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5 Most Disgusting Discontinued Beverages

Bloggers are straight-tripping over the announcement that alcoholic energy drink Sparks will be discontinued, due to allegations that manufacturer MillerCoors was “aggressively [marketing the drink] to a younger crowd.” What does this mean for your weekend? As orange tongues dry up in college towns across America, fans will probably start hoarding the drink. A similar situation happened when Coca-Cola announced that it would stop selling Tab, and my friend’s mother bought out every store’s Tab inventory in the tri-county region. Due to what was probably the biggest run on Tab in Western Massachusetts history, Coca-Cola changed their minds, and continue to produced the soft drink to this day. Here are our favorite Discontinued Beverages.

5. Orbitz: This was a spritzer of sorts with little balls of gummy…I don’t even know what floating around in it (think: bubble tea). Apparently, nobody outside of my middle school bought any, and it was quickly pulled from shelves.

4. Surge: Another hit in my youth was this awful Mountain Dew knock-off that tried to capitalize on the extreme sports fad of the ’90s.

3. Crystal Pepsi: Pepsi’s clear cola has become one of the cornerstones of ’90s pop culture absurdity, along with laser pointers and MC Scat Cat. Though initial sales were good, people stop buying once the novelty wore off. According to Wikipedia, you can find it in Mexico, under the name “Pepsi Clear.”

2. New Coke: Coca-Cola messed with their classic formula in “New Coke,” also called “Coca-Cola II.” It was gross, everyone hated it, end of New Coke. Old cans popped up on eBay a few years ago, but are scarce today.

1. Zima: The oft-mocked malt beverage was another MillerCoors victim this year, with production ending in October. We’ll always have Smirnoff Ice.

4 Responses to “ 5 Most Disgusting Discontinued Beverages ”

  1. Zima was my first alcoholic drink. Followed quickly by a shot of Soco. Long live Zima!!!

  2. [...] Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Blue, etc.). The failure of New Coke (which has preoccupied us for some time already) is perhaps the most elemental and pure expression of the empty-headed “new is better” [...]

  3. [...] very anti-soda to begin with, but when soft drink (or “pop”, as it’s called in our homeland) [...]

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