What are some odd soda flavors or brands you've had?

[DianeInsetinha]

I remember one time, I went to the only Japanese restaurant in my stupidly small town (some people still go from place to place using horses and we don't have a fire department, that's how small it is) and they had this weird, all natural, gecko themed, grape soda.

It was good, but I only had it that one time and never again, I still think about it. Did anyone ever drink that? I've never heard about it before or after, it's like this secret beverage only that place had.

This one is gonna be more country focused, but here in Brazil, Guarana is a really popular flavor (a small, red fruit with white insides) and so, we end up with regional variants. There's one called Guarana Jesus, that's pink (instead of the normal brown) and one called guaravita, that's sold in small plastic cups, instead of cans or bottles. I've been eyeing those two for a time now, maybe I'll buy some when I can, because they're really famous in their home regions, but not where I live.

Are they good? Are they bad? Am I gonna question the flavor profile of each brazillian region based solely on their soda flavors? We'll see.

BTW, drink Guarana. It's really good.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

We can get some pretty wierd and esoteric flavors of soda here in the States like this

It tastes pretty damn strange, would not recommend.

 

[naizou's iconnaizou]

In Japan, Pepsi once released a crazy flavor called cucumber flavor.
I looked it up and it was nearly 20 years ago, but I still remember that awful, grassy taste.
They sold various other terrible flavors, but I can't remember if they were erased from my memory.

Guarana is famous in Japan, and I love it too!
I feel like my body will be energized when I drink that.

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

You can't just mention weird sodas and Brazil without mentioning Dollynho

Also i was a guaravita addict as a kid, i wish i could find it again

 

[DianeInsetinha]

I don't even know what to say.

 

[Klonoa7]

There's a liquor store chain here in California called BevMo (Beverages & More) that used to sell all sorts of weird flavored sodas. I tried the corn soda and it is just as weird as you can imagine. A smokehouse/gas station chain in Texas sold celery soda. Imagine the taste of celery but carbonated. And chocolate soda I remember clear as day from my childhood. My parents bought chocolate soda and it was the most disgusting drink that I have ever had in my life at the time.

 

[DianeInsetinha]

In Japan, Pepsi once released a crazy flavor called cucumber flavor.
I looked it up and it was nearly 20 years ago, but I still remember that awful, grassy taste.
They sold various other terrible flavors, but I can't remember if they were erased from my memory.

Guarana is famous in Japan, and I love it too!
I feel like my body will be energized when I drink that.
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Guarana truly is an amazing thing.

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You can't just mention weird sodas and Brazil without mentioning Dollynho

Also i was a guaravita addict as a kid, i wish i could find it again

BRASILEIRO ENCONTRADO, TOCA AQUI

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

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My parents bought chocolate soda and it was the most disgusting drink that I have ever had in my life at the time.

Huh, I tried chocolate soda and liked it, but it was a different brand from this one. It was like a Yoohoo but with the texture of soda, strange but novel.

 

[DianeInsetinha]

And chocolate soda I remember clear as day from my childhood. My parents bought chocolate soda and it was the most disgusting drink that I have ever had in my life at the time.

You just reminded of my traumatic experience with coke flavored oreos. First, I felt the atrocious, disgusting and inhuman taste of that and then... it started to bubble.

A flavor so disgusting I nearly puked, mixed with bubbling sensation in your mouth, I felt like oreo and Cole where out to get all of humanity and made those devilish things capable of melting your mouth from inside out. I truly felt like that thing was going straight though my skin.

Never again.

 

[NatalieZaki]

I work for a cosmetic store, and I have to deliver packages to larger retailers. One day, I had to deliver some packages to Paris (a large store that sells everything idk how you call those) at their warehouse. I do this often but in their vending machine at the reception desk, they had this orange soda that was actually really good, tasted very nice and fresh, kinda like fresh orange juice with sparking water. However ever since then they've never had it there, I haven't been able to find it anywhere else, and no one knows what I was talking about. My friend jokingly said that I had Mandela Effected a soda. I have since forgotten the brand name but I genuinely don't know where it came from, what company made it, and who has any in stock. It's like its a state secret soda brand.

 

[Klonoa7]

Huh, I tried chocolate soda and liked it, but it was a different brand from this one. It was like a Yoohoo but with the texture of soda, strange but novel.

I forget the brand but it was literally cocoa powder and carbonated water with no sweetener. Totally disgusting. I'll have to find the brand but it's been a long time since I've seen it. My guess is that it sold poorly.

You just reminded of my traumatic experience with coke flavored oreos. First, I felt the atrocious, disgusting and inhuman taste of that and then... it started to bubble.

A flavor so disgusting I nearly puked, mixed with bubbling sensation in your mouth, I felt like oreo and Cole where out to get all of humanity and made those devilish things capable of melting your mouth from inside out. I truly felt like that thing was going straight though my skin.

Never again.

Wait, this was a thing at one point?? ?

I've seen those weird oreo flavors and just avoid them like the plague. Can you imagine an even stranger flavor like Swedish fish flavored oreos? Yikes! ?

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

I forget the brand but it was literally cocoa powder and carbonated water with no sweetener. Totally disgusting. I'll have to find the brand but it's been a long time since I've seen it. My guess is that it sold poorly.

Oof! That almost sounds more like a chocolate sparkling water. I totally believe you on the taste, that sounds vile!

 

[NatalieZaki]

oh yeah they sell Oreo flavoured Coke here and no one is buying it so every store just has a gigantic stockpile of them that no one will buy. its a little bit sad. or it would be if that drink didn't taste like ass.

 

[NeonKnights]

I had this sometime in the 90's, and no I don't remember what it tasted like.

 

[SinAkuma]

Hmmm we had here in my small european country coka cola with vanilla flavour and it was really good.
also pepsi twist with lemon great taste too.

 

[C.Endfield]

It's like a herbal coke. My pal brings a few of these whenever he is travelling to his home country. It's really nice.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

On the "Good odd" side, we had a root beer and vanilla ice cream soda a few years back, I can't remember the brand. My old job would fill the break room fridge with them for people to take, I must have drank like 6 or 7 diet ones a shift.

 

[bjork]

In the US there's BevMo as mentioned earlier, that has a lot of weird flavors. I once got a "They Live" soda with Roddy Piper on the bottle, and it was bubblegum flavored. Do not recommend.

For a time in Seattle there was a place called Rocket Fizz that was like a novelty candy and soda store. Lots of candy that you'd go, "wow, I haven't seen this for years" because big stores stopped carrying them, things like that. Anyway, I got a Snooki soda there that was cherry flavored, it tasted like pure concentrate, and then there were a bunch of sodas for the band Kiss, and I got one of those that was just a cola but like rotten soda? Not sure if that was on purpose or not.

There was a thing in Seattle called the Mystery Soda Machine, that was just a soda machine outside of this locksmith's building. It had all "?????" on the buttons, and you'd get whatever was in the machine. I got a cherry vanilla diet pepsi one time, some kind of weird peach soda another time. The machine vanished in 2018 or 2019 and has not returned. Not sure why, it was a cool touristy thing.

I usually check liquor stores for offbeat sodas but it seems like Mt Dew is the only one in the game of limited releases around Southern California, you can randomly find some like, Mt Dew but it's pineapple and coconut and tastes like suntan lotion kind of sodas.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

And all are delicious

 

[DunkeyKong]

I used to watch BoBoiBoy and had one of these, it tasted…electric I might say

 

[Don Patch]

Theses were spoof Holiday novelty sodas and... yeah, they were as bad as they sound:

You're looking at:

• Fruit Cake
• Mashed Potato
• Turkey and Gravy
• Cranberry (which wasn't bad)
• Green Bean Casserole

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

Theses were spoof Holiday novelty sodas and... yeah, they were as bad as they sound:
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You're looking at:

• Fruit Cake
• Mashed Potato
• Turkey and Gravy
• Cranberry (which wasn't bad)
• Green Bean Casserole

What happens if you mix all that in a single drink?

 

[DianeInsetinha]

Theses were spoof Holiday novelty sodas and... yeah, they were as bad as they sound:
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You're looking at:

• Fruit Cake
• Mashed Potato
• Turkey and Gravy
• Cranberry (which wasn't bad)
• Green Bean Casserole

Did the devil himself create those?

 

[Don Patch]

Did the devil himself create those?

I suspect....

What happens if you mix all that in a single drink?

= ?? (nearly instantaneously. The most perfect epicac)

 

[DianeInsetinha]

I forget the brand but it was literally cocoa powder and carbonated water with no sweetener. Totally disgusting. I'll have to find the brand but it's been a long time since I've seen it. My guess is that it sold poorly.


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Wait, this was a thing at one point?? ?


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I've seen those weird oreo flavors and just avoid them like the plague. Can you imagine an even stranger flavor like Swedish fish flavored oreos? Yikes! ?

YEP, IT WAS AND I WAS SCARED OF IT.

I'm never going to trust coke or oreo ever again.