The cola wars never ended
Soda rankings start with the Coke-Pepsi axiom (blind tests favor Pepsi's sweetness; branded tests favor Coke — a marketing lesson in a bottle) and get interesting below it. Dr Pepper's 23-flavor ambiguity earns it a loyal S-tier bloc. Citrus is a genre: Mountain Dew for volume, Sprite for cleanliness, Fanta for nostalgia. Root beer is the true regional divider, and diet/zero variants raise the eternal ranking question: same entry or separate? (Coke Zero partisans insist: separate, and higher.)