I never could do it. But I watched my sibs and friends do it. Seemed daring and fun. I always wanted to try it.
Today, after dialysis, me and Ivy went to the China buffet.
Ivy drinks tea and lemonade mixed together. Reminded me of ‘suicide’ drinks. You put a little of every soda in your cup and drink it.
So…I dared her we’d try alittle of every dish on the buffet. She was skeptical.
She’s a safe eater. Only eats things she’s had before.
I insisted. So she decided she’d ‘try’.
That’s all I wanted.
Well. I don’t think I changed her mind about anything. General Tso’s beef was too hot but she kinda liked it.
She varied from chicken egg rolls to shrimp egg rolls and said they tasted the same. That was funny.
What do you expect from a China buffet ran by a Hispanic family.
When I was 12, I saw a couple of pretty girls doing it, and so I did it, figuring I could casually agree with them when they’d surely notice me and strike up a conversation about everything we have in common.
Oh hell yes! But our local drugstore didn’t have a self-serve fountain, so we would ask whoever was working behind the counter to make them. And they would usually oblige.
Nowadays lots of fast-food joints and cafeterias have the self-serve everything fountain that can produce e.g., all 27 flavors of Coke, 10 flavors of diet Coke, 8 flavors of Coke Zero, and all their dozen-plus orange, lemon, and clear sodas to boot.
If you’re really daring you can stop at two places in the food court and half-fill your cup with all the Coke products, then move on to the next joint with the Pepsi universal vending machine and mix those in the same cup.
Funny, I’ve never even heard of this (frankly disgusting) idea before this thread.
Is this something that was invented by kids only after self-serve soda dispensers came into existence? IOW, for those of you saying you did this as kids, how old are you now, or equivalently, what decade were you doing this stuff as a kid?
Naw, when I was a kid they had soda vending machines with about four choices and a selector knob. You’d put in your quarter, the machine would drop a cup, and you’d work the knob back and forth as the cup was filled.
This would’ve been the ‘80s, for me: IIRC it was the cafeteria of a college campus (which, in those months, they apparently had no better use for than serving as a summer camp for nerdy kids).
Speak for yourself, I plan to be 12 twice. Of course I have to wait for the Big Crunch to begin in 20-billion years (give or take a couple months). The universe will contract, time will reverse and I’ll pop back into existence, growing younger by the year, like Benjamin Button. Eventually I’ll be 12 again and probably quite thirsty what with having to walk backwards and all.
I’m screwed if the universe keeps on expanding to the Big Freeze, however.
I did it occasionally but didn’t have a name for it. In college I would include a tiny bit of coffee and a teabag, but no matter how little coffee or Dr Pepper I put it, the end result would always taste like Dr Pepper flavored coffee. I legitimately like a 50/50 blend of a cola and lemon-lime drink: doesn’t matter if they’re Coke, Pepsi, 7 up or Sprite.
I remember my college girlfriend taking me to the local pizza place where she’d hung out as a teenager, in suburban St. Paul, MN (circa 1986); the menu listed all of their various soda flavors, which you could get by the glass or by the pitcher; it also listed a pitcher of “Suicide.” I’d never heard of that idea, and she had to explain it to me.
The scales have been forcibly yanked from my eyes. I can see!
Sounds pretty wacky but I can sure imagine a 10yo, or a drunk college kid, (I’ve been both though not simultaneously) trying this idea. Now? I’ll pass. Label me a closed-minded purist as you will.
Naw, our nerdy high-school D&D group was doing this with assorted off-brand soft drinks in 2 liter bottles at our wild-and-crazy gaming sessions. This would have been in the mid-late 70s.
A Dungeon Master high on ginger ale mixed with root beer was a terrifying thing to behold.
My earlier post talked about how the counterperson at the local drugstore would make suicide drinks for use. You know, an early version of Dr. Kevorkian.
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