There's a thread for food and recipes, caffeine, and beer drinkers, so I thought I'd start one on non-alcoholic beverages.

For some odd reason, Big Red popped in my head tonight. It's a cherry flavored cream soda, I think. It's been a long time since I had one. I'm generally a Coke or ginger ale man when it comes to soft drinks, but sometimes I get a wild hair and want something different like a Dr. Pepper, which I also haven't had in many moons.

I'm drinking a cold glass of milk right now.

How about you?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Diet Mount Dew or Diet Kroger Cola in a Coca Cola Tumbler.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I've had Kroger cola in the past, and it's not bad. I recently compared Mexican Coke with American, to see if I liked or could tell a difference with the real sugar, but I honestly liked the fructose Coke better. I remember when they changed the formula in the 80's, and then reverted back to it and started selling New Coke and Classic Coke. I kind of liked the New Coke better, but you can't get that anymore.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

From my childhood: Dad's Root Beer (from the 1970's)

Squirt Soda

Dr Pepper

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As far as non alcoholic beverages are concerned, just water.

Over the years the the sweetness of all the "colas" etc just turned me off, I do also drink sparkling water but that is all.

Milk
Home made lemonade.

I drank Dad's root beer when I was growing up. That and Orange Crush. They came in 8-pack glass bottles in a cardboard carrying case, and we returned the empties to the store and got some coins back - don't remember how much, but it was certainly better than nothing!

I like lemonade, but haven't made it from scratch in many moons.

Orange juice is actually my go-to favorite beverage. I buy the frozen concentrate and mix with water.

Bernie, I can't believe it's just beer or water for you!

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Bernie, I can't believe it's just beer or water for you!

Don't forget wine and coffee, :-)

But no soft drinks of any kind

Bernie, I can't believe it's just beer or water for you!

Don't forget wine and coffee, :-)

But no soft drinks of any kind

True - I did forget about those two.

I like fountain soft drinks from restaurants, but they don't always have the right syrup/water mixture ratio. When I was a kid, and my parents would take me to a nice restaurant with them, I'd get a fountain cherry coke, and it would be served in a cocktail glass with a cherry in it, and I thought I was living the high life.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

The water here comes from 2 water wells and has a decent amount of calcium carbonate and some iron in it, I usually mix that with Kroger's version of Crystal Light Fruit Punch a powdered drink mix which has an artificial sweetener with no sugar, yeah I read the ingredients.

The water is barely ok as to taste and is best chilled w/no ice, in the summer cold water is usually only found in the fridge.

Otherwise Diet Soda is good, though sometimes I could do without all the CO2 from the soda.

I've tried other Diet sodas and found them lacking in taste after part or all of a bottle, so DMD and DKC are ok here, though DKC is not available in the local mountains.

I can get money back on the soda bottles, the containers for the powdered drink mix are destined for the trash bag as they aren't worth anything.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I can get money back on the soda bottles

I wish we still did. How much do you get?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I can get money back on the soda bottles

I wish we still did. How much do you get?

It depends on the size of the bottles and how many, beyond a few they pay by the pound, 3 bags of 2L plastic bottles can become maybe $15 or so.

I've got one 30 gallon trash bag mostly full, it's also partly how I won an Xbox One X in a contest last year, Mountain Dew and Diet Mountain Dew, plus more than a few bags of Doritos, getting everything was ferocious, lots of competition. I even Have a Game for it now, Civilization:Revolution for the Xbox 360, yeah there is some backwards compatibility.

Here some info on the CA recycling fee, I forget the current amount since I go for 3 bags at a time.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

It depends on the size of the bottles and how many, beyond a few they pay by the pound, 3 bags of 2L plastic bottles can become maybe $15 or so.

That's nothing to sneeze at. The returnable bottles we used to get in the 16 ounce 8-packs were glass, and they had the name of the bottling plant embossed in the bottom. It was neat. I can't remember how much we got back. Maybe a nickel per bottle? ~But better than nothing!

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I used to love R White's Cream Soda. However, since they changed from glass to plastic bottles, I've found that the taste is somewhat different. :-(

since they changed from glass to plastic bottles, I've found that the taste is somewhat different. :-(

Exactly.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

It depends on the size of the bottles and how many, beyond a few they pay by the pound, 3 bags of 2L plastic bottles can become maybe $15 or so.

That's nothing to sneeze at. The returnable bottles we used to get in the 16 ounce 8-packs were glass, and they had the name of the bottling plant embossed in the bottom. It was neat. I can't remember how much we got back. Maybe a nickel per bottle? ~But better than nothing!

Yeah that's about what I got, but that was a loooooooooooooooong time ago, so the exact amount escapes Me.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

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That's nothing to sneeze at. The returnable bottles we used to get in the 16 ounce 8-packs were glass, and they had the name of the bottling plant embossed in the bottom. It was neat. I can't remember how much we got back. Maybe a nickel per bottle? ~But better than nothing!

In the mid 70's Chicago, I recall a cold 16oz glass bottles of soda would cost about 50 or 60 cents at the neighborhood grocery store and had a 5 cent deposit which you got back when you returned them. Then it changed to 10 cent deposit/refund before plastic bottles started to become popular.

In the Mid 70's to early 80's my brother and I would go many summer mornings, but mostly on Sunday's and Monday's around 8 to 9 am to the local park and forest preserve picnic grounds to collect the empty glass bottles laying around and tossed in the trash cans.

Most people were too darn lazy to take the empty bottles back home after their picnics... We usually collected about 30 bottles per weekend - after a big holiday like July 4th, we could easily collect 50 or more bottles! We would "cash them in" at our local mom-and-pop neighborhood grocery store and split the $$$ evenly between us. It was good money for about one or two hours work to us kids.

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It was good money for about one or two hours work to us kids.

It was also very green.

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A simple Espresso from an Italian AutoRoute service station.

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Bob Smith
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