50 cents for a 1 liter Pepsi sounds like a good deal. How “expired” is expired if we are talking about soda?
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I've drank 2 year old Special edition cans of Pop before, and still is decent. Keep it chilled as it extends its life a bit.
I have some mountain dew game fuel for Halo 3. Bottle is still sealed. 😆
Don't think I'll try it.
Don't think I'll try it.
I got nervous this was one of those "im gonna drink a special edition soda from 1996" situations. But not even a week past the date? You're fine lol.
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It really depends. I drank a regular coke the other day that hadn't been opened and only expired a week before and it tasted atrocious
Used to think a few months on soda was fine then it just tastes flat
Used to think a few months on soda was fine then it just tastes flat
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Artificial sweeteners break down much faster than sugar and corn syrup. HFC soda will taste fine years after the expiration date, although the carbonation may lessen over time. Diet/Zero Sugar stuff tastes off much faster. Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero starts tasting bad even before it hits the date, like you said.
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They cut them about 10 years ago, it was one of the first cuts when soda sells were declining.
they were less popular with the average person as they were more likely to get flat before people finished them.
They started pushing the minicans and bottles a lot harder around that time
You can still find them some places in Texas I think
Honestly 2 litres have gotten so expensive post Covid I don't even buy the main brands anymore .
Nearly $3 for a Coke 2L, $1.40 for Walmart brand and it's on sale for $1 all the time.
Doesn't taste nearly as good but the diets are decent and actually better than diet pepsi
We used to have a store around here that pretty much only sold already or really close to expired stuff. It was all usually less than half of retail, and not much more than a couple months past best by dates. Even TastyKake sold some of their stuff there. Sadly the chain shuttered mere months before the pandemic. I've wondered if they would have seen greatly increased business during the lockdowns or if they'd have run into supply issues with presumably far less inventory from traditional stores being shrunk due to age. (That's mainly how they got their stuff.)
I had some cans of coke only 4 months past expiration (they had been sitting in an office cabinet during covid) and basically they had separated into syrup and carbonated water. It was vile.
in my experience it will start to taste off around 3 months past the expiration date, at least the pre-bottled and canned products.
I've had many soda machines spit out bottles more than 3 months past the expiration date, which always irritates me.
I've had many soda machines spit out bottles more than 3 months past the expiration date, which always irritates me.
Low key, not even going to lie. Ice cold Mountain Thunder is amazing
I really appreciated when Mountain Dew dropped Live Wire from my area Walmart kept their Orange version for years and I think only dropped it in the last few years
View: https://youtu.be/QCp3Sw15s3c?si=sY1vez5NVBjaQG7S
"Kinda tastes like unsweetened ice tea and it just, errr... ink, from a printer."
Still makes me laugh 🤣
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