Time for YouTalk: Your Favorite Drink
Posted on 19 March 2007
So I’ve been sitting here reading up on Justin Kan’s blog (some really good reflections on creating Kiko.com and selling it) and drinking some nasty Mountain Dew — when I should clearly be studying for the slew of midterms this week.
Anyway I looked at the Mountain Dew (nasty but the only soda available for 50 cents, yep I’m cheap cause I’m broke), and came to a revelation.
Here’s this week’s YouTalk Series topic (and your chance to get on my frontpage for a week):
What’s your favorite thing to drink and why??
Looking forward to your voice messages :)
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March 19th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
This is definitely a topic I can speak to. The sole purpose behind most of what I drink is to ingest caffeine in order to stay alert throughout the day (with hydration a distant second). With that said, I enjoy drinking coffee in the mornings and soda during the day. In the evenings, I enjoy the most common drink imbibed and invented here in the South - sweet tea.
In terms of coffee, I have found that the best way to go is brewing via a french coffee press - it retains oils and flavors that are lost when brewing via normal drip style, and the resulting brew is intensely strong and delicious. I am by no means an expert on coffee, but I do know that coffee brewed in this manner gives a signficantly harder kick in the caffeine department than other brewing techniques. Beware to those easily susceptible to caffeine.
For soda, let’s divide this into diet and non-diet. In the past year, I began to make the transition to diet soda, something I never thought possible after I tasted Diet Coke for the first time as a child. Here are a couple of reasons:
1) I consume mass quantities of soda a day. The accompanying calories, while easily thwarted by my metabolism now, will most definitely catch up down the road.
2) The sugar in ALL non-diet sodas is the most promiment cause of cavities in Americans (this is a fact). Diet sodas, while still acidic in nature, hurt our teeth far less. However, the flip side is that unknown long-term effects of aspartame (an ingredient found in all diet sodas) makes you think twice.
I choose my soda almost purely for caffeine. Since Jolt Cola (what I relied upon in my undergrad days) is illegal here in Florida (the caffeine content is so high it is considered a drug), I have had to find alternate means for high caffeine content in colas. As everybody knows, Mountain Dew is by far the highest in caffeine content, with Dr. Pepper the highest for dark-colored sodas. Here are the ones I consume the most (with brief annotations on why):
- Mt. Dew Code Red (a nice alternate flavor to the green-flavored crap you were drinking when you wrote this entry, Tony)
- Dr. Pepper (best-tasting cola by far)
- Diet Pepsi (I still can’t stomach Diet Coke, and this is one of the few diet sodas I have found that doesn’t have a revolting aftertaste)
- Coke Zero (The commonly held belief is that this is just Diet Coke and it’s a new marketing campaign. People believing that have obviously never tried Coke Zero. I would say it’s a cross between Diet and the original, with the flavor being much closer to the original. I repeat - it actually tastes like Coke. I highly recommend this to those trying to make the transition to diet)
- Cherry Coke Zero (recently released - delicious upgrade to Coke Zero)
As this entry is already long enough, I won’t go into much detail with regards to beer and hard alcohol. To encourage tangent discussions, I will bring up the interesting fact that in Asia (Japan, HK, China, Taiwan), most cold beverages are not carbonated soft drinks and instead are variations of tea. This trend has caught on as of late in the U.S. (a recent NY Times article shows that soda sales in the U.S. have declined steadily in the past few years) and is definitely a much healthier alternative. Personally, I would make the switch provided the caffeine contents in tea beverages is sufficient.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Wow what a comment! Thanks Ken, I have yet to read it in full.
Friendly reminder to all: the YouTalk series is geared towards voicemails! So be sure to leave a voicemail with your 2 cents to enter the ‘competition’.
More on the rules here:
http://www.geekwhat.com/2007/03/18/youtalk-series-begins-tomorrow/
Ken, wanna record a voicemail of your thoughts? :)
March 19th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Ken, that was a super informational post. Interesting point on the tea-based beverages in Asia. I had no idea the U.S. picked up on this trend. One of my buddies told me about splenda and the health benefits of drinking Pepsi One as opposed to Pepsi.
Have you tried Bawls? http://www.bawls.com/ A few of my college geek buddies back in the day used to drink it everyday. Another energy-type drink I guess. Maybe you can try it out and let us know if it’s good.
Anybody care to follow Ken’s schpeel? ;) Voicemails folks!
March 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Alcoholic Beverage- Crown and coke…Very smooth whisky, relatively inexpensive and a common drink…
Non-Alcoholic Beverage- Water…good for the body and soul, and good after a night of copious amounts of crown and coke…
March 19th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
In no specific order . . .
Non-Alcoholic: Water, Diet Coke, Diet Dr. Pepper, Tangerine Juice, Carbonated water (low sodium variate), Coffee (Black, feeling Ken on the French Press), Black Teas, Suger-free RedBull
Alcoholic: Jack Daniels (usually on the rocks, always make it a double for me!), Seirra Nevada Pale Ale and Wheat, Miller Genuine Draft
Sorry Tony, still no mic. I need to get one!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:41 am
No voicemail, just a tip - if you’re stuck with Mountain Dew, try adding some lemon juice to it. Makes it waay better.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:35 am
My all-time favorite drink is Honest Tea, which is available at Whole Foods or any other place where dirty-ass hippies shop.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
This drink I had this past weekend at a friend’s house for St Patricks…(first) let fresh cut up fruit sit in rum for a day. Then combine with Green gatorade. Then put in lime sherbert ice cream and serve…it was pretty good.
Alright…I love Sangrian…real Sangrian…basically red wine with fresh cut up fruit…good stuff.
March 25th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
water in this order, bc it matters: fiji, evian, crystal geyser, dasani, kirkland from costco. never drink the albertson’s brand of water termed ‘drinking water’ bc if you read the fine print it says ‘from a municipal source’, thus explaining its worse than the crap left behind at the bottom of horse watering trough at the end of a blistering texan day taste.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
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