Unavailable sodas you have known and loved

http://store4.yimg.com/I/soda-pop_1724_4471092

Apparently they still make it in Mexico, but that doesn't help me.

Oooh, I've found this:

http://store4.yimg.com/I/soda-pop_1724_4524815

DELAWARE PUNCH CONCENTRATE!!

*face lights up*

Maybe there *is* a way of getting some Delaware Punch around here, even if I end up producing it myself. Now all I need to do is find a good recipe for onion rings and make myself a burger and ta-da, I'm 10 again.

http://www.locosoda.com/

but seriously, isn't 1480%, like, illegal?

And Mint Snapple Iced Tea... I haven't found it in a while, but that went grebt with a turkey club in August.

"Emergen-C" to thread. I once did one of these to replace electrolytes on a hike. I felt *very good* for most of the day.

Whoa, that is funny. At one sandwich place in my town I always get a turkey club and a mint snapple.

I remember 'enjore" a raspberry coke product that was available in africa when i was a kid. no idea what it was called (or if it was available) elsewhere

also, pocari sweat *does* rock my taste buds

yeah, i saw that picture but i didn't know that they still made Frank's (for all i knew, the Frank's fridge could've been stocked with Cokes and Pepsis).

not that Frank's was all that ... it was good, but not great (kinda like Philadelphia itself, but i digress!)

Anyway this totally steals my thunder I was gonna start an "indie Pop" pic thread. Tho that's not the same as unavailable I guess. But still largely redundant.

TAB Clear :(

http://www.oksoda.freewebsitehosting.com/ok2.jpg
http://www.oksoda.freewebsitehosting.com/okcan.jpg

Me: "What's wrong?"
Guard: "We're picking up a lot of organics and a lot of metals. And your backpack is REALLY heavy. What's in there?"
Me: "Two pounds of pastrami and 24 cans of Moxie."
Guard: "... what?"
Me: "Two pounds of pastrami and 24 cans of Moxie. I live in the South. I grew up here. I gotta stock up."
Guard opens bag.
Guard: "That's a lot of pastrami."
Me: "Yeah."
Guard: "That's a LOT of Moxie."
Me: "Yeah."
Guard: "All right, have a nice flight."

Also, brg30, have you checked places like movie theaters and fast-food places for Mr Pibb? In a lot of places (like Louisiana), it isn't available in cans or bottles because of Coca-Cola's distribution agreement w/ Dr Pepper, but they can still wholesale the syrup.

I also miss the sodas Snapple used to do (and maybe still do, just not here), long before the ads and the Seinfeld and so on -- clear cola in particular.

http://www.hdew.com/content/images/cne.gif

I miss this more though:

http://www.pww.on.ca/shoppe2.jpg

http://members.tripod.com/jostaholic/josta.gif

http://www.sodashop.com/misc/m178.JPG

Frosty Rootbeer
Soho Soda
Rock Creek Soda
White Rock Soda

Moxie (in a variety of flavors) is available in a few specialty shoppes in California... in fact there is one joint on Market Street (near Gough) in San Francisco that sells a bunch of sodas I thought were extinct! The next time I am in that town I send the name through to this thread with a list of sodas they have on hand!

yeah yeah yeah! Walking around Mt. Pleasant! Madams Organ! Gotta blow your ears out, baby! I grew up in Shaw on Logan Circle... Woo woo! Rock Creek strawberry soda used to get me through those sweltering summers... also the lime! Good... fruity... and (most importantly) CHEAP!

Dee, I don't know where you are, but Damiano's in LA has Delaware Puncha and bunch of other obscure sodas. Maybe they can tell you where to get it. My old boss used to love it.

Mr Pizza (aka "Damiano's")
412 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (323) 658-7611

See, we're totally not living in a monoculture. We've all got different beverage access. (Note: I haven't read that thread. The voice you hear comes straight outta my ass.)

Here's a REAL obscure one - Pommac. Allegedly champagne flavored.

(I shouldn't dis anyone's soda, but it was the first thing I drank after a three-day bus ride in the middle of the summer. My mouth assembled a posse from the rest of my face, tried to beat the crap out of me, and I placated it with a Super Jumbo Fanta Red from McDonald's, which was like treating a headache by fucking yourself in the ass with a rock.)

But it wasn't a match for Cherry Crush. That stuff is carbonated Nyquil! It was my absolute favorite as a kid but I haven't seen it in probably 12 years.

Nicole: Jolt is all over the place, wtf?

Felicity, thank you so much for the information! I will definitely initiate contact with this individual ASAP.

Tep, I find it interesting that you had access to Delaware Punch back in April when I was thinking about how long it'd been since last I saw it.

Oh yes, and Fresca's all over the place locally. Almost any convenience store will have it, as will any supermarket. Good thing, because that's one of my favorite sodas. It's got this great grapefruity sort of taste to it. Yay for Fresca!

Dee, re: Delaware Punch -- I have a feeling it's popular/available in New Orleans for alcohol-related reasons. Delaware Punch + two kinds of rum comes a lot closer to tasting like a hurricane than Hawaiian Punch or Kool Aid do. (Although I always made them with Kool Aid Tropical Punch, Parrot Bay, and Cap'n Morgan's.)

My favorites have always been Squirt and Moxie. Neither is particularly easy to come by, but not impossible.

I was just thinking about New York Seltzers not long ago. When I lived in Riverside, CA back in '86/7ish, I remember they were rather hip. Maybe?

i long for Skeleteen Sodas, which aren't available around here anymore.

It really is. It's supposedly a "bitter apertif" in Italy, but it's absolutely foul.

If you absolutely must give into temptation, you can sample this (and a great many other rare sodas) at the end of the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta - with the price of admission you get all you can drink at the end of the tour, where there are wicked fountains that arc soda into your cup from ten feet away. They also have a domestic variants fountain with rarer American flavors (mostly odd Fantas and whatnot) and then an international room with crazy sodas you'd never dream of. Beverly is one of them. In any case, it's a giant $15 million ad for Coke, but perhaps worth one visit nonetheless.

SunDrop
Vernor's Cream Soda

Imagine the colors and flavor range.

http://www.novamex.com/images/jarritos.jpg

The Pineapple flavor is the best.

Also, Sioux City Sarsparilla.
Can't get it here.

First off, I had Beverly. It was abyssmal.

>>cherokee red pop. probably partially discontinued due to racial insensitivity - picture of big indian chief on bottle. <<

I found a can of it randomly at a RC Cola (!) machine in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania this past year. Its still being bottled under the banner of Cadbury/Schweps (sp?).

>>Also Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale.<<

Polar Beverages in New England makes a version I think is actually superior. Really solid stuff.

Apparently, for those in the new england area, there's an independant bottler of soda in New Britain, CT whom I'm gonna have to check out. Since he uses pure sugar, I'll go ahead and make the suggestion to visit (Adams Soda, I think) anyhow.

-
Alan

squirt seems to be hard to find around my parts (boston).

Aaaaaaaaanyway... the other sodas I miss:
• Original New York Seltzer: a treasure of my childhood
• Apple Slice (though the Mexican soda Sidral Mundet is a damn fine substitution)
• Clearly Canadian and its whole family of beverages, which seem to have left the state of Arkansas. Favorites were blackberry, strawberry and peach, but I also remember more distinctive flavors like loganberry, the clear iced tea, and diet Key lime. They made Orbitz (but no longer, I guess), and still produce and distribute a recent object of affection — Trè Limone, a terrific little dry ginger and lemon soda I last saw on a "Will & Grace" rerun.
• Pepsi Clear, the official drink of the Rose Bud Rambler Band 1993 Presidential Inauguration Performance Field Trip. Good times.
• Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale, which was a close second to the Pepsi Clear.
• Schweppes Raspberry Ginger Ale, which I once could find by the liter bottle. Sadly, all good things must come to an end.
• Cappio (yes I know it's not a soda, but still...), which set the stage in my senior year of high school for a coffee addiction later in life.

Other drinks...
• OK: I seem to remember this as New Coke with Sunkist added. Not a fan of either. Can you imagine how I felt about them mixed?
• Cheerwine: I don't think I got to try this, but last I saw, it floated around some Restoration Hardware store locations.
• NuGrape & Welch's Grape: Had both of these growing up, and can still find Welch's, but will always feel they are best served over vanilla ice cream.
• Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Soda: Saw it TODAY! It's at Cordell's Delicatessen in Little Rock. And I can't imagine what in the world it must taste like.

Dr Brown's Cel-Ray is great stuff -- like Sprite or 7-Up, but with celery instead of citrus, which isn't as nuts as it sounds. It's a very light taste, which disappoints a lot of people trying it for the first time. (I grew up with it, so it's never had the novelty value for me.) Ideal with a pastrami sandwich on rye with whole-grain mustard.

Cheerwine's great, too! A Carolina soda. More or less cherry, just not the same cherry flavoring as most cherry sodas (it predates the third-party development of flavoring agents which resulted in the taste-sameness of a lot of regional or storebrand sodas).

I gotta big up WINK. http://www.one-mans-junk.com/sodacanlibrary/Canada%20Dry3/Wink9a10.jpg
Although to this day I had no idea it was known as a 'Grapefruit beverage'. It never said that on the bottles I remember. I found an old Wink ad on Google which had the tagline: "The sassy one from Canada!". haha

B-b-but surely that's you Rob!! ;-)

(Sars is great!)

Corona lemonade

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

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

Jarritos: Toronja

Sidret Mundal

FUCKING DELICIOUS. Just stocked the fridge with both.

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

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)

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

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.

(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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

i have never heard of any of these sodas

i came to the soda game late

Miss this so much:

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

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

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.

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

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

can't get hank gupton anymore either

Even if Canada Dry's Wink is still around, I haven't seen it in years. And of course the crazy cool crosshatched glass bottles are long gone.

I was a huge Josta fan.

Quatro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gTUshlWFG0
Apparently made from real fruit juice, even though it tasted of chemicals, was neon green, and looked like a spoof product from Max Headroom made real.

I'm craving Vernors today.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cUj9_uwP7pM/UYL3uqqS9mI/AAAAAAAABSA/_rcirw6sVUk/s1600/Vernor%27s+Cap-2A+Canvas+16x16.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/jostachick/images/JostaStory.jpg

There's still Wink here - always in West Indian restaurants. I think they changed it though, the last time I had one it tasted weird.

They changed one letter.

are you thinking of ting?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ting_grapefruit_soda_300ml_DG.jpg

Oh man I love Ting, but have not seen it in ages. They used to have it in little glass bottles at a now-defunct Giant supermarket in DC.

I always have Ting at my local Trini joint. Trouble is, I need more than one to put the jerk chicken fire out.

Green Coke!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/15/202385313/GREEN-COKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZaMOt8gQl4

Vernors still exists, it's just scarce here in NYC (more's the pity). However, may I commend to you Goodo ginger ale which is at a lot of bk supermarkets? It has fuckin bite.

Ha, there's always Ting at the nearby Price Chopper here in Brampton, ON. (Nearly bought one Sunday; settled for ginger beer instead.)

Yeah, I can get Vernor's any time here in Cleveland, and often do!

in orbit IIRC you are a native Michigander, yeah?

Yes!!!!!! You can't get Vernors in New York, for some distribution-related reason. Motor City bar used to carry it for $2 a can which is robbery, but at least they had it. I don't have another supplier.

Apparently you can order Vernors by the case and have it delivered to yr house, I just never got in the swing of that.

If I see it I'll hip you. Pls to do the same.

I think they carry Vernors at Eastern District in greenpoint. I grew up drinking it on trips to visit family in Cleveland. It's not as good as I remember! However it makes an amazing ice cream float w/ vanilla.

For a while there would be a few cans in the cooler at La Cocina on 8th Ave, don't know if that's still the case.

XP THE FLOAT WITH VANILLA IS CALLED A BOSTON COOLER.

Meantime, this is the ginger beer 2 liter I was talkin bout. I get it at our local Key Foods:

http://www.good-o.com/goodo.htm

Oh, huh! I've never tried that stuff!

http://www.undergrounddetroit.com/2010/03/the-boston-cooler-a-detroit-original/

Don't believe that "blended drink" nonsense, a Boston cooler is scoops of vanilla ice cream with Vernors poured over them, and it is beautiful.

I'd like to be able to get Peardrax more easily in the UK. It used to be hugely popular here but is apparently now only made in Trinidad.

ah yeah I was totally thinking of TING! Wink is the shitty fake Ting

U R CRAZY ;) RULEZ

(Original Wink, at least...apparently the formula was indeed changed)

Anyone remember a full line of fruit-flavored sodas called Patio? Strawberry, pineapple, etc. Apparently made by Pepsi and dropped by the '80s.

Also, Pepsi Light, which was a half-sugar, half-artificially-sweetened cola with a twist of lemon, sold in the northeast US in the '70s and more widespread in the '80s, but then dropped, it managed to be palatable to those used to full-calorie fizzy drinks. Not to be confused with the Pepsi Light currently sold in some countries in Europe and Central/South America, which is just Diet Pepsi by another name.

Vernors still widely sold and quite popular in my area, as is another oddball, Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge, which like Moxie you'll either love or hate.

"Mad Men" fans surely know of Patio - didn't realize it was real until now!

(As opposed to Pepsi Light, which I similarly never encountered irl on this side of the border but definitely remember it being heavily TV advertised when it was introduced.)

Anybody know what the deal is with Nehi nowadays? It seems they still offer the mass-market version that's actually kind of gross, but there's also a specialist version with glass bottles and retro labels (and maybe a vintage recipe) that seems to be hard to come by.

Nehi is now owned by Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and they restrict the selling and distribution of Nehi throughout the country through their bottlers. Unless its bottled in your area you need to find an alternate source as the bottlers are not allowed to ship the products out of their licensed region.

http://www.beveragesdirect.com/Assets/reviews/nehi-group-2.jpg

I can't answer your question.

It's strange that on the corporate site, Nehi isn't displayed with any of the other brands and when you scroll down to the list at the bottom here, you can't even click on the word.

Also, wtf are you foreingers doing to our nehi.

http://www.rccolainternational.com/images/uploads/main/22/bottle-largehero__large.png

Yeah, I noticed that a few minutes ago. Unacceptable!

Hmm, perhaps mass market Nehi isn't as available as I'd thought. It seems to be scarce online as well and I honestly couldn't tell you for certain the last time I saw it while grocery shopping, because I had no intention of buying any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvo2Hddqg3I

I still see mass-market Nehi. Haven't picked up any because, well, it's not like we're talking about Grapette here.

What i've learned by clicking myself down a rabbit hole is that the glass bottle/cane sugar Nehi varieties are only bottled by one North Carolina bottler and they don't have a website and they don't do mailorder, so if I want some I'm either going to have to pay Amazon/eBay prices or have a North Carolina friend ship me some. That's crazy.

I've also been told that Piggly Wiggly still has all the mass market Nehi I could ever want, but my local PW is scarier than any haunted house.

what is the best grape soda you folks have ever had

i'm hankering for a good grape soda

the best and only one is a jamaican import brand whose name i cant remember but is available in areas of london with a substantial caribbean population

http://i.imgur.com/NpXCtLv.jpg

Gatorade knockoff mixed with honey that was marketed both in Mainland China and overseas Chinatowns around late 90s / early 2000s

Apparently went bankrupt

My friend told me that somebody had bought the name and started making them but I never made it to a store in China that was selling the new versh

The green LUCOZADE XTRA variant sold in HK was the closest I've found

http://i.imgur.com/dNnwa2b.gif

:(

the best and only one is a jamaican import brand whose name i cant remember but is available in areas of london with a substantial caribbean population

― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Monday, October 27, 2014 5:21 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, that's helpful. ;)

Still thinking of Schweppes Schizan and the mixes Finches were doing in the mid 90s very nice fruit based stuff.

if ever you are harlesden, you will find it

ALERT ERIC H. ALERT:

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, July 24, 2013 5:14 AM (1 year ago)

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

― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Wednesday, July 24, 2013 5:14 AM (1 year ago)

it is still available. i bought some 6 months ago at the crazy candy place out south of the cities somewhere.

Jim's Apple Farm

i'm hankering for a good grape soda

Puck's is truly great

fuck

http://www.pucksbeverage.com/

Apparently, and you won't hear me say this to often, but there is a wonderful place in Texas called the Made Rite Company.

They bottle and distribute Peach Nehi.

Now, if you want the Dr. Pepper made with cane sugar, you have to drive 250 miles to the west to Dublin, Texas.

When my grandma from Chicago used to visit our small town as a kid, she'd bring a sixer of Kayo, which was basically a chocolate-flavored soda. Surely vile for adults, but I savored it like a fine wine.

the best and only one is a jamaican import brand whose name i cant remember but is available in areas of london with a substantial caribbean population

― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Monday, October 27, 2014 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.americansweets.co.uk/ekmps/shops/statesidecandy/images/british-ka-sparkling-black-grape-flavour-drink-330ml-case-of-24-price-marked-49p--23688-p.jpg

^not sure this is actually imported, in spite of being sold in the quote-unquote ethnic aisle in the nearest Tesco to me, but happy to rep for it anyway

not that one

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e5C7CYNvMpA/R8shhRZ7jSI/AAAAAAAAATo/UDn9hb2yzd8/s200/Ting.JPG

I've got my doubts about this story, but kinda interesting in that generic store mix anyway:

In the late 80s, Grapette International's chairman, Brooks Rice, met Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart. Without wasting words, Walton told him, "I want Grapette in my stores." Rice explained that although he couldn't provide the use of the brand names in the United States, he could offer the flavors that once made the famous brands. Rice also personally pledged that some day, he would fulfill Walton's request to have Grapette and Orangette in his stores.

Soon, Wal-Mart was using some of the authentic Grapette Company flavor profiles in its Sam's Choice line of signature sodas. These flavors fit perfectly within the Sam's Choice brand, offering innovative, quality products at a better value than the leading national brands. But it always felt like something was missing — specifically, the famous Grapette and Orangette brand names.

In early 2000, Grapette International was able to purchase the U.S. rights to the Grapette and Orangette trademarks, finally reuniting the flavors with their brand names. Now the third generation of founder Paul May's family has given Wal-Mart what Sam Walton requested almost twenty years earlier.

In 2005, Sam's Choice Grapette and Sam's Choice Orangette became available exclusively in Wal-Mart stores nationwide. The drinks' quality is reinforced by their nationally-recognized brands at an exceptional value to the consumer. We invite you to enjoy Sam's Choice Grapette and Orangette today — Thirsty or Not!

I mean, no joke, this stuff was the shit.

http://i.imgur.com/opexRIA.png

http://i.imgur.com/NMLdGaY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/m2BfMDT.jpg

Just look at that 10 oz "King Size".

i like the forceful nature of the "Thirsty or Not" slogan

"Not in the mood for a soda? Well fuck you, bucko, you're drinking this either way."

Grapette was indeed the shit. Mmmmm.

xp lol

legitimate grape

can you still get it at wal-mart? i've been to that place once in my life, but i'd go again for a nice grape soda.

It's listed on the Walmart website as "in store only".

This might still be around, but I haven't been to New Orleans lately: Big Shot. Of of my favorite things when I was walking to Jazzfest was always to stop at a gas station and buy a very cheap (I think they were 25 cents) pineapple soda. Probably no better than Shasta's or Faygo's or any other fake pineapple taste, but it was the ritual, and they were local.

I'd go to Walmart to try a Sam's Choice Grapette, but… boy am i skeptical.

Sam's Cola tastes like 87 octane, with a hint of citrus.

I haven't gone back to read the history, but I'm inferring from Rice explained that although he couldn't provide the use of the brand names in the United States, he could offer the flavors that someone sold out the domestic U.S. market.

Which is pretty interesting to see on the image search where we go from this:

http://i.imgur.com/ljIysSN.png

http://i.imgur.com/DQNEOjK.jpg

to this:

http://i.imgur.com/LwYYV7t.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8MOerFV.jpg

Ooo La la

dan, big shot is still around. pineapple, strawberry, all the essential flavors. my favorite big shot experience (besides a clerk at rite aid encouraging me to mix pineapple big shot and malibu) was at the early-00s (katrina-destroyed) local chain chicken box. their motto was "tastes like ya mama's!" and they sold chicken (5pc for $1.98, legs and thighs only), limp french fries with salt AND pepper, and big shot, 24 hours a day, through bulletproof glass. eaten hot, it was the best fried chicken in the city. eaten cold and you prayed for death. but yeah, 3am chicken and pineapple big shot eaten in a parking lot is peak regional soda experience.

i would also fuck with a grape soda right now.

Thanks, Adam! I just did a google earth check, and the station I always used to stop at is still there on the corner of Esplanade and Claiborne. It had a Big Shot vending machine outside with all the flavors.

this thread was already making me thirsty, now adam's talk of 3 AM fried chicken is making me hungry too. damn you.

dan if you are stopping at esplanade and claiborne i hope you are going in to manchu (the purple cinderblock building) to get some chicken wings.

did we ever determine what the best currently-and-widely available grape soda is? i need to make a stop on the way home

tempted to just mix some seltzer and this cough syrup i have in my medicine cabinet

sorry, syzzurp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Kola#mediaviewer/File:Inca_Kola_Slogan_El_Sabor_del_Peru.jpg

woops

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Inca_Kola_Slogan_El_Sabor_del_Peru.jpg/1280px-Inca_Kola_Slogan_El_Sabor_del_Peru.jpg

not sure how "unavailable" it is though, i do seem to see it in latin markets here and there in the states

Manchu's duly noted. I already really want to get to Li'l Dizzy's; I'll never leave that intersection.

inca kola is pretty easily available, esp. in mexican/central american groceries

in the USA i mean

yea it's true, i just felt like turning everybody on to inca kola. tbh i'm not even a soda person anymore but i grew up drinking a lot of inca kola

oh yeah, i've tried to eliminate the "empty calories" of soda since i started eating better, and now it's very much a treat rather than a daily thing.

when i went to disney world in i think 2001, there was this pepsi-branded tent thing, called like "the chill zone" or smth like that, where you go through some misty blue tunnels that get increasingly colder which was really nice in the summer florida weather, and at the end you reach this big room filled with soda fountains and sample cups. the sodas were imported from all over the world and there was a watermelon soda from brazil and it was incredible. i haven't been able to find it since. i've had other watermelon sodas but they all do the jones soda thing where there isn't enough flavor syrup and the sharpness of the carbonation is the first thing you taste. i've been missing that soda for half my life.

I found some elderflower Fanta from Hungary or Romania last year when I was in Atlanta -- really good stuff. Unfortunately I didn't see any the next time I was at the same store (Buford Hwy Farmers Mkt).

when i went to disney world in i think 2001, there was this pepsi-branded tent thing, called like "the chill zone" or smth like that, where you go through some misty blue tunnels that get increasingly colder which was really nice in the summer florida weather, and at the end you reach this big room filled with soda fountains and sample cups. the sodas were imported from all over the world and there was a watermelon soda from brazil and it was incredible. i haven't been able to find it since. i've had other watermelon sodas but they all do the jones soda thing where there isn't enough flavor syrup and the sharpness of the carbonation is the first thing you taste. i've been missing that soda for half my life.

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:52 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was this a beautiful dream or reality?

no, that's a real thing, it's at Epcot and it's Coke

Minute Maid Valencia Orange soda was the best orange soda to have ever existed; there has never been an orange soda that has come close to tasting as good as it did.

Does good orange soda even exist anymore??

omg thank you i could've sworn it was pepsi and apparently never tried searching for coke and apparently it's still a thing

i guess the soda was actually from china, or i was actually drinking guarana soda probably not

http://www.guide-to-disney.com/epcot/future-world/photos/club-cool4-big.jpg

"Can we go back to the –"

"NO. I mean, not yet."

I've never been to the Coke experience thing here in ATL, but from what I hear there's an opportunity to sample a bunch of Coke products from around the world until your belly is sloshing as you walk out the door. I may do it one day.

Went here and sat on the polar bear's lap, thankyouverymuch.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3458/3708695307_9a27cba89d.jpg
OG Corr's Ginseng Rush. This stuff had (has?) life-affirming qualities.

But don't take my word for it. Let's hear what the fine folks at Beverages Direct have to say.

"In 1978 it single-handedly created the natural beverage category – it was America’s first functional beverage. Twenty-three ingredients singing a song, at once enchanting and refreshing, still unmatched by any other drink."

Haven't seen it around here since, oh, late 90s.

that ginseng root's got as much subtlety as Joe Camel.

Bought some Grapette at Walmart the other day, btw. Much more subtle "grape" flavoring than I remember. Would drink again.

My glass bottle Nehi quest has been successful! I just happened to be in the BP station down the street from my house after filling up my car and noticed they sell it there. I'm currently indulging in a bottle of peach, but I'm saving the bottle of grape for later.

I wanna track down and drink a Delaware Punch in honor of Hank Gupton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Punch

Vernors got nixed from all the American groceries I was fond of and I really havent seen it since. Maybe a decade ago. Does it exist? Wiki page says yeah, sure.

Here in Asia there is a Coca-Cola/coffee hybrid that is a much better cooperation between the two flavors than you'd ever expect. Sponsored Post.

Was it Barista Bros?

https://i.imgur.com/la4h7qD.jpg

As a tourist, I unashamedly drank the shit out of this in Australia a few years ago.

Not read the thread through so may have said a few years ago a Schizandra based thing from I think Schweppes. Was around back in the mid 90s when I was in Dublin.

new york seltzer relaunched in 2015. you can see if it's avail near you!

https://www.newyorkseltzer.com/store-locator/

we've got some vanilla on the shelf at home...for special occasions.