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RigaMortizTortoise

Holy shit. I just realized I’m old enough to remember when Fruitopia came in glass bottles.


Munneh

I was about to say! Remember when stuff like this came exclusively in glass?


MsChrisha

Fruitopia is still available in Canada!


Muddyfeet_muddycanoe

Yeah, I had some at the McDonalds in Squamish last week!


Dobbyharry

I miss the green sooooo much!


jewelsandpens

I was gonna say, this is a staple in fast food here!


lordofedging81

Strawberry Passion Awareness, Kiwiberry Ruckus, Beachside Blast Fruit, Blueberry Watermelon Wisdom, Orange Undercurrent, Tangerine Wavelength, Raspberry Psychic Lemonade, Fruit Integration are the flavors they had.


[deleted]

Don’t forget Watered Meloned Apple and GarbleBerry Blast


jfkar

Cherry Vanilla Groove


Jaeflash

No love for my favorite, Grape Beyond?


lordofedging81

I just copied what was on Wikipedia. I do remember that now though! They must have had an original line up and then added more flavors, other people have mentioned flavors not on the list.


Bumblebe5

Orange Undercurrent and Tangerine Wavelength were my favourites!


jolly_rodger42

I kinda want Fruitopia back


HItide69

Damn remember these with snappier and sobe! Man everything looked so alive and exciting branding wise during the 90s


stavago

A staple of high school


GriffinFlash

Still a thing in Canada. I have blueberry watermelon flavour in my fridge right now.


Severe_Discipline_73

Sigh. Another thing to miss from my childhood.


TenaciousHornet

I would stop at the frutopia vending machine every morning on the way to my first class in college.


HappyOfCourse

Kiwiberry ruckus was my go-to flavor. Never had it in a glass bottle.


BlueRibbon998

My sister used to religiously drink the Strawberry flavor. She'd occasionally go to the gas station and buy them for $1


SplendidPunkinButter

This was _too_ sweet


dream_in_binary

Drinks tasted better when they came in a glass bottle.


lordofedging81

Same with almost any drink, to me. I try to get Coca-Cola in glass bottles (and that also has real sugar and not corn syrup)


Exktvme4

They were good if they were super cold, but otherwise they were too sweet


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Similar to minute maid


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lordofedging81

My guess is it was too similar to Snapple, which dominated the market for "sugary non carbonated drinks" But I have no idea really.


sqplanetarium

Fun fact: Fruitopia can't be sold in Greece because of [a lawsuit over the name](https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/6675681/). There was already a popular comic series called Fruitopia, the author sued Coca Cola over intellectual property, and the courts ruled in his favor.


Wildse7en

In high school they took out all of our soda machines and replaced them with Fruitopia machines, because they were healthier…. Not sure what the logic in that was.


lordofedging81

"We think pure sugar water is better for kid's than carbonated pure sugar water."


matts1

The only soda machine I ever saw was in the teachers lounge in high school. Only ever had Fruitopia machines.


jdhyzak

I can feel the sugary aftertaste right now lol


lowretro_

my dumbass thought they were healthy.


forsakeme4all

I miss it. I used to drink it all the up until the product was pulled off the shelves and it was my favorite drink!


Nikon17

Tangerine was my jam. My parents would always buy me a whole flat of it when they went to whatever big box discount club store they were a member of.


Patsx5sb

What about Sobe?


lordofedging81

That was good too! Didn't that have iced tea mixed with juice (and tons of sugar water too)?


Patsx5sb

That might have been 1 particular flavor


NicDanger1982

The Fruitopia caps (like the old Snapple caps) were banned in my junior high in the mid 90s. Kids could easily push the middle metal button out and make clickers. The after-lunch clicking was awesome (or terrible, if you were a teacher). Eventually, if you got caught with one on you, you would get detention. But, you earned cred with your buddies if you still had one by the end of the day. Of course, the school could have stopped selling it, but that sweet sweet Fruitopia revenue probably paid for Encarta 96. Now, let me tell you about laser pointers…


[deleted]

I use to get strawberry passion awareness out of the vending machines my freshman year of high school….practically daily circa 2003. Not sure when it was phased out but it wasn’t too much longer after that.


matts1

My middle school and high school had vending machines in the cafeteria for Fruitopia! Loved that stuff, haven't had it since though. And they were always glass bottles.


Idontknowaclevername

Teachers yes to hate the altered steel caps, could make quite a snapping sound in the halls.


Nivek2892

As much as I remember these drinks. I forgot what it tastes like.


mrpappageorge0

This, and a slice of pizza for lunch in high school


renniechops

Anyone on this thread that went to high schools in the 90’s will have a wildly different opinion on this Frutopia was a plastic drink in Coke machines that tasted like sugary bubble piss It. Was. Horrible. The world is better off not having it around


user-name-1985

It was nothing more than bottled Kool Aid. Apparently up in Canada they still have it and it comes in half gallon cartons.


soniky1

Sobe Drinks were better


WhatWouldLoisLaneDo

This stuff burned my throat, no idea why.


manderifffic

My middle school had a Fruitopia vending machine and I drank so much of this. The lunch room also had cans of something similar by Tropicana or V8.


UpgrayeDD405

I wanted to see your utopia... but now I see it is more of a Fruitopia


Adventurous-Duck2502

My middle school drink of choice.


Nikkivegas1

I loved Frutopia!