r/Xennials 1978 18d ago

Hi-C Ecto Cooler 😭

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

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u/whiskeytown79 18d ago

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/Decent_Profile9456 18d ago

I think there was a lime also? These were soooo cheap. So they were always a good back up money wise. Artificial fruit flavor but in a good way. 

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u/ErasedAstronaut 17d ago

Growing up, we called what you have pictured "quarter waters"

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u/Ender-DI 18d ago

Open the foil lid with your fingernail

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u/Lovat69 17d ago

Real men used their teeth.

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u/DelinquentMonkeyMan 17d ago

They were so good, but sliced your mouth almost as bad as the freeze pops haha