Anyone remember Howdy! Cola?
Back in the 60’s and 70’s in was in every soda machine at every gas station I frequented.
I would say Coke is 3rd at best.
Here’s the Shasta ad I remember from Texas in the 70s, with narration by Tom Bosley. ‘Shasta, the one that has ta…”
Snopes says Pepsi has been available in Israel since 1992. Are you saying no one ever buys it?
Montreal (Canada): until it disappeared in 1984, “Kik Cola” may have even been number one around here. There were billboards everywhere, signs in every corner store. and along outfield fences of ballparks. Number three today is probably some no-name supermarket cola.
Google gives 4,130,000 hits for “Kik Cola”. (however - the brand name “Kik Cola” is now used in India.
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Also a Jersey boy in the seventies. Loved RC.
In Indiana, Kroger brand soda is probably the third. Walmart and meijer have their store brands, but nowhere near the number of choices that kroger has.
RC used to be the third cola, but I rarely see it around here anymore.
Faygo was also the third cola but again, its hard to find nowadays.
So I’d say kroger store brand soda is our third brand here.
Probably like Jones o Boylan or some yuppie brand that’s not bad, but like $4 per bottle.
It may be available elsewhere in the country, but I haven’t seen it in Tel Aviv for over a decade.
Pepsi has been trying to make inroads into the country since 1992, with diminishing returns. Its current market share is somewhere in the low single percentage points, and most of its sales are in Arab-majority areas.
It doesn’t help that that Coca-Cola is made here with cane sugar.
I’m pretty sure I saw at least Pepsi Max and 7-Up in Tel Aviv less than a decade ago, but for all I know the bottles had been sitting on the shelves for ages. I’m certainly not suggesting it is more popular than any of the many miscellaneous soft drinks that were available. Don’t recall any RC Cola, etc, but I’m more into double espressos and didn’t go hunting for moderately-caffeinated cola drinks.
According to this article, Coca Cola and Pepsi are far ahead, but surprisingly Vita Cola takes the third place in Germany. Surprisingly for me because it’s a 60 year old brand from the former GDR and is almost exclusively popular in East Germany. I’m from West Germany and have never drunk it or seen in a restaurant, though you get it here in supermarkets. I would have bet on River Cola as third most popular, the house brand of Aldi.
I remember Virgin started doing cola in the 1990s. Virgin Cola was actually pretty good and started taking Coca-Cola’s share of the market, so they started doing deals with supermarkets to stop them stocking it.
Also of note is that Scotland’s most popular soda is Irn-Bru; making it one of the few western countries (possibly the only one) that doesn’t have Coca-Cola at the top of the list.
yep. I’d wager Faygo is the #3 cola, but I’d bet even more strongly that Redpop outsells Faygo cola.
And Vernor’s outsells Redpop.
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How does anyone in Michigan have time to drink water?
They can’t drink water-too much lead in it (Flint). Not really funny, I know, trying to not cry about those Flint, MI kids. We certainly let them down.
Sprite, I’d have to say, although I don’t drink it.
Because of this thread I actually looked for RC Cola when I was at Target today, and apparently they don’t actually carry it anymore. I know they used to have it; occasionally I would buy a case of RC there, just to be different. Now it’s just Coke and Pepsi.
With this thread fresh in my mind, I was surprised to walk into a gas station (small town Wisconsin) and have to detour around a huge RC display.
I’m a little surprised that Target doesn’t have a house brand of cola, or sodas in general. They do for various other products but not sodas. They’re large enough that they could if they wanted. Walmart does, though, in Great Value and Sam’s Choice brands. My guess is that Target customers are less price-sensitive than Walmart customers. (And to be honest, if you look for sales, the big two brands of soda can be purchased relatively cheaply.)
that’s one other reason I like Faygo, it’s about 2/3 the price of the majors for the same size bottle. plus nobody else has Redpop 