Canada Dry vs. Vernors….. Ginger Ale Smackdown!!!
May 26, 2004
Both are produced by the Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Company.
Both are disappointing in the extreme.
Canada Dry is bland and pointless
(no analogy with Canada itself implied).
Vernors is odd-tasting, and I find that
a 12oz. can has about nine too many ounces in it.
Winner: VERNORS!
By three ounces!
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this might have to do with living in canada, but i find canada dry to be the definitive ginger ale. obviously, it is not a strong, exciting, gingery jamaican ginger beer like grace’s, but that is not what ginger ale aspires to be. instead, think of canada dry as a classy, subtle stand-in for club soda, that adds a certain je ne sais quoi to shirley temples and the like.
but i wholeheartedly agree on the subject of vernors. that stuff isn’t ginger ale, it tastes like a poorly conceived cream-soda spinoff.
You know, I would agree with your assessment of Canada Dry, but for one (common) problem: CORN SYRUP.
First: Corn is distinctly Un-Canadian.
Second: The corn syrup makes the drink unnecessarily viscous and also produces a miserable aftertaste. And present-taste.
No good. Maybe Canada Dry was the standard bearer 20 years ago? Not now.
Give me the X-treme ginger ale anytime.
Welcome to the 20th century!
how is corn un-canadian? does iowa have a monopoly on it? i see cornfields everywhere here. and is cane syrup somehow more canadian? it tastes good, but last time i checked, we didnt have sugar plantations north of the 49th parallel.
although i don’t find this point convincing, i will agree that the majority of large commercially produced non-diet soft drinks are viscous, heavy, and cloying. this is why i am a diet drinker; even if aspartame drinks have a peculiar astrigence, they also have a light, more refreshing texture.
Sugar is quintessentially appropriate, because it is a classic product of The Dominion. Corn, on the other hand, is a true-blue Amer’can crop – and those scofflaw farmers in rural Ontario who grow it are probably violating international trade law.
Strangely, I’ve never heard of anyone drinking diet to avoid corn syrup. Though it seems like a logical idea at first, it brings to mind the quaint expression: Ein vaut l’autre, et les deux vaute rien.
hey, hey , it’s the CHAMPAIGN of ginger ale!
Dude, I’m going to New Brunswick to visit my mother this August, and I’m totally getting you some Sussex Ginger Ale. Talk about definitive. It’s so gingery it will practically burn your tongue off. That Vernor’s stuff is piss compared. And I can’t take the Canada Dry blandness. I was raised on Sussex and it’s just something completely different. Unfortunately you can only get it in New Brunswick. I wonder how I can send it in the mail… suggestions?
Dear Lyrae,
I would love to try this Sussex!
Either way i’m from the midwest so I have to go with vernors :)
I find that many people with your surname come from there.