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In THE BATTLE OF THE HOT BEVERAGE, coffee comfortably won, with hot chocolate and tea tied in second place in the poll.
After the hot beverages, it's now turn for cold beverages to do battle. Like with the hot beverages' poll, alcoholic and medicinal beverages will be excluded in this poll. So there's no beer, whisky and wine unless they're non-alcoholic. The poll is only concerned with soft drinks and I'm including milkshakes, smoothies and yogurt drinks as soft drinks because they're drunk not eaten.
There are no separate poll options for diet versions, whether reduced-sugar or sugar-free, of soft drinks. Those who like diet cola, diet lemonade or diet whatever, please vote for cola, lemonade or whatever.
This was a difficult poll to compile, not least because of the large number of branded soft drinks, especially fizzy drinks (soda or pop to my American friends).
My favourite cold beverages are blackcurrant squash (it has to be Ribena), cola (especially Pepsi), dandelion and burdock, Lilt (now called Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit), ginger beer, milkshakes (especially banana, butterscotch, chocolate, lime and strawberry milkshakes), smoothies (particularly those containing crushed mango), tonic water (only with gin) and yogurt drink (especially if vanilla is involved), with fruit juice being the cold beverage I most want to drink. I love mango juice, and I love tomato juice (best served with Worcestershire sauce). But my favourite fruit juice is freshly-squeezed orange juice, perfect on a hot summer's day.
Freshly squeezed orange juice:
I've not tried a bacon soft drink and I don't want to try one. Of the cold beverages I've tried, my least favourite ones are cherry cola, Dr Pepper, flavoured water, non-alcoholic beer and non-alcoholic wine, with milk being the cold beverage I most don't want to drink. I like milk in my coffee and on my breakfast cereal, but I cannot stand drinking milk on its own.
What are your most and least favourite cold beverages?
Do you regularly make your own fruit juice, milkshakes, smoothies and/or yogurt drinks?
What's best, Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
I rarely make my own fruit juice, milkshakes, smoothies and yogurt drinks. Generally I buy them ready-made. I'm too lazy to make them!
I'm a Pepsi man.
Below is a poll where you can anonymously select your most favourite cold beverage. Unfortunately only one pick is allowed in the poll.
A poll on this site can only have a maximum of 20 answer options. There was unfortunately no room as poll options for: Appy Fizz, bacon soft drink (an American drink), blueberry lemonade, Cactus Cooler (an American orange-pineapple flavoured drink), cherryade, coconut sparkling water (aka coconut shot), cordial, dandelion and burdock, diluted fruit juice (fruit juice diluted with water; eg Fruit Shoot, J20), Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit (formerly known as Lilt), flavoured water, ginger ale, ginger beer, Irn-Bru (popular in Scotland), Kool-Aid, limeade (aka lime soda), Mirinda, non-alcoholic cider, non-alcoholic liqueur, non-alcoholic punch/sangria, non-alcoholic spirits, non-alcoholic spritzer/spritz, non-alcoholic wine, raspberry lemonade, Slush Puppie, squash (eg orange squash, blackcurrant squash), Tizer (popular in Britain), tonic water, Vimto (popular in Britain) and wonjo juice (a Gambian drink).
I think cola will win, with fruit juice, milkshakes, smoothies and water doing well in the poll.
I want to thank @EnigmaInitiative for her invaluable advice in compiling this poll. Obviously, any mistakes with the poll are my mistakes unless 'other' wins!
Please see the first comment below to see what has won each battle of the food and drinks so far.
Ribena blackcurrant squash, just add water to the fruit syrup and a squash is ready to drink:
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I use to be addicted to soda.....I would drink practically any kind of soda. What I learned was I wasn't hooked on any of the flavors. For me it was the fizz. I guess it was about enjoying it with a meal and afterwards, I would belch whatever I ate. The soda fizz was what made it happen.
The belching was part of the process but I didn't enjoy what they put into the drink. All the sugars and it's addictive qualities. I ended up moving away from the soda pop and moved to the seltzer water.
What a difference that was for me. To this day I have not had a soda in almost ten years. I drink seltzer water as often as I can. I do have an occasional beer when dining out. My other choice of beverage is pineapple juice or a Steigl Radler Beer, grapefruit flavor preferably.
Here we call seltzer water carbonated or even soda water. It's usually used as a mixer.
All full of poison called sugar. Thats why everyone in this country is sick. You people keep the big pharma in business. Drink water
I'm blocking you now.
@spunkycumfun wa wa wa wa
Arnold Palmer !/2 lemonade and 1/2 iced tea
I've never had an Arnold Palmer. Thanks for stopping by.
Diet soda, or diet caffeine-free
Though I should drink diet, I like sugar too much! Thanks for stopping by.
@spunkycumfun I was pre-diabetic in the early 2000s, so I switched from non-fat to sugar-free. I completely stopped drinking soda which has sugar/sweetener in it, and add sugar-free creamer and sugar substitutes to my coffee, and that worked for 20 years... Now I have to cut back on sweeteners due to the insulin response to sweet foods.
@hotttswingers I'm glad you've got your diabetes under control.
Propel (which I did not see falling under the water category you had posted
Unfortunately I couldn't find room for flavoured water in my poll. My apologies.
I use to love drinking Raspberry Ice Tea Until I started to drink Proel water
beer is okay in summer
I like beer all year round. Thanks for stopping by.
While I love cherry coke and root beer, my favorite soda with sugar that's readily available anywhere in Japan would be ginger ale. Otherwise, I normally drink fizzy water or iced tea.
Yakult is in the list but not ginger ale? 🤔
Ginger ale was on my list but I dropped it. I wasn't aware at the time how popular ginger ale is. It's not big here and only drunk as a mixer usually with whisky.
Going with Ginger Ale, it's been my favorite forever!
I've never been able to tell the difference between the colas... if you put them all in front of me, I couldn't tell you which was which and therefore, no preference. They all make great mixers!
Ginger ale seems popular in America and I didn't even put it in the poll.
I drink cold tea all day. A mix of green and black tea with stevia extract. I also drink a lot of water.
I like my tea hot, even boiling hot!
What I really in cola is RC and none cola is Vess orange. I grew up on those to.
I've not come across RC.
Starbucks bottled vanilla Frappuccino!!!
I've never tried that. I prefer my coffee hot though.
I voted for my Cherry Pepsi, but I have to say a good cold Strawberry Lemonade for me is right up there. I can't wait to see which cold beverage wins this battle..
I hope you enjoy a thrilling Thursday my friend..
Iced tea and water so far are doing well in the poll.
Wasn't sure how to vote in this one. My favorite cola is Diet Coke but I often have a root bear or Dr Pepper when at a fast food place. At home I rarely drink soda and of late never the three I mentioned above. It is mostly either Orange juice or grape juice. Of the juices, I avoid both apple and grapefruit. Apple seems way too sweet and bland and my stomach does not get along with grapefruit. Also any kind of milk is out. Persnickety aren't I.
Have yourself a great day and rest of the week.
I've never had a root beer. we just don't it here, or at least where I'm looking.
@spunkycumfun I am surprised it is hard to come by in the UK. Am not sure why it is such a very American drink.
May you soon find some and have a taste.
@justskin1 I'm sure I could find it if I looked hard enough but it's not stocked in supermarkets or served up in cafes and pubs.
By leaving non-alcoholic drinks off the list, you've left me with no options!
The truth is, I don’t drink any soft drinks: only water… when I’ve had a scare
No, seriously, I don’t drink any non-alcoholic beverages. I sometimes drink plain water, and less often Perrier, but not much. I don’t need a lot of hydration since I sweat very little.
Like you, I'd prefer an alcoholic over a non-alcoholic beverage!
Ginger ale
Ginger ale seems popular here and I didn't even have it in the poll.
I make my own smoothies with bananas, strawberries, blueberries, peanut butter, dark chocloate and sometimes spinach added in. I avoid pre-made, pre-packaged smoothies, but have some at a cafe where it was made fresh. When I was a soda drinker, it was Coke. A few years back, in Quebec, I found some unique soda flavors. They were butter, peanut butter and jelly, pickle and, lastly, ranch dressing. All sound bad, but the ranch dressing seems the least palatable.
Your home-made smoothies sound great though I'm not so sure about the spinach being thrown in.
I had to go with "other" since I did not find ginger ale (or couldn't figure out when it fit in).
As to the colas, I mostly drink Coke, though if I really need to sugar boost, Pepsi gives a better one.
Ginger ale was on my list but I then dropped it as I can only have 20 poll options.
For the record, Brussels sprouts won THE BATTLE OF THE VEGETABLES, bananas won THE BATTLE OF THE FRUITS, basil won THE BATTLE OF THE HERBS, garlic won THE BATTLE OF THE SPICES, cashew nuts won THE BATTLE OF THE NUTS, sunflower seeds won THE BATTLE OF THE SEEDS, roast beef won THE BATTLE OF THE ROAST DINNERS, cheesecake won THE BATTLE OF THE PUDDINGS, pepperoni won THE BATTLE OF THE PIZZA TOPPINGS, Caesar salad won THE BATTLE OF THE SALADS, green beans won THE BATTLE OF THE BEANS, watermelon won THE BATTLE OF THE MELONS, tomato-based pasta sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE HOT SAUCY DIPS, barbecue sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE COOL SAUCY DIPS, vanilla ice cream won THE BATTLE OF THE ICE CREAMS, capellini (aka angel hair) won THE BATTLE OF THE PASTAS, steak won THE BATTLE OF THE BARBECUE, romaine lettuce won THE BATTLE OF THE LETTUCES, honeycrisp apples won THE BATTLE OF THE APPLES, stout won THE BATTLE OF THE BEERS, whisky won THE BATTLE OF THE SPIRITS, clam chowder won THE BATTLE OF THE SOUPS, sourdough bread won THE BATTLE OF THE BREADS, liver won THE BATTLE OF THE OFFAL, roast turkey wonTHE BATTLE OF CHRISTMAS FOODS, Old Fashioned won THE BATTLE OF THE COCKTAILS, Americano coffee won THE BATTLE OF THE COFFEES, English breakfast tea won THE BATTLE OF THE TEAS, maple syrup won THE BATTLE OF THE PANCAKES, barbecue sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE CONDIMENTS, ribeye steak won THE BATTLE OF THE STEAKS, portobello mushrooms won THE BATTLE OF THE MUSHROOMS, beefsteak tomatoes won THE BATTLE OF THE TOMATOES, barbecue crisps won THE BATTLE OF THE CRISPS, strawberries won THE BATTLE OF THE BERRIES, crab won THE BATTLE OF THE SHELLFISH, vanilla yogurt won THE BATTLE OF THE YOGURTS, jasmine rice won THE BATTLE OF THE RICE, chicken wings won THE BATTLE OF HOT FINGER FOODS, cheeses won THE BATTLE OF COLD FINGER FOODS, dry red wine won THE BATTLE OF THE WINES, tap water won THE BATTLE OF WATER, blueberry muffins won THE BATTLE OF THE MUFFINS, cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE CHARCUTERIE, cow milk hard cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE CHEESE, burgers won THE BATTLE OF FAST FOOD, olive oil won THE BATTLE OF THE OILS, beef stew won THE BATTLE OF THE STEW, cow milk won THE BATTLE OF THE MILK, butter won THE BATTLE OF THE BAKED POTATO, salad won THE BATTLE OF THE SIDE DISH, pizza won THE BATTLE OF THE SAVOURY PIE, apple pie won THE BATTLE OF THE SWEET PIE, and coffee won THE BATTLE OF THE HOT BEVERAGE.