Most people don't realize this, but poor Pepsi was trying to remind of our innocent childhood with the sick taste of Crystal Pepsi.

Remember the fruit flavored Pixie Stix your parents use to buy for you at Easter? Kids in my family use to turn it into homemade soda by mixing them into carbonated water made with baking soda. My first and last bottle of Crystal Pepsi brought back the repulsive childhood memories of drinking my own homemade soft drink and I told everyone around that it tasted just like Pixie Stix.

So here’s the recipe:

Fill an 8 OZ glass nearly full of Distilled Water, as this is what soda makers’ use as a base.

Mix in a few tablespoons of Baking Soda to get the bubbly bitter flavor, but not to much, it sill has to be somewhat flat.

Lastly, mix in paper straws of fruit flavored Pixie Stix. Use a variety of flavors to make the exact taste sort of bizarre and mix it up. It should still be somewhat clear.

Drink and enjoy the almost flat, putrid, indescribable taste of homemade Crystal Pepsi!

Sounds like Fizzies. You can still get them sometimes as a specialty.
Like Alka-Seltzer with flavor (gag me!)

Hey man don't be talking trash about my Crystal Pepsi (The greatest soft drink ever produced!!).

Amen to that, Bob! hehe

I remember Crystal Pepsi. It wasn't particularly *bad* as soft drinks go, it just was that the broad masses out there couldn't grock a "clear" cola.

Then they twiddled it into just plain "Crystal", a strange drink somewhere between clear cola and lemon lime. It fizzled too.

Read Robert McMath's "What Were They Thinking"; it goes over the reasons for why Crystal Pepsi (along with several other product flops).

The problem with Coke and Pepsi is that they are totally out of tune with what is going on in America. Our youth is fatter now than ever before and it certainly does not help that fast food and coke and pepsi have teamed up to add worthless calories. Pepsi and Coke have failed to come up with alternatives because they have made so much money selling sugared water. All that money and no new ideas for 20 years? Where would the computer or any other industry be if there were no new ideas from there leaders. Your grandparents drank Coke, your parents drank Pepsi the question is what are you going to drink. I think the youth of today will find an alternative. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Originally posted by Energydude:
Your grandparents drank Coke, your parents drank Pepsi the question is what are you going to drink. I think the youth of today will find an alternative. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Amen to that. My mother does drink Pepsi. I drink water (and occasionally a ginger ale). So I think we are finding our own alternatives.