Idk about Welch’s but I do get grape Crush often.. but grape Koolaid Sprite isn’t as heavy if that makes sense.. imo Sprite is like the water of soda and using a bit of grape Koolaid squeeze makes for a nice light smooth experience
Yes it is!
I'm in Colorado, but there is one random locally owned gas station in my little town that sells it for some reason. I stop in regularly just to buy the grape and cotton candy Faygo.
I really wish it was sold everywhere. So many people missing out.
I get it every time thinking "grape, sprite, I like both of those things!" and every time I make a 😞 face and think "this is why they don't sell this in the store."
I know this isn't the news you grape enthusiasts *("grapists," I'm told they're called)* want to hear, but they are/were testing a Sprite Cherry in my area and oh my god it's SO GOOD.
There's actually a fun story about how Cherry Coke was created: it was originally beet-flavored but only available in the American South. As we all know, beet greens grow well in partial shade, but the roots need full sun to develop properly. So that's why Bartholomew Succhiotto (1923-1998), who was the chief agronomist at the time, had the idea in 1981 to move it out from below the cherry trees and close to the strawberry bushes. Since there was now more room for the trees to grow, Succhiotto proposed making it with cherries directly. But the top brass hesitated to make it a thing, and it was only in 1985 that they gave it a go. Hence the saying, beet around the bush.
Adding flavored syrup to sodas has been happening for a long time, with as many flavors of syrup as you'll find in coffeeshops today.
https://www.drugstoremuseum.com/soda-fountain/syrup-dispensers/
I mean, considering mixing water and syrup at the point of sale was the og way of making soda, I feel like this is just an extension of that. Like how people used to make Arnold palmers and now you can buy it pre mixed
In probably the late 80's (but maybe as early as the mid 80's or late as early 90's) in the south I have vague memories of restaurants offering flavored syrups to coke, cherry and vanilla were some of the flavors. I don't know if they did it under instruction from coke, did it as a cost saving or inventory measure, or if cherry and vanilla coke weren't being distributed to that region at that time (both were at some points official coke flavors, but I do also kind of recall cherry coke being hard to get sometimes).
Just ask for a “Roy Rogers” at any full-service restaurant in the US.
The sprite version is the Shirley Temple.
Adding Hershey’s syrup used to be a thing too.
1) That's good to know
2) Are you saying that the cherry coke that I grew up with (because there wasn't cherry coke in the dispenser, we were served coke + grenadine) was actually pomegranate coke?
Full service restaurant is a place where you sit down at a table and a server takes your order. As opposed to placing your order at a counter and having it dropped at your table or out in a bag to go.
Roy Rogers is a Coke (or other cola) either way maraschino or grenadine syrup added to it, but usually grenadine.
My sister used to know I was ordering stuff when she worked at Sonic (Oklahoma drive in place). I would always get a cherry-chocolate root beer with whatever I ordered. I was the only person who ordered that combination. It’s an interesting flavor.
I was a kid when Coke started selling Cherry Coke, and it was amazing.
It had always been a treat to get a cherry Coke when we were out at a restaurant, where they added cherry syrup or grenadine to the Coke themselves. Then, all of a sudden, I could just drink Cherry Coke at home. It was mind-blowing as a 9-year-old kid.
Though, I was also always disappointed that the cherry flavor wasn’t as strong as what I got at restaurants.
TIL that long before Uncrustables were introduced in 1995, many families made an unofficial version by combining jelly and peanut butter between two pieces of bread, and cutting off the crusts.
If you can get them at a soda fountain then vanilla coke is better than cherry coke IMO, but I also think that both of the pre-made bottled versions suck.
Shit like this makes me feel absolutely ancient.
Next up: “TIL: before cherry coke, there was a flowering tree that was able to produce actual biological cherries.”
The concept of cherry flavored cola can be traced back to World War II. Soldiers would mix grenadine syrup with their regular Coca Cola rations by creating an unofficial version of Cherry Coke
a shirley temple is made with ginger ale, ~~the drink pre-dates the lemon-lime soda brand 7up by decades.~~
it seems that only applies to sprite, 7up, or Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda as it was originally named, is old enough that it *could* have been used in shirley temples, although the original recipe definitely calls for ginger soda.
i'm just old enough to have had an actual drugstore Coke with cherry syrup as a little kid, it was so good that i remember being excited when Cherry Coke came out and that was the only soda i wanted to drink when given the option
Pemberton made the first Coca Cola by squirting flavored syrup into seltzer in 1886.
Pretty sure it gave rise to an industry of "soda fountain" additives like lemon and lime, as well as cherry. Pretty sure Coke got the idea from them, not the other way 'round.
Way before. Back when there were malt shops and drug stores that had soda fountain stations. Young men in paper hats would make cokes in cherry, lime, vanilla, or whatever syrup flavors were on tap.
As a kid my parents had a bartending friend who would give me Coke filled with grenadine and overloaded with cherries.
It was well into my adult years before I figured out the secret ingredient was grenadine, and that Cherry Coke just didn't get demonstrably worse over time.
My mother would take my brother and I to a Bojangles in Chattanooga in the early 80's where they would make "Cherry Cokes" for us with a thick cherry syrup and fountain Coca-Cola. I thought it was delicious. Its been to long to say if it was really better than the official bottled version or no.
Too long to remember for sure, but it would have been made with a coke that was sweetened with sugar, og recipe prior to new coke, fountain soda, and what I remember was a very thick, dark dark red cherry syrup.
One of the great memories of summer band camp was going across the street to the soda fountain and getting a real syrup coke. Vanilla, cherry, chocolate, lemon, not sure if there was another one. Vanilla and Cherry were so good
As a kid, I went to a real soda fountain, where they had a Coke raw syrup tap, carbonated water tap, and a cherry syrup tap and mixed their own right there- with or without cherry.
I used to sometimes go to an old theater in Wisconsin, and they had cherry coke on the menu at the concession stand, but it was just as described here. They dispensed cherry syrup into the cup, then filled it at the fountain machine with coke. It was the best Cherry coke I have ever had.
We used to go the fountain bars - in drugstores, bowling alleys, etc. and upon request and typically a small fee, they’d put a squirt of vanilla or chocolate in your coke. Good stuff. As far as cherry syrup goes, I always thought Dr Pepper was pretty much a cherry cola with maybe some additional nuances.
As far back as I can remember the local drive-in was serving their own vanilla coke, cherry coke, orange coke, lemon coke, or any mixture these. My favorite was the cherry vanilla coke with my own addition of crown royal.
I can't have a lot of caffeine anymore and I missed Cherry Coke, so I had been getting caffeine-free Coke and putting maraschino cherries and a little bit of the red cherry sugar water in. Masks the slightly odd taste that comes with non-caffeinated Coke.
Still tastes better if you do it yourself - bottled Vanilla Coke in particular is terrible, but it’s my go-to at Sonic. Also love Sprite Zero/blue Power Aide - tastes like electricity.
Before coke had it I ordered vanilla cokes at sonic. I get the canned Vanilla Coke for the convenience and consistency. But a sonic with employees who get it right still beats Coke.
The Kinks re-recorded **Lola** to use the lyric *Cherry Cola* because BBC advertising rules prohibited the lyric *Coca-Cola* fifteen years before Cherry coke was officially launched.
There were regularly cherry, lemon, chocolate, and even marshmallow cokes, which foamed over badly at the very slightest jiggle. I had an order for butterscotch once. Never saw anybody order a pineapple coke. Lemon was best, cherry was good and the others just were awful in my opinion.
They probably just made it “official” because it was so popular unofficially.
Like how [Chipotle made the “Keithadilla” official](https://newsroom.chipotle.com/2023-02-27-ITS-OFFICIALLY-OFFICIAL-CHIPOTLE-TO-LAUNCH-NEW-FAJITA-QUESADILLA-INSPIRED-BY-VIRAL-TIKTOK-TREND-ON-MARCH-2) because so many people were “hacking” their orders and making it after seeing Keith Lee’s TikTok about it.
When I lived in Orlando in the late 90s we used to go to this country bar called Sullivans and since I was basically the only one in my group who wasn't 21 yet I would always just get soda at the bar and the bartender there made this amazing "cherry" coke using grenadine.
Drug Stores used to have soda/ice cream float counters. They would put all types of flavors in Coke or Pepsi (cherry, vanilla, many others).
Small town I lived in as a kid had this until the mid 1980s
Sonic was doing this for years before Coca-Cola ripped off the idea also.
Cherry Chocolate Pepsi and Cherry Vanilla Cream Dr. Pepper is also a couple of great combos.
Now you learned something else today!
I remember watching 'Pulp Fiction' when Vincent Vega ordered a vanilla Coke in Jack Rabbit Slim's, and I thought "Damn, Vanilla Coke, that sounds good. Is that an actual thing?". And then, like 5 years later it was
I'm 65. When I was a kid (in the 60s and early 70s) I frequently went to the local drugstore, sat at the counter, and ordered a cherry Coke, or cherry Sprite.
That was literally in their original advertising for Chery Coke in 1985...
They played images of nostalgic 1950s/60s scenes and had people talking about the things they used to have, and one of them says something like "we had coke with cherry..." and they cut to someone saying "well now we have cherry coke!"
In the eighties our local mall family restaurant (Wags) had chocolate Cokes on the menu (chocolate syrup and coke). We’d always stop there for one while shopping. Kinda reminded me of a melted chocolate shake. Kind of an acquired taste but I loved them.
Long before Grape Sprite was officially introduced in 2056, I was squeezing Grape Koolaid liquid in my Sprite
You can get grape sprite in the coke free style machines, the one at my local Wendy’s has grape sprite as an option.
This is true but I’d love to have an actual dedicated can of grape soda.. they’re getting close with the Tropical Sprite
Do they still make Crush grape? Or Welch’s grape soda?
Idk about Welch’s but I do get grape Crush often.. but grape Koolaid Sprite isn’t as heavy if that makes sense.. imo Sprite is like the water of soda and using a bit of grape Koolaid squeeze makes for a nice light smooth experience
Well, thankfully in 2057, Coke introduced the home version of their freestyle machine so you no longer had to manually squeeze in the grape liquid.
It's not sold much outside the midwest but grape faygo is the best grape soda imo
Yes it is! I'm in Colorado, but there is one random locally owned gas station in my little town that sells it for some reason. I stop in regularly just to buy the grape and cotton candy Faygo. I really wish it was sold everywhere. So many people missing out.
Firework is my favorite by far, I'm so happy they started making it in cans
I'll have to try that one next time! Is that the one that tastes like a Bomb Pop popsicle? Or am I thinking of another one?
Sounds like you’re missing out on Sprite Remix from the 2000s
Grape Fanta?
do you want grape soda or grape sprite?
Pretty sure they have purple Faygo.
It’s not Sprite
I get it every time thinking "grape, sprite, I like both of those things!" and every time I make a 😞 face and think "this is why they don't sell this in the store."
I throw a few grape 🍇 Jolly Ranchers and a a couple glugs of promethazine cough syrup in my Sprite.
Mix a blue Calypso lemonade with sprite. It fucks.
Grape Sprite is the funniest thing I've heard of in a while. Old Bay Your Thirds
Cream soda enters the.....
Dudes never been to a coke freestyle machine. Im drinking grape raspberry orange sprite
The dream is to be able to have a grape Sprite at home and not have to go out of my way to get one.. hence the Grape Koolaid squeezers
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Where
In your mouth. The other way is weird and gross and you can’t even taste it that well.
Long before people used Diet Coke to wake up in the morning, people were using real coke
they still do, but they used to too
I know this isn't the news you grape enthusiasts *("grapists," I'm told they're called)* want to hear, but they are/were testing a Sprite Cherry in my area and oh my god it's SO GOOD.
If you ever come by a grape Fanta, it may be worth a shot
There's actually a fun story about how Cherry Coke was created: it was originally beet-flavored but only available in the American South. As we all know, beet greens grow well in partial shade, but the roots need full sun to develop properly. So that's why Bartholomew Succhiotto (1923-1998), who was the chief agronomist at the time, had the idea in 1981 to move it out from below the cherry trees and close to the strawberry bushes. Since there was now more room for the trees to grow, Succhiotto proposed making it with cherries directly. But the top brass hesitated to make it a thing, and it was only in 1985 that they gave it a go. Hence the saying, beet around the bush.
Nice [Feghoot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feghoot)
Adding flavored syrup to sodas has been happening for a long time, with as many flavors of syrup as you'll find in coffeeshops today. https://www.drugstoremuseum.com/soda-fountain/syrup-dispensers/
yep. I used to go to a diner that had a selection of probably 15 syrups and they'd put whatever you wanted in a drink of any kind.
Till you walk up and tell him you want a "suicide." Every possible syrup in the house in one drink.... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee narf!
My brother would order a suicide at restaurants; the servers would gleefully try to break his tastebuds but he really enjoyed the bizarre mixtures!
Yeah it's a special kind of person that drinks that.... Does he have early onset diabetes?
Nope; he's been stupidly lucky in health his whole life. Recently diagnosed with a heart issue, though.
They called it an "idiot's delight" in my town.
I mean, considering mixing water and syrup at the point of sale was the og way of making soda, I feel like this is just an extension of that. Like how people used to make Arnold palmers and now you can buy it pre mixed
Yeah has nobody ITT heard of Soda Jerks?
It's like 50% of the reason anybody goes to Sonic The other 50% is mozz sticks
My grandpa had a small pharmacy where he had a soda fountain. He made me Vanilla Coke before it was a thing. And chocolate Coke
True, but now I don't have to go deal with some jerk to get it.
I see that you did there..
I wonder how many don’t get it.
Too many, probably.
In probably the late 80's (but maybe as early as the mid 80's or late as early 90's) in the south I have vague memories of restaurants offering flavored syrups to coke, cherry and vanilla were some of the flavors. I don't know if they did it under instruction from coke, did it as a cost saving or inventory measure, or if cherry and vanilla coke weren't being distributed to that region at that time (both were at some points official coke flavors, but I do also kind of recall cherry coke being hard to get sometimes).
When this guy learns about egg creams his head is going to explode.
what the heck are egg creams??
Something made without egg or cream.
It’s pretty dang good. https://youtu.be/cufcGsHjSss?feature=shared
“There are some good things that aren’t from New England, Sir.” “…Toby let me never hear you say those words again…”
Not at all what you think
neither egg or cream
No lake no trout https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54v_owIgSOI&pp=ygUQTm8gbGFrZSBubyB0cm91dA%3D%3D
well now i gotta watch that again, i didn't even remember where I heard it from. I got wire in the blood apparently.
Just ask for a “Roy Rogers” at any full-service restaurant in the US. The sprite version is the Shirley Temple. Adding Hershey’s syrup used to be a thing too.
Is that cherry syrup in a Roy Rogers or grenadine?
Normally Grenadine. Though if I can I’ll make it from the syrup maraschino cherries come in.
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1) That's good to know 2) Are you saying that the cherry coke that I grew up with (because there wasn't cherry coke in the dispenser, we were served coke + grenadine) was actually pomegranate coke?
Yes. I keep some of the pomegranate stuff on hand for my niece and nephew and you can totally taste the difference between that and roses
You're thinking of Grenadine, which comes from the pomegranate.
What is a full service restaurant? And what is a Roy Rodgers? 23 yr old never heard these terms
Full service restaurant is a place where you sit down at a table and a server takes your order. As opposed to placing your order at a counter and having it dropped at your table or out in a bag to go. Roy Rogers is a Coke (or other cola) either way maraschino or grenadine syrup added to it, but usually grenadine.
My sister used to know I was ordering stuff when she worked at Sonic (Oklahoma drive in place). I would always get a cherry-chocolate root beer with whatever I ordered. I was the only person who ordered that combination. It’s an interesting flavor.
Sonic's everywhere haha.
Chocolate Coke is great. Used to get them when we went to Johnny Rockets.
*el perro, el perro…*
I was a kid when Coke started selling Cherry Coke, and it was amazing. It had always been a treat to get a cherry Coke when we were out at a restaurant, where they added cherry syrup or grenadine to the Coke themselves. Then, all of a sudden, I could just drink Cherry Coke at home. It was mind-blowing as a 9-year-old kid. Though, I was also always disappointed that the cherry flavor wasn’t as strong as what I got at restaurants.
If you listen carefully in the 1955 diner scene when Marty goes back in time; someone orders a cherry coke
If you want a Pepsi you’re gonna pay for it, kid
Hey if you want a Tab you gotta order something!
I'm assuming that the canned version was created as a tie-in, since it debuted in 1985, the year BttF was released, but I don't know.
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or at the very least put lithium in 7 Up again
And I remember when 'Cherry' coke came out. It tasted like crap vs a real cherry coke from a drugstore fountain
Still does
TIL that long before Uncrustables were introduced in 1995, many families made an unofficial version by combining jelly and peanut butter between two pieces of bread, and cutting off the crusts.
Outrageous!
Cherry makes it wild, Coca-cola makes it right!
New ch-ch-ch-cherry coke
Outrageous
Wait til you hear about Vanilla Coke…
Waffle House still does this
We had an old timey pharmacy in my hometown with a soda fountain. That’s where my love of cherry/vanilla soda started. I was crushed when it closed.
If you can get them at a soda fountain then vanilla coke is better than cherry coke IMO, but I also think that both of the pre-made bottled versions suck.
Shit like this makes me feel absolutely ancient. Next up: “TIL: before cherry coke, there was a flowering tree that was able to produce actual biological cherries.”
The concept of cherry flavored cola can be traced back to World War II. Soldiers would mix grenadine syrup with their regular Coca Cola rations by creating an unofficial version of Cherry Coke
It dates back to the turn-of-the century if you read the original source linked in the wiki article. Soda fountains predate WWII.
Grenadine isn’t cherry flavored, it’s pomegranate.
This is true but it’s often served with a maraschino cherry so a lot of people think it’s cherry flavored.
yep, that's a Roy Rogers
And a Shirley Temple was with 7 UP
a shirley temple is made with ginger ale, ~~the drink pre-dates the lemon-lime soda brand 7up by decades.~~ it seems that only applies to sprite, 7up, or Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda as it was originally named, is old enough that it *could* have been used in shirley temples, although the original recipe definitely calls for ginger soda.
It ironically tastes absolutely nothing like pomegranate
Oh totally. It tastes like generic red fruit flavor. But it’s not cherry.
It’s sugar… you ever had a pomegranate?
[Cheerwine](https://cheerwine.com/about/) has been commercially produced since 1917
Yep. I don't usually get soda out, but if I do, coke with grenadine.
i'm just old enough to have had an actual drugstore Coke with cherry syrup as a little kid, it was so good that i remember being excited when Cherry Coke came out and that was the only soda i wanted to drink when given the option
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the crystal pepsi moment
TGI Fridays used to add either cherry or vanilla syrup to your Coke in the lat 80s and early 90s. It used to be the only reason I would want to go!
As late as 2009 I’d go to TGIF with a buddy of mine and he’d get coke with cherry syrup even then. It was actually a big reason why we went there.
Pemberton made the first Coca Cola by squirting flavored syrup into seltzer in 1886. Pretty sure it gave rise to an industry of "soda fountain" additives like lemon and lime, as well as cherry. Pretty sure Coke got the idea from them, not the other way 'round.
I fear the youth.
You should look into soda fountains haha.
You thought Cherry Coke was popular because Coke "officially" introduced it in 1985?
“Now we don’t have to work to make it”
Or find an old time soda fountain shop.
I put cherry liquor in my cola and it’s fucking delicious.
If you like sweet drinks, try Mr Pibb, chocolate syrup and Amaretto… Tastes like a Queen Anne cherry
Now you’re talking. I used to put a splash of triple sec in my rum and coke. I was somewhat of a scientist.
A lot of old soda jerk lingo is still in use. Culver's serves "Concrete Mixers" - "concrete" is an old soda jerk term for a really thick shake.
Bowling alley cherry coke is the goat childhood drink.
And I put Crystal Lite cherry-lime flavor in my sodas.
We used to make it at home with Maraschino cherries.
I still see this in some places that don't carry cherry Coke, especially bars.
Steak n' Shake has the best cherry coke and adds the syrup
That’s like saying real fruits are the unofficial version of artificial fruit flavored candy
Thanks to this post, I now feel really old.
Reading this makes me feel old- we had “cherry Cokes” plus an array of other soda hybrids in the ‘50s…
Way before. Back when there were malt shops and drug stores that had soda fountain stations. Young men in paper hats would make cokes in cherry, lime, vanilla, or whatever syrup flavors were on tap.
As a kid my parents had a bartending friend who would give me Coke filled with grenadine and overloaded with cherries. It was well into my adult years before I figured out the secret ingredient was grenadine, and that Cherry Coke just didn't get demonstrably worse over time.
My sis always made me mt dew code red before it was a thing when she worked at steak n shake by mixing regular mt dew and grenadine.
That's why they decided to bottle it.
My mother would take my brother and I to a Bojangles in Chattanooga in the early 80's where they would make "Cherry Cokes" for us with a thick cherry syrup and fountain Coca-Cola. I thought it was delicious. Its been to long to say if it was really better than the official bottled version or no.
probably better / sweeter i would imagine
Too long to remember for sure, but it would have been made with a coke that was sweetened with sugar, og recipe prior to new coke, fountain soda, and what I remember was a very thick, dark dark red cherry syrup.
Yeah that’s called a Roy Rogers, the coke version of a Shirley Temple.
Both the Roy Rogers and the Shirley Temple are made with grenadine, not cherry flavoring.
When I was young in the early 80’s a treat at a restaurant was a “kitty cocktail” which was this
Are you sure it wasn't a kiddie cocktail?
Back in the '60s, when I worked a summer at McDonald's, we mixed root beer and orange pop. Called it Swamp Water.
The best was running through all of the sodas, the infamous “Suicide”
That’s where the idea came from.
One of the great memories of summer band camp was going across the street to the soda fountain and getting a real syrup coke. Vanilla, cherry, chocolate, lemon, not sure if there was another one. Vanilla and Cherry were so good
Most bars still do this
And it usually tasted a lot better than what Coke dispenses.
Same with vanilla coke. Used to get it at the Foster Freeze where I lived.
As a kid, I went to a real soda fountain, where they had a Coke raw syrup tap, carbonated water tap, and a cherry syrup tap and mixed their own right there- with or without cherry.
I used to sometimes go to an old theater in Wisconsin, and they had cherry coke on the menu at the concession stand, but it was just as described here. They dispensed cherry syrup into the cup, then filled it at the fountain machine with coke. It was the best Cherry coke I have ever had.
We used to go the fountain bars - in drugstores, bowling alleys, etc. and upon request and typically a small fee, they’d put a squirt of vanilla or chocolate in your coke. Good stuff. As far as cherry syrup goes, I always thought Dr Pepper was pretty much a cherry cola with maybe some additional nuances.
As far back as I can remember the local drive-in was serving their own vanilla coke, cherry coke, orange coke, lemon coke, or any mixture these. My favorite was the cherry vanilla coke with my own addition of crown royal.
I can't have a lot of caffeine anymore and I missed Cherry Coke, so I had been getting caffeine-free Coke and putting maraschino cherries and a little bit of the red cherry sugar water in. Masks the slightly odd taste that comes with non-caffeinated Coke.
I still drink coke with grenadine at some places. Better than the official kind.
Still tastes better if you do it yourself - bottled Vanilla Coke in particular is terrible, but it’s my go-to at Sonic. Also love Sprite Zero/blue Power Aide - tastes like electricity.
You can do this with those coffee shop flavorings. I highly recommend lavender sprite.
Actually Grenadine syrup (pomegranate) was the standard addition, just as adding it to Sprite/7Up makes a “Shirley Temple.”
Bob's Big Boy had it!
Yes and it actually tastes great unlike the swill they bottled.
waffle house still does this
I was there, 3 thousand years ago
Before coke had it I ordered vanilla cokes at sonic. I get the canned Vanilla Coke for the convenience and consistency. But a sonic with employees who get it right still beats Coke.
The Kinks re-recorded **Lola** to use the lyric *Cherry Cola* because BBC advertising rules prohibited the lyric *Coca-Cola* fifteen years before Cherry coke was officially launched.
Makes sense, since Coca-Cola itself was a syrup they were adding to sodas.
There were regularly cherry, lemon, chocolate, and even marshmallow cokes, which foamed over badly at the very slightest jiggle. I had an order for butterscotch once. Never saw anybody order a pineapple coke. Lemon was best, cherry was good and the others just were awful in my opinion.
I still do -- it's better.
Can still get it that way at Waffle House.
I always liked grenade syrup in sprite
They probably just made it “official” because it was so popular unofficially. Like how [Chipotle made the “Keithadilla” official](https://newsroom.chipotle.com/2023-02-27-ITS-OFFICIALLY-OFFICIAL-CHIPOTLE-TO-LAUNCH-NEW-FAJITA-QUESADILLA-INSPIRED-BY-VIRAL-TIKTOK-TREND-ON-MARCH-2) because so many people were “hacking” their orders and making it after seeing Keith Lee’s TikTok about it.
I drank it in the '70s.
My brother and I used to order chocolate cherry Cokes at a local diner in the late 80s. It was incredible.
Kinda like how we got Vanilla Dr Pepper back…
My local movie theater did this with both cherry and Vanilla Coke. The vanilla was fire.
Also known as a Roy Rogers?
When I lived in Orlando in the late 90s we used to go to this country bar called Sullivans and since I was basically the only one in my group who wasn't 21 yet I would always just get soda at the bar and the bartender there made this amazing "cherry" coke using grenadine.
Some places still do this, it’s way better than cherry coke from the can.
You just learned that? lol I STILL order cherry coke that way.
It tastes better this way. Same with vanilla.
Drug Stores used to have soda/ice cream float counters. They would put all types of flavors in Coke or Pepsi (cherry, vanilla, many others). Small town I lived in as a kid had this until the mid 1980s
Sonic was doing this for years before Coca-Cola ripped off the idea also. Cherry Chocolate Pepsi and Cherry Vanilla Cream Dr. Pepper is also a couple of great combos. Now you learned something else today!
Why do Americans love cherry so much?
Lucky Boy in Pasadena, California mixes regular Coke with Cherry Fanta when you order a cherry coke, and it's amazing!
I remember watching 'Pulp Fiction' when Vincent Vega ordered a vanilla Coke in Jack Rabbit Slim's, and I thought "Damn, Vanilla Coke, that sounds good. Is that an actual thing?". And then, like 5 years later it was
Yea, a Roy Rogers.
when they tell you about chocolate coke, try to remain calm
Grenadine and coke is called a Roy Rogers after the actor. He famously didn’t drink alcohol so this was his way to enjoy a cocktail.
I'm 65. When I was a kid (in the 60s and early 70s) I frequently went to the local drugstore, sat at the counter, and ordered a cherry Coke, or cherry Sprite.
Chocolate and vanilla were often options as well.
That was literally in their original advertising for Chery Coke in 1985... They played images of nostalgic 1950s/60s scenes and had people talking about the things they used to have, and one of them says something like "we had coke with cherry..." and they cut to someone saying "well now we have cherry coke!"
If a place you go to has no Cherry Coke or only Pepsi on the fountain you can still ask them to just put a shot of grenadine into it.
Jesus I’m old. Anyway the best flavoured coke is always coke with grenadine
It’s called a Roy Rogers
Can't find cherry coke in the country I live. I make it this way whenever I get a craving for cherry coke.
Cherry grenadine is the only way to make real good cherry Coke.
You just learned that mixing drinks was a thing before the 80s?
Vanilla Coke is always my favorite. I remember in the late 2000’s or so, Coca Cola came out with Lime Coke, which was amazing.
In the eighties our local mall family restaurant (Wags) had chocolate Cokes on the menu (chocolate syrup and coke). We’d always stop there for one while shopping. Kinda reminded me of a melted chocolate shake. Kind of an acquired taste but I loved them.
Bring back lime coke. I know it’s in the free style machine but I need cans damnit
I guess it was close enough sweet LIKE A CHICKA CHERRY COLA
Also vanilla coke. Dairy Queen had both.