Its weird... I like the sweet/sour taste of soda once the CO2 is gone. People find me very weird for this
Nah, perfectly normal. Some people don't like carbonation.
I've known a guy who mixed red wine with flat diet coke at business dinners and conferences, deliberately. That was weird.
For me the carbonated kick is what makes these types of drinks stand out... without it, personally I find most taste a bit like an underwhelming squash (kool aid for those in NA)
I just add carbonated water to squash. Usually tastes better and doesn't have the slimy mouth feel most soft drinks have.
If anyone sick enough to like flat soda reads this: The Pepsi Nitro tastes like flat Pepsi as soon as you Crack the can open. Maybe you'd like it. I've drunk other nitro carbonated drinks before and none tasted so flat as Pepsi's.
I hate it so much I use my Sparkel to recarbonate a drink that happens to
I used to prefer Coke after it goes flat. Or mostly flat. I still don't mind flat soda. Perfectly happy to keep drinking it long after all of the carbonation is gone.
Meanwhile, I discovered that you could get A&W root beer versions of those little flavor packs that you dump in a bottle of water. Yeah, no. Horrendously disgusting without carbonation. I'll stick with pink lemonade.
Yep, I hate getting gassy after drinking carbonated soda, so I give it a little shake to release some of the gas. I also pour it into a glass from high up so it gets all fuzzy and releases more gas before I drink it.