What are good sodas for Progressives?

[renoray]

There is a great progressive pizza place out here with signs up for Kerry and everything...but they sell Carlyle soda(Dr. Pepper and the like). My guess is they don't know, and might not care, but I would like to bring it up...but if I brought it up I'd like to be able to offer the best alternatives and I can't. Any suggestions?

[snoogins]

1. Shasta

i dont know what am i, kreskin?

[proud patriot]

2. shasta bottled right here in the Bay Area

that's what I buy

[onecitizen]

3. What?

What are you all talking about? Soda?

[catbert836]

4. Nothing by Coke

Their factories in Columbia "just happen" to be vulnerable to rebel militias who go in and "just happen" to only kill one worker and "just happen" to make the other wokers file past the corpse while management "just happens" not to know why or how any of this :"just happens."

[LostInAnomie]

5. Jones soda

Plus they have a ton of great flavors.

[ElkHunter]

6. A good progressive soda...

...is always served over ice with at least two fingers of good scotch.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. ...

Jones is a great independent soda company. Bawls is great too (not to mention highly caffeinated).

[JCMach1]

8. Mecca cola if u can get it!

:)

[jbm]

9. pepsi is down right evil..

Not only do they give all their political money to the repubs, but if you do a search on pepsi and Burma, you get stories about how they funded a militaristic government in order to put the little Burmese tomato farmers out of business.

[AP]

10. Water. Or Cranberry juice. Isn't something like 90% of the cranberry

business run by a co-operative of Mass family farmers?

[Barney Rocks]

11. Dr. Pepper is

affiliated with Carlyle? Why hasn't someone told me? I have been drinking it for ages--the diet soda actually tastes like regular which is rare. Damn--I have to give it up now. I'm glad I at least found out--better late than never I guess.

[renoray]

12. Carlyle soda

http://www.carlyle.com/eng/industry/industryportfoliol5-1889.html

I don't know the extent of their investment. If anyone that knows more about big money shell games can explain the extent of Carlyle's investment in Dr. Pepper, it would be appreciated.

[alfredo]

13. Isn't Dr Pepper owned by Cadbury/Schweppes?

Vernor's Ginger Ale is also in the same family of products. That is the oldest ginger Ale in the US. The best in my opinion.

[haele]

14. Hansens

A touch more expensive, generally found in natural foods stores, but I have found some sixpacks in stores like Vons and WinDixie, and places like Costco and Smart and Final will occasionally carry the 24 pack flats for a comparable price to Coke and Pepsi.

They make great gingerale, and use splenda and/or fructose as their diet soda sweeteners. Unfortunately, they don't have a straight "cola" (it's a vanilla cola) and they don't carry some of their flavors in diet.

They also do "smoothies" and juices.

http://www.hansens.com/

Haele

[KlatooBNikto]

15. I like Boylan's another soda found at natural food stores.They

make a killer Diet Cream soda that is sweetened with Splenda and Fructose.They also make excellent Diet Cherry and Diet Root Beer.