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An American specific generational thing, I think. As a South African I only recognise Capri Sun and I think that maybe I saw Orbitz at a candy importer a few times in the late 90s but it would have been far too expensive for me because most things at those stores were. I'm fairly certain that companies were actively trying to kill kids in the 80s and 90s.
If you ever revisit this, I believe the Orbitz were suspended in the liquid by adjusting the density with xanthan gum--this was a common high school chemistry experiment in the early 2000s.
Boba certainly made me think of Orbitz when I first came upon it. I fondly recall my high school friend trying Orbitz for the first time and exclaiming in dismay, “It’s got chunks!”
@@Spade_FoxDerg Yeah the wiki page for Orbitz says just as much. They're very similar substances but gellan is derived from a different microorganism to xanthan.
I have fuzzy memories from college of pouring two shots of tequila in a glass with red Gatorade, squeezing a pouch of Capri Sun in, and dubbing it a "Capri-la sunrise". As is traditional in Italy, probably.
*Greg takes the koolaid * "I'm gonna put some vodka in this, because what else am I gonna put in this." I'm sensing a theme for this episode, and that is "drinks that I would have made when I was 17"
In college my friends and I would drink "Estus flasks" aka Sunny D topped off with the cheapest sparkling wine we could get and we THRIVED we we're living our worst lives and loving it
Reminds me of when I was 19 and my friend gifted me two very fancy bottles of red wine (for some reason). I was not a wine drinker at all, and there was a block party going on, so we mixed up a jug of cherry Crystal Light, poured the wine in, funnelled it back into a couple of empty pop bottles and called it "ghetto sangria". The blackout that this stuff induced in both of us - and the hangovers that followed - were truly one of a kind.
I remember downing those Kool-aid bursts after helping with yard work at my grandma's. Flavor always reminded me of a mildly sad, melted, generic popsicle.
The 90s I think is when companies started realizing that if they flavor a product only mildly, then they can keep you coming back: looking for the almost-promised flavor, while never actually being satisfied, and that we'd just keep trying as long as we didn't think too hard about it 😅
Pretty sure the whole deal with crystal pepsi is that its the same recipe as regular pepsi except they remove the caramel which makes it taste more like a citrus drink rather then a regular cola. You can still get it in Canada during the summer and I love it.
No, the original crystal Pepsi (and the reissue) was an attempt to hit the same flavor but clear... The flavor was just a slight variation of normal Pepsi When they discontinued crystal Pepsi they changed the formula to give it that citrus taste and simply called it "crystal" which is why many people confuse the two
@@SgtPnkks I was talking about the original / reissue. It does still taste a lot like regular pepsi but without the caramel I find its a lot closer to a citrus drink then like a classic cola, cola in the end is just a spiced citrus drink anyways. I've never tried the changed formula before, was it any good? (I assume no because they discontinued it not long after trying the change)
i’m so glad to hear that it’s still around in the summer in parts of Canada, because i have seen it around Québec but i was worried that the dépanneur i visited in Sherbrooke might have just not gotten rid of some very expired soda for a while 😭
As someone who loves cherry flavors, including artificial cherry, when you were talking about how there was nothing you could add that would enhance the mild flavor of a Kool-Aid Burst without overwhelming it, I was staring at the bottle of Luxardo in the top left of the frame and screaming internally.
The sunny d one kinda reminds me of my "famous" punch that I used to make. Equal parts sunny d and mango juice then every flavor of "tropical" vodka or rum you can get your hands on (pineapple, mango, orange, banana, etc. Not coconut though. Coconut ruins it.) I called it Sunday morning sunshine, or then eventually just Sunshine. It tastes delicious and you will get alcohol poisoning from it lol.
For April Fool's or even just any meaningfully special occasion you should try swapping places with Meredith for an episode, she makes the drinks and keeps up the chatter while you're on standby if needed and making sure things are recording right, etc.
What you're remembering, is the CITRUS crystal pepsi. which was even more limited of a run. OG crystal pepsi is just pepsi without caramel color. they did release a special Citrus flavored one which was only available for i want to say 6 months or so.
As someone who has watched Ashens consume A LOT of things as old as the Orbitz or older, I thank you for your service today Greg. Never seemed like anything a rational human being should do or watch, but its always entertaining.
9:30 in the original drink they used Gellan gum, a water-soluble, to "suspend" the little orbs in their drink and it worked because it made the orbs and liquid equal density. PHYSICS!
I'm really, really glad I hadn't taken a sip of my coffee when "stuffed with D" showed up in the vid. All the 90s nostalgia going around makes me laugh a bit. I now know how my parents probably feel seeing 60s and 70s nostalgia where the nostalgia hits the main bits but misses the subtleties. All the little nuances that made the 90s the 90s tend to be missing. Not to mention that there's a fair bit overlap with mid-90s through the first half of the 00s. That or it's just all mixed up. I graduated high school in 06 and one of my coworkers informed that that's the year she was born. I sort of just stared at her and wondered where the hell the time has gone. The 90s still feel like 10 years ago to me, not more like the 30 they are...
@@blakksheep736 I work in my town's vet clinic. We have a boarding building/facility that is part of it, so we have teens that work there part-time. Usually weekends during the school yet and then a few more hours during the summer.
Looking forward to the next batch of generational nostalgia cocktails like: Affording A Mortgage, Working In A Field You Love After University & Making A Real Difference.
I remember when those blue Kool-Aids were called, "The Great Bluedini". To me, they taste the exact same as they did 30 years ago. ...Yeah, I might have had one recently on purpose.
I just bought some Clearly Canadian 2 weeks ago. It's horribly expensive compared to what it was in my youth. I remember it being a little more expensive than a can of soda but it was over $3 a bottle now. It was fun introducing my kids to a little of my 90s nostalgia and it tastes way better than any carbonated water/ seltzer IMHO. Also there use to be 100s of coolaid flavors and now there are 10 or so.
It wasn't even that sweet back then. I remember cos we celebrate Chinese New Year in my family, which involves lots of people dropping by to visit so you always need a cooler of drinks on standby, and Mom went out of her way to buy an industrial quantity of Clearly Canadian (a very fringe import in our country even then) because she tasted how un-sweet it was and wanted to be the "responsible one", not just stock with a bunch of Coke and Sprite like everyone else in our family did. I distinctly remember loving the apple one the most, followed by the blackberry. Oh and it's hilarious how Greg notes the difficulty with the cap, cos they were like that back then too. I've only ever cut myself on one drink bottle and it was opening a Clearly Canadian. Slashed my thumb right open!
Hundreds? The two blue ones were introduced and are still around. The had this pink one that had to do with a dinosaur. Maybe they had lime at one point. Strawberry is still in effect I believe. Hard to find orange now. But I don't think it went over how many flavors of jello or jolly ranchers they had at the time. There is a mango orange that is newer.
Orbitz! I used to BEG my Mom to buy me one to try - the Pina Colada specifically. I remember it being freakishly syrupy but a big MEH on flavor. Sadly, that one drink informed my palette as to what a Pina Colada should taste like for the next 15 years!
The music at the beginning of the Crystal Pepsi part, specifically the editing of the beats in the music with the cuts in the video when you're trying the vanilla vodka, really nicely done.
I think you guys may be conflating the two different Crystal variants! The original Crystal Pepsi was supposed to be just Pepsi without any colorant - tasted largely like regular Pepsi to me without the extra vanilla or lemon you seemed to note - but then after that one was discontinued, they brought out "Crystal " which a lemon citrus soda, and looked the same. It was confusing at the time as well.
I only discovered Clearly Canadian like 2 or 3 years ago and, after trying each flavor, Mountain Blackberry has become one of my favorite things to drink. 😂 I don't have it very often because it's expensive, but I was actually finishing up a bottle of it as I clicked on this video. 😂 This is the first time I've ever questioned the faith I had in Greg's judgment.
The strawberry one is my favorite! They have new lime and some other flavors now too including sugar free bottles with new flavors! Fr tho so expensive but so good.
Oh god, Orbitz. Between those and these Elemental Cooler things that read like a Captain Planet lineup, they're vividly impressed in my brain as tasting like writing classes at UVa in the mid-90s. I can feel the texture in my mouth just sitting here. We're all ancient mariners now, look out for albatross.
With the exception of the orbitz, all of these are still available on the market, though sometimes limited runs. Crystal Pepsi was re-released for a short time in 2022 as its "30th anniversary," while Clearly Canadian, Hi-C, Kool-Aid, and Sunny Delight are all still regular market items. Even Orbitz may have been re-released a few times promotionally (I struggle to believe a bottle full of sugar and proteins would only have "some" mold in it after 30 years)
A group I used to hang with (Duckstock) had a signature mixed drink (Duck Juice) they made that used Sunny D as a primary ingredient. The other ingredients were three types of rum, pineapple juice, and maraschino cherry juice. I don't recall the proportions of it, unfortunately, but I could probably get ahold of the recipe if you wanted to know it.
@@saqwana25god, what a fucking crime. Artificial sweeteners all taste like metal and adding them to something that doesn't have much else going on is a Mistake.
omg i used to drink blue kool aid bursts everyday at school in the early 2010s!! (i’m a zoomer lmao) i used to chew through the plastic on the bottom and drink it the wrong way. i was a strange child
The expiration dates on bottles isn't really for the drink inside... it for the plastic bottle itself which decomposes into the drink, I'm sure those microplastics tasted yummy. You're 20% plastic now.
I remember being so upset as a kid when Squeezits were discontinued and Kool-Aid Bursts were all that was left. Even as the kind of kid who couldn't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, I knew Bursts tasted like a phantom of what Squeezits were.
Have you guys heard of Super Juice? Pretty interesting food chemistry thing to get maximum juice out of just one, two citruses, using citric and malic acid to get a concentrate using peals & everything. Haven't tried it myself, yet, but it's supposed to taste basically just like fresh squeezed once topped up with water, but for a fraction of the ingredient costs. Not sure if its worth a full episode or anything like that, but reading about it reminded me of your syrup & grenadine episodes so thought it worth a mention.
The original Crystal Pepsi was caffeine free and caramel color free. It still tasted like cola and was an excellent mixer. The creamy citrus thing was a different beverage called like Crystal From Pepsi. The reissue of Crystal Pepsi has caffeine and it doesn't mix nearly as well because of that.
i think the best way you could have made the Orbitz drink have the boba floating around would be hte same method you did with the Carbon Freeze in the Galaxys Edge video, using those cups that have the puck of dry ice at the bottom.
Where did you find an orbitz???? I haven't had one of those in decades. I vaguely recall crystal Pepsi, and always made a mess trying to open the kool-aid ones 😅 Edit: I miss jasta too... that was such a different one compared to most mid to late 90s sugar bombs
if you're looking for another video game inspired episode i'd recommend deep rock galactic. it has alot of drinks but no actual recipes so i would love to see what you can come up with.
Aside from a walk down nostalgia lane this episode, I love watching your content. Especially the slow-mo pours, quite satisfying and occasionally educational for future drink making.
This video was great,loved it!😀Orbits was one of my go to drinks back then. I remember Ecto Cooler too and Jolt Cola,wish they had some of this stuff back in stores
I think we're at a point where Greg could easily take the greatest hits of his on the fly makes and perfect them then have others do an a/b with the thing he was inspired by. Fun episode. Took me way back.
Maybe it's just me, & maybe this is a shit take, but episodes like this just don't land for me. Don't get me wrong, I love my nostalgia & I totally get having to feed the TH-cam algorithm by doing things people are interested in. The issue is, Greg doesn't look like he enjoyed this video, & you can sort of tell. The quality of it is top notch as always, with the production value we've come to expect from HTD. But there's something different about the episodes where Greg is clearly having fun working on/experimenting with a concept or drink that excites him versus those where you can tell he's just trying to get the content made. This episode felt a lot more like the latter than the former. Again, maybe I'm odd, but I don't really enjoy seeing Greg suffer. If you end up reading this, thank you for all you do. I truly enjoy HTD and look forward to it each week. I just hope your next few shooting days are filled with the kinds of episodes you enjoy making.
If any of these bottles are actually 24-33 years old rather than modern samples of the product then there is significant degradation from the water acting as solvent and potential sun damage. Still really fun to watch.
Australia had something similar to the kool-aid bursts. They were called Koola Bears and may still be around. My town has one specific shop that sold them, and it's still open so I might eventually check. They had the same kind of "chew it open like a savage since you're a kid with no scissors" top, and were shaped like sitting Koala Bears :) I'm a 2000s kid and they were my favourite lil treat
Orange Hi-C always makes me think of my friends and I back in high school Frankensteining McChicken/McDouble sandwich abominations at McDonald's. I can still taste those memories 15 years later
The first convention I ever went to like 8 or so years ago had a cocktail that was being passed around called the "Esther's flask" and it was basically just sunny d and fireball whiskey. I actually really liked it at the time. haven't had it since though.
Lord, I can't drink for lots of reasons however I have a ridiculous curiosity for tasting awful things and that's so devious it would be something I tried 😂😂😂😂❤
I was once at a hotel bar near Punxsutawney, PA on groundhogs day and they made tequila sunrises with Sunny D in place of orange juice. It was the greatest substitute of all time! My friend and I spent the whole night drinking those and watching Breaking Amish on the TV in the bar, definitely a great way to celebrate groundhogs day after going to gobblers knob!
Where's the grape Kool Aid Burst? It would have been hilarious to see you try your hand at an elevated Purple Jesus. And inevitably, you'd have had to call it "Purple Stuff".
Growing up we were all really into the 80s, mostly for the cocaine purity also the ability to hit people and not go to jail, horrific style and bad rap music, but now the cocaine purity in the US is really high... I don't know if Zoomers like the 90's, but they probably do for similarly dumb reasons, that'll come to fruition when they turn 30.
You left out New York Seltzers, though I imagine they're similar to the Clearly Canadian. With my soda sweet tooth, I gotta be honest- I miss them. I'm not sure when seltzers made the switch from being fully flavored to being "essence-hinted", but I am not on board.
Video Suggestion: Summer Cocktails. I know you’ve done a video on *coffee* summer cocktails, but what about something a bit more general? At the very least, if you’ve done that already, I’m struggling to find it.
When I was a kid in the 90s they had these juice things that came in little plastic barrels with a foil lid. Found some at a dollar store recently and tried them. Absolutely vile, just sugar water and food coloring, no actual flavor to speak of. The kids loved them though.
Sunny D mixes really well (considering) with UV Blue raspberry flavored vodka which we affectionately named Shrek Juice in college due to its swamp green mixed color. It's actually the only way any of us could stomach the bluv
Fun fact about Orbitz: it's just Clearly Canadian with funny bits in it, and the density adjusted with gellan gum so the bits float. It's the same drink, otherwise. Even the bottles are the same.
In high school we were drinking sunny d and Seagram's dry gin. We called it "gin n juice" or "the pantie dropper" lmao 🤣 we did not know wtf we were doing but it was good and got you drunk.
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Is it a generational thing? Do kids still drink stuff like this? Seems absolutely nuts in retrospect!
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I loved sunny d!😊😊😊
Looking at some of these drinks and the crazy chemicals they have in it no wonder the younger generation has so many issues
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I love the game I think its a bit underrated.
Idk if you read comments. But I would like to hear your feedback about this idea
An American specific generational thing, I think. As a South African I only recognise Capri Sun and I think that maybe I saw Orbitz at a candy importer a few times in the late 90s but it would have been far too expensive for me because most things at those stores were. I'm fairly certain that companies were actively trying to kill kids in the 80s and 90s.
you are not la beast
This is the rare HTD where it feels like Greg is sobering up throughout the episode instead of the reverse 😁
@@XCodes specifically vodka?
You're weirdly kind of right.
He's not just sobering up. He's getting knurd.
@@fearjunkie nerd
I don't know if that's actually what's happening but I definitely see what your seeing lol
If you ever revisit this, I believe the Orbitz were suspended in the liquid by adjusting the density with xanthan gum--this was a common high school chemistry experiment in the early 2000s.
yeah they used a water-soluble similar to the one you mentioned, but what they actually used was Gellan gum. neat stuff :)
My brothers and I loved that shit back in the day. So sad it was discontinued.
Boba certainly made me think of Orbitz when I first came upon it. I fondly recall my high school friend trying Orbitz for the first time and exclaiming in dismay, “It’s got chunks!”
American boba lol
@@Spade_FoxDerg Yeah the wiki page for Orbitz says just as much. They're very similar substances but gellan is derived from a different microorganism to xanthan.
I can not believe you opened that old bottle of Orbitz, inhaled the mold spores, and then put it in your mouth. Please don't die, Greg.
Next HTD episode: "The Walking Greg"
@@chrisclark9209 "The Last of Greg"
And definitely _don't_ become a zombie!
if the L.A Beast can handle the orbitz, greg should be fine
@@adams3627 "Greg Rising."
Capri is an island in Italy. Typified by its artificially sweetened drink pouches.
And it's earthquakes.
and mom pants!
I have fuzzy memories from college of pouring two shots of tequila in a glass with red Gatorade, squeezing a pouch of Capri Sun in, and dubbing it a "Capri-la sunrise".
As is traditional in Italy, probably.
the island is named for it's livestock; greek Kapros boar &or latin Caprae goats.
@@francislelievre5172 interesting but I’m pretty sure it’s actually the artificially flavored drink pouches with tiny straws
*Greg takes the koolaid *
"I'm gonna put some vodka in this, because what else am I gonna put in this."
I'm sensing a theme for this episode, and that is "drinks that I would have made when I was 17"
Vodka does go well with basically anything
@@Sniperboy5551 First time I experienced Everclear was mixed with koolaid. It became an alcoholic theme song of my pre-legal drinking adventures. XD
@@Kaotiqua ahhh yes, Everclear, the favorite of all underage drinkers who want to get way too fucked up way too fast.😄
I used to drink Grey Goose in Kool aid. Because I'm ridiculous.
I mean he coulda put a lot of other things in that koolaid. I heard Jonestown loves putting additives that burn the throat in their drinks
In college my friends and I would drink "Estus flasks" aka Sunny D topped off with the cheapest sparkling wine we could get and we THRIVED we we're living our worst lives and loving it
poor mans mimosas?
Gonna need some fire keeper souls to help it go down
How many souls to buy one? Or do I just create the flask and it’ll regenerate?
Reminds me of when I was 19 and my friend gifted me two very fancy bottles of red wine (for some reason). I was not a wine drinker at all, and there was a block party going on, so we mixed up a jug of cherry Crystal Light, poured the wine in, funnelled it back into a couple of empty pop bottles and called it "ghetto sangria". The blackout that this stuff induced in both of us - and the hangovers that followed - were truly one of a kind.
@fummifummi8124 that goes so hard
This is HTD meets Ashens. It'll be a horrorshow.
Ashens' stomach is made out of cast iron.
That's a collab I didn't know I needed 😮
How to drink poundland special
50 year old ginintonic.
MY GOD YES
I remember downing those Kool-aid bursts after helping with yard work at my grandma's. Flavor always reminded me of a mildly sad, melted, generic popsicle.
Hell yeah, dude. Those were The ORIGINAL cracking open a Cold One with the boys!
Yeah, exactly... that's the best way to describe how they tasted.
I think my mom bought me and my sister Squeezits more often than the Kool-Aid Bursts but I can't imagine there was really any difference.
I mean, honestly, it was probably the same mix. Kool-Aid, OtterPops, Humming bird food, etc. That's why we went Caprisun!
The 90s I think is when companies started realizing that if they flavor a product only mildly, then they can keep you coming back: looking for the almost-promised flavor, while never actually being satisfied, and that we'd just keep trying as long as we didn't think too hard about it 😅
The Orbitz drink would have been a good use for that pourable xanthan gum thickener that you made for the Destiny episode
Pretty sure the whole deal with crystal pepsi is that its the same recipe as regular pepsi except they remove the caramel which makes it taste more like a citrus drink rather then a regular cola. You can still get it in Canada during the summer and I love it.
Not me frantically googling how much it would cost to ship it from Canada to the states
Never seen it in saskatchewan
No, the original crystal Pepsi (and the reissue) was an attempt to hit the same flavor but clear... The flavor was just a slight variation of normal Pepsi
When they discontinued crystal Pepsi they changed the formula to give it that citrus taste and simply called it "crystal" which is why many people confuse the two
@@SgtPnkks I was talking about the original / reissue. It does still taste a lot like regular pepsi but without the caramel I find its a lot closer to a citrus drink then like a classic cola, cola in the end is just a spiced citrus drink anyways.
I've never tried the changed formula before, was it any good? (I assume no because they discontinued it not long after trying the change)
i’m so glad to hear that it’s still around in the summer in parts of Canada, because i have seen it around Québec but i was worried that the dépanneur i visited in Sherbrooke might have just not gotten rid of some very expired soda for a while 😭
Pepsi Clear instantly reminds me of that video where a dude chugs the bottle then violently vomits 5 minutes later
That’s gotta be LA Beast.
Classic video. Have a nice day!
Deji right? Or Comedy shorts Gamer as he was called then
Ipecac
@@BeardslapRadiothe BEAST!
As someone who loves cherry flavors, including artificial cherry, when you were talking about how there was nothing you could add that would enhance the mild flavor of a Kool-Aid Burst without overwhelming it, I was staring at the bottle of Luxardo in the top left of the frame and screaming internally.
The sunny d one kinda reminds me of my "famous" punch that I used to make. Equal parts sunny d and mango juice then every flavor of "tropical" vodka or rum you can get your hands on (pineapple, mango, orange, banana, etc. Not coconut though. Coconut ruins it.) I called it Sunday morning sunshine, or then eventually just Sunshine. It tastes delicious and you will get alcohol poisoning from it lol.
For April Fool's or even just any meaningfully special occasion you should try swapping places with Meredith for an episode, she makes the drinks and keeps up the chatter while you're on standby if needed and making sure things are recording right, etc.
I love when the tasting notes spell it "Ahrangy"
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11:12 caprisuns are a shell of their former selves. They’re half flavored and sweetened with artificial sweetener. They’re absolute dog water now.
Thank you. I was trying to figure out if I was just too old, if my nostalgia goggles were on, etc. I thought I was nuts.
I hate that I saw "30 year old drinks" and immediately thought 1970's
What you're remembering, is the CITRUS crystal pepsi. which was even more limited of a run. OG crystal pepsi is just pepsi without caramel color. they did release a special Citrus flavored one which was only available for i want to say 6 months or so.
Damn, you KNOW things.
As someone who has watched Ashens consume A LOT of things as old as the Orbitz or older, I thank you for your service today Greg. Never seemed like anything a rational human being should do or watch, but its always entertaining.
"Trying 30 year old drinks"
"90's to the max!"
Please don't ever put those sentences together again.
Lol sorrrryyy
9:30 in the original drink they used Gellan gum, a water-soluble, to "suspend" the little orbs in their drink and it worked because it made the orbs and liquid equal density. PHYSICS!
I'm really, really glad I hadn't taken a sip of my coffee when "stuffed with D" showed up in the vid. All the 90s nostalgia going around makes me laugh a bit. I now know how my parents probably feel seeing 60s and 70s nostalgia where the nostalgia hits the main bits but misses the subtleties. All the little nuances that made the 90s the 90s tend to be missing. Not to mention that there's a fair bit overlap with mid-90s through the first half of the 00s. That or it's just all mixed up. I graduated high school in 06 and one of my coworkers informed that that's the year she was born. I sort of just stared at her and wondered where the hell the time has gone. The 90s still feel like 10 years ago to me, not more like the 30 they are...
What job do you have that your coworker is 16-17?
@@blakksheep736 I work in my town's vet clinic. We have a boarding building/facility that is part of it, so we have teens that work there part-time. Usually weekends during the school yet and then a few more hours during the summer.
@@SolaScientia I see.
I still remember getting high and drinking Orbitz - I'd imagine it does not age well 😁
the Clearly Canadian blackberry was also my jam 😆 SO much sugar
Looking forward to the next batch of generational nostalgia cocktails like: Affording A Mortgage, Working In A Field You Love After University & Making A Real Difference.
Love Crystal Pepsi! They re-release it here in western Canada almost every year of late for a few months. We load up.
I was able to try it when they re-released it. I hoped they kept it around for a bit.
I remember when those blue Kool-Aids were called, "The Great Bluedini". To me, they taste the exact same as they did 30 years ago.
...Yeah, I might have had one recently on purpose.
I just bought some Clearly Canadian 2 weeks ago. It's horribly expensive compared to what it was in my youth. I remember it being a little more expensive than a can of soda but it was over $3 a bottle now. It was fun introducing my kids to a little of my 90s nostalgia and it tastes way better than any carbonated water/ seltzer IMHO. Also there use to be 100s of coolaid flavors and now there are 10 or so.
Him saying the Clearly Canadian was sweet kinda irritated me tbh, and the flavors are very natural, specifically strawberry
It wasn't even that sweet back then. I remember cos we celebrate Chinese New Year in my family, which involves lots of people dropping by to visit so you always need a cooler of drinks on standby, and Mom went out of her way to buy an industrial quantity of Clearly Canadian (a very fringe import in our country even then) because she tasted how un-sweet it was and wanted to be the "responsible one", not just stock with a bunch of Coke and Sprite like everyone else in our family did. I distinctly remember loving the apple one the most, followed by the blackberry. Oh and it's hilarious how Greg notes the difficulty with the cap, cos they were like that back then too. I've only ever cut myself on one drink bottle and it was opening a Clearly Canadian. Slashed my thumb right open!
Hundreds? The two blue ones were introduced and are still around. The had this pink one that had to do with a dinosaur. Maybe they had lime at one point. Strawberry is still in effect I believe. Hard to find orange now. But I don't think it went over how many flavors of jello or jolly ranchers they had at the time. There is a mango orange that is newer.
Orbitz! I used to BEG my Mom to buy me one to try - the Pina Colada specifically. I remember it being freakishly syrupy but a big MEH on flavor. Sadly, that one drink informed my palette as to what a Pina Colada should taste like for the next 15 years!
For me that was piña colada SoBe
I really want orbitz to come back. Im not brave enough to get and drink one from the late 90s
The music at the beginning of the Crystal Pepsi part, specifically the editing of the beats in the music with the cuts in the video when you're trying the vanilla vodka, really nicely done.
I think you guys may be conflating the two different Crystal variants! The original Crystal Pepsi was supposed to be just Pepsi without any colorant - tasted largely like regular Pepsi to me without the extra vanilla or lemon you seemed to note - but then after that one was discontinued, they brought out "Crystal " which a lemon citrus soda, and looked the same. It was confusing at the time as well.
I only discovered Clearly Canadian like 2 or 3 years ago and, after trying each flavor, Mountain Blackberry has become one of my favorite things to drink. 😂 I don't have it very often because it's expensive, but I was actually finishing up a bottle of it as I clicked on this video. 😂
This is the first time I've ever questioned the faith I had in Greg's judgment.
The strawberry one is my favorite! They have new lime and some other flavors now too including sugar free bottles with new flavors! Fr tho so expensive but so good.
Mountain blackberry is my favorite
Yeah, the peach one is my favorite. 😄 I'm just going to assume that moldy Orbitz ravaged his taste buds...
Testify. Mountain Blackberry all the way. Expensive but cheaper at Sobey's than 7/11 in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
Oh god, Orbitz. Between those and these Elemental Cooler things that read like a Captain Planet lineup, they're vividly impressed in my brain as tasting like writing classes at UVa in the mid-90s. I can feel the texture in my mouth just sitting here.
We're all ancient mariners now, look out for albatross.
"Maybe some dye" says Greg, looking at two exceedingly red kool-aid blasts.
Yeah. Maybe some dye indeed.
I'm getting over a stomach bug, so all I can think is, "How SICK did you get from drinking all that expired stuff!?"
Maybe the alcohol killed off the nasty stuff
With the exception of the orbitz, all of these are still available on the market, though sometimes limited runs. Crystal Pepsi was re-released for a short time in 2022 as its "30th anniversary," while Clearly Canadian, Hi-C, Kool-Aid, and Sunny Delight are all still regular market items. Even Orbitz may have been re-released a few times promotionally (I struggle to believe a bottle full of sugar and proteins would only have "some" mold in it after 30 years)
Sobe and Elements drinks were also some favourites. Glass bottles for the win
A group I used to hang with (Duckstock) had a signature mixed drink (Duck Juice) they made that used Sunny D as a primary ingredient. The other ingredients were three types of rum, pineapple juice, and maraschino cherry juice. I don't recall the proportions of it, unfortunately, but I could probably get ahold of the recipe if you wanted to know it.
Capri sun also changed their recipe somewhat recently. It has way less sugar now, but it tastes MUCH sweeter
Probably using Splenda or stevia which are sweeter tasting then sugar.
@@saqwana25god, what a fucking crime. Artificial sweeteners all taste like metal and adding them to something that doesn't have much else going on is a Mistake.
@@InnocentGuillotine stevia is a natural plant that just happens to be non caloric.
Ever thought of doing pokemon themed drinks?
That might be cool & interesting.... (Fireball Whisky for the Fire types; something that tastes like mint(?) possibly for the Grass types).....
Greg could research these and demonstrate his findings in a future video
Before they discontinued it we did a whole bunch of different surge mixes. You should see if you could get a hold of that. Absolutely delicious.
omg i used to drink blue kool aid bursts everyday at school in the early 2010s!! (i’m a zoomer lmao)
i used to chew through the plastic on the bottom and drink it the wrong way. i was a strange child
I did the same but in the early 2000's instead (I'm a millenial lol)
The nostalgia that hit me when the Orbitz appeared! I used to love the orange one as a precocious 90's youth 🧡
The expiration dates on bottles isn't really for the drink inside... it for the plastic bottle itself which decomposes into the drink, I'm sure those microplastics tasted yummy. You're 20% plastic now.
I remember being so upset as a kid when Squeezits were discontinued and Kool-Aid Bursts were all that was left. Even as the kind of kid who couldn't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, I knew Bursts tasted like a phantom of what Squeezits were.
Have you guys heard of Super Juice?
Pretty interesting food chemistry thing to get maximum juice out of just one, two citruses, using citric and malic acid to get a concentrate using peals & everything. Haven't tried it myself, yet, but it's supposed to taste basically just like fresh squeezed once topped up with water, but for a fraction of the ingredient costs.
Not sure if its worth a full episode or anything like that, but reading about it reminded me of your syrup & grenadine episodes so thought it worth a mention.
I watched that video as well, but I’m forgetting what channel it was
The original Crystal Pepsi was caffeine free and caramel color free. It still tasted like cola and was an excellent mixer. The creamy citrus thing was a different beverage called like Crystal From Pepsi. The reissue of Crystal Pepsi has caffeine and it doesn't mix nearly as well because of that.
I went to a drag queen bingo event, and they had a drink made up of 99 Bananas, SunnyD, and a splash of 7Up.
It was… interesting to say the least… 😂
That’s the most drag drink Ive seen in a while 😆
@@gateauxq4604 And what makes it even better, it was at the local Polish hall. And they know how to DRINK
i think the best way you could have made the Orbitz drink have the boba floating around would be hte same method you did with the Carbon Freeze in the Galaxys Edge video, using those cups that have the puck of dry ice at the bottom.
Where did you find an orbitz???? I haven't had one of those in decades. I vaguely recall crystal Pepsi, and always made a mess trying to open the kool-aid ones 😅
Edit: I miss jasta too... that was such a different one compared to most mid to late 90s sugar bombs
This... Why can we not get Josta back? They're rehashing all these other drinks from the 90's, but Josta is lost in the sauce.
We got it on EBay, it's legit from 1999 or earlier.
@@howtodrink I tip my imaginary hat to ya for trying that, that's wild!
if you're looking for another video game inspired episode i'd recommend deep rock galactic. it has alot of drinks but no actual recipes so i would love to see what you can come up with.
I second this, a Deep Rock Galactic episode would be amazing.
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER.
@@cacophonythegoblin8381 Rock And Stone Brother!!!
For Rock and Stone!!
Already done them
on a random note greg, Four Loko is doing a partnership with Malort and we know you love Malort
Aside from a walk down nostalgia lane this episode, I love watching your content. Especially the slow-mo pours, quite satisfying and occasionally educational for future drink making.
This video was great,loved it!😀Orbits was one of my go to drinks back then. I remember Ecto Cooler too and Jolt Cola,wish they had some of this stuff back in stores
I think we're at a point where Greg could easily take the greatest hits of his on the fly makes and perfect them then have others do an a/b with the thing he was inspired by. Fun episode. Took me way back.
Maybe it's just me, & maybe this is a shit take, but episodes like this just don't land for me.
Don't get me wrong, I love my nostalgia & I totally get having to feed the TH-cam algorithm by doing things people are interested in.
The issue is, Greg doesn't look like he enjoyed this video, & you can sort of tell.
The quality of it is top notch as always, with the production value we've come to expect from HTD.
But there's something different about the episodes where Greg is clearly having fun working on/experimenting with a concept or drink that excites him versus those where you can tell he's just trying to get the content made. This episode felt a lot more like the latter than the former. Again, maybe I'm odd, but I don't really enjoy seeing Greg suffer.
If you end up reading this, thank you for all you do. I truly enjoy HTD and look forward to it each week. I just hope your next few shooting days are filled with the kinds of episodes you enjoy making.
If any of these bottles are actually 24-33 years old rather than modern samples of the product then there is significant degradation from the water acting as solvent and potential sun damage. Still really fun to watch.
Australia had something similar to the kool-aid bursts. They were called Koola Bears and may still be around. My town has one specific shop that sold them, and it's still open so I might eventually check. They had the same kind of "chew it open like a savage since you're a kid with no scissors" top, and were shaped like sitting Koala Bears :) I'm a 2000s kid and they were my favourite lil treat
they're still available! bought one of each three flavours today, a childhood treat :)
So many memories! I remember chugging an orbitz and vomiting all the gel beads out. I really liked crystal Pepsi.
I'm wondering what the hell was wrong with the blackberry clearly canadian. I buy it whenever I can and its never let me down before 🤔
Gawd I remember exactly how all of those taste lol! Clearly Canadians were awesome!
Orange Hi-C always makes me think of my friends and I back in high school Frankensteining McChicken/McDouble sandwich abominations at McDonald's. I can still taste those memories 15 years later
Mixing 30 year old drinks into alcoholic cocktails to make them safer to drink
SunnyD made a vodka seltzer. Its surprisingly decent.
I desperately want to make the crystal cocktail now! sounds so good
that sunny d drink with whipped cream vodka took me back to 2 separate terrible college drinking experiences ... very nice nostalgia burst right there
Man, I legit loved Orbitz back in the day!
Same. My brothers and I would get some usually once a week after school. Good times.
who remembers ecto cooler hi C?
YES, I certainly do!
10:59
The Orbitzuary;
Orbitz is dead, true. But this drink is kind of a (somewhat) fond remeberance of it. I.E. an obituary.
The first convention I ever went to like 8 or so years ago had a cocktail that was being passed around called the "Esther's flask" and it was basically just sunny d and fireball whiskey. I actually really liked it at the time. haven't had it since though.
Lord, I can't drink for lots of reasons however I have a ridiculous curiosity for tasting awful things and that's so devious it would be something I tried 😂😂😂😂❤
For anyone curious, if it was a con it was definitely the *Estus Flask*. It's a Dark Souls joke.
I was once at a hotel bar near Punxsutawney, PA on groundhogs day and they made tequila sunrises with Sunny D in place of orange juice. It was the greatest substitute of all time! My friend and I spent the whole night drinking those and watching Breaking Amish on the TV in the bar, definitely a great way to celebrate groundhogs day after going to gobblers knob!
Breaking amish is the perfect drunk show.
Sunny D is a classic, crystal pepsi is a poorly executed good idea and orbitz should have never existed
Sunny D is a classic yes, but outside of nostalgic vibes it tastes like perfume. I'll take some og Tang
I liked orbits as a kid, but I can't believe you found a bottle that doesn't look like it's full of diseased piss.
OMG....I LOVED Orbitz!!!
Where's the grape Kool Aid Burst?
It would have been hilarious to see you try your hand at an elevated Purple Jesus.
And inevitably, you'd have had to call it "Purple Stuff".
0:13 meeting my cellmate for the first time
If the Kool-aid isn't punchy enough maybe you need to make a full episode making Kool-aid syrups and what drinks you can make with or sub them into.
Throwing a random idea out there to test. Put the boba with it's juice into a soda stream type thing. Can you carbonate the boba pearls themselves?
Growing up we were all really into the 80s, mostly for the cocaine purity also the ability to hit people and not go to jail, horrific style and bad rap music, but now the cocaine purity in the US is really high... I don't know if Zoomers like the 90's, but they probably do for similarly dumb reasons, that'll come to fruition when they turn 30.
This is HTD meets the LA Beast! Need a collab to make cocktails out of 90s beverages
You left out New York Seltzers, though I imagine they're similar to the Clearly Canadian. With my soda sweet tooth, I gotta be honest- I miss them. I'm not sure when seltzers made the switch from being fully flavored to being "essence-hinted", but I am not on board.
Video Suggestion: Summer Cocktails. I know you’ve done a video on *coffee* summer cocktails, but what about something a bit more general? At the very least, if you’ve done that already, I’m struggling to find it.
When I was a kid in the 90s they had these juice things that came in little plastic barrels with a foil lid. Found some at a dollar store recently and tried them. Absolutely vile, just sugar water and food coloring, no actual flavor to speak of. The kids loved them though.
Sunny D mixes really well (considering) with UV Blue raspberry flavored vodka which we affectionately named Shrek Juice in college due to its swamp green mixed color. It's actually the only way any of us could stomach the bluv
Fun fact about Orbitz: it's just Clearly Canadian with funny bits in it, and the density adjusted with gellan gum so the bits float. It's the same drink, otherwise. Even the bottles are the same.
Can you make an Alaskan polar bear heater from the original nutty professor?
In high school we were drinking sunny d and Seagram's dry gin. We called it "gin n juice" or "the pantie dropper" lmao 🤣 we did not know wtf we were doing but it was good and got you drunk.
the mention of dead malls and big thunder mountain reference? you just gained a new subscriber, sir
Dude why not go ALL out and make period drinks, like 5 drinks that sums up the 1980s 90s etc, then go full retro with cosplay 😁
Every episode of Gregg trying drinks just comes across like he hates everything.
Literally perfect timing since I'm having a 90s themed party this weekend
6:16, if the LABeast can do it so can you Greg.
"Sunny D and Rum Whoa, Oh! SunnyD and Rum, Yum, Yum! Its a flavor I just thought of Whoa, Oh!"
Schmoyoho
Am i the only one who realized he could just made a screwdriver with the Sunny D instead of whatever disgusting mess he made with it
clearly got rereleased and nostalgia won over my attempt to budget. can confirm, I still love that blackberry.
Totally forgot about Orbitz!!
I love Clearly Canadian but it’s super expensive!
Orbitz was my favorite drink ever. 😢
Wait, are those boba like tapioca blobs, or those popping things that you can get on your frozen yogurt?
People saying Ashens + Alcohol (and sure) but I think its more of an Adult GMM
I actually have four bottles of orbitz just hanging around as some weird decoration