Favorite Discontinued Sodas

My wife (originally from Utica NY) suggedst I ask if anyone remembers a soda brand called Cliquot Club?

She said they had a ginger ale to die for.

I'm originally from St. Louis and have never heard of this brand

Timntx
Cliquot Club (KLEE-KO KLUB) was a big seller in SoCal when I was a kid. The Ginger Ale was a very light--very bubbly soda. (The opposite of Vernors). My step father used it as the mix of choice for his nightly 'Hi-Ball'. I have seen it a few times in the past decade, but try as I will, I can't remember where.

As some posters above, I remember the Pop Shoppe. They had a great assortment and the soda was "real" tasting (probably real sugar). I particularly liked the grapefruit flavor. The grape was pretty good too.

Pop Shoppe is in Canada and is looking for US distributors.

http://www.thepopshoppe.com/flash_site/main.html

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Originally posted by Timntx

My wife (originally from Utica NY) suggested I ask if anyone remembers a soda brand called Cliquot Club?

Clicquot Club was a brand whose heyday was probably the 1930s. Like Shweppes and Canada Dry, Clicquot CLub was marketed primarily as a mixer.
They must have done pretty well back then, as they sponsored a radio show starring The Clicquot Club Eskimoos. http://www.redhotjazz.com/eskimos.html

We had Clicquot Club in S.E. New England in the 60s and possibly a little later. Cott ("It's Cott to be good!") and Canada Dry were two their big competitors in the mixer/seltzer market in our area (and I think I remember another with a trademark of a nymph or something at a spring).

According to Wikipedia, Clicquot Club started in Millis, Mass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicquot_Club_Company Many of the old plant buildings are still there, some still marked with the company's signage.

I recall that some of these companies used to market two varieties of ginger ale, "pale dry" and something else. One was typically amber in color, the other clear or very light hued. Anyone else remember these?

As a kid growing up in St. Louis I remember the OLD Squirt--much better than today's version. For those big BBQ's a huge eced tub full of Shastas in all sorts of wonderful flavors. Here in The Woodlands, TX (just north of Houston) we can get Frostie rootbeer at Walmart. What about Hires rootbeer? Is that still around anywhere? I've always wanted to try Cheerwine and Moxie, but would have to special order online so haven't done it yet.

I don't believe that nobody mentioned a great little soda called "Green River"

Used to love getting it in 35 cent glasses at the movie theatre.

I do believe you can still get Hires in some locals. Have you tried Frostie's Vanilla Root Beer ?

You can still get Green River and Hires is still around.

I can't say I really have any favorite discontinued sodas, but I get a lot of sidways looks when I put a handful of peanuts in my bottle of sodapop.

White Rock is still in business. When I was a kid in NY a truck would roll through the neighborhood during the summer selling a variety of White Rock sodas in quart bottles iced down. I would chug a bottle of White Rock Black Cherry until I got brain freeze. Good stuff. He did better business than the Good Humor man.

I miss Pepsi Blue and Pepsi Vanilla!!

Deserving special mention is Nattura Svali Sparkling Spring Water. It doesn;t seem to exist now, and you can't even find it in Google.
Not into sparkling stuff that much, since it is to me like soda with less flavor.
But this brand came in clear PLASTIC, 10 oz CANs. I had always said they should have that, so you could see inside, like the bottles. Yet the problem was recycling, because the top was still aluminum.

Was just doing a move, and this was in a bag of stuff, such as my Crystal Clear Pepsi bottle label, and a Mexican 7-UP 10 oz, which was in a thick steel can. It was out around the same time as Crystal Pepsi (and I had even sent a plastic can to the local Pepsi bottlers to suggest using them for the Crystal Pepsi), and was an Iceland product that came through a Canadian distributor.

Green River is a regional soda. It's named for Chicago's bizarre habit of dying the Chicago Rover bright green for St Patricks Day. The soda is primarily available in the Chicago area and is bottled by Canfield's (who also make kickass Diet Chocolate and Diet Chocolate Cherry sodas).

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Originally posted by bigcookies

I miss Pepsi Blue and Pepsi Vanilla!!

Cincinnati area we still have pepsi vanilla

"cajunking says as he sips his diet pepsi vanilla"

Is cherry 7up still around? I can't find it.

I have seen cherry 7 up around..it is probably sold regionally now.

We can get Cherry 7up in Murray Ky.

We run up there about 90 miles aleast once a month ...

We still can find Tab, Fresca and Cherry 7up there....

I don't drink soda, because of the acid in it. Makes me wanna hurl. However, I do wish the "Skeleteens" line of sodas would come back to my area. The arcade near me carried them. From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Black Lemonade, Brainwash, etc. The company got ressurected and I find them online.

Brainwash came in 3 colors: blue, green, and red. They had so much food coloring in them that as soon as I poured it into the sink I had to scrub to get it off! It instantly adhered to the sink. It also turned your poo colors.

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Originally posted by xannie_01

my favorite soda in not sold here and if i want it bad enough, i have to cross the arizona border..
diet canada dry ginger ale.they carried it for a time in santa fe but wanted $5.59 for a six pack.
no other ginger ale tastes the same.

Diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale is the absolute best thirst quencher! Nothin' like it on a hot, sticky summer day.

Does anybodu remember the Mission brand of soft drinks? I used to get Mission grape or orange soda from a machine on the way home from grade school in Cincinnati. I also remember another brand of orange soda that featured a picture of a horse with a garland of flowers. Can't remember the name of that one, so if anyone else knows, I'd be grateful.

I liked Red Rock Ginger Al. I'm not sure if it's still being made. I haven't seen it in years.

Red Rock Ginger Ale is still around along with Red Rock Cola.

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

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Originally posted by Ort. Carlton.

Ort: Only you can write like this. A little bit hard to decipher but poetically wonderful and beautiful.
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Sundancer,
After all this time, I just now ran across this post.
I am practically moved to tears by your kind words.
This is off the soda topic, but utterly sincere, even if not timely. Thank you beyond words; I hope we get to meet up soonly for that pint or two -- and a meal at Mama's Boy beforehand. For the latter, you'll thank me, and maybe even for the former.
Gratefully, Ort. Carlton in 30601-land.

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Originally posted by Scott C
Ski is fairly popular in Southwestern Indiana. It is bottled locally by the double cola folks. It must be a little chaeper than the more popular drinks. I see it frequently at church functions and at the local ball parks.
Thanks
Scott C
Evansville IN

Scott,
Now I know where I must go to find Double Cola if the cola war going on in Chattanooga makes it unfindable there. I bet there are some oddball brands of beer available in your parts, too... maybe even a few microbrews in cans!
Fizzically Fit, Ort. Carlton in Rainychilly Athens, Georgia.

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Originally posted by Salustra
Ort-We've always had a soda called 'Cactus Cooler' out here on the left coast. It's an orange/pineapple flavor. I'll have to check who makes it. Does that sound like the one from Canada Dry?

Salustra,
It has to be; they trademarked the name back circa 1965!
Enjoy one for me; I cannot drink sweetened sodas anymore -- maybe one every time I find something obscure enough, but only one at a time, and generally with something to counterract the sugar -- natural cheese or peanut butter or protein of some sort... I'm hypoglycaemic.
As Cool As A Cucumber, Ort. Carlton in Amazing, If Chilly Athens, Georgia.
P. S. I'm surprised that nobody ever thought to invent a "cool cucumber" soda! The Zolfo Springs Bottling Works in Zolfo Springs, FL. 33890, perhaps?

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Originally posted by anselmo1
I miss the following that are no longer made:
1. Frosty Root Beer
2. Nehi Grape
3. Anderson's Birch Beer

Anselmo,
I know this reply is way after the fact (I'm just now seeing this thread and your question may well have been answered by now), but while I cannot vouch for Anderson's (I've never seen nor heard of it), I can assure you that unless production has stopped on the first two you mention here in the last few daze, they're both still made.
If Anderson's proves to be extinct, you can always hunt down some A-Treat Birch Beer from Allentown, PA. I think they even offer it in a sugar-free version.
Carbon(d)atedly, Ort. Carlton in Evervescent Athens, Georgia.

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Originally posted by Barney

Barney,
In just the last few weeks, I've seen both Brownie Chocolate and Grapette on store shelves. The Grapette I saw was in cans, but they still make the little bottles -- nonreturnables by now, of course.
I guess my home here in the "Bible Belt" South is good for hunting obscure soft drinks! (Hey, we "wets" have a great choice of domestic and imported microbrews and other obscure alephernalia as well... just not on Sundays!)
Not Softly Drinkingly, Ort. Carlton in Athens, Georgia.

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Originally posted by frogger67
Kick
It was a Mountain Dew clone that wasn't as sweet--made by Royal Crown, I think.
I remember a donkey being on the bottle.

Frogger,
Like the Paul Revere & The Raiders song goes, "Kick just keeps getting harder to find."
It's widely available in Columbus, Georgia, where Royal Crown originated... also in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Royal Crown is the locally-preferred cola drink.
It disappeared from here about 1970. Since then, I've been getting my Kicks elsewhere. (Groan.) Groovy, man.
Kicking Myself (Because I Didn't Pick Up Any While I Was There!), Ort. Carlton in Athens, Georgia.

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Originally posted by Gizmolito
Simba

Gizmolito,
Did one dance The Egyptian Shumba while drinking it? (Yes, another Ort. obscure '60's record reference! The group was The Tammys, and their disc came out in 1963 -- it was a MONSTER hit in Erie, PA.!)
Farther Out There Than Moon, PA. 15108, Ort. Carlton in Athens, GA. 30601.

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Originally posted by rjb
I remember a soda (or maybe a mixer?) from the mid-1960's called Gusto. It was made by Royal Crown (RC Cola), but I've not been able to uncover any references to it anywhere. Anybody else ever heard of it? Possbily a test market product that never made it to the market? I had it at a friends house whose father worked for RC.

RJB,
Gusto was a Schlitz product, wasn't it?
No, seriously, folks -- that one zoomed past me. It probably was a test-market item, along the lines of a beer I remember -- Tribute Light Beer, sold in the Chapel Hill area in the earlier 1980's and made by Schlitz in their Winston-Salem plant. There was also one named Clipper, "the light dark beer," that Miller made in its Eden, N. C. brewery... I found that in Hickory, N. C. in 1983.
Good luck finding information on Gusto.
Mixing And Matching, Ort. Carlton in Chilly Athens, GA.

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Originally posted by KAYLINDA
Does anyone remember a soda called something like "parmac" ? My husband says it was the exact color of beer...even foamed like beer...but he's not exactly sure of the name. Thanks!

Kaylinda,
You might be thinking of Chelsea, the short-lived beverage by Coca-Cola that contained 0.5% alcohol (or less). I found it in a Ukrop's Supermarket in Richmond, Virginia in 1979... and that's the ultimate irony, because Ukrop's won't sell alcohol nor open on Sundays to this day!
I really liked Chelsea, but apparently I was one of the few. (I also liked Champale -- especially the Golden Champale version -- when it was made in Trenton, N. J. Go figure.)
Wishing You Could Indeed Call Me Down To Chelsea (And Wishing I Had That 45 By Robin Grean), Ort. Carlton in Eclectic Athens, Georgia.

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Originally posted by curried bluebonnet
What about Hires rootbeer? Is that still around anywhere?

Curried,
It was in my local Kroger as recently as last week.
It's so much fun (when I have time!) wandering down the soft drink aisles in stores to see which products are attempting to squeeze which others off the shelf... could we say this is Pop Culture at its ultimate?
Deposited Here And (Maybe) Returning Tomorrow, Ort. Carlton in the U. Ga. Library in Athens, GA.

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Originally posted by Sonny Funzio
I can't say I really have any favorite discontinued sodas, but I get a lot of sidways looks when I put a handful of peanuts in my bottle of sodapop.

Sonny,
That's commonly seen here in Georgia. But I was once told about a woman in Oglethorpe County, Georgia who put a handful of ASPIRINS in her Coca-Colas (6-oz. bottles, mind you). Somehow I can't help but wonder what the effect would be... she was about 80 years old, by the way, and reportedly had "been doin' that for years," according to secondhand information.
Amazing.
I'll bet her stomach resembled nothing more than a loofa sponge....
Entrally Level, Ort. Carlton in 30601-Central.

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Originally posted by yuppicide
I don't drink soda, because of the acid in it. Makes me wanna hurl. However, I do wish the "Skeleteens" line of sodas would come back to my area. The arcade near me carried them. From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Black Lemonade, Brainwash, etc. The company got ressurected and I find them online.
Brainwash came in 3 colors: blue, green, and red. They had so much food coloring in them that as soon as I poured it into the sink I had to scrub to get it off! It instantly adhered to the sink. It also turned your poo colors.

Yuppicide,
Gracious, I loved that stuff! I used to drink all those (one at a time, pleaze!) in a particular now-defunct bar here in Athens (they carried all flavors) when I was tired of drinking Blind Man Espresso Stout or Blind Man India Brown Ale on tap for $2 a pint.
Sad to say, both of those Blind Man products are gone (as well as lo these many sodas, which is what the topic is!), and their flagship Blind Man Ale (an I. P. A. with about 90 I. B. U.) as well. Maybe I'll win the lottery and resurrect the company, using real brewing equipment for a change instead of the amazing array of Rube-Goldberg-esque adapted rubble they used.
By the way, I drank four bottles of Skeleteens' black soda the night before a routine checkup. My doctor was... ahem... alarmed when he noted the color of the urine sample he asked for... thank God he can take a joke!
In The Pee-k Of Health, Ort. Carlton in Amazing Athens.

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Originally posted by Sandy Thruthegarden

Does anybody remember the Mission brand of soft drinks? I used to get Mission grape or orange soda from a machine on the way home from grade school in Cincinnati. I also remember another brand of orange soda that featured a picture of a horse with a garland of flowers. Can't remember the name of that one, so if anyone else knows, I'd be grateful.

I remember Mission from the 60s here in West Michigan. Orange, Grape and a Lemon-Lime too that was not clear but was light green. All were very good. Also at the same time my all-time favorites was a brand called O'So in 16oz bottles were orange, grape rootbeer & strawberry

Does anyone remember Orbitz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitz_(soft_drink) It was short lived, possibly because I was the only one to drink it, but it was a non-carbonated drink with floating balls in it. Very eye catching. Also, I haven't been able to find regualr Pepsi with Lemon but recently had a Pepsi Max with lemon in northern europe which was quite good.

Ewwww Orbitz was scary .. pretty to look at .. but no way was I drinking floaties *shudders*

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Originally posted by ShenB

I remember Mission from the 60s here in West Michigan. Orange, Grape and a Lemon-Lime too that was not clear but was light green. All were very good. Also at the same time my all-time favorites was a brand called O'So in 16oz bottles were orange, grape rootbeer & strawberry

Thanks, Shen. I had no idea you could buy Mission in Michigan. I thought it might be a local (Cincinnati area) brand. I loved the orange. I have no idea when it stopped being manufactured. Have never heard of O'So.

Mission Orange was a big one in SoCal in the 50's when I lived there. I didn't know it was also available in other parts of the country!!

I loved Snapple All natural sodas and drank them long before I ever hear of the iced tea. It was the best orange soda I ever had, and it was clear. THey don't make it anymore, I fear:)

Never cared for Snapple. (1) They had no nutritional value whatsoever. (2) Rush Limbaugh was a big investor and I didn not want to give a single penny to that lying pig.

I tried ORBITZ once or twice. The floaties were little balls of gelatin. Weird experience, not worth the cost per bottle.

The Snapple Peach Tea was pretty good, but the WalMart Rip-off copy was just as good at a fraction of the price. I think I could chug one of those 16oz wide-mouths in about 2 seconds when riding out on the Mojave in the early 90's. They really did a good job at re-hydrating a person.

I used to get a large bottle of Snapple iced tea with lemon for long car trips, that and a bag of wintergreen lifesavers:)

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Originally posted by Ort. Carlton.

Dearfolk,
My most-lamented favorite would have to be Budwine, the elixir of the gods, made by Classic City Bottling Co. in Athens, Georgia. They also produced -- before my time -- a beverage for 3 cents named, appropriately enough, "3 Centa"!!
My cousin Dave E. Hendricks, from Ohio, would open a bottle of Budwine and shout "Smell the Budwine fumes!" when he was visiting.
Another soda I recollect liking but that disappeared was Canada Dry's short-lived Cactus Cooler. I first found that in suburban Atlanta -- Chamblee, as I recollect -- in 1967. It was history by the early 1970's.
Y'know, I really ought to wander by the Atlanta Canada Dry Bottling Plant on Murphy Avenue, S/W and see if anyone remembers Cactus Cooler.
Gotta go -- the library's closing.
Carbonatedly, Ort. Carlton in Effervescent Athens, Georgia.

You can still get cactus cooler. It's hard to find except in LA/Orange County area or Nevada. It is bottled by Dr. Pepper Co. now; you can buy it on the internet for the hefty price of about 22.00 per 12pk including shipping.

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Originally posted by Hode

Anyone remember a grape soda called Purple Passion . I remember the can being very colorful and what kid did not like turning thier tongue purple.

Not only Purple Passion, but Cactus Cooler and Tahitian Treat. Out of the 3 the only one you can't get anymore is Purple Passion. Also what about Bubble Up?

I wish I could even find a picture of a Purple Passion can.

You can still find Tahitian Treat. You have to go into the poorer neighborbood stores. I loved Mission Pinapple soda. Mission Pineapple soda and a bag of Valley Maid Potatoe chips and that was heaven. On anther note anyone else remember Valley Maid potatote chips or Treat Potatoe chips

I can't find around here White Rock soda,though we used to buy it in Alaska back in the 1960s when my dad was stationed at Elmendorf AFB.
Haven't seen OK Cola which was made by Coke around here,though I had it once or twice when I bought it at a convience store in New Braunfels.I remember SURGE.I have also seen Cactus Cola around here,so I'll have to try it.Don't see Snapple for sale like you used to around here either.At H.E.B.Grocery Stores you can buy it in like a big pack of about I guess six to twelve bottles,the ice tea that is.You can also buy a few single bottles of the tea,but Snapple really isn't around much in the San Antonio area like it used to be.

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Originally posted by gwynnen

Originally posted by Hode
[ Also what about Bubble Up?

I wish I could even find a picture of a Purple Passion can.

Bubble Up is still around. You can find it on several online soda stores in glass bottles. A bottler in New Castle, Pa also bottles in plastic. The few times I bought it , it was flat.
A google search for Purple Passion Soda brings up a picture of a bottle cap. It would be the sixth search down starting with the wrod "etsy".

Ski
Bubble-Up
Upper-10

I fondly remember - Champale and Country Club
I didn't read all the 'above' messages - please forgive me if I'm redundant.

Bubble Up was the first soda in our area to appear in the tall 16oz glass bottles. This must have been the mid 1950's. My choice of soda at the time was based on VOLUME, rather than brand or flavor. One of the "off-brand" colas followed Bubble Up then by 1960 we could get the Pepsi in the same tall bottle. Coke was slow at bottling in those deposit bottles then. I don't remember when the first of the 16oz Cokes came out.

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Originally posted by gwynnen

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Originally posted by Hode

Anyone remember a grape soda called Purple Passion . I remember the can being very colorful and what kid did not like turning thier tongue purple.

Not only Purple Passion, but Cactus Cooler and Tahitian Treat. Out of the 3 the only one you can't get anymore is Purple Passion. Also what about Bubble Up?

I wish I could even find a picture of a Purple Passion can.

We have a company here in the area called pri pak they bottle and can drinks of all sorts.

They bottle "Purple Passion" although I doubt it is the one you remember though, this one is by everclear grain alcohol.

Riku there are several soft drinks that aren't made anymore I liked. Mission Sodas had a creme soda that was to die for. Then there was TOPP COLA first cola bottle in a 16 os. bottle. If I knew how to make them I would bring them back.

Fanta Red Cream!!! They don't make it anymore, but they have the same fruit flavors that Welch's has. The laundromat in the apartment complex where we lived when I was starting high school had a vending machine that carried it. I remember me & my girlfriends going to do the laundry for my mom & drinking it while we waited to switch loads.

We loved Pepsi Light back in the 80's, it had the turquoise can with the lemon on it. I had thought it was a figment of my imagination until one night when I was watching Mr Mom, it's on the table when Michael Keaton is playing coupon poker with the other 'moms'.

Whoever was asking about Bitter Lemon, they still make it. I had some last year.

I also miss the ORIGINAL Snapple, not the tea & lemonade & fruity non-carbonated flavors. I miss the clear carbonated stuff.

Also miss New York Seltzer & Zeltzer Seltzer. They came out around the same time. Their flavors were more adventurous than my LaCroix I drink now.

GNC used to sell a raspberry soda. I can't remember the name. This was back in the 80's & was a real treat.

I can't remember the brand name but when I was a kid our local A&P (wood floors, big ceiling fans) carried a coco-cream soda. I remember it being great for ice cream sodas.

Since this topic has bounced back to life (and I am worn out now, I read all 6 pages...), I have a query.

Since Snapple is on this list I think this is fair game. It's a "natural" kind of soda, and was the precursor to things like Nantucket Nectars. I remember it before Snapple (but maybe Snapple came late to CA)...

KOALA does anyone remember this? It must have been local-ish to California, because I think it was not available in New England (this is the mid-80s).

I had a favorite flavour, orange & passion-fruit, and NO ONE does that the same way Koala did. Not even close. There are close orange-mangoes to theirs, but not the passion fruit.

Also I concur that Fresca still tastes the same and is my favorite "true" soda pop (i.e. not water/juice). I miss it terribly in England, where most sodas taste different & Coke doesn't do Fresca. Can't wait to get back home to Fresca.

If the Koala stuff has a black currant flavor, then yes I remember that drink. It came out when everything Australian was cool.

I think Koala did have some berry-like darker stuff too...
where did you buy it? (I mean what state are you in?)

I tried Orbitz once,didn't care for it though I think I still see it around here.I used to like Snapple when they had the ads with the Snapple Lady,could find it around here,but now the various flavours are scarce.There is also Jolt Cola,which I think is made by Coca-Cola.Here you can buy Mexican Coke.It comes in bottles
and I think it uses real sugar not corn syrup.We can also buy here Goya Soda and another brand from Mexico.You can get Guava soda.Haven't bought a bottle but I sure want to try it.

a lot of people think Nehi Peach is discontinued. is it? The Walgreens down the street from me used to sell it. that stuff was heavenly! :D