The Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks

These are awesome and weird!I am intrigued by Pepsi Ice Cucumber. Check it out.

Diet Water: all the taste and none of the calories of regular water.

Kidsbeer: the Popeye Cigarettes of children's drinks

Mother's Milk: the breast-tasting drink ever!

http://inventorspot.com/articles/ten_bizarre_japanese_soft_drinks_5225

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My Dad to this day talks about how he misses Pepsi Crystal. It was his favorite soda of all time. I can not even imagine what that would taste like.

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I'd blissfully forgotten Crystal Pepsi. It was nasty stuff indeed...I vaguely remember an aftertaste that reminded me of the time in grade school when I had to clean the chalk board erasers and accidentally got a mouthful of chalk dust.

As vile as the soda was, I think I drank a lot of it because I thought it made me so much cooler. I also recall that clear/crystal products were trendy at the time...around the same time, some shampoo company was busy marketing a crystal-clear shampoo and conditioner. Maybe Clairol? Anyhow, I used that, too...even though it wasn't very good. Heck, I was young and impressionable to marketing.

On the subject of odd sodas...I do love Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda. There's only one cafe here that sells it. Last time I went in and got a can to go with my sandwich, the lady at the counter felt like she had to "warn" me that it was celery-flavored.

Updated On: 1/17/10 at 12:50 PM

When will we see this here in the USA?



Whatever happened to Pepsi throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback. I tried both and thought they were nasty,but I guess I'm just use to corn syrup.

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I remember going to the Coke museum once in Atlanta as a middle-schooler. They had a room with all these different drinks from around the world and specifically warned us about this one from Italy, calling it an "acquired taste." AKA it was disgusting. I can't remember what it tasted like anymore, but it was Not Good.

One of the coolest things about visiting London last winter was all that soda with REAL SUGAR. I kept being like, "Seriously? SUGAR in your soda?" Very cool.

I miss Surge! That was the big soda from my childhood that eventually disappeared.

I saw a case of Pepsi Throwback at Costco Friday.

I like the Coca-Cola world at Epcot. You get to taste all the flavors for free!

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Romantico, Pepsi Throwback was a limited time thing, but it's being made again now as of like New Year's or so. I was thrilled when I was home for the holidays in Pittsburgh and I found it in stores, but since coming back to Long Island I have not been able to find it anywhere here.

And how I miss Surge... that was like, THE drink of my third grade class.

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yes, yes and yes.

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Taryn, you are referring to Beverly Cola. Absolutely vile, you can also sample it and several others at the Coca Cola refreshment corner in Epcot at Disney World. A few years ago my partner and I spent time in there videotaping people reacting to it.

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The soda I used to be obsessed with was ORBITZ. It had little bits of jell-o floating in it.. does anyone else remember that? My dad used to buy it all the time when I was in kindergarten, but no one else liked it. I think they stopped making it by the time I was seven, though... they had flavors like Blueberry Melon Strawberry and Pineapple Banana Cherry Coconut.

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I remember Surge. Wasn't it supposed to have more caffeine than most sodas?

Also, they sell Throwback all over the place here in S.C.

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