The Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks- Page 2

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 1/18/10 at 2:42am

remember when pepsi came out with those funky cans back in the early 90s? especially the neon ones that spelled SEX?? hilarious! well basically PEPSI only came out with a few letters (one per can) and SEX was the one that people kept popping up on store shelves! haha

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/18/10 at 1:09pm

There was this other water/soda/fruit drink that I loved to drink too, but I forgot the name of it! The drinks would come in clear glass bottles, and the flavors would range from blackberry to peach to strawberry!

Sounds like Nehi or Shasta. I used to love those. Peach Nehi and Big Red were my two favorites as a kid. I really don't remember Surge, but it sounds like it was a knockoff of Jolt, which was the "energy drink" of the 80s. Twice the sugar and all the caffeine! My friends and I decided to try it in high school, thinking we were SO subversive (parents unilaterally banned the drink upon seeing the commercials). It tasted like semi-flat RC and we didn't notice any side effects. LAME!

[morosco]

Posted: 1/18/10 at 1:19pm

Who remembers The Pop Shoppe?

[twinbelters]

Posted: 1/19/10 at 6:24pm

Jenna Maroney: nice.

Remember when Karen Walker was revealed to have been a big-breasted Japanese soft drinks spokeswoman. Wiki says:

Karen is very popular with Japanese people because she played in a Japanese commercial for Atushi-kan-ki, the energy drink that is chock full of vitamins, minerals, and baby laxatives (?).

[CJR]

Posted: 1/20/10 at 1:49am

Oh my GOD Orbitz!!! You know what it kind of reminds me of? Bubble tea. I remember the only place I could get it here was at Contempo (later known to everyone as Wet Seal)

I loved Orbitz. Ditto Surge... and Jolt Cola. I drank a lot of that. And you know, I didn't mind Crystal Pepsi. It wasn't my favorite, but I didn't despise it the way most people did.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/20/10 at 9:59am

Any North Carolinians (or thereabouts) know Cheerwine?


Cheerwine

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/20/10 at 10:01am

Mister Matt, Surge was more of a super Mountain Dew, as opposed to a cola.