1940 - 1950 Soft Drinks

shouldazagged · Feb 15, 2014

Grapette was wonderful stuff. Intense grape flavor, much more than Nehi.

Orange Crush wasn't dyed vivid orange as it was later. It was sold in ribbed brown bottles. Tasted a hell of a lot better then.

RC and Double Colas, of course, though I seem to recall that Double came along a bit later.

There was a limited brand of ginger ale, Crescent, that I only tasted in East Tennessee, and only a couple of times. Fine ginger bite, more like Schweppes than Canada Dry.

Dr. Pepper was pretty big in my long-ago boyhood.

arjay · Feb 15, 2014

Lime Ricky

the ringo kid · Feb 15, 2014

doublesharp said:
Nehi assorted fruit flavors, grape, orange, strawberry etc

Royal Crown cola

Barq's root beer and cream soda

Good Lord I love Grape Nehi I havent had any since the 70s. I alsi like Triple XXX Rootbeer, Hires Rootbeer (made in Fredericksburg, TX, A&W Eootbeer, Delaware Punch, etc.

the ringo kid · Feb 15, 2014

This might "date" people but, anyone remember bottle caps lined with cork?

arjay · Feb 15, 2014

Id forgotten about that

doublesharp · Feb 15, 2014

finesse_r said:
The Mini-Max grocery store I worked at after school in 1963 and 1964 had the 6 cent coke machines and two cent deposit on bottles. We had one part time employee that all he did was arrange and stack various glass bottles that were returned for deposit and get them sorted so the various venders could pick them up.

I started at Kroger in 1967 as a bagboy. The job we most coveted was working bottles. You were in a chainlink cage behind the store, hot in the summer, cold in the winter and you could smoke, even take your shirt & tie off in the heat. One of the worst jobs was stocking the soft drink aisle. Heavy and they didn't ride good on hand carts. When you dropped one it was a major mess and shame on you if you loaded sloppy and let a cart turn over.

G-Mac · Feb 15, 2014

jimmyj said:
5. Yahoo (?) Chocolate Drink

I think you mean Yoo-Hoo?

radar1972 · Feb 16, 2014

the ringo kid said:
This might "date" people but, anyone remember bottle caps lined with cork?

As kids, we used to pry the cork out in one piece. Then put the bottle cap on the front of our t-shirt, put the cork back in the cap from the inside of the t-shirt.

charlie sherrill · Feb 16, 2014

A lot of the drinks named above are still being made. Mostly the original companies were bought out years ago, some more than once. Some of the drinks taste similar to the original ones, some not. Barq's was purchased by Coca Cola and is still being produced. It is very popular in the South, especially Mississippi where it was invented. Walmart bought out Grapette. It 's original home office was Camden, Arkansas. Maybe that has something to do with who bought it. Although you won't find it in the little bottles, the two liter offering tastes very similar to the original. Cokes and other soft drinks went up right after Castro took over Cuba and closed down the sugar trade with the U.S. The first price increase I saw was on a six cent Coke machine. It took a nickel and a penny and to take the bottle off the premises you had to pay a two cent deposit. When I was a kid I had a newspaper route. I had big baskets on my bike and while I was throwing papers if I saw a pop bottle I picked it up and redeemed it at a local neighborhood grocery.

perrazi · Feb 16, 2014

I remember 12oz. bottles in a cooler filled with water that was ice cold. all the flavors mentioned previously except for strawberry soda. don't remember the name on the bottle. anybody heard of dodger cola? it was big in our area in the late 50's and 60's. same company bottled a soda called flip. was like 7up with a grapefruit taste added.

Gunhacker · Feb 16, 2014

In 1960 our family drove back to Iowa from California for our first visit with my Mom's side of the family. I was 7 years old and one of the things about the trip I remember is being surprised and not understanding why things like 7-Up ("You like it, it likes you"... remember that motto on the old bottles?) disappeared after you got to the other side of the Rockies, and "Bubble Up" is what you found instead.

Others I remember are Mug root beer - Hires, Orange Crush - Sun Crest Orange.

This might be too regional, but does anyone remember Bireley's or Nesbitt's ?

BobC357 · Feb 16, 2014

Coldshooter · Feb 16, 2014

When I was growing up there were more regionals than now and we had Vess and Billion Bubble Bottling who did a lot of local flavors. What was the grapefruit flavored drink in the 60's?

labworm · Feb 16, 2014

Bireley's non carbonated drinks were pretty good.

Flavors I remember were orange, grape, grapefruit and chocolate.

My selection was a ice cold grape.

Nframecollector · Feb 16, 2014

How about Kickapoo joy juice?

timn8er · Feb 16, 2014

Faulkner said:
Anyone remember RED HOG.

"It Makes You Root Harder!"

I believe that was the slogan. I couldn't believe it when I saw your post. Many years ago I used to live in Arkansas with my then future ex. We went to San Antonio to visit my folks & as a joke gift I took them a six pack of Red Hog. This was, as near as I can remember, in 1986.The last time I was in San Antonio visiting them about a month ago, I was digging through one of their fridges looking for something & I found two bottles of Red Hog from that same six pack! I couldn't believe it. They just never drank it. I used to love the stuff because it reminded me of Big Red(which I grew up drinking in Texas)except as I remember Red Hog had a more intense flavor.

timn8er · Feb 16, 2014

TAROMAN said:
After my father returned from WW2, he and my uncle started a bottling plant.
Their first product was Squirt.
Been a part of me my entire life.

:
They added Dr. Pepper soon thereafter:

I remember Squirt, which is weird because I usually can't remember squat. It was good stuff. I've still got one of the original bottles with the twisted shape.

MSgt G · Feb 16, 2014

Anybody remember Simba?

longhair · Feb 16, 2014

Grew up drinking Blenheim's sodas. Their ginger ale was the absolute best. I remember Charles Kuralt doing a piece on their factory and his reaction to the ginger ale.

lawandorder · Feb 16, 2014

I can still remember to this day, 50 some odd years later how wonderful that first drink of ice cold Coca Cola was.

Wish they were not so bad for you, I could drink a lot of them.

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