What is your favorite fruit flavored soda?

Cherry-Lime soda is the best.

Then Squirt (Grapefruit) and Cherry Squirt.

If you've never had cherry-lime soda, you're missing out.

Sprite

Safeways Citrus Cooler!

7-Up, Mugs, Cherry Coke

Orange Crush, but haven't had one since I was a kid.

I completely gave up soda about 20 years ago, so I'm not really qualified, but...I'll pick up a 6-pack of these if I catch them on sale.

Yeah, I really like it, but one is a "treat" I won't really be in the mood for for another couple weeks.

I don't like sugary beverages. So none. I prefer sparkling water, unsweetened.

Orangina

R8 sounds bitter.

R10 sounds like an asshole. And fat.

Vodka and cranberry.

Anyone remember the apple soda Aspen in the late 70s.?

Apple soda sounds nice! (I'm non-soda mec upthread...) And this past xmas, my sister and mom got these really good Martinelli Sparkling Apple Ciders...which were fantastic!

Yeah yeah..."sparkling cider" is not a soda, but...they am so tasty! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

They're tasty and sweet and fizzy, like soda for grownups.

When I was a teenager I loved Hansens Grapefruit Soda.

It seemed unbearably sweet when I was in my 20s.

I've always loved Orangina, but haven't had one in years.

Now that I'm old I get excited about iced coffee. Coffee beans are like fruit, right?

The only one I ever drank regularly was Diet Apple Slice, back in 1984 or so.

BITD: Franks' Orange or Black Cherry Wishniak(no longer produced) Schweppes' Bitter Lemon(alas, not available at retail in the USA)

Today: Not a fan of fruit-flavored sodas anymore, but if offered a Cherry Coke I'll accept.

Candy Apple Faygo

Fresca - it really adds a kick to my fat typing.

I love Cheerwine, which is a wild cherry-flavored soda made with real sugar - I guess it's sort of a regional thing but I'm able to find it in CA at upscale grocery stores with no problem. Also strawberry Crush.

There are a number of apple sodas being produced. I know Jones Soda makes a green apple flavor that is very tasty, and there are also some from Mexico that are available as well, like Manzanita Sol and Sidral Mundet.

Peach Fresca, which vanished from Long Island, earlier this year.

I love grape soda, on lots of ice. But I know I’m going to hell for drinking it.

Pineapple Cream Soda and Dry Grape Ginger Ale which I cannot find anywhere now

When I was a kid, I really liked Tiger Red cream soda. I haven't seen it in years. There is a Barq's creme soda, that is similar. Now, I tend to like citrus flavors , like diet Mt.Dew.

I thought fruit flavored sodas were strictly an African American thing

Is ginger a fruit?

Agree with Orange Crush, but only if you can find it in the dark amber bottles.

Peach Crush is awesome, but almost impossible to find out of the deep South. For readily available sodas I love Fresca. It's great with Stoli Strasberi.

Fanta orange soda. Even better if you can still find it in the glass bottles.

Nehi Peach. It's the most refreshing soda I've ever had.

R11 didn't get the joke.

We never had soda in the house when I was growing up so the only time I ever drank it was at friends and relatives' houses. Now as an adult I still rarely drink soda which means my answer is pretty meaningless but here it is anyway:

1) Jarritos Tamarind soda - a co-worker introduced me to it a few years ago and It was good

2) Stewart's Black Cherry Wishniak - I discovered this when I moved to Philadelphia, I probably only drink it once every year or two but it's good with cheesesteaks.

The way Coke in little glass bottles tasted when I was a kid. It had of course pure cane sugar in it, but it must have had something else, maybe more real cola. I've tried Mexican and Passover Coke which are both made with pure cane sugar, but something is missing.

Black Cherry soda is the best soda.

I really miss Shasta Black Cherry... it was my favorite as a kid.

Club soda with three or four real limes and lemons.

No sugar.

r35 Three or four entire lemons or limes in one glass?

Sangria.

OP= Radar O'Reilly

R35 sounds bitter

[quote]Peach Crush is awesome

I recently tried Pineapple Crush and that was good

There was an actual study worldwide that found black people everywhere (Africa, the U.S., South America, the Caribbean) have a weakness for fruit flavoured beverages and, especially, grape and blackcurrant. Blackcurrant Fanta is the best selling soda in Africa, beating Coke, Sprite and regular Fanta.

Fresca, which I haven't had in years. Also grape and black cherry.

And while it isn't a fruit flavored soda, I recently discovered a butterscotch cream soda that I really like.

r41 I know that Mountain Dew Code Red was geared to the "urban market". I love fruity sodas but am about as WASP as you can get. I will have to look for black current. I also like orange Sunkist.

Boylan’s makes really good grape, orange, and Black cherry soda. I prefer the grape!

Fentiman’s is pretty darn good. I like the cherry cola.

Grapico, a Southern grape soda in production since 1916. There was even a song written about it.

It is all vile. Avoid at all cost.

Coke has a new limited edition California Raspberry Coke made with cane sugar in the classic Coke bottles that is AMAZING!!

They also have a georgia peach flavor which I have been unable to find.

IBC Black Cherry and Jupi[ñ]a

IBC Black Cherry is a pale imitation of Black Cherry Soda.

Also, I've never even HEARD of "Peach Crush"... it sounds amazing.

In the more Hispanic areas of town, the stores are full of pineapple and apple sodas. In the non-Hispanic areas of town, not so much.

I remember "Apple Slice" when it came out decades ago... everyone loved it. Then it just... disappeared.

I used to enjoy Fresca but was always freaked out that "ester of wood rosin" was on the ingredient list. When I lived in England many years ago Lilt was my fave.

If you live in Los Angeles & love different kinds of soda do yourself a favor and go to Galco’s in Highland Park. It’s an amazing place. I always find interesting sodas there. My latest find was a blueberry soda from Maine and it was great!

Wink Martindale's Orange Passion Fruit Guava Soda

Grape Nehi was the only good one, followed by Orange which was merely acceptable. All the rest were shit.

[R53] They used to sell Capt'n Eli's Blueberry Soda at the Bristol Farms on Wilshire in Santa Monica, along with a number of other not commonly seen out here sodas (e.g., Big Red, BubbleUp). I loved it, and at $1.59 a bottle I considered it a fun treat and would pick up a couple of bottles now and then. Unfortunately, seemingly without warning, they stopped selling all of the specialty sodas; although, now that I think about it, I really haven't scoured the store/asked anyone to see if they simply stopped stocking them in the referigerator section across from the deli (derp, maybe I'll remember to look next time). In any case, thanks for the link!

Snapple used to have a line of sodas, and their Cherry Lime soda was by far the best soda I've ever had.

I was sad when they discontinued it.

Big Red

Big Red isn't FRUIT flavored.

I love Grape Fanta...you don't see it much in England but they have a soda dispenser at 5 Guys here, where they have it ...PLUS tons of American ice. Such a treat when I go there.

Sometimes I also treat myself to a little taster of Cherry Fanta as well, but I don't like it quite as much.

Just tried a Faygo 'Black Cherry' and it was good.

Snow White Cream Soda

I like the citrus flavored soda, even though I don't drink any soda at all anymore and mainly drink coffee, tea, water and yerba mate which I add fruit juice to and drink iced when it's summer and very hot.

R36, no, four or five wedges so ...I guess one whole squeezed lemon and a whole squeezed lime in a big glass of club soda.

Ross Matthews.

R62, Cream soda isn't "fruit flavored"

Fanta Strawberry was always my go too back in the day.

Sanka with Cremora.

Are you a ghetto black OP? They love grape soda.

It's amazing to me how many responders to this thread have no idea what 'fruit' is, apparently.

Diet Sunkist

Orange Crush, ice cold, is super yummy!

Diet Sunkist lemonade (sparkling ) has caffeine. I love diet mango coke, Hansen’s diet strawberry-kiwi, Black cherry and tangerine lime. I plan to take sugar free mango syrup and add club soda. before I quit sugar I had a fruit and lavender Italian syrup that was awesome...

I remember from the 1960s a type of bottled pop called Ma's Old Fashioned. They had really good root beer and orange soda, the orange soda actually had a little bit of pulp and was delicious, so unlike the shit they have now all made by giant corporations usually containing god knows what and high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. There were also grape and cherry flavored soda pops that were a nice change from Coke, 7-Up or Pepsi. It seems to me that Dr. Pepper then tasted better than the slop they expect people to drink now. Pop tasted better then and it was usually out of a glass bottle, apparently very little of that exists today--corporatism wins out yet again. I drink none of that stuff now and haven't for over 40 years--the closest I come now is ginger ale in a gin drink (gin bucks) or tonic water in a gin and tonic.

My morning-after lifesaver -

Dr. Brown's Black Cherry Soda is intensely good!

I also love Boylan's Grape Soda made with sugar cane. So delicious.

I used to buy something called Grape-ette. It was really good, but I stopped drinking it after I lost my foot to diabetes.

Orange.

Does anyone remember Calistoga waters from the late 1980s? Sparkling and still fruit juice and water. Nutritious and delicious!

¡Sangria!

I agree with the poster up thread that San Pelegrino Limonata is really refreshing -- partly because it uses a ton of REAL lemon juice.

Any Brits enjoy sparkling Vimto? A blend of grape, raspberry and black currant.

It's hard to find, but if you can track it down Canada Dry Diet CRANBERRY Ginger Ale is so tasty and refreshing. Would make a great mixer, too.

Doc Brown's Black Cherry is a pale imitation of Shasta's Black Cherry soda.

TAHITIAN TREAT!

[quote]It's hard to find, but if you can track it down Canada Dry Diet CRANBERRY Ginger Ale is so tasty and refreshing.

I thought of this thread today, as I came across the regular Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale in a Smart & Final store out here in California - the first time I'd ever seen any. I bought some and am now hooked. Their website also lists the diet kind, but I didn't see any in store.

Tahitian Treat.

Thread closed.

Pineapple Fanta in a glass bottle

Boylan's Black Cherry Soda is delish. The diet is almost as good, in case you're watching sugar.

I used to love Bireley's Orange Soda when I was a kid ('60s.) I'm sure it's been gone for years. I only drink diet sodas now, which kind of limits my options. That said, Hansen's Grape is decent.

[quote]. When I lived in England many years ago Lilt was my fave.

EW!

I had some kind of fruit soda in Portland that was delicious-- it had some real fruit in it. I can't remember the name, though.

While in Hawai'i on business, I discovered Waialua Soda Works Lilikoi Natural Soda .. aka Passion Fruit.

Oooh. Does it taste like real passionfruit, R91?

I wish someone would make a soda with Indian Alphonso mango .

Another vote for Dr Brown’s Black Cherry and also Pineapple Fanta.

I also like Jarritos Grapefruit soda.

It was a Fanta Strawberry and none of the straight guys in rehab would touch it.

Deprived of caffeine, it was a delightful rush of sugary goodness. It's now one of my travel tips: In rehab again? Be sure to try the Fanta Strawberry. Oh, and the homophobe will try to suck your dick the day before he completes the program. Just remember: no rewards for junkies in the closet!

R92 I think it does, Plus, it's made from products in Hawai'i. The company has five flavors now. I'm not too into Root Beer or Vanilla, but I love their three fruit flavors with Passion Fruit being my fave. They're now starting to sell at certain retailers on the West Coast and around the Virginia, DC area.

My local upscale supermarket carries Schweppes Bitter Lemon, though I think of if as more a mixer than a soda as such.

I always thought grape soda was for kids, like grape jelly.

Faygo Grape is so good

Orange - specifically with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

The fanta flavors are pretty good like the citrus ones. Also the San Pelegrino juice "sodas".

Ting grapefruit soda

Italian bitter sweet sodas are the best.

Fresca. It is the only thing I have knowingly consumed in the last 25 years that has that fake sugar neurotoxin that tastes like antifreeze and has been linked to auto-immune disorders. I think they have changed the formula since I was a kid as I haven’t had it for a long time and it tastes different to me now. I both love it and simultaneously feel like it is poisoning me. Why can we not have a cane sugar Fresca?