I remember garbage can punch/ trash can punch from my days in San Antonio. Everclear, Hawaiian Punch Red, and Welch’s grape juice (original purple).
That would stain🤗
Not if you go easy on it. LOL
Nope. Palmer never mixed it 50-50. He preferred mostly tea with a splash of lemonade.
A Little League highlight was requesting a suicide at the concession stand. All the Badass Big Kids did it, so it was pretty obligatory to order one. What, you didn’t think I was chicken, did you?
I definitely made myself some suicides when I was a kid. I “perfected” it down to avoiding diet sodas (aspartame tastes like metal) and always finishing with Dr Pepper if available.
I saw someone uothread call them “graveyards.” That’s what my brothers and I called a virgin mixed drink we created for a party we never ended up throwing. It was Coke mixed with milk, with a popsicle stick made into a headstone. It was absolutely disgusting. That recent “Pilk” fad from Pepsi was really a head-scratcher for me.
If you believe Lavern & Shirley (produced in the 1970s) Milk and Pepsi was a thing in the 1950s.
I always thought cola plus milk drinks were where frozen Coke floats came from.
Penny Marshall had indicated that she developed that bit in the show herself, from her own experiences as a young person, which would have likely been in the late '50s (she was born in 1943). So, I’m not sure if it was “a thing,” or if it was just “her thing.”
i have lived under a rock. the only beverage i recognized in this thread was the garbage can and arnold palmer.
i had my own version of the arnold palmer using a splash of orange juice instead of lemonade, and if i am at a fountain beverage dispenser, i will add a splash of something to the diet cola.
at ikea i will add a splash of ligon berry, at nozzle fountains a splash of fruit punch or lemonade. they have the really wild ones at the wawa, then i get a bit crazy, diet dr pepper with vanilla, cherry, and sometimes a splash of strawberry.
We notice you didn’t say you actually ordered one. 
And @garygnu, yes to finishing off with Dr. Pepper whenever possible.
Suicide drinks? Never! Engaging in such frivolous nonsense would be an affront to my sophisticated palate and discriminating taste. Oh, I may on rare occasion place a droplet or two of freshly-squeezed lemon juice into my Earl Grey teacup, but I feel naughty doing so.
Me too. Sonic had a Frostie. Thats a milkshake Coke which is really a blended Coke float.
I still make them at home.
A few year ago there were a bunch of drink dispensers offering maybe 10 different flavors. I think one machine was called Coke Freestyle. Depending on the machine you could mix any combination of the flavors that included the common types of sodas and a variety of fruit flavors. I would rarely select any kind of soda except Pepsi, or Coke in a pinch.
It’s nothing that would be called a ‘suicide drink’ but floats with and kind of ice cream or soda have been around longer than anyone posting here while still alive.
THAT’S what it’s called! When I started reading, I knew it was something else but couldn’t figure out what. Thanks.
The little neighborhood grocery store by my grandma’s had a little fountain behind the counter. It had 4 nozzles: brown, clear, red, and green (coke, 7up, cherry, and lime). When I mixed them all, I found out that the lime was an uncarbonated lime drink. It flattened the feel, so I avoided it after the first time. It sure brought the swamp, though.
I was never a huge fan of the suicides as a kid; as often as not, they were worse than just one single flavor by itself.
My children however, are proud upholders of the tradition. And technology has advanced as well- they’re particularly fond of the Coke Freestyle soda fountains that let you choose from a whole host of basic flavors (like 16 or so), along with a bunch of modifier syrups for each. So for example, you can get Coke, root beer, cream soda, Sprite, ginger ale, Mello Yello, Mr. Pibb, etc… and each of those with vanilla syrup, lime syrup, etc… (within reason; not every syrup is available with every soda).
So they can really get down on the funky suicide combinations.
tastee freez advertised 50 shake and slush flavors.
I remember eating inside. I could see the labeled dispenser bottles on a double-tiered carousel. Very strange names like grasshopper. Somebody got imaginative dreaming up those flavors.
You could get some strange slushes by randomly mixing the flavors.
I miss tastee freez. They were a special part of my childhood.
“Grasshopper” was probably chocolate and mint.
So a grasshopper walks into a bar, and the bartender says “Hey, we have a drink named after you!”. And the grasshopper says “Really, there’s a drink named Phil?”.
As the Chinese owner of our local Mexican restaurant put it, “anyone can read a cookbook!”