Orange Soda

[RonJ]

What has happened to it? Not enough fizz! Funny after taste!
I recently got a hankering for it. We tried Sunkist, Fanta, Crush and Vess/Whistle. Are there any other brands that are better. All of the ones we have tried lately taste virtually the same, which ain't good.

 

[federali]

Soda Ain't What It Used To Be.

For those of us old enough, we remember when soda companies used genuine sugar in their products. Today, it's sugar derived from corn sweeteners, beet sugars and anywhere else they may save a fraction of a cent per serving.

Those who remember CocaCola from the 1950s might recall that it had some substance to it, what the companies themselves described as "mouth-feel." Well, that mouth-feel is long gone. CocaCola, today, is like flavored water.

Today, I've learned to drink water. It is better for my waistline and the days are also long gone when I could burn up all the calories I consumed.

 

[Arik]

Beet sugar has actually been around for a while. It's only new to the mass market but a lot of stuff is made from it including road treatment for de icing. Molasses, alcohol, beer, honey like substance.

 

[madmikeb]

The local Wal Mart has Mexican Fanta orange in the cooler with the Mexican Coke. It's made with real sugar and I think it's pretty good.

 

[BigBill]

Coke really rocked when they made it in a paper cup in the stainless cup holder using the syrup and selzer at the local drug store soda fountain in the mid to late 50's.

My point is most sodas just don't have the taste they once had.

You can't find a good orange soda? Try to find a root beer, birchbeer, or saspirella lately?

I find that the little trucks who do home delivery with the once wooden cases of soda have the best tasting sodas now.

 

[rwsmith]

It had BITE.....

Those who remember CocaCola from the 1950s might recall that it had some substance to it, what the companies themselves described as "mouth-feel." Well, that mouth-feel is long gone. CocaCola, today, is like flavored water.
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Old Coke had BITE and a KICK and was so fizzy it looked radioactive. Man I wish I could get the old stuff. I'll go one worse thab today's Coke...... "New Coke". I wish the dang companies would make what people want instead of trying to tell us what we should like.

 

[the ringo kid]

What has happened to it? Not enough fizz! Funny after taste!
I recently got a hankering for it. We tried Sunkist, Fanta, Crush and Vess/Whistle. Are there any other brands that are better. All of the ones we have tried lately taste virtually the same, which ain't good.

Orange Nehi is best IF--you can find it??

 

[GaryS]

I loved Fanta Orange as a kid. I haven't tasted it in years, though, so it might be totally different now. One of the differences in many soda products is that they used to use cane sugar, but now use high fructose corn syrup. Which doesn't taste as good and is not good for you.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Jarritos, the Mexican soda, has an orange that is darn good, although not as good as my favorite, tamarindo.

Spring Grove, a small bottler from the eponymous southeastern Minnesota town, also has a good orange soda.

 

[Old TexMex]

Jarritos, the Mexican soda, has an orange that is darn good, although not as good as my favorite, tamarindo.

Spring Grove, a small bottler from the eponymous southeastern Minnesota town, also has a good orange soda.

I shifted from tamarindo to the toronja(grapefruit) it's got me all strung out. Jarritos, lo mejor!

 

[feralmerril]

I dont know if its a age thing or not. Back in the 40`s and early 50s I recall I couldnt hold a mouthful of coke very long as it seemed to sting. Maybe when we were young and tender we felt and tasted stuff different than we do when we got old. I heard many story's years ago of people actually getting addicted to coke a cola. I recall haveing to have it so bad in 1960 while in the NPS and having disguise it to get our packer bring it to our camp with his mules! I also recall working in the tetons in 1961 and a tourist trap would raise the price like a nickle a day as the tourist season started in full swing. I paid big money relatively speaking than I ever would today. I really suspect its a huge national secret that if the truth was ever known coke had "coke" in it and would have to go bankrupt from law suites from people that got hooked on it many years ago. Just lately I have lost some weight and I think its because I started to back off all carbonated colas as I have been hearing that even diet colas with zero calories will keep you fat. I am starting to believe that was one of my problems as I have lost about 20 pounds in the last six months or so when I started backing off just that and not much more.

 

[Arik]

I wish the dang companies would make what people want instead of trying to tell us what we should like.

Well they do. Most people don't want sugar so it's substituted. Just like when people complained about GatorAid using fire retarded chemicals in their drinks so they are stopping that too.

You should see what makes white bread look nice and stay fresh. You'll never want to touch a hoagie roll again.

Mcdonalds just came out saying that they only use 15% meat in their burgers. The rest is filler bleached with amonia.

Personally I don't care what soda tasted like or taste like now. Don't drink it and if I had kids they wouldn't be drinking it either.

 

[shouldazagged]

When I was a kid (born in 1937) Orange Crush came in a ribbed brown-glass bottle and wasn't a garish, artificial orange color. It was wonderful, far better than the Nehi of the time in my young opinion.

Beet sugar is no different from cane sugar. But sodas today are more likely to be formulated for younger tastes and people who don't remember when they tasted better because they were more expensively made.

I don't drink them except for good tonic water with lime or grapefruit juice, an occasional Schweppes ginger ale, or a very rare root beer float. I drink ice water all day and evening.

What disturbs me is the damn "energy drinks", loaded with caffeine, sugar, and heaven knows what, that can be bought all day by children. That kind of over-stimulation on a regular basis isn't good for a kid's developing nervous system, heart, or sleep patterns. Pretty scary, and parents who permit it regularly need to look at their decisions or lack thereof. I'm not making this up: numerous doctors have written or spoken about it, including a couple who have said it to me in person.

 

[MOONDAWG]

The local Wal Mart has Mexican Fanta orange in the cooler with the Mexican Coke. It's made with real sugar and I think it's pretty good.

For those who listen to the "John Boy & Billy" radio program's "Jepordy" game, the winning answer to the 2nd most popular soft drink in the world was...

FANTA ORANGE..Coca Cola was #1

 

[Arik]

For those who listen to the "John Boy & Billy" radio program's "Jepordy" game, the winning answer to the 2nd most popular soft drink in the world was...

FANTA ORANGE..Coca Cola was #1

Fanta was also invented specifically to sell to nazi Germany. Due to import embargo a drink had to be made with local ingredients

 

[EQGuy]

The original Coca Cola contained Cocaine extract which was removed in the 1920's. That is where the Coca in its name comes from.

 

[lrb1200]

My memories of this go back to the 50's as well as a lot of other posters. At the end of the day it's always been about the "bottom line" for all the manufactures. Subtle cost cutting
steps to the recipe little by little over decades, and decades,
and this is what you wind up with.

Many of us age group minority, have nothing to do with their marketing strategy. The majority of their consumers
"can't miss what they never had". Their loss.

 

[feralmerril]

Ya know, I also read that the coke in coke was stopped earlier than my time too. Now I definetly know how much stronger it was when I was young. I dont particularly believe that one of the biggest if not biggest company in the world with unlimited money didnt have the money, means and power to bend the facts and records, bribes or whatever it took to make us think that. When I was a kid we would have contests to see who could hold coke in their mouth the longest. You couldnt go very long without spitting it out and I still well remember it. I dont believe everything I hear or read.

 

[walkin jack]

Maybe you just got a bad "batch"? I like Crush the best. I like it straight with ice or over a couple of scoops of Bluebell Homemade Vanilla. That sure goes down good on a hot muggy afternoon in SE Texas.

 

[southcoast]

The original Minute Maid orange which was bottled by Coca cola was the best stuff. I lived off of this in college. Somewhere within the last 18 years or so ago Coke dropped this stuff and pushes the european based fanta garbage.

 

[the ringo kid]

Jarritos, the Mexican soda, has an orange that is darn good, although not as good as my favorite, tamarindo.

Spring Grove, a small bottler from the eponymous southeastern Minnesota town, also has a good orange soda.

Ive seen it here and think ill try some.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The original Coca Cola contained Cocaine extract which was removed in the 1920's. That is where the Coca in its name comes from.

That's why the Mexican coke tastes so good. It ain't the cane sugar

 

[the ringo kid]

Fanta was also invented specifically to sell to nazi Germany. Due to import embargo a drink had to be made with local ingredients

Speaking of sodas and Germany. I bought two (sadly) warm cans of Orage Soda froma vending machine when i was in Laboe. To me it tasted like orange drink or orange coolaid, and NOT--orange soda.

 

[the ringo kid]

Maybe you just got a bad "batch"? I like Crush the best. I like it straight with ice or over a couple of scoops of Bluebell Homemade Vanilla. That sure goes down good on a hot muggy afternoon in SE Texas.

Try vanilla ice cream with Big Red or Cima REd, man that was so darn good. I lived off it when i was in College. I coudnt afford anything more expensive--and didnt really need the more expensive stuff either.

 

[Salty RI]

I haven't had orange soda in years, I was never much of a soda drinker anyway but we used to have an orange soda called Nugget, it might have been just a local thing, I'm not sure but it was good.

 

[vytoland]

Orange Nehi is best IF--you can find it??

put your hands around one now.....in bottles and cans.....

 

[perrazi]

anyone else remember when you could go down to the corner grocery store and reach in the pop cooler that had the coldest water on earth and pick out whatever flavor you wanted?

 

[fideau]

Mostly preferred Pepsi myself, but Coke is always acceptable. My real favorite soft drink has always been Dr Pepper though. Really loved those Tru-Aides too when I was a kid. That was a long time ago.
The last several months, we have had Pepsi with sugar in several stores around these parts, including Walmart. Some Cokes with sugar have been there too, in the Spanish foods aisle. Now we are getting some Mt. Dew with sugar too, in glass bottles. It's hard to remember but there was a time everything had a better taste. I think the whole health issue was brought up as an excuse to use cheaper sweeteners anyhow.
It was fun once to walk into an old wooden floor store with a screen door and open that long cooler, and choosing a Pepsi, Coke, Nehi Grape, Nehi Orange, Upper Ten, Dr Pepper, Tru-Aide, even a Ginger Soda, among a few others. Yes, I am old. And thirsty. See you.

 

[DaGOOSExyz]

The Orange Crush in the brown bottle was the best! My family used
to make a home made ice cream with that in it. No electric maker for
us. We all took a turn at cranking the handle with my Dad finishing up
when it got real hard to turn. Mmmmmm Gooooood!!!!!!

 

[Ogandydancer]

anyone else remember when you could go down to the corner grocery store and reach in the pop cooler that had the coldest water on earth and pick out whatever flavor you wanted?

Yep. Also back then we had two orange drinks that wwere pretty good, neither was carbonated, TruAid and Pal, Pal had a heart on the bottle and I could just about drink one straight down on a hot day. We also had Orange crush and Nehi orange which I didn't care much for.