In case you're interested Here are some Coca Cola beverage brands

[Dream Girl]

AdeS soy-based beverages
Aquarius
Ayataka green tea
Chivita
Ciel water
Costa Coffee
Dasani waters
Del Valle juices and nectars
Fairlife
Fanta
Fresca
Fuze Tea
Georgia coffee
Gold Peak teas and coffees
Honest Tea
ILOHAS
innocent smoothies and juices
Minute Maid juices
Powerade sports drinks
Simply juices
Schweppes
smartwater
Sprite
Topo Chico
vitaminwater

[marble falls]

1. Not Topo Chico! Is nothing sacred?

[Dream Girl]

3. Wat is topo Chico? Sounds kind of familiar.

[marble falls]

8. Best carbonated mineral water in glass and from Mexico. Very clean taste and refreshing ...

... The price has really gone up this year.

[Dream Girl]

9. That's why it seemed familiar. Is that then one with the extremely minarally taste?

There was one I used to drink in Mexico that tastes like you’re drinking rocks.

[marble falls]

12. Not to my palate, but its great, I mix it with my homemade Lemoncello. Rim the glass ...

... with sugar, and drop in a couple of maraschinos. Almost makes me look forward to the way too hot summer here.

[Evolve Dammit]

30. OK you can't post that you have a "homemade Lemoncello" and not share the recipe now could you?

[marble falls]

39. My special trick is to use Myer's lemons ...

... Zesting them is tricky because of the thin skins, but I like them.

So here you go ...

One cup of water
Two cups of sugar
(make a simple syrup from the above)
Four Tbsp of zest
Heavy 1/4 lemon juice.
1-3/4 Cups of 100proof Vodka

I double and triple up and use one-gallon mayo jars.

Some people use food coloring, but I am against it. I love the clear, clean yellow straw color.

Aging and an occasional shake for six months, filter through layers of muslin, bottle and let age another year or two, filter again and decant. The two-year-old bottles I have are very nice.

I also do cranberry liquor using fresh cranberries after Thanksgiving or Christmas. A batch uses one bag of cranberries that have been processed to rough mash. Some people add a couple of tbsp of Grapefruit zest. I know this: one year I added cinnamon, and it made it taste lie Robitussin DM. My wife said it was my imagination. But all I tasted was the worst drug experience of my life. And that was over fifty years ago. It's a very pretty red with no coloring needed. I might add orange zest next time.

[Evolve Dammit]

45. Thanks so much! That sounds awesome (except for the Robitussin DM experience...) On the cranberry,

what did you add to the mash? And a "heavy 1/4" what on the lime juice?

[marble falls]

46. The heavy 1/4 cup was the lemon juice fpr Lemoncello, don't need it for cranberry liquor ...

... GOOD question!

[sheshe2]

17. I have had a Soda Steam for years.

No bottles or cans. No recycling except for the CO2 cylinders and that makes it environmentally safe. I find it refreshing. You can make 60 liters on one cylinder. The initial price of a cylinder is $30. You return it and get the new one for 15.

[marble falls]

19. We have lousy counter space. We also have a juicer, a Viking mixer, cuisineart, coffee grinder ...

... and I make bread, and bake regularly. All in a small galley kitchen.

I recycle glass in my electric cement mixer and make glass pebbles with some river sand from our creek. It makes for colorful paths. Could also be used to make concrete/glass counter tops.

[Bluesaph]

40. Do you sell it?

I make plant arrangements and bonsai and that would look awesome!

[marble falls]

47. No, I don't generate enough glass to make it more than twice a year. Getting thick enough ...

... glass is important - wine bottles and beer bottles work good, as well as sheet glass more than 1/4" thick.

I also get "sand" from small pieces of glass and thin glass.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Phew!

I don't purchase anything on that list so there is nothing I have to give up.

[Dream Girl]

4. Me neither. I don't drink sodas. My only indulgence is sparkling mineral water, coffee and red wine

[smirkymonkey]

16. I make my own iced tea from Indian and organic teas and I have been on a bottled

smoothie and green drink diet (Naked Juices and Evolution) due to my dental problems, but fortunately none of them are on the list. I also drink water from the tap or the occasional Fiji bottle. I was hoping I wasn't going to have to give up any of my favorites!

[2naSalit]

28. Same here.

[jimfields33]

5. It would be tough giving up my Diet Coke.

Has Come even given a statement?

[Dream Girl]

6. The last one was pretty mealy mouthed

[jimfields33]

7. Thanks. Maybe they will knock heads and come out with an appropriate

statement. I hope so. Of course, the lawsuits are going to take care of these new laws anyway.

[Dream Girl]

10. Wat is it about Diet Coke? People become so addicted to it. I don't think it can just be the caffein

I never understood it but there must be an addicting quality to it.

[jimfields33]

13. I don't know but I'm completely addicted

You’d faint if I told you how much I drink. I’ve heard all the negatives and still just can’t stop it. I think it’s worse then quitting smoking or so I’ve been told.

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Diet Pepsi is same. I was "on it" for a bit, ok few years. I swear there's crack in it; Clean now.

[jimfields33]

36. Lol. Glad you beat the anchor.

I’m trying or will at some point. I know I need to.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Ha. I had friends (one was a Dr.) and all were hooked on this stuff. Really wonder what's in it.

They used to put cocaine (coca) in Coca Cola. No wonder have a "Coke and a Smile". I think they removed the cocaine in the 1920's? I read an article about how common it was for narcotics (opium, heroin, cocaine) to be in over-the-counter and later prescription meds. They said chances are your grandparents were addicts if they took that stuff. Many said to refill when you get down to a certain line on the glass bottle. After a few bottles you were probably pretty hooked. I recall having several as a lad in the early 60's for stomach issues (powdered opium and paragorik (sp?). Probably what they are using today in colas is some sort of synthetic relative? It is a thing though.

[PortTack]

11. Thx..don't use any of them, but it's good to know

[niyad]

14. Coke actually makes me ill (Pepsi does not, thank goodness!), and I don't drink anything on that

list.

Some here on DU posted a while back that Dasani translated as "thanks for paying extra to drink tap water, fool."

[Crunchy Frog]

15. The Simply Lemonade hurts a lot. As well as the no more Coke.

[Celerity]

18. Schweppes is not distributed by Coca-Cola in the US, Keurig Dr Pepper is the distributor

Distributor

Keurig Dr Pepper (North America, Japan, Philippines)

The Coca-Cola Company (UK, China, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa and Egypt)

Schweppes Australia (Australia)

Suntory (Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, FInland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland)

Country of origin Geneva, Republic of Geneva

Introduced 1783; 238 years ago

[Maine Abu El Banat]

20. Thank you!

[SYFROYH]

21. I haven't been able to find a Fresca in over a year.

[Onlyserious]

22. Call Delta Airlines!

I just called Delta and told them I will not be flying on their airline due to the voter suppression laws just enacted. The (live) voice on the other end said they appreciated hearing from me. I don't drink Coke, but they'll be hearing from me shortly.

[mcar]

23. I like Gold Peak

darn it - I only buy it a couple times a year when we visit family. I'll just bring my own iced tea bags.

[Ritabert]

24. Easy boycott

I don't drink soda at all.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. That's not a boycott then. That's just smart consumerism! Welcome to DU!

[dameatball]

25. It surprised me that I have only bought three of these in at least a year. Easy to give them up.

[ShazzieB]

26. I knew about Dasani and Minute Maid, but not all those others.

As it turns out, I don't use any of those products, so it will be easy for me to avoid them. *takes a sip of Diet Pepsi*

[Aussie105]

27. All those drinks have a few things in common.

1. Cheap products packaged to appeal and sold at huge profit.

2. None are a good substitute for clean drinking water.

Wean yourself off them. Do your body and wallet a favor.

[ancianita]

35. Yeah. They produce plastic. Un-recyclable plastic. Non-biodegradable plastic.

And when stored in hot warehouses, that plastic melts microbeads into the water.

[Rebl2]

29. Why are

people boycotting CC? Haven’t heard.

[BradAllison]

41. Because Georgia

Apparently they are supposed to flood the Georgia State House with fructose corn syrup because they didn't stop the Republicans from ramming thru a bill like they always planned to no matter what.

[AZProgressive]

48. It is an economic boycott

A similar thing happened when North Carolina had their bathroom bills. The NBA boycotted the state with their All-Star game.

Voter suppression is a bigger thing because if it is widely successful I can see our Democracy ending within 10 years.

[BradAllison]

49. Boycotting companies is a different mindset than say taking away all star games

Those events disappearing are immediate bad press and cash flow that get attention.

Coca Cola is a worldwide American brand that has been in Georgia forever, knows this hurts the state and opposed these bills as much as folks here insist they aren't doing enough. They've also given money to Biden, Warnock and Ossoff. It's short sighted.

Guys like Kemp and his hood wearing buddies aren't concerned about them losing a few bucks for their bullshit. They're laughing about it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

31. I hate dasani water

Tastes like shitty rancid tap water, probably is.

It tastes awful to me.

Sucks honest t is thier brand.

[ancianita]

34. Fanta originated in Nazi Germany. Nazis loved it. Most people don't know its history.

I think that Coca-Cola just bought up some of these competitors. But yeah, now that they own those brands, all of them deserve boycotting. I love Schweppes but haven't bought it for at least 20 years.

[bronxiteforever]

37. +1 I learned something today!

I did not know about Fanta. Thanks!

[ancianita]

38. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keith

[AwakeAtLast]

42. I don't drink any of those

Right now I'm keeping up with 100 oz. of water a day. If I drink anything else, it's coffee or tea. Glad I kicked my soda habit (which was Diet Dr. Pepper).

[BannonsLiver]

43. I've decided that I'm still going to drink Coke

Will boycott the others though.