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Your Drink Craze?

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07:28 / 03.07.03

So, like most people, I get a little thirsty now and then, and I like to keep myself hydrated under most circumstances. Anyway, I used to drink a lot of soda—most recently I went through a Dr. Pepper kick. Now, I do drink water often as well—but many people I know don’t like to drink water.

Anyway, my most recent kick is Sobe. This stuff is fantastic! I am especially fond of the “Zen Blend Herbal Tea”: give me that triple ginseng, baby (and I simply like tea—hot and iced)! It is a little more expensive than soda, though. I can get 2 litters of pop for the price of 598ml of Sobe, but the difference in quality and refreshment is worth it.

So, what do you like to drink most often?

07:33 / 03.07.03

Semen. By the gallon.

Is Sobe the ones in glass bottles in really odd colours? (like pink?)

07:37 / 03.07.03

I drink huge quantities of tea but I'm also quite partial to vanilla Diet Coke.

07:41 / 03.07.03

Fizzy crap. Doesn't matter what, as long as it's sugar-free. Artificial sweetener gives me headaches, but I can't abide water, unless I'm incredibly thirsty. I also drink tea (various sorts of black tea, always with soya milk), or Rocket Fuel coffee with guarana (also with soya milk), which is the only sort of coffee I like.

07:59 / 03.07.03

Irn Bru this morning I feel like shite, but usually water by the bucket load I've a horrible feeling I might be diabetic I'm constantly thirsty...

At the moment I'm drinking a bottle of 464 Peach flavoured water.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:30 / 03.07.03

Other than water, soft drinks-wise I only really drink yoghurt drink stuff. Especially raspberry. Mmmm...

Although I did go through a phase where I was living on Fresh'n'Wild's mochas...

And on a REALLY nasty hangover, grapefruit juice it is.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:32 / 03.07.03

Oh, and V8 veg juice kinda rocks, too, on those occasions where I decide to pay lip service to healthiness... (it's much better from the bottle than the can, though the places still doing the big sized bottles seem to be dwindling.)

No star here laces

09:46 / 03.07.03

Vanilla fat coke.

All the way. I like the creamy semen-stripe device on the can too.

Otherwise, champagne and cognac, baby.

09:46 / 03.07.03

10:01 / 03.07.03

13:52 / 03.07.03

From the house of Zwack

17:30 / 03.07.03

Water, apple/orange juice, and sprite.
And my new favourite alcoholic drink- apple juice and vodka. No nastiness, no hangover, and no fucking spots, like pitcher-fulls of cocktails did.

Vanilla coke gives me nightmares. Memories of when I didnt want to be caught with a smirnoff bottle in my bag, when i was about 14, so i rinsed out a vanilla musk body spray bottle, about 20 times, and put the vodka in there. Vile, I tell you, vile.

Tryphena Absent

17:48 / 03.07.03

A small child, at heart I still live chocolate milk.

17:56 / 03.07.03

That's 'cause chocolate milk is the nectar of the Gods!

Yeah, Sobe comes in glass bottles, and there's a couple of weird creamy looking ones (in pink, white, and orange (I think), but I haven't tried those ones...

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:26 / 03.07.03

Vinegar. Don't ask me why. Specifically, the stuff you pickle bivalves in.

18:34 / 03.07.03

Drinking diluted cider vinegar is supposed to be very good for you - cleansing, and all that.

I drank about an inch of raspberry wine vinegar once. Neat. No fucking idea why. I can't go near the stuff now, just like I can't go near fizzy pink grapefruit juice after once mixing it with calamus powder when I was about 15. Ugh.

Not that that was entirely relevant, but it just popped into my head.

Dances with Gophers

18:53 / 03.07.03

Root beer or saspirella when I can get hold of either. There's a shop at the end of Waterloo station that used to sell root beer and the best cream soda I've ever tasted, the drinks company was called "Jones soda co" aint seen their stuff for a long time. Only had saspirella once when I was in Canada.

18:56 / 03.07.03

If the vinegar's been used for yer cockuws and mussuws and whewks and so on, it probably contains zinc and other adulterants which I'm sure are addictive somehow. Or you could be just a freak, like my sister, who used to pour malt vinegar into an eggcup, add salt, and drink it with a spoon.

I drank V8 before anyone else had heard of it. I find it a bit too salty now. I'm the only non-Japanese person I know who likes Lipovitan B.

What with the heat, I've been drinking cans of Starbucks Doubleshot recently which seriously fuck with your head. I don't know if they're on sale in the UK, but there's some sort of dodge that goes on that allows them to evade the FDA maximum caffeine level (I think because they're not carbonated). The stuff has about eight times the amount of caffeine by volume as Coke, and it's got sugar in it too.

19:14 / 03.07.03

Tea, it's got to be tea. Good strong tea. I like english breakfast, or if I'm feeling posh, russian caravan. However in the hot weather I will succumb to ginger beer, once again the stronger the better, though schweppes remains the benchmark. This is of course ignoring sweet sweet liquor.

20:44 / 03.07.03

i drink a lot of water, but lately i'm into the sugar-free non-carbonated fruit flavored water, esp. the strawberry.
arizona diet lemon or raspberry iced tea is also good.
i can't begin to list my favorite adult drinks, as there are too many. put a bottle of scope in front of me and i may drink it, if it will get the job done. (and by "job," i mean "pulling a thick opaque curtain over the realities of my life.)

20:47 / 03.07.03

"pulling a thick opaque curtain over the realities of my life". I love that, is it a quote or have you just come up with the perfect way to describe way people drink?

23:50 / 03.07.03

Blood. Buckets and buckets o' blood.

00:14 / 04.07.03

"...the best cream soda I've ever tasted, the drinks company was called "Jones soda co""

Oh yeah, this stuff is really good. I still get a Jones' Cream Soda every now and then: by far the best cream soda ever!

Shit, that Starbucks Doubleshot sounds great right about now--I'm a little sleepy. Perhaps it's time to go get a Zen Blend!

00:16 / 04.07.03

Coffee. Perhaps you've heard of it?

01:16 / 04.07.03

Snapple. Lots of Snapple. Peach, Wild Cherry, or in a bind, Lemon.

01:19 / 04.07.03

I lived on that stuff during my college days...nows it just gives me the shudders.

13:21 / 04.07.03

To try to warm up when the air-con is being over-enthusiastic: Toffee mochaccino.

Other times: Vanilla Diet Coke.

14:29 / 04.07.03

I'm right there with Anna on chocolate milk... a mart called Wawa around my part of the US has good all purpose stuff. The almighty, comes from a farm called Hillside Dairy. Glass bottles, thick and creamy as all hell and surrounded by nature when you bring in the glass returns to get more. You can even see the bovines you're getting it from...

Chocolate milk doesn't, and never will, be better than this.

Oh... can't forget Knob Creek on the rocks...

23:44 / 04.07.03

Answer me this one, on a milk tip.

Is there any difference between low-fat milk, and full-fat milk diluted with water?

And why is it I'm unable to buy containers of milk smaller than four pints?

23:54 / 04.07.03

My very favorite beverage.

Pricey though, and not sold in any stores I can find near me, so I've been missing it. I've never tried the Canadian flavored one. And yes, I do admit to being seduced at least partially by the packaging.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

03:59 / 05.07.03

Oh, I am so addicted to diet Pepsi with a bit of lemonade in it, it isn't even funny. Most women look at me oddly when I order it and I never ever see them again. But I still have my drink.

08:03 / 05.07.03

Well thanks so much Philly Phridge Phantasy...after reading your post I developed a craving for a cold coffee treat, and ended up--for the first time ever--giving some of my money to Starbucks (albeit indirectly, I guess) for a bottle of Mocha Frappachino. 2.50 for about the same amount of ml. But GOD DAMN it was good! I really wish I could find the one you mention, it sounds great!--or do you simply buy it at Starbucks? Anyway, although it is a little high priced, I can see myself buying this again every now and then...

So, by slinky synchronicity I found a store that has a Sobe chocolate milk drink. It was strange--not milk like much, but still really tasty, and it has ginseng too! Although this wasn't a thirst quenching as the Zen Blend, it was still pretty good, and I'd likely purchase it again sometime.

As far as alcohol goes, well, I don't drink so much, but when I do, I prefer rye and seven or rye and ginger—and it’s got to be a decent rye: no cheap shit!

pointless and uncalled for

08:50 / 05.07.03

Coffee, so very much coffee. There's is never a bad time for coffee, even at four in the morning and it really would behoove you to get a good two hours sleep before getting up for work.

I also enjoy tea (Hey, I have dual nationality)

For the other stuff. I rarely drink fizzy stuff, with the exception of Ginger Beer, which is the nectar of the semi devine and have abandoned Coke on the grounds it that it leaches the calcium from your bones and makes your teeth furry.

I drink a fair amount of water during the day and switch between still and Soda water.

Fruit Juice in the morning if I can.

16:21 / 05.07.03

This worries me... chocolate | milk | drink. Hmmm...

Chocolate milk is a drink, but it is different from Chocolate drink which is a flavored water. Is this both? Please, please stick to the milk... Sobe or not.

16:22 / 05.07.03

Maz, it's pretty impossible NOT to be seduced by the Jones packaging. I think that at one point, they were accepting open submissions for photos, and printed a monstrously diverse number of labels for the product. How could you not love that. Nad the fact that Jones looks, well, nuclear. (IIRC, that was the impetus behind the random photo labels... that the execs decised that the Jones colours were pretty self-explanatory, and so the labelling didn't have to be indicative of the flavour inside).
Anyone remember the Pop Shoppe? Best. Pop. Ever. They used to buy refrigerators for Ontario schools, stocked weekly with Pop. 25 cents each; hastily scribbled I.O.U.s tacked to the fridge were a perfectly acceptable means of deferring payment. Such a cool company.

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