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Beverage of choice

cooby Aug 05 2007 07:24 AM

What do you drink with meals? Both at home and in a restaurant? And since it's summer, let's add picnics to the list...

Benjamin Grimm Aug 05 2007 07:34 AM

Usually Diet Pepsi. I prefer Coca Cola Classic, but I don't want the calories.

metirish Aug 05 2007 07:38 AM

Pepsi is my first choice,if they don't have that I'll usually stay with water.I really don't like Coca Cola.

sharpie Aug 05 2007 08:10 AM

I never drink soda. Water, beer or wine is pretty much it for me. Sometimes iced tea.

cooby Aug 05 2007 08:35 AM

At home I will drink Pepsi, water or maybe a glass of beer at the table. When I'm in a restaurant I almost always ask for iced tea, but sometimes I'll get ginger ale. At picnics I try to find grape koolaid. Don't know why but that always says "picnic" to me.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 05 2007 09:10 AM

Gasp! A confessed Kool-Aid drinker!

cooby Aug 05 2007 09:20 AM

All the time...just made some pink lemonade a little while ago :)

MFS62 Aug 05 2007 10:37 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 05 2007 11:12 AM

Breakfast - low sugar fruit juice, coffee Other meals - diet soda (various flavors and brands) After dinner - coffee. Sometimes a lower carb beer - any brand. Later

OlerudOwned Aug 05 2007 11:08 AM

Sticking to a lot of vitamin water lately, the stuff just tastes good. I tend to gravitate toward the fruit punch, orange, and lemonade flavors.

Rockin' Doc Aug 05 2007 12:17 PM

Mornings I generally drink coffee. Lunch and dinner I will most often drink diet ginger ale or diet 7up (or diet Sprite) at home. If eating out, I generally drink diet Coke/Pepsi since diet Ginger ale and diet 7up aren't usually on the menus. I try to drink a few glasses of water each day particularly in the summer. I probably don't drink as much water as I should though.

DocTee Aug 05 2007 01:18 PM

Coffee before noon, water after. Rockin' Doc-- I figured you would show your southern roots and drink either coca-cola or dr. pepper

sharpie Aug 05 2007 01:55 PM

Forgot to mention the morning coffee. Coffee it is!

Rockin' Doc Aug 05 2007 04:43 PM

Doc Tee, I've lived in the south most of my life, but I'm still NY born. When you're eating in a restaurant they generally carry eithe Coca Cola or Pepsi products. I prefer Coca Cola over Pepsi, but the difference isn't all that great to me. I will drink whichever one the establishment has in diet. Both Pepsi (New Bern, NC) and Coca Cola (Atlanta) are southern in their origins. If I really wanted to be truly southern I would drink "sweet" tea with most meals. I used to really like Dr. Pepper, but I don't drink it very often now. In general, I prefer ginger ale and the clear colas (7up or Sprite) above any others.

Frayed Knot Aug 05 2007 04:58 PM

"Soda Pops" - that was always the term - that I associate with the South. Royal Crown Cola Mountain Dew Orange Crush This is based on seeing signs for them - usually those circular, metal hanging logos - outside gas stations and small general stores during trips as a kid, much of it through small towns in central Virginia. I either saw those brands for the first time during those trips, or just saw them so often then at a time when they were still relatively rare up north, that I still think of them as southern brands even if they technically may not be. Also, my memory is that Pepsi was much more common than Coke in those places.

DocTee Aug 05 2007 05:29 PM

Never knew that Pepsi was a Southern brand. None beats Dr. Brown's Black Cherry. None.

seawolf17 Aug 06 2007 06:49 AM

Coffee in the morning, water & seltzer the rest of the day. The occasional cream soda if one's available.

Willets Point Aug 06 2007 07:19 AM

I gave up sugary beverages for the new year, so I mainly drink water and flavored seltzer. Also have one coffee in the morning and still love beer as well as the occasional wine.

Edgy DC Aug 06 2007 07:23 AM

I gave up sugary beverages, but it's a wagon I keep falling off of.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 06 2007 07:41 AM

I've been pretty successful in giving up sugary beverages (except for my morning cup of tea) in favor of carcinogen-laced diet beverages.

sharpie Aug 06 2007 08:10 AM

Exceptions to my no-sugary drink rule: cream soda if I'm having pastrami (roughly once a year) ginger ale on airplanes. I also drink tomato juice on airplanes. Otherwise I never drink ginger ale or tomato juice.

Willets Point Aug 06 2007 08:15 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I've been pretty successful in giving up sugary beverages (except for my morning cup of tea) in favor of carcinogen-laced diet beverages. Luckily I can't abide the taste of aspartame or saccharine so I have no desire to drink diet beverages.

soupcan Aug 06 2007 10:42 AM

Been addicted to this for about 20 years now Trying to kick the additional sugar and calories though by replacing that with this: The Earl Grey has less sugar and less calories. S'not bad but it takes some getting used to, switching from the Nectar of The Gods and all.

cooby Aug 06 2007 10:55 AM

Oh my, Earl Grey tea...don't get me started on how much I love that

soupcan Aug 06 2007 11:04 AM

It's better hot.

cooby Aug 06 2007 11:52 AM

Oh yes, that's what I mean...with just a shiver of sugar

Vic Sage Aug 06 2007 02:04 PM

- Iced Coffee for Breakfast in the Spring/Summer; Hot coffee in the Fall/Winter - Diet snapple Iced Tea, coffee, and/or water with lunch (weekdays); water (weekends) - Water and/or diet sprite with dinner (weekdays); and an ocasional beer (weekends) - water on night stand

TransMonk Aug 06 2007 03:28 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 06 2007 06:34 PM

12-24oz of Mountain Dew between 8am-Noon at work. 20oz of Tropicana Lemonade between Noon-5pm at work. A couple of trips to the bubbler if I'm still thirsty during the day. A glass of Crystal Light Raspberry Lemonade with dinner if I'm home. A Coke and a glass of water with dinner if I'm out to eat. A domestic local beer if I'm out with friends. A rum and Coke if I'm out with work people. Another glass of Crystal Light Raspberry Lemonade if I'm thirsty before bed or on weekends.

Kid Carsey Aug 06 2007 04:55 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 06 2007 04:57 PM

I try to drink over a gallon of water a day. A quart first thing in the morning with my two cups of elitist coffee. If I eat in for lunch, I'm good with water. If I eat out for lunch, it's unsweetened icea tea or San Peligrino with lime if at an Italian joint. I like wine with food but haven't been drinking as much of it as I would like. I drink more beer than I care to elaborate on. OE: I love grapefruit juice, but can't drink it because of prescription conflicts. I also have been sighted drinking low-sodium V8 from time to time.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 06 2007 04:55 PM

Since we're talking about beverages, shouldn't prune juice be called plum juice? You can't really get juice from a prune; they're dried plums. It's like referring to grape juice as raisin juice.

DocTee Aug 06 2007 05:08 PM

That's a good one Yance. I see the marketing gods have taken to labelling prunes as "dried plums" in the hope of broadening their appeal beyond the geriatric bunch

Benjamin Grimm Aug 06 2007 05:44 PM

I've heard about that too. I wonder if "prune juice" will become "dried plum juice."

Willets Point Aug 07 2007 09:40 AM

This thread makes me regular.