Pay your respects to these nasty old sodas This soft-drink graveyard (“A tribute to soft drinks no longer with us”) sure takes me back. I think I was 10 when Crystal Pepsi first appeared in vending machines, and I actually liked the stuff. Not sure what that says about me, since everyone else on earth hated it. Actually, most of these drinks are Pepsi products, with the exception of Orbitz (“No seriously, guys, people like random whatsit floating in their drinks!”) and New Coke, a beverage so contemptible that conspiracy theories surfaced in an attempt to explain its cataclysmic suckage. The graveyard’s proprietor “can’t afford new soda because [he] bought too much 10-year-old soda.” Sweet Jesus, old junk food is that valuable? Remind me to stockpile cans of this so I can get rich in 10 years. Via Presurfer. —Posted by David Kiefaber

June 29, 2007 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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I loved Crystal Pepsi too!!

Posted by: Kate | Jun 29, 2007 9:45:14 AM

Tropical Chill Pepsi was actually pretty good from what I can remember. It's probably responisble for the majority of cavities in my mouth.

Posted by: D | Jun 29, 2007 10:41:27 AM

Crystal Pepsi may have sucked, but it employed one of the best uses of a rock song with the Van Hagar "Right Now" track and video type-treatment.

Posted by: ad_scribe | Jun 29, 2007 2:43:40 PM

Slightly off topic but; When the new Coke came out we happened to have a large amount of original Coke in the house. When Coke Classic came out we still had some bottles of the original Coke. One day my mother offered me some Coke and I didn't know it but she had grabbed a bottle of "Coke Classic" instead of old Coke. When I tasted it I could tell it wasn't original Coke. It was an actual blind taste test. Years later I learned that they were "doctoring" new coke to make it taste more like the original, instead of retooling machines back to the old formula.

Supposedly, they have since restored the production machines so that Classic Coke really is original Coke.

Posted by: Tdave | Jun 30, 2007 6:03:32 AM

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