What’s the worst thing that can happen to
a lover of soda? The worst thing that could
ever happen is they discontinue your favorite
flavor of soda. Grab a box of tissues and
reminisce along with us as we look back on
the Top 10 Discontinued Soda Drinks We Miss.
Pepsi Fire
Pepsi Fire delivered a rarity in the world
of soda, and that is: cinnamon flavor. We
all love cinnamon in things like candy, chewing
gum, and even chicken spice. So why aren’t
there more cinnamon flavored sodas? The great
mystery continued after Pepsi decided to discontinue
their only cinnamon flavored offering. It’s
easy to understand why the average person
wouldn’t go crazy over something like this.
However, it’s equally surprising that there
wasn’t even the smallest loyal group of
fans to make putting this on the shelf, even
in limited quantities, feasible. Surely there
must be enough cinnamon lovers out there to
justify doing at least one production run
of Pepsi Fire a week at the bottling plant?
Well, apparently, there isn’t, and that’s
sad news for Pepsi Fire lovers. What will
life be like without your beloved Pepsi Fire?
Do you find you spend countless hours talking
about the one soda that got away? You’d
think something like this would be much easier
to replicate at home than it is. You can’t
just sprinkle cinnamon in your soda since
all it would do is float to the top. You’re
going to need to get a degree in chemistry
to come up with a way to liquefy cinnamon
so you can put it in your glass of Pepsi.
If you were ever able to find a way to make
Pepsi Fire at home, it would likely bring
you in tens, if not hundreds of dollars by
selling your concoction on the street corner.
There weren’t that many people who liked
Pepsi Fire, but those who did will surely
buy your product.
Kick Soda
Kick was a brand of citrus-flavored soda produced
by Royal Crown. You know, the cola company
that almost no one drinks. Well, maybe your
oddball aunt still drinks RC Cola. She swears
by the stuff and drains can after can all
day long while watching game shows on TV.
It’s not lousy cola, but it seems that anyone
who wasn’t busy being groovy back in the
70s has never even heard of RC. Kick soda
was meant to compete with the top lemon-lime
sodas of its day. Surprisingly, the soda was
on store shelves up until the early 2000s.
That meant that Kick had a run that was over
30 years long. Some of the other sodas on
our list can barely seem to make it past a
year, so three decades almost feels like an
eternity. Do you find yourself longing for
a can of Kick? Are you up late at night, hoping
that someone will put a two-liter bottle of
Kick on eBay? You would use your alternate
eBay screen name and buy it. You know, the
screen name you use when you buy stuff you
don’t want anyone to know about. No one
needs to know about your collection of furry
slippers with cute puppy dog ears. Just like
no one needs to know of your obsession with
a soda that has been off the shelves now for
almost two decades. Some would say you need
to get a life; those are the people who have
never tried Kick before.
Mountain Dew Dark Berry
Fans of The Dark Knight Rises no doubt remember
the release of Mountain Dew Dark Berry. You
didn’t need to be a fan of the movie to
enjoy Mountain Dew Dark Berry. No, you only
had to be a lover of berry-flavored fizzy
drinks to enjoy this soda pop. Why aren’t
there more berry inspired sodas? Could it
be a conspiracy to keep berries out of the
hands of those who crave them the most? Mountain
Dew Dark Berry packed a serious fruity wallop
on the tongues of everyone fortunate enough
to drink it. You probably remember the time
and place where you first cracked open a Mountain
Dew Dark Berry. Some people never forget when
they first laid eyes on their spouse. But
others can’t ever forget their first sip
of Mountain Dew Dark Berry. Why do they have
to do this to us? All we want is some sweet
berry liquid with so much fizz that it tickles
our nose. Throw in some caffeine and plenty
of sugar to make sure we stay wide awake throughout
the day and you couldn’t ask for a more
perfect drink. As the popularity of the 2012
movie waned apparently so did this drink as
Mountain Dew Dark Berry became another in
a long list of discontinued soda drinks we
miss.
Pepsi Twist
The combined flavors of cola and lemon seem
to go together wonderfully. That’s what
made Pepsi Twist so special. It was the familiar
Pepsi flavor that you love alongside the exciting
citrus twist of lemon. Nothing says summer
excitement like anything with a hint of lemon.
A can of Pepsi Twist and a hammock were all
you needed for the best summer afternoon ever.
Sadly, those relaxing afternoons are now a
thing of the past. As many of you already
know, Pepsi Twist no longer exists. You search
high and low, and it’s nowhere to be found.
You call up long lost friends not to hear
how they’re doing, but really you just want
to see if maybe they have the scoop on Pepsi
Twist. No one is trying to hide the truth
from you, what you’re hearing is true - Pepsi
Twist is no more. What can you do if you’re
craving a Pepsi Twist to the point of a breakdown?
The solution requires a little work and some
knowhow when it comes to buying produce. Desperate
times call for desperate measures. What you
need to do is go to the grocery store and
head to the section where they sell fresh
fruits and vegetables. You know, the area
that you usually walk right past. Buy a lemon,
take it home and cut it up. Take a wedge of
lemon and squeeze the juice into a glass of
Pepsi. If you want to make your life easy,
then get one of those plastic lemons filled
with juice and squeeze a few drops of it into
your next Pepsi. Voila! Pepsi with your own
twist.
Citra
Lovers of lemon-lime soda are as unique as
the day is long. You don’t like cola. No,
you wouldn’t touch cola with a ten-foot-long
straw. You crave the sweet acidic taste of
lemons and limes with the added kick of bubbles
and sugar. Citra soda had a dedicated following
of people who understood what made this drink
so special. It takes a lot for a lemon-lime
soda to stick out from the pack when Sprite,
7Up, and Mountain Dew stand tall like giants.
Citra soda was able to win over the taste
buds of many by being different than the rest
- though, it wasn’t enough to put the soda
on the path to supermarket shelf immortality. Citra
soda may be no more, but the memories of this
famed soda live on. Originally released in
India, no one can buy Citra soda anymore no
matter what country you’re in since it was
discontinued sometime in the 90’s. But the
memory of this soda lives on in the hearts
and minds of those who yearn for one more
taste of their long-lost favorite brand of
soda.
Slice Sodas
It’s hard to believe we now live in a world
without Slice. Who can forget all of the varieties
of Slice? You weren’t tied down to one flavor
like you are with so many other soda brands.
You could choose from grape, orange, and even
Dr. Slice. Anyone who remembers Dr. Slice
knows it gave Dr. Pepper a run for its money.
Somehow the people at Slice were able to mimic
the flavor of Dr. Pepper well enough to come
up with something that tasted rather similar.
Creating a soda pop similar to Dr. Pepper
seems like an impossible feat when you consider
that no one can really accurately describe
the flavor of Dr. Pepper. Go ahead, try to
describe the flavor of Dr. Pepper to yourself.
Your inability to describe its flavor proves
how smart the geniuses behind Dr. Slice were. Slice
was in every supermarket from coast to coast,
but it only made up a lowly single-digit percentage
of the total soda sales in America. That’s
surprising considering how widely available
the product was. Don’t remember Slice? If
you went to Taco Bell in the 90s and ordered
whatever soda they had without caffeine, then
you drank Slice. It went pretty well with
a couple of Taco Supremes. The fashions of
the 90s may be coming back in style, but Slice
is still long gone.
7up Side Down
7up, often viewed as a runner-up to Sprite,
have made many attempts to break free from
the competition and become top dog in the
lemon-lime soda race. They've used some creative
releases and advertising over the years to
try and achieve this. One of these attempts
was the release of dnL, which is actually
what the 7up logo appears to spell, when flipped
upside down. dnL was first released in the
early 2000s and the marketing for it obviously
focused on its "upside-down" theme. This even
included their slogan, which was "Turn your
thirst upside-down". They really took this
theme to the max, making the drink essentially
the polar opposite of regular 7up, flipping
the idea of the drink, upside down. While
the original 7 Up is caffeine-free, colorless,
and comes in a green bottle. dnL had caffeine,
was colored the same green as 7Up's bottle
but came in a clear bottle. It also featured
a much more pronounced lime-lemon/citrus flavor,
something more akin to Mountain Dew or Mello
Yello. The folks over at 7up knew they had
something cool on their hands and tried marketing
it hard. First in the snowboarding video game
SSX 3, as well as during the Annual Grammy
Awards. It was even the sponsored drink for
the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
All these brand deals and the hard marketing
push unfortunately did not translate to commercial
success and just a few years after being released,
dnL was discontinued, and does not appear
that it will ever be heard from again.
Mountain Dew Revolution
You remember the day like it was yesterday
when the store stopped selling Mountain Dew
Revolution. You went all over town asking
anyone who would listen if they still had
any Mountain Dew Revolution left in stock.
You may have found the odd two-liter bottle
and thought your worst nightmare wasn’t,
after all, becoming a reality. It wouldn’t
be long before you came to grips with the
fact that Mountain Dew Revolution was indeed
no more. How can they produce something so
berry delicious and pull it off the shelves?
Life is not fair, and no one knows this better
than lovers of Mountain Dew Revolution. Flavors
come and go, but ones like Mountain Dew Revolution
leave a lasting impression. You think about
Mountain Dew Revolution during the good times;
you think about it when times are rough and
you need a friend. There isn’t a moment
in your life when you don’t wish there was
a cold bubbly can of Mountain Dew Revolution
in your hand. We understand. We’re not here
to bring up hurtful memories of the past.
Sometimes it helps to talk about these things.
We’re in this together, and no one wants
Mountain Dew to bring back this totally awesome
flavor more than we do. We feel your pain
and wish there was some way we could bring
back this ginseng-enhanced soda for the good
of all humanity.
Fruitopia
Ok, so we know this one isn't actually a soda,
but we think it's still fitting for this list.
A lot of us will remember going to McDonald's,
getting our soda cup, going up to the soda
machine and seeing all the usual soda suspects.
But at the end of the machine, you would find
Frutopia. It would stand out with it's bright
colors, wavy font and fruit-filled flavors,
but unfortunately they did disappeared off
those soda machines. Fruitopia seemed like
a gimmick from the very beginning that wasn’t
going to have much-staying power. The fruity
flavors were all the rage with the cool kids
back in the 90’s. You know, the kids who
jumped on the Nirvana bandwagon once they
saw how popular it became. It was a strange
time when jocks decided to stop washing their
hair, drink Fruitopia, and act rather odd
all for the sake of being seen as being “alternative.”
Yes, that’s who Fruitopia was marketed to,
and it worked surprisingly well. Not everyone
who enjoyed Fruitopia was a poser. You weren’t.
No way. You were as cool as a cucumber and
the hippest person on your block. You can’t
think of cracking open a Snapple and hearing
that famous pop. No, you won’t even touch
a fruit-flavored drink that doesn’t have
the Fruitopia label on it. Grunge bands seem
to make a comeback every few years, and so
do the fashions, but Fruitopia appears to
be stuck somewhere in a time capsule since
its discontinuation in 2003. That said, the
popularity of the drink in both Canada and
Australia is such that it was never discontinued
there. Frutopia juices are still being sold
in both of those countries to this day! Does
that means we can expect a re-release in America?!
One can hope but there has been no word on
a comeback for Frutopia as of now, unfortunately.
Coca-Cola Blak
What do you do if you love to drink coffee
and Coca-Cola? Do you mix your morning coffee
and a can of Coke together? You don’t do
anything of the sort because that would be,
well, probably disgusting. Actually, some
people might try to use a cold brew technique
to let their coffee grounds soak in Coke.
The resulting beverage would more than likely
lack the fizzy kick that the drinker desperately
wants. The answer to your coffee and cola
woes comes in the form of Coca-Cola Blak.
It is, as you’ve probably guessed, a coffee
and cola mix like only Coca-Cola could produce.
It makes sense when you look at it on paper
since many people like the caffeine jolt that
both drinks have to offer. Coca-Cola Blak
had a short, but strong run. Coca-Cola Blak
was discontinued after less than two years.
How were people ever going to get their caffeine
fix after that? They would have to go back
to drinking coffee and cola separately. It
was a sad time for people who like to have
so much caffeine pumping through them that
it makes their heart feel like it will explode.
Do you remember the day when you felt less
jittery because Coca-Cola Blak was nowhere
to be found? If so, memories of pure terror
and overwhelming fatigue must still be ripe
in your mind.
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