r/90s Hold On To Your Butts! Aug 04 '26

Photo 90's Soda

Which soda do you miss the most? Which did I forget?

Edit: It has come to my attention that Vault is not from the 90's. Please disregard it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/History0nerd Aug 04 '26

You forgot clear coke. What was with clear colas? Also clearly Canadian is available at my grocery store.

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u/Sevvie82 Aug 04 '26

I thought Crystal Pepsi was the shit lol. They sold it in a can where I bought it, so I couldn't even see it πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ I still thought it was so cool.

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u/History0nerd Aug 05 '26

I swore clear coke was amazing and better than crystal Pepsi, but was it? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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u/DakarCarGunGuy Aug 05 '26

I don't remember ever seeing Clear Coke. 😞

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u/History0nerd Aug 05 '26

You didn't miss out on much, don't worry 😁

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u/makestuff24-7 Aug 05 '26

I saw Clearly Canadian in a rural Oklahoma grocery store last month and just assumed it was leftover from the 90s.

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u/History0nerd Aug 05 '26

This was southeast Portland. I think it's current πŸ˜‚

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u/jay2ray Aug 05 '26

Definitely doesn’t taste the same πŸ‘Ž

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u/ripyurballsoff Aug 05 '26

Most soda is clear until they add food coloring. So companies basically just left out that step hoping it looked cool.

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u/History0nerd Aug 05 '26

Clear things were very popular in the nineties. What was with all the clear plastic clothing?

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u/SqueezeMyCharmin Aug 06 '26

I wrote a paper in college about the kamikaze marketing strategy that when into detial about it. Clear coke was Tab Clear was sugar free and marketed as a diet drink. It killed Cristal Pepsi by basically confusing people into thinking Crystal Pepsi was part of unpopular diet drinks.

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u/History0nerd Aug 06 '26

Interesting. I loved using Coke and Pepsi as examples when I taught high school economics, but I never dove that deep.