Some of the limited time offer flavors from Pepsi are mixed bags. I tried Crystal Pepsi for a while back in early-2017 during its return, and I had no clue what to think of it..
Discontinued Foods That We Miss. - A memorial for those gone too soon.
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Red Bull Cola
Coconut M&M
And Briar's made an orange sherbert with chocolate chunks that was amazing.
Coconut M&M
And Briar's made an orange sherbert with chocolate chunks that was amazing.
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I miss Taco Bell's spicy chicken burritos. They were amazing.
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It was the same as normal pepsi iirc, but clear. However, being clear really takes away from the experience. Or, at least, the expectation.
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I'm pretty sure that was a large part of why it was discontinued - the association of clear sodas with stuff such as 7up and Sprite meant that an uncola-noncolored cola was strange to people.
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It was almost pepsi, but with a slight cinnamon/cyanide flavor to it.
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I remember the 2017 version tasting nothing like normal Pepsi, more like another citrus drink.
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Weird, it tasted just like pepsi to me. But clear.
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It's technically not discontinued but my local Kroger-owned grocers haven't been making those addictive potato wedges at their hot food bars lately. Another grocery store chain in my area has potato wedges but they're subpar compared to due to heavily spiced Krogers' are.
I'd make 'em myself but I'm 99.99999% sure I couldn't get the spice blend just right.
I'd make 'em myself but I'm 99.99999% sure I couldn't get the spice blend just right.
I'm honestly shocked that PepsiCo hasn't considered bringing Holiday Spice back for a winter run, you'd think that the demand for Crystal Pepsi and various discontinued flavors of Mountain Dew would make a few employees ask a few questions.
I think that's more of a psychological thing, I had Crystal Pepsi during it's more recent limited-edition runs and I only ever detected a citrus "taste" during its 2016 run.
I don't know, for me Crystal Pepsi did taste like generic soda. Sure, it may have been clear, which explains the flavor, but it doesn't really taste like actual Pepsi
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It's probably because of the lack of caramel color, even though it's used as food coloring it does serve as a source of bitterness for sodas that have it as an ingredient.
If we compare Crystal to another infamous flavor, Pepsi Blue, it contained a highly "controversial" variant of color for taste (at least of the time of that product's release) Brilliant blue FCF (Blue 1). It's ironic because that itself is one of the oldest FDA-approved color additives that's considered nontoxic and safe. One of Crystal Pepsi's ingredients consists of modified starch for its clear ingredients.
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I never got to try Pepsi blue and I'm bummed. I'm a sucker for anything weird like that.
I think I'll start brewing my own soda. What's the worst that could happen?
I think I'll start brewing my own soda. What's the worst that could happen?
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Sometime, during the multiple years it took me to go through a (6 or 8?)-pack box of these Ice Breakers Peach Iced Tea mints that I kept in my shop, apparently they were discontinued.
There's also a Liquid Ice that was available in groceries during the minority of the early-2000s. In addition, the Frost flavors were discontinued in 2022.
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General Foods International Coffee, which came in tin cans. Even though it was more or less hot chocolate for adults with a bit of coffee in it, it was one of the few instant coffees that didn't taste like a chemical fire.
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Sobe when it was still in the glass bottle.
At some point they switched to a plastic bottle reminiscent of the original and then to worse plastic bottle that looked like the vitamin water bottle but they were never the same. I remember these mostly as a kid and kind of forgot about them when my family moved. I kept some of the bottles with cool graphics around on the window sill.
Gas stations and the like used to have a million different kinds of drink but now everything is the same dozen sugar waters. I can't even find the irish blend monster anymore. The only place I've seen that still has it I saw six hours away while on a business trip.
At some point they switched to a plastic bottle reminiscent of the original and then to worse plastic bottle that looked like the vitamin water bottle but they were never the same. I remember these mostly as a kid and kind of forgot about them when my family moved. I kept some of the bottles with cool graphics around on the window sill.
Gas stations and the like used to have a million different kinds of drink but now everything is the same dozen sugar waters. I can't even find the irish blend monster anymore. The only place I've seen that still has it I saw six hours away while on a business trip.
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Liz Blizz and Wisdom were great hangover helpers.