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Poll Question: What's your Pop of choice?
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    Posted: May 10 2010 at 06:01
Old Jamaica Ginger Beer is a fave of mine; served Ice Cold on a hot day!

Of the Colas, I guess I prefer Pepsi to Coke, although it's hard to say exactly why... Just seems to go down better. Virgin Cola was pretty good too. There is an Italian fizzy orange drink, which we can get in the uk, which is a current fave of mine. Cant remember what it's called. I'll let you know after I've bought a can in the work cafe today.

Edit: Sanpellegrino 'Aranciata'

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Im gunna be living in Pittsburgh this August....have to get used to hearing "pop" instead of soda....but Coke is my favorite. Much better than Pepsi.
Although the cheap grape soda is good, very potent grapey taste
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Dr. Pepper ofcourse, but it has so much sugar I tend to drink it as seldom as possible. Normally I drink Pepsi Max, cause it has no sugar and I don't believe that aspartame causes cancer Big smile

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Pop is not fit for human consumption. Stern Smile
 
 
 
 
 
 
But if you insist, and won't let me have an iced tea, I'll have a  root beer, then. Smile
 
 
 
 
Pinch BUUUUUUURRRRP! Shocked


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Props for including Jones in here. Didn't think it would be here. It is my favourite pop out there. Smile
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Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

Sorry about the HUGE picture. But it honestly does deserve attention. The best soft drink ever created, and I don't even know what the hell it tastes of.


It tastes of a hangover in Edinburgh after going overboard with the single malts the night before Sleepy

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Coke, I guess. But I barely can taste the difference with Pepsi
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I used to be hooked on Coca Cola, but I gave up all such fizzy drinks from October 2, 2008 to April 25, 2009. Inca Cola is just about the only soft drink I consume these days. The fact that my girlfriend is Peruvian might have something to do with it. Nah. I think its the great taste Thumbs Up
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Yes Dean, that's the problem when some herbs use local names rather than stardard ones, I only knew it as Hierba Luisa since I remember.
 
According to some sources Hierba Luisa is lemongrass, but according to Wikipedia it's Lemon Verbena. God knows, but it tastes fantastic. Wink
 
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BTW: Our Hierba Luisa looks more like lemongrass of your photo for what I seen, long leaves and a small flower.


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That's right, Dean. Lemongrass has tough stalks (which are usually strained out of soups and sauces), while lemon verbena has leaves, like most herbs. In Italy, lemongrass is called citronella, and it is the one used as an insect repellent.
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Lemon Verbena is not Lemongrass - Lemongrass looks like a grass when it is growing while lemon verbena does not.
 
 
lemongrass and lemon verbena
 
I have Lemon Verbena and another herb called Lemon Balm (which is of the mint family) growing in my garden - both have a strong citrus aroma and both can be used in cooking and to make infusions.
 
I've never tried making a drink from the Verbena flowers, but using flowers to make soft drinks is something we do here in the UK too (with Elderflower), and now is the time of the year to do it. Approve
 


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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

I know we have something called 'erba luisa' in Italy too, but I didn't know it was the same thing as lemongrass (which I sometimes use to make Asian-style dishes). In Italy it is very popular as an ingredient for candles or sprays that are supposed to keep mosquitoes away (and they work!).
 
Most surely, but it must be a different variety, we have like 30 sub.species the one we use is  Lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla), and for the soda the leave are used unlike most of the world where the flower is used.
 
Has a strong lemmon aroma that probably helps keeping bugs away.
 
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I know we have something called 'erba luisa' in Italy too, but I didn't know it was the same thing as lemongrass (which I sometimes use to make Asian-style dishes). In Italy it is very popular as an ingredient for candles or sprays that are supposed to keep mosquitoes away (and they work!).
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Yeah, Inca Cola is one of the best sodas I ever tasted, the diet version is even bbetter, despite I notrmally hate Diet sodas. it's sold in USA as Golden Cola.
 
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I've seen it rather frequently in grocery stores here. Since Micky is a fan of sodas (I'm not), I think we will give it a try one of these daysWink.
 
Here we use Inca Cola mostly to eat WITH food, it's perfect for that, it's made with a herb called Hierba Luisa that helps the digestive process.
 
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A new food discovery that I have made while in Peru is Hierba luisa, a grass-like plant that tends to grow easily on the coast of Northern Peru. I bought a box of Hierba luisa tea at the market because I didn’t know what it was and I wanted to try it. It has a strong lemon aroma and taste, almost like lemon-heads candy. Then when I started working at Otra Cosa, the couple that started OC have Hierba luisa growing in their garden. It’s such a distinctive, amazing herb. Here in Peru they cut off the leaves and steep it in hot water for tea.  

The research that I was able to compile is that it’s the same plant as the lemongrass used in Asian cuisines, except the bottom two inches of the hard stem is used for cooking instead of the leaves. I don’t really understand why the leaves are not used, because in Peru, that’s the most popular part. I have yet to see people dig up their lemongrass plants and use the stem, they just trim the leaves on the plant.

Lemongrass has some different species within the genus, one is used for citronella production and another is for making geraniol oil for the perfume industry. Lemongrass has many medicinal properties such as helping with arthritis, stress and stomach problems. It is high in anti-oxidants as well.

 
We discovered hat you may eat a lot and drink this soda that helps not to feel full.
 
Of course in a sunny day we drink Coke or Pepsi (That are a disaster with food), but otherwise, Inca Kola sells 2.5 more times than both of the biggest brands, despite what they say.
 
BTW; Recently learned that Coca Cola couldn't fight them so bought 50% of the stocks of Inca Kola in US$ 300'000,000. So Pepsi is dead /The pepsi Challenge created by them destroyed it, people thought they were cheating) and all the fast food chains can sell Coca and Inca Cola.
 
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Yeah, Inca Cola is one of the best sodas I ever tasted, the diet version is even bbetter, despite I notrmally hate Diet sodas. it's sold in USA as Golden Cola.
 
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I've seen it rather frequently in grocery stores here. Since Micky is a fan of sodas (I'm not), I think we will give it a try one of these daysWink.
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^it was way too sweet for me, if I remember well. Tasted it 1 year ago, more or less...
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Yeah, Inca Cola is one of the best sodas I ever tasted, the diet version is even better, despite I notrmally hate Diet sodas. it's sold in USA as Golden Cola.
 
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1. Coke
2. Jolt Cola (Extra caffeine ftw! Tongue)
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Except Coke, Pepsi and RC Cola (which I believe doesn't exist here anymore), none of the mentioned is sold in Peru, so i have to go with Pepsi when I'm not on diet.
 
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You were expecting this, weren't you IvanWink:


Anyways, just like Ivan, in Argentina they only sell Coca-Cola and Pepsi from the list, and I must say that Coca-Cola gets my vote.
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