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I do not drink soda/soft drinks/cola. Or flavored water or iced tea or any of those things. I find them all, without exception, gross.
So all I have in my fridge is plain water and sometimes fruit or vegetable juice. And an astonishingly large number of people I encounter claim to dislike water. When I go to other people's houses, either on the job or neighbors or whatever, I get offered soda or iced tea.
So, I'd like to keep some cold beverages in my fridge to offer random people - the guy doing my lawn, neighbors that drop by, like that. Because it seems polite.
Is there some sort of cold beverage that is liked by a lot of people? Canned iced tea, Coke, Pepsi, something else? I'd like to have a modest selection of cold beverages to offer folks, but the grocery store soda aisle is about a mile long and confuses me.
I feel the same way you do about soft drinks. Usually if we're having a party or people around I buy a case of Izzy or get some Hanson's Natural Soda, make some good iced tea or lemonade. That's as far as I go, I just can't buy Coke and that stuff, if they need it that badly there is a 7-11 down the hill.
I'm the same way. I am clueless as to why anyone would drink soda except maybe at a party. Maybe buy some small bottles of fruit juice to have on hand. It's all sugar but it's still not as gross as soda.
Well, since we live about 75 miles from town we usually have a lot of "supplies" on hand including a wide assortment of
soft drinks, soda water, tonic, lemonade etc., as well as some beer, spirits (rum, vodka, gin). We do NOT have very many visitors however we do have some of the locals that stop by on occassion and I/we try not to drink up our beverage supply too fast.
Soda: 7-up (my favorite), coke reg.(for me), coke caffenine free for the Mrs., root beer-3 kinds(another of my favorites),
Dr Pepper, Cherry soda, orange soda, Ginger ale, and a couple bags of ice in the big freezer..
Is there some sort of cold beverage that is liked by a lot of people? Canned iced tea, Coke, Pepsi, something else? I'd like to have a modest selection of cold beverages to offer folks, but the grocery store soda aisle is about a mile long and confuses me.
Ideas?
You can make iced tea. It's easy, cheaper, healthier and tastes much better. The canned stuff is really gross, in my opinion.
I don't know if you're going to want to make iced tea, then you have to provide a glass, and it will be wasted if not used, you'll have to make more, etc. I'd just get some cans of soda and throw them in your fridge. It's most convienent. I second himain's suggestion - a few cans of coke and diet coke would be good. Maybe Rootbeer also.
I agree with you OP, I don't drink soda (anymore) and I love water. I also run across people who don't like water and it's hard for me to understand that. I used to work with a lady who never drank it and hated the taste.
There's so many variables with soda: regular, diet, caffeinated, non-caffeinated, and a combo of everything. Plus, if you offer someone a Pepsi, Coke is probably their favorite. Since it goes flat after a while, it shouldn't be kept for very long. If you don't drink it yourself, it just goes to waste.
Much easier just to offer water, lemonade, and iced tea, either homemade or pre-made. Keep a variety of bottles of Snapple on hand -- I don't think it goes bad, and there's enough variety to please most people.
We ALWAYS keep bottled water in the fridge for guests, and outside workers. We also keep a small selection of diet coke, regular coke, and diet sprite. A couple of small bottles of tonic. I drink the bottled green iced tea (lite) from Kirkland (love that stuff), so that's always around. Here in Raleigh, as was true in AZ, workers who come to the house are often Mexican. So we always have a supply of Fresca or Squirt. (In AZ, we usually kept Orange Crush around, too.)
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When I go to other people's houses, either on the job or neighbors or whatever, I get offered soda or iced tea.
