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Fixed my comment, thank you!
Brit here.
Chinotto is goddamn awesome. Pls export more.
Years ago I had some imported drink called Jul Must. Haven’t seen it since. Came from somewhere Scandinavian. Weird flavor, probably an acquired taste, and I WANT MORE!
That’s Swedish. Check your local Ikea around christmas and easter.
Thank you!
Beer is everywhere. It’s one of the most “local” products pretty much everywhere in the world.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz-kola
Had some in Hamburg visiting friends , haven’t seen it in Spain but it’s exported to the rest of the EU.
Coffee-Cola was/is awesome!
Julmust/Påskmust from Sweden. Soda thats derived from malt and hops. Only availible around jul(christmas) and påsk(easter) and stands for half of the total soda consumption around that period.
Also Cedevita from Croatia. Vitamin enriched powder, originally in orange flavour. When mixed with water it’s like a soda
Would Traubisoda count as unique?
Very pleased to see must mentioned. That shit is awesome.
We have Irn Bru and it’s made from girders.
It also has some of the most amazing Adverts
Scotland also has Buckfast. It’s not from there (it’s from Devon I think) but only the Scottish will drink it.
Only the Scottish could think “caffeinated wine” is a highly desirable beverage.
It’s the OG Red Bull and Vodka.
There are places that serve bucky on tap.
But I wouldn’t call it a soft drink.Wreck the hoose juice!
It’s popular in some parts of Ireland too
I just spent 20 minutes watching commercials. Thanks!
Me too, but i still don’t know what it is? Definitely involves caffeine.
Looks like there’s a version of it that is a caffeine drink. But yeah, I’m pretty curious about what it tastes like. Unsweetened and originally a replacement for beer, so I’m going to guess it’s nothing like a conventional soda.
I tried it once canned, can’t remember the brand but it was Italian. It was slightly sweetened but had this bitterness that hits the back of your tongue in a very unpleasant way then fills the rest of your mouth. I would not recommend it.
And what is a girder?? “Made from girders” is no help at all, as I think of a girder as an architectural support.
Edit: looks like there’s some ginger involved, which helps the ginger commercial make slightly more sense.
Edit 2: well, they really do mean steel/iron girders. There ya go. Still no help at all.
Edit 3: people claim it tastes like orange the color but not orange the fruit.
Yeah, if you read the article linked above, it was originally marketed to steel workers as a replacement for beer when on the job. Originally Iron Brew. But the ingredients are a closely guarded trade secret. I’ll have to see if I can find some to taste.
From Germany, i would recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate
This one does not spark joy.
shudders
Why not?
Well, some people like the taste of this drink.
The other hand of the spectrum mostly thinks it tastes like what you would imagine a ashtray would taste like.
I’m part of the second kind. Had seen lots of people in the office drink it. Wanting to try it out gave it a shot. Absolutely regret that.
Well it tastes like mate but if you don’t like the taste of mate, fair enough ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Hackerbrausengenießer?
Australia has bundaberg ginger beer which is good shit. Nice and spicy.
We get it here in canada and it’s good stuff.
I’m in the US (California) and can often get Bundaberg in the grocery store here. I do like their ginger beer. Their root beer is good, but a little too heavy on the licorice for me.
I haven’t seen them sell root beer here in Australia, but the sarsaparilla isn’t hard to find. I wonder if they just modified that.
I would love to try their sarsaparilla! I haven’t seen it at the regular grocery store, but there’s a world market close by that might have it. I’m going to look.
I was going to suggest some other flavours to try while you’re at it, but honestly they’re all pretty good.
Seen it in Europe as well. It’s good stuff, can confirm! (Altho I guess you’re German and you know that already, but still)
Kofola from the Czech Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofola
I think way more exciting for me since I moved here is the fact that every bar has at least 3 different kinds of custom lemonades made with raspberry, elderflower, etc.
I managed to forget about Kofola until now 🤢 I visited Slovakia as a kid, wanted Coca-Cola, they gave me Kofola and it tasted horrible 😅 (probably didn’t help that I was expecting a coca-cola flavour)
Uk. Dandelion and Burdock.
It’s closest equivalent would be root beer, but it’s quite distinct from that.
Sadly, almost all UK soft drinks taste like shit now because of the Sugar Tax, where they’ve been reformulated to use more artificial sweeteners to avoid being taxed more heavily.
I love chinotto so much. They used to sell the San Pellegrino one here in the UK, but it got discontinued.
It’s great. Like a Campari and soda without the booze.
I personally can’t stand it, but chinotto is either you love it or you hate it.
Fun fact: the picture is for chinotto Neri, with the motto: chi beve neri, neri beve. (Literally “who drinks Neri, Neri drinks” but “Neri beve” sounds like ne ribeve “drinks it again”).
Zelita. It’s a banana flavored soda from Crete, Greece
