I never thought RC was bad. Admittedly I haven’t tasted it in about 50 years, but my memories of it aren’t traumatic.
However, the pairing of RC Cola and Moon Pies (as described in this song) is beyond the pale. Moon Pies are okay, but the thought of washing them down with RC makes me gag.
Michael Jackson?
Both Canfield’s diet chocolate pop and Tab are available at my local grocery store (Chicago burbs). In college I existed on Tab, cigarettes, and bubble gum. I was tempted to buy a 6 pack of each over the weekend.
I think this may be the winner. Although I remember one that sounded good, carbonated apple soda. I don’t remember the name. It tasted like a wax apple.
The Fresca of the 70s was completely different from the Fresca of recent times. The whole point to Fresca back then was that citrus flavors tended to mask (incompletely) the awful taste of sodium saccharine. There were a couple other diet sodas with citrus flavors for this same reason. But when I say incompletely, I do mean incompletely; you never could quite get all of that saccharine taste covered up.
Squirt was an infinitely better grapefruit soda, because it wasn’t sugar-free. 
I have to agree with the '80’s version of diet Dr Pepper - Really bad. It’s good now!
Does anyone remember Pop Shoppes? Where you returned your bottles and could pick from loads of different flavors like Sasparilla. One of the worst ones was the pineapple pop. UGH!
Once again, it might be my hometown bias, but I love RC Cola (while I know it’s not from here, we had an RC bottling plant just down the street here in Chicago, and it’s pretty much the standard cola you would get with your takeout pizza. Typically, a one-liter bottle is included with your order, at least in my part of town.) I prefer Coke to RC, but I prefer RC to Pepsi.
I don’t know specifically about a place called “Pop Shoppe,” but there were various “soda clubs” (or whatever they were called–I seem to remember the one by our house called Clover Club) where you’d get glass bottles of soda (I feel like they must have been around 1.5L), pay a deposit on the bottles, and choose from all and sundry of flavors, from your fruit sodas (I do remember a pineapple being available, but also various berries and stuff in addition to your usual orange and grape flavors) to tonic water (which was called “quinine water” at this place) to colas and clones of popular sodas (their 7-Up close was called “Lucky Buck,” for example. Unless that was the Squirt clone. Hard to remember now. There also was “Green Spring,” a take on Green River.) This was around until at least the late 80s.
Coors Light.
I had no idea Fresca was so old. I thought it was a late 80s drink, at the earliest. That explanation would make sense. My only memory of saccharine at the time was in the form of Tab, and it was pretty awful.
It’s called a Redneck Breakfast. 
I remember Pop Shoppes. The gaming nerds I hung out with in the '70s guzzled their products like there was no tomorrow.
I think Shasta had an apple-flavored drink in the late '60s or early '70s.
Around the same time, there was grapefruit Wink, “the sassy one,” from Canada Dry.
But before Fresca was saccharine-based it was a cyclamates-based soda.
And it was pretty good, as I recall.
WHaaaaaaaaat??? RC is truly the Royal Crown of Colas. Coke is second and Pepsi is a vile and hideous 4th or 5th after some no name stale shit I had in a diner in Tanzania.
And before I started drinking diet sodas regularly, Diet RC was the only one that tasted remotely palatable to me.
I liked it, when I could get it, which was seldom.
Little fizzy stuff in the Ancestral Di’Chi Manor.
Where should that link have gone?
Canfields made a lot of horrible flavors. I remember not only Bubble Gum, but diet Bubble Gum. Talk about extra nasty!!!
When I moved to Texas in the early 90’s there was a restaurant called “Po Boys” (or something similar) that had a special dessert that was a combination of a Moon Pie and an RC Cola. They would bring the two out in a wagon and give you a short presentation about the history of the Moon Pie and RC Cola.
Anyone remember Slice, which was 10% real fruit juice? It was quite popular, and the ones I tried were good, but I never did try the Cherry Cola Slice. You guessed it - it too was 10% juice. :eek: Cherry cokes use just a small amount, so in this case, the cherry flavor was beyond overpowering, and it was almost syrupy.