I didn’t know this was a soda. I thought it was flavored seltzer.
What’s the difference? To me seltzer is just another sort of soda.
The seltzers I’m accustomed to don’t have sugar or sweeteners, whereas most sodas do 
Yes, it actually has raspberry puree in it (4%). No sweeeteners of any kind, just puree and juice and sparkling water. Its 10 calories per can, and is a pretty rosy pink in the glass.
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Ita far closer to a seltzer flavor profile than a soda.
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Seltzer is typically just flavored water. Think Perrier with a wedge of lime.
Soda is inherently sweet from some type of sweetener, be it sugar, HCFS, xylitol, or other.
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Soda refers to club soda /soda water, rather than being equivalent to pop or soda pop in some parts of North America.
Anyone talking about soda being like seltzer is taking about the club soda soda /soda water , not sweet as in soda pop soda.
When I hear the word soda, it includes seltzer, soda wafer, and the sweet pops. Pretty much anything non-alcoholic and carbonated. That said, hard soda (alcoholic pop) has become a thing up here.
the regionalism is kind of neat
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I was responding to:
Seltzer came into the conversation later.
I’m in the South, so soda to me is a heavily sweetened and carbonated beverage…Cocola (the southern vernacular for Coke), Dr Pepper, RC Cola, and that ilk.
Somewhat hilariously, seltzer has now come to mean White Claw and other alcoholic seltzers, which is a whole thread drift I’m going to try to avoid!
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Spindrift — or this knockoff — is a flavored seltzer aka carbonated water.
Maybe Canada doesn’t have these.
Canada Dry enters the chat.
I’ve only ever had their ginger ale. Ain’t that a soda?
They make a lot more products than that, including flavored seltzers.
And one of the products they make, which helps to define “soda” as something not necessarily sweet: Club soda.
I never understood the diff between club soda & seltzer, TBH.
It’s all bublé to me.
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Club soda contains some salts (sodium/potassium, chloride/citrate, in some combination). It was originally created to mimic the flavor of natural sparkling spring waters (a.k.a. “mineral water”). Seltzer has zero salts, so it can taste a bit “flat” in comparison. (Which is a funny thing to say about a bubbly water.)
Book that covers these topics in depth, from which I learned all of the above, in case anyone is interested. (It’s far more entertaining than it might sound!)
Ah. Similar to natural mineral water in Germany vs. sparkling filtered water.
GD I loves me some cold, sparkling mineral water 
Unfortunately for Canadians, Canada Dry only sells Ginger Ale, Club Soda, and Tonic Water in Canada.
Flavoured seltzers aren’t easy to find up here.
It relaunched a a while ago but doesn’t have much market share if it’s still being made in Canada.
It was really popular 30 years ago. NY Seltzer was popular and available in the mid 1980s but that disappeared from Canadian shelves by the late 90s.
There are some sweetened house label drinks that are similar.
I suspect Le Croix, Bubblé and house label versions of these 2 brands took over whatever demand for seltzer existed. Some craft breweries also sell flavoured bubbly water (non alcoholic).
I really like shopping for various non-alcoholic drinks at convenience stores and bodegas when I’m in the States. You guys have a lot more selection than we do.
Since convenience stores and gas stations started selling beer in Canada, there is a lot less choice when it comes to carbonated drinks, iced tea and lemonade.
I asked one clerk at a local gas station with a small store if he sold more pop or booze, and he laughed, and said booze.
Im known to splurge on Gerolsteiner on the rare occasion I find it.
