Soda without sweetners?

Too much soda in the soda. Or sodium in the sodium, whatever they call it now.

There's always the traditional sugared kind. Or how about non-alcoholic beer?

Soda? Who in Ireland calls a soft drink a soda?

Yeah they have artificial sweeteners

I still like their lemon, orange, and blood orange flavours, but they just not quite as nice as the versions without artificial sweeteners

There are US import sweetener free products available, Jones and similar.

If you're in/near Dublin, Reynolds on Lower Abbey Street and Link on Store Street sell piles of American imports. Plenty of them use high-fructose corn syrup rather than sugar; though.

Most of the soft drinks sold here are made here and our sugar tax means that nearly all have sweeteners to get below the tax point. Some UK imports are made in Scotland, which has the same law, same outcome.

Did you mean fanny pack?

I think the soft drink bottles in pubs are still artificial sweetener free. I brought home a coke from a night out the other week. Was savage to drink the next day. Tasted like old times.

Classic coke still uses sugar...it doesnt have any of the asparstame, acesulfame, steviol glycosides shite in it

I hate the way they snuck in a certain percentage of the artificial crap into 7up too...they had diet and zero for a while but the standard lavelling didnt change after an initial now with 30% less sugar period...on small print on back they had replaced it with the crap...also hate that club orange is no longer club orange....live long enough and the bastards will take everything you might actually enjoy away from you!

I cant stand any of the artificial sweeteners, they taste gack, I never liked coke much in the past now its the only one of the standard fairly readily available soft drinkd ill buy....I cite that as a reason any time I order out in the hope thst my smsll contribution might make business owners think the artoficial shite isnt liked...ultimately thats the only way this trend gets even partially reversed to some degree.....I really hate that one or two plsces now hsve no choice only the artificial crap if you want a soft drink...

To the op, there are some pricy but nice (pink) lemonades on the market like lorina, belvoir etc (and the donnybrook fair branded ones) that still use actual good old fashioned sugar and do not taste like a combo of fetid armpit and rancid ballsack....theres an irish company doing lemonade (irish craft sod company or something) and they just use sugar, lemon and water too...their standard lemonade isnt bad at all.

Interesting, picked up a can of it this week. In addition to the sugar, there is Acesulfame K and Sucralose. Very seldom pick up a full sugar drink, it was considerably worse than the last one I had.

If I drank minerals much, I'd sooner take my chances with pure unadulterated sugar than the synthetic cancer causers.

A sparkling water with a dropeen of lime cordial in it is just the tickets for me.

Or on the go I like Volvic sparkling with lemon and lime infusion.

Your cordial will have sweeteners and the flavoured water is riddled with them

Was Lucozade really better before 2017? I only got into it the last few years and I enjoy it but so many people say its complete muck after they changed the formula in 2017. I'm just curious as it's hard to picture it bring even sweeter.

"Minerdals" across most of Dublin.

Presume Cherry Coke is still unaffected?

This..

I used to love the plain Iemonade with lemons and sugar as described above . Think it was Innocent ? Pink one as well .

Now have diabetes( genetic ) and can't drink anything except water or these minerals with sweeteners which are sickly sweet . Yeuch!

Have started to go back to very watered down real lemonade or cordial now and then and if I don't overdo it doesn't cause problems .

I just prefer not to be using too much artificial stuff .

Stevia sweetened stuff is ok if you can get it .( But this is veering too far off for this discussion ).

Soda?

I find the Stevia has a vile aftertaste, worse than any of them

Other option if you want fizz is the carbonated fruit juices like appletiser, grapetiser or shloer. At least they taste nice.

Shloer has sucralose now unfortunately.

Certain flavours are less obvious. Dr. Pepper is a bit of a barrage of taste, was less blatant than the Pepsi change.

Will Coca Cola original taste hold out ?

Is it all purely financial pressure to switch

Will be a sad day if that happens

Was that the green one? It had Stevia.