It's in most brands of bottled sodas, too, though bartenders usually prefer the flavor and carbonation level of the small bottles of Schweppes or Canada Dry tonic water (and Coke and other sodas ...

The Familiar Classic: Canada Dry Tonic Water Canada Dry is most well known for its ginger ale, the first product the company released over a century ago in 1904.

Does cheap, supermarket brand tonic stand up to the more expensive stuff? Can the stalwarts such as Schweppes or Canada Dry beat out their imitators?

Two would buy this tonic; one might; two wouldn't. In third place, Canada Dry in a plastic bottle ($1.39 for a liter, Mollie Stone's) edged out the same brand in glass.

Popular Brands: Canada Dry, Schweppes, Polar, Hal *’s* What it is: Seltzer water is simply plain water, artificially carbonated by dissolving pressurized carbon dioxide gas into the drink.