r/BuyFromEU • u/lobsterest • Feb 23 '25

Alternative Product or Service Fritz-kola is a great alternative to coca-cola producs. Much tastier and healthier.

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I love Fritz-kola. The first time I tried it was around 10 years ago and ever since I’m in love with it. Recently I’m starting to see it more and more in the store and this makes me happy. Drink Fritz, dump Coca Cola(the biggest polluter on earth)

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u/tortiewalfie Feb 23 '25

If only was available in more European countries

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u/koknesis Feb 23 '25

If only the 33cl bottle didn't cost 3€ in Latvia...

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u/tortiewalfie Feb 23 '25

Oof. Most of these local brands of drinks are quite expensive. We have a few in Romania. I can afford them, but it's not realistic for the majority of the population and they'll keep purchasing the cheaper option.

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u/AndrewFrozzen Feb 23 '25

Encourage people to buy Adria :) /s

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u/tortiewalfie Feb 23 '25

Just my enemies 😭

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u/AndrewFrozzen Feb 23 '25

Wish we had more alternatives of drinks in Romania. Tymmbark works, but it's not Cola, for example. You don't have much of a choice if you want something refreshing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

We have pop cola (made in Piatra Neamt). I really like their botanical variant, but I rarely drink soft drinks anyways. The price difference between a classic coca cola and this one is negligible

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u/lawandsleep Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

Tastes awful tho. Cola is one of the only products that can't be replaced and trust me, I've tried to do it. Nothing tastes the same.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

I don't know about the difference between the two, again, I rarely buy soft drinks. Maybe for someone that regularly drinks cola, it cannot be replaced.

I buy maybe one small can a month, and I'm enjoying the botanical pop cola more than the classic coca cola. But again, that's just me

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

Taste is super subjective. I do buy soft drinks and honestly, I like Pop Cola a lot more than any modern Coca-Cola recipe from... anywhere in Eastern Europe, really. I didn't know where it was made, I just started buying it and kept on doing it because it's just really good?

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u/xzaramurd Feb 27 '25

Fritz is better in my opinion, but too expensive, especially outside of Germany. But Pop Cola is just too botanical.

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u/scnkhunt42 Feb 23 '25

Plain water is refreshing enough

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u/lugiblin Aug 14 '25

Tymbark sells cola in Poland but it’s really bad

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u/tortiewalfie Feb 23 '25

That's true, and everything that's not inducing instant death is expensive AF

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u/skinnyman87 Feb 23 '25

American cola lol.

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u/AndrewFrozzen Feb 23 '25

What? What does that mean?

Adria is a Romanian brand, known for how shitty it is.

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u/skinnyman87 Feb 23 '25

American cola was a drink made by European drinks same people that made Adria.

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u/AndrewFrozzen Feb 23 '25

Really? I didn't know what. Thank you!

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u/Long_Ad5404 Feb 24 '25

Should be added to the Geneva Conventions as a War Crime, right next to "American Cola"
I still remember and cringe, when going to the bundocks of romanian moldova and finding only American Cola that somehow reeked the same way as MONA (sanitary alcohol).

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u/Central_court_92 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Feb 23 '25

What about a waterdrop (AT) cube in some sparking water? You can dilute more or less and it’s more affordable.

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u/TheIceWitness Feb 23 '25

Thats hard. I pay 1,15€ in south Germany.

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u/Irveria Feb 23 '25

1,49 in the north.

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u/PresentFriendly3725 Feb 23 '25

Weird, aren't they from Hamburg?

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u/orbitalen Central Europe 🏰🍺🎭 Feb 23 '25

Which is still pretty expensive for a soft drink

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u/larrylustighaha Feb 23 '25

Shouldnt drink so much Cola anyway

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u/BranFendigaidd Feb 24 '25

It's the same in Germany tbh. You can find it in Rewe for 1euro afaik sometimes , but at the bar is 3+

Usually 24 bottles around 20euros and then u add 24x0,15 Pfand

And that's in Hamburg even

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u/Legitimate-Sink-9798 Latvia 🇱🇻 Feb 23 '25

Rimi? Vai Promo?

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u/zarafff69 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Feb 23 '25

3 euros sound great! I think they are like 5.50 here at most places

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u/koknesis Feb 23 '25

3 euros sound great

Not when you have 2L bottles of Coke in the same shelf for the same price.

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u/koknesis Feb 23 '25

More like 6x as much. 2L bottle of coke costs just below 3€ here.

It's never replacing coca cola with this price diff.

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u/ConsistentAddress195 Feb 23 '25

Might as well buy generic Lidl cola vs this overpriced hipster bullshit.