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[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I remember when Sobe came in a glass bottle

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the only way I remember it. I guess I had stopped drinking it before they switched to plastic. It's probably my fault they stopped making it. Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So it's both of your faults! Damn you internet strangers!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I've got a wicked scar on my right hand that can attest to that! I was riding my bike home from my supermarket job as a teenager without a light... While holding my Sobe drink in my hand... I didn't see a retaining wall log that had fallen down onto the sidewalk so I hit it, tire-first. I flew over the handlebars and my hand landed on the bottle as it broke. Severed a nerve in the hand and damn-near hit an artery. Surgery to repair that, and I still have some numbness in it. Live and learn, but I'll always think of that when someone mentions Sobe!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I remember the firefighters that lived on my street would poke a hole in the top of an empty Sobe bottle cap and fill it halfway with gasoline before nestling the glass bottle inside their fire pit. They did this pretty much every weekend. The fireball was always impressive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Any Mr. Green soda fans in the house?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

I remember it getting bought out. The older teas had about 5 ingredients on the label. Overnight they doubled or tripled. Of course we needed all those chemicals because they were cheaper than just making a good tea.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

I heard Pepsi bought it and that is when they started using scop instead of sugar. Plastic instead of glass. Fuck Megacorps.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That glass Lizz Blizz was divine...and I later learned it was like 350 calories, mostly from sugar, in a single bottle.

Holy crap lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah Sobe is FUCKED up on sugar.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Dude i forgot about these!!! I used to call it sun juice when i was little. It was basically liquified sugar tho.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Did they finally kill sobe? I used to chug that stuff as a kid, tried one a few years ago, not sure if it was always that sweet, or it went the way of most good indie (that was bought up by conglomerates) beverage distributors.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was always that sweet. Everything we drank as kids was SUPER sweet, mostly still is. Once you break the sugar addiction and try those things again later the sweetness is shocking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I quit drinking pop in my late teens to early 20s. It is genuinely difficult for me to finish a single can of pop now, no idea how I drank 2 litres of it a day as a kid without getting fat or diabetic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As a kid? You're making me feel old. Sobe was invented when I was an adult.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dont worry im 30 and got called old for posting this in a discord im in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a 31 year old, it's true. 30 is the mark when people are allowed to start calling you old. Welcome, tapioca is on the shelf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm almost 40 and I'm sure sobe was around when I was in school

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sobe first came on my radar around 2000, imma look it up for it, because I feel you aren't that old... Idk maybe you are old, founded in 96, bought by Pepsi in 2000.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I drank nothing but "Green Tea (with ginseng)" growing up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes and SoBe. It was just a popular product for a lot of drink makers in the early 2000's. Too much sugar for me now, though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No but seriously, what happened to my gecko glug glug?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Your what??? The fuck is lizard milk???

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Increeedibly cost-ineffective to produce, I can tell you that much!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly what you would imagine. It's a cow milk substitute, kind of like goat milk but sweeter and more commonly used in tea

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those bottles were glass back in the day

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

true true, they got enshittified towards the end

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haven't seen these in Canada in probably a decade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Clearly Canadian is back though, so nature is healing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I miss lifewater. Preferred it over VitaminWater but unfortunately that's still around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I miss Jones Juice Dave - green tea with hemp, ginseng, and royal jelly. I can still taste it, feel the jar with the metal cap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I haven't had sobe in years, now I want to try it and I can't. Great.