I remember dnL so much back in the mid 2000’s and it was a pretty good soda. Sadly, they’ve got rid of it. 
(I’d have to drink a diet version anyways)
Diet Coke with Lime is winner.
Except that 56 up is my single favorite one in the series.
7 Up declined when they stopped pushing their mascot Cool Spot. He was awesome.
He even had a video game, and it was good.
Here in Thailand, the Big Two (Coke and Pepsi) have suddenly become the Big Three (Coke and Pepsi and Est). Est also offers a Sprite-like drink, etc. Est is operated by the former Pepsi distributer – don’t know details of their dissolution. This is rather a big deal since Thailand has the highest per-capita soft-drink consumption of any Asian country east of Iran. Cite.
Some people prefer Pepsi to Est (which may have a root beerish flavor). Some prefer Est to Pepsi. When I get over my flu, I think I’ll arrange a blind tasting.
I don’t remember the name of Est’s Sprite taste-a-like. Just now I tried to find it by accessing their website:
(Not so unusual here in the Land of Smiles. :dubious: )
Mid-'60s in Minnesota. I remember by dad buying me a bottle and saying it looked like pee. :mad:
7Up today tastes a lot different from how I remember it as a child. It was a kind of smooth, creamy soda, not terribly sweet. Then they about doubled the sugar content in the early '70s, and now it has a much sharper citrus bite. The 7Up I’ve had in Canada is also different from any other I’ve known—the flavor borders on artificial, and not even an equal balance between lemon and lime. Sprite (which I remember having for the first time in the summer of '68; it was Coke’s answer to 7Up) is closer to my old 7Up than Canadian 7Up.
As regards Bubble-Up, I remember drinking it as a kid in Minneapolis and liking it a lot. I always thought they had ceased production of it a long time ago. I also remember getting Green River from vending machines at the cinema, and was surprised to read not long ago that it’s still being produced (or perhaps production has been resumed; I’ll have to look it up again).
My dad. :smack:
Green River’s been available in the Chicago area for all of my 40 years that I recall. Sometimes you had to look harder than others but I don’t remember a time when it was straight up gone.
I remember it being available in either carbonated or non-carbonated form. I can’t recall ever seeing it in the Twin Cities after about 1967.
Yeah, I always assumed it was region and that there was a fairly tight definition of “region” for it. There’s a local beef & burgers chain around here, Doggie Diner, that has always had it as a fountain drink. I see it sometimes in stores (especially around St. Patrick’s Day, naturally) but most of my Green River consumption comes from ordering Italian beefs and gyros.
Remember Wink, “the sassy one from Canada Dry”? Also grapefruit flavored. Haven’t seen it since about 1970.
Want a nasty sounding combination that tastes great? Try sloe gin and Mountain Dew in a 2:1 Dew/gin ratio.
Anyway, the best soda ever put out by a big brand was Faygo Brau ginger beer. This country really needs a good, strong, inexpensive ginger beer again.
It isn’t cheap, but if you can find AJ Stephans Ginger Beer, it sure meets the other requirements.
I have some Goya brand Jamaican style, but it’s a dollar a bottle (12 oz). That store also has another brand in a 2 L bottle, but it goes flat after a day and isn’t fizzy enough to start with.
“Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn’t even get his degree.” - Mitch Hedberg
And here I am, 50 years later, saying the exact same thing to my teen son. 
<Before anyone rants at me for posting in an outdated thread, shut up.>
When I was tending bar, we used to set up 4-5 glasses of different sodas, say, coke, diet coke, sprite, root beer, and fanta, and we’d challenge customers to try them without seeing them. A number of people could name their first drink, but even at two, identification accuracy dropped off. Beyond that, forget it.
Interesting, given how many of us claim to be able to distinguish even pepsi and coke, or sprite and fresca. It just doesn’t work out that way unless there are other sensory clues.
Having said that, I miss the 7-up of my childhood terribly. Sob!
Remember those 7Up commercials with the vending machines? They were built by Jamie Hyneman of “Mythbusters” fame.
Old Cherry 7-Up commercial with Matt Leblanc.