Ranking The Best Sodas Of All Time | Who’s On Top?
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Jun 18, 2025
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My death row meal is like a bagel and a Diet Coke
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Classy lady. Classy lady. Yeah. Today, we're going to be ranking our top five favorite sodas
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of all time. Now, guys, there is already a list over at Ranker.com, where thousands, tens of thousands of people
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have voted on what their favorite sodas are. So make sure that you go check that out
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Mikaela, what is your number five? My number five is Ranker's number 72
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So pretty far down the list. Cactus Cooler. So cactus cooler is an orange pineapple soda. Mmm
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So it's a little bit different than the regular just orange sodas, right? I don't know if I've ever had it before
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It's sort of got like a cream soda feel to it. Yeah, it kind of has like a cream soda feel. I haven't drank it for years
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For me, this is like a nostalgic drink. Because I would always, when I was a kid, be at the pool and just kind of crack open a cactus cooler, you know, on a hot summer day
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My question to you and to everybody is, why don't adults drink orange soda
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Why was that a kid's thing? I never see adults be like, I'll have a Fanta
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I think as an adult, maybe just kind of grow out of like certain sweetnesses. Cause it's like, I'm drinking this now. It's great
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but I'm not going to go to a restaurant and be like, do you need cactus cooler with my pasta
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Honestly, I like that. I really like this. It's great, right? My number five was Ranker's number nine
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Canada Dry ginger ale. I'm not a big ginger ale fan. I'll tell you why I'm a ginger ale fan
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They've purposely branded themselves as like the, Oh, you're feeling sick? Yeah. Have a ginger ale
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It was kind of nothing better as a kid than being like, Oh, my tummy hurts
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And I get to have a soda about it. Like, that's pretty great. Yeah, parents are like, it's caffeine free
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Like, whatever. Also, this is an underrated mixer for cocktails. Yeah. See, a lot of things that I don't like in general, I love is mixers
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Yeah, like you don't like drinking orange juice, but you... I love a good mimosa or a screwdriver or anything like that
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I like ooh Marla give me the OJ Because in your words it tastes better than just vodka Yes So my number four is Ranker number seven Cherry Coke Cherry Coke
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I don't really enjoy a regular Coke or Pepsi. The cherry really is just such a good accent to any soda, I think
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Before we even continue, let me just say that Cherry Coke is also my number four
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There's so many different flavor Cokes. There's like vanilla and orange and like all these lime
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Nothing is better than the cherry flavor. And here's what I was thinking about that too
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So there's like, Coke with lime, Coke with lemon. But the thing is, like, if you're at a restaurant, you can be like, I want a Coke
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Can you put a lemon in it? Yeah. And you've just made yourself lemon Coke, or Coke with lemon, whatever they call it. Yeah
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Nobody's going to put cherries in their Coke. No, because it's not the same thing. Anyways, cherry Coke, number four
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Both of us. Yeah. So my number three is also Ranker's number three
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A good old Sprite. That's funny you say that because my number three is Sprite
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No way. I love Sprite. I think this is for me is like the Canada Dry
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Like it's the, it feels good on your tummy when you're sick. And it's a good, it just does go with like every meal
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And I think it's the closest refreshing thing to water. Because here we are
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You're at a theme park. It's hot. And then you're like, I have a Sprite
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You can chug it like water. To me, it's like, okay, I feel good again
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I think I've drinking more Sprite than any other soda because Sprite is caffeine free
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So I can drink this as I'm closing my eyes. Sprite is the Coke what Robin is the Batman
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Pepsi and Coke are rivals. Mm-hmm. Sprites, like, kind of like, they're pretty settled in as like we're the number two drink
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I've met people who are like, I don't like Coke. Like, you don't really like Coke
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I don't like Pepsi. I've never met somebody who doesn't like Sprite. Yeah, everyone likes Sprite
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And I also like the Sprite commercial where Drake's head, like, comes apart
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Yeah, they got great commercials. So my number two really surprised me But it number one on the Ranker list Dr Pepper I feel like I don really meet that many people who are like love Dr Pepper It is really good
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This was like my Ryder Dice soda as a kid. If my mom was like, you can get a soda today, I'd be like, Dr. Pepper, give it to me now
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There's nothing more refreshing than a ice cold Dr. Pepper when you're having like a cheeseburger
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Oh, so good. I feel like Coke and Dr. Pepper are like the two most original of them
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Like this is not a Coke. Like Pepsi and Coke taste very similar. their rivals. Dr. Pepper is a place a whole nother sport and it excels it much
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better than a rip off Mr. Pibb. Mr. Pibb like Mr. Fibb
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Also shout out Dr. Pepper for having one of my favorite marketing campaigns ever
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which was for their Dr. Pepper 10. They really branded it and went hard as this
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is this the diet soda for men and I think they said like women can't drink
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this soda. I love stuff that's marketed for men. It's for men
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So my number two is Ranker.com's number five, Mountain Dew. Okay. Just do it
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I was shocked when I learned that not all people love the taste of Mountain Dew
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This is one of the best tasting things in the world to me
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It blew my mind when I was like, wait, you guys don't all think that this is as good as it gets
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What if this is as good as it gets? I've never ever been like, I'm going to drink a Mountain Dew
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I thought that every single day of my life. For different people. Yeah
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There's the people that do, and there's the people that don't do it. Yeah, I do it
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I do the do. I don't do it. Do the do. Other part about Mountain Dew that I love is like, it's a soda
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but it's also an energy drink, because it'll kick you in the teeth and wake you the up
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Like, every now and then, I will go to 7-Eleven, and I will get a basically gallon's worth of Mountain Dew
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and I'll just kind of give myself a heart attack and panic the rest of the day I can stop drinking it because it so good Yeah I think the Kixu in the face face thing really turns me off from it because it like I don wanna do that to myself I love this just puts me on my I just like man you get really excited for a little bit
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and then you crash. So you gotta have more Mountain Dew. My number one was shockingly low on the list
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It was Ranker's number 45, Diet Coke. That was 45? 45, that doesn't seem right
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I know so many people who drink exclusively Diet Cokes. That's why I haven't had all these sodas
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that were on my list in years, because once I switched to Diet Coke, I couldn't get off
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Diet Coke is not my number one by choice. Diet Coke has its choke hold on me
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I'm in the shackles of Diet Coke, and I've been trying to get out of it for years
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Diet Coke is addictive for me. Former President Donald Trump, he had a button. Yeah
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It is really good. I loved when the whole thing was like, oh, you're trying to be healthy, so you're gonna drink diet
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No, this is worse for you. Yeah. I drink it for the taste
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And I think it pairs perfectly with every meal. What do you think of Coke Zero
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It's okay. Not the same. Great branding too for Diet Coke. This is a sleek can
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They've never tried to change it for you. I always say my death row meal is like a bagel
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and a Diet Coke. My favorite. Classy lady. Classy lady. So my number one was Ranker's number 26
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Now remember for my number two with Mountain Dew when I said that like there's no better flavor
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in the world for me than Mountain Dew? Well, my number one is of course Mountain Dew Code Red
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This looks like it's supposed to be poisonous. It kind of is
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Mountain Dew is so good, and what they decided to do was make it red
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And it's awesome. It has cherry flavor, so it's like when you add cherry to anything, it makes it better
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It's like video game themed. Like it's kind of like whoever invented this was really into the Matrix. Yeah
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And you got to love that. It's yeah, it's a wonderful can. that's something I would never pick up
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because it kind of terrifies me. But I just love like Mountain Dew culture
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It's like I just think of gamers. Same. And that's my number one