Favourite brands of soda pop!

[Mord]

I'm good with any of these (except root beer). So long as you can mix it with rum, whisky, or vodka...I'm good.

[Hepcat]

No, sorry. No liquor allowed for monster kids.

[Mord]

No, sorry. No liquor allowed for monster kids.

There may be a few members here that might disagree.

[Sean]

A&W Root Beer & Coconut Rum

[ChristineBCW]

Wow.  HIRES ROOTBEER is even listed!  We started special-ordering it thru a friendly manager at a local WalMart, and they ended up stocking it full time.  Alas, we have microbreweries that make even better rootbeer, but those beget rootbeer floats and noe's waistline can't allow too many of those! 

[Hepcat]

Wow.  HIRES ROOTBEER is even listed!

When it comes to pop, I'll have you know that I'm not just a dilettante. I'm hard-core. Here's a semi-recent shot of my bottle pantry:



Close-ups of the pop bottles:





Here's a good magazine for those similarly inclined:

Soda Spectrum

[Scatter]

There may be a few members here that might disagree.

Amen

[ChristineBCW]

Hubby asks for collectors: "Chocolate Soldier" bottles?  Kik-a-poo Joy Juice?  Those were way before my time, and on a different continent.  I am clueless about those.

[Count Zero]

who wants to do a soda swap?

ill mail you a mixed variety six pack of my favorite bottled cane sugar sodas if you mail me or another boardie a six pack of yours in return...

[Dr.Cyclops]

[Hepcat]

Taste that beats the others cold!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGeuOxnBPbc

[Dr. Acula]

Vernors! And Frostie! Two of my favorites from my childhood. Haven't seen a Frostie in years, but I still drink a Vernors now and then.

I'm disappointed that Sioux City Sarsaparilla didn't make the list.

[Hepcat]

Hubby asks for collectors: "Chocolate Soldier" bottles?

Chocolate Soldier was a chocolate-flavored beverage produced by the Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Chocolate Soldier was made by Citrus Products Company in Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s. The drink was sold in glass bottles from 1966-1988. It was bottled all over the United States.

It was also bottled and sold in parts of Canada including in my home town of London for a number of years beginning in the early sixties. The bottle I remember and currently own in my collection is pretty boring:



Some of the Chocolate Soldier signage is wild cool though!

Kik-a-poo Joy Juice?

The Kickapoo Joy Juice name was introduced in the Li'l Abner comic strip:

Kickapoo Joy Juice

I've never encountered Kickapoo Joy Juice being sold in my neck of the woods but I do have a bottle in my collection just because I like the name and graphics:

[ChristineBCW]

Hubby says he recognizes that 2nd CHOC SOLDIER bottle, the heavily-painted bottle, and he said his pals had games to etch something on that bottle's label, then return it and see if they'd ever find it again.  No.  Never. 

He also remembers KICKAPOO a few years before MOUNTAIN DEW arrived.  He remembers a silly TV ad with a gun-shooting KICKAPOO hillbilly "almost like Richochet Rabbit - ping-ping piiiing."  He said SQUIRT was of the same style - with a sour punch to it.

[Hepcat]

He also remembers KICKAPOO a few years before MOUNTAIN DEW arrived.  He remembers a silly TV ad with a gun-shooting KICKAPOO hillbilly "almost like Richochet Rabbit - ping-ping piiiing."

Hmmmm, perhaps something like this Mountain Dew commercial?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xd8fzk8Rlk

He said SQUIRT was of the same style - with a sour punch to it.

Squirt is truly excellent! While widely available in the Detroit area, it comes and goes in my neck of the woods. Sadly I've not seen any here for over fifteen years.

But why are you asking your husband how these soft drinks all taste? Is it just a case of availability? Hopefully you're not resistant to quaffing them yourself.