tamarind is nice, honestly
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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
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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
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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!
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Sidral Mundet is worth trying; I've never had Manzanita Sol so I can't compare the two, but I liked Sidral. As for sangria, I don't drink alcohol either, but the soda itself isn't alcoholic. It tastes like what I imagine a mixture of red wine and orange would taste like to someone who liked red wine.
Lychee soda sounds interesting, and I should see if I can find any. I'm pretty sure I've seen honeydew soda (just labeled as "melon") in Japanese markets.
@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
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Whichever it is, it's tasty.
@dodec it is!
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@dodec lychee is probably not going to show up in mexican soda obviously, missed that you were talking about that specifically, but i wouldn't be surprised if prickly pear did
i'd love to try a proper canteloupe-flavored soda too, or honeydew, one of those really tasty melons with more flavor to them than watermelon
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