Forgotten and Discontinued Sodas…That We Grew Up With
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and pepsi blue was the shit
You forgot Fresca soda
@@markthompson7799 Fresca is still being made. Maybe it isn't distributed in your area.
Where. Was. Hires. Root. Beer. 🤤
New Coke was not eliminated immediately.
Anybody remember Hires rootbeer? They even made popsicles with icecream inside. Good stuff.
Got three full bottles setting on a shelve as we read. One 12oz, and two 16oz bottles.
@@billparker987 sweet, I don't think I've seen it in over 20 years.
Kroger used to sell it here until about 10 years ago or so. Cans and 2 liters. I wrote a letter to Dr. Pepper (the owner) that they should bring it back but never got a response. They promote A&w (vastly inferior) instead.
Do they still make orange Crush or Shasta?
@@daverogers5609 They still have orange Crush here in the Houston area. I actually saw Shasta in 12 packs the other day too, but I didn’t look close enough to see if they had the orange flavor.
I just miss soda in glass bottles, when the plastic rolled out nobody liked it regardless of the commercials showing the bottle bounce, not break when dropped. Forty years of plastic has ruined everything...
And you could get money back from the bottles.
Plus when you returned the glass bottles and receives a small deposit back.
I agree!
and going to corner stores for refunds!
Paper bags not plastic
Garbage man instead of serviced out to a the closet city!
Etc etc etc
🤦♀️
Yeah, now we have islands in the oceans make from plastic.😥
But we can't live without plastic now.
Anyone remember Squirt soda?
I remember buying glass bottles of soda in a refrigerated cooler at the corner store. The cooler, usually had the Coca Cola emblem, and the outside of the cooler had a bottle opener with a place to drop the removed bottle caps
I bought a Squirt for my granddaughter yesterday at Dollar General. Came in a plastic bottle, unfortunately
Had one last night, still readily available.
They still make Squirt, you can find it in most stores. I love the citrus, very refreshing!
Give your thirst a Squirt
Fresca was awesome 🎉
I definitely remember Hires Root beer!!
RC Cola was big when I was a kid and I thought it was gone. But I found it the other day. Wow! what a throwback!
Good old Royal Crown.
RC cola & a Moon pie 🎼
I still see RC for sale in the Lucky grocery store (CA).
RC Cola vending machines were in the dorms at Chanute AFB in the mid-70s, good stuff, good memory.
It was my favorite
always to this day one of my favorites
I wish Welch's grape soda was still around it was the best grape soda ever made.
I wouldn't call myself a grape soda fan but Welch's was pretty dang good.
Welch's is my favorite grape soda...
Dollar tree sells it and Welch's peach soda too.
You all remember Red Rattler soda?
@@paulblay2330 where?! Not in Texas that was the best grape soda EVER
I used to love the grape and cherry Nehi in the ice cold bottles! 😋
You can still find them in bottles.
@@timeman1966 😲
Yes, I forgot about Nehi.
With a pk of pea nuts.!!!
When I was a kid in the fifties/sixties, soda was a treat, not an every day drink. My favorite treat was Orange Crush in the brown ribbed bottle. Mom would buy a 6 bottle carton of mixed flavors that would last a week or more. She liked RC, Dad was Dr. Pepper, brother was Coca Cola or Creme Soda. We (in the south) called all of them "Cokes".
We drink way more soda these days. That 6 bottle carton would only last a day or two these days.
I hold a tall bottle of Orange Crush as my favorite soda from my childhood in the 70s.
I also remember the returnable soda bottles too. A real treat that soda pop was… thanks for the memories.
What I miss most is the old time Hawaiian Punch that Mom bought in large brown bottles at the grocery store. This was a thick concentrated liquid with lots of fruit pulp. We always had it at birthday parties, and she’d make a bunch of Hawaiian Punch ice cubes too. A spoonful undiluted was a real treat over vanilla ice cream. The Hawaiian Punch made today little resembles the original.
makes great Hunch Punch, too!
Hawaiian Punch commercials were the best. 👊
I miss Hawaiian Punch too...and we had it for birthday parties too!
Yes and the Hawaiian Punch in the can!
I loved Hawaiian Punch and old time country lemonade!
I sure miss the flavor of soft drinks before high fructose corn syrup was added instead of sugar. Huge difference in taste.
It is extremely bad for you!
@@guynorth3277 Especially if you have Diabetes. The sugar-free crap is just as bad-or worse. I've encountered Saccharine, Cylamates, Splenda, Erythitol (and other sugar alcohols), Aspartame-fatal to those with PKU ovrr the years-and I'm still trying to figure out what Ascelfeme Potassium does to diet drinks. I decided to cut out sodas and stick to water. Even unsweetened tea is not safe as a restaurant use Monkfruit in mine and I became quite ill. Raw Stevia seems only slightly safer, but it's the only only that doesn't make me ill, but I don't know if they use it in restaurant drinks.
That's why I usually only drink Mexican sodas, they are all sugar
Amen, there’s a Mexican Restaurant near me that has Mexican Sodas. All pure cane sugar. Love the Coke ! Tastes like it did back when I was growing up in the 50’s.
@@patricenagel9442 The little 6 ounce Mexican Coca-Cola's are a perfect size for me to drink when putting down a couple of street taco's.
Grape Nehi was my favorite in the 60’s.
I liked Blueberry and Peach Nehi! There was an old fashioned Full Service gas station where I lived that sold it. I went for both of those reasons. Unfortunately, Covid did them in and the family decided to close it. Oh the memories!
LOL, Grape was my favorite in the 40’s, Mission also made a good non carbonated orange and grape.😉
We used to like Shasta cream soda and grape soda. Also, RC Cola was a favorite in our family.
That and a rc
Scooter pie
RC cola isn't totally gone.
True about RC. I was able to find it in the grocery stores in the Bay Area. It is definitely still around.
Did you know that there is a Shasta soda factory still in production and operation here in Northern California (Hayward)?
My favorite soda was Shasta as a kid. I liked how you could mix and match all the flavors you wanted in your cardboard flat. It was cheap enough that parents would let you get it. It was a nice alternative to all the kool-aid I consumed.
My sister and I drank a lot of Shasta for a while in the late 70s, early 80s. Her boyfriend worked for the local Shasta canning company.
@@buckodonnghaile4309 "You're lookin' over ... an orange soda!"
I never liked Tab or Fresca.
It's good stuff. The Menards by me has it
Shasta is still being produced.
Non carbonated Nehi grape and orange was my favorite. Like a popsicle in a bottle, back in the 50's and 60's when both had real grape and orange flavor!
I remember Nehi.
I liked the cherry nehi
If you ever get to Holmes County OHIO they sell it and you can even buy a case. I have even seen it in other amish towns.
I used to like those too, but Orange Crush in the dark brown bottle was my favorite. It wasn't carbonated at all.
@@angelbulldog4934 now anymore you have to go to amish country like Berlin Ohio , Shipshewana Indiana or places like that. I think places like that have it because the amish love it and they buy it buy the case.
I LOVE Big Red. I fell in love with it when I was little and visiting the other side of my family in Texas. Imagine my excitement when I didn't have to pay family to bring it to me but actually carried in my own store decades later.
My mom talks about "Hippo Cola" when she was small. That glass bottle was her first baby bottle.
And also Delaware Punch 🙂🙃🙂
Big red has been a staple drink in my city of Louisville my out of town family used to love it they only had when they visited.
Big Red has an interesting history. A tiny company from Texas, Big Red knew that their sugar allotment was going to be cut during WW2. Sugar was used to make gunpowder.
Big Red started driving a truck to local airplane plants. They gave every worker a free soda for showing up to work. Then they cleverly asked the now spoiled workers if they would sign their petition to keep Big Red in production.....for the war effort.
It worked.😅
As a Texan who lived in Lousiana for a while, no Big Red could be found anywhere. I nearly cried walking into a convenience store after moving back home and saw the cooler stocked with Big Red.
I remember growing up with my siblings the only time we could have soda when we had a stomach bug and it was Canada Dry Ginger Ale.
Why couldn't you have soda all the time?, just because parents may Not like soda that does Not mean they can restrict you from drinking it
My favorite all time anytime was Vernors ginger ale
It's still sold. I like it when my stomach is acting up.
Yesssss!!!!….
Lol 'ginger ale for stomach upset or stomach bug' has been debunked for a while now. It's most likely a placebo effect.
I remember Squirt with pulp in the bottle. You turned it over to mix it. Haven’t seen it in years.
Still around, no pulp though.
When I was a kid in the 60’s, there was a soda named Bubble Up. It was very similar to 7Up. We had an RC bottling plant in our town and I’m assuming that’s who processed the soda. Does anyone else remember or heard of this drink ?
Saw it in 4 pk glass bottles at Cracker Barrel.
I remember drinking bubble up. So does Merle Haggard in his 1981 song Rainbow Stew.
I remember the glass bottles had a dimpled surface similar to a golf ball.
@@rickdeleon7386 Oh yeah. Forgot about that
Bubble Up was at Twins baseball games in St Paul MN in the 60's when I was a kid.
I remember liking Tahitian Treat back in the early 70’s. I haven’t had it in years.
Hard to find, but still available. It has somewhat of a kick to it. That's been awhile but ❤❤❤ loved it!!
@@sandraandrews9907 where?
Yes! Loved it and Purple Passion!
@@markrichardson1657 Walmart has it here in Florida.
@@TheTammy1122 thank you, but a bit distant, I'll look at their website, and if they have it online, I'll be tahitian treating.
Anyone remember the soda machines that were dispensed in paper cups and you could choos how much ice you wanted in your drink. Had these in college in 1978...
When I was a kid, we would go to the concession stand after our baseball game and order an Around the World. It would be equal pours of each soft drink that the fountain had.
Yes. I remember those well.
A & W Fountain Root beer was the best!
Oh yes, had one just down the street, growing up. It was where I learned my good friend was deceiving his parents and would hang out and drink A&W instead of going to church, and it was my real first introduction to that kind of behavior, which I could never immolate; so I guess he did me a favor.
Barq’s was a close second
Back in the '50's with no a/c and living on a farm, what a treat a stop at the A&W Root Beer stand was! We would get the chores done early, and head for town on "Trading Night", the night that businesses stayed open at night for the farmers. It was as much a social event as a necessity to get things we needed. And on the way out of town, yes! Stop at the root beer stand and get a frosted mug full of that wonderful liquid. That was a treat!
Nailed it 🔨
And the most carbonated! What foam !
I grew up in the South and Nehi soda was real popular. Three flavors I recall -- orange, grape and strawberry. The orange was terrific. Sold in 16 oz. clear glass bottles with little angled ridges running down the sides, to help you keep a grip on 'em, I guess.
Great memories of my dad walking me up to the corner store on weekends and me getting a Nehi from the steel chest-style cooler up by the cash register. Half a quart of that stuff for a 5-year-old kid was like rocket fuel, ha ha.
That's so beautiful.
Nehi made a great peach soda too that we got down South. My younger brother sent me some Kroger peach soda, otherwise can’t get any where I live now. I think Virginia Dare made peach soda too.
@@akashicklovebpd1264 Thank you, I appreciate it very much! :)
@@jameshepburn4631 Oh yeah, I remember Nehi peach from when I was a teenager. Never tried it, I don't think.
I missed the 🍓 but luvd that that grape 🍇 tasted like carbonated grape juice can't describe but like that,they also had a Hawaiian punch type flavor awesome
Being a kid of the 80's, my grandmother always had TaB at her house. At the time I didn't love it or hate it. I was like "meh it's just another cola". Now I'm 40, and the taste of TaB just brings back a flood of nostalgia. Good times & great oldies of my youth.
You were younger than 7, (not much to know/remember for nostalgia), and you are not drinking Tab now at the age of 40.
@@EarthSurferUSA How about I get you a spoon so you can eat my ass?!
Who are you to tell me my life experiences, and what I personally remember?! Did you personally know my grandmother (Carol Truesdell)? I don't think so. Did you live in the Crescent Beach area of NMB, SC in the late 80's? Highly doubtful. As a kid did you get to catch a ride down Ocean Drive in a Humvee after Hurricane Hugo, because your dad was a cop? That's a big fat nope. As far as me being a 40 yr old drinking TaB in 2023... Being that TaB has been widely unavailable since early 2021, I don't know of anyone who's drinking it presently. Unless they amassed quite the stockpile. I do have a few cans of TaB left for special occasions.
With that said, Go Blow Yourself!
I grew up in the 60s. And grew up near Mobile Al. Does anyone remember Bubble Up? It was like the 7 Up, but to me, it tasted better and had more carbonation.
And God, how I miss the RC cola. I'm talking about the real RC cola in the 12 and 16 oz glass bottles. My Dad would give me a quarter, and I would ride my horse up to a little country store in our community and buy me a tall RC cola and a big Baby Ruth candy bar for that quarter.
Those were the day's 😢
Yup... definitely remember Bubble Up.
i grew up in hsv, AL in the 70’s. afraid i don’t remember that one
I miss RC too.
Man!…. Those were the days. You just took me back to those products.
I remember both of them. A quarter was a lot of money back then.
I could buy 5 packs of baseball cards too.
Thanks for the memories.
I remember always buying the glass because it tasted better than the can.
*ROYAL CROWN DRAFT COLA.* Came exclusively in glass bottles, premium limited run sometime in the 90’s, very sophisticated packaging and might be the best soda I’ve ever had in my life. Hard to describe how it tasted better than ordinary RC, Pepsi or Coke if you never had it, but it definitely was: had a subtle (but obvious) vanilla note, carbonation was on point, it was just _delicious._ I remember being seriously bummed when it was discontinued and literally scouring stores to find whatever remaining stock they might still have.
Pepsi from Mexico tastes very good. It still comes in glass bottles.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 I’ve never had Mexican Pepsi or Coke, but I’ve heard it’s really good because they use real sugar instead of HF corn syrup. And everything _always_ tastes better out of glass - beer, soda, etc. 👍
I remember seeing it in a Target years ago and bought a lot of it since I remember the RC plant back in Columbus GA. When I went back, it was all gone.
@@soniaclarkstewart Yep, its time on the market was pretty much a “blink and you miss it” moment.
My college roommate saved some for awhile and kept a bottle for his collection. Think he might still have it.
I used to absolutely love Minute Maid orange soda.😊
Delicious
Replaced by Sunkist
Yeah it seems like there were a lot more fruit flavored sodas back then
I miss not being able to buy a cold drink from a vending machine where the ice and the drink fall into a cup.
Most bowling alleys had them. They had that plastic sliding door to get your drink 😊
We had those at my high school in the 70s.
We had one in the 80's and early 90's at the factory I worked at...
We used to get that at the horse races.
Those and coffee/hot chocolate, in a second vending machine, were the only drinks available at movie theatres in the 50s. Popcorn and candy bars and boxes were also available at the counter. The drinks stayed in the lobby.
Double Cola and Sundrop was only made in Reidsville NC in the 60s 70s and early 80s. It was own by Big Bill Bottling Company. Double Cola was no longer made after early 80s, but Sundrop is still made and enjoyed by millions. I was raised up on both. I miss Double Cola, it was like Coke and Pepsi, but tastes much better. It had more bite and carbonation.
I live in MN and I had to search real hard to find Sundrop. It was great.
Sundrop was also made in Wisconsin, I believe Sauk City, it can still be found around here
I manage a grocery store in Nebraska and there’s a company from Lincoln that distributes classic sodas in glass bottles. Double cola is one of my best sellers. I have one customer that buys Cheerwine by the case
Sun drop was readily available a couple years ago all around Northern Illinois
I grew up in Central Pennsylvania and I always liked the regional bottlers. Loved Wible ( Three Springs, Pa. ) Orange. And Snow White ( from Saxton Bottling Co. in Saxton, Pa. ) White Birch. It had an antiseptic taste that somehow I liked. The Cream Soda was good too. There were hundreds of these regional bottlers across the USA that now, sadly, are gone.
My grandparents in Northern Minnesota used to always have Hires Root Beer in their fridge. I remember it tasting great and being super fizzy. I hadn't seen it for many years on the shelves, but Wikipedia says it wasn't technically discontinued until 2022 (it was introduced in 1876).
Loved Hires Root Beer!
The original Hires root beer was actually made from various roots. The Hires company eventually morphed into Dr. Pepper.
I loved Hires and Dad's rootbeer. Dad's is still being made.
Yep, I miss Hires Root Beer. Dads is good, too, and still available.
Hires had “that frosty mug taste”!
My father would be 82 if he was alive. He barely drank soda, but raved about Mr. Frostie until the day he died!!
I can get frostie at my local store right now. It's still around.
Poor man. It's sad when dementia hoits so young. Did he remember his name or just Frostie?
@@mikemondano3624 I know. I hope your Mom remembers me from last night!
@@alangray9117 I remember certain stores still selling because I still the local department store used to sell them in the early 2000's before the owner got too old to take up the store around 2008-09.
Wonder if I try it unfortunately I never did try it because of my limited budget and only bought that I'm familiar with so the only trying something new wasn't a option at that time but now I have a somewhat better budget.
@@night-x6793 it's $1.25 a bottle
You miss some of the best ones. The original Orange Crush, which was according to the bottler, was Orange juice and carbonated water. Then there was Delaware Punch, which was a Grape flavored drink.
Now l can't swear to it but l think Orange Crush originated from NEHI , orange and grape. l remember them from back in the early 60's.
Fanta red cream soda I called Coca-Cola every year and bitch about bringing it back
Dad's is the worst root beer in history
I know for sure that the current orange crush is a different recipe, it does not taste the same; although Sunkist tastes more like the original orange crush.
When I was a student at the University Of Kentucky in Lexington , Kentucky in the early 1970's , I was hooked on a drink called "ALE-8-ONE" bottled in nearby Winchester , Kentucky (40 miles from Lexington) since 1926 . I think that it is still around as I have found it at the CRACKER BARREL STORES in their vintage soda section here in Florida .
Yes, you can still find in in central Kentucky and some southern Indiana stores.
Ale 8 One is awesome 🎉
Grocery stores in Cincinnati carry it.
In the sixties I loved to drink Wink soda and my parents made a frozen adult beverage concoction with Wink, lemonade, and vodka.
My dad liked Wink and gin.
I like Dad
LOVED Wink!! wish they'd bring it back!
Your parents were swingers.
Ask me how I know.
Was Wink Grapefruit flavor?
I remember many of these. But, not all of them. It was interesting to hear what happened to the lost and discontinued. Thank you!!
I remember my grandfather talked about Hire's Root Beer. My dad loved his coffee and LOVED Jolt more! I remember one time me at him drank some and I was SO WIRED he said "I'm cutting you off of your tab...time to drink water".🤣
Jolt reminded me of a can of Coke that had a cigarette butt soak in it! Bitter and horrible!
Remember “ Fresca” ? Loved the stuff!❤️
Drank it all the time
I remember they said we would all die of cyclamate poisoning...STILL here
@@savannahsmiles1797 Yeah, did you ever try it with rum or gin?
Fresca is still made.
TheTarget we shop at carries Fresca.
I liked Pepsi Light. The lemon flavoring sort of disguised the artificial sweetener and gave it the refreshing quality of iced tea.
I also remember Pepsi Light, my memory is of a solid blue with a slice of lemon on the can. It was a diet drink, or like maybe a semi diet drink with less sugar. I liked it, but I like lemon in my Coke sometimes and always with iced tea. It's cool others still remember it too.
I liked it alot too. I even liked the can
I used to pick it up whenever I was in the States. I remember the 8-packs of glass bottles in the cardboard carton. I'd buy about 5 cartons at a time.
They flacked that hard. I can still chant their jingle. "They put a little lemony taste in and took out half the calories."
That was my favorite diet soda. Dr Brown’s Cream was pretty good too. I still get lemon in my diet colas when ordering out.
I grew up drinking Tab, Diet Rite Cola, and RC Cola. My grandpa always had "Squirt" for the kids to drink at his house. My favorite has always been Cherokee Red. I may be partial b/c I'm of Cherokee lineage, but the flavor is just so good!! ❤❤❤
Funny thing, my grandpa always had squirt too. I am not a soda drinker, but that is a favorite
Il drank Diet Rite a couple of times but, preferred tab better, Diet Rite to me tasted a bit on the flat side, it sure didn’t taste nothing like or close to RC!
Yeah I remember RC cola to , was pretty good , Hires Rootbeer to .
We had White Rock soda and it came in different flavors , I remember enjoying the Cream Soda.
@@jennibennecke669 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@nobleroman1133 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
My brother and I loved Rondo, "The thirst crusher!" The can resembled a beer can.
When cleaning out my mom's basement after she passed away, we found a couple empty, undamaged cans.... I had to keep one.
Smh 😂😂😂 man that was the first soda that came to my mind I used to love that stuff you could just guzzle those down with ease so delicious. 👍🏿
Who here remembers when the only way to open a can of soda was with a can opener? And we used to one in the glove box of our cars next to the flash light, map and phillips screw driver.
When my father was outside working on the station wagon, he use to open his beer bottles, that had those crimp-on bottle caps, using one of the metal bumpers on the car. The junction where the bumper mounting bracket attached to the bumper had made a good bottle opener underneath the bumper. lol
"A church key"!!!!! For those steel can.
Dude, you just brought back some memories that I forgot decades ago. Our 73 Chrysler Newport had a heavy metal glove compartment door that laid flat when opened. It had two shallow indentations to hold cans in place. My dad always had a magnetic bottle opener stuck to the inside of the door.
I remember in the 70's, walking to a&w root beer when you ordered from your car.
We would carry 1 gallon jugs to be filled up with a&w root beer.
I'm thrilled I can still purchase Fresca at my local grocery stores. There are new flavors available, but I haven't seen them in my area.
Fresca was always one of my favorites but I just can't find it anymore where I live
I used to love the cloudy Fresca. Not a big fan of the clear one
@@brentleary2227 It's available at my local Walmart. Maybe at yours?
I remember Frostie and A&W root beers. As a kid I loved carbonated strawberry soda. One day my brother and I shook up a strawberry soda as an experiment, opened it, and it spewed all over our mostly white kitchen. Mother wasn't pleased. We had to clean the walls, the floor, the cabinets, and the appliances. A year later we would still sometimes find random dots of red we missed.
They still make Frostie root beer. I buy it quite often at the local Food Lion. Good stuff !
I wish they still sold it , where i live. it was the best root beer ever.
Have you seen the Frosties Blue cream soda? I've been looking for it for years..
@@patricenagel9442 yes they still make it, a guy at my work drinks it. Buys it at Save-A-Lot grocery store
Ingles N.C. sells em
I loved Faygo’s multi-flavored pack. It had pineapple, strawberry, lime, lemon, grape and orange. Drinking that while watching a Friday or Saturday night made for television 📺 tele-fright movie was so fun in the 1970’s. ❤ 🎃
My favorite was peach 🍑
We still have Faygo in our state. Love the pineapple
I could swear that Faygo made a Chocolate soda that the women loved! Maybe it was a diet soda?
@@Jaybird165 they did at one time. It was regular and diet.
I can still get Faygo Orange, Cola, and Moon Mist at my local Meijer. It isn't that popular, so it isn't always in stock.
Jolt Cola was awesome. It got me thru high school after late nights.
Frostie Soft Drinks are still around but you have to hunt for them. My wife found Frostie Blue Cream Soda a few years ago. Excellent stuff.
Yes, I found Frostie Root Beer and Creme Soda in the dollar aisle of a grocery store in southeastern Nebraska.
i've always wanted to try jolt so badly. did it have a cola taste like coke and was the energy boost strong? every time I saw dennis drinking it in jurassic park i wanted one.
@@sueelliott3206 Yes Dollar General here in Colorado has it
I still can remember my brother's reaction on Christmas Eve after opening up a case of Surge. He was SO happy!
Pepsi Light - diet cola with lemon flavor - was actually pretty good tasting for the late 70's.
That's where I ended up after Fresca replaced its saccharin with some vile-tasting other artificial sweetener. Pepsi Light worked for me!
I also remember in I think the 90s they retried that with what was called Pepsi Twist.
Remember what Marty McFly asked for at the cafe when he travelled back to 1955 in Back to the Future? Pepsi Free.
I remember Tab from when I worked in a nursing home one summer. There was this old guy that had only a couple of months to live so the nurses let him eat and drink what he wanted. He subsisted on a diet of Tab, Frank's Louisiana Hot Sauce, and Chesterfield unfiltered cigarettes. He probably went through a couple of six packs of Tab a day.
I recall entering a contest back in the 70's for coke, they sent me a certificate that I was a winner ,sign the form and send it in to let me know what I won
did so,thinking it was a tv,bicycle or a nice prize turned out to be a free 6 pack of Tab soda,went to the store to cash in the coupon,the paper bag ripped open and the 6pack of glass bottles fell on the steps breaking 4 of them,wasn't meant to be.
Tab 😝 some prize! The only thing you lost was the 5 or 10 cent return on the bottles you broke.
lmao
@@BOLLOCKS1968 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@BOLLOCKS1968 they didn't have bottle deposits back in the old days.
@@jimmillard3513 They did when I grew up.
"TAB" ALWAYS REMIND ME OF BACK TO THE FUTURE ❣️
It was one very nasty drink, my older sister would buy it.
I remember as a kid when we used to visit my grandparents, the only soda they ever had at their house was Tab. God I HATED that soda. 🤮
Could have been worse.😁
When I was a kid in the early 1970s, one of my grandmothers did not allow soda (or pop, as we called it).
Instead, as a beverage, she insisted on serving us kids room temperature liquid Jello mix.
@@willhorting5317 Oh yeah? Well if it wasn't for water, all I had was powdered milk.
@@imaouima 🤣
@@willhorting5317 My Grandma never had soda at her home either in the 1970s. She did give us kids gallons of Kool aid though.😅
@@coldsamon 👍
I wish mine would have had Kool Aid.
I loved the old gal. But IMO, she had some strange ideas about some things.
When I was a kid I remember my sister sending me the corner store for a bottle of Double Cola. She was pretty strict about that. I can still hear her, "Not Pepsi or Coke! Bring back two bottles of Double Cola!" A few years ago seen two glass bottles in Dollar General and I bought them. When I told her she did not believe me until I showed them to her.
Doubble cola came in a large bottle that was about twice the volume of content compared to the 12 or 16 oz pepsi or coke. It tasted like a flat coke or pepsi. I would buy it on occasion due to the double volume.
"Hey sis! I am finally back from the store. Sorry I took so long. I bought two bottles, but I got too thirsty on the way home. Here are the bottles though." :)
Double Cola was, at the time, an economical alternative to Coke and Pepsi. The main drawback was it went flat quicker. What we would do during the summer was make icees of the remnants after it went flat, and enjoy them.
In the 1950’s and earlier your 5 cent vending machine Coke was 6 1/2 ounces. If you looked at the bottom of the bottle the location of the bottling plant was molded in. Some people collected these early bottles to see how many bottling locations there were.
I grew up in Lawton, OK in the late '50's and '60's and we were fortunate enough to have a Coca-Cola bottling plant there. In elementary school, we always looked forward to a Field Trip to the plant cause every one of us would leave with a 6 1/2 oz bottle of Coke. Since my parents didn't let me drink Coke until I was a teenager, those visits were a real treat,.
The year was 1963, The place was Nam, Coke was in small 6oz bottles. Pepsi was in 10oz bottles. RC was in a whopping 16oz bottle, Guess what we drank,???. For a whole Nickle,
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@@billparker987 Yes I remember in 1966 we were in upstate NY in the Adirondack Mountains and I pestered my father for 5 cents to buy a coke from the vending machine in the barn in the 6 1/2 oz glass bottle.
Take a look at the old Coke bottles where the script isn't colored white. Most if those bottles only held 6 ounces.
I grew up in Miami and my Uncle Duke would take me and my brothers and sister down to the Coke bottling plant and we’d watch the bottles go thru the washing and sterilizing and fill process.
I loved SURGE...It was great. I'm now 70 years old.
I loved Nesbitt’s soda. Also Nehi was a favorite.
I was hoping someone else remembered Nehi. Only time we’d get it was when we visited my Grandma in the early to mid 60’s. Got it from a little general store, I remember Grape, Cherry and Orange. Loved it! I remember Nesbit too but don’t recall if I ever tried it.
I liked Nehi orange and Dad liked peach
@@elmerreed6048 I'm not American and never had a Nehi but I know the name well as Radar from M*A*S*H loved Grape Nehi. cheers
@@buckodonnghaile4309 Very cool! So nice to meet you and thanks for the comment,, the grape was my favorite too although the orange was a close second!
@@elmerreed6048 I found a grape Nehi in a stroke here in Pensacola last week. I bought one and drank it as I went down memory lane in my mind
Nicely done! Thanks for the memories!
My favorite unconventional soft drink is Vernors. Been around since 1866 and still selling.
Is that ginger ale?
Vernors was and is very good
@@pegs1659 pretty sure, at least that's what I know it as.
Did you ever have a Boston Cooler made with Vernors and vanilla ice cream? They were sooo good!
@@gjk540 no but it sounds very good. Great summertime treat
I remember Hires root beer, Sport cola, Apple beer soda, Like soda, and Fanta red cream soda just to mention a few.
Thanks for the memories.
There was a delicious grape soda called NuGrape when I was a kid back in the 70s that tasted better than any other grape soda on the market at the time. I’d love to see a video about it.
NuGrape is still around, IIRC. I think I saw it at Walmart the other day.
@@eromitlabhitw maybe re-released. I had not seen it since the late 90s
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Yes! I'd forgotten about that!
Grape Crush was my go to as a six year old having lunch in the ski lodge. Used to get it out of the vending machine. Amazing how a simple soft drink holds such a powerful memory so many decades later.
Does anyone remember Teem? It came before 7up and Sprite. Yes Lemon Lime was the flavor! My dad worked at a school they would keep the soda locked up in his storeroom/workshop. So we helped our selves. What about Moxie, it's an old brand. I saw it in a retro soda specialty shop so I bought it, it tasted like carbonated cough medicine!
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And “ Bubble Up” soda like 7Up lemon lime
: Bubble Up and Mother Pride!😊
barely but yes.
I loved Teem!!! I miss it still.
I loved Teem
I fell in love with 7up GOLD, I was on vacation in California when I first had it, weeks after I got home to Oklahoma I started to see it in stores there, but it didnt last long, I thought it was so good
As a young child, i remember walking to the neighborhood store to get a TruAde. It was an orange non-carbonated soft drink. It was a real treat on Saturdays. And our family beach trips always consisted of a cooler full of a variety of flavors of Shasta. Black Cherry was the best.
TruAde-- orange and grape! Oh, yeah...
Anybody remember Kickapoo Joy Juice? I’ve always thought it was the precursor to Mountain Dew. Also, as a kid, I was permitted half a bottle of Teem every evening. We had a mark on the wall to indicate where the level should be in the 16 oz bottle when you’d poured exactly half
OMG!!!!!
TEEM...!!!!!!!!!!!
HAVE NOT HEARD THAT NAME IN DECADES.
LOVED IT AS A KID
60 NOW
@Sue Cave.. Yes Kickapoo Joy Juice.. Had a Lil' Abner vibe.
Teem. Great beverage. When we had an upset stomach, we'd get a glass of room temperature Teem and is a short period stomach problems were gone.
Kickapoo Joy Juice was so good! I always got one when we went to the washeteria.
I used to drink Teem as a kid. It was the precursor to Slice, which was then replaced by Sierra Mist.
Teem was my official stay home from school sick drink.
Almost any un-cola for me
Does anyone remember Whistle Pop? It was big in the 60s-70s, pretty tasty
@@stephencarroll9210 I remember Whistle Pop.
And Sierra Mist is now Starry.
I loved slice! I was a young teen, and I miss that drink because it was really the first soda my mom let me drink. I was a 70's kid who grew up on Cool-aid and did not drink soda until jr high.
I hated Slice. I always thought it was a poor man's Sprite.
@@LG123ABC I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Squirt , A&W root beer and RC cola my childhood favorites but now it’s water and coffee!
I loved SunCrest orange soda in the glass bottles growing up in the 70’s. I also liked our local grocery store’s(Al’s Thrifty Mart) generic soda line Scotts soda! That grape one was out of this world!💕
You missed Delaware Punch and the Shasta line of sodas. "It hasta be Shasta" was catchy and the soda was tasty.
Still have here in South Texas bought several twelve packs directly from the truck got the driver to to call manager case apped got great price vs the store
Shasta is still around.
@@TheMrPeteChannel TMPC show expensive not the super cheap it was then
Had a Delaware punch in south Texas a couple of years ago and they taste nothing like they did in the 70’s. THEY USED TO BE BOMB! ❤️💣
@@davidmazza8714 I live on Rio Grande Valley yes unrecognizable Delaware Punch it's like they went generic
Frostie soda can still be found in specialty candy/soda stores like Rocket Fizz. I have also seen it at some supermarkets in the gourmet soda section alongside Green River, IBC root beer and such.
Rocket Fizz is great. I ordered cinnamon soda from them online because I'm nowhere near a store. They shipped it really fast.
Frostie is still sold in my area also, again usually shelved alongside IBC etc., albeit sold in glass bottles.
Also at Lehman's a huge Amish store in Kidron, Ohio. They have one of the best soda selections around.
I think a candy store in Sea Side OR sells alot of vintage brands
Yes, Frostie was the best Rootbeer next to Barq’s! I usually buy Frostie and, other old brands of other soda at Cracker Barrel but, they said, they have had problems with the distributor since, the Pandemic! Another good one is the original Orange Crush not the newer version, that isn’t soooo, good. I always get quite a few of these old brands of soda every time, I go there and, coarse some of the older candy’s to!
You missed Cherry Coke. It may still be selling in the USA though, but not up in Western Canada. The one I thought you may have on here is Pick-A-Pop. Pick-A-Pop that came in many flavors and colors. You came into the chilled warehouse like store, pay for the size and number of pop you wanted to get; usually in case of 12 and 24. Than it was an adventure going around and seeing what different pop they had and the ones you would like to take home and try. You knew when it was payday in our town when the dads brought there kids down to the pop shop and the group of kids checked out all the pop (while the poor store clerk was worried there would be trouble)
What memories Frostie root beer brings. To me as a kid it was a fabulous treat, the greatest soda ever made.
They still make it
@@mattdammrich I'd like to try some to see if it lives up to my childhood memories.
@@_Peremalfait breeze bottling co owns it. It’s from Illinois I get it Room the store and local restaurants
About 10 years ago, I found a place on line that would ship a case of Frostie to me, so I ordered it. When I got it, I was 100% disappointed, as it was nothing like it was in the 1950's.
I actually got my nickname from TAB cola. Their commercial jingle said "You're not my 'diet' anything -you're my Tab". I used to drink it , and my Mother would sing the jingle to me in her silly, baby-talk way (We used to talk that way to each other). I laughed every time she sang it. Pretty soon, she just started CALLING me 'Tab'. The nickname caught on , and my family members call me that to this day.
Tab Hunter was a popular actor and heart throb backbin the 60s
I worked at McDonalds and fat women would come in and order a big mac, large frys, a apple or cherry pie & a cone & a Tab. I had a hard time not rolling my eyes.
My brother worked at a fast-food place for a while. He said if someone ordered 4 or 5 burgers and 4 or 5 drinks, it was for a
group, but if they ordered 4 or 5 burgers and ONE drink, they were going to eat the whole order! Hard to keep from laughing,
he said.
I used to walk to the corner grocery store and get a Vernon soda and a big chunk of beef jerky for a quarter, loved it!
Wasn't Vernon the first mega caffeine soda?
@@pagodakid Maybe that why I was so hyper when I was a kid!
All of these sodas on a level still exist. Cracker Barrel (along with parts of the east coast) still holds Frosties along with other Monarch Beverage products. Tab can be found in Vermont specifically at the Vermont country store.
I love the Vermont Counrry Store. They have a lot of stuff I haven't seen in ages. Sour cherry candies, Gee Your Hair Smells terrific shampoo.. I've ordered stuff from their catalogue
Our favorite back in the 1970s was the black cherry pop from The Pop Shoppe here in Canada. They still make it! My cousin worked there in the 1970s and got arrested for smuggling cases of pop out the back door to his friends. He spent two months in jail for it.
Black cherry from Pop Shoppe was the best pop I ever drank in my life! I was a kid when I drank it but I feeling I'd still like it.
The Pop Shoppe was the best 😆
Eddie Shack. "Clear the shoppe, I want some pop."
We had Pop Shoppe in Washington state in the 70's. Loved the glass bottles and mix-and-match purchasing.
Fresca was my favorite diet soda, and Tab. They didn't taste like diet sodas, like the crap they make today. And the base at bottom of the 2 liters, I forgot about that.
I just recently had a Frostie's root beer and omg the flavor profile is perfect. Very reminiscent of those root beer barrel hard candies. I found them in the "top shelf soda" area.
I wish I knew where to get it, it was terrific.
@@ApartmentKing66 Southeast US Harris Teeter/Kroger~ Good luck & cheers!
I had my first TAB in the late 60's and have always loved it, I wish they would bring it back!
I loved Tab. It didn't try to taste like any other soda it just tasted like Tab. Diet Rite cola was like that too.
Love this channel guys, one soda I didn’t see in this video was my FAVORITE soda of all time…WELCHES GRAPE SODA
Looking at a full bottle of Welches Watermelon now. A full unopened 12oz bottle.
Loved Welches Grape Soda! That was all I drank for a long time for sodas.
I remember buying that out of an old machine outside a corner store in Oakland, Maryland back in the 80's. Damn it good
Squirt, Fresca and TAB the one calorie soda. Love them. If I find them I buy them. Jolt got me thru many all nighters in college. 😊
Thank you!
Fresca was my grandma’s favorite.
Yes- Fresca even in Canada🇨🇦
I can remember this soda machine Despenser which worked like this, 1. Drop in a dime. 2. a wax coated cup would drop down. 3. ice would drop into the cup. 4. the soda would pour into the cup. did I mention that ten cents ?
Holy crap... I had no idea you couldn't get Slice anymore.
I also remember Pepsi Free, marketed as a caffeine-free version of Pepsi. Not sure when it went off the market though.
I also remember thinking Blue Pepsi and the still-existent Cherry 7up would be good for baby showers: Blue Pepsi if the baby was a boy, Cherry 7up for a baby girl, or both if the gender was unknown.
Pepsi Free is still manufactured and marketed, but to a smaller degree than it once was.
And it is now called Caffeine-Free Pepsi.
A yes, Pepsi Free. I remember it was a play on words joke in Back To The Future when Marty asked for one at the drug store soda fountain. lol
What was the pepsi that had a lemon taste? I thought it was pepsi free but I must be wrong.
I remember a Dog & Suds near my house growing up. It was a drive in restaurant like A&W used to be. They had great root beer & hotdogs.
-Tab was disgusting 🤢
-Aspen was yummy
-New Coke was not good at all
-Jolt… not so tasty
- Crystal Pepsi… meh
There was a red cream soda named, Big Red. I loved it.
I loved Dog & Suds. We went there all the time when I was a kid. And Tab was the worst soda I've ever had.
In a Frosty Mug!
I remember Jolt from working swing and night shift at the factory in the 80's. It kept you awake, that's for sure!
@@bumbleguppy oh right! I forgot about Jolt ⚡️ lol
Soda was a treat when I was a kid. They had the store brand in cans. Don't see them nowadays. And they don't have all the flavors. I haven't seen a wild black cherry soda in years!
I was fond of Bubble Up.
I remember as a kid making fun of all those dieters that went to Church’s Fried Chicken(or was it Pioneer?) & ordering greasy chicken with a TAB!!
Pioneer Chicken. Nice.
Loved Bubble Up!
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one
Bubble up is still around (at least it was about a year ago) just hard to find
@@Nick_4i I'd love to find it and see if it tastes as good as I remember.
Sierra Mist was replaced with Starry this year. Also, Frostie root beer is available from a few specialty bottlers you can find online, and we still have Slice in the pnw. Jolt and Surge can be purchased at a lot of candy stores like Candytime as well.
No way, sierra mist is finally gone? I thought it was terrible but it stayed alive for far longer than expected
I would have to look but Frostie can be bought at grocery stores where I live.
Sierra Mist is still around, but it is getting harder to find as Pepsi eliminates. Starry is a horrible beverage. I can't see that sticking around, but then again, it's probably aimed at a different demographic than me.
There was actually a soda that was tried between Slice and Sierra Mist called Storm.. it was a Lemon Lime drink that was different from Slice and also had caffeine in it. It was only available in test markets including Denver, Indianapolis, Omaha, San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. I first tried it on a trip to Las Vegas and I loved it. I lived like 45 minutes from the Philadelphia market area and I made a twice monthly trip to a supermarket to stock up. I miss Storm
☝️Storm was the BEST! Still my favorite lemon/lime drink. So strange and sad they discontinued it.
This is not what you'd call a 'soda' but who remembers Chocolate soldier? Used to get it back in the mid to late 60's and early 70's. We used to visit family in a small rural town in Mississippi and the first thing we did when we got there was to go to the local gas station which had an old style soda vending machine, we'd anxiously put our dime in it, pull the bottle out, then enjoy (what we thought) was the best tasting drink any kid could imagine. Oh, the days gone by.... Thanks for the memories Recollection Road!
Chocolate Soldier was the stuff! And it tasted better if you could get it to almost freezing
We have an old advertising piece that has the chocolate soldier on it !!!
Is it like Yoo Hoo? Loved that stuff
I remember Chocolate Soldier - we got it out of one of those chest coolers -
Chocola!
I loved Aspen! Very refreshing! ❤
The 7UP tag line "Never had it, never will" was not introduced with 7UP Gold in the 80's 2:07 but had been used by 7UP in general since the 70's. Also, New Coke was not discontinued immediately after Classic Coke was brought back 2:48 but remained on the market for seventeen years
I am fond of "Make 7up yours."
original 7up contained lithium as a mood enhancer
@Jimbo 0117 seventeen years too long imo.
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto Todays Coke is more new than classic!
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto I don't get this mentality. I mean, assuming you tasted it and didn't like it, fine, you don't have to buy it. Clearly it stuck around because some people did. It was just Coke but sweeter, like Pepsi, and the reason they made it was because in blind taste tests people generally liked the sweeter flavored cola more.
I remember a grape cola in the early/mid-1970's called Purple Passion. It came in a psychedelic color patterned can.
Canada Dry product. Along with Cactus cooler. Tahitian treat. Etc.
Me too. Used to save the rainbow cans from Purple Passion.
Wow! Purple Passion. I thought I was the only one who would remember that. I had a can in my lunch pail back in 2nd grade field trip. 1971
Loved it!😂
I miss Swiss creme soda, purple passion and cactus cooler❤
Anybody remember Tiger Red? Awesome creme soda in early 70's. Never mentioned in softdrink videos. I absolutely loved it.
I use to drink that and a similar drink called Red Lightning
I remember riding bikes with my cousin in 1972 down to the gas station to get a bottle of Big Red.
A friend of mine and I were discussing the absolute glory that was Tiger Red a few weeks ago!
I remember a kickapoo joy pop. Crazy think is there's a state park in my area and what people called kickapoo joy around here wasn't pop.
I always liked the drawing of the tiger.
I miss Fanta red cream soda. That was SOOO good to me.
I absolutely miss Slice. I remember it coming in every color of the rainbow. Red was my favorite, with orange a close second.
Orange Crush!
That's one of my favorite sodas
REM 🎉😂🎉
Still make it its very popular
I had a Crush on Orange Crush and wrote the company when I was quite young, they sent me all kinds of stuff.
Another great video by Recollection Robo! 😎👍🤖
I remember all the hubbub when Coke changed their recipe. And Jolt….I’d forgotten about that one.
That Coke thing darn near started a civil war!!