Its weird… I like the sweet/sour taste of soda once the CO2 is gone. People find me very weird for this
We usually describe that as “flat” soda where I’m from.
We call the process of drinking it “giving up” where I’m from. In some regions, they say “rock bottom.”
Wow, I sure wish that’s what “rock bottom” looks like for me. I don’t intend to know what that would actually be.
The heathen that is my wife.
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.
It’s called a calimocho/kalimotxo, and it’s a great way to drink a bottle of cheap wine.
Today I’ve learned
Red wine and coke is sth i have seen croatians and Portuguese drink
Consider me uncultured
Now that… I’m speechless lmao
Cola and red wine (Calimocho) is a pretty common drink, at least in Europe. It’s not as gross as it sounds.
My wife does that. I’ve been wondering more than once if I need to get her brain checked.
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.
Thankfully I am not that far gone yet 😂
Things are never so bad that they can’t get worse.
I love that Brisk raspberry tea, but sometimes it’s way too sweet, so I started watering it down.
It actually tastes better like that, imo.
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
Sounds like you should have something with less sweetener in general if you need something to reduce the intensity of it…
Fizzy drinks are intentionally made sweeter because the CO2 adds sourness. They like the drink as it was intended to be drunk.
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.
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.
I often shake a new bottle to let the co2 upfront. I know, I’m a monster.
Same. Never knew it’s such a common thing lol
Must be a common habit among us cosmic people
I hate it so much I use my Sparkel to recarbonate a drink that happens to
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.
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.
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.
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)
I just add carbonated water to squash. Usually tastes better and doesn’t have the slimy mouth feel most soft drinks have.
My wife does this. It’s very weird.
Are you a serial killer?
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.
I really hate it when that burp happens, it hurts.
Personally, it’s not so much a flat/unflat absolute stance. Some flavors IMO only work carbonated. Like plain coke is WAY too sweet when flat, IMO (40 grams of sugar in 12oz), but some other sodas can taste better flat than carbonated.
Especially if we bring in fountain vs bottled.
