For a buck Carl's Jr. add a burger, Or a chicken sandwich, Then you could go to Rayley's and get a shasta from the machine for a quarter. Mom made it work.
@@bulletbill5977that and people forget to realize a lot of these companies actually have patents on close alternatives of their own products to cover their bases from someone trying to make a knockoff. So it's not always just lobbying money, sometimes it's just a company being extra diligent and reverse engineering their own product before competitors can (and sometimes they actually license that patent to competitors so that they're actually taking a % of every sale their competitor makes... That's the real 4d chess move).
Coca Cola's formula doesn't have copyright protection, since it would have to disclose the actual formula and eventually go into the public domain. It's a trade secret, which is legal to reverse engineer.
Not really. It's quite simple and the difference is due to the tangibility of something. Copyright - Protects expression of creativity and art. Books, Music, Movies, and because it is written, software code. Trademark/Registered Trademark - Protects brand identity to prevent counterfeit products/companies from confusing consumers. Brand and product names, logos, packaging or building design elements, slogans. Patent - Protects technological innovations (and expires after 20 years). Inventions, industrial processes, medicine. Trade Secret - NOT PROTECTED and as such, can apply to anything a company is looking to keep to themselves. Unless someone burglarizes or hacks a company to get their trade secret, there is no punishment for using another's trade secret.
@tokenrow669 Walmart in 1980s 1990s had Sam's Choice soda. Sam's used filtered water which gave it a great flavor! ✅️ You could get 3L bottles for $2. Great value for the 1990s.
Flavors do not fall under one of the enumerated categories of copyrightable subject matter, and thus, as a matter of law, may not be registered for copyright.
Glad someone else noticed that. Of course Mountain Dew was originally a nickname for moonshine, but no one had thought to register it as trademark until someone decided creating a soda and calling it by the name.
@@petenielsen6683 You need to have something TO trademark though, so no one could trademark unless they had a marketable brand of moonshine. And you can't trademark something that's illegal, which is why folks can't federally protect their cannabis brands.
I remember when they sold the 3 Liter bottles at the Dollar Tree a long time ago. When my mom would get soda, it was always Shasta!!! Love the flavors still as an adult.
I was able to get 2.5 litre bottles of Diet Shasta at Dollar Tree until 2021. For me it was because Shasta used Splenda and I am allergic to aspartame. I haven't been able to find Shasta for a little over a year, so Diet Rite (Royal Crown Cola) is my new favorite.
Shasta was the one soda we loaded up the ice chest with before every family camping trip. They were 15 cents a can, and we grabbed every flavor the store had .
Most don't refer to the store brands as knockoffs they're more like private labels which tend to be better than the actual main products in some instances, As an example some store brand cereals like their take on Apple Jacks if you read the ingredients list it has apple in it whereas the actual apple jacks has more of a vague fruit flavor.
Damn, I didn't realize shasta was responsible for so many of the standard practices in the soda industry. Coke and Pepsi are lucky Shasta was primarily content just being the knockoff brand instead of being a major competitor.
Probably not luck, though... Shasta's products are also decidedly inferior. Maybe good from a bang-for-buck standpoint, which is why you can generally get away with them for a eight-year-old's birthday party. But if bars collectively decided to swap Coke for Shasta in a Cuba Libre, the temperance movement might come back.
As much as I like Coke the best, there's really not much difference between most soft drinks. It's all the same ingredients and flavors. There's no actual quality difference and the taste differences are slight. Coke is king because of branding more than anything.
@@Kelnx then you've destroyed your taste buds or have gingivitis or some other type of mouth disease because they're all very different. And she has to it's not even a knockoff of coke it is a completely separate flavored Cola
Faygo taste kinda nasty, although i like their orange sodas, can't say much about Shasta. we don't see any of them in my area, we get Bubba and RC Cola.
My dad worked for this company for many years so we grew up on Shasta. When they came out with the 8 oz Short Shasta, we gave it out for Halloween. My dad drank the diet Shasta and lots of it, but back then before other artificial sweeteners came to be, saccharin was used in diet sodas and was proven to cause cancer. Unfortunately, bladder cancer is what took my dad's life so I wonder if that contributed to it. I hope sucralose is much safer because I drink Gatorade Zero almost every day as well as a Monster Zero at least once a week.
They sell it at Dollar Tree, for $1.25 for a 4-pack, but it's not always in stock. They always have Shasta Orange so I'm happy. Shasta Cola is awful. It tastes like Diet Coke.
@@jeffw1267 Wait seriously it tastes like diet coke? Like really tastes just like real diet coke? I probably need to try it then because I love diet coke.
It's kinda hard finding Shasta products in my neck of the woods. You used to see it in just about every grocery store back in the 90s. I loved the Tiki Punch and Dr Shasta. I used to be able to find it in Dollar General stores, but it's nowhere to be found nowadays. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough lol
A few years ago Ralph's (Kroger) quit selling Shasta, and replaced it with their Kroger brand, which is execrable swill, not fit for water-boarding. I now go to Smart & Final for Shasta.
I’m from Oakland we lived on Shasta products growing up. I can really drinking then all over California, Tahoe, SoCal, Mojave Desert, East Bay, on San Francisco Bay. Those old can images bring back various time and place memories. Later in by the 80s I worked at a place that made the Root Beer flavor for Shasta. If you were drinking their root beer in 88 and 89 I probably mixed the ingredients and poured it into drums for shipping.
Also a reason why a company wouldn't patent something, in order to get a patent you have to divulge everything in your recipe. Basically it works out to, do you want to have something secret or a patent.
Shasta continues to be a quality soda brand today. Shoutout to Winco for keeping it rolling. Probably the last place on earth you can get a soda from the vending machine for 25 cents.
It has ta be Shasta was, in fact, in use by 1968 when my family moved to SoCal. The t.v. adverts for Shasta draft root beer were a hoot and the rhyming catch phrase beat this video’s claim by two decades.
I never heard of them until I started working in a hospital. That's usually what they give patient's. If we couldn't afford Coca-Cola, we got the store brands from Walmart, Kroger, etc.
Another thing. ‘Recipe’ isn’t so much as “one cup flour, half cup sugar, 1 egg, teaspoon vanilla” as it is a formula that might measure flavorings by the milligrams. It’s a very precise formula that will produce the same results every time. That’s why there is Coke and Pepsi and RC and all the rest that sell cola. Each is a distinct formula that might use the same ingredients, just in different ratios. Or have one or more the others don’t. Shasta Cola tastes like Coke? Almost but not quite. Same with all the other copycat flavors❤
As a "not-american" I would never have known about Shasta if not for a scene in Futurama where Fry says: "Alright. It's Saturday night, I have no date, A 2 Liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mixtape. Lets rock." Huh, guess it's a soft drink brand? Never thought of it again until YT algorithm recommended this video.
Shasta has basically built themselves a small empire as the most successful of the generic sodas. A coke vending machine where the cans are $1.50? There's a Shasta machine right next to it, and a can is only 35 cents.
Shasta was my family's go-to cola for years, and then, around 2017, we bought some, and it tasted kinda wierd, checked the ingredients, and they substituted in sucralose. My family no longer drinks Shasta cola.
Try Tiki Punch. If you don't hate Hawaiian punch then it would be very surprising if you hated that. Orange is good too. There are still some flavors that taste great, even with the sucralose.
I suppose that Coke would have to prove that Shasta used the same recipe, if it tried to claim Shasta was counterfing(sp) it's product. Coke's secret recipe wouldn't be a secret any longer.
I love shasta I remember almost every mexican party you go too you'd see liters of shasta because of how cheap they are. It's difficult trying to find shasta here in Vegas but everytime I go back home to LA I always try looking for them in stores.
I drank so much Shasta as a kid. Loved all the fruit flavors, cola, and cream soda! It's hard to find them locally, now (Minnesota). I crave a grape pop!
Pepsi adopted the 12 ounce can in the fifties and had its own jingle to advertise based on it while others were still using 8 ounce cans. My parents still sing it once in a while.
I think Pepsi Co was the first to use plastic type 2L & 3L size containers. 🛒 . 1970s. I remember the TV ads. In 2024, you rarely see soda 3L unless it's a lower end or store brand.
I miss Shasta soda, can hardly find it now that I've moved out of California. I haven't had their raspberry cream soda in so long. Got a case of Tiki Punch at Winco months ago and I was thrilled.
I used to only be able to get the Shasta's from the Dollar Tree when I was a kid. They weren't bad and were a great deal. Used to feel fun like I was gaming the system or something.
Why? Did you somehow not clue into the existence of the Great Value brand (Walmart's in house brand), or did you never ever look on the back of a Shasta can?
Does anyone remember a cola company called "Suburban"? I'm from MD and I don't know if it was something just sold here, or what exactly. But the cans originally were white, wirh the flavor printed on the front, and a picture of a golfer above the text. My favorite drink from the was "Almond Crush". It was like a bright, nuclear reactor liquid red in color, but it tasted just like carbonated Amaretto, and I thought it was amazing. Been YEARS since Ive seen a can/bottle, and longer since I've actually tasted any. I really wish that company was still around. Smh
I was wondering if someone would mention Vess. After my dad retired from Shasta, he consulted part time for them. Wasn't George Brett from the KC Royals spokesman for Vess at one time?
funny enough when it comes to the retail industry: we cannot call our products "knock-offs" even if it's obvious but refer them as "home brands". the issue with the home brand products is that while it has a more affordable price they have to cheap out on the sugar/high fructose corn syrup to convince consumers it tastes better or sweeter while saving a buck or two.
there are several home brands that I actually prefer to name brand products (curse better living brands for replacing tuxedos with crappy generic oreo cookies with no personality)
I live in a small city in the Midwestern US. When I first moved here in the mid-00's there was actually a Shasta soda machine in the entryway of one of our grocery stores. It was gone within just a few years, and IIRC replaced with a Coke machine. I haven't seen Shasta soda anywhere in the city since then. I remember that it was significantly cheaper then the big name soda brands (I believe 75 cents at the time), and it tasted cheaper too. It wasn't bad soda, but it certainly wasn't a threat to Coke or Pepsi. If you can find a place that sells 12 packs of the stuff, I'd say it's not a bad choice if you're looking to save a couple bucks or just try something different. After watching this video, I'm surprised to learn about how many things Shasta did first! You'd think they'd be a bigger deal with all those innovations.
Had no idea about the Ministry/Shasta connection. Also, i have never seen a Shasta soda in stores. Now I'm on the hunt and want to try. I'm a avid coke drinker and haven't found a knockoff coke that is anywhere near a coke
In my area it's mostly at smaller grocery stores or department stores with a grocery section. I buy the Black Cherry at Menard's and Tiki Punch at a local chain. Shasta's website has a store locater by flavor
I like ginger ale Shasta. I don’t see it often at the supermarkets where I live but there is one place I see that is in hospitals. Whenever I would go visit either my mom or dad in the hospital a small can of ginger ale Shasta would be waiting for me. That was one of my childhood memories.
Shasta selling water coming from Mt. Shasta, I can understand the popularity of that bottled water. In the 1960s, my dad used to rave about how good the drinking water was in the town of Weed, California, just miles away from Mt. Shasta. Apparently the snow-melt runoff from Mt. Shasta contributed to the municipal water supply for that community.
I'm guessing you don't live in the USA, or if you do, you're either very young or never leave your house? That's really quite weird that you've never heard of it. It's one of those brands that you have to put effort into not hearing about it (again, unless you don't live in the USA orro very new to this world). Strange.
I love Shasta.. Shasta Root beer was the best of them in the 80s market fridges.. and Shasta root beer tastes very close to this day (it would be better with CANE sugar) and it still has their famous "Big Foamy Head".. I'm a real fan of Zero Sugar Tiki Punch myself. I'm proud that such an innovator started in my state.. one other bit of history, the first glass lined train cars were created especially and exclusively for Shasta so they could pour a car full of their spring water and send it to those who would distribute it.
Never heard of Shasta here in Michigan, although we have Faygo here, which sounds uncannily similar. Perhaps the parent company deems the two too similar to sell them in the same markets.
I was a little kid in the 80's...I'd be at the Ski Trek drinking Shasta sodas and watching people wipe out and flip across the top of the water around the ski trek. It never got old. There were shells all over the ground that would cut your feet, and the people that wiped out on the other end of the trek had to walk barefoot all the way back around to the dock to ski again.
Shout out to Shasta. For keeping us poor kids refreshed.
Faygo 4 lyfe!
@nattyfatty6.0
Mmmm, with a Moon Pie to go along with that RC Cola. 🤤
Nothing better than heading the dollar store and buying enough soda for 40 people with only $10
For a buck Carl's Jr. add a burger, Or a chicken sandwich, Then you could go to Rayley's and get a shasta from the machine for a quarter. Mom made it work.
i don't have that in my area,
we get RC Cola and Bubba.
Alright. It's Saturday night, I have no date, A 2 Liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mixtape. Lets rock.
First thing I thought of 😂
I think I'm in love. 😉
Glad it was said. Well done
Yes.
You are cultured.
Give us your quarters, give us your quarters! 🕹
Hospitals across the US love Shasta.
Yeah! Wonder why that is. Anyone know the reason?
Because their sodas are sodium free.
@@jamescooley5744 and here I thought my facilities were just being cheap asses
@@jamescooley5744 huh TIL
And hotels. Good luck finding anything other than Shasta diet ginger ale in the vending machine.
Copyright law is so weird. It's either surprisingly lenient or incredibly draconian depending on what the product is.
Most certainly based on the varying power of different lobby groups
@@bulletbill5977that and people forget to realize a lot of these companies actually have patents on close alternatives of their own products to cover their bases from someone trying to make a knockoff.
So it's not always just lobbying money, sometimes it's just a company being extra diligent and reverse engineering their own product before competitors can (and sometimes they actually license that patent to competitors so that they're actually taking a % of every sale their competitor makes... That's the real 4d chess move).
Coca Cola's formula doesn't have copyright protection, since it would have to disclose the actual formula and eventually go into the public domain. It's a trade secret, which is legal to reverse engineer.
Not really. It's quite simple and the difference is due to the tangibility of something.
Copyright - Protects expression of creativity and art. Books, Music, Movies, and because it is written, software code.
Trademark/Registered Trademark - Protects brand identity to prevent counterfeit products/companies from confusing consumers. Brand and product names, logos, packaging or building design elements, slogans.
Patent - Protects technological innovations (and expires after 20 years). Inventions, industrial processes, medicine.
Trade Secret - NOT PROTECTED and as such, can apply to anything a company is looking to keep to themselves. Unless someone burglarizes or hacks a company to get their trade secret, there is no punishment for using another's trade secret.
@@eaglescout1984great comment-
I enjoyed Shasta when I was a kid. They were much less expensive than name brand sodas and tasted just as good
No they don’t taste the same…
@@LAC32Griffinthe cola definitely doesn't taste like Coke
It was a staple of every camping trip and birthday party in the 80s. A cooler full of ice and 11 different Shasta flavors 😊
More sugar
Sometimes knock offs are just better than the original....and cheaper...sometimes.
Coke went to crap. Shasta always tasted better.
Shasta isn't a generic or off brand, they were once a big player. It's not a coke knock off, it's just yet another cola
⬆️facts
Tastes different than coke and it is better. Always liked Shasta sodas.
Royal crown, Pepsi, Shasta, original cola from HEB, there's so many colas. Oh and BIG Cola
Mmmm I'd check the math on that. When you have rows full at Family Dollar or Dollar Tree 🌳 you're not major leagues.
@tokenrow669 Walmart in 1980s 1990s had Sam's Choice soda. Sam's used filtered water which gave it a great flavor! ✅️ You could get 3L bottles for $2. Great value for the 1990s.
Flavors do not fall under one of the enumerated categories of copyrightable subject matter, and thus, as a matter of law, may not be registered for copyright.
I haven't been watching because of the girl who was doing the show. When did he start doing the voice over again
Glad someone else noticed that. Of course Mountain Dew was originally a nickname for moonshine, but no one had thought to register it as trademark until someone decided creating a soda and calling it by the name.
@@SimuLord copyright law is largely a joke anyway.
@@petenielsen6683 You need to have something TO trademark though, so no one could trademark unless they had a marketable brand of moonshine. And you can't trademark something that's illegal, which is why folks can't federally protect their cannabis brands.
@@macewindu9100the joke is you thinking creating a product is protected by copyright lmao
I remember when they sold the 3 Liter bottles at the Dollar Tree a long time ago. When my mom would get soda, it was always Shasta!!! Love the flavors still as an adult.
3 liter sodas, amazing
They still do at Dollar trees
I was able to get 2.5 litre bottles of Diet Shasta at Dollar Tree until 2021. For me it was because Shasta used Splenda and I am allergic to aspartame. I haven't been able to find Shasta for a little over a year, so Diet Rite (Royal Crown Cola) is my new favorite.
Shasta was the one soda we loaded up the ice chest with before every family camping trip. They were 15 cents a can, and we grabbed every flavor the store had .
Most don't refer to the store brands as knockoffs they're more like private labels which tend to be better than the actual main products in some instances, As an example some store brand cereals like their take on Apple Jacks if you read the ingredients list it has apple in it whereas the actual apple jacks has more of a vague fruit flavor.
I have fond memories of spending a quarter at the Shasta vending machine in front of the local grocery store and getting a strawberry kiwi soda.
Winco always had Shasta machines too!
Damn, I didn't realize shasta was responsible for so many of the standard practices in the soda industry.
Coke and Pepsi are lucky Shasta was primarily content just being the knockoff brand instead of being a major competitor.
Probably not luck, though... Shasta's products are also decidedly inferior. Maybe good from a bang-for-buck standpoint, which is why you can generally get away with them for a eight-year-old's birthday party. But if bars collectively decided to swap Coke for Shasta in a Cuba Libre, the temperance movement might come back.
@2:40 Akshually, he was, he founded Ministry in 1981, released singles in 1982 and released his debut album "With Sympathy" in 1983
shasta and faygo are proof you can drink the same stuff without paying for the name.
As much as I like Coke the best, there's really not much difference between most soft drinks. It's all the same ingredients and flavors. There's no actual quality difference and the taste differences are slight. Coke is king because of branding more than anything.
Coke tastes way better imo.
@@Kelnx then you've destroyed your taste buds or have gingivitis or some other type of mouth disease because they're all very different. And she has to it's not even a knockoff of coke it is a completely separate flavored Cola
Faygo taste kinda nasty, although i like their orange sodas,
can't say much about Shasta. we don't see any of them in my area,
we get Bubba and RC Cola.
What about Fanta and Vess?
I like Shasta's Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew knockoff flavors.
Walmart has decent knockoffs too with the Sam Cola and Mountain Lightning brands.
Don't forget Dr. Thunder, that's a good soda too.
My low time in life was getting the 3 liter of cola for .89 cents.
Dr. Diablo!
My dad worked for this company for many years so we grew up on Shasta. When they came out with the 8 oz Short Shasta, we gave it out for Halloween. My dad drank the diet Shasta and lots of it, but back then before other artificial sweeteners came to be, saccharin was used in diet sodas and was proven to cause cancer. Unfortunately, bladder cancer is what took my dad's life so I wonder if that contributed to it. I hope sucralose is much safer because I drink Gatorade Zero almost every day as well as a Monster Zero at least once a week.
The Shasta bottling plant is in Hayward CA and we kids of the Bay Area would buy Shasta because more flavors, fresher taste and cheaper.
That's the location of the company headquarters and one of 9 plants in the country.
Shasta twist is the best soda on the market. I work at a nursing home with a relatively unlimited supply of it
They sell it at Dollar Tree, for $1.25 for a 4-pack, but it's not always in stock. They always have Shasta Orange so I'm happy.
Shasta Cola is awful. It tastes like Diet Coke.
@@jeffw1267 ooo dang thats pretty good deal for soda
@@jeffw1267 Wait seriously it tastes like diet coke? Like really tastes just like real diet coke? I probably need to try it then because I love diet coke.
There's a special place in hell for Shasta for switching to HFCs
The shout-out to Rush made this Rush nerd very happy. 😊
Their black cherry soda was my favourite in the 80's.
BEST voice-over artist EVER!
He is the only professionally sounding voice-over narrator on this channel. 👍
There's narrator trolls on this dude's videos too? You're pathetic.
but the voice sounds slightly more boomy than usual
She does a verrrrry good job@@SimuLord
100% agreed. "So what do YOU think?" .. all the other voice-over narrators on the channel don't say this even remotely as good as this guy!
It's kinda hard finding Shasta products in my neck of the woods. You used to see it in just about every grocery store back in the 90s. I loved the Tiki Punch and Dr Shasta. I used to be able to find it in Dollar General stores, but it's nowhere to be found nowadays. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough lol
If you go to their website, you can put in your location and it tells you where to buy around you.
A few years ago Ralph's (Kroger) quit selling Shasta, and replaced it with their Kroger brand, which is execrable swill, not fit for water-boarding. I now go to Smart & Final for Shasta.
They hide them in back you need to ask Hey it’s 4 dollars cheaper and taste the same
@@eileenjulia2841 Correction: Tastes WAY better! Compare Shasta Cola to ANYBODY else's.
As someone who grew up very very poor. Shasta got us through some hard times when we needed a caffeine rush
Ketchup sammiches
We were Faygo family. Still love me some black cherry Faygo.
Lariat pop was cheaper.
Whoa, you guys got Shasta?!? All we had was the generic dollar store stuff with the yellow label that just said "soda"...
@@admiralrustyshackleford119 Shasta or good ol Hill Country Brand soda here in Texas.
Mountain Rush is what Mountain Dew USED to taste like in the 80's.
Now, Mountain Dew tastes like they poured dish soap into it.
I associate Shasta with hospitals and 4oz cans. That's a kind of penetration you can't get anywhere else.
Where were you putting those cans?!
Is that why you were at the hospital?!
@@mdshaleryou’re confusing penetration with insertion
You get that kinda PENETRATION at P Diddy's house ;)
4 oz cans?
4oz....may not be as long but just as thick!! Am I right ladies???
I can't believe that Faygo refuses to acknowledge the fact that if it wasn't for ICP noone would know who the hell they are
Even Moxie had imitators.... Hoxie, Proxie, and Modox.
I’m from Oakland we lived on Shasta products growing up. I can really drinking then all over California, Tahoe, SoCal, Mojave Desert, East Bay, on San Francisco Bay. Those old can images bring back various time and place memories.
Later in by the 80s I worked at a place that made the Root Beer flavor for Shasta. If you were drinking their root beer in 88 and 89 I probably mixed the ingredients and poured it into drums for shipping.
Also a reason why a company wouldn't patent something, in order to get a patent you have to divulge everything in your recipe. Basically it works out to, do you want to have something secret or a patent.
Shasta continues to be a quality soda brand today. Shoutout to Winco for keeping it rolling. Probably the last place on earth you can get a soda from the vending machine for 25 cents.
And you can get them a nice quantities at WinCo Foods. Great place to load up on this beverage before going to the beach. 🏖️
It has ta be Shasta was, in fact, in use by 1968 when my family moved to SoCal. The t.v. adverts for Shasta draft root beer were a hoot and the rhyming catch phrase beat this video’s claim by two decades.
I never heard of them until I started working in a hospital. That's usually what they give patient's. If we couldn't afford Coca-Cola, we got the store brands from Walmart, Kroger, etc.
Another thing. ‘Recipe’ isn’t so much as “one cup flour, half cup sugar, 1 egg, teaspoon vanilla” as it is a formula that might measure flavorings by the milligrams. It’s a very precise formula that will produce the same results every time. That’s why there is Coke and Pepsi and RC and all the rest that sell cola. Each is a distinct formula that might use the same ingredients, just in different ratios. Or have one or more the others don’t. Shasta Cola tastes like Coke? Almost but not quite. Same with all the other copycat flavors❤
I just learned something
I credit Shasta for giving my family diabetes! THANKS SHASTA!
This making me really thirsty for a Shasta..
As a "not-american" I would never have known about Shasta if not for a scene in Futurama where Fry says:
"Alright. It's Saturday night, I have no date, A 2 Liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mixtape. Lets rock."
Huh, guess it's a soft drink brand? Never thought of it again until YT algorithm recommended this video.
Shasta has basically built themselves a small empire as the most successful of the generic sodas. A coke vending machine where the cans are $1.50? There's a Shasta machine right next to it, and a can is only 35 cents.
@@devenscience8894 Very informative, the video could have mentioned this aspect.
I haven't had a Shasta since like 2006, Heading to Dollar Tree now
Shasta has a grandfathered law working in their favor. I was surprised not to hear anything about that.
Shasta,Sunny D and barf jelly beans this week. Who ever comes up with the ideas for the videos is a evil genius. I approve
Shasta was my family's go-to cola for years, and then, around 2017, we bought some, and it tasted kinda wierd, checked the ingredients, and they substituted in sucralose. My family no longer drinks Shasta cola.
Try Tiki Punch. If you don't hate Hawaiian punch then it would be very surprising if you hated that. Orange is good too. There are still some flavors that taste great, even with the sucralose.
You need to be careful 🚨🚨🚨 with some cheap soda pop brands, 2nd rate soda. It can make you 🤢. I learned that in the 1990s.
Do Detroit's own Faygo, or Vernors
Detroit? Fukn dope af. I didn't know that
Have you ever heard of the Insane Clown Posse ? They're notorious for dowsing their audiences with orange Faygo
@@marylist1236 absolutely genius!
Remember being "Too pooped to participate?"
Towne Club Soda.
Shasta: Proof that everyday IS Halloween...
Did someone give out cans to the kids like we did when they came out with the 8 oz cans?
They made a Nintendo-themed soda line when I was a kid and that stuff was delicious.
I suppose that Coke would have to prove that Shasta used the same recipe, if it tried to claim Shasta was counterfing(sp) it's product. Coke's secret recipe wouldn't be a secret any longer.
Back in the 40's and 50's there was a cream shampoo named Shasta.
I love shasta I remember almost every mexican party you go too you'd see liters of shasta because of how cheap they are. It's difficult trying to find shasta here in Vegas but everytime I go back home to LA I always try looking for them in stores.
I drank so much Shasta as a kid. Loved all the fruit flavors, cola, and cream soda! It's hard to find them locally, now (Minnesota). I crave a grape pop!
Came to the comments to find other cream soda aficionados. Stay creamy, brother ❤
Shasta. The soda of every nursing home
There is this small country in Mexico that is addicted to Cola. Most people drink about 2L of coke daily because it is cheaper and safer than water
Mexico is a country lol
That’s all of Mexico.. and yeah what itsmelmc said…
I went to school with a girl named Shasta. She was real chill.
Shasta sounds like some sort of psychedelic a shaman would use, Hydrox sounds like toilet cleaner.
That's hilarious because mount shasta attracts all kinds of hippie new agers.
I grew up in Shasta County, near Shasta Lake. When I was a kid I had no idea Shasta Cola was a national brand.
Off Brands... the true backbone of America.
Thank you Shasta. You saved us so much money in college mixing drinks
"How Shasta gets away with imitating Coke". *Proceeds to spend the first 9 min talking about unrelated information*
In Hayward, CA Shasta twist removed their iconic rotating CAN billboard off of California 92 San Mateo Bridge.
Pepsi adopted the 12 ounce can in the fifties and had its own jingle to advertise based on it while others were still using 8 ounce cans. My parents still sing it once in a while.
I think Pepsi Co was the first to use plastic type 2L & 3L size containers. 🛒 . 1970s. I remember the TV ads. In 2024, you rarely see soda 3L unless it's a lower end or store brand.
We only had Shasta pop growing up, root beer, kiwi strawberry, orange, grape and tiki punch (although I seem to remember tiki punch coming later..)
the faygo for my west coast upbringing
Only time I ever had Faygo was the cotton candy one. It's amazing how repulsive a can of flavored sugar water can taste.
Could anyone else go for an ultra cold Shasta Cream Soda and a backyard cookout hot dog right now?
I would spend a good portion of my paycheck for tiki punch. Love it.
I love Shasta. Ever since coke and Pepsi started prices non stop I’ve switched and won’t be looking back.
I just found this channel and I'm hype, good stuff
Welcome aboard
Have you got 7Up? No, but we’ve got 8Down 😂
I miss Shasta soda, can hardly find it now that I've moved out of California. I haven't had their raspberry cream soda in so long. Got a case of Tiki Punch at Winco months ago and I was thrilled.
Yo I got the hook ups 😎
raspberry cream soda sounds delicious! i've never seen that one (but also not a huge soda drinker)
@@kubbybear5458 It's one of their best.
@@kubbybear5458 From what I can remember of the taste, it was pretty sweet. Nice raspberry flavor though.
Shout out Hayward, California. Home of Shasta cola. I can still see the soda tower when I close my eyes.
I click on your videos and just hope it’s your narrating. Always a great vid when ya do!
I used to only be able to get the Shasta's from the Dollar Tree when I was a kid. They weren't bad and were a great deal. Used to feel fun like I was gaming the system or something.
Love the squirt shoutout!
Drank Shasta as a kid. I was a fan of the red apple. Haven't had a Shasta in years.
Never knew Shasta had lore. Always assumed it was the cheaper Walmart brand.
Why? Did you somehow not clue into the existence of the Great Value brand (Walmart's in house brand), or did you never ever look on the back of a Shasta can?
Shasta is so big on the Navajo nation! I grew up on this brand. Lol. 🤘🏽
Paul Harrell would like a word with you…
I see what you did there.
I was looking for this comment
Does anyone remember a cola company called "Suburban"? I'm from MD and I don't know if it was something just sold here, or what exactly. But the cans originally were white, wirh the flavor printed on the front, and a picture of a golfer above the text. My favorite drink from the was "Almond Crush". It was like a bright, nuclear reactor liquid red in color, but it tasted just like carbonated Amaretto, and I thought it was amazing. Been YEARS since Ive seen a can/bottle, and longer since I've actually tasted any. I really wish that company was still around. Smh
Shasta is soda for the people ngl. Its like 2.50 a case sometimes
Dr Shasta! Having a doctorate in Fizzalogy paid off. 😂
Vess is the St. Louis version of Shasta.
I was wondering if someone would mention Vess. After my dad retired from Shasta, he consulted part time for them. Wasn't George Brett from the KC Royals spokesman for Vess at one time?
How the heck are they all the way down at #11 and not like 6 or 7?
I remember trying Chocolate Shasta as a kid once. Emphasis on the ONCE! Damn that was some nasty shit....
Seems like they tried just about every flavor there was. I don't think I ever tried bubble gum.
Shasta was a big part of my childhood. Thank you for watching out for the little guy Shasta!
funny enough when it comes to the retail industry: we cannot call our products "knock-offs" even if it's obvious but refer them as "home brands".
the issue with the home brand products is that while it has a more affordable price they have to cheap out on the sugar/high fructose corn syrup to convince consumers it tastes better or sweeter while saving a buck or two.
there are several home brands that I actually prefer to name brand products (curse better living brands for replacing tuxedos with crappy generic oreo cookies with no personality)
@@daft_icup there are plenty of good home branded foodstuff and drinks
I live in a small city in the Midwestern US. When I first moved here in the mid-00's there was actually a Shasta soda machine in the entryway of one of our grocery stores. It was gone within just a few years, and IIRC replaced with a Coke machine. I haven't seen Shasta soda anywhere in the city since then. I remember that it was significantly cheaper then the big name soda brands (I believe 75 cents at the time), and it tasted cheaper too. It wasn't bad soda, but it certainly wasn't a threat to Coke or Pepsi. If you can find a place that sells 12 packs of the stuff, I'd say it's not a bad choice if you're looking to save a couple bucks or just try something different. After watching this video, I'm surprised to learn about how many things Shasta did first! You'd think they'd be a bigger deal with all those innovations.
There's a 75 cent Shasta machine at my local WinCo (WA state).
Had no idea about the Ministry/Shasta connection.
Also, i have never seen a Shasta soda in stores. Now I'm on the hunt and want to try. I'm a avid coke drinker and haven't found a knockoff coke that is anywhere near a coke
In my area it's mostly at smaller grocery stores or department stores with a grocery section. I buy the Black Cherry at Menard's and Tiki Punch at a local chain. Shasta's website has a store locater by flavor
Dollar Tree here carries Shasta sodas. I don't think the cola is close enough to Coke to call it a copycat.🥤 Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸
H-E-B in Texas has a store brand of its own and one of the products is very, very close to Coke Zero
You may have to ship it, I know the official storefront ships by the case. It gets quite expensive though.
I like ginger ale Shasta. I don’t see it often at the supermarkets where I live but there is one place I see that is in hospitals. Whenever I would go visit either my mom or dad in the hospital a small can of ginger ale Shasta would be waiting for me. That was one of my childhood memories.
I love that you can still find toastems if you go to either a Dollar tree or a family Dollar. And they are better than Pop-Tarts
by not tasting even REMOTELY similar to it, that's how
Please do The History of Faygo Soda
I’ve always loved how cheap and good tasting all the flavors are especially the orange cream soda
They also worked great for gravity Bon**(3 litters container)
Shasta selling water coming from Mt. Shasta, I can understand the popularity of that bottled water.
In the 1960s, my dad used to rave about how good the drinking water was in the town of Weed, California, just miles away from Mt. Shasta. Apparently the snow-melt runoff from Mt. Shasta contributed to the municipal water supply for that community.
Shasta orange actually slaps incredibly hard
How dare you, Give up our secrets!!!
Dr Shasta tastes more of what Dr Pepper should taste like than Dr Pepper tastes like.
For every Superman there is a Homelander, Supreme, Gladiator and Omni-Man.
I genuinely have no recollection of ever seeing Shasta anywhere IRL. I remember hearing it in Futurama, but that's about it.
I'm guessing you don't live in the USA, or if you do, you're either very young or never leave your house? That's really quite weird that you've never heard of it. It's one of those brands that you have to put effort into not hearing about it (again, unless you don't live in the USA orro very new to this world). Strange.
I know they had Slurm but never Shasta. 🚀
I love Shasta.. Shasta Root beer was the best of them in the 80s market fridges.. and Shasta root beer tastes very close to this day (it would be better with CANE sugar) and it still has their famous "Big Foamy Head".. I'm a real fan of Zero Sugar Tiki Punch myself. I'm proud that such an innovator started in my state.. one other bit of history, the first glass lined train cars were created especially and exclusively for Shasta so they could pour a car full of their spring water and send it to those who would distribute it.
Never heard of Shasta here in Michigan, although we have Faygo here, which sounds uncannily similar. Perhaps the parent company deems the two too similar to sell them in the same markets.
I live in Grand Rapids and it's available in Menards stores over here.
I was a little kid in the 80's...I'd be at the Ski Trek drinking Shasta sodas and watching people wipe out and flip across the top of the water around the ski trek. It never got old. There were shells all over the ground that would cut your feet, and the people that wiped out on the other end of the trek had to walk barefoot all the way back around to the dock to ski again.