Brad Tries Irn Bru
I finally get around to spotlighting the world's beloved orange colored drink. Also, I try out Schwip Schwap, a Pepsi product from Germany.
And, if you're tired of drinking 5 year old Coca Cola Blaks, please check out Guru Larry's secret to making your very own Coca Cola Blak right at home!
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I personally love irn bru, probably one of the only good things to come out of Scotland besides kilts.
theres no shortage of the drink here in england, they sell it everywhere
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Humm, I recall Irn Bru tasting of nothing but metal... this was long ago.
Did they do one of those pepsi/schwepps type deals and change the recipe, packing it full of sugar?
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Hope Brad tries Dutch beers a time. Jupiler rocks !!!
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You do know that Jupiler is Belgian beer right?
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Honestly, this makes me want to do like a jaegerbomb, but with sunkist+pepsi.
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Brad, I know why Irn Bru doesn't have a pinpointable taste. It's because you're drinking...THE STUFF!!!!
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Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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I love how in the intro the snowman is like "Hey, can I have some?" and the kid is like "Fuck you, it's mine" Hilarious.
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This week: Brad Tries DayQuil
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I have a few cans of Pepsi in the basement, I think I'll try some Orange soda experiments later.
Thanks Brad, for giving me something to do on a Friday night!
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Alright Brad, back to eating bugs
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The Soda Jerk...kinda has a ring to it. See you get one episode where something doesn't suck.
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Imust find and try these myself! I still say you dhould find buy, and try Orbitz the Soft Drink because it was awesomely freaky stuff! Who's with me! Also, you do you can get drunk or high... one or the other off of drinking Nightquil or Dayquil!
Also, again, why did you open a 2nd bottle!? that's just waistful of good drink!
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Brad, please get better soon. With that said, you don't have to eat and drink crap in order to entertain us. I am just as entertained when you drink and eat tasty stuff as well. The main reason I watch "Brad Tries", or "Soda Jerk" as you refer to these videos, is because I like knowing what other things are out there that we don't ever see or see on a rarity. With you being sick I am kind of glad those drinks were good. I'd hate to see you get worse because of something disgusting tasting. I hope you have a good weekend with the family, and hope your illness is over with very soon.
Peace - Terrence
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This episode didn't suck. It was like those episodes of Tom and Jerry where they let Tom win.
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for me there is only one true orange cola
hmmmmm Fanta
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Alright Brad, back to eating bugs
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You should try Kinnie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnie
It's... interesting.
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When I saw Schwip Schwap I was like "Spezi is great...bet he's gonna love it." and Brad did xD.
It's unfortunate they don't sell that stuff here (even tho Germany is right next to the Netherlands).
But it's easy enough to make. You just need a bottle of pepsi and a bottle of Sisi (dunno what pepsi's orange drink is called in the USA). And basicly half half (a little more pepsi or sisi could be better tho.). TIP: It doesn't work aswell with Cocacola. Tried several brands of Spezi and Pepsi's is my fav and the one from Cocacola "Mezzomix" my least favorite.
I really wanna send Brad some stuff but I have to look into how much that costs.
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It looks like orange soda to you?
I'm not sure if the lighting made the liquid look darker than it should in the video, but it looks more like iced tea than orange soda.
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Lol, Schwipp Schwapp. Never would`ve imagined you would try that out, its one of the cheaper drinks here in Germany... like, 30-50 cents for one 1,5 litre bottle. But yeah, its not actually "orange pepsi", more like a Fanta + Coca-cola mix ripoff from Pepsi. Coca-cola made one named Mezzo Mix which was probably the first of its kind, then followed Schwipp Schwapp by Pepsi. I could be wrong about this, maybe Mezzo Mix came after that, but they taste more or less the same.
The price is differs though, as Mezzo Mix is pretty expensive in comparison.
And, its my favorite drink. I actually pulled out a bottle during this review to compare your taste with mine. lol
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WRONG
1960 came Schip Schwap onto the german market, 1973 Mezzo Mix.
Brad should try Mezzo Mix, its germans favored "Spezi"
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You know, despite actually living in the U.K. I've never actually tried Irn Bru, it probably has something to do with the fact that I can't stand Orangeade and that is what popped into my head when I looked at it.
After seeing Brad say that there was no Orange taste, I might actually go out and buy a bottle for the first time ever.
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You do know that Airborne is just Alka-Selzer, right?
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Hey Brad the reason Iron Bru was so big in Scotland for nearly a hundred years is that it has so much sugar in it that it can help you get over your hangover on your way into work. Just imagine an industrial Scotland cold depressing but plentiful whiskey. Waking up after having one two many of those whiskeys and then trying to work on a shipyard hungover was frankly a bad idea so you slurped a bottle of this in your way into work. It certainly gets rid of the whiskey shakes. After living in Glasgow for nine months I blame four teeth fillings on this drink alone.
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Hmm, maybe you should see if Guru Larry can get you the recipe for Crystal Pepsi.
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A little weird idea, you could have "turned" into Jillian wearing your clothes in the end when you drank Irn Bru. I was actually expecting that to happen because of what that woman said in that commercial. Anyway, I hope you get better!
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Irn Bru taste like liquid bubble gum. It's made from girders, hence the rusty colour/color.
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FUCK YEAH, Schwipp Schwipp! You know what blows my mind? They also have sugar-free and sugar-free lemon versions of this stuff - And it's awesome.
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Barr also did a drink called Red Kola (not sure if you've tried that already) but that's an odd drink, good, but odd.
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I actually was quite excited to see this video appear on the site, as a Scottish person I love Irn Bru,although as of late I have opted for the diet version (re-branded now as "Sugar free" which makes no sense as they both pretty much mean the same thing)
Yeah the ad's have,for the most part, always been a bit odd. My favorite is one where an old lady raids a shop for Irn Bru on one of those scooters (In a balaclava no less)
I'm glad to see you enjoyed it, and I may have to make a little trip into Germany for Schwip Schwap soon.
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Since I'm German, I enjoyed this episode of Brad Tries with a nice glass of Schwipp-Schwapp while watching you.
If you need more, maybe we can arrange something, they sell it over here in sixpacks of 1,5l bottles, so that would 9l or about 2 1/2 gallons for around 7 bucks.
Cheers and get well!
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Yeah Schwip Schwap is a nice drink. If I drink soda, it's either Coca Cola or Schwip Schwap or I mix it myself, if necessary.
By the way: Sodas like Coca Cola are in Germany generally with sugar and not that stuff you have in your Soda (don't recall the name), so you might like it here sodawise
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Heh, I actually have a column on my site called The Soda Jerk. I don't update it on a regular basis, but it's fun to write (I'm not just mentioning all of this to plug my site).
I think there should be a series (or maybe just a special episode) called The Cinema Snob Tries.
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Bentendo shut it! im the best thing to come out of scotland. anyway - glad you liked our national export snob.
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Schwip Schwap fucking rocks. Even the diet version without sugar tastes better than most sodas I've tried, and I've tried a lot.
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Kitty!
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I wish I could ship you a crate of Irn Bru flavoured ice cream I had once.
And yeah I'v been drinking Irn Bru for as long as I can remember and I still am not sure what it is meant to taste like.
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why didn't you do the obvious and mix schwip schwap with irn bru?
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Your cat should totally have it's own show!
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schwipp schwapp is horrible, atleast if it is in the thin-walled 1 or 1,5 litre bottles
i am thinking about sending you Sinalco, original german cola and some beer, you suffered so much for our entertainment, you deserve to drink something nice once in a while XD
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Schwip Schwap is good, but if you are more of a coke person they make their own variety: Mezzo Mix.
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I really like Schwipp-Schwapp, but the original Spezi is still better.
Anyway, being German I feel like adding a bit of history: Orange and Cola mixes are so popular around here because Orange Soda is propably the only true "german" softdrink.
Fanta was the very first orange soda, and it was invented in Germany during WWII. Coca Cola had become really popular in Germany during the 1920's, but when the Nazis took power, such a thoroughly american product just couldn't be allowed to stay on sale. But since the German populace yearned for softdrinks - and even the Nazis couldn't suppress such a mighty yearning! - a substitute had to be found. So what did they do? They simply used frozen orange juice (Spain was Europe's largest producer of Oranges, and more or less an ally of the Nazis, so Oranges were easy to come by), added loads of sugar, and then carbonated the stuff - Fanta was born!
After the war, when the german economy got going again, Fanta was bought by no one else than the Coca Cola company, and subsequently started to market Fanta around the world.
So there you go!
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Oh gawd, I can't stand orange Fanta, but I really miss the pineapple one.
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Man, you should have kept the original soundtrack for the Snowman advert. It's brilliant. Still, glad you like Irn Bru. Not many people outside Scotland share your openness. Made fae girders, ye ken!
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lol awesome, irn-bru is made in my home town. i live in Cumbernauld(just outside Glasgow). i really was waiting for you to hate it as i've seen lordkats review recently and he thought it tasted like peptobismal lol. really kool that you love it. enjoy the rest of the bottles lol. on a final note i'm interested in trying the orange cola, as i used to always add lemonade to cola which was really nice. so i can imagine orange cola being just as nice.
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Did you know that it was originally invented in my home town, Falkirk? The head office is in Cumbernauld, but now the drink is made at their Glasgow site after the Falkirk site closed down.
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also i forgot to mention, to anyone with a hangover, irn-bru is the best hangover cure ever lol.
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Please try the romulan ail
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/e779/
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Hmm, some fast food places give you a cup and let you get your own soda out of the fountains. That's why homemade Schwip Schwaps have been on my training table since I was a kid.
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glad you tried irn bru. I tried it in Los Angeles at the local british import shop and loved it, the second time I tried it, it tasted like horrible medicine but i was getting sick so I blame the taste on that. Willing to try it again. Schwip Schwap sounds good too. I recently tried mello yello and sun drop which is new here in L.A. and liked mello yello.
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Iron Brew. I was thinking "What the hell is Ihrn Bruh?
Between the name & the color, I would have guessed it was a tea.
How about a drop or two of orange flavoring instead of blending sodas? I will put almond extract in just about any soda.
The only thing worse than orange dayquil is green nyquil.
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Yes! Finally, Irn Bru! Also known as God Juice.
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I'm more surprised you got a can from Germany. I mean thanks to the can deposit you mostly get drinks in bottles or packs.
I didn't even know there was a Schwip Schwap can. I only know those 1,5 l bottles they sell in Lidl.
I think you should do Club Mate next.
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"I think you should do Club Mate next."
Seconded.
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Couldn't find cheap IRN BRU online (they don't sell it around here in Holland) but I was able to find a tray of Schwip Schwap for a reasonable price. Can't wait to try!
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Ah, man, you made me go to the gas station on a sunday to get some Schwipp-Schwapp. Haven't had that stuff in ages.
Also, all the bigger stores around here (Germany) have their own knock-offs of popular drinks like Cola, Sprite and Fanta. They're cheap, but not always as good as the original. Although I do like my "Coke light" at 29 Cent per 1,5l bottle.
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Sexiest episode ever. 'Nuff said.
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Well, I did it. I mixed orange Crush and Pepsi...and it was DELICIOUS! Reminded me a lot of dnL, or SevenUpsidedown, which I really liked when it was out.
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Aw man don't drink it warm!!!!
It's gotta be ice cold. And see if you gan get it in the glass bottles, it tastes 10 times better in the glass bottle.
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Too bad Irn Bru didn't taste like metal, if they had a drink that tasted like pure Iron Maiden or Slayer it would be a bestseller
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Guru Larry does not belong on this website. Period. The guy needs to be removed from the site.
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Of course Schwipp Schwapp is good ^^ This is sold nearly as much as Coke in Germany. As to Spezi (which is actually pronounced more like "shpaytzee"), that is more like a colloquial term for a mixture between coke and orange limonade. In some parts of Germany it is an equivalent to the term "dumbass"
Just one last question: How long did you have that SchwippSchwapp soda can? it's like 5 years that i haven't seen one in a store, since they put them exclusively into bottles these days?
But all in all, nice work with this episode
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At 7:14 Brad makes the BEST yummy sound I've ever heard.
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i like the title card but not as much as i like FOUR TIMES THE STEAK!
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You think IrnBru is hard to place what it tastes like, you should try Tizer, which is by the same people. I'd just about worked out what it tasted like when they changed the recipe a few years back!
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For those out there from the US that have not traveled abroad let me say this right now! Do not expect to see or taste anything like in the states! These two drinks are good examples! Another good one is as oddly as it sounds Fanta. Outside of North America it is barely carbonated and has so much orange flavoring you would swear you just sucked a whole orange through a straw!
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you have to try the original spezi. it's the best!
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Hey Brad, Love the show!
However, I have depressing news.
'Shwip Shwap' would of course be delicious because unfortunately, it is related to the Nazi's. Kind of.
You see, when American Company's were told to stop selling products to Germany, the two that most famously held out were IBM (who made the machines used to keep track of every Jew) and Coca-Cola who repelled their signature drink and made a whole new drink just for Nazi tastes and so no one could associate Coke with Facism.
That drink? Fanta.
So every-time you drink Fanta, or any Orange soda for that matter, you are drinking a drink specifically formulated for a Nazi palate.
Every time Kell "loves Orange soda" he loves the Nazi drink.
So of course Shwip Shwap is delicious, it's the off-shoot of an entire world war finally united by a competing company who sees an obvious gold-mine in the distance. Is it any wonder it's Pepsi's longest-lasting fruit flavor?
p.s. I would love a shout out in a future "Brad Tries" should you repeat this information. If you want proof, watch "The Corporation" on Netflix.
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It is delicious because it's nazi-related? Get your grammar fixed. And what is the message here? They couldn't sell their usual product anymore so they made a different product. Damn you Coca-Cola, you genocidal demons, mixing those oranges with the sweat of tortured baby jews to create a drink especially for Nazis! Now I'm really depressed.
You know, there is remembering the past and learning from it to make a better future and then there is being stupid and hysterical for no fucking reason. Tell the CIA (or the Illuminati, same thing really) listening in through the transmitters implanted in your teeth and bills the grey aliens said hi.
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not sure if troll or just really retarded.
for one thing its called schwip-schwap and its produced by Pepsico a company founded 1965 so 20 years after WWII.
Fanta is not a nazi drink, it was invented 1940 by a German chemist (Dr. Schetelig), simply because Coca Cola wasn't able to ship to Germany and instead of closing the plants, they came up with a new drink (which was widely available to everyone in Germany for that matter), they named Fanta (derived from Fantasie (engl. Fantasy). Also Sprite was invented by the Germans, so you gonna go ahead and call every Softdrink on the planet "nazi pop" ? Furthermore, what we consider to be Fanta today has nothing to do with what Fanta used to be (originally it was milk based) and thats pretty much all there is to it.
This is like blaming Aspirin for the Holocaust because I.G. Farben, the company producing Zyklon B (the cyanide compound used in gas chambers) and the Bayer AG were part of the main group to which IG Farben belonged (not to mention, that IG Farben to this day still exists (at least on paper it does, the company never actually vanished it just no longer has any employees or any factory/plant/office etc.))
Mezzo Mix would also be a German invention (and currently is only sold in 5 countrys (Germany, Austria, Swiss, Finland and Japan (sold under the name FunMix)) though it was sold 2008 in the UK as a special edition labeled "Coca Cola Orange" which pretty much sums up the content (its a mix of coke and fanta) and currently is the most recognized and best selling cola-mix in Germany, hell I'm drinking a glass of it while typing it (and yes it comes as Zero), who knows, maybe I'll ship Brad a bottle at some point
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Just tryiing Schwip Schwap here. It's.. odd.. but I kinda like it
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You should try out some Tentacle Grape.
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So, how do we send you stuff? I've heard you say a bunch of times that people have sent you things, but I don't see any P.O box or whatever address on your site.
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Brad you got to try this when it becomes available
http://www.bischofffamilybrewing.com/
It is a new beer from the old manager of WCW
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Big shout out from Northern Ireland and Scotland. Irn bru is the drink of gods and is an absolute gem of a hang over cure. If you want we get it really cheap here I can send you some.
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IS "Sosyo" available in America. It's a drink from India and i read that they export it to us,uk and austrailia.
I'm from Germany and Swipp Schwapp is my favorit soft drink. Right now i'm living in India and discovered Sosyo as a nice drink.
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Never heard of either one.
Why don't they sell Irn Bru in the U.S.?
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You should try the finnish Lordi Cola. Can't go wrong with monster rocker drinks
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Great to see you trying Irn Bru. I live in Scotland and drink it all the time, I'm even drinking it now! Truly one of our greatest exports.
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I propose Club Mate Cola, the best cola i ever had. Try to get a hold of one bottle or two.
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finally tried some Irn-Bru myself
that's some good shit. If it starts being sold in Fresno, I would totally buy plenty of it.
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Irn bru is a ctually very popular in canada and all the uk
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It's actually pronounced Spatze, with a long a sound. And yes, it is the best thing ever. Although I prefer Mezzo Mix, CocaCola's Spatze drink. It's very good, and a national drink in germany.
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