Cream Soda is underrated.

I like the flavor, but every one I've tried has been entirely too sweet.

What is cream soda. It doesn’t taste creamy at all.

How are you going to ask me what it is and then immediately tell me attributes it has in the next sentence?

Its alright but was never big on it but your post made me look up original recipes for it and now I want to go do that.

Hmm. Gross.

Say that to my face.

There was a time when Aldi's brand carried a cream soda can 12-pack and it was amazing. I've had others that are good but none that have topped that one.

The only qualified cream soda that actually tastes good and is carbonated enough is Pakola

Everything else is a sugar scam

You can also make your own with vanilla ice cream and a regular soda like Fanta lol.

Thats just a float bro
Pakola is only available in Pakistan it seems. That would be like me naming a drink "Americola" and that's not a bad idea.
- Actually most exports are to the US, you just need to go to an Asian store to get it lol.
  Americola sounds pretty nice too haha

Cream soda, plus banana vodka, plus blue Curaçao, equals a bubblegum cocktail.

I think it's weird as fuck and not necessarily a thing anyone would actually want, but those three flavors together really do make bubblegum.

How is a drink that has been popular for generations "underrated"?

Can't people just say they like something?

I think it's kind of an old person drink, like root beer and ginger ale.
- I've seen lots of teenagers and young adults drinking both of those, you're living in an illusion 😂
Relax
Do you know anyone whose favorite pop is Cream Soda?
- Nothing that I typed gives the appearance that I'm unrelaxed
  Lots of people, plus it's available at damn near every store I've ever shopped at. It's not slept on, and people aren't hating on it.

Liquid diabetes you mean? That stuff is so sweet it makes my teeth ache worse than coke.

Wrong-o!!
- root beer>cream soda

~~Hear hear~~

Wait, I thought you said overrated.

I actually disagree, it's overly sweet and tastes like chemicals

Everything tastes like chemicals. Everything is chemicals.
- So when someone says something has a chemical taste, you have no idea what that could mean because you assume they're referring to every single substance on earth?

I'll go the other way, cream soda (the green stuff) is revolting. I like creamy soda (brown stuff), I accidentally bought some of the green cream soda sodastream flavour and it was disgusting.

Dumped the rest in my work kitchen where some psycopath has been finishing it. Power to them I guess.

Sometimes I see a blue cream soda flavor that tastes like bubblegum. Or maybe it's supposed to taste like Blue Moon snack cakes.
Green? Brown? Where I'm at it's either transparent or milky/white. Why would that stuff be colored?
- I'm mostly familiar with piss colored cream soda.
- Yeah, there is also pink here (Australia). I'm beginning to think this might not be easy to compare directly...
  In any case, brown and pink are good, green is gross.
What I wanted: https://www.coles.com.au/product/schweppes-traditional-brown-creaming-soda-soft-drink-bottle-1.1l-3270180
What I got: https://sodastream.com.au/products/cream-soda
- Yeah, Schweppes fucks. I didn't realize they made it in Australia too.

The flavors of cream soda, birthday cake, sugar cookie, are just vanilla.

And?????
- And... you should pop open a refreshing Cream Soda.
Just vanilla
Vanilla is a wonderful, rich flavor, thank you very much =)
- I don't disagree, I will choose vanilla over chocolate any day. But the "fancy names" they use are just a substitute for vanilla. Cream Soda used to have egg as an ingredient to make it 'creamy' tasting, but now it's just vanilla.

Never had it, is there a particular brand I should try/is readily available in US shops?

Virgil’s is the best. Boylan’s is pretty good, a bit too sweet. Dr. Browns is very interesting. Marshmallow-y? Jones cream soda is middling. I’m missing a few other good ones. Don’t do A&W or anything with corn syrup, imo.
Faygo
- Bruv, real talk. Faygo has entirely won me over. I had their root beer, it's the tits. Every soda I've tried from them is on par with what it's supposed to be, but they're still like a third the price. Great shit.
As a cream soda enthusiast, if you can find Sprecher, it's the best I've had. Their root beer is pretty meh though.
Jones is decent - it’s a clear version The one I like most that’s accessible is IBC Cream Soda Maine Root also makes a delicious one that you can find in some dispensers.
- Sounds like I'm doing a taste test of cream sodas!

I don't drink it often, but when that craving hits....

We just bought a box of Bawls energy drinks (still around!) and I swear it's just like cream soda

Oh man, I had forgotten about Bawls! Easily the best energy drink!
I'm going to have to track down a case now...
- Microcenter has it.
- I used to buy it from ThinkGeek or at Frys. Alas both have gone to ~~Skymall~~ whatever heaven is for retailers.

best soda, tbh

Make it into a float if you really dgaf about your health. Kinda redundant, but deliciously so.

How does one consume a float? Are you supposed to wait for the ice cream to melt and then drink it? Or do you have to rush to finish it before it becomes homogenous?
- I tend to do start nomming on it as soon as it's prepared before it's all mingled, but don't rush it. As I get to the end, the last quarter-glass or so it melted and homogenous. Gets the best of both worlds.
A float everyone once in a while won't kill you.
- I mean, even if it does, there are worse ways to go.