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Rare Sodas

Not all Delicious (2026)

Here are some Sodas I’ve tried lately.

Most of them are rare, but some are regular name brands. Click on the soda to see their name.

∵ Redrick Schuhart ∴ 2026-01-25

Asahi Mitsuya Cider Pretty good, huge bump purely off the container it's in, I feel like a car and I'm drinking some oil. 8/10
Chinese Blue Fanta Tastes like gas station brand peach rings and a faint hint of poison. Appears to be a half diet soda with both sugar and fake sugar, 64 calories (unless the label is translated wrong and this has a serving size of 3 oz or something). I poured some out into a clear glass and the color is the sort of unreal blue that video games in the 2000s used to make the ocean. What's important is that they're trying new things over there. 5/10
Coke Orange Cream Zero Sugar Too powerful and artificial of an orange flavor. Reminds me of the one time in my life I tried orange chicken and the flavor impedance made me want to hurl. 4/10
Dr Pepper Zero Sugar The mental model I use to rate these is that a regular coke is a 10/10 on the full strength soda scale and a coke zero is a 10/10 on the diet soda scale. Despite being two different scales they are interchangeable, a 10/10 full fat soda is one that I would just as happily swap with a 10/10 diet soda, meaning I think the taste disparity is equally offset by the lack of calories. Anyone wondering what the point is probably would have confined Linnaeus to the Looney bin. 8/10
Galvanina Organic Chinotto Poured down the drain on my second sip. I cannot believe Italians are drinking this. As much added sugar as any standard full strength soda, yet it tastes worse than drinking straight liquor. I assume it's original purpose was to strip varnish off of floors. 0/10
Galvanina Organic Pomegranate Very good stuff, the right kind of mild bitter, a non-fluorescent natural purple that makes you really believe you've paid a premium and have received a premium soda in return. 8/10
Hello Kitty Sparkling Soda Tropical Couldn't finish the can, tastes like salty baking soda. 2/10
Natakhtarin Tarragon Love these, an immediate buy wherever available. Sometimes sold as Georgian lemonade, which I find a tremendous marketing blunder. The taste resembles licorice and is best enjoyed with the delicious Georgian cheese breads that will give you day-ruining lactose intolerance. 9/10
Sanko Apple Ginger Cider This soda feels healthy, it also appears to be half-diet if the translated calorie information is to be believed. I don't quite understand the rhino mascot but the packaging is well done, the pop-tab is one of those older skinny holes so you get less soda through-put. 7/10
Solo Kola Champagne Excuse the picture, I was drinking this in a car after fleeing from a storm. There is no taste I can identify other than red, certainly not cola. The carbonation was incredibly light and it left my entire mouth cartoonishly dyed. If I was offered this drink and the alternative was no beverage, I would probably accept it about half the time. 4/10
Solo Pineapple Similar to the Solo Kola Champagne this soda had incredibly light carbonation, but I think that works with the more recognizable juice flavor. 6/10

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