# "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:** 2
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/21 "2014-10-30T16:05:59Z")
Sunny D (at that time, it was technically named “Sunny Delight”) is a bottled “citrus punch drink”. It contains a little bit of fruit juice, and they market it as healthier than soda (due mostly to the vitamin C they put in it), but it’s mostly water and corn syrup. At that time, it was made by Procter & Gamble, though it’s now apparently owned by an independent company. ---
**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, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/22 "2014-10-30T16:08:11Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Why would we need water when we had Snapple? Keep your Snapple - I’m perfectly happy with my Fruitopia, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/23 "2014-10-30T16:10:18Z")
> [@bump](#): > > WTF is “Purple Stuff” really supposed to be? Generic grape soda, grape kool-aid, Concord grape juice or something else entirely? [Purple drank](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/24 "2014-10-30T16:19:38Z")
There was a California Style Sunny D that was very sweet…I loved that stuff in high school. ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/25 "2014-10-30T16:25:52Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > 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!) I hear you. I will admit, I have no problem with Sunny D. I have been known to pick up and enjoy a jug every now and then (I make screwdrivers with it; don’t judge me!). I just usually prefer “purple stuff” when I’ve got a hankerin’ for some 99¢-a-gallon-colored-sugar-water (and “purple stuff” with blue curacao ain’t bad either :D). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/26 "2014-10-30T18:42:25Z")
> [@bump](#): > > WTF is “Purple Stuff” really supposed to be? Generic grape soda, grape kool-aid, Concord grape juice or something else entirely? Store brand cough syrup. I like to keep it chilled in the fridge so it goes down smooth. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/27 "2014-10-30T18:47:10Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Didn’t you know? No one drank water in the '90s. Water was okay. Back in the nineties, it was OJ that would kill you. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/28 "2014-10-30T18:47:49Z")
I want that purple stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/29 "2014-10-30T18:51:56Z")
It was the 90’s. No, water was not an option. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/30 "2014-10-30T19:03:00Z")
Water wouldn’t have been in the fridge, everyone drank it from the tap in the 90s. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/31 "2014-10-30T19:59:34Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > This was the 90s. Apparently there was no such thing as “water.” Water? Like what is in the toilet? You need something with electrolytes. Idiocracy reference ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/32 "2014-10-30T20:06:19Z")
Sunny D tastes like melted St. Joseph’s Asprin for Children. Back in the '80s when we gave our children Reye’s Syndrom and they liked it! When the mamby-pambies in the '80s made us stop, we had to figure out a way to get the kids to continue to enjoy the nasty taste and Sunny D was the solution. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/33 "2014-10-30T22:00:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I, for one, am disappointed to see Purple Stuff polling so poorly. I totally would have voted for the purple stuff, but “anything but Sunny D” was just a much higher priority. Hated that shit. Don’t know what it was, but it just did not work for me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/34 "2014-10-30T23:07:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Store brand cough syrup. I like to keep it chilled in the fridge so it goes down smooth. I think that’s the market they developed flavored vodkas and apple-tinis for. “You’re grown up, but that doesn’t mean your tastes have to change. If you liked Robitussin you’re going to love our Cherry Smash Vodka!” Chose Sunny-D because Wife, who has been a flavor chemist, claims she can taste the carcinogenic flavinoids, or something, in it. I like to live dangerously. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/35 "2014-10-31T00:13:28Z")
Any of the above for me, but assuming purple drank to be grape, I voted for that because grape is great. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/36 "2014-10-31T02:36:40Z")
Sunny D now makes purple stuff. “Sunny D Chillers, Grape” ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/37 "2014-10-31T02:42:49Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Any of the above for me, but assuming purple drank to be grape, I voted for that because grape is great. I gotta assume there is absolutely nothing in the slightest actually “grape” in that purple stuff. Even the flavor is just “purple”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/38 "2014-10-31T02:51:11Z")
This thread just inspired me to go get some Purple Stuff from the fridge. It tastes purple. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/39 "2014-10-31T03:16:00Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > This thread just inspired me to go get some Purple Stuff from the fridge. **It tastes purple**. See? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-oj-purple-stuff-soda-sunny-d/702999/40 "2014-10-31T03:16:06Z")
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