What Ever Happened to Surge? The '90s Most Extreme Soda
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2023
- Weird History is taking you back to the '90s for a big ol' can of Surge. Have you ever been browsing the insufficiently extreme soda aisle at your local grocery store and found yourself wondering, "What ever happened to Surge, one of the most extreme caffeinated soft drinks of the 1990s?" Well, you're not alone. Surge was a popular but extremely short-lived carbonated phenomenon that embodied '90s-ness.
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I watch this channel for this specific narrator.
Would like to hear about Sobe, the lizard drink.
I used to drink Surge all the time when it was out. I felt it had less of a sugary sweet taste like Mountain Dew, while still tasting citrusy. Plus that bright green color is so iconic.
We actually had Surge machines in our high school, it was 25 cents a can. I still remember some guys chugging it & acting like they just couldn't control themselves, lol.
you went from Surge to the comeback of Mellow Yellow and completely overlooked the short-lived rollercoaster of a citrus soda that was Vault, also produced by Coca-Cola. Vault was wild and nearly filled the Surge-shaped hole that loomed heavy within my teenage heart.
My parents once scolded me for purchasing a Surge. They thought it was crazy and over-caffeinated. It is funny that it actually had less caffeine than the mountain dew I was frequently allowed to drink as a child.
Here in Norway, it's simply known as Urge, and still sold pretty much everywhere!
I'm Norwegian and Urge is still crazy popular here, way more than Mountain Dew. Urge has always been my favourite soda and I remember in early 2010's they sold Urge Intense which is my all time favourite soda.
I swear slurm (futurama) was based on surge
I used to drink like 8 Surges a day back in 97 😂. Loved that drink. They were 25 cents a piece out of the vending machine. Those were good and simple times compared to this clown world we're in these days.
We had a Surge branded soda vending machine in my High School. It looked pretty much like you'd imagine. It was green with the big Surge label on the front. The weird thing about it was that on the side of the machine there was a picture of some "extreme" teenagers in mid yell like things were so "extreme" they couldn't help but to scream and in the background of that picture there was a blurred out but still unmistakable image of a Skee-Ball machine. I can tell you this amused my friends and I to no end and "Extreme Skee-Ball!" became an inside joke among us for quite a while.
Man I’ve always remembered this soda from my childhood. The apartment complex I was living in as a child had a vending machine at the pool and I would always go up there to buy a Surge. Good times.
I remember in high school the vendor guy came in with a rolling bucket of Surge and handed them out free. They did it every two days for two months. So when the machine came in, we were all so caffeine and flavor addicted that the only way any other machine got any money was if the Surge machine needed to be restocked.
Man, Surge was great. Those were the days where me and my friends would pull caps off tossed out 20oz soda bottles looking for free drinks. They were always running those promotions and literally most people seemed to overlook them. On a good day we could find ourselves with 12 free sodas between coke and pepsi brands. For middle schoolers that was treasure.
I loved Surge. They brought some to my high school to promote it back in the 90's. My family didn't drink a lot of soda, but after that I drank Surge whenever I could. When I could no longer get it, I stopped drinking soda again.
I was CRAZY about SURGE in the 90s. When it made a comeback my friends ordered a batch through Amazon, and they started carrying it at a convenience store right at work. I was disappointed the formula wasn’t as intense as before, but it was nice to have it back for a while.
Burger King still carries it as an exclusive at their soda fountains.
Surge's hype machine was hilariously chaotic. I remember in middle school when Coke came to promote Surge by giving everyone a free 16oz bottle in the cafeteria during the lunch periods. Thing is, we weren't allowed to take soft drinks from the vending machines back to class. Plenty of kids didn't want the free bottle, but they passed it to their friends who did, and those kids had to down them before going back to class.
Great episode! I'd love to see something similar about Josta. That drink left us way too soon 😢
Loved the commentary! How about a vid on "what happened to Fruitopia?"