Favourite brands of soda pop!

[Hepcat]

That's EXACTLY the model I would choose.

I believe that Pepsi machine is a Vendo 56. Here's a just slightly bigger Cavalier 64 in Coca-Cola livery:



And here's a Cavalier 64 customised with spectacular Frostie Root Beer livery!



My preference though would be a Vendo 56 or Cavalier 64 with the livery of a local regional brand such as Wishing Well or Kist.

[CreepysFan]

   

The Pepsi Vendo 56 is definitely a thing of beauty, like a work of art.    The shipping on these things are a big deturant, like you said.   It's find one local or nothing.

[CreepysFan]

   

  Avery's soda co. has three new flavors out for Halloween :  KITTY PIDDLE,  BUG BARF, and BLACK LEMONADE.  Hmmm .... wonder if Hep had anything to do with the Kitty Piddle ?  Found these on a site called OLD `52 GENERAL STORE for $1.75 a bottle.  Would love to see someone's face after offering them a bottle of KITTY PIDDLE . 

     

[Hepcat]

Hmmm .... wonder if Hep had anything to do with the Kitty Piddle ?

Cat's gotta make a living. Business is slow and there are lots of toys I can't afford.

[Sean]

As a kid, I loved Shasta.  The mountain on the can made it look so refreshing....

[ICEMANN333]

GREEN RIVER ------KAYO------BIG J.........

[CreepysFan]

   

Didn't realize Squirt soda was still being made, until our local Wal-mart started carrying it recently.   Love the grapefruit like flavor, just not crazy about the bright yellow can. 

   

[The Creeper]

Love Dad's root beer and Coke products.  Also like Crush and Faygo sodas.  Used to drink Faygo a lot when I was a kid.

[Hepcat]

   

Didn't realize Squirt soda was still being made, until our local Wal-mart started carrying it recently.   Love the grapefruit like flavor, just not crazy about the bright yellow can. 

   

Squirt in refillable ten ounce bottles disappeared from my neck of the woods some fifty years ago. It reappeared briefly about twenty years ago in the big plastic bottles and cans but I've not seen it since.

Great sour flavour though!

[CreepysFan]

   

Yeah, Squirt showed up around here a couple of months ago in cans and 2 liter bottles.  Love the grapefruit citrus bite it has, though it isn't going to replace Orange Crush as my soda.

[Hepcat]

But I thought that first and foremost you were a Pepsi drinker.

[CreepysFan]

   

Man can't live by Pepsi alone.  He needs artificial fruit substitute and root beer also.   

[Hepcat]

Very true!

There were of course dozens of brands from which to choose:

Coca-Cola
Pepsi-Cola
Canada Dry
7up
Vernors
Snort*
John Collins*
Squirt*
Hires Root Beer
Orange Crush
Nesbitt's Orange
Wishing Well (many flavours)
Kist* (many flavours)
Stubby* (many flavours)

The brands with the * would disappear well before I finished grade school in 1965 but would be replaced by other brands such as Royal Crown Cola which was the first brand in those fabulous sixteen ounce bottles, Frostie Root Beer, Sprite, Teem, Mountain Dew, Wink, Fanta Orange, Dr. Pepper, etc.

It's interesting as well to compare the mainline brands (as opposed to the "gourmet" sodas sold at premium prices) being sold in everyday outlets such as supermarkets and variety stores in my neck of the woods today with the above list of brands that were available when I was a kid. Here are the ones commonly available to me these days:

Coca-Cola
Pepsi-Cola
RC Cola (once in a while)
Canada Dry
Schweppes Ginger Ale
Vernors
7up
Sprite
Mountain Dew
Dr. Pepper
A & W Root Beer
Barq's Root Beer
Mug Root Beer
Cplus
Orange Crush
Crush Grape
Crush Cream Soda
Cott (many flavours)
Faygo (many flavours)
Fanta (several flavours)

[CreepysFan]

   

  That is so not fair man.  The Cream Soda Crush isn't available here, which sucks cause I likes me cream soda.  Usually just get Jones Cream Soda, but imagine Crush's would taste superior.    

[Hepcat]

Crush Cream Soda is a very smooth cream soda compared with the Wishing Well I drank as a kid. I remember the Wishing Well had far more bite.