The best extinct drink

[cross blues]

Self-explanatory. Lots of drinks come and go. Some die out for a reason, but the disappearance of others is a mystery... so which one do you miss the most? Personally I miss Crystal Pepsi. It was the best soda/pop ever and I still wonder why Pepsi stopped making it. I used to love Surge too, but for some reason it's not available here any more.

[Charlie]

I belive Slice is still around. I've seen it in the vending machine in my old school. Back on topic, I'd have to say Crystal Pepsi. Van Halen was totally awsome in those comercials, or atleast the song.

[Mynd Hed]

Slightly O/T - Why won't Coke make a regular (i.e. non-diet) lime Coke? Diet soda has no reason to exist.

That said, didn't I hear a while back that Hi-C's Ecto Cooler is going the way of the dodo? Sad news if true.

[PurebloodPrince]

I voted "other", because I grew really fond of O.K. Soda. It was an acquired taste, but once acquired, you didn't want to give it up.

To the person above re: Ecto Cooler...yeah, i think so. :\ My girlfriend really loves it (as do I), but we haven't seen it around at all for a few years now.

You know what I need? A Jolt Orange Blast, but they're impossible to find. :| Wet Planet beverages still made them last I checked, but for some reason, the distributors didn't want to give any up to the local stores around here. That makes me angry, because it's the best orange soda ever. Now I have to settle for Mountain Dew LiveWire, and that's seasonal sofar.

[SSJPabs]

O.K. Soda... because everything's going to be... OKAY!

Ah the memories, loved that one.

[Fone Bone]

They still make Orange Slice.

I had idea that Ecto Cooler was still around. Very tasty.

But I too must go with O.K. Soda. It was great and the ad campaign couldn't be beat if you were a disenfranchised Gen Xer. Tasted good too.

[Tienshin]

I’m gonna have to go with OK Soda as well, though I’m not sure if I ever REALLY liked it. But one thing is certain the commercials were hilarious. Too bad the concept was probably a bit ahead of its time marketing wise. That and it tasted like a mix of Coke and Minute Maid.

[Zero Signal]

As much as I loved Crystal Pepsi (which was alot), I have to go with Surge. Drank it by the gallon when it was around, and I wish they'd bring it back. Plus, how many other drinks have websites dedicated to getting them back ( www.savesurge.org (http://www.savesurge.org/) )?

[JDuncan]

Ecto Cooler, the only beverage with a Ghostbusters connection.

[True Noir]

Virgin is some good stuff. It's not extinct but I don't see it anywhere here in America.

[Lord Dalek]

I'm diappointed. Where's "New Coke"?

[Catlover]

I'll have to go with Surge. Sadly, I have never tasted any of the other drinks.

[purplehairedwonder]

I went with Surge. I loved that drink sooooo much. I got it from the vending machines all the time, and I miss it.

[catwoman]

Virgin is some good stuff. It's not extinct but I don't see it anywhere here in America.
I had some of this the other day. I'd never seen it before. What the heck is it? Does the record company make it?

[Lord Dalek]

Technically Surge isn't extinct. It's just regressed back into Mello Yello.

[Fone Bone]

I'm diappointed. Where's "New Coke"?
Probably it wasn't there because most people disliked the taste. As a young kid though, I couldn't tell the difference.

[Master Moron]

What's Pepsi Kona?

[Cartman]

I decided to go with Crystal Pepsi. It really wasn't any different from regular Pepsi. It was just clear.

I remember Surge. I believe it came out when I was a freshman in high school. I remember a truck coming to my school and handing Surge out to all the kids.

[Tapout]

I have to go with Surge. Not because I like it, as it tastes like Mountain Dew mixed with goat urine, but because it only cost a quarter when it came out, as opposed to 60 cents for everything else. Being a broke high school student at the time, the choice wasn't that hard.

[True Noir]

I had some of this the other day. I'd never seen it before. What the heck is it? Does the record company make it?
I always used to drink Virgin when I went to Asia. I really don't know much about it except for the fact that it taste good. Where did you have it? Did you like it?

[Youko Recca]

crystal meth pepsi.

[HumanoidTyphoon]

That said, didn't I hear a while back that Hi-C's Ecto Cooler is going the way of the dodo? Sad news if true.I think they've just renamed it probably due to people not knowing who slimer is.=(

I say Huggies Does anyone know what those are?

[Mynd Hed]

I think they've just renamed it probably due to people not knowing who slimer is.=(
Again, sad if true, but at least then the tasty beverage would still be around, although they'll probably name it something lame like "Hi-C Xtreme Underground."

[EinBebop]

The mystery is uncovered:

The Ecto Cooler Bible (http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0822/)

Or if you don't want to read, it's now called:
Shoutin' Orange TangerineThe only difference is the dyes.

[Daredevil_2003]

The mystery is uncovered:

The Ecto Cooler Bible (http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0822/)

Or if you don't want to read, it's now called:
Shoutin' Orange TangerineThe only difference is the dyes.Woah! I gotta go try to find some of that! lol :p TBH, I've never had Ecto-Cooler or "Screamin' Monkey Tangerine" or whatever they call it, but after this, I have to try some.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Technically Sunkist soda isn't extinct - I'd say more like endangered - but I miss it all the same. The one store that I knew was carrying it didn't have any the last time. :sad: 'Course, they didn't have any Mountain Dew Code Red either (which they usually do), so I guess they might have just been temporarily out of stock or something.

For those of you who have never had Sunkist soda...you poor, poor things. It's an orange soda, like Orange Slice or Fanta, but somehow it tastes much MUCH better.

[Chris Wood]

Welch's strawberry and peach. At least, I haven't seen them in years.

[True Noir]

Technically Sunkist soda isn't extinct - I'd say more like endangered - but I miss it all the same. The one store that I knew was carrying it didn't have any the last time. :sad: 'Course, they didn't have any Mountain Dew Code Red either (which they usually do), so I guess they might have just been temporarily out of stock or something.

For those of you who have never had Sunkist soda...you poor, poor things. It's an orange soda, like Orange Slice or Fanta, but somehow it tastes much MUCH better.
Serioulsy? You don't have Sunkist in any stores near you? Wow... I have a whole 6 months supplie of Sunkist in my garage. And I agree. Sunkist is way better than Fanta.

[Sandoz]

Ah, Surge. I remember it well.

[PurebloodPrince]

Technically Sunkist soda isn't extinct - I'd say more like endangered - but I miss it all the same. The one store that I knew was carrying it didn't have any the last time. :sad: 'Course, they didn't have any Mountain Dew Code Red either (which they usually do), so I guess they might have just been temporarily out of stock or something.

For those of you who have never had Sunkist soda...you poor, poor things. It's an orange soda, like Orange Slice or Fanta, but somehow it tastes much MUCH better.
Okay, let's clear this extinction thing up.

Sometimes the availablitiy of sodas depends on region and distribution. I.e., Mr. Pibb isn't regionally available (as far as I know) in the Northeast--but it's all over here on the West Coast. I'd never heard of Mr. Pibb until I came out here (for those who know not of it, it takes like Dr. Pepper, even has the same color labelling/design; it's not a wholly generic soda, like a store soda brand, but it's a pretty close "replica" of Dr. Pepper).

Sunkist is not endangered, by any means. It's in full production by Dr. Pepper/7-Up. They even have a website (http://www.sunkistsoda.com). :cool: I've had it on the East Coast, and now it's here on the West Coast. It could be a matter of distributors trying to guess what'd sell more and where.

Welch's strawberry and peach. At least, I haven't seen them in years.
I've an empty of Welch's Strawberry Soda right next to my slovenly-kept bed area here. It's readily available at our corner store, as is Welch's Pineapple and Grape.

In all of my 30 years, I've never seen Welch's Peach Soda, though. o_O

Another case of distribution woes comes out of a story for my neverending quest for Jolt Orange Blast.

My old corner store (when I lived in S.F.) got Jolt Orange Blast all the time back in '99 and '00. However, towards the end of 2000 or so, the store stopped getting it for a while, and the proprietor said that they weren't making it anymore. Impossible (and heartbreaking!) that had to be, because as for me, I seriously need the caffeine; otherwise, I'd get some major migraines (if I didn't have my Jolt, which has the most caffeine aside from Mountain Dew of the top tiers of soda brands, I had to take my pills...and Jolt Orange satisifed both that and my thrist). I went on the website and looked, and sure enough, JOB wa still being produced; showed it to the proprietor of the corner store, and he said he didn't know what was going on. So I wrote Wet Planet Beverages and asked them. They said that sometimes they just don't distribute to certain areas, or that they cut/move distribution, so that sometimes certain stores just can't order a specific soda (sales, maybe? I don't know, because JOB was a pretty big seller for that corner store). The woman who wrote me back also said she'd see what she could do for me re: the corner store and its distributor.

Well, for a while after that, the store was able to get a regular supply of JOB, but then it died down, and the dang distributor cut distribution again, and also cut it on the other flavors of Jolt that were more popular than the new ones (favoring the "new" ones they had to push over the popular ones...the new ones being Jolt Red Eye and Jolt Electric Blue, the old tried and trues being Jolt and Jolt Cherry Bomb). -_-

So, it's certainly been a while since I'ev had my beloved Orange Blast. However, last year towards the end of spring, I was gifted with a near-match: Mountain Dew LiveWire (an orange soda version of MD--but it tasts not like MD, but like orange soda, unlike Code Red, which tastes like a mutated version of MD). BUT, the catch with that is that it was seasonal--meaning it was only available during the Summer of 2003.

The heck is THAT?

The people I know and have talked to (before I came to this board) don't like Mountain Dew Code Red, but love LiveWire. And MD keeps Code Red available all year long while making LiveWire seasonal (and I say that it's seasonal now, because they did bring it back for "summer 2004" =__=).

But yeah. Region and distribution often mucks up things for people with tastes that require satisfaction from their preferred sodas of choice. Lots of people would say tha Orange Crush is also extinct, but it's not; it's marginally distributed throughout the U.S., but is readily available in say, Mexico.

You can order lots of hard-to-find sodas at www.sodaking.com (http://www.sodaking.com). They don't have my Orange Blast there, but eh...they have lots of other cool stuff, and I think they have foreign sodas, too.

What I also miss is Orbitz (http://www.lanceandeskimo.com/chefelf/bev_orbitz.shtml). Not carbonated, if I can recall, just...weird. The floating balls in it weren't nasty at all...it was more like one of those Asian drinks (that're so chic now) with jellies in them.

:cool:

[Alex Toon]

What about Pepsi Blue? You know, Pepsi with blueberry flavoring?

[PurebloodPrince]

Though it may not be extinct, it's certainly hard to find: Pretty sure Fanta still puts out an apple flavored soda that tastes like carbonated apple juice (at least, the two liters I got were in the same palettes as the rest of the Fanta, and the label was a similar design). I used to get two liters near the Mission in S.F.; seems like distribution of Fanta is geared towards the Hispanic community, since Fanta is all over the place there.

http://www.tomato.com/~bobby/f/www/coke/lib/fanta.html

I didn't know Fanta HAD so many flavors. :eek:

Shasta is also kind of hard to find, and I love their Tiki Punch, which is only available in 3 liters (where I find it).

An extinct brand form my childhood is White Rock Soda. My parents used to get that stuff by the caseload, for parties, for just...grabbing a soda out of the fridge. I loved that stuff, and all of its different flavors. :moon: But they don't make it anymore, and cans are hard to come by/very expensive.

In case you haven't realized it yet, I love soda...:anime:

Add: I also miss Hires Root Beer, though it's supposedly still available. As well, I got the wrong URL as to the one I used to browse before; Soda King is great, but I also like www.popsoda.com (http://www.popsoda.com).

[EJill34]

It has to be Surge. Surge just made me feel like I was a part of something bigger. Not to mention it tasted like Aphrodite's blood with lots of added sugar and artificial colors. I wish I had some Surge sitting on my desk right now.

[Master Moron]

My old corner store (when I lived in S.F.) got Jolt Orange Blast all the time back in '99 and '00. However, towards the end of 2000 or so, the store stopped getting it for a while, and the proprietor said that they weren't making it anymore. Impossible (and heartbreaking!) that had to be, because as for me, I seriously need the caffeine; otherwise, I'd get some major migraines (if I didn't have my Jolt, which has the most caffeine aside from Mountain Dew of the top tiers of soda brands, I had to take my pills...and Jolt Orange satisifed both that and my thrist).

more evidence than caffeine is just as addictive as crack.

Though it may not be extinct, it's certainly hard to find: Pretty sure Fanta still puts out an apple flavored soda that tastes like carbonated apple juice (at least, the two liters I got were in the same palettes as the rest of the Fanta, and the label was a similar design).

You know what else tastes like carbonated apple juice? Woodchuck. And it gets you f_____ up too.

[PurebloodPrince]

more evidence than caffeine is just as addictive as crack.Let me clarify for the more simplistic: I was suffering from major migraines before I was prescribed caffeine for them; nothing else worked to alleviate the pain. When I started drinking Jolt Orange, I realized that that was too much caffeine for me (one time I made the mistake of taking a couple of pills with the Jolt at the onset of a migraine and ended up with terrible jitters within a few minutes), so I was able to make a choice: Take the pills, or drink the soda. I preferred to drink the soda, since it served a dual purpose.

And just in case you needed the info, the drug/prescribed caffeine is called Cafergot.

:shrug:

[wrenchien]

to be honest, surge wasn't all that extinct.. in fact, when a gatti's opened in my town, they actually served it for a while..

but the best drink you'll probably never have is horchata soda.. which isn't sold anywhere in the houston area, though it was.. a very interesting taste going down.

it was just like horchata to the taste. and very yummy.
and it was sold in a better world than we know now.

fanta does sell peach soda.. but not in texas, for texas's state fruit isnt' peach, it's georgia's. and in georgia you will FAIL to find a great grocery chain without peach soda sold by some company.

where they sell fanta watermelon soda.. someone tell me. it's impossible to find watermelon soda in south texas in any quantity. but in austin.. maybe.

in louisiana.. namely hammond.. maybe you'll find something called 'river of dreams' soda. which has watermelon flavor. worth a drink if you can get a hold of some.

if you ever go by south texas, check out the sodas in mexico.. those were worth leaving america for, even if briefly.. just to procure. in fact, most of the time i get some sodas named kaz, barrilitos, jarritos, topo chico, etc.... sodas few americans really know of, or care exists.. but would be worth your while just to try. and flavors like tamarindo and limon.. you'd grow to love.

[Chris Sanders MSX]

YES. Orbitz!! I LOVED IT. I was the only one. Except that one guy in this thread. I still miss it. *sigh

[Mynd Hed]

Add: I also miss Hires Root Beer, though it's supposedly still available.
Word-- it's still available in my area, and for my money, it's the king of plastic-bottled and/or canned root beers, miles above Barqs and A&W. (Although naturally, nothing beats the old-fashioned glass-bottled varieties like Dad's and local brands, not even my beloved Hires.)

[Terminatah]

Slightly O/T - Why won't Coke make a regular (i.e. non-diet) lime Coke? Diet soda has no reason to exist.Because unlike Diet Coke, Coca-Cola doesn't need lime to taste better. It already tastes great. Same was the case for Diet Coke with Lemon. But then Pepsi might have something with their Pepsi Twist. People like to screw with their drinks occasionally.

Incidentally, Pepsi could make a bundle if they brought back Crystal Pepsi with a 90's nostalgia campaign.

-Terminatah

[LightShadow1890]

ORANGE SLICE IS NOT EXTINCT!!!

I'm just making a correction.

:)

[Jaguar]

Surge, Surge, delicious Surge.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Serioulsy? You don't have Sunkist in any stores near you? Wow... I have a whole 6 months supplie of Sunkist in my garage. And I agree. Sunkist is way better than Fanta.
Huh. Then maybe the reason I can't find it anywhere near me is because YOU bought it all! ;)

Sunkist is not endangered, by any means. It's in full production by Dr. Pepper/7-Up. They even have a website (http://www.sunkistsoda.com/). :cool: I've had it on the East Coast, and now it's here on the West Coast. It could be a matter of distributors trying to guess what'd sell more and where.
Around here, it IS endangered, buddy!! :p

Just kidding. Just that I haven't seen Sunkist much in years. And because of that I thought they had stopped making so much of it. But good to see it's alive and well, at least in some parts of the country.

It's also possible that there are stores in other parts of this town that sell it, or something. Dunno. Too lazy to check at the moment.

And I *do* know that different brands are distributed differently in various parts of the country, or parts of the world. I'm not that much of an idiot. Honest.

I think.

[Master Moron]

So...what's Pepsi Kona?

[Tash]

What about Pepsi Blue? You know, Pepsi with blueberry flavoring?It's not extinct just yet... I have 5 bottles in captivity (aka. my fridge). I loved that stuff... I just havn't found an appropriate time to drink any of my last bottles...

[Lord Dalek]

Next time, I suggest Pepsi One.

[loyalheart]

eclipse! :D

at least i dont see it in my stores anymore lol i used to prefer it over sunnyd

[Frank White]

They still serve Surge in my schools calf, but its like weird and watered down so maybe we're being given Mello Yellow in disguise. But yeah, Surge was addictive, my boy bought them by like the 30s. Anyway I'm about to go look for Pepsi Blue and Clear on E-Bay.

[Kevin the Geek]

I miss Dr. Slice (Pepsi's version of Dr. Pepper). I used to drink a lot of that stuff when I was 7 or 8 years old.
I'd probably still be drinking it today, but unfortunately, Pepsi stopped making it. If Pepsi wants to compete against Dr. Pepper again sometime in the future, they should rerelease Dr. Slice (Which the chances of that happening are VERY LOW).

P.S.- Orange Slice is NOT extinct. I've seen them in 12 packs at my local Kroger about a month or two ago.

[PurebloodPrince]

but the best drink you'll probably never have is horchata soda.. which isn't sold anywhere in the houston area, though it was.. a very interesting taste going down.

it was just like horchata to the taste. and very yummy.
and it was sold in a better world than we know now.
:gir: BLAHRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shasta puts out a 3-liter of Horchata Soda, and it's sold at discount/bulk food stores like Foods Co. and Food4Less. I see it all the time in the Mission (the Mexicans drink it x___X). I can't stand it.

I like Shasta's 3-liters of Tiki Punch, though.

[JohnCrichton]

I miss Surge and Storm.. two drinks that had quite the hyper-kick to 'em and tasted pretty good.

[g_UnIt_GaNsTa]

Diet (http://www.adsrve.com/linkredirect.php?h=27,10000000,toonzone.net,0) soda has no reason to exist.
Dieting (http://www.adsrve.com/linkredirect.php?h=27,10000000,toonzone.net,0) people drink it, and Diabetic people (The type where they have to monitor their blood sugar.) can't drink regular soda because of all the sugar in it.

Oh, and I miss Surge.

[Kury Wagner]

I used to love Surge! I wish I had a can of that right now. :shrug: I want a shirt that says "I Æ caffeine" :anime:

[ZorBrak]

PEPSI BLUE. :mad:

[Lord Dalek]

Word-- it's still available in my area, and for my money, it's the king of plastic-bottled and/or canned root beers, miles above Barqs and A&W. (Although naturally, nothing beats the old-fashioned glass-bottled varieties like Dad's and local brands, not even my beloved Hires.)I'll stick by my beloved Henry Weinhard's thank you very much.

[Czar Gato]

I don't really miss any of those, but Surge has the most notable absence around my house.

[Cartman]

This thread is almost five months old. It's probably best to start a new one.

[BLACKHEART]

What is Pepsi Kona? *Confused.*

[Kury Wagner]

This thread is almost five months old. It's probably best to start a new one.What's the point? It'd just be clogging the board. I don't see why everyone has a problem with rejuvenating an old (yet still relevent) threads. :rolleyes:

[Anime Guy]

I don't see why everyone has a problem with rejuvenating an old (yet still relevent) threads. :rolleyes:Agreed. As for my for favorites they'd have to be Surge and as Zorbrak noted, Pepsi Blue. Although I might still have a little bit left in a bottle I never finished in my garage.:shrug:

[Red]

Sunkist Lemonade

Sunkist Orange is still popular and I drink alot of it.

But the Sunkist lemonade was awesome, I had it all the time, best tasting lemonade. I still have 2 cans that I am saving for a special time. Anybody seen the lemonade? :(

[Yash]

Crystal Pepsi.

[Mynd Hed]

Dieting (http://www.adsrve.com/linkredirect.php?h=27,10000000,toonzone.net,0) people drink it, and Diabetic people (The type where they have to monitor their blood sugar.) can't drink regular soda because of all the sugar in it.

Oh, and I miss Surge.

All well and good, except that no soda at all is better than diet soda, and so I reiterate: diet soda has no reason to exist. It's like making vegetarian meatloaf: you can do it if you try hard enough, but it's way more trouble than it's worth. (-:

[Kury Wagner]

diet soda has no reason to exist. It's like making vegetarian meatloaf: you can do it if you try hard enough, but it's way more trouble than it's worth. (-:Hear, hear! :anime:

Also, I thought Pepsi Blue was disgusting! :sad: I haven't stopped trying the horrible concoctions Pepsi comes up with, but I haven't had good experiences with them either. Pepsi Blue, Mountain Dew Pitch Black, Livewire, all of them (except Code Red and regular Dew and Pepsi) sucked! I tried that Pepsi Spice, and to me (and my sister) it just tasted like Coke! Buncha crazy scammers they are, those Pepsi folk.

[Otaku Bishop]

Would human enemy blood count?

[ZorBrak]

YES. Orbitz!! I LOVED IT. I was the only one. Except that one guy in this thread. I still miss it. *sigh

orbitz was the stuff

[Ben]

All well and good, except that no soda at all is better than diet soda, and so I reiterate: diet soda has no reason to exist. It's like making vegetarian meatloaf: you can do it if you try hard enough, but it's way more trouble than it's worth. (-:

What makes you say that? High fructose corn syrup is as much a laboratory concoction as aspartame is.

[ToOn~g@l]

I miss Pepsi Blue not because I liked it or anything but because I have one of the funniest memories with it. Senior year in high school I had a friend who wanted to fix his hair and there was no water around and all there was was a pepsi blue he had been drinking. So he fixed his hair with it, in the middle of class and got the blue stuff all over the floor, man was our teacher pissed.

If they ever get rid of Vanilla Coke I will be so mad, that stuff is so good.

[Kurtman]

I miss Surge..........

[Mynd Hed]

What makes you say that? High fructose corn syrup is as much a laboratory concoction as aspartame is.

I was thinking more in terms of what tastes good than what's good for you or what's "natural." (-:

[OverdrivePrime]

Surge's price was about 10 times better than it's taste. It was palatable, but certainly not great. The best thing about it was it's name. SUUUUUUURRRRGE!

[sun]

We had soda fountains in the 50s and 60s, and there was this great drink that went extinct...the surup was in large jugs, that mixed with the carbinated water, it was cheaper that way, and that is the way non alcholic drinks were sold, like in the drug store I worked at, anyway we came up with a drink that went extinct when the soda fountain thing did..We would add vinilla to a regular five cent coke,,,Yes you could get a small glass of coke for a nickle. anyway, a couple of years ago, the drink became non extinct...Vinilla Coke was brought back, and believe me, it is a great hit...thought I would never taste one again and did last week..Stuart

[Harley]

Woah! I gotta go try to find some of that! lol :p TBH, I've never had Ecto-Cooler or "Screamin' Monkey Tangerine" or whatever they call it, but after this, I have to try some.

Completely missed this thread the first time around.

Brian had looked that up awhile ago and I actually ended up finding some in a supermarket nearby. Still tastes the same. =D

[True Noir]

Yes, isn't NY great. Anything can be found there. Sigh.... I miss it. :sad:

[Caffeine King]

:eek: Orange Slice is extinct?

[Frank Castle]

:eek: Orange Slice is extinct? No calm down and get some sleep ya crazy insomniac!:) It's still at my high school and every convenience store in the midwest. And it's probably everywhere else as well.