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[Pink Jazz]

I actually liked New Coke. I bought some when Coke brought it back for the Stranger Things promotion. I still liked it.

I'm wondering if they'll axe Pibb next. I may go into mourning. I actually have some Pibb in the fridge.

Well, I wonder what would Coke sell in areas where they don't have distribution rights for Dr. Pepper.  Still, Pepsi has no equivalent in areas where Coke sells Dr. Pepper.

DR Pepper is "independent", so if Coke doesn't distribute them Pepsi does. Different regions have different distributors.

Around here, both Coke and Pepsi have rights to Dr Pepper

Here in Arizona, both Coke and Pepsi have the rights for the Dr. Pepper fountain syrup.  However, only Coke has the rights for Dr. Pepper as a bottled/canned soda.

[SP Cook]

In the USA, Dr Pepper and most of the other odd brands belong to Keurig Dr Pepper Company, which, if trends continue, will surpass PepsiCo as the #2 soda company within a few years.  The rights to bottle the company's products belong to different bottlers in different regions.  The rights were sold, almost always by county lines, decades ago long before the syrup vendor was merged as KDP..  Coke bottlers might own Dr Pepper in one county, a Pepsi bottler in another, and an "third tier" bottler in another.  Same goes, in a crazy-quilt hodgepodge fashion for the other KDP brands, including 7UP, Canada Dry and many others. 

Oddly, in most of the rest of the world, KO outright owns Dr Pepper, not just the bottling rights, but the outright business.  And PEP own 7UP.  Has to do with anti-trust.

[NJRoadfan]

You got me.  Nobody sells Diet Cheerwine around here anymore, but I grab one anywhere I can get one.  Also a sucker for Diet Stewart's Rootbeer at Cracker Barrel.

Don't know why, but the distributor of Cheerwine in the Triangle area no longer seems to supply 2L bottles of Diet Cheerwine. Cans are readily available. They never carried the Diet Caffeine Free versions. A short trip down to Sanford usually yielded 12pack cans of the diet CF variety.

Stewart's sodas were always readily available in NJ, they even have a branded restaurant chain!

https://www.stewartsallamerican.com/

[Dirt Roads]

Stewart's sodas were always readily available in NJ, they even have a branded restaurant chain!

https://www.stewartsallamerican.com/

Looks like they still have the old one in Huntington, West Virginia, across from the old Memorial Field House which housed Marshall basketball (and lots of local games, some of which I got to broadcast back in the day).  It's been there since 1938, but I've only eaten there once.  There used to be a Pizza Hut in the neighborhood, and there's a Gino's about a block down so I was more likely to sit down for a pizza when in that part of town.

[jp the roadgeek]

Dr Pepper used to be interesting in my area.  I worked for several locations of a store many years ago, and we either sold exclusively Coke or Pepsi products (we switched back and forth). Dr. Pepper was available through Pepsi in some locations, but through Coke in others.  And the shape of the 20 oz. bottle was different in the Coke vs Pepsi locations.  My town is a Pepsi area, but the next town over is a Coke one.  Just have to look where the products are located in the soda aisle to see which distributor handles that area.

[US71]

40+ years ago in NW Arkansas. Coke, DP, 7UP came from the Coke distributor in Fayetteville,  Pepsi came from Springdale.  30-something years ago, Crush /RC moved in but I no longer know who controls which products.

[Dirt Roads]

You got me.  Nobody sells Diet Cheerwine around here anymore, but I grab one anywhere I can get one.  Also a sucker for Diet Stewart's Rootbeer at Cracker Barrel.

Don't know why, but the distributor of Cheerwine in the Triangle area no longer seems to supply 2L bottles of Diet Cheerwine. Cans are readily available. They never carried the Diet Caffeine Free versions. A short trip down to Sanford usually yielded 12pack cans of the diet CF variety.

Just saw a few 2-liters of Diet Cheerwine at one of our Food Lion stores in Hillsborough today.  Wonder if they are starting to stock them again leading up to the holidays?

[Pink Jazz]

40+ years ago in NW Arkansas. Coke, DP, 7UP came from the Coke distributor in Fayetteville,  Pepsi came from Springdale.  30-something years ago, Crush /RC moved in but I no longer know who controls which products.

For Crush, Pepsi has had bottling rights for most of the United States since 2009. RC is bottled by various smaller bottlers, usually together with 7UP.

[jp the roadgeek]

Found this in Shop Rite the other day

[US71]

I guess I need to look around.

[ClassicHasClass]

It's a Tabstravaganza! 

[kkt]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

[Max Rockatansky]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Didn't that kind of happen with New Coke/Coke 2?

[Big John]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

[US71]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

I tried that with Crystal Pepsi, but it eventually ate through the containers

[ClassicHasClass]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Didn't that kind of happen with New Coke/Coke 2?

Sort of. But Coke made a limited amount as a tie-in with Stranger Things, so you could buy it relatively recently for a short time.

[US71]

Someone contact Pop's in Oklahoma and see if they have a source

[allniter89]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

Yeah, somebody up thread said they try to save some kinda pop but it ate thru the aluminum

[1995hoo]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

Yeah, somebody up thread said they try to save some kinda pop but it ate thru the aluminum

The comment didn't actually say the soda was in aluminum cans. Could have been plastic, like a two-litre bottle, for all we know:

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

I tried that with Crystal Pepsi, but it eventually ate through the containers

[US71]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

Yeah, somebody up thread said they try to save some kinda pop but it ate thru the aluminum

The comment didn't actually say the soda was in aluminum cans. Could have been plastic, like a two-litre bottle, for all we know:

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

I tried that with Crystal Pepsi, but it eventually ate through the containers

Definitely aluminum. I also had a 6-pack of bottles, but they disappeared.

[ErmineNotyours]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

At one time I wasn't good at using up my diet soda.  One warm afternoon a can exploded in an upper shelf.  My landlord was concerned about that attracting ants.  No, it's diet soda.

[kphoger]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

At one time I wasn't good at using up my diet soda.  One warm afternoon a can exploded in an upper shelf.  My landlord was concerned about that attracting ants.  No, it's diet soda.

Ants are attracted to water too.  Did it have water in it?

[US71]

Buy it all and sell it on Ebay in 20 years!

Diet soda does not hold up that long.

At one time I wasn't good at using up my diet soda.  One warm afternoon a can exploded in an upper shelf.  My landlord was concerned about that attracting ants.  No, it's diet soda.

Ants are attracted to water too.  Did it have water in it?

It had colored water...looked like Coca-Cola

[Dirt Roads]

Blast from the past.  One of the local Food Lion stores had a new stash of Frostie's: red, (white), and blue cream soda, plus diet root beer, in four-pack of glass bottles to boot.  Grabbed a pack of diet root beer today.  It's sweetened with Splenda, so it won't taste anything like the old ones.  Bring on the crushed ice!

[US71]

Blast from the past.  One of the local Food Lion stores had a new stash of Frostie's: red, (white), and blue cream soda, plus diet root beer, in four-pack of glass bottles to boot.  Grabbed a pack of diet root beer today.  It's sweetened with Splenda, so it won't taste anything like the old ones.  Bring on the crushed ice!

Harp's stores sell Frostie and other brands including Crush  in sugar formula.  Atwood's sells a lot of "real sugar" sodas.