Food Theory: I Invented the BEST Tasting Soda!

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What is the scientifically BEST soda pop mix? Is it Coca-Cola and Pepsi? Mtn Dew and Sprite? Blue Powerade and Mello Yellow? Grape Gatorade and Root Beer? Today, we find out… and see if we can invent a brand new, DELICIOUS soda in the process.
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Magic of the Soda Fountain (0:00)
My First Soda Addiction (1:03)
Welcome Our Guest (3:05)
Origins of Swamp Water (4:06)
Round 1 The Basic Blends (5:08)
Half & Half (6:18)
Black & White (7:46)
Four Way (8:41)
Black Gold (9:37)
Pop Bomb (10:57)
Ultimate Pepsi Mix (12:25)
Round 2 Specialized Mixes (15:12)
Fruit Cocktail (16:24)
The MatPat Mix (18:15)
Sam’s Swamp Water (20:34)
The Final Mix (22:27)
The Secret Ingredient (24:50)
Santi Supreme (26:38)
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*Credits:*
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Santi Massa
Editors: Gerardo Andrés Mejía Torres, Koen Verhagen, Warak, and Daniel Zemke
Sound Designer: Yosi Berman
Thumbnail Artist: DasGnomo
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[Coffeeisrequired]

how matpat has been introducing the next hosts was really smart, from slowly adding them into videos as a reference or something, then doing a gtlive with talking to them, to having them in an episode full time

[anne-fleurhooglander]

Every single time i went to my aunt as a kid she would give me this mysterious drink she called 'a spacey' and it was so good so i asked my mom to buy some, but it wasn't anywhere in the supermarkets. I just last year found out it was just cola and fanta mixed together.

[artmanadvanced]

I always saw two constants when it came to soda mixing: Dr. Pepper was the "universal receiver", where you could mix just about anything into it for a different though Dr. Pepper forward flavor, and Sprite was the "universal donor", where it could re-carbonate an almost flat soda without affecting the flavor too much.

[MyNamesOrion]

When my dad and his brother were kids (probably around 1981/1982) they sold mixed sodas on the sidewalk like a lemonade stand. My dad made a citrus/cola mix that’s equal parts Fanta, root beer, and Cherry Pepsi (in that order), and now it’s become a family tradition to buy all three whenever we get sodas

[adamanteumn]

Worked at a restaurant for about 5 years, where I found the secret flavor combination to get Baja blast. It was so spot on, some of my regulars started requesting it (Baja blast with Mexican food is a match made in heaven)

Half sprite
Quarter lemonade
Quarter blue Powerade
Squeeze quarter lime and garnish with lime wedge🤌

[chicken]

I can already see someone at Coca Cola running into their office, practically screaming, "You got to taste this!" followed quickly with a "We got SELL this!"

[CrayRT]

Matpat spent a month without sugar and decided to go all out after the cleanse.

[T-Dawg]

It’s really smart how mat had Santi in these final episodes SO much more to make the host change Even smoother than it already is. Bravo Theorist

[Tall_Order]

If you get a swamp water that looks mostly green, it's called the Yoda Soda.

[RILDIGITAL]

The complexity of the soda fountain mix options are definitely underrated and underexplored. It stands as a testament to human creativity and ingenuity.

[B-Ran_the_Man]

Where i grew up, mixing all the beverages from a soda fountain was called "Around the World."

[Wikiwi]

Love how Santi is horrified at how the Pepsi Mix could taste so bad, but Mat is more curious about how the Pepsi Mix could taste so bad. Different minds make different finds I suppose.

[Frostidd]

My personal favourite has to be the water-ice combo, ABSOLUTELY SLAPS everytime!

[brendanrisney]

Santi being a bartender is that kind of information you learn and it's like "woah, really?" and then you go "wait, no, actually. Yeah, I'm surprised I didn't guess that already."

[yellow_sweaters]

“May your drinks be sweet, and your refills be free”
I’ll toast to that one, mate.
🥤🥤

[kalin]

I used to always call this type of drink a "sewer-cide" as the water looked like sewer water.

[gt_their]

I love the fact that these guys are so Scientifically passionate about explaining soda mix

[mhelm]

For a chuggable, low carbonation sugar rush, we had something that we called Hulk juice,
1 part blue powerade
1 part Hi-C orange
3 parts sprite
.5 part lemonade

It was *very* green and the sugar rush + electrolytes was a decent replacement for caffeine

[YoutubeCommonman_Totas]

I tried making swamp water with a freestyle machine and it somehow looped around to being not only UNSWEET, but actively BITTER!

[sigridbjergbakkemeyer]

I do this with mocktail or cocktails. Can say my favorite is 1/5 cup mangosirup, 2/5 cup lemonsoda, 1/5 cup tapwater or ice and 1/5 cup either Coconutrum or elderflowersirup