Unavailable sodas you have known and loved

(I shouldn't dis anyone's soda, but it was the first thing I drank after a three-day bus ride in the middle of the summer. My mouth assembled a posse from the rest of my face, tried to beat the crap out of me, and I placated it with a Super Jumbo Fanta Red from McDonald's, which was like treating a headache by fucking yourself in the ass with a rock.)

But it wasn't a match for Cherry Crush. That stuff is carbonated Nyquil! It was my absolute favorite as a kid but I haven't seen it in probably 12 years.

Nicole: Jolt is all over the place, wtf?

Felicity, thank you so much for the information! I will definitely initiate contact with this individual ASAP.

Tep, I find it interesting that you had access to Delaware Punch back in April when I was thinking about how long it'd been since last I saw it.

Oh yes, and Fresca's all over the place locally. Almost any convenience store will have it, as will any supermarket. Good thing, because that's one of my favorite sodas. It's got this great grapefruity sort of taste to it. Yay for Fresca!

Dee, re: Delaware Punch -- I have a feeling it's popular/available in New Orleans for alcohol-related reasons. Delaware Punch + two kinds of rum comes a lot closer to tasting like a hurricane than Hawaiian Punch or Kool Aid do. (Although I always made them with Kool Aid Tropical Punch, Parrot Bay, and Cap'n Morgan's.)

My favorites have always been Squirt and Moxie. Neither is particularly easy to come by, but not impossible.

I was just thinking about New York Seltzers not long ago. When I lived in Riverside, CA back in '86/7ish, I remember they were rather hip. Maybe?

i long for Skeleteen Sodas, which aren't available around here anymore.

It really is. It's supposedly a "bitter apertif" in Italy, but it's absolutely foul.

If you absolutely must give into temptation, you can sample this (and a great many other rare sodas) at the end of the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta - with the price of admission you get all you can drink at the end of the tour, where there are wicked fountains that arc soda into your cup from ten feet away. They also have a domestic variants fountain with rarer American flavors (mostly odd Fantas and whatnot) and then an international room with crazy sodas you'd never dream of. Beverly is one of them. In any case, it's a giant $15 million ad for Coke, but perhaps worth one visit nonetheless.

SunDrop
Vernor's Cream Soda

Imagine the colors and flavor range.

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The Pineapple flavor is the best.

Also, Sioux City Sarsparilla.
Can't get it here.

First off, I had Beverly. It was abyssmal.

>>cherokee red pop. probably partially discontinued due to racial insensitivity - picture of big indian chief on bottle. <<

I found a can of it randomly at a RC Cola (!) machine in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania this past year. Its still being bottled under the banner of Cadbury/Schweps (sp?).

>>Also Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale.<<

Polar Beverages in New England makes a version I think is actually superior. Really solid stuff.

Apparently, for those in the new england area, there's an independant bottler of soda in New Britain, CT whom I'm gonna have to check out. Since he uses pure sugar, I'll go ahead and make the suggestion to visit (Adams Soda, I think) anyhow.

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Alan

squirt seems to be hard to find around my parts (boston).