Sunday Lunch I: Soda
Michael has started Sunday Lunch to take up in the absence of Sunday Brunch. I told him that I would participate as long as he didn’t post questions that only required one word answers. The first topic that I will be participating in is soda.
1. What is your favorite soda?
Right now my favorite flavor is Dr. Pepper but my favorite seems to change daily. Ask me tomorrow and I might give you a different answer.
2. How many or how much soda do you drink a day?
It would be better to measure my intake on a weekly basis. I would say I drink about soda about three times a week. That is actually up. While in college I decided to quit drinking soda completely and did that for several years (though I did pick up a liking, not a habit however, for coffee). Over the past year I have picked up drinking soda again but not nearly as bad as it was (two a day).
A fun factoid: On our field trip last Friday (yes, it is early in the year and hopefully I will have more details later about it) we saw several nutritional presentations that were actually quite good. One was on the our intake of sugar. If you drink two 20 oz. soda everyday you will force your body to process 114 pounds of sugar every year, and that’s just from soda! I found that amazing.
3. Do you drink it with a meal?
Not normally. Most of the time I drink water or tea with a meal. But then again. Sometimes I do.
4. What is the weirdest soda you have drank?
I will take this opportunity to change the question to: What is the oddest named soda that you haven’t tasted?
Has anyone had a Cheerwine? I haven’t and the name just sounds odd to me. I have seen it advertised on billboards and I recently saw it in Wal-mart…
Cheerwine…
5. Do you think it should be sold in schools at lunch time or ant other time?
Yes… No… Yes… Only if they have a coffee machine available.
And, I’ll adding Tim’s question: 6. What do you refer to soda/pop/coke/sodie as?
I live in the same general area that Tim does, so my answer is the same as his… soda. People asking me for a coke and they mean a soda just really confuses me, but maybe I am just easily confused.
Answer your lunch in comments or leave a link to your answers.
Class dismissed!
September 4th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
ooh! I’ve had Cheerwine.. my memory is fuzzy, but I think it was a bit like Dr. Pepper (maybe more cherry?) and enjoyable. It’s a Southern thing, hence Southern Roomie #D introducing it to me last semester — she returns with multiple 2-liters of the stuff every time she goes to the South.