By the way, the r/poppi subreddit has been deleted. Pepsi silencing all dissent. I would say to “pour one out” for Poppi, but I don’t recommend buying these sodas, and I don’t drink soda in general (water remains undefeated).

  • ryepunk [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    46·
    30 days ago

    Keep winning by drinking water.

    Oh I’m being told my province has sold all the water rights to Nestle. For like no money at all. Fuck.

    • Dialectical Idealist@lemmygrad.ml
      17·
      30 days ago

      Buy a carbonation tank and some specialty bottles/pipes/nozzle for under $200. Carbonate all your drinks for cents a gallon. Experiment with your own soda syrup or just drink sparkling water/wine. After the initial investment you just need to refill the tank every six months.

        • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          30 days ago

          The ingredients are too exotic and expensive compared to making your own alcohol or just carbonated water or fruit juice or something.

          Well, they’re not exotic, per se, they’re just used on massive quantities in complex supply chains. It’s all about scale.

        • Dialectical Idealist@lemmygrad.ml
          10·
          30 days ago

          Yeah, I should have said zero sugar flavor packets, coffee syrup sweatener, or juice. But the neat thing about owning your own carbonation tank is you can experiment with different options. Your results may vary!

          • Farvana@lemmygrad.ml
            5·
            29 days ago

            You can make your own syrups, and can make flavors that just don’t exist in a can. I especially like shrubs, syrups that include vinegar.

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          8·
          29 days ago

          The soda syrup is expensive as fuck (relative to water, smoothies, etc.) basically no matter what unless there’s one people can make themselves. Even getting no-name syrup in bulk from restaurant distributors is barely cost-effective compared to getting 32 packs of soda for 15-17$ from Costco.

          wtf, does America not have squash/cordial? I get 2 litres of Vimto concentrate for like £3, which makes about 10-20 litres of soda depending on how strong you like it.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          29 days ago

          750 mL of fruit syrup costs around $6. In a 1:8 dilution that’s 6 liters. That doesn’t beat $1 for a 2L of store-brand soda, but it’s still rather cheap.

          Now if you really want something fizzy and customized, you get a 1-gallon glass jar of pickles, eat the pickles, save the jar. From there, about ¾ pound of sugar ($0.45), 5 regular black tea bags ($0.30), 2 tablespoonfuls of that fruit syrup ($0.24 but you can skip this), a generous dash of vinegar ($0.05), and a kombucha starter. Brew the tea ($0.01 in electricity), fill the rest up with water, let it sit for a month, and then you have 3.5 L of a fancy, low-sugar, carbonated, probiotic drink that cost you about a dollar in supplies.