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.
Keep your Snapple - I’m perfectly happy with my Fruitopia, thank you very much.
There was a California Style Sunny D that was very sweet…I loved that stuff in high school.
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).
Store brand cough syrup. I like to keep it chilled in the fridge so it goes down smooth.
Water was okay. Back in the nineties, it was OJ that would kill you.
I want that purple stuff…
It was the 90’s. No, water was not an option.
Water wouldn’t have been in the fridge, everyone drank it from the tap in the 90s.
Water? Like what is in the toilet?
You need something with electrolytes.
Idiocracy reference
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.
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.
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.
Any of the above for me, but assuming purple drank to be grape, I voted for that because grape is great.
Sunny D now makes purple stuff.
“Sunny D Chillers, Grape”
I gotta assume there is absolutely nothing in the slightest actually “grape” in that purple stuff. Even the flavor is just “purple”. 
This thread just inspired me to go get some Purple Stuff from the fridge. It tastes purple.
See? 
Water? You mean like in the terlet?