Unavailable sodas you have known and loved

Whoa, that is funny. At one sandwich place in my town I always get a turkey club and a mint snapple.

I remember 'enjore" a raspberry coke product that was available in africa when i was a kid. no idea what it was called (or if it was available) elsewhere

also, pocari sweat *does* rock my taste buds

yeah, i saw that picture but i didn't know that they still made Frank's (for all i knew, the Frank's fridge could've been stocked with Cokes and Pepsis).

not that Frank's was all that ... it was good, but not great (kinda like Philadelphia itself, but i digress!)

Anyway this totally steals my thunder I was gonna start an "indie Pop" pic thread. Tho that's not the same as unavailable I guess. But still largely redundant.

TAB Clear :(

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Me: "What's wrong?"
Guard: "We're picking up a lot of organics and a lot of metals. And your backpack is REALLY heavy. What's in there?"
Me: "Two pounds of pastrami and 24 cans of Moxie."
Guard: "... what?"
Me: "Two pounds of pastrami and 24 cans of Moxie. I live in the South. I grew up here. I gotta stock up."
Guard opens bag.
Guard: "That's a lot of pastrami."
Me: "Yeah."
Guard: "That's a LOT of Moxie."
Me: "Yeah."
Guard: "All right, have a nice flight."

Also, brg30, have you checked places like movie theaters and fast-food places for Mr Pibb? In a lot of places (like Louisiana), it isn't available in cans or bottles because of Coca-Cola's distribution agreement w/ Dr Pepper, but they can still wholesale the syrup.

I also miss the sodas Snapple used to do (and maybe still do, just not here), long before the ads and the Seinfeld and so on -- clear cola in particular.

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I miss this more though:

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Frosty Rootbeer
Soho Soda
Rock Creek Soda
White Rock Soda

Moxie (in a variety of flavors) is available in a few specialty shoppes in California... in fact there is one joint on Market Street (near Gough) in San Francisco that sells a bunch of sodas I thought were extinct! The next time I am in that town I send the name through to this thread with a list of sodas they have on hand!

yeah yeah yeah! Walking around Mt. Pleasant! Madams Organ! Gotta blow your ears out, baby! I grew up in Shaw on Logan Circle... Woo woo! Rock Creek strawberry soda used to get me through those sweltering summers... also the lime! Good... fruity... and (most importantly) CHEAP!

Dee, I don't know where you are, but Damiano's in LA has Delaware Puncha and bunch of other obscure sodas. Maybe they can tell you where to get it. My old boss used to love it.

Mr Pizza (aka "Damiano's")
412 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (323) 658-7611

See, we're totally not living in a monoculture. We've all got different beverage access. (Note: I haven't read that thread. The voice you hear comes straight outta my ass.)

Here's a REAL obscure one - Pommac. Allegedly champagne flavored.

not sure how "unavailable" it is though, i do seem to see it in latin markets here and there in the states

Manchu's duly noted. I already really want to get to Li'l Dizzy's; I'll never leave that intersection.

inca kola is pretty easily available, esp. in mexican/central american groceries

in the USA i mean

yea it's true, i just felt like turning everybody on to inca kola. tbh i'm not even a soda person anymore but i grew up drinking a lot of inca kola

oh yeah, i've tried to eliminate the "empty calories" of soda since i started eating better, and now it's very much a treat rather than a daily thing.

when i went to disney world in i think 2001, there was this pepsi-branded tent thing, called like "the chill zone" or smth like that, where you go through some misty blue tunnels that get increasingly colder which was really nice in the summer florida weather, and at the end you reach this big room filled with soda fountains and sample cups. the sodas were imported from all over the world and there was a watermelon soda from brazil and it was incredible. i haven't been able to find it since. i've had other watermelon sodas but they all do the jones soda thing where there isn't enough flavor syrup and the sharpness of the carbonation is the first thing you taste. i've been missing that soda for half my life.

I found some elderflower Fanta from Hungary or Romania last year when I was in Atlanta -- really good stuff. Unfortunately I didn't see any the next time I was at the same store (Buford Hwy Farmers Mkt).

when i went to disney world in i think 2001, there was this pepsi-branded tent thing, called like "the chill zone" or smth like that, where you go through some misty blue tunnels that get increasingly colder which was really nice in the summer florida weather, and at the end you reach this big room filled with soda fountains and sample cups. the sodas were imported from all over the world and there was a watermelon soda from brazil and it was incredible. i haven't been able to find it since. i've had other watermelon sodas but they all do the jones soda thing where there isn't enough flavor syrup and the sharpness of the carbonation is the first thing you taste. i've been missing that soda for half my life.

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:52 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was this a beautiful dream or reality?

no, that's a real thing, it's at Epcot and it's Coke

Minute Maid Valencia Orange soda was the best orange soda to have ever existed; there has never been an orange soda that has come close to tasting as good as it did.

Does good orange soda even exist anymore??

omg thank you i could've sworn it was pepsi and apparently never tried searching for coke and apparently it's still a thing

i guess the soda was actually from china, or i was actually drinking guarana soda probably not

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"Can we go back to the –"

"NO. I mean, not yet."

I've never been to the Coke experience thing here in ATL, but from what I hear there's an opportunity to sample a bunch of Coke products from around the world until your belly is sloshing as you walk out the door. I may do it one day.

Went here and sat on the polar bear's lap, thankyouverymuch.

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OG Corr's Ginseng Rush. This stuff had (has?) life-affirming qualities.

But don't take my word for it. Let's hear what the fine folks at Beverages Direct have to say.

"In 1978 it single-handedly created the natural beverage category – it was America’s first functional beverage. Twenty-three ingredients singing a song, at once enchanting and refreshing, still unmatched by any other drink."

Haven't seen it around here since, oh, late 90s.

that ginseng root's got as much subtlety as Joe Camel.

Bought some Grapette at Walmart the other day, btw. Much more subtle "grape" flavoring than I remember. Would drink again.

My glass bottle Nehi quest has been successful! I just happened to be in the BP station down the street from my house after filling up my car and noticed they sell it there. I'm currently indulging in a bottle of peach, but I'm saving the bottle of grape for later.

I wanna track down and drink a Delaware Punch in honor of Hank Gupton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Punch

Vernors got nixed from all the American groceries I was fond of and I really havent seen it since. Maybe a decade ago. Does it exist? Wiki page says yeah, sure.

Here in Asia there is a Coca-Cola/coffee hybrid that is a much better cooperation between the two flavors than you'd ever expect. Sponsored Post.

Was it Barista Bros?

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As a tourist, I unashamedly drank the shit out of this in Australia a few years ago.

Not read the thread through so may have said a few years ago a Schizandra based thing from I think Schweppes. Was around back in the mid 90s when I was in Dublin.

new york seltzer relaunched in 2015. you can see if it's avail near you!

https://www.newyorkseltzer.com/store-locator/

we've got some vanilla on the shelf at home...for special occasions.