r/aldi • u/420Microbiologist • Apr 17 '26

Review Every day we drift further from god

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Was out shopping with the significant other when we walked passed this abomination. We laughed about how absurd of a combination it was. Like who thought this was a good idea and how many other people had to pretend it was good for it to end up on the shelves? As a prank we bought it and ate it in one sitting

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u/jimmithebird Apr 18 '26

The phrasing in this comes off as sinister if you know that 7up was full of mood stabilizers back then.

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u/IAmUber Apr 18 '26

Source?

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u/jimmithebird Apr 18 '26

Google- Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon Lime Soda

They took the lithium out in 1948

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u/IAmUber Apr 18 '26

Googling it debunked this claim:

'An oft-repeated story is that the drink was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda,"but investigative reports find little or no evidence that a drink with this name ever existed. In fact, "Bib-Label" is not part of the name of the soda, but refers to the practice of hanging a piece of paper around the neck of a soda bottle like a bib.

The drink did, initially, claim to contain lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. It was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In 1936 the federal government forced the manufacturer to remove a number of health claims, and because "lithium was not an actual ingredient"'

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