The best drink is water
Refreshing, healthy, and universally appealing. Although city tap water is nasty (where I live). It tastes like stale pool water. Well water is delicious though. Tastes fresh, clean, and a little metallic, but I dont mind. Some people dislike the metallic taste, but I think I actually like it. Its a lot better than stale nasty pool water taste.
Water is also the base for many other beverages. What else do you make your tea with? Or coffee?
And if you’re going to buy bottled water, buy mineral water. Mineral water is (generally, in most places) a protected term, it has to come from a registered source and the mineral content is monitored to verify this. Everything else, “mountain water”, “spring water”, or whatever is just a marketing term; it’s just the same tap water that everyone in the location of that factory gets it from (while also depleting that local source sometimes before the locals can get it).
Mineral water is so good they tax that shit. But your own tap water, from a clean supply, maybe with a bit of extra filtering - that’s what you want to look for when settling down.
Hydrohomies unite!
So what is up with the scots?
Irn bru.
Shit is amazing btw
New Coke Zealand? That’ll go over well.
My favorite conspiracy theory is that Coca-Cola isn’t nearly as popular as they pretend it is, but they spend so much on marketing that everyone just thinks it’s that popular. Everyone I know prefers Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is made by Coca-Cola, and would be depicted as red on this map.
Dr Pepper is owned directly by Coca Cola in Europe, but Keurig in the US, which is multi-owned (used to be primarily Pepsi, now primarily Coca Cola). The US version is also far superior - same with all the brands pretty much.
Strangely though, you can buy US recipe Dr Pepper from those Coca-Cola vending machines (eg at Five Guys) that sell all the variety. Sometimes the edge of the cup gets splashed with spots of pure syrup.
Dr Pepper is made by Keurig. [1]
In 2015 Coca-Cola was Keurig’s biggest single shareholder, with a 17.4% stake. [2]
In 2024 Dr Pepper surpassed Pepsi to become the 2nd biggest soda by volume market share in the USA:
19.2% Coke (Coca-Cola) 8.3% Dr Pepper (Keurig) 8.3% Pepsi (PepsiCo) 8.1% Sprite (Coca-Cola) 7.8% Diet Coke (Coca-Cola)[3]
Neat.
I assumed it was something like this, thank you for the information.
Semantically, pedantically, I am still correct.
Coca-Cola being the majority shareholder in the company that makes Dr. Pepper is not the same thing as making Dr. Pepper.
Incorrect. Common knowledge and google will confirm that Dr. Pepper is not made by Coca-Cola.
If your statement is true, you’ll have to explain why and provide evidence.
Except in Europe, where it is.
Well, I just looked it up and- yup, you’re still wrong.
Yeah, that is indeed proof that Coca-Cola DISTRIBUTES in Europe, which is different from being the company which MAKES the product- which is still not Coca-Cola.
It’s pedantic, but I love being technically correct.
Ninja edit: technically also they don’t distribute either, another company named Coca-Cola Europacific Partners technically does the distribution.
The Dr Pepper distributed in Europe is also made in Europe by Coca Cola.
It’s also a different recipe. Except in some of the vending machines, the ones that do all the varieties of everything use American recipe syrups.
You’re trying to save it by being excessively pedantic but it isn’t working because you’re still wrong.
50% it’s gonna be Irn Bru or Bucky
Irn Bru, when I want to drink Fanta that’s been stirred by a rusty nail…
Man. I should go get a case just to try it again.
Those blue people suck!
