When the clerk popped the tops for us, he scraped out the little plastic liner, and I'd say about a third of the time we won a free soda. Those were the days.

We had Moon Pies, and I have heard of RC and Moon Pies as a legendary combination, but we never had them together. I don't feel a loss for this. But I do miss RC.

Maybe with a cellophane tube of Tom's Toasty Tasty peanuts poured into the RC for a little extra crunch, protein, and frisson.

Produced belches that would rival the ore boats out on Lake Huron. Thanks to Vernor's ice cream sundaes, a lot of dentists have made a good living repairing the damages.

The current version isn't the same

Tastes like chemicals.

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We had moved to Michigan and Frank's could only be found in
the Philly area. When relatives from Philly visited, we expected
them to have half their trunk filled (like smugglers) with Frank's
sodas, scrapple, and TastyCakes (which, at the time, could only
be found in the Philly area, too).
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I'm positive it was only available in clear bottles when I was a kid.
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orange soda.

And...

Ice cold Coca Cola in those green glass bottles.

The Pop Shoppe. Especially Lime Rickey and Black Cherry.

I live in Vancouver and don't know anything about this I'm embarrassed to say.

in small town Alberta. They disappeared sometime in the 80's and went out of business.

Someone emailed me a picture of a bunch of Pop Shoppe bottles on the shelf at a Walmart in Calgary a few months ago, that reminded me of the monthly trips we'd make to return bottles and pick up new supplies.

I guess someone has decided to try to bring them back but now that I'm all the way out East I probably won't get too many opportunities to try them anytime soon.

I had forgotten all about Shasta. They DO have the best cola (well, next to Coke and RC). I have never found it here in the DC area.

For twelve year olds it was like a lottery! 😄

First I want to say that,except for an rare 7-UP with Rum,I never drink pop anymore and haven't for many years.

As a kid we always had Pepsi,that being my Moms preference,and Bubble Up,and I really had no say in it...That's just what we had...But when I took my allowance or paper route money and went to the corner store,what I always got was Chocola...Chocola and a Payday bar was the SHIT!!!

me and tom k. used to sit in his parents' buick and smoke butts out of the car's ashtray after we hit the liquor cabinet. we were 7 or 8 at most.

I loved going to A & W for a frosty mug. In a bottle or a can, I was fine with it as well.

Now, as a lover of aged Cabernet or crisp Pinot Grigio, I can't even imagine drinking something that sickly sweet. Quit drinking all soda pop by the time I was 20--almost 40 years ago!

anybody ever hear of it?

with a lighter flavor

I suppose Shasta was the most common. Any ice cream treat, but especially ice cream sandwiches.

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Ida got it sooner if it had been coke quiz.

It's kinda like Mt. Dew.

My big sister liked it. Can't find it anymore.



Rootbeer I can't find anymore:

but my Mom liked it and bought the concentrate sometimes, I remember it.

I could never find it in liquid form.

Dr. Pepper

that if you mix Dr Pepper and orange juice it will indeed taste like carbonated prune juice. So, I no longer mix the two and just drink the orange juice and Dr Pepper separately

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my Mom never bought soda, but when we stayed on the Hopi Reservation a few summers, I drank Dr. Pepper at the trading post like all the other kids. carbonated prune juice was a fact.

Luckily, I only tried the mix in a small juice glass, so I didn't waste much of either.

I don't taste the prune in regular, non-juiced, Dr Pepper, but if it is carbonated prune juice, then they've taken out all the stuff that works against constipation. I guess they don't want consumers getting too "lax"

Nectar of the Gods. I've never really liked another.

buy chocolate cream soda, I don't remember who made it. I think it was Faygo. That was my favorite.

Somehow it doesn't taste the same now. I wonder if they changed it, anybody know?

The black cherry was good, too, but the cream soda was the best.

Hard to believe no one has listed this. It had the bitterest root beer taste you can imagine....I loved the stuff.

it took moxie to drink MOXIE ,if they could bring it back they'd make zillions .

Before that I really liked A & W root beer but when the A & W in town closed I couldn't get it anymore so I took up with Nehi Grape Soda.

But I loved YooHoo as a kid. Still do. Now it's in juice boxes.

Mixed root beer, sprite and orange soda. We called it suicide so many times we forgot what suicide meant.

Some may argue it wasn't a pop because it didn't have any pop, but that's exactly why I loved it.

You know what I mean, Vern?

Cheap knockoff of Mountain Dew.

I wasn't a kid anymore in about 1970 when this came out but I was barely out of my teens. I liked it and liked the TV commercials featuring an African lion in its native grasslands and the slogan "Simba - it goes for your throat." When I was truly a little kid, my parents would only buy 7-Up as if it were purer or less toxic than other brands like Coke or Dr. Pepper. It was like a forbidden fruit when we were traveling and my dad would give me some change for the gas station coke machine and I would try a Squirt or a Hires root beer.

The hot dog truck parked at our sports field and sold ice cold sodas and hot dogs. I can taste it in my mind.

I still can't believe my parents let me drink them as a kid