What Was Your Favorite Soft Drink Growing Up

[The Original Rooster]

IBC Root Beer and Cheerwine were my favorites when I could find them. I settled for Dr. Pepper when I could not.

 

[Wifeshusband]

Someone mentioned Tang (the so called drink for astronauts). Nasty stuff. Speaking of powdered drinks, mom used to get us Nestle Quick (chocolate powder you mixed with milk). I really tanked up on it in grade school; but one day, I drank six glasses, almost back to back, got sick, and threw up. Haven't had any since. In fact, I'm getting a little nauseated seeing the can again.

 

[sinclair1]

Someone mentioned Tang (the so called drink for astronauts). Nasty stuff. Speaking of powdered drinks, mom used to get us Nestle Quick (chocolate powder you mixed with milk). I really tanked up on it in grade school; but one day, I drank six glasses, almost back to back, got sick, and threw up. Haven't had any since. In fact, I'm getting a little nauseated seeing the can again.
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I liked it, but when that strawberry quick came out, it was my favorite. We didn’t get it much because it caused us to drink all the milk and mom had to drive thru the golden gallon and get more.

 

[Wifeshusband]

Kids that were trying to put on weight for football drank it. I was skinny as a fly rod so I drank it to gain weight. I switched over to that chocolate drink that came in a can in high school. It had a picture of a quarterback on the can. For the life of me I can't remember what the name of it was, but that's what guys in high school drank to gain weight (that and beer ).

 

[greg_n_clayton]

If you grew up in West Georgia in the 60's and didn't drink Royal Crown Cola, which was bottled in Columbus, people would question your taste. Although I did like Coke and Seven-Up, and when I visited my cousins in NC I drank a lot of Sun-drop (I think that was the name of it), our family & friends still preferred RC Cola. The old joke was, a bottle of Royal Crown and a Moon Pie were a working man's lunch.
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It was called "RC Cola" in these parts.

 

[Hunter922]

Sprite, i use to pour salted peanuts in it...

 

[jollymon]

We almost never got the brand name stuff it would be what ever store brand Mom would bring home and if we didn't like it she wouldn't let us have any so my sister and I shut up .

 

[bassboy1]

From the Kentucky HeadHunters:
"We'll get a slaw burger, fries and a bottle of Ski
Bring it on out to my baby and me"

And here I was thinking that song referred to whiskey all this time.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I went through about a million gallons of the Nestea instant tea with lemon growing up. Not the crappy stuff that already had the sugar in it, the stuff that you had to add your own sugar to.

We would also take that Realemon juice stuff, pour about an inch of it in a glass, add about an inch of sugar, then fill it up with water.

 

[Batjack]

And here I was thinking that song referred to whiskey all this time.

I'll admit it... I thought it meant "Brew-ski."

 

[Buddrow]

Whatever my folks would buy. I will say there is not a better anything then fresh off the line. Worked for coke and pepsi fixing machines and man those are good right off the line.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Someone mentioned Tang (the so called drink for astronauts). Nasty stuff. Speaking of powdered drinks, mom used to get us Nestle Quick (chocolate powder you mixed with milk). I really tanked up on it in grade school; but one day, I drank six glasses, almost back to back, got sick, and threw up. Haven't had any since. In fact, I'm getting a little nauseated seeing the can again.
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Oh wow, the Metal top quick cans? I mixed up one of those about every day in the late 70's and early 80's.

 

[Geffellz18]

We dog hunted north Florida on the weekends, the snack box was full of potted meat, Viennas, saltines, moon pies and little debbies.

Sounds like we rode in the same truck back in the day when dog hunting! NWFL & SWAL here.

 

[OleCountryBoy]

Sounds like we rode in the same truck back in the day when dog hunting! NWFL & SWAL here.

Grew up hunting Eglin reservation mostly the east side.

 

[Silver Britches]

Someone mentioned Tang (the so called drink for astronauts). Nasty stuff. Speaking of powdered drinks, mom used to get us Nestle Quick (chocolate powder you mixed with milk). I really tanked up on it in grade school; but one day, I drank six glasses, almost back to back, got sick, and threw up. Haven't had any since. In fact, I'm getting a little nauseated seeing the can again.
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MMMMMMMMMM! That's some good stuff! You ought to try it again.

 

[Wifeshusband]

I see where they changed the name of it to Nesquick. Funny how companies change names for new generations of folks. Well, I found it, the chocolate drink jocks drank in high school: Nutrament. Here is a picture of the can.
My mother couldn't afford to buy much for me as it was very expensive relative to drinks like Nestley Quick. And I didn't have much money to buy them, but they were good. Kind of like today's protein drinks, which are also expensive.

 

[Wifeshusband]

Anyone remember the big event of 1985. That was the year Coca-Cola replaced the original with New Coke. People were about as mad with that decision as they are today with the presidential election. I remember the uproar. Rumor had it the company wanted to ditch it because the original formula was invented by an ex-confederate solider, but they received so many calls and letters they caved and brought back the Classic. Many people, myself included, don't believe the Classic is the original. This is how Pepsi got ahead of Coke, much like when Winchester changed their Model 70 in 1965. There was an uproar and Remington got ahead with their 700.

 

[sinclair1]

Anyone remember the big event of 1985. That was the year Coca-Cola replaced the original with New Coke. People were about as mad with that decision as they are today with the presidential election. I remember the uproar. Rumor had it the company wanted to ditch it because the original formula was invented by an ex-confederate solider, but they received so many calls and letters they caved and brought back the Classic. Many people, myself included, don't believe the Classic is the original. This is how Pepsi got ahead of Coke, much like when Winchester changed their Model 70 in 1965. There was an uproar and Remington got ahead with their 700.
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original coke was made with real sugar which I believe they still do in Mexico. I am guessing new coke was corn syrup, and classic is corn syrup. All guesses based on timing the corn syrup revolution.

 

[Wifeshusband]

The actual original coca-cola had cocaine in it. They finally removed it in 1929 from what I've read. My father told me his father was "hooked" on Coca-Cola, drinking several a day. He died in 1934 at age 55.

 

[35 Whelen]

Growing up in Ohio and Pennsylvania we called soft drinks "pop." In Cleveland we bought a local pop called " Little Tom." My favorite chocolate syrup to put in milk was Bosco. One of my favorite places to go when I was a kid was an A&W root beer stand for a root beer float.