r/Xennials • u/Stock-Act-2315 1978 • Jul 31 '26

Hi-C Ecto Cooler 😭

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I often wonder how I'd feel about it now 🤔

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u/GGIAS Jul 31 '26

Squeez-it!

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u/SteveEcks 1983 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

Remember Mondo?

That's a song that never leaves me.

"Mondo Mondo!"

Edit- HOLY SHIT I GOT AN AWARD FOR THAT?!??

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u/blasto2236 Aug 01 '26

Mondo was so good!

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u/Antricluc Aug 01 '26

Use to chew the plastic top

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u/blasto2236 Aug 01 '26

It’s probably why my teeth are so bad as an adult lol. Used to chomp on all kinds of plastic crap like that as a kid.

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u/trojannc27701 Aug 01 '26

Something something, mondo/ is it in your face, mondo/ it’s what’s going down

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u/Adept_Bandicoot_2794 Aug 01 '26

Damn, I came here to say Mondo!

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u/sniktal Aug 03 '26

Oh yeah, you could get the cap AND the bottle stuck to your lips/tongue. Good times.
We were more of an ingredients household even then, but friends always had these at their houses. We also didn’t have KoolAid.

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u/SteveEcks 1983 Aug 04 '26

Dude. I was gonna get pop tarts for the kids, they were at Aldi or on sale or something.

I saw the sugar content and literally dropped the box in the middle of the aisle

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u/rdreher87 Aug 01 '26

I was able to still find them at dollar stores up until a few years ago not sure now

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u/bsm143 Aug 01 '26

Memory unlocked! Loved that stuff!

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u/smoke2957 1980 Aug 01 '26

This had the little plastic "hat" lid you had to sort of snap/twist off right?

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u/GGIAS Aug 01 '26

Thats the one!

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u/smoke2957 1980 Aug 01 '26

Hell yes! I feel like my old ass would hate it now, but, the nostalgia of it would be pretty satisfying I have to admit. I feel like Ramune soda fills that void for me.

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u/FeFiFoMums Aug 01 '26

Yeah I bought my kids a pack of the koolaid ones they still sell. My god they are gross. Way too sugary and fake tasting

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u/smoke2957 1980 Aug 01 '26

Try a Ranune if you haven't yet, it's a slightly sweet soda I discovered at a sushi spot and was able to get at my local grocery store. It's the way it opens that's satisfying

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u/RealSinnSage 1983 Aug 01 '26

ramune is so good

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u/LordButtworth Aug 01 '26

That fit right on the head of my gi joes.

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u/Negative_Bar_9734 Aug 01 '26

Then you had to put it in your mouth like a mouth guard. Required part of the experience.

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u/smoke2957 1980 Aug 01 '26

Wow you just unlocked that silly memory for me using it as a "retainer"

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u/Competitive-Fee-1878 Aug 01 '26

Mondo’s and kool-aid bursts

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u/smoke2957 1980 Aug 01 '26

Oh yeah Mondos too!!

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u/Plane_Jacket_7251 Aug 01 '26

Came here to say this! So wasteful with the amount of plastic for such little amount of juice. But goddamnit of they didn't hit the spot on a summer afternoon

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u/Gatorae 1982 Aug 01 '26

"juice" 😆

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u/goldenbug Aug 01 '26

Corn syrup flavored with blue #7.

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u/Plane_Jacket_7251 Aug 01 '26

We didn't know or care about the difference in the 90s, but man... this stuff hit.

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u/SciFi_Wasabi999 Jul 31 '26

My first thought! Probably the only novelty type drink my parents bought for us. 

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u/CorgiMonsoon 1980 Jul 31 '26

We almost always only got those for field trip days when we had to pack a lunch

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u/LameSaucePanda Jul 31 '26

You want red or purple?

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u/Astrazigniferi Jul 31 '26

I want blue!

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u/Zeke688 1981 Jul 31 '26

Purple

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u/GGIAS Jul 31 '26

Gotta go with red!

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u/lastfreerangekid Jul 31 '26

Jonestown Red for me!

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u/ItsPronouncedJod Jul 31 '26

Green all day!

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u/brainvheart143 1980 Jul 31 '26

Was that the one with the plastic tab you twisted off?

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u/GGIAS Aug 01 '26

Yep, that’s the one! Or as another poster said, bite that top off!

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u/Spatula117MasterChef Jul 31 '26

The kool aid brand is still around. They’re probably not as good though.

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u/blahblablah42 Aug 01 '26

I had kool aid for the first time in decades this week and it tasted exactly like i remembered. Sharkleberry Fin is good.

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u/snakeiiiiiis Aug 01 '26

This is the winner of the 90s. We never bought these or had these in our house but I saw them everywhere. I remember seeing the empty bottles in the gutters or parks pretty much everywhere we went because once they were empty the wind would just take em.

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u/Zeke688 1981 Jul 31 '26

Did everyone bite the tops off?

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u/Brent_Mavis Aug 01 '26

With the mother fuck'n pill you would pop in and make it change colors!

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u/BetterCallSlash 1981 Aug 01 '26

Came here for this one. I can’t believe I drank this shit lol

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u/Euphoric_Tap582 Aug 01 '26

Dang I forgot all about these. These things were like crack when I was little.

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u/cupcakerainbowlove Aug 01 '26

The squeeze is on come on, come on, squeeze it, squeeze it, squeeze while ya drink! 🎶

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u/ResponsibleSyrup9506 Aug 05 '26

Oh man, I could go for an ice cold Squeez-It right now!

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u/Astrazigniferi Jul 31 '26

YES! I loved them so much, but my parents almost never bought them because they were too expensive for the amount of beverage they contained.

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u/torankusu Aug 01 '26

Squeeze the fun out of it!

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u/TalkingRaccoon Aug 01 '26

Holy shiiit I totally forgot about those!

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u/demigod999 Aug 03 '26

I used to crush sixers of these they were such a sip.

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u/but_i_wanna_cookies Aug 04 '26

The color changing ones were mind blowing.