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Old 09-20-2013, 07:01 PM
 
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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.

What do you think?
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Old 09-20-2013, 07:25 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Flavored carbonated water, no sweetener added.
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Old 09-20-2013, 07:51 PM
 
Location: Middle America
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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.
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Old 09-20-2013, 07:58 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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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.
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Old 09-21-2013, 11:57 AM
 
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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.
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Old 09-21-2013, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Eureka CA
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Have you tried the Pellegrino sodas? Spendy unless you get them at Costco but not too sweet and definitely addictive.
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Old 09-21-2013, 02:00 PM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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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.
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Old 09-21-2013, 02:29 PM
 
Location: North Idaho
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Tonic water.

Iced tea with not much sugar.

There are all sorts of flavored waters out there. I think Costco has at least 20 different kinds.

Or take your bottle of soda and mix it half and half with soda water.
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Old 09-21-2013, 02:55 PM
 
Location: Warren, OH
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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.
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Old 09-21-2013, 03:22 PM
 
Location: NW Philly Burbs
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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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