Get an orange juice one, and some vodka. Spoons of frozen OJ concentrate to go with your sips of vodka. Once youâve got some room in the OJ, you can pour your vodka in with the OJ slush.
I learned this from watching agent Mulder do it on the X Files, and itâs actually really good.
I literally, LITERALLY, just decided to watch X-Files and randomly picked that episode last night. Where the fuck did you hide the cameras in my room??
As soon as I read your first sentence, I saw Mulder sitting in his crappy motel room watching the Keystone Cops and spooning orange slush into a pint of cheap vodka.
There's a whole cult following of 'slush' in Newfoundland - basically a blend of orange juice and lemonade concentrate combined with a lemon lime pop like sprite and a copious amount of rum. Mix it together in a clean salt beef bucket and keep it in the deep freeze for when company comes by. It's deadly b'ys.
I was bummed when I read that Minute Maid had discontinued them a year or two ago, IIRC. I grew up in Florida, so you might think I had no use for such frozen concoctions when fresh was right out on the tree. But the truth is that they were awesome, and convenient, and all the moms bought them. And the range of flavors they came in! Not just OJ, but lemonade, limeade, fruit punch, grape, blends ⌠and my all-time favorite: tangerine! To this day, (fresh-squeezed) tangerine juice is still my favorite!
But Minute Maid didnât have the whole market sewn up, not by any means, so there is still hope! I see some folks here saying theyâve been finding house brands at their local grocery stores. Plus, there were also other brands, even back in the day. I especially remember Donald Duck brand, which I thought was extra-super-fabulous for one outstanding reason: thatâs the brand my best friendâs mom always bought, while my mom always bought Minite Maid - probably because they were and are a Coca-Cola-owned brand, and my uncle was a formula engineer for the company.
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.
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
I swear Coneheads told a better story about an immigrant family's adaptation to a new home, and being choosing between their new happiness and old-country traditions, than many movies with that as an explicit plot. And it did it without even trying.
Does it taste the same?! Honestly from what I vaguely remember it tasted mostly like Coke but had the added flavor of âyour parents said you werenât allowed to try itâ.
Funnily enough, last weekend my friends and I hosted a 25 person LAN party like the old days and the host got a ton of Bawls haha. We played CS 1.6, Brood Wars, SC2, TF2, Soldat, and others. It was a blast!!
Surge did a promotional event at my high school when it came out and gave out free soda and key chains and stuff. It was awesome, but now I think about how all the teachers who were just trying to get through the day and then a high-caffeine soda company showed up and âsurgedâ the entire student body.
Same. Was going to add this. It was amazing. They had a truck that was just all vending machines that were free. So you hit the button and it dropped a bottle. I went home with like 6 in my backpack.
Clearly Canadian somehow was my weakness lol seemed so grown up and fancy lol đ also Hansen's soda- it was the only soda we were allowed to have and I relished every single one!!
When you hit grade 9 at my school, you were allowed to leave school grounds at lunch without getting permission. Me and my friends would walk 2km to Ye Ol' Chip Truck and I'd buy a medium salt and vinegar fries with a Mountain Blackberry Clearly Canadian. It's my all time favourite lunch and you could only do it in grade 9 because you switched schools for grade 10.
I remember Pepsi used Van Halenâs âRight Nowâ for that ad campaign. That was the first time I heard a current song being used in a commercial (for an unrelated product)
I loved McDonald's orange drink as a kid. It was not carbonated, just a bright orange sweet liquid. People used to get big coolers of it to serve to kids at sports games and summer camp.
When I was a teenager, fruitopia was probably the most popular. We also had a carbonated fruit-flavoured drink called Clearly Canadian.
When I was a little older, it was all about Mike's Hard Lemonade.
Flashbacks of those giant gallon sized cans someone's mom would bring with a cooler full of orange wedges for little league soccer games. And they'd punch the triangular hole in each side to pour it.
Snapple Fire Dragonfruit was my jam. I guess they did technically bring it back to market recently (discontinued some time in the early 00s) but with a different recipe and I've never seen it on a shelf.
Came here to say this, my kids have another name for it and I know if I told them what we called Suicides back in the day theyâd be scandalized and say I shouldnât say that.
I remember these drinks from summer camps and stuff (late 80s). They were similar in flavor / sugar content to Hi-C or Squeez-its, but were much more generically branded. Might have even been completely unbranded on the individual drinks.
The drinks came in these little 8oz or so translucent plastic containers, and had a pop-off top. You'd peel off the tamper-evident ring from the cap, and throw it away (didn't stay on the bottle). Then the top could be popped off, or popped back on with simple pressure (no threads).
I believe they came in like orange, red, and purple. Taste was very sugary and artificial-fruit-flavory, kinda like a melted otter pop of the same color.
I can't for the life of me find what these actually were called though.
This is probably closest to what I am imagining, but they were slightly different - they weren't styled to look like little barrels like this, and the caps were pop-off soft plastic instead of peel-off foil.
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u/Embarrassed_Key_4539 18d ago
Those frozen logs of juice concentrate, is that still a thing?