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New Article? Yes! About old soda!

There was a time, many, many years ago, when I wrote these things called "articles." I was feeling nostalgic, so I decided, what the hey? Let's use, a lot of commas, and see if it still feels, okay, to write articles.

Today's feature chooses "eleven" as its arbitrary token number and examines "eleven" different soft drinks that are no longer with us, running the gamut from Surge to Strawberry Burst Pepsi and beyond. It's my way of getting a return on the many thousands spent to amass a ridiculous collection of old, sealed soda cans.

I hope you find the article to your liking, because I gave up watching Wolf Creek to write it, and I really wanted to see that "head on a stick" part.

Posted by Matt on 02/04/2007. E-mail me!

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That there can caddy in the picture is right purdy, yuh-huh

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 02/04/2007 6:06 PM

I have lousy timing.

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 02/04/2007 6:08 PM

[...]see if it still feels, okay, to write articles.

okay ray smuckles

Chestnuts roasted by mark! @ 02/04/2007 6:10 PM

How could you forget Josta?

Chestnuts roasted by dave @ 02/04/2007 6:18 PM

Good article. Josta was where it was really at back then. If I could bring back any soda it would be that one.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 02/04/2007 6:18 PM

I’ve tried not to post if I don’t have anything to post, lately? How’m I doing?

I have two stories:
1. In eleventh grade chemistry one of our labs was to figure out what the hell made the bubble guys in Orbitz float around like that. The teacher kept his bottles of Orbitz safer than he kept the various acids in the room because he liked doing the lab so much and it’s nigh impossible to find.

2. The local grocery store had a free Surge dispenser for, like, five years. It was awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 02/04/2007 6:19 PM

I remember reading that Vault uses almost the same formula as Surge, only Vault has more caffeine than Surge did. The very first time I tried it I thought it was just like Surge.

Chestnuts roasted by PunisherBass @ 02/04/2007 6:35 PM

Let’s see I liked Crystal Pepsi and Pepsi Blue. Does that make me a Pepsi fanboy?

It warms my heart that, at least for a while, Heatmiser and Snowmiser had their own Pepsi variants. They could have used them to plug ‘em. That would have owned!!

American Science and Surplus and The Battle for Pepsi Blue for you to enjoy.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 02/04/2007 6:35 PM

Forgive my second post. Just as I placed a post on the last thread, I went back to the blog and found that a new thread had been published while I was preparing my comment on the last one. Oh, well. The weather is great where I live right now, very warm and sunny, so the soda theme seems very appropriate. I remember Crystal Pepsi(stank!), Pepsi Blue (liked), and Surge(kinda so-so). In case nobody reads my post on the last entry, why don’t we think of Valentine’s Day-themed episodes of 80′s/early 90′s tv shows? If he wants to, and if he hasn’t done so before, Matt could then write a review for one.

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 02/04/2007 6:45 PM

Heh, I read Tropical Chill Pepsi as Tropical Chili Pepsi at first. That would be one hellauva failure……

Chestnuts roasted by Loneman1 @ 02/04/2007 7:12 PM

what about code red mountain dew i lived off that stuff

Chestnuts roasted by justin @ 02/04/2007 7:15 PM

Yayyyyyyyyyyy.

That’s all.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 02/04/2007 7:16 PM

I guess I was in 9th grade when Surge first came out, and while it was wildly popular at first, soon rumors started spreading that the yellow dye they used was actually a spermicide and that drinking it would drastically lower your sperm count (I’ve heard these same rumors attatched to Mountain Dew, but never on the level that they were with Surge, at least locally).

Naturally, this rumor eventually evolved into “Surge causes shrinkage of your genitals”.

Chestnuts roasted by Wukong @ 02/04/2007 7:18 PM

I absolutely hated Surge. and while I’m at it, I also hated Kick and Jolt and all those other fucking nerdy hacker drinks.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 02/04/2007 7:21 PM

I swear Pepsi Clear tasted like soap. I remember being so excited to buy it and so disappointed to drink it.
I also remember watching Top Gun on VHS with the Pepsi commercial before the infomous Paramount intro. It was about this pilot that had a malfunction with his “Refreshment System” which would shoot a pepsi out between his legs. So instead of admitting defeat he inverted his plane and poured the drink via gravity into a coffee cup. Ah….the choice of a new generation. Good stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 02/04/2007 7:25 PM

I definately remember Surge, Orbitz, and Crystal and Blue Pepsi.

Orbitz just plain stunk, and the gel balls didn’t help. It was like they couldn’t decide if they were a soda or a flavored water.

Crystal Pepsi- Flat Pepsi sums it up.

Pepsi Blue- This was actually pretty good, if you’re a fan of plain fruit sodas (strawberry, grape, orange. Also, does anyone know you can’t find diet fruit sodas like every other flavor?) in general. Heck, MD Livewire still exists, no reason why this can’t be brought back under a new name.

Surge- MD on steroids. This was good, but you were hyper after drinking it. Maybe parental backlash was the reason it doesn’t exist anymore. BTW, does Vault still exist? I tried it when it first came out. It wasn’t bad but I haven’t seen it for a long time.

Justin- Code Red still exists, at least around here it does. I haven’t heard anything about it being discontinued.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 02/04/2007 7:27 PM

The Tropical Chill Pepsi brings back a very good childhood memory for me.
Sleeping in the backyard with the kiddie pool converted into the most awesome bed ever.
While the Strawberry Burst brings back a horrible one. Not traumatic, but not fun. Sitting in our old blazing hot Jeep herokee while my dad changed the tire in the parking lot of the world’s most ghetto ass shopping center.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 02/04/2007 7:30 PM

Man, I wish I had saved some of the 11,000 Pepsi Cool Cans I bought back in the day. I’d be rich now!

Chestnuts roasted by lara @ 02/04/2007 7:43 PM

Hah! I still have a bottle of Orbitz on my bookshelf. The floaters look like they’re starting to lose some cohesion, and the liquid is a bit more yellowy than it used to be, but otherwise it’s still in pretty good shape.

Surge and Jolt are the reason I’m alive today. They’re also the reason I’m going to have a massive heart attack at the age of thirty-two, but that’s all in the future. Oh, and Vault is still around so far as I know. I snag a bottle whenever I find myself at a gas station which lacks Jones Green Apple.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 02/04/2007 7:55 PM

I tried Pepsi Fire when I was in Malaysia. It was so-so. When I travel abroad I always hit up a store to check out the soda and candy selection.

Chestnuts roasted by Sepp Heckmann @ 02/04/2007 8:13 PM

The rapper for the PEPSI COOL CANS was Young MC. I remember it well because there was a cash give away if you found the lucky cool can.
YOUNG MC to “Bust-a-move”: “Cool cans are coming so don’t be afraid and if you get lucky then you might get paid” Oooohhh yeahhh.

SURGE: Everywhere I went, SURGE was being given away. After school, the SURGE van. After the SMASHING PUMPKINS CONCERT, SURGE was there. After the old Jacksonville Lizard Kings ECHL game, SURGE was there and it was free! I even filmed a SURGE commercial for my high school T.V. production class.
Finally, I saw (but sadly did not buy) COKE II in college in Statesboro, GA (???)

GREAT ARTICLE MATT!

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 02/04/2007 8:30 PM

Matt, Satan is still wondering if you’ll be his Valentine’s. He won’t relent until you give him an answer.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike P @ 02/04/2007 8:38 PM

Man, Surge. I still can’t believe I ever put that into me, but it was middle school and I was willing to try any stupid “cool” thing that came down the pipe. (I had it for breakfast. The rest of that day was awesome.)

I make no such claims for Orbitz, as I was just suckered in by the awesome look of the thing. And does Coke Blak fall into this category yet? Because I don’t know anyone who’s ever bought the damn thing, and it’s certainly a dumb enough concept.

Chestnuts roasted by Declan Dempsey @ 02/04/2007 8:43 PM

As soon as it gets approved, my original post will show. It will show you the glory that is American Surplus and Supply and the X-E classic The Fight for Pepsi Blue.

I should know better, two links automatically puts a post into the approval bin. Oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 02/04/2007 8:44 PM

I loved Surge. Maybe it was because it was so like Mountain Dew. (Which is still my favorite.) Yet it was different. Ah. I remember drinking it on vacation one year and playing a lot of air hockey with my cousin. I think I won every game. Good times.

Also Orbitz. I’m pretty sure we bought those at Target. Everything else I either never had or found terrible.

Great article, thank you!

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 02/04/2007 8:46 PM

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