From the late 70s or early 80s, Pepsi began marketing a 'Breakfast Soda' with about 30% more caffeine and less carbonation. It didn't take.

i love the soda thread, no ever how often it shows up and no matter under which guise it appears.

root beer is fucking incredible. i would love to drink it right now, but i am in france.

Sierra Mist is the bomb. The Mrs would approve of you.

Root beer and ginger ale.

I haven't had soda for a while though, because I never developed a taste for the diet ones.

You're just gonna let the terrorists win, just like that.

Ranking Order of Repeat Obner Topics (regardless of actual title):

1. Newer Music
2. Soda
3. Fashion
4. Shrimp Boat
5. The Ghey

It's funny your name is Red. Mountain Dew Red is a direct marketing effort to African Americans who for many decades have made a spicey red punch a regular part of picnics, family dinners etc.

White people (OK, ME) drink red Kool-Aid mixed with Sprite to, mang.

some of just just love the way our code red tastes regardless of whether or not it is served with fried chicken, watermelon, and collard greens.

that shit is fucking incredible. i remember when it first came out. what a debut. me and a couple of friends singlehandedly drank the shipment of it at work before it was put out to the public.

I miss collard greens. Black eyed peas, too. Does that shit not grow up here?

On "Inside the Actors Studio", Dave Chappelle talks about black kids hitting the "purple drink" or "red drink" instead of name brand juices and sodas. (It's obviously much funnier when he tells the story.)

I'm definitely one of the whitest girls around, but I'm down with the AfAm food and drink choices. I love me some greens, okra and grits.

I love when people confuse "black" and "country".

Ignant.

It's a fairly blurry line, fwiw.

when i was a kid it 'Red' was called 'Bug Juice'(cuz of the floaty pulp things in there) mixed with Ginger Ale/Sprite/7up

Huh. My dad always called kool-aid "bug juice." I had forgotten that.

You know, I was actually going to mention something about my AfAm choices being the same as southern cooking. I held back when I realized that I've only eaten the foods listed at the homes of black folks with parents/grandparents from the south. When I've visited the south, I've pretty much only eaten chicken and pizza. Go figure.

Its not just you. I listen to this sports talk show hosted by two black guys from rural South Carolina and one of them makes this mistake constantly.

Example: One time he basically said that black folks eat sweet potatoes (or sweet potato soufle) for Thanksgiving and white folks eat Yams...

<---never eaten a Yam and has sweet potato soufle (and okra and collards) at Thanksgiving

a Yam is Louisiana Sweet Potato. That's the only difference. The term was created by Louisiana Sweet Potato farmers to "market" their potatoes to the nation.

Dude, sweet potato suffle = "thanksgiving." Every year, no exceptions.

i thought my wife was the only person in the world who liked orange soda until I went to christmas as her grandma's house. turns out I was wrong. no wine but 6 varities of soda and 9 varities of pig products. its just a country thing.

Southern country cooking is obviously influnced heavily by black people. Slaves did all the cooking when they got here.

We didn't drink any alcohol at family gatherings, either. Not even wine. I think both my grandparents had an alcoholic somewhere back in the family, and decided that was that.

Imagine my surprise when I go *anywhere else* and see the booze come out hardcore at family gatherings. Had no idea such things even happened.

sweet potatoes/yams/rutebagas - disgusting.

ever had sweet potato chips?