I have not had soda in a month and I never will again

Seriously? But you still drink coffee, right? Because I have trouble concentrating, but I drink a couple of sodas and four or five cups of coffee a day. So maybe that's why.

My freshman year of high school I lived out in the middle of NOWHERE, Virginia. We won a radio contest and CeCe Peniston came to sing at our school, along with someone even lesser known that I can't remember. And I got her autograph. (Wait, anthony, is that your screen name all the time now??)

x-post. Awesome.

mmmm....boylan's....

last summer I relapsed and had a vanilla coke...it was meh.

i'm an orange juice addict, myself

I am getting my hydration by eating a lot of oranges. It sort of works okay. I'm seriously considering putting water back into my diet though.

I barely ever drink soda, but I used to buy diet coke by the case and guzzle it constantly. I just carry around a water bottle now, because I'm always thirsty.

I've been craving a root beer float lately...

http://www.popvssoda.com/

many of my illinois friends and i call it soda because 'pop' sounds fucking retarded.

unless you call it soda pop. thats ok in my book.

I WIN.

I WIN.

I've never had a soda in my entire life. Outside of things like accidentally getting a coke instead of an iced tea and sipping it my mistake, I've never tasted, drunk, etc. etc. soda pop of any kind.

I win!

I hated soda then, I continue to hate it now.

When I was a little kid my tastes were entirely turned around from what the other kids liked. I hated all soda, candy, junk food, and sweets in general and more or less still do now. I was always a problem at school events where food was being served because things were tasteless and bland. By high school I was taking my own garlic and pepper to the school dining hall.

I did that all the time in college too. When cramming for a test or whatever I'd drink the entire two liters in a night (yay caffeine), so it seemed pointless to get a glass.

I still don't get the soda-for-caffeine camp. When cramming for a test or writing a paper, I could easily down two pots of coffee, but there's no way I could drink that much pop* in one sitting.

Soda = caffeine + assload of sugar
Coffee = caffeine, pure and unadulterated

You don't get the Big Sugar Comedown after drinking a lot of coffee.

Anthony, I have totally peed in some empty pop bottles in my day. Not in my dorm room though.

I have not posted in a month and I never will again

i love soda so much

lol i am swearing it off for 2 weeks starting today

by coincidence

doctor's orders pretty much

i gotta bad coke habit. this zero shit ain't the same.

Doc was like "no soda or spicy food or alchohol" and I was like "do you know who I am"

i drink sprite and that's pretty much about it. i grew up drinking a lot of pepsi but nowadays i just feel gross when i do

I don't drink much soda anymore, maybe one every couple weeks. Used to be 2+ a day. I've cut down on junk food altogether. I just feel too shitty afterward.

i drink one or two a day

it seems hard at first but if you stop for a while soda gets kind of gross when you go back to it

My mom worked for Coke when I was growing up so I don't think I had my first Pepsi product til like high school

And yeah it's like "oh my god why am I drinking this carbonated syrup" xp

esp because i always hated regular soda as a kid and i always drank diet and now when i drink it the aspartame tastes really weird

I was one of those kids that drank 6 sodas a day for a decade or so. Sometime during my sophomore year in college, I decided to quit cold turkey. A few days later, I started drinking coffee for the first time. Now that's gotten a little out of control as well. I need a new vice.

sm0ke w33d

i seriously do not understand diet soda drinkers at all, it tastes even fouler, wtf

know what's funny? i always feel like i've committed a serious sin when i drink 2 cans of soda in a sitting but if i go to a restaurant i'll drink 3 glasses of soda like it ain't no thang and won't think twice about it

i don't know, just every time i had regular coke i could never take more than a sip.

i do this with beer xp

i always have big plans to brew ice tea at home and then bring jugs of it to work to drink instead of coke but i'm too lazy.

i drink 2 of those 500ml bottles of diet coke everyday at work, one for breakfast and one with my lunch. i'm sure it's full of shit that's bad for me, but it's just really satisfying to gulp 'em down.

Doc was like "no soda or spicy food or alchohol" and I was like "do you know who I am"

― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, December 7, 2008 4:23 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

big hoos aka the pooper problems

Except for some of those Mexican Jarritos you can get at the better taquerias, I've never drunk soda at all. It just never appealed to me at all. Sugar/corn syrup/carbonated water? Weird. No thanks.

Nowaday, when I do spring for a soda, I figure I might as well treat myself to something good, w/ real sugar, so Jones or Hansens it usually is.

i drink a coke light every day almost. sometimes sprite. but real coke is the (sugar) bomb. used to dirnk that shit by the gallon when i was a kid.

Doc was like "no soda or spicy food or alchohol" and I was like "do you know who I am"

do not step, doctor

big hoos aka the doctorchallenger

oh man i just remembered CHINA COLA which is great but hard to come by here so i don't drink it often

never hesitate to grab a doctor by the collar quick.

anyway i kinda realized one day i hadn't had a soda in probably years. it's kind of gross and i don't miss it, but every now and again i'll have a cloying natural indie pop like a blue sky.

i had a barq's this wkend cos i was driving and i couldn't get thru the can, fuck soda is basically how i feel.

fuck soda is basically how i feel break it down to an extent

Doc was like "no soda or spicy food or alchohol" and I was like "do you know who I am"

― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, December 7, 2008 3:23 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol trust soda is by far the easiest of those three to drop

yeah its pretty easy to avoid primarily bcuz it really doesnt actually taste that good

lol trust soda is by far the easiest of those three to drop

― deej, Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:07 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

for real

i had two cups of coffee with my spicy burger at dinner last night and capped the night with a couple pints of beer

i'm a binge dier

my girlfriend is straight up addicted to diet coke. like she gets kind of distressed and peevish when she decides she "needs" one and for whatever reason can't. she's sorta jokey about it, but her attempts to go without for more than a couple of days have been mostly fruitless. do they make a phosphoric acid/ aspartame patch?

what's with girls and diet coke

i don't drink soda btw

calories - 0
fat - 0
carb - 0

women be dieting?

she's not really on a diet tho. she straight up loves that shit.

I can't drink softdrinks at all - they only make me more thirsty, I have a really really restricted sweet tooth - I think it happened when I had braces on my teeth at 15 and wasnt allowed any sweets or soft drink for 18 months. Lost the taste for sugar completely (I'm not even a fan of fruit). About the only thing i'll indulge in a few times a week is vitamin water, but only the one with guarana in it, and even then I water it down a bit.

Diet soft drinks are even worse. Fake sugar is some straight up foul shit.

straaaaay talkin

i have not had soda in a v long time either - i decided i was giving it up. am eating ice cream now though

I recently decided to drop my Coke consumption to 1 per month or fewer; right now it's 1~ per week. I've kept drinking Coke even though I know better because I believe it is my duty as an American to drink it. It is my magical patriot juice.

i gotta bad coke habit. this zero shit ain't the same.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, December 7, 2008 3:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i get mad headaches when i dont drink a coke by noon. i hate coffee - the taste and smell - so what am i going to do? drink water?

also here is what my dentist told me about soda and teeth: drinking soda is fine as long as you do it quickly. like drink one with lunch maybe. sipping is what destroys your teeth because it takes 20 mins to neutralize the acid in your mouth and if your sipping it never happens. this also applies to juices which are just as damaging.

Sodas: unless as a mixer, or if I am having mad expat root beer float craving, never ever. Diet soda tastes foul and like all 'lo-cal' is a completely false economy. People need to realise you should only drink tiny glasses full of juice because after about 6oz you're looking at a fructose rush that makes it harder for the body to break down the sugars that already exist in everything else you're eating.

i've basically stopped drinking soda for the past few months but i've been drinking a loooot more coffee

Vernors and fuck the rest.

i had quit for a while but i've fallen off the wagon

had a fanta orange recently which was my first such drink in about a year. tasted amazing.

i drink like 2 liters of the shit per day. its sick but i have some weird dependency on it. i feel sluggish without it. i think its because of how much reefer i also burn. a vicious cycle of consumerism.

I quit about 4 weeks ago too - it was surprisingly easy to quit, even for someone with a 5 Diet Coke a day habit. One side effect is my coffee intake seems to have increased.

still going strong here! when i'm at work i have a coffee in the morning and water the rest of the day.

I can hold my coffee better than water. It's like two minutes after I drink a pint of water, I have to use the bathroom, like clockwork.

I don't drink a lot of soda (or "Coke", as we call it here.) I go through a two-liter of Sprite in about ten days, mixing it with boysenberry juice. But I do drink beer and coffee, so I'm not going to strut my stuff on this thread or anything.

I have to drink Coca-Cola when eating pizza. Pizza crust and coke is great.

I'm on day three. Thank you, iced tea.

^admire u

I never drink anything like this, except occasionally as a mixer and I guess beer qualifies as a soda of sorts, prob as much sugar.

I drink loads of smoothies and fruit juice, my teeth are gonna rot, but not really drank coke or anything in a couple of months I think.

I used to drink a couple of cokes a day (although always with food) but since the new year I've cut back to a couple a week (I just can't enjoy pizza without a soda, and I can't enjoy life without enjoying pizza) and it hasn't been too difficult. My roommate and I banned them in the house, using HEB lemon or lime-flavored fizzy water as a substitute. As a result, we go through about 50 cans a week. It's not the sugar and caffeine I can't do without, it's the effervescence!

^^ That's me exactly. I drink a lot of diet coke but have cut back recently but can't live without my selzer. The bubbles just make water so much better. If someone told me I could never drink any sort of fizzy drink at all I'd be so sad. It just seems more refreshing to me.

I cut out sugary pop entirely for Boylan's lemon seltzer. Since we moved, I can't find it! Grr!

f.hazel, I'm totally with you re: cola and pizza. I just gotta have it with certain food items.

I have been on a no-soda policy for years, and didn't crave soda in the slightest until all of a sudden recently I got a weird craving for them and started having a few here and there. Odd. They're really bad for your teeth, I understand, even the diet ones.

(I just can't enjoy pizza without a soda, and I can't enjoy life without enjoying pizza)

^^^ THIS IS THE WORST PART!

Green tea with mango for me, poured into plastic bottles and refrigerated until delightfully cold.

Apparently green tea lowers bad cholesterol, fights cancer, strengthens and whitens your teeth, boosts your immune system, manages your weight, gives you more powerful erections, balances your checkbook, makes sure you're wearing clean underwear, spays and neuters your pets, turns the light out in the bathroom, fights corporate greed, and makes kittens cuter.

i'd love to give up soda completely but i just really really love the taste of coke classic. even if it's only once a week or so, i can't quite give it up.

i wish they'd develop a carbonated iced tea because i'd probably wind up drinking nothing else.

(I just can't enjoy pizza without a soda, and I can't enjoy life without enjoying pizza)

^^^ THIS IS THE WORST PART!

― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:51 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is soo otm it's not even funny

i cut way back on diet coke once i learned about the link between aspartame and formaldehyde.

this is a fun read:

http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html

http://www.dorway.com/graphics/ambblack.gif

so i don't drink much soda anymore but i still think that small-batch sodas made with cane sugar (esp. black cherry sodas!) are very tasty.

can't quit you, mountain dew

i have v little soft drink these days but i can't resist the fortnightly 1.25lt bottle of irn bru when i do the supermarketing

id cut out fizzy sweet drinks for years, even taken to only having lime and soda in spirits but now i cant live without old jamaica fiery ginger ale, amazing with captain morgans

^ word

although to be fair everything is amazing with captain morgans

COMIN ALIVE AFTER 5

GET SPICEY

CAPTAIN MORGAN'S RUM
YOU KNOW IT'S THE ONE

DON'T FAKE THE FLAVA

I almost never drink sugary soda -- toxic. Diet ginger ale, root beer, Dr Pepper and occasionally DCoke.

after a while drinking it on sunday i found myself craving an even spicier ale. maybe make it with fresh ginger? does that work in drinks? i imagine smushing it up with some limes and mint and it would own

For those fixated on the soda & pizza combination, have you ever had beer & pizza? I think someone's mind is gonna be blown..

you don't get the salty/sweet combo then tho.

still drink 1-2 cans a day, shit...

The only fizzy soft drink I ever drink is Old Jamaica ginger beer. Unless I get a fast food meal option. I don't think I'd miss it at all.

Re: beer and pizza - I don't really like drinking beer with food cos I like to pig out and fizzy drinks hinder that. Pizza THEN beer = heaven for me.

New experiments in iced tea that are big winners:

Tazo "Passion"
Yogi Tea "Egyptian Licorice"
Stash "Peppermint"

The licorice is especially mad.

fuck all y'all i'm gonna die young w/bubbles in my mouth

There's an image.

http://www.go-boom.com/images/goji-bubble.jpg

^
going out like a champ

Yeah well, it ain't gonna destroy Tokyo, but the licorice tea has a really clean taste in the front of your mouth and a fantastic licorice afterburn. A++

licorice tea vs mechalicorice tea

tazo? more like cazzo

cazzo tea: dnw

I'm on day 56 or something. I might give up and just drink less?

haven't had a soda this year, and it feels so good.

I just had a red bull milkshake :-\

I mean a Red Bull shake (Red Bull + mango ice cream)

wtf gross

yeah, you're right. I was feeling masochistic, I guess.

This is among the saddest thread titles.

I think half my calorie consumption comes from Cola. (NB my meals lately consist of like whatever I can put in my mouth quickly with no prep, ie my average meal is something like two tangerines + a handful of almonds + sliced cheese.)

I don't really care for soda at all. I drink it if it's available at some party, and maybe occasionally at a restaurant/bar, but that's about it. It must be years since I last bought soda to drink at home.

If I am in a dour place Coca-Cola classic cheers me up faster than anything. Alcohol can exacerbate a bad mood and naturally marijuana is the height of all folly for me to approach when depressioed, BUT cola is a big, friendly hug. I think it is the sugar + carbonation + taste + caffiene + some placebo/classical conditioning thing.

(I also like vanilla Coke for the sads.)

However, I kinda think I trink too much orange juice, so I've been trying to cut that down. Even though it's non-sugared, 100% whole juice, there's still sugar in it and I do think the acids in it must be bad for my teeth too.

(x-post)

OJ from the store here has about as much sugar as soda!

natural sugars vs HFCS

We have sugared OJ too, but it's not that common to drink it. People mostly drink the 100% juice which has nothing added to it. I don't really like the taste of sugared orange juice.

I have just about got my grapefruit-juice habit under control. This thread can inspire me.

If you start taking anti-depressants, most prohibit grapefruit consumption. That cld help. (Lord knows why I follow that dictum so faithfully while the 'don't drink alcohol' bit is like, 'oh whatevs.')

This is among the saddest thread titles.

Yeah, because it reminds me that there are people out there addicted to soda, of all things.

I have just about got my grapefruit-juice habit under control. This thread can inspire me.

― nabisco, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:37 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just did a speedball of this shit w/ my lunch today:

http://popsop.ru/wp-content/uploads/sierra_mist.jpg

I dunno, J, "soda" seems like it's well on the good end of stuff to be addicted to

soda makes you fat. fat people die.

like karen carpenter

don't you remember when you told me you loved me baby

I think the only soda I drink these days is ginger ale when I'm on an airplane, out of habit from when I was younger. Also the occasional Izze.

I dunno, J, "soda" seems like it's well on the good end of stuff to be addicted to

No, it's pretty lame. It's equivalent to getting beat up by kittens.

I think the thrust was that I might rather get beat on by a kitten than a hippo, the former being rather more manageable

and cuter!

kittens kill

employ defensive masturbation

look out kitty

more manageable but more mockable and more difficult to brag about conquering, which is what it's all about let's b real

A security guard here at the library likes to talk about his soda addiction and how long he's been "off the juice." He still eats more candy than anyone I've ever seen.

more difficult to brag about conquering

not based on this thread

i've cut way back on soda consumption but i'm never going to give it up completely. one soda every couple of weeks isn't going to do any serious damage and a coke is so delicious once in a while

I think I stopped drinking soda around the same time that I started drinking beer. I guess if I'm going to pack on liquid calories, I'd rather get drunk while I'm at it.

i went all of last weekend

my compromise is to only drink soda at dinner and not lunch and dinner

I think I stopped drinking soda around the same time that I started drinking beer. I guess if I'm going to pack on liquid calories, I'd rather get drunk while I'm at it.

^^^. I drink lemonade with lunch.

But I'm getting too old to enjoy beer :(

I used to drink massive amounts of soda. At the peak of my consumption, I would drink at least one 64oz Dr Pepper from the corner 7-11 a day. I started getting crazy stomach aches and thought I was getting an ulcer from stress. I didn't have any medical insurance, so I just dealt with it for 2 years or so. Eventually I stopped drinking beer, and then later soda, and it went away and hasn't been back since. I still drink the occasional small 7-up or Coke with certain types of food, but for the most part the stuff just seems too sweet for me now. I drink a lot of water and Honest Tea, and sometimes Paul Newman lemonade when I feel like something sweet. At one time, I never thought I'd be able to quit drinking soda, but now I don't miss it at all.

I guess if I'm going to pack on liquid calories, I'd rather get drunk while I'm at it.

DING DING DING

I'll drink soda if a)the place has Dr. Pepper and I haven't had any soda that week b) i'm eating Mexican c) i'm eating pizza.

yeah if I get pizza with spicy Italian sausage, I have to have Pepsi. Nothing tastes better with it to me. Mexican, I prefer tea or water with a slice of lemon or lime in it. Maybe even a beer.

yeah i'm not too keen on cola in generaly, but pepsi and pizza is great. mexican, i'll have Jarritos, usually lime.

guava or tamarind jarritos: a treat

Mr. Pibb (or I guess PIBB EXTRA) is the one that gets me, but yeah, I think I had the not-uncommon experience of whatever point that is in whatever post-teenage years when you're like "oh wow, this is kind of gross to drink constantly, and I could really, really go for some iced tea instead, and oh btw since when did I start always craving loads of green vegetables??" etc.

yeah, that's kind of a great point! now i just crave loads of green vegetables, coffee, and ice cream.

nab, i don't know if you're into this sort of thing or if they have steak n shake by you, but there you can get pibb w/vanilla syrup added. i'm still pissed about the whole pibb vs pibb xtra thing.

lol we old

Yeah, it's about sugar consumption, really. I stay away from sugar in general, and therefore, sodas really seem too sweet. If I'm gonna have sugar every once awhile, I prefer a piece of chocolate or maybe baklava or some nice dessert than to waste it all in what amounts to sugary water. Sugar is kindof like cigarettes, imo - once you've stayed away from it long enough to beat the addiction, it doesn't seem nearly as appealing as it once did.

this thread made me buy soda

As I said upthread I have no sweet tooth - I never drink soft drink and only very very rarely drink fruit juice or vitamin water (like, once every couple weeks?). I drink a lot of water, and I dont eat sugary food/sweets.

I'm here to tell you thaty I've only been to the dentist twice in the last 20 years and I havent got a single cavity or tooth problem.

(this is confirmed by a dental checkup just last week, btw)

Yeah, that's a good point, too, Trayce! Last time I had a dental checkup about two years ago, they seemed disappointed they couldn't find any problems with my teeth (so they could get more money out of me). And this was after not seeing a dentist for about 7 years!

ever since i stopped drinking i've had a horribly sweet tooth, but oh well. i don't drink much soda though, just a coke once in a while.

Oh dont tell me that estela, I'll never give up the booze at this rate ;_;

(I must admit that I might have fine teeth, but alcohol and cigarettes are ruining my gums and lips).