I’m getting a box ready for you Lewis so I’ll put a Clamato juice in there. Gross. I have never tasted it and won’t either. As far as pops, hubbys favorite drink is Mountain Dew and mine is Diet Pepsi.
Aside from Mtn Dew, none of these I would describe as popular, or even common here in the US. Several appear to be regional (I've never heard of Big Red). Crush comes in a number of flavors - I suspect orange is probably the most popular. I think most people drink Coke, Pepsi, or the "diet" versions of them. And I"m 100% certain they threw in the Clamato just to see the reactions that we saw, because I know of no one would would drink it like this. I enjoy your videos very much.
Big Red is Texas. Clemato is basically found South for Bloody Mary's. The Sour soda's are hit or miss. I have no idea why they choose Arizona Diet Green Tea. That is gross and I am diabetic. Sugar Free Arizona is better. But Arizona Half and Half is the best.
It’s regional. You can go in most stores here in Cali & find most almost all of these drinks. It may be generational too bc Az Ice tea was just as popular here as Snapple or Coke. Fanta is super popular. A Mexican drink adopted by CocaCola
Big Red is sold in grocery stores and very few soda machines where I live here in Oklahoma but I've never seen it offered in a restaurant. I've known people that like Big Red but I've never met anyone that said it was their favorite. To me it tastes like really cheap chewing gum and if I had to put it on a tier list, I'd say it's a definite D.
Also, the weird reason a lot of drinks were compared to medicine is that back in the late 1800s a lot of these drinks started as medicine. Coke was originally a cure all in a bottle with a healthy dose of actual cocaine in it. That's why soda shops were also in pharmacies.
That didn't really represent the most popular US sodas, except Mountain Dew. Clamato is not a soda, it's a cocktail drink. It is actually quite nice slightly seasoned with a shot of Vodka or Gin. I get that it seems very strange, however it's just tomato juice with add clam broth. I love clams so it doesn't taste bad to me.
I don't know anyone who drinks any of these drinks besides Mountain Dew and maybe Big Red. Kids in England, need to open their minds to new things. They should try things with an open mind.
@@philkimmet9597also most ginger Al's are make without ginger, root beer is make without sarsaparilla root because America outlawed Sarsaparilla root because it causes cancer in rats 1970s
Where I'm from, Clamato is used mostly as a mixer - add ice cubes, Vodka and green olives stuffed with pimento (like a martini) if you want to be fancy
Big Red is based in Waco (central) Texas, the same town that Dr. Pepper started. It’s kind of a bubble gum / cream soda flavor. I grew up with it in central Texas and it’s very popular in Texas. As with anything some people like it, some don’t. I don’t drink a lot of soda, but Big Red is one of my favorites.
I started binge watching L3WG yesterday. Must've watched 10 videos in a row. Dude has good character. As an adult, I love Crush grape soda. Goes better with ice. We Americans love ice in our drinks. Mt. Dew Baja Blast is really good. Mt. Dew has a lot of sugar, it's like a watered down energy drink.
What the Europeans don’t realize a lot of the time, most grape things in America have little to no actual grape juice in them they are just grape flavored. Combine that with an obscene amount of sugar and you have something that tastes grape but that’s as close as it gets.
@jameszacknehring787 I have been known to have some non alcoholic wine but for a variety of reasons I don’t do alcoholic beverages. But I one hundred percent agree with what you’re saying here. Most of our packaged drinks have a shameful amount of sweetener even in what is sold as healthy juices. We are so into our sugary drinks that we even have sugared water available.
@jameszacknehring787 I personally like Orangina, Polar Springs, and Pellgrino real juice soda. Orangina is probably the best carbonated drink ever. French orange soda. I don't regularly drink stuff like Coke, Pepsi, etc. Only if I'm out grabbing a quick burger all have a fountain soda, but Crush grape reminds me of my high school days when I was stocking shelves at Kmart and me and a coworker was arguing about which was better, Crush orange or grape. lol
Pour your British tea in a glass full of ice and it’s iced tea, add sugar before and it’s sweet tea. No measurement, just a bit more than will dissolve in boiling water.
Clamato is mostly used for mixed drinks, like a Bloody Mary and Red Eye for example. The only soda on this list I've tried is Mt Dew. The most popular sodas in America are Coke, Pepsi, Mt Dew, Sprite, Canada Dry and A&W Root Beer. And if you want to have a taste of orange or grape, Fanta and Crush are popular as well.
The UK already has all of our popular drinks that’s why they gave them these drinks that even a lot of Americans have never heard of, with the exception of Mountain Dew. Also, Clamato is used as a mixer; you don’t drink it sober.
First of all, the Arizona Tea was "diet". The regular one isn't bad. Mountain Dew is the only real drink that is popular. Clamato is used as a mixer, usually in a Bloody Mary. The others are NOT popular at all unless you're a young kid. Also, the only way to drink any soda is with ice. It makes a huge difference.
Other than Mt. Dew (which is fantastic) the drinks they featured are not commonly consumed. I’ve never heard of big red and definitely have no interest in trying the tomato drink or the sour one. Try that Dr Pepper you received, that’s one of the best and most popular!
Clamato is only for bloody Marys. I like regular V-8 blend. It's the juice of 8 healthy vegetables and it really does taste like blood from the iron content.
Big Red is a cinnamonly cream soda. Cream soda is typically vanilla flavored. The best name brand cream soda is A&W Cream soda. It's literally "fizzy vanilla soda."
There are two kinds of cream soda: those with vanilla flavoring to make them taste creamy (either alone, or with other flavoring), and those with some kind of actual cream in them (which generally nobody likes. Milkshakes are just better).
big red soda isn't cinnamon flavored. it's just a fizzy cream soda. you're probably thinking that because of big red gum, which is very spicy. i think they're made by the same company. i don't know why they taste so different. not a fan of either, tbh.
You can get every flavor under the sun at the grocery stores in America, but the only popular drink on this list was Mountain Dew... And nobody drinks Clamata straight it's used for making cocktails.
Make sure you refrigerate the drink's first. They are formulated to be served cold and grape flavored products are designed to taste like Concord grapes not the red or green ones you get at the supermarket. M dew is about the only one listed here that's actually a popular drink ive only ever heard of people using clamato as an ingredient to make something else
1) Mountain Dew is very popular. The others are not. If you get a fountain drink at a restaurant, those won't be options 2) Grape soda is not as popular, but I've had it a few times 3) I think I had some Big Red back in the day. There's a gum with the same name that has a strong cinnamon flavor. Haven't seen it in years so I don't think it's popular. Maybe it's regional? 4) The popular Fanta here is orange. Blue is uncommon, but I've seen it before 5) Never heard of that sour warhead soda. Only the candy 6) Clamato is usually not consumed on its own lol. It's used to make a michaelada with beer. The combo is actually pretty good. The flavors balance each other out
I have 60 years of grape flavored memories. It's the same flavor. It's in sodas, cereals, ice cream, candies, jello, kool-aid. That flavor line runs through many many foods. Except grapes.
That flavor is usually based on Concord or fox grapes. Like banana flavored things are based off of the Gros Michel banana. Types of wine grape are what is generally found in grocery stores.
@@DanielMWJ I can't think of who does this bit, Chris Rock? ''What is juice muthafuc#@r!? We have have grape DRINK at my house!'' Looked it up, it's Dave Chappelle.
I think that, like 'orange' soda flavor, the only reason we think that these flavors taste like the fruit in the name is because we've been told all our lives that that's what they are. I seem to remember grape soda as being more common 60 years ago than now, but I don't pay much attention to such things now.
I drink the Mountain Dew and the Grape Crush on a regular basis. The Arizona Ice Tea is popular, but the one given to the kids was a decaffeinated and diet version. No wonder they didn’t like it. By the way, I am an American. I haven’t seen or even heard of some of these other drinks.
The "Crush" people have several fruit-flavored sodas, of which Orange Crush is the flagship product. They make a Pineapple Crush, which is unique but hard to find in some areas. The business about putting "cane sugar" on the bottle is that some years ago, American bottlers started using high-fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar, amid much criticism-some people privately import Mexican Coca-cola with cane sugar across the border. So putting "made with cane sugar" on the bottle is a sales point.
Most of those aren't popular, and the ones that are from the more common companies are unusual or less popular flavors. But ours are going to be extremely sweet to non-American palettes.
Crush makes three different flavors. Orange, strawberry, and Grape. They're all pretty good. They've been around since at least the 70s. When I was a little kid, there was a big greenhouse business just about 100 yards from me, and they had a soda machine that regularly stocked Crush drinks. Additionally was always fun to go over there and get a soda. I think they also carried RC Cola as well. RC has a bit more Citrus-y taste than regular Coke/Pepsi.
Are they drinking these without ice? That actually changes the taste.with being room temperature in my opinion. These are hilarious reactions!! a lot of these are off brands . The only one I’ll drink of these is Big Red ( with ice) Most of these I would not drink& aren’t popular . lol !!😂😂
Exactly! It would be like giving them American ice creams to try, but all melted and room temperature! It's not going to taste right, especially because the warmer the sweeter something tastes!
Mountain Dew is one of the highest caffeine content sodas you can get. It uas a full 65mg of caffeine in one of those cans they had. Thats almost as much as a typical cup of coffee. Our energy drinks can have 3-4 times that much caffeine, plus stuff like ginseng, guarana, taurine, and B-vitamins. All of which combine to make one hell of a energy kick. And of course, most of us who drink them, wish they had more of a kick. 😂 Edit: Mountain Dew is a citrus flavor, sort of like a lemon lime, but with a lot of sugar added to it. Personally I prefer Faygo Moon Mist, but Mountain Dew has a lot more caffeine than Moon Mist. Edit 2:Clamato juice was them being trolled. It is clam tomato juice. Its horrible. I've never known anyone that likes it.
Hahahahahah! They grabbed some outlandish ones for sure. Clamato is a preferred mixer for Bloody Mary cocktails and that is about all it is used for. Mountain Dew is really good. Big Red and Warhead soda are really niche and not popular. Arizona lemon ginseng tea is amazing but only when it isn't diet version (unless you lobe diet drinks, then I guess you think it is good). I mean, this barely scratches the surface of all of our crazy drink choices. Virgil's Rootbeer is amazing. Ginger beer is amazing. We are getting more and more natural sodas and they gave these kids the wildest and most sugary sweet and colored ones. It was a good watch though. I am not offended or anything. I think it was fun. Yeah, we have some crazy weird stuff over here but it is all good fun. I don't think you are meant to drink any of these on a daily basis.
One thing that perhaps the rest of the world need to take into account is that we use a lot of artifical flavoring in our fruity beverages that don't necessarily taste like the real fruit, so when Brits taste our grape soda, yeah, it really doesn't taste like real grapes, but when you're used to artifical flavoring, you quite enjoy a good artificially flavored beverage, Strawberry drinks don't taste like real strawberry either, but they're still tastey.
I am from Indiana here and Big Red is a 7up product. I drink Big Red Zero daily because I do not drink coffee or tea for caffeine. Mt. Dew is a Pepsi product and a big seller in Indiana.
The actual most popular sodas in America are things like: Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer (A&W is the best!!), Sprite. The sodas that have "cult followings" (!!!) are things like: Mnt. Dew, Big Red (brings back memories of going to the skating rink when I was a kid!!!), and energy drinks. Some people like Orange Fanta, Creme Soda, Grape Fanta, etc.
- Grape flavored candies and sodas are popular and wide spread as they are based off a native grape species, Concord grapes. These are different from grapes you’d use for wine or eating. Most grape juice in the US comes from Concord grapes. - Gas is short for gasoline, which is refined petroleum. America had “gasoline” as a word by 1864, whereas “petrol” wasn’t widely used until the early-mid 1900’s to describe its use as a car fuel. Gasoline is a more correct term to describe a refined petroleum product used for vehicles. At least that’s how I see it.
Grape isn't that popular -it tends to be love or hate. Mountain dew is popular and is sweet -fun fact it was created back in the prohibition days to mix with bathtub brew, which I guess tasted horrible. Big Red was popular when I was growing up, but is now more regionally a favorite. I still love it. It has a vanilla, cherry, cinnamon thing going on. It is sweet. Arizona tea is also popular but has a love or hate thing going on. Some of their flavors are good others are not so good. Fanta is popular here in the US, but more with kids and some flavors can be 'fake' tasting. Warhead is also popular with the kids. Clamato??!!! NOOOO!! Clam juice and tomato juice. That had to be a prank. It is used in alcoholic beverages. Vodka. Some ppl like it.
I never seen big red until I went to texas and the first time I had it I thought it was really good but then after the first time it got worse for me every time until now I can't stand it at all. Also I feel like most people don't drink plain mountain dew anymore it almost always seems to be some variant like code red.
I had 2 cousins who got addicted to Mountain Dew and literally went through withdrawls when My Aunt decided to cut them off of it. Mountain Dew is addictive. And Big Red does taste like medicine.
I’ve had enough Mountain Dew to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. Can confirm it’s addictive. Withdrawal is usually just a couple days of headaches and lethargy which is easily remedied with coffee and aspirin.
Sodas started out as medicines (either narcotic mixtures or just pure snake oil claims of being medicinal) and medicine additives/bases to make nasty medicine more palatable. But hey, why not just drop the medicine and sell the drinks? So, they're still distantly related to the stuff they add to cough syrup, etc. (Which have longer shelf lives) And caffeine addiction is real. Lol.
I would like to say, your channel has become part of my daily routine. Haha. I watch one on my way to work and another before bed. Thank you for making my day a little bit better.
I'm a big Mtn Dew person, it's actually made with orange juice. Anyway, I live in Illinois and have never heard or seen the majority of these drinks. I've heard of Arizona Tea but never tried it and I thought Big Red was a gum, I didn't know there was a drink called that. I've seen Orange Fanta but not whatever that Berry stuff was lol... Also this is the first time I've ever heard of that Clamato, but I'd guess it's kind of like v8, which is not a soda or soft drink..
Popular soft drinks are as follows Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Coke, Mountain Dew, Root beer, and always ice cold The drinks they were trying many of us wouldn’t like either
I'm a blond hair blue eye white guy from Southern California. I hated tomato juice, then I grew to love it. I hated V8, then I grew to love it. I hated Clamato, then I grew to love it. They're all acquired tastes, but I wouldn't consider any of them soft drinks. I'm not a Michelada guy, but Mexican shrimp cocktail is my favorite food now. Its base is Clamato and, by association, I drink it by the glass and have bottles of it in my pantry, literally. Mexican shrimp cocktail has nothing to do with European-style shrimp cocktail. If you've never had it, you're missing out. (There are plenty of recipes online if you can find the ingredients in your part of the world.) This vid is a little misleading, because calling Clamato a soft drink is like comparing ketchup to maple syrup.
Those drinks are not the popular “go to” drinks. I’ve also literally never seen or heard of anyone drinking Clamato juice, that’s disgusting. I’m excited for you to try all the American goodies people send to you!!
I have never heard or seen Big Red or Warheads. I have heard of Warheads candy, which I think they made the soft drink from. Clamato is an “acquired” taste, but I haven’t heard of anyone who drinks it straight. Mostly I have heard of using it as a base for Manhattan Clam Chowder (tomato based chowder). It is completely different from New England Clam Chowder which is cream based. Fanta is most popular for the orange flavor. Interesting to note, that these sodas are not popular here in Massachusetts with the exception of Fanta. It might be a regional thing. Arizona Iced Tea has other flavors that are much better. However, I will note that most iced teas that are bottled are the same color as the Arizona. I wonder why Dr. Pepper was not among those drinks that were sampled.
Love the vids bro. One thing I noticed when I was aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2021 (I'm a former US Marine) is that there wasn't anything grape related at all on the ship. Everything that would've normally been grape in the US was Blackcurrant flavored on the ship.
Most popular sodas here are Coke, Dr. Pepper, Rootbeer, Sprite, 7Up, Pepsi and Mountain Dew. Someone else can add to the list. Not as popular but you could try Ginger Ale as well.
In the U>S. most folks prefer cola drinks (diet or regular), lemon/lime flavors (sprite, 7up, met. dew) , Orange flavored fanta, iced tea, etc. Common drinks.
Canadians have a drink with Clamato called a Caesar which is similar to a Bloody Mary but better. Giving that to them last would make anyone sick. Most of the soft drinks have either not been around for ages or never consumed.
If you want to try unsweetened iced tea, it’s fairly simple to make. You can make it in a single cup (don’t use glass) by making tea the normal way and just pouring it over a lot of ice until it’s cold.
Nooo!! We don't!!😂😅 Mnt Dew is very popular, the crazy colored ones are geared to the kids. Clamato is not drank alone, but is included in mixed drinks and many Beers are made/labeled with it!! 🎉
I’m American and I freaking love Mountain Dew!! Dude if I could have only one thing for the rest of my life food wise, it would be Mountain Dew! And yea, I know it ain’t food, don’t care!😂
In Texas the top drinks would be: Dr Pepper, Coke (any variety), Big Red, Pepsi (any variety), Mountain Dew, RC Cola/Diet Rite, Crush's ( Orange, Grape, Strawberry) and Mexican juice flavored sodas ( very sweet)
Coke is probably one of the most American drinks you could buy. It’s known and sold everywhere across the world. But, the best coke to buy, are the ones that come in the classic, coke bottles. The plastic used in the plastic bottles, or drinking it from a can, give it a weird taste. But in a glass bottle, it’s the best coke you’ll drink. Well, that and McDonald’s coke. McDonald’s uses a specific syrup flavoring that dispenses from the drinking fountain while pouring that gives it that incredibly sweet taste.
You must have some really sweet tasting medicine if those sodas taste like medicine😂. But in all seriousness many medicines do you use similar flavors and sweeteners to make their medicine more bearable so for those unfamiliar with the soda but you are familiar with the medicine it may taste off to them. Also some sodas were originally created as medicine but due to the popularity of the flavor they ended up removing the medicinal aspects of the drink leaving behind a soft drink. My favorite soda is and always will be Dr Pepper
I’m from US and I’m 33, never heard of Big Red, I like Green Tea(but never had the one they tried) Mt Dew is okay, I prefer the crazy different flavored ones
Add vodka to a glass of Clamato, (make sure to dip the glass rim in celery salt first) then add a celery stalk and a dash of worcestershire sauce and you have a fabulous drink called the Caesar. Best cocktail ever!!
Yeah I was going to say that Clamato juice is used to make bloody Mary's. So instead of tomato juice they use Clamato and add Worcestershire sauce, horseradish and vodka.
I'm genx as a kid we had old town, fago soda, Rc cola, coke, and pipsi. When coke, pipsi, ginger al, and root beer were sold in drug stores by a soda jerk. Coke was make with real coke(that outlawed), pipsi had Pepcid (a stimulant like Coke was also outlawed), Vernors had real ginder in it, root beer used to have Sarsaparilla root in it(which was outlawed later because it causes cancer in lab rats) all used cane sugar now used high fructose corn syrup
I drank orange and grape soda on occasion as a kid (my parents didn't allow us to drink soda at home). I haven't had any of those others. In a pinch, I would use the clamato drink as a substitute liquid in my Tomato Clam soup recipe. As an adult, my go-to drink is Dr. Pepper. If Dr. Pepper is not available at a fast food place I'd go for a Pepsi or Coke Cola. I also like Ginger Beer.
Outside of Mountain Dew, it's like they picked the most ridiculous, unpopular flavors possible. Arizona green tea instead of their Arnold Palmer or peach tea? BERRY Fanta?! The most popular flavors of Fanta are orange and strawberry. Why? This was intentionally designed to fail.
Grape Crush: it has the same "grape" flavor as most any other "grape" soda or candy. Doesn't really teste like grape, but kinda does as well. Part of it, I think, is that so many things are "grape" flavored yet taste completely different. You've got grape jelly (jam in the UK) that's usually made with Concord grapes, and you have the actual grapes you might buy in the supermarket, which never taste like Concords, and then you have this "grape candy" flavor which no one really knows how they came up with it. Crush is basically a "poor man's Fanta" brand, a series of fruit "flavors" that similarly taste at best reminiscent of their supposed fruits. They're not bad. Also not very popular. This is probably what a mom who never buys sodas would bring to a school volunteer function. Pretty sure the normal version is made with corn syrup rather than actual sugar. Mountain Dew (Mtn Dew): easily the most popular of the drinks in this video, it's basically PepsiCo's equivalent to Sprite from a marketing standpoint. A vaguely citrus flavor, much stronger than Sprite or 7-Up, and extremely sweet. You can literally taste the caffeine. It may not be sold as an energy drink in the US like in the UK, but it's kinda marketed as one, usually promoted as a drink for gamers or alternate althletics enthusiasts (skateboarders, etc.). They also have a bunch of various different versions, all full of caffeine, with garish coloring and "sooper kool and edgy" names. Some are quite good. None actually taste like any real fruits. Big Red: absolutely vile. Imagine root beer, but remove all the unique root flavoring from it, so you're just left with a cloying sweetness. That's creme soda. Now add the "cherry/berry" flavoring from your least favorite liquid cough medicine, and you've got Big Red. Somehow still fairly popular, probably second most in this video, since every store brand has their own version of "Red" soda much like they do with "Pepper" flavored sodas, as Coca Cola did with Mr Pibb. There's also a "blue" version which is presumably flavored differently but tastes exactly as vile to me. Arizona Green Tea: basically your average sweetened bottled iced tea, just green tea flavored rather than black tea flavored. Arizona tends to oversweeten their teas anyway, so this diet version is going to be even more sweet, with that usual artificial sweetener taste to it. It's not bad, but there are certainly better ones. Really should be drunk as cold as possible. Odd they market it as "decaf", since green tea is naturally uncaffeinated. Fanta Berry: bog-standard fruity soda. Fanta drinks usually taste a bit more like their supposed sources than most, but I defy you to taste it and tell me which "berry" it's flavored after. I'd still drink it, though it wouldn't be my first choice of Fanta (that would be peach or orange). Warheads Blue Raspberry: never had it, though I imagine it tastes reminiscent of the Warheads candies, which I have had, and which the lining of my mouth still has nightmares about. The candies just taste vaguely fruity, usually with a somewhat recognizable part of their supposed flavor, but the overriding flavor is is just an incredible level of sour, much like hot cinnamon candies have with cinnamon heat. "Blue Raspberry" is a fairly common candy flavor in the US that is so called because strawberry and cherry are already red and they didn't want to confuse people with another red fruit flavor. Have only ever seen this sold online, rather than in stores. Not very popular, as it's kind of a gimmick soda. Clamato: also have never had it, but see it in the supermarket. Seems to be a variation on V8 or tomato juice. Have only ever seen it used in some variations of a Bloody Mary mixed drink. Am guessing it tastes like a more vaguely meaty/seafoody tomato juice. Savory drinks like that are usually best when cold and pretty gross at room temperature, so it might not actually be as bad as the testers suggested. I do quite enjoy a cold tomato juice.
I’ve lived in the US for 35 years and I’ve never had berry Fanta, diet green Arizona tea, big red, warhead soda, and the only thing people actually use Clamato for is to flavor beer. We do however drink a piss ton of Mountain Dew & Baja Blast (a specific flavor of Mountain Dew), Pepsi, Coke, Rootbeer, Orange or Grape Fanta, & Sprite. They did those kids so dirty by giving them all the stuff we don’t actually want to consume either 😂
As an American, I would say that the only one of these that is really super popular is Mountain Dew. The Clamato reactions was classic 😂😂
I tried Clamato for the first time 2 months ago. I REALLY liked it! I'll admit, it was a little odd, but I really enjoyed it.
I was going to say the same thing. I think they sent these for the reaction.
Agreed
I’m getting a box ready for you Lewis so I’ll put a Clamato juice in there. Gross. I have never tasted it and won’t either. As far as pops, hubbys favorite drink is Mountain Dew and mine is Diet Pepsi.
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The absolute disrepect shown to Arizona Tea by giving them diet decaf green tea 😂😂
IKR...get them the original sweet tea!
That is the worst one . Arizona makes good mango or fruit punch. My kids like them .
It's like they're making them hate it on purpose
@@decemberwind69wouldn’t give them to your kids they have an unreal amount of sugar in them
Arizona Tea (any flavor) is horrible IMHO, so spot on.
Aside from Mtn Dew, none of these I would describe as popular, or even common here in the US. Several appear to be regional (I've never heard of Big Red). Crush comes in a number of flavors - I suspect orange is probably the most popular. I think most people drink Coke, Pepsi, or the "diet" versions of them. And I"m 100% certain they threw in the Clamato just to see the reactions that we saw, because I know of no one would would drink it like this.
I enjoy your videos very much.
Big Red is Texas.
Clemato is basically found South for Bloody Mary's.
The Sour soda's are hit or miss.
I have no idea why they choose Arizona Diet Green Tea. That is gross and I am diabetic. Sugar Free Arizona is better. But Arizona Half and Half is the best.
I never heard of big red, but I've had soda like. Wink. That was a grapefruit soda iirc.
I only know clamato as a mixer for booze
It’s regional. You can go in most stores here in Cali & find most almost all of these drinks. It may be generational too bc Az Ice tea was just as popular here as Snapple or Coke.
Fanta is super popular. A Mexican drink adopted by CocaCola
Big Red is sold in grocery stores and very few soda machines where I live here in Oklahoma but I've never seen it offered in a restaurant. I've known people that like Big Red but I've never met anyone that said it was their favorite. To me it tastes like really cheap chewing gum and if I had to put it on a tier list, I'd say it's a definite D.
These aren't popular drinks in the US except for mountain dew, and we would be drinking them ice cold or over ice.
Also, the weird reason a lot of drinks were compared to medicine is that back in the late 1800s a lot of these drinks started as medicine. Coke was originally a cure all in a bottle with a healthy dose of actual cocaine in it. That's why soda shops were also in pharmacies.
Clamato is good
@@loriannepraznovsky2164 My ex loved it too. I, however, think it tastes like ...well, I'll just say I don't like it. LOL
That didn't really represent the most popular US sodas, except Mountain Dew. Clamato is not a soda, it's a cocktail drink. It is actually quite nice slightly seasoned with a shot of Vodka or Gin. I get that it seems very strange, however it's just tomato juice with add clam broth. I love clams so it doesn't taste bad to me.
I don't know anyone who drinks any of these drinks besides Mountain Dew and maybe Big Red. Kids in England, need to open their minds to new things. They should try things with an open mind.
@@philkimmet9597also most ginger Al's are make without ginger, root beer is make without sarsaparilla root because America outlawed Sarsaparilla root because it causes cancer in rats 1970s
Clamato is more of a mixer for making alcoholic drinks like Bloody Mary's
Where I'm from, Clamato is used mostly as a mixer - add ice cubes, Vodka and green olives stuffed with pimento (like a martini) if you want to be fancy
Yup!, using Clamato changes a Bloody Mary into what is called a Bloody Ceasar. Which I love, but not on its own.
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Micheladas!
Clamato reaction was priceless. This drink in America isnt a soda. Some do drink it. The taste is a required taste. Its mainly drank with beer.
Yup, it's a mixer for beer
Or mix for bloody Mary's! It's great for hang overs mixed with beer.
Big Red is based in Waco (central) Texas, the same town that Dr. Pepper started. It’s kind of a bubble gum / cream soda flavor. I grew up with it in central Texas and it’s very popular in Texas. As with anything some people like it, some don’t. I don’t drink a lot of soda, but Big Red is one of my favorites.
Dr. Pepper is my go to and is the best sugar free soda IMHO.
@davidstone7532 Same. I don't drink much soda anymore but if I do Big Red is one of my faves too.
I started binge watching L3WG yesterday. Must've watched 10 videos in a row. Dude has good character.
As an adult, I love Crush grape soda. Goes better with ice. We Americans love ice in our drinks. Mt. Dew Baja Blast is really good. Mt. Dew has a lot of sugar, it's like a watered down energy drink.
What the Europeans don’t realize a lot of the time, most grape things in America have little to no actual grape juice in them they are just grape flavored. Combine that with an obscene amount of sugar and you have something that tastes grape but that’s as close as it gets.
It doesn't taste like "grape" it tastes like "purple"
Yes I LOVE grape pop and all pop MUST be over ice 💜💜💜
@jameszacknehring787 I have been known to have some non alcoholic wine but for a variety of reasons I don’t do alcoholic beverages. But I one hundred percent agree with what you’re saying here. Most of our packaged drinks have a shameful amount of sweetener even in what is sold as healthy juices. We are so into our sugary drinks that we even have sugared water available.
@jameszacknehring787 I personally like Orangina, Polar Springs, and Pellgrino real juice soda. Orangina is probably the best carbonated drink ever. French orange soda. I don't regularly drink stuff like Coke, Pepsi, etc. Only if I'm out grabbing a quick burger all have a fountain soda, but Crush grape reminds me of my high school days when I was stocking shelves at Kmart and me and a coworker was arguing about which was better, Crush orange or grape. lol
Make sure you use ice when you drink your American sodas.Mt.Dew has an even more caffeinated drink in the states called Amp.
or KickStart.
Yes we drink our sodas as cold as we can possibly get them.
Pour your British tea in a glass full of ice and it’s iced tea, add sugar before and it’s sweet tea. No measurement, just a bit more than will dissolve in boiling water.
Clamato is mostly used for mixed drinks, like a Bloody Mary and Red Eye for example. The only soda on this list I've tried is Mt Dew. The most popular sodas in America are Coke, Pepsi, Mt Dew, Sprite, Canada Dry and A&W Root Beer. And if you want to have a taste of orange or grape, Fanta and Crush are popular as well.
The UK already has all of our popular drinks that’s why they gave them these drinks that even a lot of Americans have never heard of, with the exception of Mountain Dew. Also, Clamato is used as a mixer; you don’t drink it sober.
First of all, the Arizona Tea was "diet". The regular one isn't bad. Mountain Dew is the only real drink that is popular. Clamato is used as a mixer, usually in a Bloody Mary. The others are NOT popular at all unless you're a young kid. Also, the only way to drink any soda is with ice. It makes a huge difference.
Other than Mt. Dew (which is fantastic) the drinks they featured are not commonly consumed. I’ve never heard of big red and definitely have no interest in trying the tomato drink or the sour one. Try that Dr Pepper you received, that’s one of the best and most popular!
Only time I've heard of Big Red is a gum, that is cinnamon flavored.
Big red is a southern drink. I had it a lot when I used to live in Texas.
@@EvoBlue0 Cool, didn’t know that. What does it taste like?
@@EvoBlue0Weird. I thought it was a midwest drink. We have it in Indiana lol
@@matthewlindsey1946it's cream soda with like a fruity twist. Idk how to explain it.
Clamato is only for bloody Marys. I like regular V-8 blend. It's the juice of 8 healthy vegetables and it really does taste like blood from the iron content.
I only learned about Clamato recently and it's like THE drink of Canada, I never heard of an American kicking back with it
@@darkroastsirenI remember commercials for it in the early 90s in the US.
Never heard of it until today.
@@darkroastsiren yeah mostly with a bunch of vodka lol
Big Red is a cinnamonly cream soda. Cream soda is typically vanilla flavored. The best name brand cream soda is A&W Cream soda. It's literally "fizzy vanilla soda."
There are two kinds of cream soda: those with vanilla flavoring to make them taste creamy (either alone, or with other flavoring), and those with some kind of actual cream in them (which generally nobody likes. Milkshakes are just better).
big red soda isn't cinnamon flavored. it's just a fizzy cream soda. you're probably thinking that because of big red gum, which is very spicy. i think they're made by the same company. i don't know why they taste so different. not a fan of either, tbh.
You can get every flavor under the sun at the grocery stores in America, but the only popular drink on this list was Mountain Dew... And nobody drinks Clamata straight it's used for making cocktails.
Make sure you refrigerate the drink's first. They are formulated to be served cold and grape flavored products are designed to taste like Concord grapes not the red or green ones you get at the supermarket. M dew is about the only one listed here that's actually a popular drink ive only ever heard of people using clamato as an ingredient to make something else
Classic soft drinks used to be medicine. Most of these are just not normal American drinks. They went for the crazy colors and flavors
1) Mountain Dew is very popular. The others are not. If you get a fountain drink at a restaurant, those won't be options
2) Grape soda is not as popular, but I've had it a few times
3) I think I had some Big Red back in the day. There's a gum with the same name that has a strong cinnamon flavor. Haven't seen it in years so I don't think it's popular. Maybe it's regional?
4) The popular Fanta here is orange. Blue is uncommon, but I've seen it before
5) Never heard of that sour warhead soda. Only the candy
6) Clamato is usually not consumed on its own lol. It's used to make a michaelada with beer. The combo is actually pretty good. The flavors balance each other out
The Clamato 😂. 99% of people that drink it use it to cook or mix in a drink.
Pure Leaf iced tea is literally the best iced tea next to homemade I've ever had. I highly recommend it!
If you like sweet, all natural tea, try Bai Sorocco Sweet. Sweetened with the estivia leaf. ❤
@@AncientActivistI'm southern so the only real tea has two cups sugar minimum per gallon
@allenruss2976 Well, I like it that way, too.
Until my doctor told me that cancer cells feed on sugar.
Eeeee 😬
Yes. I had it yesterday.
I have 60 years of grape flavored memories. It's the same flavor. It's in sodas, cereals, ice cream, candies, jello, kool-aid. That flavor line runs through many many foods. Except grapes.
That flavor is usually based on Concord or fox grapes. Like banana flavored things are based off of the Gros Michel banana. Types of wine grape are what is generally found in grocery stores.
Purple Drink. 🗿
@@DanielMWJ I can't think of who does this bit, Chris Rock? ''What is juice muthafuc#@r!? We have have grape DRINK at my house!''
Looked it up, it's Dave Chappelle.
I think that, like 'orange' soda flavor, the only reason we think that these flavors taste like the fruit in the name is because we've been told all our lives that that's what they are.
I seem to remember grape soda as being more common 60 years ago than now, but I don't pay much attention to such things now.
Mtn dew and fanta are the ones we consume more. The others I've never had.
I drink the Mountain Dew and the Grape Crush on a regular basis.
The Arizona Ice Tea is popular, but the one given to the kids was a decaffeinated and diet version. No wonder they didn’t like it.
By the way, I am an American. I haven’t seen or even heard of some of these other drinks.
The "Crush" people have several fruit-flavored sodas, of which Orange Crush is the flagship product. They make a Pineapple Crush, which is unique but hard to find in some areas.
The business about putting "cane sugar" on the bottle is that some years ago, American bottlers started using high-fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar, amid much criticism-some people privately import Mexican Coca-cola with cane sugar across the border. So putting "made with cane sugar" on the bottle is a sales point.
If you spill big red on something, you'll never get the stain out. It is good as a float, with vanilla ice cream.
Big Red has been a popular cream soda for years, more so in the 70's & 80's , and yes it's classic.
Most of those aren't popular, and the ones that are from the more common companies are unusual or less popular flavors. But ours are going to be extremely sweet to non-American palettes.
Crush makes three different flavors. Orange, strawberry, and Grape. They're all pretty good. They've been around since at least the 70s. When I was a little kid, there was a big greenhouse business just about 100 yards from me, and they had a soda machine that regularly stocked Crush drinks. Additionally was always fun to go over there and get a soda. I think they also carried RC Cola as well. RC has a bit more Citrus-y taste than regular Coke/Pepsi.
Orange Crush was around in the 60s too. Don't know how old it actually is.
RC Cola was my mom's favorite 😋 💕!!!
Are they drinking these without ice? That actually changes the taste.with being room temperature in my opinion. These are hilarious reactions!!
a lot of these are off brands . The only one I’ll drink of these is Big Red ( with ice)
Most of these I would not drink& aren’t popular .
lol !!😂😂
Exactly! It would be like giving them American ice creams to try, but all melted and room temperature! It's not going to taste right, especially because the warmer the sweeter something tastes!
Mountain Dew is one of the highest caffeine content sodas you can get. It uas a full 65mg of caffeine in one of those cans they had. Thats almost as much as a typical cup of coffee. Our energy drinks can have 3-4 times that much caffeine, plus stuff like ginseng, guarana, taurine, and B-vitamins. All of which combine to make one hell of a energy kick. And of course, most of us who drink them, wish they had more of a kick. 😂
Edit: Mountain Dew is a citrus flavor, sort of like a lemon lime, but with a lot of sugar added to it. Personally I prefer Faygo Moon Mist, but Mountain Dew has a lot more caffeine than Moon Mist.
Edit 2:Clamato juice was them being trolled. It is clam tomato juice. Its horrible. I've never known anyone that likes it.
Hahahahahah! They grabbed some outlandish ones for sure. Clamato is a preferred mixer for Bloody Mary cocktails and that is about all it is used for. Mountain Dew is really good. Big Red and Warhead soda are really niche and not popular. Arizona lemon ginseng tea is amazing but only when it isn't diet version (unless you lobe diet drinks, then I guess you think it is good). I mean, this barely scratches the surface of all of our crazy drink choices. Virgil's Rootbeer is amazing. Ginger beer is amazing. We are getting more and more natural sodas and they gave these kids the wildest and most sugary sweet and colored ones. It was a good watch though. I am not offended or anything. I think it was fun. Yeah, we have some crazy weird stuff over here but it is all good fun. I don't think you are meant to drink any of these on a daily basis.
In Texas Big Red is #3 or #4
@@shelliecollier7017 Neat! I love that places in our same country are so different in choices and tastes.
Clamato is used as a mixer and is spiced and mixed with alcohol as a hangover cure
One thing that perhaps the rest of the world need to take into account is that we use a lot of artifical flavoring in our fruity beverages that don't necessarily taste like the real fruit, so when Brits taste our grape soda, yeah, it really doesn't taste like real grapes, but when you're used to artifical flavoring, you quite enjoy a good artificially flavored beverage, Strawberry drinks don't taste like real strawberry either, but they're still tastey.
I am from Indiana here and Big Red is a 7up product. I drink Big Red Zero daily because I do not drink coffee or tea for caffeine. Mt. Dew is a Pepsi product and a big seller in Indiana.
They gave them the worst drinks to try 🤣🤣🤣 except mountain dew, that one is okay lol
The actual most popular sodas in America are things like: Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer (A&W is the best!!), Sprite. The sodas that have "cult followings" (!!!) are things like: Mnt. Dew, Big Red (brings back memories of going to the skating rink when I was a kid!!!), and energy drinks.
Some people like Orange Fanta, Creme Soda, Grape Fanta, etc.
None of these are popular except Mountain Dew
- Grape flavored candies and sodas are popular and wide spread as they are based off a native grape species, Concord grapes. These are different from grapes you’d use for wine or eating. Most grape juice in the US comes from Concord grapes.
- Gas is short for gasoline, which is refined petroleum. America had “gasoline” as a word by 1864, whereas “petrol” wasn’t widely used until the early-mid 1900’s to describe its use as a car fuel. Gasoline is a more correct term to describe a refined petroleum product used for vehicles. At least that’s how I see it.
Grape isn't that popular -it tends to be love or hate.
Mountain dew is popular and is sweet -fun fact it was created back in the prohibition days to mix with bathtub brew, which I guess tasted horrible.
Big Red was popular when I was growing up, but is now more regionally a favorite. I still love it. It has a vanilla, cherry, cinnamon thing going on. It is sweet.
Arizona tea is also popular but has a love or hate thing going on. Some of their flavors are good others are not so good.
Fanta is popular here in the US, but more with kids and some flavors can be 'fake' tasting.
Warhead is also popular with the kids.
Clamato??!!! NOOOO!! Clam juice and tomato juice. That had to be a prank. It is used in alcoholic beverages. Vodka. Some ppl like it.
I never seen big red until I went to texas and the first time I had it I thought it was really good but then after the first time it got worse for me every time until now I can't stand it at all. Also I feel like most people don't drink plain mountain dew anymore it almost always seems to be some variant like code red.
Big red is a red cream soda. If you don’t know what that is then you should take more cream, sodas cause they’re delicious.
A fair amount of our soft drinks started out as a medicinal syrup you'd add to seltzer water so might be why so many still got medicine like flavors.
No one drinks any of these (except mt dew) This is silly
Just remember, the first time you try any kind of sugary soda, it’s shockingly sweet. If you can get your hands on some neutral, clean ice it’ll help
I had 2 cousins who got addicted to Mountain Dew and literally went through withdrawls when My Aunt decided to cut them off of it. Mountain Dew is addictive. And Big Red does taste like medicine.
I’ve had enough Mountain Dew to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. Can confirm it’s addictive. Withdrawal is usually just a couple days of headaches and lethargy which is easily remedied with coffee and aspirin.
Sodas started out as medicines (either narcotic mixtures or just pure snake oil claims of being medicinal) and medicine additives/bases to make nasty medicine more palatable.
But hey, why not just drop the medicine and sell the drinks?
So, they're still distantly related to the stuff they add to cough syrup, etc. (Which have longer shelf lives)
And caffeine addiction is real. Lol.
Clanato in the Spanish community is loved it is so good to mix beer with and other ingredients makes the best micheladas
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"JUST DRINK IT, IT'S RED!" 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a big Mtn Dew person, it's actually made with orange juice. Anyway, I live in Illinois and have never heard or seen the majority of these drinks. I've heard of Arizona Tea but never tried it and I thought Big Red was a gum, I didn't know there was a drink called that. I've seen Orange Fanta but not whatever that Berry stuff was lol... Also this is the first time I've ever heard of that Clamato, but I'd guess it's kind of like v8, which is not a soda or soft drink..
Whoever the sick jerk is that sent this garbage picked the worst. Arizona makes a great iced tea, except for this particular flavor.
Big Red with a scoop of vanilla ice cream is YES!!
These kids are being punked. No one drinks these things.
Popular soft drinks are as follows Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Coke, Mountain Dew,
Root beer, and always ice cold
The drinks they were trying many of us wouldn’t like either
If everything tastes like medicine to these young fellas, then your medicine must taste amazing! 😂
I'm a blond hair blue eye white guy from Southern California. I hated tomato juice, then I grew to love it. I hated V8, then I grew to love it. I hated Clamato, then I grew to love it. They're all acquired tastes, but I wouldn't consider any of them soft drinks. I'm not a Michelada guy, but Mexican shrimp cocktail is my favorite food now. Its base is Clamato and, by association, I drink it by the glass and have bottles of it in my pantry, literally. Mexican shrimp cocktail has nothing to do with European-style shrimp cocktail. If you've never had it, you're missing out. (There are plenty of recipes online if you can find the ingredients in your part of the world.) This vid is a little misleading, because calling Clamato a soft drink is like comparing ketchup to maple syrup.
Those drinks are not the popular “go to” drinks. I’ve also literally never seen or heard of anyone drinking Clamato juice, that’s disgusting. I’m excited for you to try all the American goodies people send to you!!
They drink it in Canada 🇨🇦
I have never heard or seen Big Red or Warheads. I have heard of Warheads candy, which I think they made the soft drink from. Clamato is an “acquired” taste, but I haven’t heard of anyone who drinks it straight. Mostly I have heard of using it as a base for Manhattan Clam Chowder (tomato based chowder). It is completely different from New England Clam Chowder which is cream based. Fanta is most popular for the orange flavor.
Interesting to note, that these sodas are not popular here in Massachusetts with the exception of Fanta. It might be a regional thing.
Arizona Iced Tea has other flavors that are much better. However, I will note that most iced teas that are bottled are the same color as the Arizona.
I wonder why Dr. Pepper was not among those drinks that were sampled.
Love the vids bro. One thing I noticed when I was aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2021 (I'm a former US Marine) is that there wasn't anything grape related at all on the ship. Everything that would've normally been grape in the US was Blackcurrant flavored on the ship.
Root beer is great. A&W and Barq's are the most common brand. Serve it with vanilla ice cream and it's heavenly.
Most popular sodas here are Coke, Dr. Pepper, Rootbeer, Sprite, 7Up, Pepsi and Mountain Dew. Someone else can add to the list. Not as popular but you could try Ginger Ale as well.
Who ever chose these picked the most off the wall ones they could find
In the U>S. most folks prefer cola drinks (diet or regular), lemon/lime flavors (sprite, 7up, met. dew) , Orange flavored fanta, iced tea, etc. Common drinks.
Canadians have a drink with Clamato called a Caesar which is similar to a Bloody Mary but better. Giving that to them last would make anyone sick.
Most of the soft drinks have either not been around for ages or never consumed.
I'll never understand kids saying something is too sweet. I've never in my life said that.
Big red is kind of like a bubblegum flavored soda and it’s really good with barbecue.
We drink iced tea here in the States all the time, it's the best
Fun fact, Mt. Dew was never meant to be a drink, it was invented to be a mixer for moon shine.
clamato is for martini mixes with gin or vodka or tequila and grape is my favorite soda pop etc
Mountain Dew actually started out as a chaser for moonshine the original character for Mountain Dew is a hillbilly with a moon shine bottle
Clamato is an ingredient. IDN anyone that drinks it by itself. My dad likes to mix a little bit of Clamato with spices into an ice cold beer.
Love Big Red! Hard to find though. It’s more of an old school drink.
These teens are so dramatic 😂
If you want to try unsweetened iced tea, it’s fairly simple to make. You can make it in a single cup (don’t use glass) by making tea the normal way and just pouring it over a lot of ice until it’s cold.
Nooo!! We don't!!😂😅 Mnt Dew is very popular, the crazy colored ones are geared to the kids. Clamato is not drank alone, but is included in mixed drinks and many Beers are made/labeled with it!! 🎉
Clamato juice is mostly used for cooking.
I’m American and I freaking love Mountain Dew!! Dude if I could have only one thing for the rest of my life food wise, it would be Mountain Dew! And yea, I know it ain’t food, don’t care!😂
I’ve never seen the warheads soda before lol, mtn. Dew and Arizona tea are fire
In Texas the top drinks would be: Dr Pepper, Coke (any variety), Big Red, Pepsi (any variety), Mountain Dew, RC Cola/Diet Rite, Crush's ( Orange, Grape, Strawberry) and Mexican juice flavored sodas ( very sweet)
I would never have imagined they didn't have pop like Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper in the UK🤯
Coke is probably one of the most American drinks you could buy. It’s known and sold everywhere across the world. But, the best coke to buy, are the ones that come in the classic, coke bottles. The plastic used in the plastic bottles, or drinking it from a can, give it a weird taste. But in a glass bottle, it’s the best coke you’ll drink. Well, that and McDonald’s coke. McDonald’s uses a specific syrup flavoring that dispenses from the drinking fountain while pouring that gives it that incredibly sweet taste.
Big Red is a cream soda. It has a vanilla flavor. Mountain Dew is lemon lime and is strongly caffeinated.
Mt dew is probably the best one they had tried but remember it is like drinking 2 cups of coffee on caffeine intake
I honestly don't know what big red soda is. Mountain Dew is a fizzy citrus drink, delicious!
Big Red is a company out of Central Texas (Waco), the same place Dr. Pepper started. I grew up in central Texas and it’s very popular in Texas.
An Arizona tea flavor I like is Arnold Palmer 😋 😊❤!!!
You must have some really sweet tasting medicine if those sodas taste like medicine😂. But in all seriousness many medicines do you use similar flavors and sweeteners to make their medicine more bearable so for those unfamiliar with the soda but you are familiar with the medicine it may taste off to them. Also some sodas were originally created as medicine but due to the popularity of the flavor they ended up removing the medicinal aspects of the drink leaving behind a soft drink. My favorite soda is and always will be Dr Pepper
Iced tea, brew a cuppa tea - earl grey - add 3 heaping spoonfuls of sugar- then pour over ice
I swear these people just put in random drinks that half of us have never heard of just to torture the kids lol 💀
I’m from US and I’m 33, never heard of Big Red, I like Green Tea(but never had the one they tried) Mt Dew is okay, I prefer the crazy different flavored ones
Add vodka to a glass of Clamato, (make sure to dip the glass rim in celery salt first) then add a celery stalk and a dash of worcestershire sauce and you have a fabulous drink called the Caesar. Best cocktail ever!!
Yeah I was going to say that Clamato juice is used to make bloody Mary's. So instead of tomato juice they use Clamato and add Worcestershire sauce, horseradish and vodka.
It tastes like “Doing the Dew”! Try it!!!
Being from the US, I would only drink Mt Dew and Big Red out of this whole selection. Big Red taste like cream Soda and bubble gum to me. 😁
I am an American and have never heard of or seen Red in the supermarket. Clamato juice is used to make Bloody Mary.
I'm genx as a kid we had old town, fago soda, Rc cola, coke, and pipsi. When coke, pipsi, ginger al, and root beer were sold in drug stores by a soda jerk. Coke was make with real coke(that outlawed), pipsi had Pepcid (a stimulant like Coke was also outlawed), Vernors had real ginder in it, root beer used to have Sarsaparilla root in it(which was outlawed later because it causes cancer in lab rats) all used cane sugar now used high fructose corn syrup
Fun fact: Mt Dew was initially made as a mixer to go with whiskey
I drank orange and grape soda on occasion as a kid (my parents didn't allow us to drink soda at home). I haven't had any of those others. In a pinch, I would use the clamato drink as a substitute liquid in my Tomato Clam soup recipe. As an adult, my go-to drink is Dr. Pepper. If Dr. Pepper is not available at a fast food place I'd go for a Pepsi or Coke Cola. I also like Ginger Beer.
Read the ingredients on the Mt dew can . The main flavoring ingredient is orange juice from concentrate .
Outside of Mountain Dew, I don’t know anyone who drinks any of the others. I personally have never even seen any of them.
Outside of Mountain Dew, it's like they picked the most ridiculous, unpopular flavors possible. Arizona green tea instead of their Arnold Palmer or peach tea? BERRY Fanta?! The most popular flavors of Fanta are orange and strawberry. Why?
This was intentionally designed to fail.
Grape Crush: it has the same "grape" flavor as most any other "grape" soda or candy. Doesn't really teste like grape, but kinda does as well. Part of it, I think, is that so many things are "grape" flavored yet taste completely different. You've got grape jelly (jam in the UK) that's usually made with Concord grapes, and you have the actual grapes you might buy in the supermarket, which never taste like Concords, and then you have this "grape candy" flavor which no one really knows how they came up with it. Crush is basically a "poor man's Fanta" brand, a series of fruit "flavors" that similarly taste at best reminiscent of their supposed fruits. They're not bad. Also not very popular. This is probably what a mom who never buys sodas would bring to a school volunteer function. Pretty sure the normal version is made with corn syrup rather than actual sugar.
Mountain Dew (Mtn Dew): easily the most popular of the drinks in this video, it's basically PepsiCo's equivalent to Sprite from a marketing standpoint. A vaguely citrus flavor, much stronger than Sprite or 7-Up, and extremely sweet. You can literally taste the caffeine. It may not be sold as an energy drink in the US like in the UK, but it's kinda marketed as one, usually promoted as a drink for gamers or alternate althletics enthusiasts (skateboarders, etc.). They also have a bunch of various different versions, all full of caffeine, with garish coloring and "sooper kool and edgy" names. Some are quite good. None actually taste like any real fruits.
Big Red: absolutely vile. Imagine root beer, but remove all the unique root flavoring from it, so you're just left with a cloying sweetness. That's creme soda. Now add the "cherry/berry" flavoring from your least favorite liquid cough medicine, and you've got Big Red. Somehow still fairly popular, probably second most in this video, since every store brand has their own version of "Red" soda much like they do with "Pepper" flavored sodas, as Coca Cola did with Mr Pibb. There's also a "blue" version which is presumably flavored differently but tastes exactly as vile to me.
Arizona Green Tea: basically your average sweetened bottled iced tea, just green tea flavored rather than black tea flavored. Arizona tends to oversweeten their teas anyway, so this diet version is going to be even more sweet, with that usual artificial sweetener taste to it. It's not bad, but there are certainly better ones. Really should be drunk as cold as possible. Odd they market it as "decaf", since green tea is naturally uncaffeinated.
Fanta Berry: bog-standard fruity soda. Fanta drinks usually taste a bit more like their supposed sources than most, but I defy you to taste it and tell me which "berry" it's flavored after. I'd still drink it, though it wouldn't be my first choice of Fanta (that would be peach or orange).
Warheads Blue Raspberry: never had it, though I imagine it tastes reminiscent of the Warheads candies, which I have had, and which the lining of my mouth still has nightmares about. The candies just taste vaguely fruity, usually with a somewhat recognizable part of their supposed flavor, but the overriding flavor is is just an incredible level of sour, much like hot cinnamon candies have with cinnamon heat. "Blue Raspberry" is a fairly common candy flavor in the US that is so called because strawberry and cherry are already red and they didn't want to confuse people with another red fruit flavor. Have only ever seen this sold online, rather than in stores. Not very popular, as it's kind of a gimmick soda.
Clamato: also have never had it, but see it in the supermarket. Seems to be a variation on V8 or tomato juice. Have only ever seen it used in some variations of a Bloody Mary mixed drink. Am guessing it tastes like a more vaguely meaty/seafoody tomato juice. Savory drinks like that are usually best when cold and pretty gross at room temperature, so it might not actually be as bad as the testers suggested. I do quite enjoy a cold tomato juice.
I’ve lived in the US for 35 years and I’ve never had berry Fanta, diet green Arizona tea, big red, warhead soda, and the only thing people actually use Clamato for is to flavor beer. We do however drink a piss ton of Mountain Dew & Baja Blast (a specific flavor of Mountain Dew), Pepsi, Coke, Rootbeer, Orange or Grape Fanta, & Sprite. They did those kids so dirty by giving them all the stuff we don’t actually want to consume either 😂