Canfield's Diet Chocolate Soda. Canfield's was a local label out of Chicago. Kayo. Like Yoo Hoo but regional in the upper Midwest. Thank you for finding Pepsi Light. I have the memory, but couldn't remember the name. It was pretty darn good.
My brother bought me a cold grape Nehi on a hot day in Oklahoma back in the sixties. This is back when the vast majority did NOT have air-conditioning. We had been hauling hay I was hot I drank it down and it came right back up. Haven't liked anything grape since then.
Mello Yello is still around now. Some things seem to have regional boundaries. I don't recall seeing it in Texas forever, but it's plentiful in Arkansas/Tennessee.
@BostonG Interesting. I lived in Arlington for years and never noticed it, could've been there & I didn't see. I drive through NE Arkansas & and TN, and there's decals on the windows pushing it.
Pepsi light makes me think of an interesting thing about colas- they're all basically sprite, or start off that way. Add cardamom, cinamon, other herbs colorings and spices until it's the vaguely flavored thing we know as "cola". Sometimes when I crack one open I'll get a note of orange peel or cinamon before it blends all together.
OMG!!! Talk about blasts from the past! I miss pull tops! I always enjoy your random vids!! Fun confession here. The sodas with the Styrofoam sleeves were GREAT for cheating on tests in school. You could, with care, slip off the foam, write on the inside (equations and the like) and slip it back on. Drinking the soda as you go, revealing the info and then tossing the evidence! Got me through more than one math test!
One of the sweetest memories of my long ago, but not forgotten youth, is coming across an old-fashioned soda machine. The machine dispensed soda in heavy glass bottles. Nothing taste better than an Orange Crush in a glass bottle on a hot, humid, bright summers day in Minnesota!
Ah, pull tabs! Stepped on one barefoot...never again Junkman I loved A&W soda. There used to be drive through A&W stores that would fill a gallon container for you from draft. Every 10 fills on a marked card we got a free one...Miss the '70s
I found a couple of those glass bottles with the Styrofoam under a house I was working on a few years ago. They were Pepsi and in good condition. I remember them from back in the day.
Chocolate Soldier anyone? I got an odd thirst for one very recently to discover they've been gone for 30 years. Bought 12 pack of Yoohoo and I liked it, it has a similar malty twang I remember from Soldiers. I think chocolate soldiers are still made in areas of Mexico.
@oldschooltommyim I don't remember carbonation. Maybe it was in some era. I drank it in the late 80s. Remember shaking it hard to mix it up, that would've caused it to foam upon opening. I looked up old bottles on ebay and it has plain water listed as it's primary ingredient.
A lot of these sodas are private label sodas or regional brands. Bubble Up a rip off of 7 Up and White Lightning was a rip off of Mountain Dew. The Holiday Inn soda actually had several flavors, cola, lemon-lime, grape, root beer, and orange. My uncle had several cans of Holiday Inn soda on a shelf in his basement. He collected old soda and beer cans and kept them on shelves around the bar in his basement. I have no idea what ever happened to all of them, but he had a lot.
Does anybody else remember the transition cans between pull tabs and what we have now? I remember there were two button like things opposite each other on top of the can that had to be pressed in. One was to drink from the other was to let air in which was great for chugging. Did I imagine that or can anyone confirm?
I remember those, they didn't work well and if you used too much pressure you could cut your finger. Mostly i saw them on beer cans, late 70's/early 80's if I remember.
@@Oldbmwr100rs yes mostly beer cans, but sodas had them too for a little while and yes being a kid with small fingers it used to tear up my thumb.most of the time
Swiss Creme soda was the FINEST cream soda on the planet! I've spent my entire life hunting for a replacement so I can taste the goodness one more time. Although I've come close, I've failed to find to find an equivalent.
I remember the cans for Pepsi Light, NuGrape, Tab, Jolt, and New Coke (of course). I never drank them. Mello Yello was pretty good and YooHoo was ok. I like root beer, orange soda, and cream soda. My mom always bought the store brands, though. Chek was, and probably still is, Winn-Dixie's brand.
I remember trying Tab as a kid, the first artificially sweet diet drink. It was so overtly nasty to me. So, have diet soda recipes & sweeteners gotten much better or has my taste adapted?
@Sci-Fi-Mike Diet Dr Pepper made something happen in the mid 2000's. It was a breakthrough. It is rare for me now to drink a straight sugar soda. I drink a lot of them, it'd be sooo many empty calories.
@@shanester1832 , nice! I'll have to try it sometime. I only drink soda maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I will say that Coca-Cola with actual sugar tastes slightly better to me than the usual corn syrup Coke.
I'm old enough to remember the styrofoam label. :) I can remember glass bottles come out of the machines and a cigerette dispenser right next to it. :) Sorta related, I miss those 7up pop cicles. There was cherry and regular. And what about Crystal PEPSI? :)
@@raywallacefan7786 no need to be sorry I knew what you meant but others might not have, they call everything “pop” there like in Louisiana where I’m from they call everything a “Coke”
Back in the 70s, that stuff would literally burn the shit otta your mouth & nose! I don't know whether it was because I had a kid's brand new tastebuds or what. I think they had a lawsuite or two and changed the formula. Because the amount of ginger in that stuff was off the charts. Vernor's and 2% milk was something my mom would buy because she knew I wouldn't drink them.
Ah, yes, pull tabs... what allowed David Lightman to make free phone calls! You remember David Lightman? He was the kid in Wargames! Oh, and Barrelhead Root Beer was great!
I love throwback content. Especially when it fields this type of randomness. I challenge you to do this with cereal. I even know of one non-generic I used to love was King Vitamin, it was basically Captain Crunch formed into razor sharp stars. Captain cuts the roof of your mouth, King shreds your mouth into submission. 😂
I love root beer, burch beer, cream soda, all those elderly people sodas. And I put Vaseline in my eyes as you recommended. It burns. Expect to hear from my attorney
Canada Dry growing up at the local beverage and beer store in the Mid-Atlantic… Ginger Ale, Tahitian Treat, Wild Cherry, Concord Grape, Vanilla Cream, Birch Beer, Wink, Sunripe Orange…. Also, and it’s still available today “Squirt” grapefruit soda.
Vernor’s is ginger ale that they still sell. It’s more ginger than “ale”. We still have Faygo in NYS. Sarsaparilla is basically birch beer (root beer). And you’re right about the vintage ones they sell at Cracker Barrel, it’s only the name, none taste the same as they used too. Still kinda cool tho I guess
YES on George Jones and Kentucky Headhunters. :) Mello Yello is something I haven't had for decades. I like rootbeer, but I'm very picky about it. I don't like it too sweet. I'm down with anything lemon. Sprite's way better than 7up. I remember when Kick and Surge came out in the early 90s for competition with Mt. Dew. They were Ok. Thanks for the video :)
Vernors ginger ale was popular in the south in the 60s. It's more like ginger beer tho. Heavy on the ginger burn less on the sweet. This ain't Canada dry
And if you lived in Wayne or Oakland county, you had Town Club pop. You'd go into a TC store and grab a wooden carrier and fill it up with every flavor under the sun. And then you'd come back to return the empties and get another case or two.
Did you ever have Aspen soda? It was very popular in Colorado, of course, but not popular enough everywhere else.... Period canned it. (Yes pun intended 😂)
@@ThatJunkman Was just talking to my cousin about it last night. Apple soda. As a kid it sounded nasty, but if it's like Martinelli's Sparking Apple Cider, then maybe it was good.
They had different characters on them. This one simply had Potsie. I remember thinking in 1974 one Tuesday night "WHERE the hell is Temperature's Rising?!?!? What's this ' Happy Days' crap?"
My dad talked about Nihi and Billy beer. I remember okay soda, had commercials. They would suggest calling 1-800-IFeel-Okay. I don't know how they made the number work. They changed it somehow. Anyway, when my friends and I were bored, we'd call the number, and it would give goofy/stupid self affirmations. But it was kinda funny, like Stuart Smally. Then there was Orbitz. It tasted good, but it was weird, with the floating gelatin balls in the drink. It looked a little like a lava lamp.
I'm from the UK and a few years ago tried root beer and jesus that tasted God awful I couldn't drink it. I could literally watch you review anything, it's just hilarious to watch, as long as they are all crap 😂 how about doing awful 70s/80s breakfast cereal 😂
I know some countries use something like root beer as a toothpaste flavor, so Germans are instantly repulsed by it. I doubt I'll change your mind but root beer has a wide scope of things using that name. You might spit A&W out but could guzzle a Barq's.
@ThatJunkman discontinued horror themed cereals like Frute Brute, Yummy Mummy, cousins of Count Chocula. Good for Halloween season. Odd thing is they used to be year round.
Back in the 70's, when me & my folks were on road trips I'd always say: "I wanna stay at the Holiday Inn!" and my dad would say: "Oh yeah, we're Rockefellers!" r k
@That Junkman "Mountain Dew, White Lightning" get it... Both were originally names which were used for Moonshine. 😉 By the way! It's ''Canada Dry'', as in the name of the Country. Not Canadian Dry, as in the name of the people. Unless you were thinking of {Canadian Club} Canadian brand Whisky? And how could Sarsaparilla just be regular Soda? "Sarsaparilla" is a group of Plants that grow in Tropical parts of the world. In fact prior to the use of (Kola Nut extract)..."Sarsaparilla" was used to flavor Soda as far back as the 1850s. At that time it was sold as a syrup rather than a ready-made beverage. You're wrong by the way! "Yoo-Hoo" does contain NONFAT DRY MILK as well as WHEY (FROM MILK). Information on "Holiday Inn" brand sodas are hard to come by. Currently it is assumed that these sodas were only available at (Holiday Inn locations), and not sold in stores. "Pepsi Light" was a Pepsi variant with half of the calories of regular Pepsi. And had a twist of Lemon flavouring. It was marketed from the mid-1970s to early 1990s. (Lemonade Drink or Lemon Drink) is made up mostly of water, sugar and food coloring. Typically such beverages contain little or no Lemon Juice and have little to no nutritional value. Sometimes Fruit drinks will throw in a Vitamin fortification and may have “2% or less” natural fruit Juice. Typically this is for marketing purposes only... And actually doesn't make the drink any healthier for us, the consumers. That {Varsity Black Cherry soda} looked pretty good to me!
I have drank Pepsi Light, Bubble Up, NuGrape (Was on vacation back in the 1990's went into a convince store to buy a six pack of beer 🍻, found out I was in a dry county and ended up with a Nugrape), Mellow Yellow, Billy Beer (Got drunk on Bully Beer back in the 1970's, it was a bad drunk let me tell you), Barrel Head Root Beer, 7-11 Soda, Faygo, New Coke, 7-Up, YooHoo, Tab, Soux City Root Beer, Vernons, Jolt Cola (I would have a Jolt Cola and a bar )!
Pepsi Light was nothing like Sprite - it was lemon-cola. It was also low cal which is where the "light" comes in :) "We put a little lemony taste in and took out half the calories" - I still remember the jingle.
Pepsi Light was delicious when mixed with a shot of Jack Daniels. Here in RI we had a local soda company called Red Fox. Their flavors were the best. My father swore that their Golden Ginger Ale was the best for a sore throat. I loved their sarsaparilla.
There was a Like cola. That didn't last long but I remembered it was pretty good. I remember the Styrofoam label sodas. I used to get mug root beer and peel it to just say "Beer" And then you take the candy cigarette pack and roll it in your sleeve of your T-shirt just like my dad would and walk around the neighborhood with my cigarettes and beer.
I'm surprised you didn't show Moxie soda. My dad used to get wooden crates of 1 liter A-Treat soda in glass bottles. I never could tell the difference between root beer and sarsaparilla. But I was the only kid in 2nd grade who could spell sarsaparilla. I won a spelling bee due to that word. My life was quite boring.
Bubble up was/is good, can still be found occasionally, New it's orange Bubble up was/is good can still be found occasionally, Nesbitts orange soda, that's nectar from heaven also found occasionally & a good quality root beer with pizza can't be beat!
I don’t remember the majority of these soda’s. Some seem gross.I remember Nu Grape,Tab,Mello Yellow & of course New Coke. I would like to try the Holiday Inn Soft Drink. Your channel is one of the most interesting & entertaining on You Tube!
mello yello is good, so is surge. root beer in general is good now and then, and the main issue is finding the right vanilla ice cream to go with that particular root beer.
I remember going to my grandpa's house in California and I had a Jolt Cola for the first time. That was a bad idea.
Mountain Dew has more caffeine and sugar
@@oldschooltommyim
"I don't care!" - Tommy Lee Jones
@@HouMat-if5fi
Harrison Ford:
"Remember when you said you don't care? Well, I DO care." :)
@@tperson8347
Harrison Ford on Star Wars:
"I don't care."
@@HouMat-if5fi
Haha :)
Canfield's Diet Chocolate Soda. Canfield's was a local label out of Chicago.
Kayo. Like Yoo Hoo but regional in the upper Midwest.
Thank you for finding Pepsi Light. I have the memory, but couldn't remember the name. It was pretty darn good.
Anyone remember Shasta Sodas?
@@theequalizer9154 I wanna pop, I wanna Shasta !
They're still at stores around me.
Shasta and Faygo
"I'm the masta blasta
Drinkin up the Shasta
My voice sounds sweet
'cause it hasta..."
The King AD-Rock,
Beastie Boys
Shasta was around in the 60's
The 7up then is NOT the 7up now. They changed the formula and ruined the soda.
Orange Sunkist in the glass bottle. So good. I also remember liking Grape Nehi as well.
Peach nehi
My brother bought me a cold grape Nehi on a hot day in Oklahoma back in the sixties. This is back when the vast majority did NOT have air-conditioning. We had been hauling hay I was hot I drank it down and it came right back up. Haven't liked anything grape since then.
Mello Yello was still around in the 90’s, I remember drinking it, Surge and Mr. Pibb as a kid.
Mello Yello is still around now. Some things seem to have regional boundaries. I don't recall seeing it in Texas forever, but it's plentiful in Arkansas/Tennessee.
@@shanester1832 I'm in the North Dallas area and I see Mello Yello around. But mostly Mountain Dew or Sun Drop
@BostonG Interesting. I lived in Arlington for years and never noticed it, could've been there & I didn't see.
I drive through NE Arkansas & and TN, and there's decals on the windows pushing it.
@@shanester1832 Seen it in Pennsylvania and/or New York few months ago
I still remember that one commercial with just a bunch of random people sitting in a white room, chanting "they call me mello-yello" over & over.
Actually, I thought NuGrape was pretty good when I kid.
we had a pepsicola bottling plant back home so we had all the crazy pepsi products
Does anyone else remember Like Cola?
Thanks for unlocking that memory. Pretty sure I didn't like. Like. Was that mid 80s?
@@josephpaoletti3576 Yes, it tasted like flat RC cola.
The song Rainbow Stew by Merle Haggard mentions Bubble Up in the chorus
“We'll all be drinkin' that free Bubble Up and eatin' that rainbow stew”
Vernors is still available.
🍊Orange Crush!🍊
as a kid me and my friends scratched the g off grape soda bottles
we found that to be funniest shit in the world
RAPE SODA
Evil. Love it
@@sardinedood
Sometimes I'll do that to a box of Grape Nuts. :)
Pepsi light makes me think of an interesting thing about colas- they're all basically sprite, or start off that way. Add cardamom, cinamon, other herbs colorings and spices until it's the vaguely flavored thing we know as "cola".
Sometimes when I crack one open I'll get a note of orange peel or cinamon before it blends all together.
Cola flavor comes from the Kola nut
Reminds me of Pepsi Twist
I want a large... orange... drink...
OMG!!! Talk about blasts from the past! I miss pull tops! I always enjoy your random vids!! Fun confession here. The sodas with the Styrofoam sleeves were GREAT for cheating on tests in school. You could, with care, slip off the foam, write on the inside (equations and the like) and slip it back on. Drinking the soda as you go, revealing the info and then tossing the evidence! Got me through more than one math test!
Sneaky weasel. I remember those sleeves, really thin layer of cushion.
Jolt Cola was the best. In the early 80's my favorite pop was "Tahiti Treat". i
One of the sweetest memories of my long ago, but not forgotten youth, is coming across an old-fashioned soda machine. The machine dispensed soda in heavy glass bottles. Nothing taste better than an Orange Crush in a glass bottle on a hot, humid, bright summers day in Minnesota!
Loved NuGrape, Mellow Yellow, and Country Time Lemonade! - Ron
Ah, pull tabs! Stepped on one barefoot...never again
Junkman I loved A&W soda. There used to be drive through A&W stores that would fill a gallon container for you from draft. Every 10 fills on a marked card we got a free one...Miss the '70s
Blew out my flip flops...
I believe there is still an A&W restaurant in Orwell, OH, for some reason.
@@MrChristianDT There's one right off the interstate just south of Chicago, connected to a Long John Silver's, which ya don't see often either.
I found a couple of those glass bottles with the Styrofoam under a house I was working on a few years ago. They were Pepsi and in good condition. I remember them from back in the day.
They used to come in 64 oz glass bottles. Man, those things were heavy and cumbersome! Don't drop it! Before the styro, it was paper.
Chocolate Soldier anyone?
I got an odd thirst for one very recently to discover they've been gone for 30 years. Bought 12 pack of Yoohoo and I liked it, it has a similar malty twang I remember from Soldiers. I think chocolate soldiers are still made in areas of Mexico.
@@shanester1832 Chocolate Soldier was lightly carbonated Yoo-hoo is not
@oldschooltommyim I don't remember carbonation. Maybe it was in some era. I drank it in the late 80s. Remember shaking it hard to mix it up, that would've caused it to foam upon opening. I looked up old bottles on ebay and it has plain water listed as it's primary ingredient.
A lot of these sodas are private label sodas or regional brands. Bubble Up a rip off of 7 Up and White Lightning was a rip off of Mountain Dew. The Holiday Inn soda actually had several flavors, cola, lemon-lime, grape, root beer, and orange. My uncle had several cans of Holiday Inn soda on a shelf in his basement. He collected old soda and beer cans and kept them on shelves around the bar in his basement. I have no idea what ever happened to all of them, but he had a lot.
Frank's Black Cherry Wishniak
Does anybody else remember the transition cans between pull tabs and what we have now? I remember there were two button like things opposite each other on top of the can that had to be pressed in. One was to drink from the other was to let air in which was great for chugging. Did I imagine that or can anyone confirm?
Nope lol new to me. Maybe that was the ones that try to do that closed if you didn’t want to drink it all
@@ThatJunkman Just found a picture of it'
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@@ThatJunkman Found a pic: s3files.core77.com/blog/images/557798_81_59733_VEOUqEKsE.jpg
I remember those, they didn't work well and if you used too much pressure you could cut your finger. Mostly i saw them on beer cans, late 70's/early 80's if I remember.
@@Oldbmwr100rs yes mostly beer cans, but sodas had them too for a little while and yes being a kid with small fingers it used to tear up my thumb.most of the time
we drank Nugrape like crazy in the 70s !
Pepsi Light and Bubble-Up were big brands and tasted fine ...... Where the F were you...?
Varsity is in ATL.
RONDO!!!
You had to crush the can in your hand when you finished it.
That meme, Holiday Inn soda? That actually was in existence?
Swiss Creme soda was the FINEST cream soda on the planet! I've spent my entire life hunting for a replacement so I can taste the goodness one more time. Although I've come close, I've failed to find to find an equivalent.
Um, Big Red, duh.
I remember the cans for Pepsi Light, NuGrape, Tab, Jolt, and New Coke (of course). I never drank them. Mello Yello was pretty good and YooHoo was ok.
I like root beer, orange soda, and cream soda. My mom always bought the store brands, though. Chek was, and probably still is, Winn-Dixie's brand.
I remember trying Tab as a kid, the first artificially sweet diet drink. It was so overtly nasty to me.
So, have diet soda recipes & sweeteners gotten much better or has my taste adapted?
@@shanester1832 I haven't had an artificial sweetener that I liked, and I haven't really had a diet soda since 1995-ish.
@Sci-Fi-Mike Diet Dr Pepper made something happen in the mid 2000's. It was a breakthrough. It is rare for me now to drink a straight sugar soda. I drink a lot of them, it'd be sooo many empty calories.
@@shanester1832 , nice! I'll have to try it sometime. I only drink soda maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I will say that Coca-Cola with actual sugar tastes slightly better to me than the usual corn syrup Coke.
Tab was discontinued about a year or two ago.
I'm old enough to remember the styrofoam label. :)
I can remember glass bottles come out of the machines and a cigerette dispenser right next to it. :)
Sorta related, I miss those 7up pop cicles. There was cherry and regular.
And what about Crystal PEPSI? :)
The GOOD OLD DAYS!
Vernors was a regional cola produced in the Detroit area.
Vernors makes Ginger Ale, Faygo is from Detroit also and makes tons of flavors, you can get both anywhere now
Sorry, I meant "soda" rather than "cola." I was only familiar with the ginger ale, but I thought they made other flavors.
@@raywallacefan7786 no need to be sorry I knew what you meant but others might not have, they call everything “pop” there like in Louisiana where I’m from they call everything a “Coke”
Vernors predates Coca Cola actually
Back in the 70s, that stuff would literally burn the shit otta your mouth & nose! I don't know whether it was because I had a kid's brand new tastebuds or what. I think they had a lawsuite or two and changed the formula. Because the amount of ginger in that stuff was off the charts. Vernor's and 2% milk was something my mom would buy because she knew I wouldn't drink them.
Ah, yes, pull tabs... what allowed David Lightman to make free phone calls! You remember David Lightman? He was the kid in Wargames! Oh, and Barrelhead Root Beer was great!
Holiday Inn Cola was their House Brand. Many companies had house brands even in the 70s
I love me some root beer
O.K. soda.
Interesting that they have the word "beverage" in quotations.
It's just a 'serving suggestion'.
I loved Pepsi Light. It was like Pepsi with a bit of lemon, like iced tea.
I liked Pepsi Light as well. Along with a Marathon™ bar. And of course, every neighborhood's kid's mom drank TAB.
ITS GINGERY, AS IN A GINGER, LIKE WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A RED HEAD! HAVENT YOU EVER HEARD OF GINGER ALE!?!
As a kid in the late 80's I loved me some Slice. Pepsi done stepped in the poo by replacing Slice with Sierra Mist.
btw..chek is the winn dixie store brand
That brand was the worst sodas I have ever had!
@@theequalizer9154 not the worst i ever had but it was two blocks from the house and a third the price of the big brands
Some of these go way back to the late 1960's. Thanks for the memories!
Going to my grandparents and being treated to a lemon lime check cola is one of my fondest memories as a child.
That was.
In florida my friend😊
I remember WORMS sodafrom being a kid in the 70s. Graf's Swiss Creme was my favorite!
I had a WORMS can in my beer/pop collection my mom brought back from a trip to West Virginia (I think), never saw/heard of it since..flashback!!
I love throwback content. Especially when it fields this type of randomness. I challenge you to do this with cereal. I even know of one non-generic I used to love was King Vitamin, it was basically Captain Crunch formed into razor sharp stars. Captain cuts the roof of your mouth, King shreds your mouth into submission. 😂
They still make Bubble Up in the old school glass bottles
Was ELF Soda just a local thing? Regardless. NOBODY I know remembers that brand.
Looked it up, cool cans. Never saw it before or heard of it.
I haven't seen white lightning since the early eighties
I love root beer, burch beer, cream soda, all those elderly people sodas.
And I put Vaseline in my eyes as you recommended. It burns. Expect to hear from my attorney
I can;t remember the name but there was an Apple flavored soda in the 70's. It was alright, but a glass bottled Pepsi or Coke was always the best.
The apple soda may have been Aspen.
@@martinbaker1609 YES, that was it
Canada Dry growing up at the local beverage and beer store in the Mid-Atlantic… Ginger Ale, Tahitian Treat, Wild Cherry, Concord Grape, Vanilla Cream, Birch Beer, Wink, Sunripe Orange…. Also, and it’s still available today “Squirt” grapefruit soda.
Jolt Cola and RC Cola were both twice the caffiene and awesome! RC Cola was first called Royal Cola.
Royal Crown, I believe.
Nugrape is my favorite soda of all time. I grew up drinking it in the glass stubby bottle of the late 80s into the 90s
Vernor’s is ginger ale that they still sell. It’s more ginger than “ale”. We still have Faygo in NYS. Sarsaparilla is basically birch beer (root beer). And you’re right about the vintage ones they sell at Cracker Barrel, it’s only the name, none taste the same as they used too. Still kinda cool tho I guess
Mello Yello was so nasty to me. I vaguely remember Varsity soda. It wasn't bad but not great either.
YES on George Jones and Kentucky Headhunters. :)
Mello Yello is something I haven't had for decades.
I like rootbeer, but I'm very picky about it.
I don't like it too sweet.
I'm down with anything lemon.
Sprite's way better than 7up.
I remember when Kick and Surge came out in the early 90s for competition with Mt. Dew. They were Ok.
Thanks for the video :)
These are cola nuts, these are UN cola nuts!
Vernors ginger ale was popular in the south in the 60s. It's more like ginger beer tho. Heavy on the ginger burn less on the sweet. This ain't Canada dry
It is a staple of the Detroit area. It used to be stronger than it is now.
Vernors is a Michigan thing.
delaware punch! my grandma used to have it in her fridge, and she let me try it one time! not too bad!
@@erraticstatic70 equal parts grape and fruit punch Kool-Aid tastes very similar
Chek soda was the "store brand" at Winn Dixie
'Is'. They still make it.
Hey Junkman, did you ever drink Kickapoo Joy Juice ?
Nope new to me
I like that ur expanding out from just toys, also Vernors is a Michigan thing! It's just ginger ale of a sort.
And if you lived in Wayne or Oakland county, you had Town Club pop. You'd go into a TC store and grab a wooden carrier and fill it up with every flavor under the sun. And then you'd come back to return the empties and get another case or two.
Did you ever have Aspen soda? It was very popular in Colorado, of course, but not popular enough everywhere else.... Period canned it. (Yes pun intended 😂)
Never heard of it
@@ThatJunkman Was just talking to my cousin about it last night. Apple soda. As a kid it sounded nasty, but if it's like Martinelli's Sparking Apple Cider, then maybe it was good.
Nesbit's!
I couldn’t click on the link quick enough. Awesome video JM 👌
"Happy Days" soda?
Potsie Cola?
They had different characters on them. This one simply had Potsie. I remember thinking in 1974 one Tuesday night "WHERE the hell is Temperature's Rising?!?!? What's this ' Happy Days' crap?"
My dad talked about Nihi and Billy beer. I remember okay soda, had commercials. They would suggest calling 1-800-IFeel-Okay. I don't know how they made the number work. They changed it somehow. Anyway, when my friends and I were bored, we'd call the number, and it would give goofy/stupid self affirmations. But it was kinda funny, like Stuart Smally. Then there was Orbitz. It tasted good, but it was weird, with the floating gelatin balls in the drink. It looked a little like a lava lamp.
I'm from the UK and a few years ago tried root beer and jesus that tasted God awful I couldn't drink it.
I could literally watch you review anything, it's just hilarious to watch, as long as they are all crap 😂 how about doing awful 70s/80s breakfast cereal 😂
I know some countries use something like root beer as a toothpaste flavor, so Germans are instantly repulsed by it.
I doubt I'll change your mind but root beer has a wide scope of things using that name. You might spit A&W out but could guzzle a Barq's.
Done cereal like 2 times. So think I got all I could out of it
@ThatJunkman discontinued horror themed cereals like Frute Brute, Yummy Mummy, cousins of Count Chocula. Good for Halloween season. Odd thing is they used to be year round.
Back in the 70's, when me & my folks were on road trips I'd always say: "I wanna stay at the Holiday Inn!" and my dad would say: "Oh yeah, we're Rockefellers!" r k
@That Junkman "Mountain Dew, White Lightning" get it... Both were originally names which were used for Moonshine. 😉
By the way! It's ''Canada Dry'', as in the name of the Country. Not Canadian Dry, as in the name of the people. Unless you were thinking of {Canadian Club} Canadian brand Whisky?
And how could Sarsaparilla just be regular Soda? "Sarsaparilla" is a group of Plants that grow in Tropical parts of the world. In fact prior to the use of (Kola Nut extract)..."Sarsaparilla" was used to flavor Soda as far back as the 1850s. At that time it was sold as a syrup rather than a ready-made beverage.
You're wrong by the way! "Yoo-Hoo" does contain NONFAT DRY MILK as well as WHEY (FROM MILK).
Information on "Holiday Inn" brand sodas are hard to come by. Currently it is assumed that these sodas were only available at (Holiday Inn locations), and not sold in stores.
"Pepsi Light" was a Pepsi variant with half of the calories of regular Pepsi. And had a twist of Lemon flavouring. It was marketed from the mid-1970s to early 1990s.
(Lemonade Drink or Lemon Drink) is made up mostly of water, sugar and food coloring. Typically such beverages contain little or no Lemon Juice and have little to no nutritional value. Sometimes Fruit drinks will throw in a Vitamin fortification and may have “2% or less” natural fruit Juice. Typically this is for marketing purposes only... And actually doesn't make the drink any healthier for us, the consumers.
That {Varsity Black Cherry soda} looked pretty good to me!
I have drank Pepsi Light, Bubble Up, NuGrape (Was on vacation back in the 1990's went into a convince store to buy a six pack of beer 🍻, found out I was in a dry county and ended up with a Nugrape), Mellow Yellow, Billy Beer (Got drunk on Bully Beer back in the 1970's, it was a bad drunk let me tell you), Barrel Head Root Beer, 7-11 Soda, Faygo, New Coke, 7-Up, YooHoo, Tab, Soux City Root Beer, Vernons, Jolt Cola (I would have a Jolt Cola and a bar )!
Great art on some of those cans. 🙂 ….Yep fun vid!!!
I also remember that holiday gas station had their own pop also and they had many different flavors
A&W Rootbeer float, can't beat it!
Pepsi Light was nothing like Sprite - it was lemon-cola. It was also low cal which is where the "light" comes in :) "We put a little lemony taste in and took out half the calories" - I still remember the jingle.
Nope that stuff would be expired 😂
There was one called Like Cola. It was caffeine free. My dad made me drink it because I was hopped up on soda all the time.
I’d drink a Potsie Weber soda! He’s the best Happy Days character!
Homer takes swig of Billy Beer: MMM, we elected the wrong Carter.
Hi Junkman, We have White lightning here but it's a cheap high alcohol cider.
Varsity Soda was sold at The Varsity in Atlanta.
I would drink a Jolt before going to see "Rocky Horror" in Montclair.
That Bubble Up can has to be from the 60s.
THANK YOU for the George Jones on the White Li-ghtnin' soda!!!
12:04 I really like the design on the can.
Vernors is an excellent ginger ale from Michigan. Its a regional favorite and is sold in many restaurants here. Its stronger than Canada Dry.
60 years old and lives in his elderly Mom's basement filming angry rants. She will bring him some Hot Pockets soon and he will calm down.
God I hope
Pepsi Light was delicious when mixed with a shot of Jack Daniels. Here in RI we had a local soda company called Red Fox. Their flavors were the best. My father swore that their Golden Ginger Ale was the best for a sore throat. I loved their sarsaparilla.
I remember the holiday in sodas and I used to wonder if the Shasta people made it for him
Jolly good grape was the bomb. The kids growing up in the 70s know that one
There was a Like cola. That didn't last long but I remembered it was pretty good. I remember the Styrofoam label sodas. I used to get mug root beer and peel it to just say "Beer" And then you take the candy cigarette pack and roll it in your sleeve of your T-shirt just like my dad would and walk around the neighborhood with my cigarettes and beer.
I like these type of videos about antiques and stuff you should do more like this brother🎉👀
Still have a "Make 7 Up Your's" shirt that i still wear
I'm surprised you didn't show Moxie soda.
My dad used to get wooden crates of 1 liter A-Treat soda in glass bottles. I never could tell the difference between root beer and sarsaparilla. But I was the only kid in 2nd grade who could spell sarsaparilla. I won a spelling bee due to that word.
My life was quite boring.
Bubble up was/is good, can still be found occasionally, New it's orange
Bubble up was/is good can still be found occasionally, Nesbitts orange soda, that's nectar from heaven also found occasionally & a good quality root beer with pizza can't be beat!
I remember that sarsaparilla soda. It was actually pretty good. It would do in a pinch when I couldn't get my favorite soda, Moxie.
When i was a kid, i loved black cherry soda and creme soda. My family thought i was weird.
I don’t remember the majority of these soda’s.
Some seem gross.I remember Nu Grape,Tab,Mello Yellow & of course New Coke.
I would like to try the Holiday Inn Soft Drink.
Your channel is one of the most interesting & entertaining on You Tube!
Nu Grape was good,and still being made.
They do still have have a doctor pig soda
I always have been and always will be a Dr Pepper ,7up & Canada Dry guy
Turns out the mellow yellow song is about something you might not to put in your mouth
Quite rightly.
It's Tim fountaine I remember bubble up and yes it was an exact clone of Sprite tasted exactly like it.
mello yello is good, so is surge. root beer in general is good now and then, and the main issue is finding the right vanilla ice cream to go with that particular root beer.
..You're probably the kind of person who angrily tears posters off your kids' walls. (Quote from Family Guy "Joe").