatment systems, and another where their local council hasn't taken the dead hobo out of the sewers yet due to budget cuts.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi tastes worlds apart over here at least. It's ironic that for once an American company exports better stuff than where it's based.

What is all the fuss about anyway?
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Coca-Cola is nothing to the swedish "Portello"


It's waaaayyy better

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portello really isnt that great... i prefer pommac, trocadero or champis

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Yup, America's a pretty corny country!



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Quote: "portello really isnt that great... i prefer pommac, trocadero or champis"


They are good too (much better then cola) but I prepher Portello

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Carbonated drinks give me a stomach ache about 25% of the time, so I avoid them. But when I'm home sometimes I'll enjoy some ginger beer. Most pops are not enjoyable to me and too sweet, but Coke is my favourite.


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my favorite soda is like... soviet soda and Mr. Putins soda lol

jk they dont exist. But they do have some great sodas in russia.

Tarhun is this delicios green fizzy drink which is made from some type of a plant. Baikal (named after lake baikal) is like soviet coca cola, but it tastes better, infact the taste is very different from coca cola. Its based on several kinds of herbs that grow around lake baikal area. We also have other sodas based on fruits. but modern versions of all that stuff are all synthetic. Older people used to tell me that baikal and Tarhun sodas used to taste WAAY better than they do today because they were made of the actual plants and herbs. Everyone who is at least 25 years old always says that soviet era foods and drinks were amazing compared with what they have today. Even this documentary i watched on the history of icecream told that un ussr icecream was made of real milk and butter and apperentley tasted infinatley better than todays stuff based on cheap synthetic milk replacement, margirine and chemicals. i know ussr gets a lot of hate but i really wish i grew up in those times so i could consume those legendary drinks and icecream (and legendary other stuff as well).

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Actually Ubuntu Cola is quite nice (Fair Trade Cola, not Linux).

I'd probably actually buy it over a Pepsi.



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it works, but it isnt awesome, but i'd totally drink it if someone offered me to ^_^

and for the record, I am a man.

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Haha we need Windows cola!! But yeh, i would totally drink Ubuntu Cola! I have always wanted to know what an open source OS tasted like!

Haha found this online:

I wonder how Windows BSOD soda would taste!!


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is it just me not sure if anyone mentioned this... but Pepsi and Coca Cola are two entirely different companies...

@AJ Schaeffer Ramune thumbs up buddy love their bottles

I used to drink Pepsi Max until last week when I decided to take a stand from carbonated drinks (yeah that fizzy stuff its carbonated water).

Quote: "2. food industry make liquid fizzy: to make a liquid fizzy by introducing carbon dioxide into it "




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Quote: "I decided to take a stand from carbonated drinks (yeah that fizzy stuff its carbonated water)."


Eyyup. Why?

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Indeed, i knew the company difference. The carbonated water is essentially carbonic acid, so even it is acidic! In the end soda doenst seem that great for you, but i still drink it!


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hey DBD79 how goes

@CoffeeGrunt - damn everytime I read your name I feel like making a coffee...

Well I started to become more conscience lol cant be asked sPell checking today... I decided to drink more tea and coffee and less sugar at that too, still I know milk is bad for you but I still have milk tea and coffee haha

its just I am soon working 90+ hours a week (noting there are only 168 hours in a week) mostly because of my new shop and my full time erm part time job

please enquire no further

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Quote: "@CoffeeGrunt - damn everytime I read your name I feel like making a coffee...

Well I started to become more conscience lol cant be asked sPell checking today... I decided to drink more tea and coffee and less sugar at that too, still I know milk is bad for you but I still have milk tea and coffee haha "


you cannot honestly say that milk and sugar are worse for you than coffee is?

and for the record, I am a man.

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well... I actually as I recently came back from China, started having my refillable tea leaves tea... no milk or sugar needed... its brilliant and helps clean out your body of bad stuff... yeah I never liked coffee tbh, but recently been craving it for no apparrent reason... and no not saying its healthier, just saying th effects are not as evident ^^ more sugar than milk...

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Quote: "hey DBD79 how goes"
Hello! How are you?

I have never liked coffee, believe it or not, it makes me sleepy.


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yeah theres a handful of people me and you included where tea puts you to WIDE AWAKE MODE and coffee puts you to dead asleep mode lol

I am good, finally sort of recovered from my horrid 3rd trip to China, im on meds because of it (muscle pulls)

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I'm a Dr Pepper addict, but it's a mostly occasional thing, water tea and lemonade are more frequent drinks of choice.


But...when I want a soda...I want a Dr Pepper.

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Offtopic: I live in Thailand and here tap water is crazy dangerous for you (Our dog can drink it though. o.O; ) but we have many many brands of bottled water at a very low price. (20 bottles, 32 baht which is about 1 dollar)

On topic: I pretty much only drink fanta, red and grape, I can't stand that green stuff.
I used to be highly addicted to cola (Can't stand coka cola, I drank the cheap danish stuff which tasted much better in my opinion)
I lost my taste for it when I discovered red fanta though, which I now consume in large amounts.
Not every day though, just whenever my wife and I feel like the drive to the nearest super center and then we buy 3-5 bottles at a time.

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