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[iAmBaronVonTito]

One of my favorite things about going to Austin, newly available in my neighborhood.  It's awesome being able to get pretty much anything in NYC, but also kind of a bummer - one of my favorite things about traveling is being able to get things you can only get away from home.

that's one of my favorite things about traveling as well.  it's also why i refuse (as much as i can help) to go to chain restaurants/stores/etc.

Anybody here remember the soda from the early 90's called OK Soda from the Coca Cola Company? It had cans designed by Dan Clowes and Charles Burns. I guess it was supposed to capitalize on the whole grunge movement. It even had a slogan "Things are going to be OK", and a manifesto

What's the point of OK? Well, what's the point of anything?
OK Soda emphatically rejects anything that is not OK, and fully supports anything that is.
The better you understand something, the more OK it turns out to be.
OK Soda says, "Don't be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything."
OK Soda reveals the surprising truth about people and situations.
OK Soda does not subscribe to any religion, or endorse any political party, or do anything other than feel OK.
There is no real secret to feeling OK.
OK Soda may be the preferred drink of other people such as yourself.
Never overestimate the remarkable abilities of "OK" brand soda.
Please wake up every morning knowing that things are going to be OK.

i love this marketing; it couldnt have come from anywhere else but the early 90s.  granted, i was only a grade school/junior high twerp in the early years, but i wished so badly to be 10 years older during that time.  everybody older seemed to know what was going on, when no one else my age did (except me), but i would have been able to experience those things the way i wanted to if i was older.



too bad.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I was at university (or, as I like to call it, "uni") in the early 90s and I won't lie, all that Gen-X hype seemed pretty awesome and fun.  But by 1994, which was my first year out of school, it was all revealed as a lot of lame bullshit, all of the vapid shopping-mall stuff I hated about the 80s, but in an oversized flannel shirt.  This had just as much to do with my life circumstances as with anything going on with the culture (I know now that there was some pretty great music happening underneath the Porno for Pyros), but as ridiculous as it sounds now, it was pretty devastating to discover that it was all a sham. 

[buffcoat]

I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.

I'm still waiting for Reality Bites: Back

[Julie]

Cheap tequila on an average day and expensive scotch on an extraordinary day.

[Stan]

Cheap tequila on an average day and expensive scotch on an extraordinary day.

 Have an extraordinary day, Julie.

[Joe Rogaine]

Jckinnick, I love you. OK soda became something of a religion among my group in high school, to the point that we woud faithfully call the 1-800 number every day for new messages. Yes, we did drugs. Don't judge.

Wiki says that it tested in my area but I dont remember seeing it anywhere. So was it any good? I looked on Ebay to see if there were any of the cans up for bid and got a big fat zero.

[Gilly]

It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.

[buffcoat]

It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.

We called that a suicide.

[thecramedog]

It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.

We called that a suicide.

The 'suicide' proved to be a pretty influential drink for me as a young kid.  Hanging out at the baseball fields in the middle of the fairgrounds, all my friends would be kicking the dirt and waiting for the late game to end.  We knew the older lady who ran concessions in the cement block at the nexus of the four fields.  She was nice to us and gave us free suicides, each of which consisted of:

GINGER ALE
MOUNTAIN DEW
7-UP
PEPSI (UNLESS YOU PERSONALLY BEGGED FOR COKE BECAUSE THAT MATTERED TO YOU)
MR. PIBB
ORANGE FIZZ POP

That stuff rocked.  I didn't get a lot of sugar at home, so this was a special treat.  I always thought the term 'suicide" was more of a Midwest term. 

[Gilly]

We also called it garbage. Never heard it called suicide.

[Regular Joe]

Never heard suicide either, we always called them Zombies, but I'm from the left coast. OK soda perfected this concoction in a way I could never recreate, though not for lack of trying. I think I liked this as a kid because it always seemed like you were getting one over on the drink machine.

[masterofsparks]

I'm in the midwest and it was indeed called a suicide here.

[buffcoat]

http://ask.metafilter.com/61367/Mixed-Soda-Name

Swamp Water, etc., but my favorite is "Wrong Island Iced Tea."

[Wes]

I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.

I'm still waiting for Reality Bites: Back

Reality Chews?