Josta. Pepsi’s first “energy drink” that they released in the mid 90’s, made with guarana AND caffeine.
This was back in the days when Pepsi could “sponser” a middle school by putting a branded soda machine in a common area. It’s how I ended up drinking grape Fuitopia every day at lunch, and every day I’d get a bottle of Josta for the walk home.
It wasn’t immediately palatable. Reminiscent of Moxie but without the waxy aftertaste. It was like drinking carbonated cough syrup. But just like the other energy drinks that would follow a few years later, I really came to appreciate the taste.
It recently popped up in the background of a scene of the first season of Loki which had me hopeful for a revival, but no such luck.
Mountain Dew Throwback. As far as I can tell it hasn’t been fully discontinued, but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere around me. It used real sugar instead of corn syrup. I hate the basic, corn syrup stuff but thought the throwback stuff tasted pretty good.
In China I used to be able to buy hotpot flavored Lay’s potato chips. Typical beef hot and spicy flavor. Somehow they disappeared but they were the best
I miss the Twinkies. Not the cloud cakes. Not the bitter chemicals they sell called Twinkies. The actual american decadent sponge cake with a cream center.
Also, my father used to buy circus peanuts around the same time every year, when I was a boy. I don’t know the flavor, but it wasn’t fake banana that’s common now.
Monster has a line of canned coffee-like products they call their Java series. One of them was Swiss Chocolate flavored. It is discontinued, always separated, left an awful sludge in the bottom of the can, but I loved those things.
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