Its weird… I like the sweet/sour taste of soda once the CO2 is gone. People find me very weird for this

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      10 months ago

      We call the process of drinking it “giving up” where I’m from. In some regions, they say “rock bottom.”

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        Wow, I sure wish that’s what “rock bottom” looks like for me. I don’t intend to know what that would actually be.

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    Nah, perfectly normal. Some people don’t like carbonation.

    I’ve known a guy who mixed red wine with flat diet coke at business dinners and conferences, deliberately. That was weird.

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    Sure… Gives it a whole new taste. You can also water down Coca Cola to make it less sweet and make everyone else at the table stare and sigh in disbelief.

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    My wife does that. I’ve been wondering more than once if I need to get her brain checked.

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    Nah, flat soda tastes nasty. The carbonation helps with reducing the intensity of the sweetener in the soda. It brings a bit of bitterness and acidity that you lose once flat

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      Sounds like you should have something with less sweetener in general if you need something to reduce the intensity of it…

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        Fizzy drinks are intentionally made sweeter because the CO2 adds sourness. They like the drink as it was intended to be drunk.

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        10 months ago

        ive taken to just drinking seltzer water when i realized i didnt care for the sugariness. Add a little lemon or lime juice for variety and im set.

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        Nah, as the other guy mentioned, its known that the carbonation brings a bit of bitterness, so sodas are intentionally formulated with that in mind. Flat sodas taste overly sweet because of that. Even more so when they’re warm, too, as cold tends to subdue sweetness.

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    Yes. I grew up in one of “those” hyper-educated houses in the 70s where parents forbid junk food, TV, rock and roll, and all that. I didn’t have my first Coke until I was 19. I recall my comment was that it tasted like cinnamon. But I never gained the taste for carbonation, thus it ruins everything. It burns my mouth, gives me gastric distress, tastes like gypsum dust, and a host of other mild unpleasantness.

    When I got married, my wife grew up on soda as the main beverage for everything. So I would only drink it flat. Everyone thought this was crazy.

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      I’ve realized the throat burn is most of what I’m addicted to. I need it just on the verge of icy (I put my drinks in the freezer for a bit before drinking). That first big swig, like sweet, delectable shards of glass ripping my throat to shreds. Mmm.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    For me the carbonated kick is what makes these types of drinks stand out… without it, personally I find most taste a bit like an underwhelming squash (kool aid for those in NA)

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    If anyone sick enough to like flat soda reads this: The Pepsi Nitro tastes like flat Pepsi as soon as you Crack the can open. Maybe you’d like it. I’ve drunk other nitro carbonated drinks before and none tasted so flat as Pepsi’s.

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    Oh yes, I love it when the drinks are flat. I find the carbonation kinda burns so having less of that makes the drink better.

    Also, you don’t get it back up the nose when you burp.