Unavailable sodas you have known and loved

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This is the thread where I finally promote my beverage journal...
In the midst of the LJungle:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_deli/

― J. J. (jjjames), Monday, 1 August 2005 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't seen mello yello here in NZ for years either; my flatmates and I were having a conversation about the ad for it; someone drinks about a litre of it in a single serve, and the label on the bottle was specially angled so it would read horizontally while she/he did so

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

hah i remember that ad only too well. i also remember people trying to copy the girl in the ad and ending up choking most of the drink all over the place

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I suppose drinking a litre of it in one go was my grown up dream; like as soon as I was in control of my life I would eat an entire tin of sweetened condensed milk in a sitting. Haven't managed either yet

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link

What was that Fanta-like orange soft drink with the bits in? It was a 70s one.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link

tang?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah not tang, it was a fizzy drink in a can. Damn, I cant recall the name.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link

what were the bits?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Orange bits, so it was like OJ but fizzy! It was probably called Fab or Wang or Shite or somehting, I dont remember :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link

orangina?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm... that mightve been it... or was that a US soda? I should go google for it.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Tarina? something like that.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

'orangina' is still around and it's excellent. Fizzy soda flavored with orange juice w/ bits of orange. I loved fresca is it really gone? It was always hard to find in California so I'd never know.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link

In Los Angeles try Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Highland Park.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Schweppes Caribbean Lemon

Corona lemonade

― C J (C J), Monday, 1 August 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link

omg LILT! That stuff was tasty!

I trust your Lilt is not this:
http://store1.yimg.com/I/physlabs_1855_231268443
Presumably this product would not be good to drink.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

They sell Fresca at Ralph's

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Wink is still around. My father was always a Wink fan, and somewhat of an obscure soda fan.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Frank's has all but disappeared. Maybe it even has disappeared. It was all downhill once they stopped using glass bottles at some point in the early to mid 90s if I recall correctly.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.root-beer.info/others/images/celray.jpg

― Frank's has, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

they sell that everywhere round here

― huell howser (chaki), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Mello Yello is available in America. I could go to the nearest supermarket and purchase a bottle.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

8I RECALL SOME MORE SODAS IN THE HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA THAT I DRANK AS A CHILD BUT IT SEEMS MOST OF THESE BRANDS EITHER WENT OUT OF BUSINESS OR PULLED BACK TO THE DEEP SOUTH. I HAVE TO GO TO PRENTISS, MISSISSIPPI TO GET ALL FLAVORS OF NEHI BECAUSE TEXAS ONLY SEEMS TO HAVE PEACH. WONDER WHY? GOLDEN AGE WAS A BRAND OF FRUIT FLAVORED DRINKS PLUS COLA AND ROOT BEER AND A 7-UP FLAVOR CALLED " GET UP". THEIR DR. PEPPER WAS CALLED BLACK CHERRY. IN ARKANSAS IN MAGNOLIA I ONCE HAD THE BEST CHERRY SODA CALLED MOUNTAIN VALLEY WILD CHERRY SODA. IT TASTED LIKE SMITH BROTHER'S COUGH DROPS AND COULD HAVE DONE FOR CHERRIES WHAT GRAPETTE DID FOR GRAPES. NO ONE SEEMS TO REMEMBER THIS BRAND IN ARKANSAS. ANOTHER ARKANSAS BRAND I CAN NO LONGER FIND IS A DR. PEPPER " RIP OFF" CALLED R-PEP. (PEPPER SPELLED BACKWARDS). IT WAS WATERED DOWN LIKE DR. WELLS, A DRINK I USED TO ENJOY IN VICTORIA, TEXAS. IT WAS IN IT'S OWN VENDING MACHINES THERE. GRAPETTE IS BACK IN BUSINESS AND STILL TASTES AS GREAT AS EVER AND AVAILABLE AT ALL WAL-MART STORES. TO ME, THIS IS THE SWEET GRANDADDY OF ALL GRAPE SODAS. ONCE YOU DRINK A GRAPETTE YOU WILL NEVER RETURN TO NEHI, WELCHES ETC. WE USED TO HAVE A SORRY GRAPE SODA CALLED TRU-ADE. HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN YEARS. COKE BOUGHT OUT DELAWARE PUNCH AND IT IS AVAILABLE IN EAST TEXAS AND ON TAP AT JAMES CONEY ISLAND HOT DOG RESTAURANTS IN THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA. IN COMPETITION WITH 7-UP WE HAD ONE THAT HAS VANISHED CALLED B-1 LEMON-LIME SODA. AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AT FOREST PARK HIGH SCHOOL IN BEAUMONT,TEXAS IN THE EARLY 1960S I DRANK A GREAT SODA MADE LOCALLY THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF "POPS". THE SLOGAN ON THE BOTTLE WAS "MADE WITH PURE CANE SUGAR". WHO MADE THIS DRINK AND WHY DID IT LEAVE THE EAST TEXAS MARKET? ANOTHER SODA WE LOVED THAT IS NOW LONG GONE WAS A MONARCH PRODUCT OF FRUIT FLAVORED DRINKS THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF SUN CREST. ARE THESE STILL AVAILABLE? HOW ABOUT SUN BRIGHT AND FRUIT BOWL? LATER HANK GUPTON

― HANK GUPTON, Saturday, 17 September 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone know anywhere I can purchase some NuGrape grape soda? We used to buy it for our kids when they were little and they would put salted peanuts in the bottle of soda and they loved it. Now my daughter is expecting and she is craving it after all these years. Any help would be appreciated. We live in North Carolina.

― Wendy T. Carter, Sunday, 18 September 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

That Dr. Brown's celery soda is as gross as expected.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 18 September 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

OK was actually really good, as I recall. Here's a taste of the ad campaign:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970208073828/spleen.mit.edu/ok-old.html

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 18 September 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

SMART! (the chinese watermelon-flavored soda available at "ice station cool" in the future world at epcot center. i'm pretty sure it's not available anywhere else in the states)

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Cheerwine tenth'd!!!

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

there was a restaurant in D.C. (across from theatre where Lincoln got shot) that specialized in tons o' regional sodas (like around 30!!!) - man I miss that place (fried ocra, red beans & rice, cornbread, too = heaven)

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link

right around corner from the old 9:30 club too, so you could go eat there then catch a band you like!

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Even though they are both available:

Jarritos: Toronja

Sidret Mundal

FUCKING DELICIOUS. Just stocked the fridge with both.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

That Dr. Brown's celery soda is as gross as expected.

no way. cel-ray is great! and it hardly tastes anything like celery!

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i still miss pepsi kona. i think i'm the only one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Aspen sounds terrific.

― youn, Monday, 19 September 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, but Okay Cola didn't really live up to it's name. That was fine, though, because the Daniel Clowes designed cans and ad campaign were fantastic, so it all averaged out to Okay.

The question (for me anyway) then becomes: what would a soda packaged and advertised by other of my fave cartoonists taste like?

Fleener Pop?
Gorey Cola?
Gahan-Up?
Woodrinkables?
Kyle Baker-Ade?

The mind reels.

(any similarity between this goofy thought experiment and Sealab's infamous Bebop colas is coincidental)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 September 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i would almost consider moving to europe for fanta citron.

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Monday, 19 September 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Something clicked in my brain today and made me crave this long-gone soda that I didn't even like as a kid.
Hangovers do some weird shit.

http://canmuseum.com/Staging/Images/Cans/27619L.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link

I don't drink pop, but one I remember (out of nostalgia, really) is Clearly Canadian. It was kind of part of my adolescence.

I vaguely remember it coming back into existence (in Canada) for a really short while and I thought I had heard they were going to start making it again, but I never checked and never saw it around anymore.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link

(xpost) I don't think I ever saw/drank Tahiti Treat, but Tahitian Treat is still alive and well and available at Wal-Mart where I live, owned by Dr. Pepper/Snapple.

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/01/69/00/01/0001690001622_500X500.jpg

― Laws, yes! M-O-O-N spells (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link

Oh man I loved Tahiti treat. My #1 on this topic though: Champagne Brus. May have existed only in the upper Midwest.

― Thelema & Louise (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link

This is not a soda, but when I lived in Connecticut briefly I used to buy Silk brand Soy Milk in CHAI flavour and it was the absolute best. Never seen it since, can't find proof of its existence anywhere online. But it was real.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link

I'm unable to shake the feeling that Banana and Peach Lilt never actually happened and I made it up from a half remembered dream but the internet has my back
http://www.visit4ads.com/advert/Lilt-Banana-And-Peach-Lilt/10938e

― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link

Someday I must try the only cola with the recommended daily allowance of weltschmerz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokjKUxoWN8

― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link

Not a soda, but I can't find Champale anywhere. Is it still in production?

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link

i have never heard of any of these sodas

― surm, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link

i came to the soda game late

― surm, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link

Miss this so much:

http://www.candycarrollton.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Blue-Brain-Wash-Skeleteens.jpg

― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link

Made your tongue blue, had jalapeño oil among the ingredients.

― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link

There wasa Schizandra flavoured thing taht I used to get in Dunnes but it disappeared years ago.
Also Finches used to do some more exotic mixed fruit stuff, now they only seem to do orange, lemon, rock shandy(mix of the 2) and ginger. Can't remember what the mix on these old ones was but I really liked them. Like Finches anyway since it seems to have some of the bits in, like non-smooth fruit juices do. & the orange mixes great with black rum.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 06:12 (ten years ago) link

http://www.colawp.com/database/image.php?cola_id=375

apparently you can still get this in france?! stupid france

― j., Wednesday, 24 July 2013 08:02 (ten years ago) link

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