• @WalrusByte
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    251 year ago

    Reminds me of when I asked for a cream soda at Wendy’s and they responded with “What flavor?” and I was like “Uh… cream soda flavored?”

    Turns out they didn’t have regular cream soda…

    • @CitizenKong
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      371 year ago

      European here, what the hell is a “cream soda”? That sounds horrible.

      • @WalrusByte
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        1 year ago

        It’s basically just a vanilla-flavored soda. Apparently there are some European varieties, according to the wikipedia page, but they must not be that popular if you’ve never heard of it.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          You can get it in Germany but typically only in import candy stores. While I don’t mind the flavor it’s generally considered too sweet by people who try it.

          • @Soggy
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            131 year ago

            150 years ago, sure. Coca-Cola has neither coca leaves nor kola nuts these days though, and modern cream soda in the US is a vanilla-flavored amber beverage.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Fun fact, they still have coca leaves.

              Wikipedia:

              Since then (by 1929), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia. Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.

      • @bus_factor
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        121 year ago

        You’re clearly not Italian. They put actual cream in soda. The American variety just tastes like ice cream due to the vanilla, no cream involved.

      • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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        61 year ago

        It’s actually good. It’s been a long time since I had any, but from what I recall I think the best way I could describe it is that it’s like if you let the ice cream in a root beer float melt and mix in with the root beer. Except without the root beer flavor. So vanilla, creamy and carbonated.

          • jawa21
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            51 year ago

            Nah, it is definitely a thing in the US. Usually called red cream soda. It tastes god awful, like over sweetened bubble gum.

            • @[email protected]
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              81 year ago

              Maybe it’s a regional thing closer to the Canadian border

              Although looking it up supposedly “Big Red” is a type of red cream soda, and they love that shit in Texas. But it doesn’t call itself cream soda. Everywhere I’ve lived cream soda is invariably amber colored.

              • jawa21
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                31 year ago

                Yeah, Big Red is the brand I was thinking of. I don’t think of it as cream soda because I love the real stuff (which is amber colored like you pointed out). I am in GA and Big Red isn’t common, but around.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        It’s like one of the best kinds ever, although it’s pretty old school where I am. We also call it creamy soda in Australia.