We got this a few years back and had people taste them after dinner. The dinner roll flavor was easily the most unpopular, a few people came very close to tossing their dinner.
It was more than 20 years ago (I think) but I will never forget the foulness that was my one sip of Crystal Pepsi.
Also a few years ago someone bought me a case of one of the exotic Mountain Dews. I drink a lot of Diet Mountain Dew, this wasn’t Diet but I gave it a shot. It was purple and I think supposed to be Raspberry but instead it was ass.
Oh man, I LOVED Orbitz. I remember buying it at a local kwik e mart when I was 16 or so… of course, I was 16. Today, it might make me barf. But I remember it quite fondly and wish it was still around for nostalga’s sake.
Anyone ever tried Irn-Bru? Near as I can tell they take the orange dye used in hi-lighters, add some bubble gum flavor and stick it in a bottle. My MIL, who was born and raised in Glasgow, loves it. I told her it would make a good replacement for naval jelly. I think she she went home, got out a big notebook, and added that to the list of ‘reasons to hate my son-in-law’.
As far as the absolute worst soft drink I can think of? Diet Coke. Stuff literally makes me gag.
Is there anywhere on the west coast I could get Moxie, and does it come in diet? I know some people that claim it’s damnfine, and I want to be able to fart in their general direction with authority.
IIRC you’re in the Portland area… WW had an article a while back that mentioned a shop somewhere in Vancouver called, interestingly, Moxie’s (something). Apparently it is/was an old-style soda shop with several hundred varieties of soda. ISTM the WW article was in 2007/2008, so no idea if it still exists but its a place to start. I want to say Moxie’s on Main.
Edit: Google says its Moxie’s on Main. 1929 W. Main st, Vancouver. Don’t know if carries actual Moxie’s, but Amazon has it.
Very close to where I work, right on the other side of the Interstate bridge. Thanks.
Unless you’re diabetic I’d try the original non-diet Moxie first. I can get the stuff in Arkansas so I have no doubt there’s some place you can go on the west coast to get it.
QFFT!
Thought of a few more sodas which I can’t stand.
One’s not a real soda, but is a non-alcoholic carbonated malt beverage: malta. There are a ton of brands, and the easiest to find IMO is Malta Goya. It tastes like the sludge from the bottom of a sugar-laden bowl of Grape-Nuts.
Inca Kola, and similar champagne colas, which are all piss-yellow in color. Lord knows why the word “cola” is in the name of these beverages; more sickly-sweet vanilla/bubblegum/weirdness stuff with absolutely no bite.
That would be from Canfields. Their diet fudge soda was bad enough. I was never dumb enough to try the peanut butter fudge.
Howdy Cola… that stuff was vile… my dad got it for like a nickel a can and we had to finish it… We tried to give it away to friends but they got quick to that fast…
Yeah watching people try Beverly at World of Coke is always a good laugh…
Gotta say, I love Mountain Dew’s Baja Blast. If that stuff came in diet and was available to the public, I’d have more that than blood running through my veins.
I really dislike Sun Drop. It taste like a MD wannabe with lemon Pledge chemical overtones.
The worst pop I’ve tasted was Pepsi Ice Cucumber. Imagine Cucumber Melon body spray, and carbonate it. That was pretty much spot on.
Worst I ever tasted was Pepsi Blue. At least that’s what I think it was called. A distributor was promoting it by handing out free bottles to people waiting in line for a major booksale in town here. As thirsty as I was I could hardly stand it, and never would pay for it.
Oh, I love regular Dr. Pepper. It hakes me think about my maternal grandfather, who loved it. When my sisters and I were little he’d let us have a bottle all to ourselves! We didn’t have to share! Am I old or what, it was in glass bottles!
I suspect I’m the only person reading this thread who is wearing an Ale81 T-shirt (a holdover from my Kentucky days, good for slouching around the house in).
I was stunned last week to find that someone at work had stashed a case of Ale81 in the break room. Maybe he’s the connection for local addicts. :dubious: Actually the stuff isn’t bad, sort of a redneck Mountain Dew (if such a thing is possible) in which some claim to detect a ginger flavor.
Worst soft drink I ever tried is a tossup between Big Red and Faygo Red Pop. Pretty much anything sold as “red soda” is bound to be awful.
I bought my little brother the Jones Soda Thanksgiving pack. He told me he wasn’t able to finish any of them. I replied that I never intended for him to actually drink it.
I feel kind of sheltered. The worst soft drink I’ve ever had was a generic diet root beer, sweetened with saccharine, back in the 70’s. I don’t remember the name, but I think it started with an S. It was horrible. My parents had bought a case of the stuff, and I am pretty sure my siblings and I snuck it away a can a a time and poured it out in the back yard. It affected me. I can’t even conceive of drinking a diet soft drink today.
Plus, it feels weird talking about soft drinks or sodas or pops. They were once all referred to as cokes here. When I was a kid, I fully expected to be asked what kind of coke I wanted when I ordered a coke. Anything from Dr. Pepper to a 7up was an acceptable answer.
I remmeber that the long-gone restaurant chain Howard Johnsons sold its own brand of cola (they used to carry coca-cola, but threw them out).This crap was called “HoJo Cola”-and it was awful-one sip and you would gag!
They had a lot of bizarre flavors back in the day. The one I remember was diet pink bubblegum soda. Smelled EXACTLY like it’s namesake, but was nasty nasty nasty tasting.
As for red pops, I like Big Red. I currently drink their diet version on a semi-regular basis. My all-time favorite though was Fanta Red Cream Soda. Yum!
The chocolate fudge was not that bad warm, sort of like a liquid Tootsie Roll. Served cold, it was pretty damn foul.
Pocari Sweat. It is vile.
Well, if we’re going to get into Japanese soda, when I was there, a member of my group tried what turned out to be grass jelly soda. It was exactly what it sounds like. Basically club soda with gelatinous lumps of grass flavor. I can’t imagine why it hasn’t taken off here.