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    Image of msAnthrope msAnthrope
    11/17/09

    In reply to 'Breathtaking' Document Reveals Pepsi's Logo is Pinnacle of Entire Universe
    this still isn't going to get me to switch from drinking coke to drinking pepsi. #pepsi
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    dr. brown's cel-ray
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    "Imitation" grape soda? So the grape and strawberry sodas are fake but the orange is real?
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    Sandogg promoted this comment A Message To Rudy was starred A Message To Rudy was unstarred
    Image of Sandogg Sandogg
    08/24/09

    @Ken Green: Grape soda doesn't taste like any grapes I have ever had. More than anything, I always thought it tasted like purple
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    Image of oneninesevenfour oneninesevenfour
    08/24/09

    @Sandogg: Welch's Grape Soda has real juice. This is why it's inferior to Nehi and, in a pinch, Fanta.
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    Image of formerlydictator4life1 formerlydictator4life1
    08/24/09

    @oneninesevenfour: Nothing is better than NuGrape though.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    The color of those cans reminds me of 70s Shasta. So many flavors. All bad.
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    Image of HaysiFantayzee HaysiFantayzee
    08/24/09

    @jasonelias: Mmm Shasta. My brother, sister and I always got to choose two flavors for our trips to the beach. I think they were 14 cents apiece or something like that. The cola was bad, but I liked the cream soda and red apple flavors.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    08/25/09

    @HaysiFantayzee: They were something like 14 cents a piece. I seem to remember a chocolate soda--I did like the ginger ale though. More than anything I loved those cans.
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    08/25/09

    @jasonelias: Who made Chocolate Soldier? That existed at some point, right?
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    08/26/09

    @aLostLady: I can't find out who made it, the answer varies online but yeah, it sure did exist.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    The real marketing genius, apparently, was the guy who convinced them to change the name to Diet Pepsi. Up until then, none of the soft-drink companies wanted their girly, awful-tasting diet products associated with the main brand.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    I can still see the dust on cans of Strawberry soda in my grandmother's "cold room" under the basement stairs. The older this stuff got the more it resembled sweet-nasty cherry cough syrup, and Nana had the same cans for about 25 years, and always told guests, "Oh, there's some soda pop in the basement. Help yourself." She didn't mention the botulism. Good thing fermented toxins make soda cans bloat like a two-week old corpse, or every cousin north of the Mason Dixon would have had their stomach pumped.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    08/24/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Adirondack--the brand of choice for Jewish summer camps in the Poconos!
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    I'm going old-school Detroit from now on; nothing but Faygo and Vernors for me.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    08/24/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: And in NYC, No-Cal soda, delivered, if I recall correctly. In Black Cherry!
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: Hammer brand soda. Black cherry or ginger ale. The tops of the bottles had a diamond facet motif cut into the glass. Half-remembered dream of my childhood or I've lost my mind completely, someone please back me up?
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Not part of my upbringing, sorry. But I've got to say, this whole thread is bringing out a lot of childhood memories -- or, as you say, maybe they are half-remembered dreams. Who needs madeleines -- we've got TaB.
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    Image of Sandogg Sandogg
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real

    Down in the ghetto all we had was diet Shasta
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    08/24/09

    @Sandogg: How did Coors wrench away the Shasta monopoly on the Rocky Mountains graphic, anyway? Because looking at that... can? box? I can tell it's cold.
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    Image of Greasy Thumb Guzik Greasy Thumb Guzik
    08/24/09

    @aLostLady: Shasta means Mt. Shasta in California, part of the Sierras, not the Rockies!
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    08/25/09

    @Greasy Thumb Guzik: Ah. Thanks for that. The only Shasta I'm familiar with is the cougar mascot of my alma mater, the University of Houston. And geography was not my strong subject.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    pa tio -- for the elusive redneck rican market
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    Image of J. Frank Parnell J. Frank Parnell
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    Patio.

    Crisp.

    Refreshing.

    Suburban WASP-approved.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    @J. Frank Parnell: No, no, this is marketing for the aspirational masses, who want to be like the Big Whites. If it were for the WASPs it would have been called Veranda!
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    Image of J. Frank Parnell J. Frank Parnell
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: True. True.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Too Southern, which reminds me of one of my favorite below-the-Mason-Dixon jokes: "I'm not sure, but I think his wife's name is Veranda."
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    I had a horrible flashback last night to a Diet Pepsi jingle that included the lyric "the taste of America."
    Perhaps the Ann-Margaret clone will be singing that next week instead of about how light and pretty drinking Patio makes her feel...
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    The name is aspirational. Everyone wants a patio!

    Also I love the "imitation" they had to add to "strawberry" and "grape." The need to use the word "artificial" had not come into vogue/law yet?
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    Image of Helio Helio
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: and for the brooklyn dwellers, they'll call it "Rooftop."
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    Image of PamBeesley PamBeesley
    08/24/09

    @Helio: For the upscale Manhattanite- Balcony.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    @PamBeesley: Promenade, for the Coney Island Under the Boardwalk Bettys.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: artificial is presented so big it's like it's a good thing. reminds me of my grandma being worried for me when she came over to eat and i had fresh veggies. she was worried i couldn't afford the good frozen or canned kind.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    08/24/09

    @Helio: Tar Beach.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    I'm trying to "limit my exposure" to Patio, "keeping some tools in the tool-box," so to speak.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    There is a Bye-Bye Birdie revival on Broadway...do we think Roundabout Theatre can afford a product placement on Mad Men or are they just lucking out?
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    08/24/09

    @Lymed: I don't think that song will ever not be in my head again.
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    08/24/09

    @aLostLady: Oh god, my eardrums are still trying to recover from Ann-Margret.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    08/24/09

    @Brian Moylan: I actually think the 14 year old I heard sing it 10 years ago did a better job than Ann-Margaret.
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    Image of NigelAstydameia NigelAstydameia
    08/24/09

    @Brian Moylan: Are you kidding? I fell in love with A-M because of that movie. Some of the sexiest three minutes on film.
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    Image of Bklynexpat Bklynexpat
    08/24/09

    @aLostLady: I know. I feel like giving myself a labotomy with an ice pick, just after I mix myself a nice Rum and Patio...
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    Image of NigelAstydameia NigelAstydameia
    08/24/09

    In reply to Mad Men's Drink That Reminds You of a Floor Was Real
    Patio was a popular drink to wash down Alcoa's short-lived brand of potato chips, "Shingles."
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