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Ever since I passed the age of about 10, I have thought that sodas were way too sweet. Sugar or diet, it doesn't matter. I wish they would come out with a type of soda that was just less sweet. Less sugar, less artificial sweetener, whatever.
I don't need gobs and gobs of sick sweetness with each drink of a beverage. I would just like a nice, pleasant but mild flavor.
Yep, I have a Sodastream that carbonates water, and I don't use soda syrup to flavor it, I use unsweetened citrus flavoring to give it a hint of lime, lemon, orange, etc. Sometimes, I leave it plain and just drink it as straight up club soda.
I hate cloyingly sweet soda, and after a few months of drinking plain or lightly flavored soda water, soda tastes cloying and syruppy.
I drink club soda, which is just carbonated water with a little sodium. Sometimes I add tea mix (or brandy on special occasions). It's nice with some lemon or lime squeezed into it also.
I've often thought the same thing. I haven't come up with any soda flavors or ideas of my own yet, so in the meantime, I've switched to ice tea when I'm out and about. If I am in a casual eating place, I make half sweet tea and half plain (unsweet in the South). If I'm in a sit-down restaurant, I sometimes order a flavored tea. From the store I get a good bottle of tea (HonesTea for example) that is lightly sweet but flavorful.
I dislike all sweet tea and all soda quite intensely; I find almost all of those drinks really gross. I'm pretty much an all-day water guzzler.
But oddly enough, I like ginger ale or ginger beer (the real stuff, if you can find it) and will drink it once in a while.
Growing up in Scotland we had a neighbor who brewed her own (non-alcoholic) ginger beer. It was gingery and lemony and absolutely delicious.
Someone beat me to it, but I second Pellegrino and other European sodas.
Foreign ginger ale is also no where as sweet as it's American counterpart. If you live near an area where a lot of people from the UK or Jamaica have migrated you will be able to find it.
I combine my love of ginger ale and flat soda by making "ginger water" -- half ginger ale/half water. Just enough flavor.
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