Your Favorite Indian Soda

Limca and Mazaa both rule.
But they are verry unhealthy really.
And not worth a dime compared to stuff like Chicku Lassie or fresh Passionfruit Juice. Who needs soft drinks when you can have Fresh Carrot Juice or Papaya lassie for 5 to 15 rs?

Which Indian sodas are not actually owned by Coke/Pepsi?

Considering what the houses and roadsigns are painted like in Goa if not India, youd think India is sponsored by the Coca Cola company!



Bellow: A Budhist monastary in India sponsored by the "REal Thing"

Campa was still independent last I heard. Shame they renamed most their products to names like Campa 1000, Campa 2000 etc etc. Last time I saw a Campa soft drink was nealry 10 years ago in a small town in Haryana. I think Pepsi took over Thumbs Up. Pepsi and Coca Cola have now virtually sewn up the market between them. The only non Pepsi Coke drink I can now find is fresh juice, bottled juice in Himachal and Lassi.

Just the odd ones that you may or may not know:

Coke Brands
Thumbs up
Limca
Fanta
GoldSpot
Maaza
Sunfill
Kinley
Georgia

Pepsi Brands
Mirinda flavours-Orange and Lemon;
Aquafina
Lehar Evervess Soda
Dukes Lemonade
Mangola

Some info on Coca Cola protests in India

Thanks, crlvlr. In ten years of traveling regularly to India, I have noticed that the native brands are diminishing in favor of the giants. It's harder and harder to find Limca, and correspondingly easier to find Sprite. Which sucks (the trend and the product).

You can buy Thums up in A shop called V.B supermarket on Ealing Road Wembley.Its the biggest supermarket on Ealing Road which sells all types of indian food spices etc.I think its £1 a bottle.

The other one is called Slice!!
Personally I love Limca, that bitter lemon zing is just what you need on a hot day!!
For something different try one of our favourite "cocktails" Mazza/Slice mixed with soda very refreshing, local soda is best not Kinleys or any of the big names which have an awful taste and cost a lot more (local soda 2-3 rps)
Of course a good ole fresh lime soda is still hard to beat!
In answer to your question Nick there are still many small companies who produce cheapsflavored sodas just ask the locals many still won't drink the new fangled Coca Cola/Pepsi owned drinks preferring the cheaper local brands!!

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I think no soda can beat a freshly cut tender coconut.It sizzzzles

Now there is even packed coconut water is available at shops, a bit expensive though.

Well, if we are getting off topic and picking drinks that aren't "sodas", then I have to say I frequent Ganesh Fruit Juice shop everyday, for my fresh Mosumbi or Grape juice.

Nimbu-pani!! No intermediaries between you and the lime/water/sugar!

I used to love Gold Spot; was sad to not find it in India last year, but I suspect it has been gone a long time.

BTW, Coke (and Fanta) were in India in the early 70s (in glass botles with Hindi and Urdu script on the side), then gone for a long, long time.

welcome to the nimbupani club, WWUSA. nimbu pani or nimbu soda or soda sharbat. whatever be the variation, nothing beats it!

i am not a keen coke/pepsi enthusiast. they have become so omnipresent nowadays that no other options exist many of the time!

one small aside - try washing your face with a chilled soda from a streetside vendor ( plain soda - not coke!) on a hot summer day! refreshes you in a second. of course you will have to manage the curious stare of the vendor