# "We got OJ, purple stuff, soda, ...Sunny D!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [October 30, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999 "2014-10-30T13:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/1 "2014-10-30T13:31:03Z")
This was the 90s. Apparently there was no such thing as “water.” ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/2 "2014-10-30T13:37:08Z")
Didn’t you know? No one drank water in the '90s. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/3 "2014-10-30T13:38:17Z")
Of course there was no water. Water was insufficiently **EXTREME!** for our hydration needs in those days. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/4 "2014-10-30T13:40:13Z")
It’s so surprising a beverage company wouldn’t sell the idea that water is an acceptable drink to suggestible kids. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/5 "2014-10-30T14:03:47Z")
My favorite was the salty tears of the innocent. Really ramped up the old electrolytes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/6 "2014-10-30T14:06:14Z")
W. C. Fields was right, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/7 "2014-10-30T14:32:47Z")
Sunny D had an oily taste that I couldn’t stand. I’d rather have had orange Kool-Aid than Sunny D. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/8 "2014-10-30T14:47:41Z")
I, for one, am disappointed to see Purple Stuff polling so poorly. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/9 "2014-10-30T15:02:00Z")
OJ. There’s nothing like a nice glass of pulpy orange juice. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/10 "2014-10-30T15:21:52Z")
And the milk industry weeps… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/11 "2014-10-30T15:23:13Z")
They were looking in the refrigerator. Water wasn’t in the refrigerator, it came out of a faucet! [QUOTE=Smapti] I, for one, am disappointed to see Purple Stuff polling so poorly. [/Quote] Right now, it’s leading OJ.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/12 "2014-10-30T15:26:18Z")
WTF is “Purple Stuff” really supposed to be? Generic grape soda, grape kool-aid, Concord grape juice or something else entirely? I always went for soda. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/13 "2014-10-30T15:26:27Z")
Sunny-D here. _Checks poll_. Wait? I’m really the first vote? Come on Sunny-D lovers! If anything, it at least makes for a great grilled chicken marinade(look it up, and don’t knock it till you try it!) ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/14 "2014-10-30T15:26:32Z")
Where’s that quote from? It’s really familiar for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/15 "2014-10-30T15:30:38Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Where’s that quote from? It’s really familiar for some reason. [One of several commercials](http://youtu.be/MQE3jWYuGiw) in the 80s and/or the early 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/16 "2014-10-30T15:43:08Z")
> [@bump](#): > > WTF is “Purple Stuff” really supposed to be? Generic grape soda, grape kool-aid, Concord grape juice or something else entirely? Purple burple. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/17 "2014-10-30T15:49:56Z")
I always figured that “purple stuff” was [Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid](https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3656/3305772953_6731270d62.jpg) (a very popular flavor of that time). Sunny Delight tasted like Tang’s wicked, goatee-wearing twin. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/18 "2014-10-30T15:52:51Z")
Why would we need water when we had Snapple? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/19 "2014-10-30T15:56:58Z")
I always figured “purple stuff” was something like [this](http://probablyedible.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/blue-raspberry-drink01.jpg) - a generic gallon of “fruit drink” from the grocery or convenience store. They came in flavors like orange (not “orange juice” but “orange-colored and orange-flavored juice”), red (fruit punch), purple (grape) and apparently blue (blue is very 2000s.) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/20 "2014-10-30T16:01:49Z")
What exactly is Sunny D? I may have tried it once and it came across as a mix of OJ and pineapple juice with some added sugar. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999.md?page=2)