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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
We drink Zevia brand in our house. It doest have any artificial sweeteners and tastes pretty darned good when compared to most diet sodas.

Zevia is pretty tasty. The ginger rootbeer is the best one. However, the wife and I can't have it because Stevia gives us both headaches and stuffy noses that lasts for a couple days.

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Originally posted by bald1:

La Croix is what we now drink.

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Originally posted by bald1:


The go-to here is Polar seltzer / sparkling water. No calorie, no sweeteners, no additives flavors are much better than LaCroix and others on the market.

I too really like the flavored sparkling waters. Waterloo is my normal go-to but recently I tried the wal-mart store brand cherry-lime and loved it.

polar seltzer

No Calories
No Sodium
No Sugar
No Sweeteners
No Gluten

Carbonated water and natural flavoring

https://polarbeverages.com/products/

Caffeine free Diet Pepsi is my go to.

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Originally posted by Steve in PA:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

For the win!!!

I can tolerate Fresca if it's ice cold. Less than that I find it discussing. A slightly warm diet coke is not an issue.

All of those zero calorie and diet sodas taste disgusting to me, with a bad aftertaste.

You’d be better off with flavored seltzer/sparkling waters, there’s a million flavors of them now.

Lately, this hot summer, I've been enjoying Topo Chico.

Seems like all the grocery stores, and Costco, are carrying it.

Topo Chico Link
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I don't believe a thing they say about diets. I switched about 8 years ago and lost 65# and have managed to keep it off. F them !! Good for my body I don't know but the doc says keep doing what your doing because drinking orange juice was going to kill you.

This guy may have an idea that appeals to you fellas.
He carbonates plain water and adds his own flavors. Haven’t tried his technique, so I can’t vouch for it. . .yet. [URL=i https://youtu.be/5oCizeyK9lM]Link[/URL]

My wife drinks LaCroix. It always smells pretty good to me but I can't get over how the taste is nowhere near the smell in intensity.

Clearly I am not alone in this opinion.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
My wife drinks LaCroix. It always smells pretty good to me but I can't get over how the taste is nowhere near the smell in intensity.

Clearly I am not alone in this opinion.

That's what I like about those waters though, it's WATER with just a tiny hint of something to make it more palatable to drink. Wasn't ever supposed to be a fruit soda.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
My wife drinks LaCroix. It always smells pretty good to me but I can't get over how the taste is nowhere near the smell in intensity.

Clearly I am not alone in this opinion.

Try them with just a shot of vodka.....

After giving up soda altogether many years ago (switched to diet in 2001ish and dropped soda altogether in 2008ish), sparkling mineral water became my go-to beverage for times when I don't want plain water. San Pellegrino is my favorite of the widely available options. But I also really like some of the harder to find brands, like Gerolsteiner.

If I'm feeling extra frisky, I'll occasionally mix it 50/50 with cranberry juice and add a squirt of lime juice. (That's also good with Vodka.)

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Originally posted by OKCGene:
Lately, this hot summer, I've been enjoying Topo Chico.

Seems like all the grocery stores, and Costco, are carrying it.

After being bought out by Coca Cola a few years back, Topo Chico went from being relatively obscure brand that was only really popular in South Texas and Mexico, to being widely available in stores nationwide these days.

Diet Mountain Dew is my favorite and I don't notice any aftertaste.

Michael

We did Zevia a few times, and it's not bad, personally I'm not a huge fan of the Stevia taste. Also struck me odd that it's clear 'Coke'.

Recently tried LaCroix again (stocked in the breakroom at work), and was surprised that the Pamplemousse (grapefruit) isn't bad. Tried a couple of the others & didn't like them as much, there was a Razz-something that I didn't like.

Polar seltzer.

Crushed when Diet Coke came out (and it was Coca Cola company product also.)

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Originally posted by MRMATT:
Anyone remember Tab?

I'm on the grapefruit seltzers. La Croix and Bubly mostly. Spindrift occasionally for a small jolt of real fruit juice

For me the holy trinity of diet soda is Sunkist Orange, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, and A&W Root Beer. They are all Dr. Pepper / Snapple group products. This means they go on sale together. I see a lot of threefer sales for soda 12 packs. So when these are on sale I'll buy a 12 pack of each for the threefer.

I started doing this when I notice I was getting food from the nearby pizza place, and buying a can of soda to go along. They were charging $1.25 for a can. I then realized I could bay anything from .25 to .33 a can if I bought it in quantity.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Since I started this thread, long ago, I’ve discovered a couple of new zero-calorie sodas, both very tasty: A&W Root Beer, and A&W Cream Soda. I hadn’t seen either of them in zero-calorie form until recently.

IMO, A&W Is to root beer as Dot’s is to pretzels – best of class! Same for the cream soda.

And A&W Root Beer stirs up happy memories for me: Visits to the A&W Root Beer stand on hot summer evenings. Cute girls on roller skates hanging a tray with frosty mugs, burgers, and fries on my car window. So good!