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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 57 points 6 months ago

Tried to order green tea at a drive thru once and they asked what I wanted with it. Confused the heck out of me and I just responded with "uh, tea?"

[-] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months 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@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

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

[-] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 7 points 6 months 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.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Nothing to do with vanilla.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months 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.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months 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.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

It always fluorescent pink whenever I've seen it.

[-] shuzuko@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

"Red" cream soda is a slightly different drink. I'm not sure what the flavor is supposed to be, other than, well, red. But it's different from something like IBC Classic Cream Soda, which is amber. Example: https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2e3fb06b-0562-4c17-9baa-af650463189d.dc2cf3327322055234653f162f93f31b.jpeg

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months 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.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 6 months 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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 6 months ago

In the US cream soda is NEVER pink. Was weird to see that when I went to Canada

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago

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

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 6 months 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@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months 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.