My grandmother drank a Dr Pepper every day, REAL Ginger Ale is good and I still like a REAL Coke from time but ONLY if its from Mexico or the Netherlands which have coke as close to the old recipe as you can find.
Hollander (I am)?
I used to drink a lot of Pepsi, and tons of Mountain Dew - But I just hit the gak-line sometime back in my early 30's, wondering why the hell I was chugging these things that taste so dang bad. It was the road... When I was home, or at my kin (any of them), there was always sweet-tea to be found, which was always my preference (from a Mason jar, mind you). I just walked off of it, and never went back.
Now, all the waitresses at the diners I frequent know me.... And they come on by with a steel milkshake jug, a pitcher of tea, and a table-jar of sugar (saves them money and me time, if I ain't gotta rip into all those silly little packets)... And most anywhere I might go, diners are happy to fill that Mason jar for me if I am on the run.
Want to GAG, try a Mountain Dew, not sure what its supposed to taste like as its so sweet that you will go into diabetic shock or coma before you finish.
I dunno if they changed it or what... I had one a long while back, and it tasted nothing like what I remembered.
In my dad most drinks were 8 oz. Coke and Ginger ale actually brought something to the table besides sweet would settle you stomach, Dr Pepper was good HOT on a cold day. Root Beer when made with natural rather than artificial junk is very tasty and tastes best when on draft. Outside of that its just sugar, water and artificial flavors, not worth you time.
I rarely drink any as getting the orginial stuff is not easy, most of it is found outside the US, but you can get real Ginger Ale at some speciality stores.
I ain't had REAL ginger ale in a coon's age - Last was down with my kin down in Wamego, KS.
But I DO know a hillbilly family up here that make their own root beer - A good reason to wander on in if I am up that way...and you can still get genuine creme soda at Norm's, a real soda fountain up on main street here in town.
But for the most part I am a simple man. Sweet tea, coffee, lemonade, or just plain water suffices. any of the other is rare enough to be a real treat.