we got a couple of fancy sodas last time we went to the grocery store because they had a sale on everything in the "craft sodas" section
in addition to a couple of interesting things we hadn't tried before, we also got two bottles of tamarind jarritos because it's just really good okay
tamarind soda is tasty
-F
jarritos is a nice brand of soda because like
it's super cheap as bottled soda goes (not as cheap as 12-packs though) at like 70~80¢ a bottle
and it has lots of flavors that you can't really get anywhere else, like tamarind or lime (*not* lemon-lime, that's different)
they also use real sugar which is probably healthier, but we can't taste a difference between cane sugar and HFCS
-F
Mexican soda in general is neat stuff. There are other flavors that aren't common in the US outside Jarritos, too; Sidral Mundet is apple, and there's a sangria one that's hard to describe.
@dodec we had an apple soda once called like... manzanita sol, I think? Or sol manzanita? which mostly tasted like a mix of red delicious (the worst kind of apple) and cardboard (not an apple)
we'd love to try a good apple soda though, that could be good. we don't drink, so we actually have never been exposed to what exactly a sangria is!
oh we've had a good lychee soda before too, that is a flavor that just works wonders in drinks. prickly pear would probably be great too!
-F
@dodec iwrc the melon that's ingrained in japanese culture is actually a breed of canteloupe, just one that looks very different from the ones we get in north america
also for some reason it's inordinately expensive and thus a symbol of wealth, making it desirable, hence the sheer amount of melon-flavored stuff they do in japan
-F
@dodec it is!
-F
@Felthry
Whichever it is, it's tasty.