I just made myself some Hawaiian Punch (the diet kind) and thought to myself "man, I could REALLY go for a kiddie cocktail." Of course I don't have a SINGLE component to make it.
I also would LOVE some "Sunshine Punch" Kool Aid but they stopped making that stuff at least 20 years ago. I loved that stuff so much I named my CAR "Sun Punch." It was the 80s so go ahead and laugh.
Orange soda reminds me of visiting my dad at his fire station. They had an old chest style that had bottles of soda and you had to slide it over and pull it up to get it out. I think they were 15 cents. LOVED THAT!
What's your favorite childhood drink?
Now I REALLY want some Kool AId made with REAL sugar. We even SENT AWAY for the Kool Aid guy plastic pitcher back in the 80s. LOVED that thing because it was see thru and was in the shape of him. Awesome memories.
Squirt ~ the every other weekend my sister and I would spend at my Dad's he would give us enough change to go down to the pop machine to get a squirt to share :)
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My mom made eggflips with milk, egg, vanilla and sugar. The taste takes me back to two years old. Also, Sunnyboys - the triangular drinks that you could freeze.
Kool Aid, hands down - particularly grape, cherry, and tropical punch. They also used to have a flavor called Purplesaurus Rex - it was grape and lemonade mixed together and I thought it was really yummy! I also liked the orange drink from McDonald's. And Faygo Red Pop (Faygo is synonymous with Detroit).
On a kinda black humor kind of note, one brand of euthanasia solution that we use for euthanizing animals is a bright blue color to keep it from being confused with anything else (most injectable meds are clear and colorless). When all the blue drinks started coming out, like the blue Hawaiian Punch and raspberry blue Kool Aid, it skeeved a lot of us out!
Remember Burple?? Lol. It came in an expandable plastic container :)
Birch Beer, a quarter from the machine in front of the grocery store. It would even take flat thin rocks in a pinch. Plus, if you timed it right, you could get TWO bottles instead of one!
(My sisters and I started our life of crime, not to mention our love of beer, at a very young age, I guess!)
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My two favorites were Hawaiian Punch and Shirley Temples.
Milk
Tang
Five Alive made w/ ginger ale or Sprite. :)
Lol. We still have a packet of Purplesaurus Rex Koolaid...but it is in sad shape.
My mom keeps trying to throw it away and I keep getting it back out of the trash. :)
Tang
Nestle's Quick
Dr. Pepper
Best of all my grandmother's tea.
my grandmother used to make what I called" pink ink." from the Dr Seuss book.
Anyway it was Wink ( doesn't exist anymore) and cranberry juice.
Oh and white house apple juice cans!!!!
Hmmmm....toss up.
Cherokee Red
Mello Yello
Tab
Cream Soda (still buy this all the time)
Kool Aid (grape)
And let's not forget Fresca!
Strawberry Nesquick
Crantastic (don't know if they make this anymore..)
Capri sun - I think it was more that the packaging was a novelty back then
What about bubble gum soda! Does anyone remember that? It was pink.
One of my most vivid memories is of going to the County Market grocery store and picking out individual cans of ELF pop to make up our 12 pack. My favorite was Grape.
@Leah C. - I was hoping someone would remember Burple; I loved those accordion containers!
I loved Funny Faces brand "kool aid". Here's a link to pictures to remind people. It was big in the 70s and early 80s.
http://www.google.com/search?q=funny+faces+drink+mix&...
I loved Kool-Aid!!! But I have to say that my very favorite was Coke in a glass bottle out of the machine at the feed store. It was ice cold and the original Coke. Nothing like it.
Big Red Pop (that was the name and the flavor LOL). I haven't seen it in years but man did I love that stuff.
Milk was a favorite of mine ... I still love it.
Squirt and Mellow Yellow too :)
And any soda out of a reused glass bottle ... the ones you would collect and turn in at the store for a dime a bottle :) Just something about those bottles that made the pop that much better.
Grape shasta
RC cola
capri sun's. - My parents would never buy it. It was at my grandparents house, and if I got to have one there, it was like crack to me. lol
Chocolate milk made at home with Hershey's syrup. My kids get chocolate syrup from Trader Joe's for a treat (it has no corn syrup). Also when I worked at summer camp as a teenager they had an old fashioned soda machine--ice cold Dr. Pepper was so good in the summer heat.
Purplesaurus Rex Koolaid!!! My grandfather used to mix cranberry juice (3/4 of the cup) and gingerale (1/4 of the cup) for us. We use to pretend we were drinking "adult" drinks!! Aaak!!
Yogurt Milk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakult
Ramune soda (it was the glass ball in the top of it that seals it... you push it down to open the bottle and it rolls around in the top part of your bottle! They sell it here now in some asian markets and sushi places :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune
RealGold http://www.napajapan.com/Product.asp?product=1010 ((at the time it came in a brown glass bottle for 100Y and had sparkles in it. I'm not sure what was my favorite part; the taste or the sparkles. ((No sparkles in it anymore))
Chocolate Milk (made at home)
Mtn. Dew
"Suicides" (as in every soda flavor at the fountain all added together Coke/Orange/DrPepper/Sprite/Rootbeer)
Sweet Tea by Lipton in a can. It was totally fake tea with a bitter lemon aftertaste, but I guzzled that stuff for years. Don't know if they still make it. Actually, talking about it makes me kinda want some now. ha ha
Tang! I loved that stuff! I don't know why I liked it so much, I recently bought it to reminisce about the old days and man that stuff is GROSS!
We also used to drink root beer flavored "kool aid," but I don't think it was actually Kool Aid brand it was a knockoff but we loved it!
chocoloa...it was an off brand yoohoo sold at day night food mart. It said drink me I'm good on it!
mellow yellow alllll the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
