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[V-Adore]

rootbeef float

Please, for the love of God, say that's a terrible typo. The heart quails at the thought of what "rootbeef" might be, let alone an ice cream/soda drink involving it.

EDIT: What an inane post as #3000. Ah, well. Ocular Shenanigans away!

[St_Zartan]

I bring two, drink one whilst smoking outside and give the spare to whomever I please. This means that all day, people try to curry favor to get a delicious Grape Crush the next day.

You are a canny bastard. And what's more, it probably seems to all involved like an unimpeachable and charming eccentricity rather than a cold-hearted social hack.

So, uh, wanna hang out later?

[side_show]

1) my SO and I both love RC Cola for the very same reason - because its quality varies from can to can.  At least here in Canada.  But perhaps we are the dumping ground for the US' cast off B-quality RC Cola.  You can buy two cans and find that one can is sweeter, less carbonated, sort of salty or contains more/less than the other one you bought.  I love that, he loves that, we all love that.

2)

as a knee-high-onna-indian i would have been enthused by the prospect.

*Never in all my life have I heard this expression. Although anyone wearing a knee-high, especially if, implicitly, that person is only wearing one knee high, is silly, and even more so if, say that person is wearing shorts, and yet even more so if that person is wearing sandles, I'm not sure how someones' race might play into this.

*this message has been brought to you by the pc thought police.

3) I spent all night drinking illegetimate Tom Collins-es until the brand-new gin bottle was empty.  Illegetimate in that I used ginger ale instead of tonic water.  And that they were stirred, not shaken.  I'm fairly proud of the fact that I can still mostly string two words together at this point.  Infact, the only reason I am posting right now is because my body insisted I wake up at this un-godly hour (5 AM) and consume water, and since I can't drink water and sleep, here I am.

When it comes to ginger ale, the most adult beverage of the soda family, a friend recounted that her husband, born and raised somewhere in South America, thought that Canada Dry was the national drink of Canada, and was some what disapointed, when he arrived in the country, to find that most of us don't really drink it all that much.

Edited due to drunken typos.

[CortJstr]

rootbeef float

Please, for the love of God, say that's a terrible typo. The heart quails at the thought of what "rootbeef" might be, let alone an ice cream/soda drink involving it.

EDIT: What an inane post as #3000. Ah, well. Ocular Shenanigans away!

It is indeed a typo. There's just something about this board that activates the "beef" typing subroutine in my brain.

And hey, Jough fixed the typo in your title. Good for you.

[V-Adore]

When it comes to ginger ale, the most adult beverage of the soda family, a friend recounted that her husband, born and raised somewhere in South America, thought that Canada Dry was the national drink of Canada, and was some what disapointed, when he arrived in the country, to find that most of us don't really drink it all that much.

Heh heh heh.

I really want to like ginger ale, but I can't quite get into it. The brand I really liked but haven't seen anywhere in a while is Vernor's, which had a very strong ginger taste; that fixed my major problem with ginger ale, which is "it doesn't taste like much of anything." I may have to track it down, although I get the feeling it's like Moxie in that it's a very niche soda.

(Huh; didn't even realize that my title had a typo. Weird.)

[Mantonio]

I really want to like ginger ale, but I can't quite get into it. The brand I really liked but haven't seen anywhere in a while is Vernor's, which had a very strong ginger taste; that fixed my major problem with ginger ale, which is "it doesn't taste like much of anything." I may have to track it down, although I get the feeling it's like Moxie in that it's a very niche soda.

I was always supplied with ginger ale whenever I got sick as a child, so I therefore consider it to be medicine.

[MattFish]

I love Ginger Ale in the same way I prefer Coke over Pepsi, I enjoy less sweet, more carbonation in my sodas. I've recently taken to drinking those carbonated juice drinks when I can get them cheap and I won't be eating anything with it, and I'm hooked. Carbonation is more addictive than caffiene in some instances.

[V-Adore]

I really want to like ginger ale, but I can't quite get into it. The brand I really liked but haven't seen anywhere in a while is Vernor's, which had a very strong ginger taste; that fixed my major problem with ginger ale, which is "it doesn't taste like much of anything." I may have to track it down, although I get the feeling it's like Moxie in that it's a very niche soda.

I was always supplied with ginger ale whenever I got sick as a child, so I therefore consider it to be medicine.

For me, this is 7-Up. I can't drink 7-Up recreationally anymore (unless it's with a lot of grenadine), because 7-Up is what you get when you're home with the stomach flu.

Speaking of grenadine, I am reminded of my latest soda disaster, herein presented in script format:
[V-ADORE is wandering through the dining hall, looking around near the salad bar for interesting things. She finds some RED LIQUID in a bottle covered in fruit designs.]
V: Oh, hey, I bet this is grenadine. This would go great in my Coke.
[She adds copious amounts and goes to sit down. Upon doing so, she takes a big old swig of her soda. There is a moment of terrible, terrible revelation.]
V: oh my god that wasn't grenadine, it was RED WINE VINEGAR   oh sweet jesus
[Somehow, no spit-take follows. Total destruction of that soda and dispensation of a new one does, though.]

That was a taste experience I have no desire to recreate.

[Bozack]

You're definitely an optimist. I would never guess, in a million years, that a cafeteria would stock grenadine.
I love me some Grape Crush, but when I'm at work, I get free soft drinks, which means I end up drinking a ton of Orange Drink (I think Minute Maid??), Root Beer, Coke, or my buddy, Ginger Ale.
The best part about the Ginger Ale is I have to go behind the bar counter and use the squirty gun with it. I want one of those bar guns SO DAMN BAD.

[CortJstr]

For me, this is 7-Up. I can't drink 7-Up recreationally anymore (unless it's with a lot of grenadine), because 7-Up is what you get when you're home with the stomach flu.

I like 7-Up except out of a can it tastes kind of like celery. Of course I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of Doc Brown's Cel-Ray soda.

My last SO used to drink ginger ale pretty much exclusively. The creepy part was restaurants that didn't actually have ginger ale and would construct jinjer ail with whatever they did have in their soda guns.

[Turbo Ninja]

RC is available widely in central Ohio, so much so that my favorite bar has it as the default cola.  Captain and Coke?  Not here, champ.  It's Captain and (Royal) Crown for you!

[St_Zartan]

I like 7-Up except out of a can it tastes kind of like celery.

?!

Also, I like ginger ale (probably because it has that soothing, "this is medicine for you" association with it) and tonic water. (No, not together.)

Here's the thing: according to my driver's license, I am not eighty-five years old. So I really can't explain that one.

[AugustWest]

I like 7-Up except out of a can it tastes kind of like celery. Of course I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of Doc Brown's Cel-Ray soda.

Mmmmm, Dr. Brown's Black Cherry....

[Gimpson]

Also, I like ginger ale (probably because it has that soothing, "this is medicine for you" association with it) and tonic water. (No, not together.)

Here's the thing: according to my driver's license, I am not eighty-five years old. So I really can't explain that one.

I find that tonic water refreshes my thirst more than just about any liquid out  there.  Then again, I do play bridge, so even though my driver's license doesn't say I'm 75 years old, I'm inclined to think it is lying.  

As for ginger ale, I've sampled most of the weird drinks they sell at Whole Foods, and there are some excellent ginger beers that they sell.  They're quite a bit sharper and less sweet than a basic ginger ale.  This one in particular is very strong, and reminds you that the ginger in ginger ale is in fact the same stuff you put in your stir fries.

[arkabee]

When i was a child, I drank Pepsi as would a child.
When i became a man, I drank Coke as would a man.

(my ability to drink things that cause me pain only came to me later in life,
after i started smoking.  there is nothing that i know of quite like the
searing of a ice-cold coke burning through my throat.  coffee too.)

--

"knee high on an indian" is just one of those phrases i picked up as a youth.
in wisconsin.  it means you were short, because you only came up to
someone's knee, usually because of childrenness.

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i had always thought RC Cola was a "Midwest" Thing, since i remember it being prevalent as a youth, merely knee high on an indian, in those
halcyon days of northern wisconsin.

herebouts in the arm pit of the south east (hot, sweaty, sticnky), there is
not much truck for RC.

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i am pleasantly surprised by the new Coke with Lime.   it's pretty good.

but, cherry vanilla dr pepper is goood.