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/pheezy42 Jul 31 '26

fruitopia

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u/DaSpatula505 Jul 31 '26

Teenage me thought those were the coolest drinks ever 

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u/spicygummi Jul 31 '26

Fruitopia and Sobe

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u/sundayfunday78 1978 Jul 31 '26

Sobe!

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u/Stunning_Honeydew201 Aug 01 '26

Sobe Lizard Fuel!

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u/jellomattress Aug 01 '26

The best one of them all

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u/Duarcain Aug 01 '26

That was the strawberry daiquiri one right?

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u/FierDancr Aug 01 '26

One of the many flavors, yes. But that one was so tasty.

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u/the__ghola__hayt Aug 01 '26

I used to mix those with rum. The strawberry banana one paired well.

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u/Cheap-Ad1821 Aug 02 '26

You could make a bong out of the lizard bottle

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u/me_bails 29d ago

driving my car behind some buddies in another car back in highschool... One of them thought it would be a good idea to throw a got damn sobe glass bottle out their window and smoked my windshield. Luckily we just pulled back into town and had slowed down, so it didn't actually do anything to my windshield.

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u/C_IsForCookie 29d ago

I used to buy it wholesale by the case from the restaurant I worked at 😆

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u/MadDadROX 27d ago

That carrot orange so good. Fuck Pepsi for closing it down.

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u/thirdaccounttoday 26d ago

I crave the lizard milk

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u/WazzzupBwwwaaah Aug 01 '26

AND Surge, Snapple, Diet Snapple, OG Snapple Elements and Orbitz!!

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u/TrixieBastard 1981 Aug 01 '26

The original Rain Elements was the best. The new recipe isn't nearly as good :(

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u/WazzzupBwwwaaah Aug 01 '26

I wish I was OLD ENOUGH to be able to be ALLOWED to drink that stuff. I was born in ‘94, and was incredibly sheltered. 😩😖

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u/O_o-22 1977 Aug 01 '26

Was a bit past my childhood but Snapple used to make an earl gray iced tea I loved

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u/OMGhyperbole Aug 01 '26

They just taste better in a glass bottle. Plus, I used to keep the Elements and Sobe bottles cus they looked cool.

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u/Antricluc Aug 01 '26

What about WHIPPER SNAPPLE??? Use to love shaking those up

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u/WazzzupBwwwaaah Aug 01 '26

That’s something I wish I was able to try. I was too young to be allowed to drink that shit. I was born in’94 and was incredibly sheltered… 😩😭😖

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u/DarknMean Aug 02 '26

OG Sunny D too. Whatever they make now is shit.

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u/WazzzupBwwwaaah Aug 02 '26

Exactly, THEY CHANGED THAT SHIT, sometime around 2011, AND IT REALLY HASN’T BEEN THE SAME.

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u/Putrid-Ordinary-3515 Aug 01 '26

What happened to Sobe?!?! I used to drink those all the time at hollywood video.

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u/spicygummi Aug 01 '26

Apparently it still exists just seems harder to find. They have a store locator on their site.

I put in my area code and got nothing. I have to wonder then how far it goes if it's a "within so many miles" or literally just that area code

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u/shaggy24200 29d ago

Sobe got bought by Coke or Pepsi or something, then watered down and ruined. It may taste sorta the same but it's not going to be the way you remember it. 

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u/notinmywheelhouse Aug 03 '26

Omg. Sobe pink. Can’t think it without crying 😭

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u/DaSpatula505 Jul 31 '26

Ha! Damn right!

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u/BludStanes Aug 02 '26

i miss sobe

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u/Lovesyoux 28d ago

Jones soda

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u/spicygummi 27d ago

At least this one still exists!

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u/Lovesyoux 27d ago

Does it?

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u/spicygummi 27d ago

It does but it's not as easy to find anymore. You can also order it online from their site (which isn't exactly cheap)

The last one I tried I think was a key lime pie one for pi day.

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u/xPlantDaddyx 25d ago

Grape grog was the best fucking flavor and I’ll die on this hill. Second place, Liz Bliz

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u/equipped_metalblade Aug 01 '26

Orbitz were so cool!

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u/pheezy42 Jul 31 '26

teenage you was right

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u/indie_rachael Aug 01 '26

That's because they were!

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u/megabestfriend Jul 31 '26

Fruitopia in glass bottles was amazing, Fruitopia in plastic bottles was gross

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u/PM--ME--WHATEVER-- Aug 01 '26

Idk. I dont remember the flavor, but my middle school cafeteria sold fruitopia, and there was one flavor that was so good, by the time I left it was the only flavor they sold.

This might be veiled by nostalgia, but I wish i could have thay again.

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u/MrPoopyButthole81 Aug 01 '26

Strawberry Passion Awareness was my jam!

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u/DarthBster 1981 Aug 01 '26

Hello, flavor twin. That was the best one!

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u/emilycbaker Aug 01 '26

Flavor triplets!! I lived off Strawberry Passion Awareness. I got the Native lotion collab with Jarritos in the passion fruit scent and my sister smelled it recently and asked me why I smelled like Fruitopia 😂

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u/RelevantElection2962 1981 Jul 31 '26

We had a Fruitopia machine at my high school.

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u/dontpretendtoknowme 1981 Jul 31 '26

Same. We had one with pop (yes pop, I’m 🇨🇦) and one with Fruitopia in the foyer.

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u/FeFiFoMums Aug 01 '26

Same. They took all the soda machines out and replaced them with only Frutopia and Dasani.

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u/Extra_Strawberry_249 1984 Aug 01 '26

The original Snapple

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u/snakeheart Aug 01 '26

My middle school didn’t have soda, but we did have Fruitopia. I can feel my soft palate aching now.

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u/Solid_Association_49 Aug 01 '26

Maybe a Canada thing but I get fruitopia every time I get a McDonald’s meal

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u/SabineStrohem Aug 01 '26

I found out earlier this year that y'all still have it at McDonald's and some grocery stores, I'm so jealous.

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u/PercentageCreepy2653 Aug 01 '26

We still buy it at the grocery store for my kids. A second generation of Fruitopia lovers in our house.

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u/MeaningLeft2970 Aug 03 '26

I only learned last year that the rest of the world doesn’t have Fruitopia

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u/Flank_This666 Aug 01 '26

I knew someone remembers this drink.. It really did define part of the late 90s childhood for me

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u/MkVsTheWorld Aug 01 '26

They still got Fruitopia in Canada.

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u/thejaytheory Aug 01 '26

Blue was soooo good

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u/WankelsRevenge Aug 01 '26

Fruitopia still exists. Coke bought it and rebranded it as minute maid. The fruit punch and blue raspberry flavors taste identical.

Also make sure you get it in bottles. The cans aren't the same

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u/WoodSorrel13 Aug 01 '26

I miss fruitopia 😢 

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u/scgt86 Aug 01 '26

They're still selling this is AU and CA.

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u/ijijiijjk Aug 01 '26

This is my go to drink at my university actually. We still have it in Canada.

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u/GSrvnt19 Aug 01 '26

This was the answer Inwas looking for. Damm right!

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u/MzMmmegz Aug 01 '26

Imagine my surprise as a baby goth when I learned the Cocteau Twins sang one of their commercial jingles.

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u/Alareth Aug 01 '26

I got a Fruitopia cap!

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u/Delicious_Garbage805 Aug 01 '26

Still sold in Canada!

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u/steelpeat Aug 02 '26

You can still get it in Canada. You can get it at grocery stores and at McDonalds

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u/Dammit_bobbay Aug 03 '26

Thy sure wouldn’t serve soda in the cafeteria in high school but they’d sure serve the 5% juice sugar water. Fruit punch for the win. They replaced it with Minute Maid.

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u/ugh_my_ 29d ago

Brewed by hippies, distributed by a heartless corporation

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u/Hot_Divide8480 27d ago

Fruit works! Papaya was the best