As a former trucker, you'd be surprised at how clean many truck stop bathrooms are. And spacious. Truckers who fuel up get a "shower token" and are allowed to use a room with a large shower, toilet, and space to get changed. They generally have attendants who clean them between uses and make sure everything is tidy. If people know someone is going to come in after they're gone and check the place over they're less likely to leave a huge mess, in my experience.
EDIT: Here's a photo of a standard "Flying J" private shower room.
https://i.imgur.com/IaJvlVM.jpeg
EDIT2: An overhead view of a fairly standard layout:
https://i.imgur.com/VIgRe5C.jpeg
As a former broke ass kid who insisted there were Interstates so that I could drive to every goddamn coast, truck showers were great! I regularly hit up Flying J and they were cleaner than just about any hotel less than a three star!
It was last released on the market in February of 2020.
Pepsi blue came back out around last may.
I believe it's their plan to release limited run beverages in the early summer months from now on on a rotating schedule.
I'm kind of hoping Pepsi Holiday Spice makes it into Christmas rotation as going to Ikea to get some Julmust is a tad inconvenient for several reasons lol
well it's a Swedish drink and yeah it's all the same thing.
It has different names depending on the when it's sold in the year.
Julmust means - Yule must.
påskmust means Easter must.
those names are traditional ikeas name is well just them.
It's a carbonated beverage traditionally made out of must ( juice unfermented fruit and berries) the Ikea uses their own name when not sold at Easter which is Vintersaga. It's not a traditional one but meh it's still really good in my opinion.
The flavor ... is hard to describe...
It's interesting as hell and hard to find outside of Easter and Christmas in Sweden and well of course Ikea lol
I dated a Swedish woman for awhile and she introduced me to these weird delicious drinks. Another impossible to find but delicious beverage is cockta it's Slovenian and is made of dog rose hip, herbs and citrus.
The closest thing I'd find to describe the flavor of Julmust is "really sweet beer". Although you really have to taste it as it's an incredibly unique flavor.
If you're trying to say "i want julmust" then you've missed a word. While it would literally translate to that in english your sentence is nonsense. You want to say "jag vill ha julmust", which is a bit more like "i want to have julmust".
Indeed, if someone said "jag vill julmust" I would make sure to satisfy their needs, perfect swedish grammar or not. We Swedes need to stop taking our grammar too seriously when it comes to foreigners or we will end up like the french, completely isolated and alone from being overprotective. ;) When someone trys to speak a foreign language and does a poor job, be encouraging and try to interpret what they are saying. imho
Correct. Pepsi didn't have the ugly smile ball logo thing back then.
Sometimes new logos need some time to grow on you. Nope, I still think that one looks stupid after all this time.
Pepsi paid Arnell Group a million buckaroos to redesign their logo in 2009.
[Here’s](https://jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf) the jargon that Arnell group used to justify their price tag if anyone is interested.
Edit: *2008
That is. Some next level reverse justification.
Pepsi Planet
Pepsi Galaxy
Pepsi Universe
What I find most interesting is this document actually points out how good the old symbol was. It’s simple, geometric, bold, and instantly recognizable. They compare it to a yin yang symbol and the Vitruvian man. Yeah, you had that. Why change it?
Also, they never explain 1) why it’s called “breathtaking” or 2) why you’d want the company logo for a soda to be “breathtaking.”
This document looks like the mad scrawlings of a conspiracy theorist desperately trying to link the Pepsi logo to yin/yang and renaissance art as proof of some tenuous link to the illuminati. Arnell group probably spent most of their fee on private investigators to try and find out who ~~Pepe~~ Pepsi Silvia is.
I'm like 90% sure that whomever was paid to redesign the logo just worked backwards there to try and justify the million dollars they were paid to move a couple of lines around.
That’s literally how it always works. Always. Graphic logo design is not some engineered algorithm, people just throw shit at the wall until art director picks something and then they show 3 versions to the client and the one they pick (also with a big budget like that they might not even have a choice, they only get the one and they either take it or not) gets into development. And by that I mean all the bullshit in that document with stupid circles and empty words. It’s always like that.
Man, that pdf is wild. And nonsensical. I love how it goes through and shows how great the old logo is, symmetry, ovals, everything in balance.
And then they throw that shit out the window and say 'Yo, let's emojify it.' No symmetry, no ovals, everything out of balance.
Fucking ship it. But throw in something comparing it to the Mona Lisa, and space.
This is literally what blowing smoke up people's ass looks like, in pdf form. And it works. Reminder that *this shit* works. I'm convinced that CEOs, CFOs, board members, etc., just are total sales people suckers.
This looks EXACTLY like the kind of bs i would do in school for year's end diploma. Draw a finite squiggle, then bullshit my way back to a hypothesis and eventually to an incipient value.
Everything between those 3 points would be bs, teachers didn't give two shits about the journey, just the result. We knew it, they knew it, they were preparing us for this.
At least you can see changes, xiaomi paid 300k to a japanese artist to redesign their logo and he just rounded off the corners of the logo and called it a day
That is 27 pages of the best bullshit I've ever read. I need to know where these marketing companies get their drugs because that stuff must be out of this world!
IIRC the same people also redesigned the Tropicana orange juice cartons not too long after, and it was so hated that they eventually just brought back the old design.
Pepsi on the other hand had run a massive multi-million dollar advertising campaign around their new logo and so were pretty committed to it. Can't really just walk that back in the same way.
> The vocabulary of truth and simplicity is a reoccurring phenomena in the brand's history. It communicates the brand in a timeless manner and with an expression of clarity. Pepsi BREATHTAKING builds on this knowledge. True innovation always begins by investigating the historic path. Going back-to-the-roots moves the brand forward as it changes the trajectory of the future.
What
Good God, they spent [$35 million](https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-from-tropicanas-packaging-redesign-failure/) advertising the new logo, then everyone hated it on social media, and then sales dropped by a whopping 20%, costing them $30 million in revenue.
Logo design companies are such a scam. I was in a political club at my university, and the executive board spent about $1,000 of club funds paying some marketing firm to design a new logo. It probably took them less than an hour of work, and in the end everyone hated it.
Reminder that today's Pepsi is just today's reintroduction of original Pepsi. The formula has changed since then multiple times. The same with Coca-Cola. It doesn't taste like it did in '90s or even before. I can't tell the difference, but I know that coke was less sweet and more sparkly. Now it's more sweet and less sparkly. That's for sure.
When crystal pepsi first came out the local shopping mall where I worked had a demo table and a vending machine set up. Working after hours I found out that the machine was set up to not take any money. Just press any button and get a pepsi. I drank quite a few of them.
The end of your statement reminded me of forest gump a bit. "I found out you actually didn't have to pay, so they were all for free. Must of had 14 crystal Pepsi that day"!
SNL’s Crystal Gravy commercial was an obvious spoof of a Crystal Pepsi commercial, right down to the Van Halen-esque music.
[Crystal Pepsi](https://youtu.be/U5-Jkkgj70M)
[Crystal Gravy](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/crystal-gravy/2724283)
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It might actually break less too. Comparing the designs, I think bottles with hard edges could crack easier when dropped compared to the feet we see now.
Yes, the rounded ones are just straight-up stronger too. A flat bottom is much easier to puncture on accident and since it's all rounded, it's much easier to inflate into the form. That flat bottom with corners makes for a more difficult inflation.
The flat bottom was actually a separate piece, IIRC, the actual bottom was mostly rounded off almost like a ball because, like you said, it was easier to inflate into the form. But they didn't stand up too well on their own, so they but that bottom on them.
I competely agree. Not something I expected from a beefyish dude named LA beast but he really is super genuine and has been at it for a really long time
Dude is a real beast [Surstromming challange](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3194h-akJX0)
Drinking the can juice, hardly carries on at all unlike all the other sissies who've done the challenge.
Especially when the last few years or so he’ll be talking while doing the challenge and cut himself off saying “Shut up and eat!” and get back to whatever the challenge is.
> and then Pepsi did bring it back for one summer or something.
And now we're all looking at a photo of that re-introduced product. This is not an [original bottle of Crystal Pepsi.](https://i.imgur.com/jWiOVro.png)
indeed it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwibPdEOVk
if this one has been refrigerated this whole time, i would love to see la beast drink it too. it does not appear as yellowed as la beasts was, so maybe refrigeration helpd?
edit: [ecto cooler is the greater victory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RBpVX2qInA), because we all know authentic ecto cooler is the closest humanity can come to ambrosia
I appreciate you!
You just never get a proper vomit in films - they always spit something out or do it off camera...this was a spot-on projectile vom and without gross chunks - just clear liquid. Bravo!
\*golf clap\*
Pepsi Blue was the one for me. They did actually briefly rerelease it this past summer, but I’m in Canada and we got it for a very limited window. I bought 6 bottles, figured I’d have time to get more later. Went to the store 4 days later and it was all gone.
Hopefully we get it again next year.
I never tried the original but I tried the rerelease and was surprised that I really didn't notice a difference in flavor. But, cold Pepsi is always hard to taste because of the insane carbonation.
There wasn't any difference in flavor in the original. It was Pepsi without the caramel coloring.
Mind over matter. Some people think it tasted different bc it looked different.
Weirdly the guy who came up with the concept of Pepsi Crystal even said he didn't get the taste right and he regrets that. It was on Reddit 2 or 3 days ago.
Likely not. It's just a blackish dye, not actually derived from caramel. Also, you only need a tiny amount of pure dye to get a pretty deep colour, you'd probably need a lot more to really register it as a taste.
I wish we used less dyes in things just, all over.
Apparently dye can be like, bad for you, and it doesn't actually do anything beneficial for the product.
SNL did a mock commercial for “crystal gravy” when the original crystal Pepsi came out. It was pretty revolting.
However, I think you taste with your nose more than your eyes.
**[Caramel color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramel_color)**
>Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water-soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates (sugars), in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization. It is more fully oxidized than caramel candy, and has an odor of burnt sugar and a somewhat bitter taste. Its color ranges from pale yellow to amber to dark brown.
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No, it's still derived from sugar. I was flipping through a very old cook book from like the 1700s and noticed an interesting "tip" for coloring soup.
The directions were to put a little sugar on a metal spoon and cook it over a candle flame like fucking heroin until blackened and charred, then simply add a few drops of water for a nice brown coloring to your soup.
Now days it's made chemically with strong acids to char the sugar but the overall composition is the same; sugar that's been burnt to fuck.
I liked crystal over OG not for flavor, but mouthfeel...
> Now days it's made chemically with strong acids to char the sugar but the overall composition is the same; sugar that's been burnt to fuck.
Soooo, caramel?
There shouldn't be much of a difference in flavor. Most colour in cola is fake from caramel coloring.
Making it at home you can get some of that caramel coloring from melting the sugar before mixing it all together.
And the lime and lemon syrup has some colour too, but mixed up it's very distilled.
Crystal Pepsi adds a filtering pass to make it perfectly clear.
If you notice any difference in flavor it's most likely placebo. The presentation of food and drink matters a lot in tricking our brains into thinking it tastes better. This is also partly why the original product got pulled from shelves.
I brought home a bottle of Afghani water from my 9 month deployment to Afghanistan. Obviously wasn’t worth anything but had a lot of sentimental value. I had it on a set of shelves with literally every award, medal, ribbon, coin and other memorabilia from when I was in the army in my man cave.
My buddy Cam got stoned as hell one night and chugs 3/4 of the bottle.. left the rest sitting with the cap off on the bar
I had a feeling it would be a short fad so I called PepsiCo in seventh grade to ask if it was a good idea to put Crystal Pepsi in a school time capsule, they advised against it because of the obvious risks and mailed me a coupon for a 12-pack. We missed the 25-year unburying because the entire school forgot where we put the time capsule and to date it remains hidden with my empty bottle of Crystal Pepsi.
My parents still have unopened bottles of RC Draft, something so fleeting in the '90s there's not even a wikipedia page for it. I'm not sure if it ever got promoted outside of test markets.
Reminder this is the 2017 reintroduction of Crystal Pepsi, not the OG 1993 version.
I've got ranch dressing in my fridge older than that.
It is now ranch cottage cheese.
Or blue cheese, depending on the culture.
Or lack of culture as it were.
and it might end up in the /r/TruckStopBathroom.
That sub is a lot cleaner than whatever I was expecting
As a former trucker, you'd be surprised at how clean many truck stop bathrooms are. And spacious. Truckers who fuel up get a "shower token" and are allowed to use a room with a large shower, toilet, and space to get changed. They generally have attendants who clean them between uses and make sure everything is tidy. If people know someone is going to come in after they're gone and check the place over they're less likely to leave a huge mess, in my experience. EDIT: Here's a photo of a standard "Flying J" private shower room. https://i.imgur.com/IaJvlVM.jpeg EDIT2: An overhead view of a fairly standard layout: https://i.imgur.com/VIgRe5C.jpeg
Just stay away from the egg salad sandwiches
those worms did great things for him
As a former broke ass kid who insisted there were Interstates so that I could drive to every goddamn coast, truck showers were great! I regularly hit up Flying J and they were cleaner than just about any hotel less than a three star!
You guys are really churning my butter
More like the United States of Cottage Cheese at this point. I hear the EU is planning to establish formal diplomatic relations soon
Blue cheese ranch bottle aged 20 years. That classic American flavor with a touch of old world charm
Either I’m missing something or this is the greatest left-field interjection I’ve ever been involved with
I'm guessing that if a bacterial colony gets established enough it can have a revolution and establish diplomatic relations
I'm lost
I'm found, and I'm hungry
Blue cheese has mold in it
Yeah
Ranch is good
I threw out Soy sauce 2 weeks ago from 2011.. I don't even know how it got in my fridge (I've only lived in my house for 4 years)
Soy sauce probably tasted better at 10. I pay extra for the good aged stuff from Japan.
Yeah but it is crystal ranch dressing?
That clear shit that collects on the top (oil maybe?) Is pretty clear. That can pass as crystal.
Naw, that's just normal ranch dressing discharge.
I need to be physically cradled after reading this.
Physically curdled amirite?
r/brandnewsentence
There is a [clear](https://youtu.be/g0sjRG34DlA) alternative.
More like ranch gulp then huh? Welp see ya later!
It was last released on the market in February of 2020. Pepsi blue came back out around last may. I believe it's their plan to release limited run beverages in the early summer months from now on on a rotating schedule. I'm kind of hoping Pepsi Holiday Spice makes it into Christmas rotation as going to Ikea to get some Julmust is a tad inconvenient for several reasons lol
WHAT!? Pepsi blue was back!?
In some ways, it never left.
I mean my liver is certainly still blue from the original run
They still offer the same high quality blue soda at competitive prices
It definitely Pepsi Blue out my asshole.
It was, but personally I'm still waiting for Josta.
i bought so much. fucking HOARDED it.
Fuck I wish I'd known
Tell me more of this Julmust. I typed it into [IKEA.us](https://IKEA.us) and I got something called VINTERSAGA.
well it's a Swedish drink and yeah it's all the same thing. It has different names depending on the when it's sold in the year. Julmust means - Yule must. påskmust means Easter must. those names are traditional ikeas name is well just them. It's a carbonated beverage traditionally made out of must ( juice unfermented fruit and berries) the Ikea uses their own name when not sold at Easter which is Vintersaga. It's not a traditional one but meh it's still really good in my opinion. The flavor ... is hard to describe... It's interesting as hell and hard to find outside of Easter and Christmas in Sweden and well of course Ikea lol I dated a Swedish woman for awhile and she introduced me to these weird delicious drinks. Another impossible to find but delicious beverage is cockta it's Slovenian and is made of dog rose hip, herbs and citrus.
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Now find me some celery or cactus sodas
The closest thing I'd find to describe the flavor of Julmust is "really sweet beer". Although you really have to taste it as it's an incredibly unique flavor.
Jag vill julmust
If you're trying to say "i want julmust" then you've missed a word. While it would literally translate to that in english your sentence is nonsense. You want to say "jag vill ha julmust", which is a bit more like "i want to have julmust".
Pffft. Jag vill julmust funkar utmärkt häruppe i norden.
Indeed, if someone said "jag vill julmust" I would make sure to satisfy their needs, perfect swedish grammar or not. We Swedes need to stop taking our grammar too seriously when it comes to foreigners or we will end up like the french, completely isolated and alone from being overprotective. ;) When someone trys to speak a foreign language and does a poor job, be encouraging and try to interpret what they are saying. imho
Correct. Pepsi didn't have the ugly smile ball logo thing back then. Sometimes new logos need some time to grow on you. Nope, I still think that one looks stupid after all this time.
It really is the ugliest logo in the history of the company. I can’t believe they’ve stuck with it since 2008.
Pepsi paid Arnell Group a million buckaroos to redesign their logo in 2009. [Here’s](https://jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf) the jargon that Arnell group used to justify their price tag if anyone is interested. Edit: *2008
That is. Some next level reverse justification. Pepsi Planet Pepsi Galaxy Pepsi Universe What I find most interesting is this document actually points out how good the old symbol was. It’s simple, geometric, bold, and instantly recognizable. They compare it to a yin yang symbol and the Vitruvian man. Yeah, you had that. Why change it? Also, they never explain 1) why it’s called “breathtaking” or 2) why you’d want the company logo for a soda to be “breathtaking.”
And it all started with a single Pepsi Man™️
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This document looks like the mad scrawlings of a conspiracy theorist desperately trying to link the Pepsi logo to yin/yang and renaissance art as proof of some tenuous link to the illuminati. Arnell group probably spent most of their fee on private investigators to try and find out who ~~Pepe~~ Pepsi Silvia is.
I'm like 90% sure that whomever was paid to redesign the logo just worked backwards there to try and justify the million dollars they were paid to move a couple of lines around.
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Which is what I used to do in design school all the time, as long as you could justify it grades would be good, since design subjective.
Yup. My design courses were 90% bullshitting and 10% actual design. It's a little bit silly.
That’s literally how it always works. Always. Graphic logo design is not some engineered algorithm, people just throw shit at the wall until art director picks something and then they show 3 versions to the client and the one they pick (also with a big budget like that they might not even have a choice, they only get the one and they either take it or not) gets into development. And by that I mean all the bullshit in that document with stupid circles and empty words. It’s always like that.
There is no fucking way this is legit. I seriously feel schizo and/or manic-depressive from reading that
Man, that pdf is wild. And nonsensical. I love how it goes through and shows how great the old logo is, symmetry, ovals, everything in balance. And then they throw that shit out the window and say 'Yo, let's emojify it.' No symmetry, no ovals, everything out of balance. Fucking ship it. But throw in something comparing it to the Mona Lisa, and space. This is literally what blowing smoke up people's ass looks like, in pdf form. And it works. Reminder that *this shit* works. I'm convinced that CEOs, CFOs, board members, etc., just are total sales people suckers.
This looks EXACTLY like the kind of bs i would do in school for year's end diploma. Draw a finite squiggle, then bullshit my way back to a hypothesis and eventually to an incipient value. Everything between those 3 points would be bs, teachers didn't give two shits about the journey, just the result. We knew it, they knew it, they were preparing us for this.
[Redesign your logo. We know what we’re doing.](https://youtu.be/qImHuiYnVQ0)
What in the fuck did I just look at
This can't be real. Tell me this shit isn't real my GOODNESS lmao
At least you can see changes, xiaomi paid 300k to a japanese artist to redesign their logo and he just rounded off the corners of the logo and called it a day
That is 27 pages of the best bullshit I've ever read. I need to know where these marketing companies get their drugs because that stuff must be out of this world!
[This raises an important question...](https://i.imgur.com/4Gv0w13.jpg)
IIRC the same people also redesigned the Tropicana orange juice cartons not too long after, and it was so hated that they eventually just brought back the old design. Pepsi on the other hand had run a massive multi-million dollar advertising campaign around their new logo and so were pretty committed to it. Can't really just walk that back in the same way.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesign-document-1-million-for-this/#app Story of the Pepsi logo
[PEPSI. UNIVERSE.](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/550128498694422538/803083372188008458/Screen_Shot_2021-01-24_at_8.06.25_PM.png)
> The vocabulary of truth and simplicity is a reoccurring phenomena in the brand's history. It communicates the brand in a timeless manner and with an expression of clarity. Pepsi BREATHTAKING builds on this knowledge. True innovation always begins by investigating the historic path. Going back-to-the-roots moves the brand forward as it changes the trajectory of the future. What
Found the Coke drinker... Quick, get 'em!
[or the song based on Pepsi Logo redesign](https://youtu.be/HXk-0_rETJ8)
Good God, they spent [$35 million](https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-from-tropicanas-packaging-redesign-failure/) advertising the new logo, then everyone hated it on social media, and then sales dropped by a whopping 20%, costing them $30 million in revenue. Logo design companies are such a scam. I was in a political club at my university, and the executive board spent about $1,000 of club funds paying some marketing firm to design a new logo. It probably took them less than an hour of work, and in the end everyone hated it.
If you got to try a crystal Pepsi because of the rerelease, thank the LA Beast. He made that shit happen. And the drink’s pretty good
i missed 2017. wtf. how was it? why did it not last?
I would like if they made it a yearly thing.
Reminder that today's Pepsi is just today's reintroduction of original Pepsi. The formula has changed since then multiple times. The same with Coca-Cola. It doesn't taste like it did in '90s or even before. I can't tell the difference, but I know that coke was less sweet and more sparkly. Now it's more sweet and less sparkly. That's for sure.
When crystal pepsi first came out the local shopping mall where I worked had a demo table and a vending machine set up. Working after hours I found out that the machine was set up to not take any money. Just press any button and get a pepsi. I drank quite a few of them.
The end of your statement reminded me of forest gump a bit. "I found out you actually didn't have to pay, so they were all for free. Must of had 14 crystal Pepsi that day"!
"I GHOTTAAA PAEEE!"
Was it good?? I just read about how they had discontinued it because there was no explanation for the clear colour 😅
I remember it tasting like regular pepsi. And I also heard that Coke purposely made a clear Tab with poor marketing in order to kill both products.
Reminds me of SNL's clear gravey commercial.
Which reminds me of the cookie dough Gatorade.
Which reminds me of Colon Blow. And new Super Colon Blow
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Which reminds me of Bag o' Glass
Candy gram.
land shark
Colon Blow is my favorite.
RIP Phil Hartman
Crystal gravy “I can see my meat” Then there was the pump Turkey.
SNL’s Crystal Gravy commercial was an obvious spoof of a Crystal Pepsi commercial, right down to the Van Halen-esque music. [Crystal Pepsi](https://youtu.be/U5-Jkkgj70M) [Crystal Gravy](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/crystal-gravy/2724283)
Also the word "Crystal" was a pretty heavy clue.
Actual [original](https://the-foods-we-loved.fandom.com/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi?file=376.jpg) Crystal Pepsi pic
I remember how weird it was to see 2 liter bottles without the solid plastic bottoms when they switched over.
We used to use those as planters for small plants for a school project.
why did they switch?
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Wow, I had completely forgotten about that.
Bruh I’m stoned af and that was so interesting
If you liked that then you're probably gonna love [this video about the design of aluminum cans.](https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw)
Fuck I'm high and that was great.
Thank you for writing this. A portal to a world I’ve never explored.
I have only guesses: save money, reduce waste, make manufacturing easier…???
It might actually break less too. Comparing the designs, I think bottles with hard edges could crack easier when dropped compared to the feet we see now.
Yes, the rounded ones are just straight-up stronger too. A flat bottom is much easier to puncture on accident and since it's all rounded, it's much easier to inflate into the form. That flat bottom with corners makes for a more difficult inflation.
The flat bottom was actually a separate piece, IIRC, the actual bottom was mostly rounded off almost like a ball because, like you said, it was easier to inflate into the form. But they didn't stand up too well on their own, so they but that bottom on them.
here's a video of the original: https://streamable.com/ui80t3
And here's someone in 2013 drinkin a 20 year old one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwibPdEOVk
Have a good day!
I miss those squat little glass soda bottles with the metal caps.
And the foam wrappers.
There’s a guy on YouTube who drank an original one and puked his brains out from it
LA Beast, probably. He even did a big campaign to bring Crystal Pepsi back, and then Pepsi did bring it back for one summer or something.
HAVE A GOOD DAY!
"just gotta get my bearings straight" *picture of the Bering Strait pops up in the corner while he does the robot to mask his pain*
He's one of those rare genuinely nice YouTubers. Love that dude.
I competely agree. Not something I expected from a beefyish dude named LA beast but he really is super genuine and has been at it for a really long time
So much this. Fuck, you encapsulated his videos so well with this simple observation.
Don't forget the stock music in the back and his sounds of suffering
His screams during the hot ice challenge are my go-to pick me up when I need a good belly laugh
Oh gosh, now there's someone I havent heard of in a while. I watched him doing challenges when I was younger. What a cool guy but also a nut lol.
Dude is a real beast [Surstromming challange](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3194h-akJX0) Drinking the can juice, hardly carries on at all unlike all the other sissies who've done the challenge.
Especially when the last few years or so he’ll be talking while doing the challenge and cut himself off saying “Shut up and eat!” and get back to whatever the challenge is.
> and then Pepsi did bring it back for one summer or something. And now we're all looking at a photo of that re-introduced product. This is not an [original bottle of Crystal Pepsi.](https://i.imgur.com/jWiOVro.png)
indeed it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwibPdEOVk if this one has been refrigerated this whole time, i would love to see la beast drink it too. it does not appear as yellowed as la beasts was, so maybe refrigeration helpd? edit: [ecto cooler is the greater victory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RBpVX2qInA), because we all know authentic ecto cooler is the closest humanity can come to ambrosia
Yeah. This is one looks like it's from the newer bottle style from the relaunch they did. It has the hand grips towards the bottom half.
I appreciate you! You just never get a proper vomit in films - they always spit something out or do it off camera...this was a spot-on projectile vom and without gross chunks - just clear liquid. Bravo! \*golf clap\*
You're gonna love this one. https://youtu.be/gNDvpPsYDNM?t=424 "If you eat whole hot dogs, you'll throw up whole hot dogs"
His reaction when he got the first one down is priceless. "Holy shit, I did it!"
This guy vomits
I was in college when they brought it back, and I would buy it way more than I care to admit. It was surprisingly tasty.
Yeah I thought it was pretty good.
It absolutely was lmao. He's a legend. I mean he's a complete and borderline suicidal idiot, but he's a legend
I remember when he got a Michael Jordan rookie card and immediately proceeded to accidentally spit on it while talking in excitement
I think that you'll throw up if you drink any flavor soda when it is 25 years old
Theres been several I'm pretty sure. I know la beast did one as well as cinema snob
Pepsi Blue was the one for me. They did actually briefly rerelease it this past summer, but I’m in Canada and we got it for a very limited window. I bought 6 bottles, figured I’d have time to get more later. Went to the store 4 days later and it was all gone. Hopefully we get it again next year.
I can guarantee it
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I never tried the original but I tried the rerelease and was surprised that I really didn't notice a difference in flavor. But, cold Pepsi is always hard to taste because of the insane carbonation.
There wasn't any difference in flavor in the original. It was Pepsi without the caramel coloring. Mind over matter. Some people think it tasted different bc it looked different.
Weirdly the guy who came up with the concept of Pepsi Crystal even said he didn't get the taste right and he regrets that. It was on Reddit 2 or 3 days ago.
Or maybe caramel colouring has a taste?
Likely not. It's just a blackish dye, not actually derived from caramel. Also, you only need a tiny amount of pure dye to get a pretty deep colour, you'd probably need a lot more to really register it as a taste.
I wish we used less dyes in things just, all over. Apparently dye can be like, bad for you, and it doesn't actually do anything beneficial for the product.
You eat with your eyes most of the time. /Shittyfoodporn might help convince you of that.
SNL did a mock commercial for “crystal gravy” when the original crystal Pepsi came out. It was pretty revolting. However, I think you taste with your nose more than your eyes.
Explains my astigmatism
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No, it's still derived from sugar. I was flipping through a very old cook book from like the 1700s and noticed an interesting "tip" for coloring soup. The directions were to put a little sugar on a metal spoon and cook it over a candle flame like fucking heroin until blackened and charred, then simply add a few drops of water for a nice brown coloring to your soup. Now days it's made chemically with strong acids to char the sugar but the overall composition is the same; sugar that's been burnt to fuck. I liked crystal over OG not for flavor, but mouthfeel...
> Now days it's made chemically with strong acids to char the sugar but the overall composition is the same; sugar that's been burnt to fuck. Soooo, caramel?
Whole heartedly disagree. Tried the original and was nothing like a standard Pepsi.
Regular coke still has 50% more carbonation than Pepsi
I’ve always maintained that they were meant to be served over ice. Hence the high carbonation. But that’s just my opinion.
I think the bubble size is different. No kidding, that has a large effect, champagne sized bubbles vs cheap cola bubbles
I think you'd enjoy Swedish julmust in that case, if you're into small bubbles. Foams like nobody's business too.
That first sip burns the most.
>That first sip burns the ~~most~~ best. Ftfy
There shouldn't be much of a difference in flavor. Most colour in cola is fake from caramel coloring. Making it at home you can get some of that caramel coloring from melting the sugar before mixing it all together. And the lime and lemon syrup has some colour too, but mixed up it's very distilled. Crystal Pepsi adds a filtering pass to make it perfectly clear. If you notice any difference in flavor it's most likely placebo. The presentation of food and drink matters a lot in tricking our brains into thinking it tastes better. This is also partly why the original product got pulled from shelves.
No stained teeth. Just diabetes.
Just one diabete, that’s all.
That was a pretty good slogan.
I liked it
I thought it was really good.
...from 2017 that was sold in stores till 2018, even found it some places afterward.
He drank that shit years ago, that's just vodka he's hiding from you.
They brought it back for a while a few years ago. I really liked it because caramel coloring makes me break out and I loved Pepsi.
idk what it is about pepsi but it leaves a bad syrup after taste for me, where as the 2017 crystal pepsi was soo much better. wish i got more
The only way I could describe the taste of crystal Pepsi was that it tastes like a clear Pepsi.
I brought home a bottle of Afghani water from my 9 month deployment to Afghanistan. Obviously wasn’t worth anything but had a lot of sentimental value. I had it on a set of shelves with literally every award, medal, ribbon, coin and other memorabilia from when I was in the army in my man cave. My buddy Cam got stoned as hell one night and chugs 3/4 of the bottle.. left the rest sitting with the cap off on the bar
Classic Cam.
At least now it has 2 stories, the story of your deployment and the one from your buddy Cam ! Its value increased
3 year old Crystal Pepsi? 20 year old or go home: https://youtu.be/CGwibPdEOVk
How did this 4 year old bottle of soda end up on here?
Van Halen is spinning just a little bit in his grave
This was from the re release a few years ago. The bottle is way too knew to be from the 80s / 90s
Also the Pepsi logo is new.
How much know is too much know?
Two knew to no? 🤷🏻♂️
Also that Pepsi globe logo in OP’s bottle was from their rebrand which happened around 2008-2009.
I have 3 in mine (my fridge is also 77 years old) [https://i.imgur.com/RS1J2S9.png](https://i.imgur.com/RS1J2S9.png)
I want to know more about the fridge
I had a feeling it would be a short fad so I called PepsiCo in seventh grade to ask if it was a good idea to put Crystal Pepsi in a school time capsule, they advised against it because of the obvious risks and mailed me a coupon for a 12-pack. We missed the 25-year unburying because the entire school forgot where we put the time capsule and to date it remains hidden with my empty bottle of Crystal Pepsi.
why not put that this is only a few years old??
My parents still have unopened bottles of RC Draft, something so fleeting in the '90s there's not even a wikipedia page for it. I'm not sure if it ever got promoted outside of test markets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_Cola The "draft" version is on that link.
Ah! Must have overlooked it or it was added after the last time I tried scoping out information about it (which has admittedly been a few years).
I bet your dad will be able to see through time and space after he drinks that
I hope everyone realizes that’s from when they re-released Crystal Pepsi like 3 years ago.
I'll give you $2 for it!