Dead sodas..dicontinued drinks from the recent past......
 

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0961/?1

I do remember Crystal Pepsi, and it deserved to go bye bye.

I hated old Tab, but the one that was out a few years back was not nearly as bad. Old Fresca REALLY made me cringe!:lol:

Anyway, the linked to site has a few interesting bits, but so many more have come and gone.
I sell about eight cases of the four flavors of JOLT cola each week. It is still with us with all its caffeine.

Pepsi Fire :wtf: I've never seen alot of those?!?!

Likely test marketed in other countries. Hey, they should try it on us, heck I can sell anything to the gamers at my store. :D :D :eek:

We once got in grilled-cheeze Pocky. :confused: It was AWFUL!:eek:

Pocky is a Japnese candy that consists of a bread stick either coated or stuffed with something, usually is chocolate.

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They have nasty ass Orbitz on the list. Those little gel balls made me want to instantly vomit. :barf:

crystal pepsi was actually good i think..
ahh the pepsi "cool cans" still got mine..
i think i drank pepsi blue once...
the pepsi ice/fire i think were in mexico...those look like bottles they still sell in mexico(the shapes)

im lookin to buy a case of cocaine drink..cant seem to find it anywhere

:lol: still can't believe coke use to have cocaine in it:

Claim: Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine.

Status: True.

Origins: Coca-Cola
was named back in 1885 for its two "medicinal" ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. Just how much cocaine was originally in the formulation is hard to determine, but the drink undeniably contained some cocaine in its early days. Frederick Allen describes the public attitude towards cocaine that existed as Coca-Cola's developers worked on perfecting their formula in 1891:

The first stirrings of a national debate had begun over the negative aspects of cocaine, and manufacturers were growing defensive over charges that use of their products might lead to "cocainism" or the "cocaine habit". The full-throated fury against cocaine was still a few years off, and Candler and Robinson were anxious to continue promoting the supposed benefits of the coca leaf, but there was no reason to risk putting more than a tiny bit of coca extract in their syrup. They cut the amount to a mere trace.
Allen also explains that cocaine continued to be an ingredient in the syrup in order to protect the trade name "Coca-Cola":

But neither could Candler take the simple step of eliminating the fluid extract of coca leaves from the formula. Candler believed that his product's name had to be descriptive, and that he must have at least some by-product of the coca leaf in the syrup (along with some kola) to protect his right to the name Coca-Cola. Protecting the name was critical. Candler had no patent on the syrup itself. Anyone could make an imitation. But no one could put the label "Coca-Cola" on an imitation so long as Candler owned the name. The name was the thing of real value, and the registered trademark was its only safeguard. Coca leaves had to stay in the syrup.
How much cocaine was in that "mere trace" is impossible to say, but we do know that by 1902 it was as little as 1/400 of a grain of cocaine per ounce of syrup. Coca-Cola didn't become completely cocaine-free until 1929, but there was scarcely any of the drug left in the drink by then:

By Heath's calculation, the amount of ecgonine [an alkaloid in the coca leaf that could be synthesized to create cocaine] was infinitesimal: no more than one part in 50 million. In an entire year's supply of 25-odd million gallons of Coca-Cola syrup, Heath figured, there might be six-hundredths of an ounce of cocaine.
So, yes, at one time there was cocaine in Coca-Cola. But before you're tempted to run off claiming Coca-Cola turned generations of drinkers into dope addicts, consider the following: back in 1885 it was far from uncommon to use cocaine in patent medicines (which is what Coca-Cola was originally marketed as) and other medical potions. When it first became general knowledge that cocaine could be harmful, the backroom chemists who comprised Coca-Cola at the time (long before it became the huge company we now know) did everything they could with the technology they had available at the time to remove every trace of cocaine from the beverage. What was left behind (until the technology improved enough for it all to be removed) wasn't enough to give a fly a buzz.

:cool: Anybody remember "Rondo" or "Josta"? Both pretty good, but long gone!:(

I miss Crystal Pepsi.

Tasted like Pepsi, looked like saliva!

Anyone remember Like Cola? It featured ads which discussed the various historical uses of the cola nut and their tag line was "Like Cola - it's what cola should be like!" I liked that one, it was pretty good.
Also, I'm glad Mr. Pibb is offered here in Arizona, as I could no longer find it in West Texas previous to my departure from there. Sure wish they bottled and/or canned it, though - it's only available in fountain form.

Is Jolt still around?