# Nostalgic American Beverages?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [March 21, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350 "2021-03-21T16:39:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/33 "2021-03-22T00:34:40Z")

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I liked Cactus Cooler. Sorta kinda orange–pineapple flavored , but without the throat searing intensity of Nehi or Crush. It was different. I also liked Squirt.

It was sold in steel cans by the case or each IIRC. Stores that carried Canada dry carried it, like Sav-on drugs.

Bubble Up is another.

Can I remind everyone of this masterpiece?

> [@Anybody want a rim job?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-want-a-rim-job/366124):
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> Thanks to the fresh, new and exciting taste of Diet Pepsi, Jazz, Black Cherry & French Vanilla, and for a limited time only, I will be tossing salads like a mother fuck just so I can get the taste of this rancid chipmunk spunk out of my mouth. With a hook like, “Indulge your senses.” on the label I was certain that I had found a new favorite among the already shitty diet soda catalog out there, but what I didn’t expect was that the only senses getting indulged were Rallo’s, the recent parolee w…

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