# Remember making 'suicide' drinks at the drink fountain as a youth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339 "2023-01-17T01:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/81 "2023-08-19T01:29:04Z")
It’s the best buffet in town. So I agree. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/82 "2023-08-19T01:37:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I think I used to make them on Girl Scout field trips. Always a fun treat, especially since my family never bought pop except on special occassions. ☹ That was me, too. No sodas, no sweetened cereals at home. But the Boy Scouts had a national olympics, and we were housed on a college campus… …where they had the twelve-spigot soda fountain. And a wall of cereal dispensers. I still remember the joy of being away from home for the first time, and then seeing all those choices… felt SO great! The dispensers looked something like these. **Suicide cereal, anyone?** [![](https://www.utahsadventurefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Stirs-Cereal-5-1024x683.jpeg) ](https://www.utahsadventurefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Stirs-Cereal-5-1024x683.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/83 "2023-08-19T01:56:00Z")
…Wow. Did they have any cereals that weren’t sugar bombs? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/84 "2023-08-24T00:31:19Z")
Oh, yeah, but don’t forget, these were for students, and Early '70s students at that. The high fiber/low taste stuff was down at the Faculty end of the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/85 "2023-09-04T00:21:29Z")
I wonder what the geographic distribution is for these various terms? I remember how much I enjoyed that series of maps I once came across that will tell you where one says “pop” versus “soda” versus “soft drink,” or where you’d say “sub” versus “hoagie” versus “grinder,” and so on. Growing up in Kentucky, for instance, “suicide” was the only term I ever heard for said drinks. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/86 "2023-09-05T03:33:28Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Growing up in Kentucky, for instance, “suicide” was the only term I ever heard for said drinks. Pretty much the same here in Minnesota in the late 60s, early 70s at least. I wonder how this mix got its name and how that name spread so far. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/87 "2023-09-06T23:23:55Z")
I thought of everyone in this thread when I went to the movies today. The new high-tech machine there let me mix over a dozen sodas… and add additional flavors (Vanilla, Cherry, Lemon, Berry, even Peach). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/88 "2023-09-07T00:05:27Z")
How was it? Seems suicidal 😊 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339/89 "2023-09-07T01:01:27Z")
Not bad, but I skipped the “Blue Sports Drink” spigot. It was mostly Diet Dr.Pepper; I went heavy on the caffeine, because I’d gotten the “Hey, let’s go to a movie, right NOW” call from a friend before I’d had my coffee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-making-suicide-drinks-at-the-drink-fountain-as-a-youth/978339.md?page=4)