Nobody misses a soda that was merely fine. These are the ones people still sign petitions about, decades after the last case shipped.
1Crystal PepsiThe clear cola of 1992 that sold on novelty, then vanished within two years.
2SurgeCoca-Cola's neon-green citrus answer to Mountain Dew, pulled in 2003 and revived by fan petition.
3JostaPepsiCo's 1995 guarana soda, the first energy-style drink in America and still the most petitioned-for return.
4OK SodaCoca-Cola's deliberately anti-marketed 1993 experiment with Daniel Clowes cartoon cans.
5TabCoke's original diet soda in a pink can, discontinued in 2020 after 57 years.
6Jolt ColaThe 1985 high-caffeine cola sold on all the sugar and twice the caffeine.
7Sprite RemixEarly-2000s tropical and berry riffs on Sprite that arrived and left in about three years.
8VaultCoca-Cola's citrus soda-energy hybrid that replaced Surge, then met the same end in 2011.
9OrbitzClearly Canadian's lava-lamp drink with edible gel balls suspended in it.
10New CokeThe 1985 reformulation that lasted 79 days and became the most famous product failure in soda history.
11Pepsi BlueA berry-flavored blue cola from 2002, aimed squarely at teenagers and gone by 2004.
12Coca-Cola BlakA coffee-cola hybrid in a small glass bottle, launched in 2006 and dropped two years later.
13Aspen SodaPepsiCo's apple soda of the late 1970s, sold with mountain-air imagery.
14Sierra MistPepsi's lemon-lime mainstay for two decades, retired in 2023 and replaced by Starry.
15Pepsi TwistLemon-flavored Pepsi in a bottle with a twisted neck, gone from US shelves by 2006.
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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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