>>512053723>Like there's premium sugar water and elite sugar water too?Yes, actually. It's broken more or less into four tiers here.
>store brandBottom of the barrel ultra cheap cornsyrup water, with a splash of highly acidic flavoring and PET bottles that weigh half as much as other brands. Often sold at about 80% the cost of a name brand soda. This is literal Walmart branded soda. Frankly these days it's probably about the same quality of garbage you get from name brands.
>StandardThese are your Cokes and Pepsi brands. Popular, but still just corn syrup and carbonated water with some flavorings added. You can at the very least trust the plastic bottles to be thick enough to not explode if you drop one. The only reasons these are more popular than store brand is the stigma of store brand anything being for the "poors" and market inertia. Many of these were ostensibly good products back in the 60s and 70s.
>deluxeSmaller brands, often twice or more the cost by volume than a name brand soda. They tend to use cane sugar instead of corn syrup and typically package themselves in glass or cans. They tend to have better flavor profiles on account of avoiding the trap of leaning on artificial flavors, but at the end of the day it's still carbonated sugar water with flavor added.
>premiumPremium sodas in the US are still brewed as a whole product, in much the same way sodas were being made around 1900. Proper natural ingredients, no artificial dyes, usually far less sugary than the tiers below it. They are almost exclusively packaged in glass bottles, and in many cases the carbonation comes from natural fermentation. Unlike others these are not just sugar water with flavoring syrups. These tend to cost $3-4 per 12oz bottle.
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