i have no idea what the fuck that stuff is supposed to be or taste like. It's like someone was tasked with making "brown" a soda flavor and for whatever reason this is the most popular flavor? It tastes like brown what the actual fuck is this stuff and why does everyone like it so much???

  • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Dude people like cola because they think it tastes good. If you have a legitimate critique of cola cool bro let your freak flag fly but this post is very "what's with all these normies liking normal things not me y'all I'm interesting and different".

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    It's supposed to be kola bean and caramel flavoured fizzy drink. I'd say it's a sub-par soda, but advertising, deals with fast food giants to be the default drink and buying shelf space is a usually more then enough to keep a product popular even when better colas are out there.

    I once tried a cola drink from New Zealand brand called Phoenix and it was so good that it made me realise how tasteless coke cola is now. Like Coke just tastes like sweetener now.

    • discontinuuity [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      IIRC kola beans were only used for the caffeine, most of the flavor comes from vanilla, cinnamon, and citrus oils.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola

      My favorite is Blue Sky Cola which unfortunately I've only found at Whole Foods.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, Phoenix is good. Also Fritz Cola in northern Germany is amazing.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Hey! Hereabouts our death drink is pure forced labour produced sucrose mate.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Real cola is like real root beer. There's a lot of complex spicing which other sodas don't have. Virgil's, Curiosity Cola, and Boylan's are all really good.

  • videogame [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I drank Mountain Dew today after not drinking it for a while and it really sucks, this shit sucks, why do people like this, why did I like this, it tastes like sugary gamer piss that coats your tongue and throat and teeth with sugar poison

  • AlephNull [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    There must be something in the water.
    One of the largest, best recognised companies with the largest reach sells packaging black water with waaay too much sugar in it.
    The gods must be crazy

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    It reminds me of my childhood for some reason, capitalists be programming us and we dont even remeber how or when.....also Dr.Pepper objectively tastes better but coke still tastes better then dogshit pepsi that shit is borderline la croix

  • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Cinotto is pretty good and is basically the thinking man's cola