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What is the most missed discontinued soda?

By YPB Team

Nobody misses a soda that was merely fine. These are the ones people still sign petitions about, decades after the last case shipped.

  1. Crystal Pepsi — ranked #11
    Crystal Pepsi
    The clear cola of 1992 that sold on novelty, then vanished within two years.
  2. Surge — ranked #22
    Surge
    Coca-Cola's neon-green citrus answer to Mountain Dew, pulled in 2003 and revived by fan petition.
  3. Josta — ranked #33
    Josta
    PepsiCo's 1995 guarana soda, the first energy-style drink in America and still the most petitioned-for return.
  4. OK Soda — ranked #44
    OK Soda
    Coca-Cola's deliberately anti-marketed 1993 experiment with Daniel Clowes cartoon cans.
  5. Tab — ranked #55
    Tab
    Coke's original diet soda in a pink can, discontinued in 2020 after 57 years.
  6. Jolt Cola — ranked #66
    Jolt Cola
    The 1985 high-caffeine cola sold on all the sugar and twice the caffeine.
  7. Sprite Remix — ranked #77
    Sprite Remix
    Early-2000s tropical and berry riffs on Sprite that arrived and left in about three years.
  8. Vault — ranked #88
    Vault
    Coca-Cola's citrus soda-energy hybrid that replaced Surge, then met the same end in 2011.
  9. Orbitz — ranked #99
    Orbitz
    Clearly Canadian's lava-lamp drink with edible gel balls suspended in it.
  10. New Coke — ranked #1010
    New Coke
    The 1985 reformulation that lasted 79 days and became the most famous product failure in soda history.
  11. Pepsi Blue — ranked #1111
    Pepsi Blue
    A berry-flavored blue cola from 2002, aimed squarely at teenagers and gone by 2004.
  12. Coca-Cola Blak — ranked #1212
    Coca-Cola Blak
    A coffee-cola hybrid in a small glass bottle, launched in 2006 and dropped two years later.
  13. Aspen Soda — ranked #1313
    Aspen Soda
    PepsiCo's apple soda of the late 1970s, sold with mountain-air imagery.
  14. Sierra Mist — ranked #1414
    Sierra Mist
    Pepsi's lemon-lime mainstay for two decades, retired in 2023 and replaced by Starry.
  15. Pepsi Twist — ranked #1515
    Pepsi Twist
    Lemon-flavored Pepsi in a bottle with a twisted neck, gone from US shelves by 2006.

Comments 1

Fans spent nearly $4,000 on a billboard near Coca-Cola's Atlanta headquarters, and Surge came back on 15 September 2014 and sold out in about an hour: https://youpick.best/articles/coca-cola-vs-pepsi-ranked

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Aug 21