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No, lemon flavoured coke. Coke with actual lemon juice is nice.

Uhh where do they get the lemon flavour from then??...

You're so naive, LR.

Root beer is the best soda.

Apocalyptus wrote:No, lemon flavoured coke. Coke with actual lemon juice is nice.

Agreed.
I don't think Canadia ever got Lemon Coke, but we did have Coke with Lime, Pepsi with Lemon and Pepsi with Lime (I think). All of which were gross and the citrus was so artificial tasting. I do always ask for lemon when ordering cola at a restaurant.
We had Cherry Coke for about 5 years or so, and then it phased out. First you couldn't get cans or big bottles, then you had to hunt for convenience stores with the smaller bottles. I haven't seen it in a long time even then.
Vanilla Coke had a similar story, only it came about 2 years later, phased out about the same time after, only the dropoff was a lot faster.

I hate when restaurants automatically put lemon in your soda or water. Eugh. I don't want to ruin my drink, thank you very much.

mountainmage wrote:I hate when restaurants automatically put lemon in your soda or water. Eugh. I like having scurvy, thank you very much.

Fixed that for you. Lemon can also help mask the flavour of old pipes, if they get the water from the tap.

I don't get any vitamin C (except small quantities in food, since I don't like lemons, oranges, grapefruit, bananas, peaches, limes, strawberries, blackberries, cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes, etc.), and I've never had scurvy in my life. Also, I've never had tap water from a restaurant that didn't taste fine.

My country puts Vitamin C in the water.

Mine puts Fluorine compounds in for stronger teeth.

We've got flouride too!

mountainmage wrote:II don't like lemons, oranges, grapefruit, bananas, peaches, limes, strawberries, blackberries, cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes, etc.

WTF is wrong with you? Were you born with bizarro tastebuds or something?

mountainmage wrote:I hate when restaurants automatically put lemon in your soda or water. Eugh. I don't want to ruin my drink, thank you very much.

They put it right in? Most restaurants I've been to put it on the rim, but that doesn't mean you have to use it.

mountainmage wrote:I don't get any vitamin C (except small quantities in food, since I don't like lemons, oranges, grapefruit, bananas, peaches, limes, strawberries, blackberries, cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes, etc.), and I've never had scurvy in my life. Also, I've never had tap water from a restaurant that didn't taste fine.

How can you live like that? Do you eat nothing but meat?*

*Fresh meat has vitamin C in it, which saved Anmudsen's group from scurvy in Antarctica. If you lived on a ye olde European ship, you'd be dead now**. Most of Magellan's fleet died of scurvy in the Pacific, resulting in that only 35 out of 200-something people returned to Spain****
**Why? Nothing to eat but wine, Nackle meat, and mouldy wormy flour***
***Unless you like quince preserves. Love those quince preserves.
**** Of course, one ship mutineed and half of the (at that point allready greatly reduced by scurvy) was captured by the Portuguese, but by that point only 70-something people remained.

mountainmage wrote:Mine puts Fluorine compounds in for stronger teeth.

Fluoride doesn't make your teeth stronger, it just eliminates enzymes that would break down enamel.

Euclidthegreek wrote:How can you live like that? Do you eat nothing but meat?

A lot of junk foods make use of ascorbic acid as either a flavour enhancer or as an anti-oxidant