Clear Soda

[Alpo]

Is that a Canadian term?

 

Canadian comic strip, and the older sister asks the younger sister if she would like to split a bottle of clear soda.

 

And what it is is flavored seltzer. Now I've seen flavored seltzer for years. But I'd never heard of clear soda before.

[Cypress Sun]

 

I saw that this morning and thought it was an odd term for a grape flavored, carbonated beverage. 

 

Also, I think it's going to be time to buy another iron.

[Alpo]

I drink seltzer. I was at my local grocery store one day and they had it "buy one get one". I was filling up my cart. If you stack them right, you can get 24 12 packs in a buggy. But they only had 23 in the store. So I got a 12 pack of this.

I figured since it was free, if I didn't like it I could afford to throw it out. But it's pretty good.

 

They make it in several flavors.

I tried most of them, and generally they all suck. Except for the grapefruit.

 

They look just like plain water, except they have bubbles when you first pour them in a glass.

 

And, Polar at least, doesn't have any sugar. Just a slight touch of flavoring. So I don't think it would hurt her iron.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Back in ‘92, Pepsi came out with Pepsi clear. To be competitive Coke made tab clear, which was horrible. But the products were marketed side by side and folks did not pay enough attention, and that segment of the clear soda market died.

[Rye Miles #13621]

When I heard clear soda I thought Creme Soda!!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Never heard it phrased that way.

We have clear sodas or sparkling water and my personal warm weather favourite, Schweppes Tonic Water with Beef Eater Gin over ice.

[Alpo]

56 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

When I heard clear soda I thought Creme Soda!!

That was my first thought, until I saw what it was.

[Alpo]

I thought I was kind of strange, because I drink seltzer instead of soda pop.

 

Then I was reading about these things they had in the English channel during World War II. They were little rescue Islands, basically, for downed German pilots. They could paddle the one in their little rubber raft, and these things had bunks and blankets and dry clothes and food and a radio where you could call to have somebody come pick you up. And among the food list they had sparkling water. They didn't have still water. Sparkling water.

 

One of THE WHITE PAGES comics, two of the employees are in the break room. Sandy is looking in the refrigerator and says, "Are we out of sparkling water?", and PJ told her to look on the bottom shelf.

 

So I guess other people drink it instead of soda pop.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Aren't those flavorless "flavored" seltzers also colorless?  

[Alpo]

Yes. As I showed in my last picture. They look just like plain water.

[Stump Water]

If you drink seltzer/sparkling water check out SodaStream.

 

If you don't add any flavoring it's much cheaper.  If you make the equivalent of Sprite/7-up as I do, the cost is about the same.  Either way you eliminate the bottles/cans in your trash.

[Subdeacon Joe]

54 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Yes. As I showed in my last picture. They look just like plain water.

 

I wasn't sure if it was just that brand. 

 

Either way,  to me they all taste like water with baking soda added.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

If they ever bring out a clear soda that  tastes exactly like sarsaparilla I'll buy it.  Otherwise I won't bother.

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

I wasn't sure if it was just that brand. 

 

Either way,  to me they all taste like water with baking soda added.

That's club soda. Seltzer really doesn't have any flavor. It's just bubble water.

 

For some reason they put club soda in a blue bottle just like they do seltzer. A bottle with a blue label. And I accidentally have bought club soda time or two. It's salty.

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

I'll take the flavored sugar free seltzer (raspberry/lime) add a a big squirt of lemon juice and some Stevie to make a flavored sugar free soda. I figure it's a lot less chemicals then a regular diet or sugar free soda.

[Eyesa Horg]

2 hours ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:

I'll take the flavored sugar free seltzer (raspberry/lime) add a a big squirt of lemon juice and some Stevie to make a flavored sugar free soda. I figure it's a lot less chemicals then a regular diet or sugar free soda.

What is some Stevie? Other than what my Grandparents called me!

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

Clear soda, AKA 7-UP

[Eyesa Horg]

14 minutes ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said:

Clear soda, AKA 7-UP

So he's adding 7-UP and lemon juice to the seltzer? 

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

What is some Stevie? Other than what my Grandparents called me!

Stevia (I might have spelled that wrong) artificial sweetener, or maybe sugar that doesn't have calories. Something like that

[Eyesa Horg]

16 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Stevia (I might have spelled that wrong) artificial sweetener, or maybe sugar that doesn't have calories. Something like that

I shoulda known with fricken Otto. For whatever lame reason I never gave the sweetener a thought.

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

39 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I shoulda known with fricken Otto. For whatever lame reason I never gave the sweetener a thought.

 

With adding the lemon juice it gives it a stronger flavor adding the Stevia to taste makes it more like a soda. S opposed to a "hint of lemon" or whatever flavor. I read a review of various flavored seltzers and one was described as having a " hint of a hint" of flavor.

Edited November 25, 2024 by Smokin Gator SASS #29736
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[Subdeacon Joe]

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

That's club soda. Seltzer really doesn't have any flavor. It's just bubble water.

It still tastes like baking soda to me.  With maybe a hint of whatever the flavor is supposed to be if I squint my taste buds hard enough. 

 

4 hours ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:

I'll take the flavored sugar free seltzer (raspberry/lime) add a a big squirt of lemon juice

 

I'd buy the Safeway housebramd those and add Torani (sp?) sugar free syrup to them. 

[Rip Snorter]

Add liquor - clearly, the problem solved.

[Alpo]

I have a list I keep in my phone. Foods I like.

 

I started it with ice cream. Publix sells forty eleven different flavors of their store brand ice cream. And sometimes I would look at one and think, "yeah, I've had that before". And I had had it before. I just didn't remember that I didn't like it when I had it before. So I started the list of their ice cream flavors, rating them 1 to 10. And the list expanded. This is the Seltzer section. A couple of these brands - WD. That's Winn-Dixie, a Southeastern US grocery store chain. Their store brand was called Chek. Then they were bought by Southeastern grocers, who has a store brand SEG. My local Winn-Dixie still sold Chek and also started to carry SEG.

 

Seltzer ************
    Polar Seltzer
       Blue (regular) 10
       Green (lime) 6 tastes like a watered-down Sprite
       Orange (Orange vanilla) 0 nasty
       Orange (Mandarin) 3 meh
       Pink (grapefruit) 9.5
       Purple (raspberry lime) 4. Can barely taste the lime, and has the bitter aftertaste of raspberry
       Yellow (lemon) 5. Not really bad, but also not really good.
   Publix store brand blue   10
   Ritz blue 10
   SE Grocers Blue 8. Not as good as Polar or Ritz, but still very good. They don't sell it in as seltzer. They just call it sparkling water. UPDATE: not as much carbonation as Polar. When fresh and cold it's extremely sparkling. But if it sits there 5 or 6 hours, and gets warm, it just tastes like water. It loses its carbonation faster.
       Pink 6 compared to polar, it just doesn't make it
   WD ✓brand blue 1&2 lt, 10
   WD ✓brand blue 12-pk, 9

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

It still tastes like baking soda to me.  With maybe a hint of whatever the flavor is supposed to be if I squint my taste buds hard enough. 

 

 

I'd buy the Safeway housebramd those and add Torani (sp?) sugar free syrup to them. 

 

I've forgot to put the lemon juice in and it was terrible.  With the seltzer+ lemon juice + Stevie sweetener it's good. I like it anyway.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Too much work.  I'll save that effort for baking pies, biscuits, and the like.

[Texas Joker]

13 hours ago, Alpo said:

I have a list I keep in my phone. Foods I like.

 

I started it with ice cream. Publix sells forty eleven different flavors of their store brand ice cream. And sometimes I would look at one and think, "yeah, I've had that before". And I had had it before. I just didn't remember that I didn't like it when I had it before. So I started the list of their ice cream flavors, rating them 1 to 10. And the list expanded. This is the Seltzer section. A couple of these brands - WD. That's Winn-Dixie, a Southeastern US grocery store chain. Their store brand was called Chek. Then they were bought by Southeastern grocers, who has a store brand SEG. My local Winn-Dixie still sold Chek and also started to carry SEG.

 

Seltzer ************
    Polar Seltzer
       Blue (regular) 10
       Green (lime) 6 tastes like a watered-down Sprite
       Orange (Orange vanilla) 0 nasty
       Orange (Mandarin) 3 meh
       Pink (grapefruit) 9.5
       Purple (raspberry lime) 4. Can barely taste the lime, and has the bitter aftertaste of raspberry
       Yellow (lemon) 5. Not really bad, but also not really good.
   Publix store brand blue   10
   Ritz blue 10
   SE Grocers Blue 8. Not as good as Polar or Ritz, but still very good. They don't sell it in as seltzer. They just call it sparkling water. UPDATE: not as much carbonation as Polar. When fresh and cold it's extremely sparkling. But if it sits there 5 or 6 hours, and gets warm, it just tastes like water. It loses its carbonation faster.
       Pink 6 compared to polar, it just doesn't make it
   WD ✓brand blue 1&2 lt, 10
   WD ✓brand blue 12-pk, 9

Didn't Fonzi have a list like that?

[Alpo]

I thought Fonzie's list included the line:

Must be pure

[Sedalia Dave]

On 11/24/2024 at 8:32 AM, Alpo said:

figured since it was free, if I didn't like it I could afford to throw it out. But it's pretty good.

 

They make it in several flavors.

 

I tried most of them, and generally they all suck. Except for the grapefruit.

 

 

????????

 

Which is it; Pretty Good or they all suck?

[Alpo]

On 11/24/2024 at 8:32 AM, Alpo said:

I drink seltzer. I was at my local grocery store one day and they had it "buy one get one". I was filling up my cart. If you stack them right, you can get 24 12 packs in a buggy. But they only had 23 in the store. So I got a 12 pack of this.

I figured since it was free, if I didn't like it I could afford to throw it out. But it's pretty good.

 

They make it in several flavors.

I tried most of them, and generally they all suck. Except for the grapefruit.

 

They look just like plain water, except they have bubbles when you first pour them in a glass.

 

And, Polar at least, doesn't have any sugar. Just a slight touch of flavoring. So I don't think it would hurt her iron.

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