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[–] 67 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I remember when Sobe came in a glass bottle

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haven't seen these in Canada in probably a decade

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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