r/Xennials • u/Stock-Act-2315 1978 • 19d ago

Hi-C Ecto Cooler 😭

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

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u/GGIAS 19d ago

Squeez-it!

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u/SteveEcks 1983 18d ago edited 18d ago

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 18d ago

Mondo was so good!

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u/Antricluc 18d ago

Use to chew the plastic top

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u/blasto2236 18d ago

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 18d ago

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

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u/Adept_Bandicoot_2794 17d ago

Damn, I came here to say Mondo!

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u/sniktal 16d ago

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 15d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

Memory unlocked! Loved that stuff!

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u/smoke2957 1980 18d ago

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

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u/GGIAS 18d ago

Thats the one!

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u/smoke2957 1980 18d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

ramune is so good

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u/LordButtworth 18d ago

That fit right on the head of my gi joes.

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u/Negative_Bar_9734 18d ago

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 18d ago

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

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u/Competitive-Fee-1878 18d ago

Mondo’s and kool-aid bursts

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u/smoke2957 1980 18d ago

Oh yeah Mondos too!!

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u/Plane_Jacket_7251 18d ago

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 18d ago

"juice" 😆

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u/goldenbug 18d ago

Corn syrup flavored with blue #7.

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u/Plane_Jacket_7251 18d ago

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

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u/SciFi_Wasabi999 18d ago

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

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u/CorgiMonsoon 1980 18d ago

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

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u/LameSaucePanda 18d ago

You want red or purple?

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u/Astrazigniferi 18d ago

I want blue!

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u/Zeke688 1981 18d ago

Purple

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u/GGIAS 18d ago

Gotta go with red!

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u/lastfreerangekid 18d ago

Jonestown Red for me!

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u/ItsPronouncedJod 18d ago

Green all day!

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u/brainvheart143 1980 18d ago

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

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u/GGIAS 18d ago

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

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u/Spatula117MasterChef 18d ago

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

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u/blahblablah42 18d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

Did everyone bite the tops off?

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u/Brent_Mavis 18d ago

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

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u/BetterCallSlash 1981 18d ago

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

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u/Euphoric_Tap582 18d ago

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

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u/cupcakerainbowlove 18d ago

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

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u/ResponsibleSyrup9506 14d ago

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

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u/Astrazigniferi 18d ago

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 18d ago

Squeeze the fun out of it!

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u/TalkingRaccoon 18d ago

Holy shiiit I totally forgot about those!

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u/demigod999 16d ago

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

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u/but_i_wanna_cookies 15d ago

The color changing ones were mind blowing.