Popular and Unique Soft Drinks From Around the World

A few of the middle eastern food joints in my area carry this yogurt soda. My friend had one and said it was interesting, but I have yet to try one out myself.

Yeah, milk and yogurt based drinks seem to be pretty popular in other countries, especially Japan.

They Forgot VERNORS!!!

The Ginger Soda ageed for years in Oak casks and usually available only in Michigan and surrounding areas.

It is the oldest soda in the USA and possibly the world

Almdudler is really awesome!

Pakola is AMAZING. Pakistani grocery stores have it everywhere here in America. Yummy!

Finland makes the best orange soda on the planet! Jaffa FTW!

No mention of Inca Cola from Peru. It is bright, almost glow in the dark, yellow and tastes like bubble gum.

Good to see Cheerwine on the list...nectar of the southern gods.

Like the next drink down...Kimchee drink! On a hot summer day, nothing goes down easier than fermented spicy cabbage juice! I am a fan of kimchee so I'll have to try some before I knock it too much.

The yoghurt soda... I bought some middle eastern food at a mart near my place, and I decided, Why not, Ill try this weird yoghurt soda drink as well, I mean it should go with the food right?

I opened it and drank.. and it tasted like cheese in seltzerwater... in a bad way

Yogurt soda just sounds plain gross, sorry. So does any dairy in carbonated water.

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I'm too familiar with Japanese stuff to really be fazed by their weird drinks anymore. OTOH, while stuff like Calpis and Pocari Sweat (which is basically citrus Gatorade) are thoroughly everyday there, the really strange stuff does in fact give Japanese pause as well as the rest of us.

A placenta drink? Yuck! But to each its own...

No Pocari Sweat! I mean, who doesn't want a sweaty Pocari in canned form? Sadly, I think we missed this pearl of marketing genius from Japan. Japan, which is japanese for "the place where everything can be purchased from a vending machine".

They forgot Rivella ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivella ), a Swiss drink from milk plasma.

i tried guaraná jesus some months ago, and the strange aftertaste is almost completely gone by now...

The Sarsi featured there is not the same as the Sarsi I remember. ?? The Sarsi I remember was like the Philippines version of RC Cola. Not quite entirely a cola taste and not like a root beer. Kind of in between.

Vimto and Vegitabeta are missing. I'll remedy that with a quick note to the author. :)

That was a great article, but... "Coolpis Kimchee Drink"?

Should those three words ever appear in the same sentence?

Yark.

Vodx, my family used to spend spring breaks in Austin, TX, with relatives (because we were too poor to take real vacations). We'd always bring back Vernors ginger ale, because it wasn't available in stores in the part of North Texas where we lived.

Now you can go to Albertsons and get it. Wonderful stuff. I've also had a Jamaican ginger ale served at a vegetarian restaurant in Dallas (I haven't seen this in stores). I don't recall the name of the brand, just that it was so spicy it just about took the top of my head off.

Inca Cola is real? I always thought it was something made up by Alan Dean Foster for the sci-fi novel "Catalyst."

Almdudler ftw!

One of the features of my wedding reception was an array of soft drinks ... one each of over 100 different brands/flavors. Many were bought at Galco's Soda Pop Stop - check out www.sodapopstop.com . (I'm told that the cucumber soda - Mr Q. Cumber - was surprisingly refreshing.) I'm partial to birch beers, myself - like root beer, but with a subtle to pronounced wintergreen tang depending on the brand.