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Danny Ginsburg’s soda customers can choose from about 200 kinds of bottled pop. What sells best?

* Big Red, a Texas red cream soda in a long neck.

* Hourglass-bottle Coca-Colas, the 8-ounce size.

* Kentucky Nips Sparkling Cherry Julep: “It sort of tastes like a carbonated Wild Cherry Life Saver,” Ginsburg says.

* Yoohoo (in chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and coconut).

* Mexican Coca-Cola: “They make it with cane sugar instead of corn syrup,” Ginsburg says, “and these real Coca-Cola freaks like it.”

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* New York Egg Creams, regular and diet: “ ‘Whatever you do,’ I warn my customers, ‘don’t shake the bottle right before opening it.’ ”

* Mad River natural soda from Vermont.

* Reed’s Ginger Brew made on the East Coast: “But the inventor, Chris Reed,” says Ginsburg, “actually lives in Pacific Palisades.”

* Looza Belgium nectars.

* Italian Limonatas.

* Clear China Cola.

* Ginger Beer.

* Sahara Iced Tea.

* Italian Bibi Caffes--regular and decaf.

* Italian Bibi almond.

* Jolt, the cola with all the sugar and twice the caffeine.

* Tarkhun, the tarragon-flavored national drink of Armenia.

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