Costa Rican Coke Zero

Earlier this winter, my family went to Costa Rica for a week. With my first meal at our resort, I had a Coke Zero with zero sugar, or "zero azúcar" as the can says:

My son had an orange Fanta with breakfast one morning (why not?... we were on vacation...) and he noted that it tasted better because of the cane sugar vs the HFCS we have up here in the US:

Checking the ingredients list.

Here's a video from a day we spent in a rain forest.

Northern Soda Company Pineapple Cream Soda

I opened this at work earlier today:

 
Brand: Northern Soda Company Pineapple Cream Soda

Origin: Arden Hills, MN.

Purchase Place: "Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop," Spring Lake Park, MN.

Sweetener: Cane Sugar.

Review: Well, the name of this soda is right on: it's truly a "pineapple cream" soda! The first sip of it touching my tongue was very "pineapple-y," and I'm honestly not a HUGE fan of pineapple. This soda didn't bother me though. And then the "creaminess" came as it was a SMOOTH pineapple flavor. It ended with a great smoothness like a nice cream soda. This was surprising to me... this was better than I thought it was going to be! I wish I had this at home as my boys would have loved to have tried a sip of this. I was ready for this to be a 4 or a 5, but in the end, I'll rank it a bit better than average:

Score: 7 out of 10.

Fitz's Root Beer

I opened this during supper the other night:

 

Brand: Fitz's Root Beer.

Origin: St. Louis, MO.

Purchase Place: Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop, Spring Lake Park, MN.

Sweetener: Pure Cane Sugar.

Review: This was really, REALLY good. It had a deep flavor, and was smooth and creamy. It didn't have much of a head, but I've had this can for a while, so maybe it lost some carbonation. Either way, it wasn't (much) worse because of it. There was a nice vanilla kick that wasn't overpowering. 

I realized I had this same soda about 12 years ago (from a more traditional glass bottle) and I ranked it a 9. I think after another couple of hundred sodas, I'll rank this a bit higher now... it was GOOD.

Score: 9.5 out of 10.

Rhett and Link's Mountain Dew Taste Test

Rhett and Link tried every Mountain Dew flavor:


Direct link: youtube.com/watch?v=ltgULFQU24Y