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[-] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's basically just a vanilla-flavored soda. Apparently there are some European varieties, according to the wikipedia page, but they must not be that popular if you've never heard of it.

[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

You can get it in Germany but typically only in import candy stores. While I don't mind the flavor it's generally considered too sweet by people who try it.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Nothing to do with vanilla.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

150 years ago, sure. Coca-Cola has neither coca leaves nor kola nuts these days though, and modern cream soda in the US is a vanilla-flavored amber beverage.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Fun fact, they still have coca leaves.

Wikipedia:

Since then (by 1929), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia. Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

It always fluorescent pink whenever I've seen it.

[-] shuzuko@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

"Red" cream soda is a slightly different drink. I'm not sure what the flavor is supposed to be, other than, well, red. But it's different from something like IBC Classic Cream Soda, which is amber. Example: https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2e3fb06b-0562-4c17-9baa-af650463189d.dc2cf3327322055234653f162f93f31b.jpeg

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