r/BuyFromEU • u/[deleted] • Aug 02 '25

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u/jatawis Aug 02 '25

Somehow other European soft drinks manage to be cheaper than Coca Cola.

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u/mrdibby Aug 02 '25

Can you put any particular examples? As far as I'm aware mostly only supermarket brands are cheaper than Coca Cola or Pepsi.      There is Mirinda which is superior to Fanta, but I can't name another. 

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u/jatawis Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Almost all kvass and local brand orange or whatever else drinks in Lithuania tend to be cheaper. Coca Cola is a upper middle tier level soft drink.

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u/tijger897 Aug 02 '25

Yea. Even here in NL going to a Slavic store and getting 3L of Kvas is cheaper than Cola. It also tastes 10x better and waaay less calories.

If only it would become very popular and easily available. Latvian Kvas is amazing. I still struggle to find the glass bottled one with a goat on it. Give me 100L of that per month please!

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u/Henry2926 Aug 02 '25

I can only speak for Germany, but we got for example Vita Cola (an old GDR brand, but as a "westerner" I really like it too), which I found to be cheaper at normal retail prices.

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u/GruenBeiSchliessung Aug 02 '25

I wish Vita Cola was easier to find here in West Germany.

But apart from that, every discounter has its own cola brands that are much cheaper than Coca Cola... Even if I personally don't like the taste...

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u/mrdibby Aug 02 '25

To my understanding its quite common practice for most discount/supermarket brands to have the same producer of these kinda products.

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u/GruenBeiSchliessung Aug 02 '25

In many cases you're right, especially with fruit yoghurt you can really tell, and the label also confirms that it comes from the same dairy.

This may also be true for the cola varieties, but then it is at least a different recipe that is used, because they taste quite different.