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Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, my brain forgets that it's been over 20 years since the 80s ended and I have the urge to go to the refrigerator and pull out the Coke (we called everything Coke even when it wasn't Coke) I saved from my field trip the day before. My mom never let us regularly fill our eatin' holes with junk food, but when it was field trip day, she'd make us a special lunch and drop a can of sodie pop in there. Because drinking delicious drops of liquid sugar heaven was like a rare religious experience for me, I didn't want to do it while surrounded by a bunch of little bitches from school, so I'd save it to drink by myself later. All my senses need to focus on that special moment and I wasn't going to let some screaming brats ruin that. My mom would usually let us pick out which kind of soda we wanted and I'd usually pick the pineapple orange nectar from heaven: Cactus Cooler.
Cactus Cooler was invented by the gods in the 1960s and it's still sort of around today. You can buy it online and they still sell it in some grocery stores, mostly in Southern California. I've never seen it here in NYC, but if I have I thought it was just a mirage and forgot all about it. You know, I really wish the legal drinking age in California in the 80s was 8-years-old, because I can only imagine the somersaults my insides would've done while drinking Cactus Cooler with Bacardi. I would've been an 8-year-old alca-and-cactus-holic.
One of the most disappointing things that has ever happened to me was when I cut open a piece of a neighbor's cactus and Cactus Cooler didn't pour out of it. I really thought this would happen. I bet this happens in the desert in heaven. And yes, that disappointing moment happened last week.
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I don't remember this soda! Was it available in Oklahoma? lol
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OMG, i used to love cactus coolers! We were very rarely allowed to drink soda and cactus cooler was my fave. Now i think it is SO sweet. blechh.
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Love these comments. It was "soda" in the Mid-Atlantic states. I remember how we cracked up when vacationing in MA to hear the kids say "tonic" (and "frappes").
I'm so very late to this party, but just this morning I saw cactus coolers at the grocery store! I wouldn't have even paid attention to it had I not read about it here @ the D (& I'd never heard of cactus coolers until this post). What I'm trying to say is--MK, I'd be happy to send you a 12 pack or two all the way from bumfuck Idaho! It's the least I can do to repay you for giving me my daily dose of laughter.
Submitted by Hekki on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 8:21pm.
Submitted by joe shmoe: "...Which goes to show: extreme anything is bad. If you enforce a really, really strict diet on your child, they'll eventually go overboard on all the stuff you prohibited for years. ;)"
Very true. My sister used to hoard candy and sugar packets. AND I had a thriving candy business on our school bus - kids would take their milk money and buy my candy with it. My best customers were the kids with strict no-sugar diets.
In our family, nothing is forbidden, but I don't generally buy garbage food. Once in a while, I will get them a bag of Doritos or some Oreos. If the kids want to drink soda at someone else's house, they can.
(Just last weekend, Eldest ate like shit all day and pigged out at her BFF's birthday party and came home and barfed bright orange. Experience is the best teacher.)
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LOL at bright orange barf. EWW! I like your commercial venture on the school bus!
I actually found a couple of malnourished kids raised solely on pop, candy and fried food, who would actually *willingly* trade their delicious greasy lunch for my fruit/vegie/banana bran bread combo.
Free trade at its best :D
ETA: I had the same approach with my kids when they were little; I occasionally bought something junky and it was a treat. It wasn't forbidden, I just didn't buy it regularly. What they shoved down their cakeholes at other people's places I shiver to think.
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I loved Clearly Canadian back in the 1980s and Jolt Cola (twice the sugar, twice the caffeine)!
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Damn! so late to this thread. I love the comments. I was raised by a health food mom, when no one cared about health food. Every day at lunch was a sweaty psyche-out, who would take pity and give me one lousy cookie in trade for an orange or broccoli.
The mayor in NYC Bloomberg got a law passed that soda no larger than 16 oz. can be bought there.
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In Minnesnowda we call it pop, too. And I've never heard of this stuff. I will only drink diet coke anywayz.
It sounds scary at first but i bet it is delicious!
Submitted by joe shmoe: "...Which goes to show: extreme anything is bad. If you enforce a really, really strict diet on your child, they'll eventually go overboard on all the stuff you prohibited for years. ;)"
Very true. My sister used to hoard candy and sugar packets. AND I had a thriving candy business on our school bus - kids would take their milk money and buy my candy with it. My best customers were the kids with strict no-sugar diets.
In our family, nothing is forbidden, but I don't generally buy garbage food. Once in a while, I will get them a bag of Doritos or some Oreos. If the kids want to drink soda at someone else's house, they can.
(Just last weekend, Eldest ate like shit all day and pigged out at her BFF's birthday party and came home and barfed bright orange. Experience is the best teacher.)
OMG! Fizzies! I remember trying to put them in your mouth and you would foam like a rabid dog and you would be gagging because they tasted like the worst shit ever. Gross but fun. Or we'd wet 'em and stick 'em down each other's pants. Good times!
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Submitted by vegaschick on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 6:04pm.
... My absolute fave was New York Seltzer, why did they ever stop making that stuff?
YES! and when they mixed it with chocolate syrup, it was the best thing ever! why DID they stop making that stuff?
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I'm really surprised to learn other areas of the States called all drinks "Coke" too. Hmmmm, I did think it was a Southern thing (yes Mike).
Me to Southern waitress: "I'll have a Coke."
Waitress: "What kind?"
Me: "A Dr. Pepper."
I lived in several Southern states and this was how it was. When I moved to the NW, a Coke is a Coke! Booooooo.
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Cactus cooler(w/vodka) is a bar favorite in soCal and it is delicious+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Aspen.....yum, the best apple soda...evah!
IDK this stuff up there , but now i gotta try that godawful Shasta soda I see at the store. We don`t keep soda at the house, the kids only get it as a treat, but GOD, I love any kind of soda. If it comes in a can and fizzles, i m in love. But i know its fucking liquid sugar , so no thank you. *cries*
Growing up we always had soda at the house. Orange or Lemon Soda and Spezi ( which is some German orange lemonade Coke mix). How we didnt end up weighting 5000 pounds is beyond me, cause we guzzled that shit down by the case.
I drink Cactus Cooler all the time (it's easy to get here in L.A.). It's always been my favorite soda.
I always think of The Flintstones when i'm sippin' on that can ...
Wow, I'm jealous reading these comments. I grew up in Australia and my mother would *not* buy pop ('soft drink' out there). Her concession was to buy this disgusting 'cordial' which was a powder mixed with water. And just to make it extra disgusting, it was from a health food store. Yeah, my birthday parties were a real *must attend* event.
She was into healthy food and took a firm stand on that stuff. I used to LOVE going to my Nanna's house because she carbonated lemonade.
When I left home I guzzled Fanta, Tab and whatever other sugary pop I could get my hands on.
Which goes to show: extreme anything is bad. If you enforce a really, really strict diet on your child, they'll eventually go overboard on all the stuff you prohibited for years. ;)
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LMFAO. I'm dying right now because I too was only allowed soda for class field trips. My mom would wrap the can in tin foil to keep it cold, even though it never really did. We also called everything "coke" regardless whether it was pepsi, sprite, fanta or whatever. I'm originally a Boston girl, so maybe it's a Northeastern expression. My absolute fave was New York Seltzer, why did they ever stop making that stuff?
HAHA BITCHES! I CAN GET THIS SHIT FROM THE CORNER ANY TIME I WANT (it's really good with vodka)
Submitted by TexnDoc on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 1:32pm.
I grew up in central CA. It was coke for everything there too. It's the same here in NV.
Sierra Mist has this weird mouth feel. Really soft and velvety, not prickly like other soda.
My eldest thinks she is hot shit when I let her drink soda. She holds the can like it's the Hope Diamond. At parties or the very rare restaurant meal they can get soda, but only Eldest likes it.
For field trips they get Capri Sun pouches that I keep in the freezer overnight. It must an mom thing.
when my son got stationed somewhere where there's no catcus cooler, we sent him some!
It's good stuff.
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Submitted by precociousmagpie on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 3:17pm.
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Submitted by Gardening Girl on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 2:12pm.
There's another soda from a lower brand made with grapefruit, well I think it's made with graprfruit cos there's a picture of one on the can. Its sooooo bad, it's good!
Squirt? love it, esp the Ruby Red one
Cactus Cooler makes Mountain Dew seem like Taittinger or something
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To all you horz who think you're old, can anyone here claim to remember Fizzies? The DIY carbonated beverage tablet that you dropped into a glass of tap water? The tougher kids would just bite into a Fizzie and let it burn a hole through their tongues.
Fizzies came in cola flavor (best one), cherry, lemon-lime, root beer, etc. They were fascinating to watch and delicious to imbibe. But then the mean old FDA put the kibosh on Fizzies because they contained "cyclamates", which caused immediate cancer or something.
*weeps softly*
we didn't have cactus cooler out east, but orangina, san pelligrino sodas, boylans, & moxie were always around when I was growing up.
I grew up in north eastern nj, and we just called it soda or coke. nobody I knew coming up called it pop. pop is totally a midwest thing...my boss is from chicago, and she still calls it "pop" after years living in nyc.
I'm not sure how it tastes but there's a recipe for a drink called Cactus Cooler.
http://nyc.wholefoodsmarketcooking.com/recipes/11135_cactus_cooler
I'm not sure how it tastes but there's a recipe for a drink called Cactus Cooler.
http://nyc.wholefoodsmarketcooking.com/recipes/11135_cactus_cooler
Little_rascal, I'm simple like that! :D
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ImpertinentVixen -- I gave up drinking Tab because it became too hard to find and when I did find it, awfully expensive. I should pick some up one day and see if I am still intoxicated by it. I loved that shit. I still remember the glass bottles with the yellow stars on it. And yeah, I'm old.
Submitted by Gardening Girl on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 2:12pm.
There's another soda from a lower brand made with grapefruit, well I think it's made with graprfruit cos there's a picture of one on the can. Its sooooo bad, it's good!
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GG, ahahahaha, and Cherry Dr. Pepper has a cherry on a can, so there must be cherries in it! :P
Does anyone else drink cactus cooler shots at the bar or is that just a california thing?? Mandarian vodka and triple sec dropped into red bull... probably not too good for you, but pretty much as delicious as the soda is!
"My mom would usually let us pick out which kind of soda we wanted..."
^This was my mom.
My "hood 4 life" favorite was Tahitian Treat.
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I need to quit barfing all over this soda thread but just one more thing:
Did anyone have, like, family rivalries over soda?
I ask this because there are three extended branches of my clan. The one I was born into, are health nuts who rarely let us have soda at all, (except for my dad who never followed ours, or anybody else's, rules), but the other two branches were involved in a Coke/Pepsi dispute that reached nearly epic Hatfield/McCoy-style gangwar status.
One branch headquarters was plastered from floor to ceiling with Coke memorabilia. The other, with Pepsi. Each viewed the other as heretical blasphemers.
TRUFAX.
Although my part of the family were neutral in the Soda Wars, we DID severely mistrust anyone who ate creamy peanut butter and not chunky. Creamy peanut butter eaters were FREAKS OF NATURE and NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
It wasn't till I grew up that I realized that hey, maybe my family has issues.
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Root beer too! Don't drink much of the carbonated stuff, maybe that's why I remember it so fondly! lol :D
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MK, I love those little personal tidbits you drop here and there!
I've never seen this Cactus Cooler soda, I guess it's a West Coast thing?
Submitted by Gardening Girl on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 2:50pm.
Um, you're accidentally welcome!
Their root beer is also pretty good too.
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Submitted by Albatross on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 2:49pm.
Agreed. It would be a very funny book.
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MTJ, that's the brand! Shasta! They make that awsome grapefruit soda!
Thanks Migraineuse!
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Am I the only one who HATES carbonated drinks of any kind? Even as a kid I didn't like them, same goes for anything sweet.
*eats entire deep-fried potato dipped in mayo and smelly cheese for dessert*
Submitted by Scott in NYC on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 1:54pm.
Am I the only one who thinks that the first paragraph of this post is the cutest, most adorable thing ever?!?!?!?!
No - MK needs to write a book about his life. It would be a best seller!
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I grew up in a mostly health-food obsessed family, so the treat of all treats was a Hansen's soda. They were too expensive for us to drink regularly, though.
My dad liked Shasta.
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I remember Sierra Mist, sort of.
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MK, love when you start the day late lol at cutting open a cactus to see if it had any Cactus Cooler, totally what a kid would do! Bwahahaha saving it for when you were alone... ;)
I remember liking Dr. Pepper and when visiting family something called Sierra Mist (nectar of the gods to me). No idea what they put in it but I could overdose if left with an entire bottle of it. hahaha
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Submitted by Heroic Cupcake on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 2:15pm.
Snapple Rain had a prickly pear flavor...I was so pissed when they took it away. Everything sucks now. Just killl me!!
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I remember that! And that shit was good.
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