Mello yello is available in freestyle dispensers at restaurants. And even if it disappears, coca cola is still a strong competitor for a lot of other soft drinks
When I first saw Starry suddenly appear in the grocery store, I thought "this will probably only be around for a few months and then disappear into oblivion and become a Mandela Effect" and I took a picture of it for proof it existed.
I thought it was one of those drinks made by some type of influencer, like “Prime” by Jake Paul or like the alcoholic drink “Happy Dad” made by Nelk. The design looks so Gen Z (Not a good thing personally) It doesn’t even look that it was made by Pepsi. I was actually in the US last week (Not from the US) and me and my dad wanted Mountain Dew, we were doubting getting Mountain Dew because even though it tastes so good we knew how much sugar it has in it, then my dad saw Starry and said “Hey maybe we should get that one!” Then my mom said “Nah it looks horrendous, I wouldn’t drink neither but don’t buy things you’ll not drink.” I looked at my dad and we both said “F&$!k it, let’s just get Mountain Dew instead.”
Starry tastes good, but whoever named it needs to be fired. "Hey I'm going to the store, want anything?" "Yeah, get me a Starry....." That just doesnt sound right.
Working in a restaurant serving Pepsi, ever since Sierra Mist changed to Starry, so many people pick something else to drink. Many people ask what is Starry and even after you tell them it's Sierra Mist's replacement, they usually ask for something else. I feel like the rebrand or new soda, if you will, wasn't really promoted well at all. I remember when Slice was replaced by Sierra Mist too. People usually just said okay to getting Sierra Mist instead of Slice.
Sierra Mist was first Introduced on August 10,1999. How do I know this? Because one, My Classmate was working at Taco Bell at the time and they had just started carrying it. And the SAME time, Snapple launched the "Elements" line of Drinks in Large Glass Bottles.
I like Starry, but when I first saw it I had no idea it was replacing Sierra Mist so I wasn’t sure who made it since it wasn’t obvious Pepsi released it
Yeah I distinctly remember when it started tasting like chemicals/perfume. That aftertaste is a dealbreaker lol. Starry still has the exact same aftertaste which is so stupid like - that's the single biggest deterrent for me why bother not changing it? The flavor itself really isn't bad, either which is really disappointing
@@ghoulannabanana I disagree but go off. Starry is way better and does NOT have that aftertaste, I don't knoiw if it's your tastebuds but I don't get what you're tasting at all.
The restaurant I work at seems to be doing OK with Starry (Seems to be selling better than the last iteration of Sierra Mist) But Of Course (Even though we advertise selling Pepsi products) a high percentage of patrons order "Sprite", Eh we gave 'em Sierra Mist before when that happened, No we give 'em Starry) LOL. Oddly when it comes to COLA I'm a Coke guy, But I definitely drink my share Of Mtn Dew!
This reminds me that in Peru, there's a lemon verbena flavored yellow soda called Inca Kola that has been so successful for many decades that Coca Cola partially bought it during the late 90s. It's one of the very few drinks that is able to genuinely compete toe to toe with Coke iirc, and it's still the most popular soda there. Also, many similar flavored, colored and even packaged sodas have been released over the years to directly compete with Inca Kola, though with just mild success. And just like with the Sprite-like sodas here, PepsiCo ended up buying one of those competing drinks, Triple Kola, in the early 2000s. But yeah, nice video. And kudos for that CN history video because it was really amazing.
@@AmusingLuis Sierra Mist launched on August 10,1999. Not 2000. I was in High School at the time and remember buying a $1 Bottle from Albertsons in Federal Way,WA. Sierra Mist was also launched the same time as Snapple Elements. Which came in large 2 oz Glass Bottles. I can STILL taste that Cactus Flavored Rain.
It’s interesting how after all these years, Pepsi still hasn’t found their niche when it comes to the lemon lime pop. Maybe Starry will take off, but if it doesn’t, I think Pepsi should stick to doing what they do well. They have the citrus flavored pop game IN THE BAG. People hardly recognize what Mello Yello and Surge are but everyone knows the name Mountain Dew. Also, Pepsi is a decent competitor for Coke. Some even prefer Pepsi.
Pepsi needs to make Mountain Dew Baja Blast more wildly available. In Canada, you can only get it at Taco Bell (Pepsi owned) and the dollar store in drink sized plastic bottles. You can't get a Diet or Zero version anywhere.
@@SeventizzFor the most parts it's the same here in America. Every few years it will come back into the stores in 12pks and usually every summer you can find bottles at convenience stores. It was actually supposed to be permanently replaced by pitch black dew. Baja would have been only available at Taco Bell. They immediately backtracked on that though and Baja was available the following year 🤣
@@michaelsheal4015 mtn dew is owned by Pepsi... It is the third most popular soft drink in the entire United States. They have no problem making a lemon lime soda.
Sierra Mist < Sprite < Starry. Starry has no weird aftertaste like Sierra Mist, refreshing like Sprite but tastes more like candy... which I'm totally here for.
I literally go to the college that's directly across from Pepsis HQ. So, naturally, it's sponsored by them. And Starry isn't actually half bad. Don't think it'll overtake sprite but it's not bad
@@andrewvaldez8689 I honestly also think some of Starry's influence also came from Mountain Dew Ice (its scrapped 2020 reformulation)..... Had Dew Ice taken off, it probably would've killed Sierra Mist sooner to become Pepsi's big lemon lime soda
I feel like 7Up is so underrated. It is SOOO much sweeter and fruitier tasting than Sprite. Sprite barely tastes like anything and the syrupy texture builds up in my throat like phlegm. Uck.
@@Ace_of_Horns Right, I get that, but you're wrong lol. Sprite absolutely doesn't taste like seltzer. Sprite has as much syrup as any other soda and is very sweet.
In Argentina PepsiCo has owned 7-up selling rights for as long as I can remember and has always been neck to neck with Sprite when it comes to popularity
The irony is in some parts of the world like Venezuela, Pepsi owns 7Up...and even there Coke still has a stranglehold on the market with Chinotto, which is Sprite with a more South America-friendly name. It's amazing how they just can't figure out how to make lemon-lime work while Coke is just sliding their way to victory.
Teem was really good - I liked it better than Sprite, but I don't think most commenters would be old enough to have tried it. Starry sounds close to "sorry", so maybe Pepsi is already apologizing in advance for its certain failure (haven't tried it yet).
I vaguely remember Teem existing, but not drinking or liking it. My preference was always 7-Up, and I always believed Sprite to be an inferior imitation of 7-Up.
You’re very right, starry is something to be apologized for. Personally it’s wayyy too sweet and artificial tasting, but this is coming from a Diet Coke fan.
Pepsi's biggest asset was right under its nose the whole time and it was never enough for them! The Citrus soft drink Mountain Dew, which in some markets, is an even bigger seller than Pepsi itself! No need to go out searching for a "green labeled" drink that starts with the letter "S" to compete with Sprite! Also, I'm glad you mentioned Teem. That was one of those drinks that was never sold in stores where I lived, but like Mr. Pibb, it was a regular fountain drink at my local Whataburger, and would get it every time I saw it available. Methinks they should have stuck with Teem!
Pepsi purchased an older Canadian soda brand as well. I left a solo comment on my own explaining this, but I'll quote it here too: "So back in the 1920's-1970's there was a soda company here in Niagara Falls, Canada called Niagara Dry Beverages. They mostly produced Niagara Dry Ginger Ale but also produced other sodas such as a Triple Soda, a Ginger Beer, and a Lemon-Lime Rickey. They also produced a side-brand called Sky-Hy which included a Ginger Ale, an Orange soda, a Cream soda and Root beer. Pepsi later purchased the company in the late 1970's, but ended up phasing it out entirely. I am a local Niagara Falls resident and an avid collector of Niagara Dry/Sky-Hy items. I've got a wall full of bottles, cans, some wooden crates, some cardboard carriers, a small bit of signage/advertising pieces, and a bunch of unused labels. I also run a "book of faces" page as a historical archive of it."
I remember Storm (was in Omaha at the time). I did have to laugh tho as the fast food places specifically noted that the Storm in their fountain machines was caffiene-free. So yeah at one of your major distribution points your big distinctions gets removed...awesome.
That's not a "KND/Spy Kids" sounding name. Remember all the non-regular, diet and zero flavors have something that sounds like a kid playing super spy came up with the name based on several things they might hear throughout their day. It would need a subtitle that sounds cool and punny had they gone with the Mountain Dew branding. Starry suggests outer space and music on it's own, but maybe if it were something else it would take off. Moutain Dew- Convergence might be a better option on this one since Lemon & Lime are partners.
"sierra mist" is already literally the exact same name as "mountain dew" just using two different words that are completely synonymous in their nature. it's like the marketing team just opened a thesaurus. it's the laziest soda name ever. also proof that, no, mountain dew citrus probably wouldn't have been any better cause that's essentially what "sierra mist" is already. also people expect caffeine from mountain dew - not so much from lemon lime soda.
@@section8usmc53 you're one of those special people who just likes arguing on the internet for no good reason, huh? sierra is litearlly a synonym for mountain(s) and the name of a mountain range. and mist is literally analagous to dew. but ok you have fun over there being contrarian for no real reason, weirdo. then again, given your name, profile picture, and random bmw image on your youtube profile, odds are good you're just a fucking bot. social media has gotten so stupid.
I’m one of the ones who loved Sierra Mist, I was sad when it was announced it was being discontinued, I went to every grocery store in my area and bought as many 12 packs as I could, I ended up with about 15 of them by the time starry started to appear on shelf’s, I currently only have 2 cans left, I have them so well hidden cause my family will get to them if I don’t, I will get around to drink them eventually but for now they will remain a time capsule of by gone era 😢
@@lordmarshmal_0643Yes. Starry is Pepsi's Lemon Lime soda and Sprite is Coke's Lemon Lime. Sprite came first though. They both taste vastly different IMO.
The first time I had Starry, I thought it was Sierra Mist from a super clean fountain, like I had never tasted that lemon lime so well. I just accepted that SM was the store brand of Sprite, basically. Turns out they just didn't change the pop label. It was Starry. I loved it. I grew to like SM from working around it and serving it. I would still have Sprite, but I preferred SM. Now I prefer Starry
I'm a bemused UK inhabitant. Can someone explain how this history and the history of 7up fit together? I was especially confused at 2:28 with the "Slice" advert with Fido Dido, wasn't he the 7up mascot??
I remember drinking Storm many times in the late 90s (I must have been one of the 12) and remember it being really good. Although I can’t remember if it was actually good or just the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.
So back in the 1920's-1970's there was a soda company here in Niagara Falls, Canada called Niagara Dry Beverages. They mostly produced Niagara Dry Ginger Ale but also produced other sodas such as a Triple Soda, a Ginger Beer, and a Lemon-Lime Rickey. They also produced a side-brand called Sky-Hy which included a Ginger Ale, an Orange soda, a Cream soda and Root beer. Pepsi later purchased the company in the late 1970's, but ended up phasing it out entirely. I am a local Niagara Falls resident and an avid collector of Niagara Dry/Sky-Hy items. I've got a wall full of bottles, cans, some wooden crates, some cardboard carriers, a small bit of signage/advertising pieces, and a bunch of unused labels. I also run a "book of faces" page as a historical archive of it.
this is going to sound strange but i was at a church even well over a decade ago when pepsi first launched sierra mist. they were promoting it everywhere offering free cans and shirts. so every easter sunday i remember when soda usurped the resurrection in terms of interest since it was quite hot outside.
To me, this is hilarious, because my area's (Southern Illinois) local Pepsi bottler, Pepsi Mid-America, has also been the local Dr. Pepper/Seven Up bottler for years.
Starry showed up one day instead of Sierra mist. We'd sell out of Sierra in about a week (2 weeks between stocks), while starry sits for months. No one knows what it is, where it came from, or why it's there. I tried it too, and it tastes like someone took carbonated water and put not enough lemon juice in it with preservatives.
Cranberry Sierra Mist was the best soda ever to be made and I miss it so bad. My family used to buy out all of aldi's stock before they stopped selling for the season which would last us about 3/4 a year to the next selling period
slice was great. sierra mist was awful. if i drink lemon/line it will be sprite, but i was buying more slice than sprite back in the day. starry is ok, much better than sierra mist, but my family prefers sprite, so i'm stuck.
Trying to think back what Sierra Mist, but I think I was lowket obsessed with it in 2012. Then I actually got taste buds and realized it tasted...fake? (ironic with the use of real sugar, huh?)
Half of the reason i even took notice of Starry after they announce it would replace Sierra Mist is im a logo design fan and Starry's hit a lot of my aestehtics for it. The star in the center of the S with the bold flat color really is well-designed.
I was so confused when I saw the video title. But as a Canadian here Pepsi owns the right of 7up and never tried to sell any other lemon lime drinks as far as I know
I actually liked orange slice, I kind of got ticked when they discontinued it. Probably one of the better orange sodas readily available outside of Dollar store brands.
When I was a kid, our area Pepsi bottler didn't distribute Teem. It had a license with Dad's/Bubble up. It's been decades, but Starry seems to me to be reminiscent of Bubble up. Can't predict if the market will agree, but I like it.
I never saw Teem in stores; it was only available at one local restaurant in the early-1980s. My Mother was a huge fan of Diet Sierra Mist. Since it was not sold here in Canada, we would bring back large quantities of it. On one trip, we had like 10 or 12 cases of the stuff -- I feared that we would considered commercial importers.
I actually do remember Storm. I didn't realize it was not available nationwide. I'm from Vegas so I did drink it a few times but I didn't realize it was only available in certain markets. Vegas doesn't get test products as much as we did when I was a kid
Curious on the market share stats if they drop locked distribution, or just lump everything together. Would be interesting to see retail sales of bottled/canned product vs the total including restaurants and such that only sell products from one distributor.
I always thought 7UP was Pepsi as it's It's in the Pepsi area of the supermarket. That said, I didn't even know Sierra Mist was Pepsi as I don't even think it came to Canada. I remember seeing the ads and it being in the US. Learn something new every other day!
@oraw1234W Pepsi owns the distribution rights to 7up internationally, but not the entire brand itself. Though because of that, that's probably why the Pepsi sprite/7up competitors never came to Canada, because why sell your competing drink in a market where you are able to sell one of the drinks it was made to compete against
Storm by far was the best also if u want to try the best lemon lime soda try Mt. Sprecher it’s by far the best lemon lime soda and they have a non caffeinated and a caffeinated version that has 90mg of caffeine which is more than Mt. Dew also it tastes different from Mt. Dew it dosent taste like a knockoff and instead of using sugar or high fructose corn syrup they use organic honey
I was surprised Storm was only available in 9 cities (my area being one of them) I thought that was everywhere. I also remember Coke’s version of Squirt called Citra around the same time Storm was around.
In my country, Greece, Pepsi's lemon-lime soda is actually 7up. It's always been CocaCola/Sprite vs. Pepsi/7up here. I'm 45 years old and only recently did I realize that 7up isn't actually a Pepsico brand in the rest of the world.
Sierra mist was changed because a content creator with the same name bought the rights to it after it expired because they tried to sue her but she looked into to there patents or whatever and found out it expired so she re bought it so now they had to change it Here's the video where she talks about it th-cam.com/users/shorts2h7PlDqUYaY?si=o61mvUf-POW8aMl3
As someone who actually drank Sierra Mist before Starry came around, it was okay but really wasn't that successful. I love the branding, logo, and commercials for Starry. I haven't tried out Starry yet but it does look very cool with the advertising and all!
I completely forgot about Slice, that’s crazy. Slice seemed like such a staple when I was a kid but now I remember Storm better than I remember Slice, and nobody remembers Storm.
I actually really liked Mountain Dew ICE but it wasn't sold in my area, there was some weird agreement with the bottlers in my area that made it so that only certain lemon lime sodas could be sold in the area. So if I wanted it I had to go like an hour plus away to another county to get it
So Pepsi struggles to compete with Sprite. Meanwhile Coca-Cola also can't compete with Mountain Dew as Mello Yello is slowly fading to obsolete.
Huh, so they both can’t find out whats in either of their krabby patty secret formulas
You can only find Mello yellow in coca cola free style machines these days. It's pretty good to be honest, i prefer it to mountain dew.
Mello Yellow sounds like a 90's stoner drink.
Mello yello is available in freestyle dispensers at restaurants. And even if it disappears, coca cola is still a strong competitor for a lot of other soft drinks
@@Ace_of_Hornsit sells well in the southern US
When I first saw Starry suddenly appear in the grocery store, I thought "this will probably only be around for a few months and then disappear into oblivion and become a Mandela Effect" and I took a picture of it for proof it existed.
😂😂
I thought it was one of those drinks made by some type of influencer, like “Prime” by Jake Paul or like the alcoholic drink “Happy Dad” made by Nelk. The design looks so Gen Z (Not a good thing personally) It doesn’t even look that it was made by Pepsi. I was actually in the US last week (Not from the US) and me and my dad wanted Mountain Dew, we were doubting getting Mountain Dew because even though it tastes so good we knew how much sugar it has in it, then my dad saw Starry and said “Hey maybe we should get that one!” Then my mom said “Nah it looks horrendous, I wouldn’t drink neither but don’t buy things you’ll not drink.” I looked at my dad and we both said “F&$!k it, let’s just get Mountain Dew instead.”
*prove*
When I first saw Starry at the grocery store, I thought it was the store’s generic lemon-lime soda.
Starry tastes good, but whoever named it needs to be fired. "Hey I'm going to the store, want anything?" "Yeah, get me a Starry....." That just doesnt sound right.
Working in a restaurant serving Pepsi, ever since Sierra Mist changed to Starry, so many people pick something else to drink. Many people ask what is Starry and even after you tell them it's Sierra Mist's replacement, they usually ask for something else. I feel like the rebrand or new soda, if you will, wasn't really promoted well at all. I remember when Slice was replaced by Sierra Mist too. People usually just said okay to getting Sierra Mist instead of Slice.
Sierra Mist was first Introduced on August 10,1999. How do I know this? Because one, My Classmate was working at Taco Bell at the time and they had just started carrying it. And the SAME time, Snapple launched the "Elements" line of Drinks in Large Glass Bottles.
Oh, if you're telling them it's Sierra Mist's replacement, that's basically a deterent lol
I do not know a single person who liked Sierra Mist.
People who like Sierra Mist liked it because it was real sugar
@@moonbunny24 I loved it, it was way better than Sprite
I like Starry, but when I first saw it I had no idea it was replacing Sierra Mist so I wasn’t sure who made it since it wasn’t obvious Pepsi released it
Sierra Mist started out fine until they messed with the formula, then it had an aftertaste.
They changed it in 2006 it was garbage and I'm glad it's gone. Starry is WAY better and my new favorite Lemon Lime soda.
Yeah I distinctly remember when it started tasting like chemicals/perfume. That aftertaste is a dealbreaker lol. Starry still has the exact same aftertaste which is so stupid like - that's the single biggest deterrent for me why bother not changing it? The flavor itself really isn't bad, either which is really disappointing
Yes! My god that aftertaste!
@@ghoulannabanana I disagree but go off. Starry is way better and does NOT have that aftertaste, I don't knoiw if it's your tastebuds but I don't get what you're tasting at all.
They switched from sugar to HFCS, so it is a cost saving measure.
When a restaurant would offer Sierra Mist or Slice because they didn't carry 7up or Sprite, I usually said "just give me water"
Bro, it is flat carbonated water with a hit of lemon and preservatives. What do you possibly not like about it???
Dud3, br0, and b055 are douchewords. Please refrain from using them.
@@Attmay🤓
The restaurant I work at seems to be doing OK with Starry (Seems to be selling better than the last iteration of Sierra Mist) But Of Course (Even though we advertise selling Pepsi products) a high percentage of patrons order "Sprite", Eh we gave 'em Sierra Mist before when that happened, No we give 'em Starry) LOL. Oddly when it comes to COLA I'm a Coke guy, But I definitely drink my share Of Mtn Dew!
Just call it Other Sprite and watch the money roll in, baby
I think it would be hard to trademark
Dumb Sprite
They should call it Spirt
SPRlTE!!
Bad sprite
Starry seems like a brand from GTA 😂
Sprunk
In my home country, Pepsi’s Lemon lime soda is 7up. But American Pepsi’s Lemon lime soda has an identity crisis.
Same here. You Canadian? Because that's the case here.
This reminds me that in Peru, there's a lemon verbena flavored yellow soda called Inca Kola that has been so successful for many decades that Coca Cola partially bought it during the late 90s. It's one of the very few drinks that is able to genuinely compete toe to toe with Coke iirc, and it's still the most popular soda there. Also, many similar flavored, colored and even packaged sodas have been released over the years to directly compete with Inca Kola, though with just mild success. And just like with the Sprite-like sodas here, PepsiCo ended up buying one of those competing drinks, Triple Kola, in the early 2000s. But yeah, nice video. And kudos for that CN history video because it was really amazing.
Good Information! also thanks for watching!!!
@@AmusingLuis Sierra Mist launched on August 10,1999. Not 2000. I was in High School at the time and remember buying a $1 Bottle from Albertsons in Federal Way,WA. Sierra Mist was also launched the same time as Snapple Elements. Which came in large 2 oz Glass Bottles. I can STILL taste that Cactus Flavored Rain.
Brooo Inca Cola is soo good omg
i had it once at a peruvian chicken place ... kind of a white whale since you cant get it in basically any stores in america as far as i can tell
It’s interesting how after all these years, Pepsi still hasn’t found their niche when it comes to the lemon lime pop. Maybe Starry will take off, but if it doesn’t, I think Pepsi should stick to doing what they do well. They have the citrus flavored pop game IN THE BAG. People hardly recognize what Mello Yello and Surge are but everyone knows the name Mountain Dew. Also, Pepsi is a decent competitor for Coke. Some even prefer Pepsi.
I prefer Pepsi and Dr Pepper
Pepsi needs to make Mountain Dew Baja Blast more wildly available. In Canada, you can only get it at Taco Bell (Pepsi owned) and the dollar store in drink sized plastic bottles. You can't get a Diet or Zero version anywhere.
@@SeventizzFor the most parts it's the same here in America. Every few years it will come back into the stores in 12pks and usually every summer you can find bottles at convenience stores. It was actually supposed to be permanently replaced by pitch black dew. Baja would have been only available at Taco Bell. They immediately backtracked on that though and Baja was available the following year 🤣
in the US Pepsi hasn't found its niche in the Lemon Lime soda but for the International Market they License 7up from Dr Pepper since the late 80s
@@michaelsheal4015 mtn dew is owned by Pepsi... It is the third most popular soft drink in the entire United States. They have no problem making a lemon lime soda.
Funny that Pepsi hold international rights for producing 7-UP while in their home turf got fcked with sprite and 7up and their own fuck ups
Sierra Mist < Sprite < Starry.
Starry has no weird aftertaste like Sierra Mist, refreshing like Sprite but tastes more like candy... which I'm totally here for.
I miss all the versions of Slice. When 7up changed their recipe, I switched to Sprite. Ive only had Starry once, not too bad.
I literally go to the college that's directly across from Pepsis HQ. So, naturally, it's sponsored by them. And Starry isn't actually half bad. Don't think it'll overtake sprite but it's not bad
I tried it a few times and its ok
It tastes like Sierra Mist
Compared to Sierra Mist, I find Starry to be nasty af
@@andrewvaldez8689 I honestly also think some of Starry's influence also came from Mountain Dew Ice (its scrapped 2020 reformulation).....
Had Dew Ice taken off, it probably would've killed Sierra Mist sooner to become Pepsi's big lemon lime soda
Do you also go to Manhattanville University?
I remember serria mist as that soda my grandparents always had at parties for some reason.
That's because it mixed well with cheap Canadian whiskey.
Pepsi also supposedly lost the Sierra Mist trademark, though I have yet to see any real proof of that.
I feel like 7Up is so underrated. It is SOOO much sweeter and fruitier tasting than Sprite. Sprite barely tastes like anything and the syrupy texture builds up in my throat like phlegm. Uck.
If you think Sprite tastes like nothing, I'd guess you have too much sugar in your diet
@@8LiterallyJustTheNumber8 i said it "barely" tastes like anything. Sure there's flavor, but very little. I liken it to drinking flavoted seltzer.
@@Ace_of_Horns Right, I get that, but you're wrong lol. Sprite absolutely doesn't taste like seltzer. Sprite has as much syrup as any other soda and is very sweet.
@@8LiterallyJustTheNumber8 have you had 7up recently? There's no comparison. 7up is much sweeter
@@Ace_of_Horns this is exactly my point. You're used to a lot of sugar, so you don't consider Sprite that sweet, even though the average palate would.
Teem still sells here in Brazil for some reason (but is way less popular than Sprite and local brands)
I do think that Starry is a huge step up in terms of branding and logo when compared to Sierra Mist
love the commercials
@@AmusingLuisi like em too
Tbh, Sierra Mist looked like off-brand Sprite
It also has a distinct lime note instead of just being over sweetened Sprite or (my preferred) 7up.
@@wolfgangervin25827Up is the best in my opinion as well.
In Argentina PepsiCo has owned 7-up selling rights for as long as I can remember and has always been neck to neck with Sprite when it comes to popularity
Sprite started out as an off-brand wannabe 7-Up.
Yeah, as an argentinian I was so confused, because I thought Pepsi created and owned 7up, didn't know about the whole rights thing😅
Yeah owned by Pepsi everywhere but in the US
Talk about Vault, Coke's attempt to compete with Mountain Dew
Today I learned that 7up is only a Pepsi product outside of the US that's why I never hear of most of these brands in Canada
The irony is in some parts of the world like Venezuela, Pepsi owns 7Up...and even there Coke still has a stranglehold on the market with Chinotto, which is Sprite with a more South America-friendly name.
It's amazing how they just can't figure out how to make lemon-lime work while Coke is just sliding their way to victory.
It’s like that in Canada too so this has never made sense to me because Pepsi already makes the biggest sprite competitor
Teem was really good - I liked it better than Sprite, but I don't think most commenters would be old enough to have tried it.
Starry sounds close to "sorry", so maybe Pepsi is already apologizing in advance for its certain failure (haven't tried it yet).
I have had Teem. It really wasn’t too bad, and they probably shouldn’t have phased it out, but it definitely could have used a design overhaul.
I vaguely remember Teem existing, but not drinking or liking it. My preference was always 7-Up, and I always believed Sprite to be an inferior imitation of 7-Up.
You’re very right, starry is something to be apologized for. Personally it’s wayyy too sweet and artificial tasting, but this is coming from a Diet Coke fan.
@@danieldaniels7571I perfer sprite
#teamteem #70s
Every time i see the Starry logo's top, i see Charlie's head from Smiling Friends.
Pepsi's biggest asset was right under its nose the whole time and it was never enough for them! The Citrus soft drink Mountain Dew, which in some markets, is an even bigger seller than Pepsi itself! No need to go out searching for a "green labeled" drink that starts with the letter "S" to compete with Sprite! Also, I'm glad you mentioned Teem. That was one of those drinks that was never sold in stores where I lived, but like Mr. Pibb, it was a regular fountain drink at my local Whataburger, and would get it every time I saw it available. Methinks they should have stuck with Teem!
This stuff is weirdly fascinating to me as a Canadian. Here, 7up is bottled by Pepsi. Sprite vs 7up is about as natural as Coke vs Pepsi.
Pepsi purchased an older Canadian soda brand as well. I left a solo comment on my own explaining this, but I'll quote it here too:
"So back in the 1920's-1970's there was a soda company here in Niagara Falls, Canada called Niagara Dry Beverages. They mostly produced Niagara Dry Ginger Ale but also produced other sodas such as a Triple Soda, a Ginger Beer, and a Lemon-Lime Rickey. They also produced a side-brand called Sky-Hy which included a Ginger Ale, an Orange soda, a Cream soda and Root beer. Pepsi later purchased the company in the late 1970's, but ended up phasing it out entirely. I am a local Niagara Falls resident and an avid collector of Niagara Dry/Sky-Hy items. I've got a wall full of bottles, cans, some wooden crates, some cardboard carriers, a small bit of signage/advertising pieces, and a bunch of unused labels. I also run a "book of faces" page as a historical archive of it."
I remember Storm (was in Omaha at the time). I did have to laugh tho as the fast food places specifically noted that the Storm in their fountain machines was caffiene-free. So yeah at one of your major distribution points your big distinctions gets removed...awesome.
If Pepsi had brains they would have called it Mountain Dew Citrus
That's not a "KND/Spy Kids" sounding name.
Remember all the non-regular, diet and zero flavors have something that sounds like a kid playing super spy came up with the name based on several things they might hear throughout their day.
It would need a subtitle that sounds cool and punny had they gone with the Mountain Dew branding. Starry suggests outer space and music on it's own, but maybe if it were something else it would take off.
Moutain Dew- Convergence might be a better option on this one since Lemon & Lime are partners.
"sierra mist" is already literally the exact same name as "mountain dew" just using two different words that are completely synonymous in their nature. it's like the marketing team just opened a thesaurus. it's the laziest soda name ever. also proof that, no, mountain dew citrus probably wouldn't have been any better cause that's essentially what "sierra mist" is already. also people expect caffeine from mountain dew - not so much from lemon lime soda.
That's literally what Mountain Dew is though. The main ingredient is concentrated orange juice.
@@adesignersperspectiveNo, it "literally" isn't.
@@section8usmc53 you're one of those special people who just likes arguing on the internet for no good reason, huh? sierra is litearlly a synonym for mountain(s) and the name of a mountain range. and mist is literally analagous to dew. but ok you have fun over there being contrarian for no real reason, weirdo. then again, given your name, profile picture, and random bmw image on your youtube profile, odds are good you're just a fucking bot. social media has gotten so stupid.
I’m one of the ones who loved Sierra Mist, I was sad when it was announced it was being discontinued, I went to every grocery store in my area and bought as many 12 packs as I could, I ended up with about 15 of them by the time starry started to appear on shelf’s, I currently only have 2 cans left, I have them so well hidden cause my family will get to them if I don’t, I will get around to drink them eventually but for now they will remain a time capsule of by gone era 😢
I need more sierra misr, could i get the recipe.
Starry's probably the best one they've made, it's really good.
It’s my go to now! If theres a Starry I grab it! Spirte is still fine but Starry is superior.
... They're both lemon-lime sodas?
@@lordmarshmal_0643Yes. Starry is Pepsi's Lemon Lime soda and Sprite is Coke's Lemon Lime. Sprite came first though. They both taste vastly different IMO.
I really liked Slice
The first time I had Starry, I thought it was Sierra Mist from a super clean fountain, like I had never tasted that lemon lime so well. I just accepted that SM was the store brand of Sprite, basically. Turns out they just didn't change the pop label. It was Starry. I loved it. I grew to like SM from working around it and serving it. I would still have Sprite, but I preferred SM. Now I prefer Starry
I give my pinky toe for dr. slice to be a thing again.
I wouldn’t mind going through life knowing that exists
Dr. Thunder is the best Dr. Pepper knockoff though.
I lived in Denver when Storm was a thing so I wasn't even aware that it was a limited test market. Count me as one of the twelve.
“I’d like a Sierra Mist, please.”
‘Is Starry ok?’
Actually, I want to try this, but I can’t seem to find 2 liter Diet Starry/Starry Zero anywhere.
I'm a bemused UK inhabitant. Can someone explain how this history and the history of 7up fit together? I was especially confused at 2:28 with the "Slice" advert with Fido Dido, wasn't he the 7up mascot??
It looks like he is a Pepsi lemon lime mascot, though I could be wrong
Pepsi has the distribution rights to 7up internationally so that could be why?
I remember drinking Storm many times in the late 90s (I must have been one of the 12) and remember it being really good. Although I can’t remember if it was actually good or just the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.
Sierra Mist, with it's real sugar was far superior. Starry is nasty
Dr Slice is the ONLY Dr soda.
"MOUNTAIN DEW IS THE BEST SODA EVER MADE"
truuueee I'm literally drinking a voltage rn 🔥🔥
Sierra Mist made with real sugar was actually great and the holiday cranberry version was even better! Idk why they tried to change everything.
But Pepsi owns 7up don’t they?
Wow, towards the end Sierra Mist was only selling to German tourists who wanted the can as a joke item.
Pepsi actually has the Rights to sell 7 Up outside of America
I honestly really like Starry, it's a soft lemon-lime flavor with some nice sweetness. I still prefer A-Treat over all of them though
I cant wait for the Nickelodeon video! Keep up the good work Luis!
thanks for being a viewer! really means a lot :)
No one can really wait pal
So back in the 1920's-1970's there was a soda company here in Niagara Falls, Canada called Niagara Dry Beverages. They mostly produced Niagara Dry Ginger Ale but also produced other sodas such as a Triple Soda, a Ginger Beer, and a Lemon-Lime Rickey. They also produced a side-brand called Sky-Hy which included a Ginger Ale, an Orange soda, a Cream soda and Root beer. Pepsi later purchased the company in the late 1970's, but ended up phasing it out entirely. I am a local Niagara Falls resident and an avid collector of Niagara Dry/Sky-Hy items. I've got a wall full of bottles, cans, some wooden crates, some cardboard carriers, a small bit of signage/advertising pieces, and a bunch of unused labels. I also run a "book of faces" page as a historical archive of it.
this is going to sound strange but i was at a church even well over a decade ago when pepsi first launched sierra mist. they were promoting it everywhere offering free cans and shirts. so every easter sunday i remember when soda usurped the resurrection in terms of interest since it was quite hot outside.
To me, this is hilarious, because my area's (Southern Illinois) local Pepsi bottler, Pepsi Mid-America, has also been the local Dr. Pepper/Seven Up bottler for years.
I actually went to a pizza place back in April and they still had Sierra Mist on their soda fountain.
expired ass soda 😭😭😭😭
nah its probably Starry, they just haven't changed the label lol
Starry showed up one day instead of Sierra mist. We'd sell out of Sierra in about a week (2 weeks between stocks), while starry sits for months. No one knows what it is, where it came from, or why it's there. I tried it too, and it tastes like someone took carbonated water and put not enough lemon juice in it with preservatives.
Just Me and my RC
7Up is the Uncola
Cranberry Sierra Mist was the best soda ever to be made and I miss it so bad. My family used to buy out all of aldi's stock before they stopped selling for the season which would last us about 3/4 a year to the next selling period
slice was great. sierra mist was awful. if i drink lemon/line it will be sprite, but i was buying more slice than sprite back in the day. starry is ok, much better than sierra mist, but my family prefers sprite, so i'm stuck.
Starry isn’t terrible, and I have nothing against 7UP, but your best bet would be to stick with Sprite.
Trying to think back what Sierra Mist, but I think I was lowket obsessed with it in 2012. Then I actually got taste buds and realized it tasted...fake? (ironic with the use of real sugar, huh?)
I miss mountain dew ice
Storm was also test marketed in Fort Wayne, Indiana - which is not the same market as Indianapolis. I quite liked it back then TBH.
Great to see another great appetizer, while we wait for the main course. (That being the Nickelodeon video.) Awesome video!! 👌
heck yeah dude. these vids are just quicker to make. i sure wish we could make the "History of" videos fast 😆
I hate that every soda now has to be healthy like bro lemme do what I wanna do
Half of the reason i even took notice of Starry after they announce it would replace Sierra Mist is im a logo design fan and Starry's hit a lot of my aestehtics for it. The star in the center of the S with the bold flat color really is well-designed.
Out here in the west coast, we don't got no Starry. We still drank Sierra Mist. Liked and subbed.
I was so confused when I saw the video title. But as a Canadian here Pepsi owns the right of 7up and never tried to sell any other lemon lime drinks as far as I know
I actually liked orange slice, I kind of got ticked when they discontinued it. Probably one of the better orange sodas readily available outside of Dollar store brands.
So far, at a convention, people were like what the fuck is starry?
When I was a kid, our area Pepsi bottler didn't distribute Teem. It had a license with Dad's/Bubble up. It's been decades, but Starry seems to me to be reminiscent of Bubble up. Can't predict if the market will agree, but I like it.
I never realized I was in a test market for storm, but I drank a bunch of it in middle school
Seems like Starry is as popular as Crystal Pepsi
I loved strawberry slice as a kid. Wish they would bring that back so I could make ice cream floats with it.
Orange slice was my jam in middle school. So good.
SpriteV2 and call it a day
7 up is common where I'm from
It’s the original lemon-lime soda.
@@danieldaniels7571 yeah
Yeah Pepsi never got it right with the lemon lime. And I generally prefer their products. Meanwhile 7up is still holding its own
7Up is the original
I’ll never understand why Pepsi got rid of Slice. That stuff was good. Especially the orange and apple varieties.
I never saw Teem in stores; it was only available at one local restaurant in the early-1980s.
My Mother was a huge fan of Diet Sierra Mist. Since it was not sold here in Canada, we would bring back large quantities of it. On one trip, we had like 10 or 12 cases of the stuff -- I feared that we would considered commercial importers.
pepsi can’t except the fact nothing is dethroning sprite as the best lemon lime soda
starry tastes like it has fake sugar in it, it sucks.
I do orders at a gas station and I order one case of starry and wait till it expires before returning it and ordering another one
I actually do remember Storm. I didn't realize it was not available nationwide. I'm from Vegas so I did drink it a few times but I didn't realize it was only available in certain markets. Vegas doesn't get test products as much as we did when I was a kid
I feel like Slice was a perfectly good brand name. maybe they should just bring back Teem
Pepsi is like Pokémon, they keep on trying to make a successful thing again when they made that successful thing.
Curious on the market share stats if they drop locked distribution, or just lump everything together. Would be interesting to see retail sales of bottled/canned product vs the total including restaurants and such that only sell products from one distributor.
i love how "sierra mist" is literally just "mountain dew" written with different words. pepsi has one hell of marketing department. -_-
I always thought 7UP was Pepsi as it's It's in the Pepsi area of the supermarket. That said, I didn't even know Sierra Mist was Pepsi as I don't even think it came to Canada. I remember seeing the ads and it being in the US.
Learn something new every other day!
Pepsi owns 7up outside the us
@@oraw1234W No they dont.
@oraw1234W Pepsi owns the distribution rights to 7up internationally, but not the entire brand itself. Though because of that, that's probably why the Pepsi sprite/7up competitors never came to Canada, because why sell your competing drink in a market where you are able to sell one of the drinks it was made to compete against
Storm by far was the best also if u want to try the best lemon lime soda try Mt. Sprecher it’s by far the best lemon lime soda and they have a non caffeinated and a caffeinated version that has 90mg of caffeine which is more than Mt. Dew also it tastes different from Mt. Dew it dosent taste like a knockoff and instead of using sugar or high fructose corn syrup they use organic honey
I was surprised Storm was only available in 9 cities (my area being one of them) I thought that was everywhere. I also remember Coke’s version of Squirt called Citra around the same time Storm was around.
I always thought Mountain Dew ice was a rebrand of Storm, yes I remember and liked storm ! It was pretty good so was ice.
In my country, Greece, Pepsi's lemon-lime soda is actually 7up. It's always been CocaCola/Sprite vs. Pepsi/7up here. I'm 45 years old and only recently did I realize that 7up isn't actually a Pepsico brand in the rest of the world.
Sierra mist was changed because a content creator with the same name bought the rights to it after it expired because they tried to sue her but she looked into to there patents or whatever and found out it expired so she re bought it so now they had to change it
Here's the video where she talks about it
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As someone who actually drank Sierra Mist before Starry came around, it was okay but really wasn't that successful. I love the branding, logo, and commercials for Starry. I haven't tried out Starry yet but it does look very cool with the advertising and all!
I am going to start to make my own lemon lime soda at time.
1:43 I love 7Up, but sprite and starry is way better
I completely forgot about Slice, that’s crazy. Slice seemed like such a staple when I was a kid but now I remember Storm better than I remember Slice, and nobody remembers Storm.
I was a teen in the 80s so everyone drank Slice and it was the go to mixer for harder beverages lol .
Not their own version of Sprite, but their own version of 7-Up. Sprite is Coke’s own version of 7-Up.
i really miss slice, there were a bunch of different flavors when that wasn't so common.
I actually really liked Mountain Dew ICE but it wasn't sold in my area, there was some weird agreement with the bottlers in my area that made it so that only certain lemon lime sodas could be sold in the area. So if I wanted it I had to go like an hour plus away to another county to get it
I love the Cola Battle.
i remember briefly when they renamed sierra mist to twist mist, and then shortly after reverted back to sierra mist
That spongebob bit was hilarious
That mandarin orange Slice was the best damn fruit soda ever made.