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Sodas long gone(?) but not forgotten

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Pour one out for ya boy GAF

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We occasionally have luck finding it here and there around Los Angeles, but it's been a while since I've seen the non-diet version. I hate how anti-lemon soda America seems to be, because after living in Japan, I have a taste for the stuff (thanks to CC Lemon and the like).

I really don't know why the diet version is so easy to find, but not the standard version. But I guess that's better than both of them being gone.

And I've never gotten over how Lemon Fanta finally came to the States right as I was heading over for my life in Japan, and when I got back, it was gone.
 


OK soda. WI remember it tasting like cola, root and orange crush all mixed together.

This so much.

I believe the reason they stopped producing it is because it was a "graveyard" drink of sorts and they were using the leftovers of other sodas they produced to make this. Not sure if that's really true, but if you like putting all the soda from the dispenser into your drink, that's probably why you enjoyed OK. At least that's what everyone told me growing up!

LOVED their marketing too, so odd and bizarre. Cracked me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNPg50jN3g
 
We occasionally have luck finding it here and there around Los Angeles, but it's been a while since I've seen the non-diet version. I hate how anti-lemon soda America seems to be, because after living in Japan, I have a taste for the stuff (thanks to CC Lemon and the like).

I really don't know why the diet version is so easy to find, but not the standard version. But I guess that's better than both of them being gone.

And I've never gotten over how Lemon Fanta finally came to the States right as I was heading over for my life in Japan, and when I got back, it was gone.

I hear that. CC Lemon was one of the best parts of visiting Japan. If you haven't checked Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Eagle Rock, do so. If anyone has it or can get it, it's that place.
 
Pepsi Kona - coffee Pepsi. I'd probably like it now that I've been drinking coffee for years but as a kid who had no prior exposure to coffee, it tasted terrible.

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I see Coke Life everywhere.

I also think it, like Pepsi Next, is the most pointless thing ever.

Pepsi Max and Coke Zero have no calories and taste really close to the real thing. I understand the attempt at the middle ground, but feel it's ultimately unnecessary.
 
I see Coke Life everywhere.

I also think it, like Pepsi Next, is the most pointless thing ever.

Pepsi Max and Coke Zero have no calories and taste really close to the real thing. I understand the attempt at the middle ground, but feel it's ultimately unnecessary.

Pepsi max has a lot more caffeine
 
I might as well add this to the list, along with Coke Blak as the only Coke I've liked for a while and now I don't see it anywhere.

I work in retail and my store has had 6-packs of these for awhile, and we just got 20 oz bottles in the last two weeks, so I wouldn't give up hope just yet!
 
It might be a Texas thing (I know Dr Pepper is really popular in the South) but I can still buy 12 packs and 2 liters of that Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper stuff people are posting. I have never tried it though, guess I should.

I miss Crystal Pepsi, loved that shit when I was a kid.
 
Just bumping to say that thanks to gaf's suggestion to try out a Freestyle machine, I had a Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper today for the first time in 8 years and it was GLORIOUS.
 
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