Would like to hear about Sobe, the lizard drink.

@GotTheBestLigma

Жыл бұрын

I miss them Liz blizz's

@morganschiller2288

Жыл бұрын

That stuff was great!

@jimdino77

Жыл бұрын

Whew! You brought me back

@romeocharliedelta

Жыл бұрын

I loved SoBe Dragon

@Zantreful

Жыл бұрын

Anyone else remember their soda called Mr. Green? It tasted like an amalgamation of other name brand sodas.

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.

@benjamindover4337

Жыл бұрын

I liked it too. But the taste did not translate well to the plastic bottle era. That's where Mountain Dew excelled.

@BarronVonSchnoot

Жыл бұрын

So iconic I can’t even. Surge is low key wholesome AF.

@t99155

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@RedRoseSeptember22

Жыл бұрын

Right? That was one of my favorite things about it!!!

@FuzzballRenakitty

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the colour of midori

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.

@Phethario

Жыл бұрын

It still exists in Norway. It's called Urge though, but still the same brand.

@mikeyfn-a6684

Жыл бұрын

Schools like yours inspired that King of the he Hill episode

@willywilliam357

11 ай бұрын

My highschool has a surge machine also! I could get 2 20 ounce surges for 1 dollar in the early 2000s.

@dblyolk3535

11 ай бұрын

Definitely had a Surge machine in my school’s cafeteria, they took it out after 2 months or so lol. I remember it was .25 cents

@infinidominion

8 ай бұрын

YYYEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ....so refreshing

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. I still want one.

I watch this channel for this specific narrator.

@FutureSoap

Жыл бұрын

Even so the other narrator does a fine job, it's a different story if the content they made wasn't quite as good as what they currently make

@danielsatter1805

Жыл бұрын

​@@FutureSoap i don't remember another one. I'll have to pay attention

@Lupine.

Жыл бұрын

​@@FutureSoap Yeah... but...

@spencerdokes6056

Жыл бұрын

Same. I can't help but picture james woods as the narrator!

@jewel65

Жыл бұрын

Same!

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.

@SuaveCityGear

Жыл бұрын

That’s me 😂

@liquidcode1704

Жыл бұрын

I've never been so self conscious as I am now

@TheFlaptrapper

Жыл бұрын

I would've just drank it and pissed myself

@Connection-Lost

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of when red bull came out, highschoolers were drinking them and "getting high"

@loadedhot1034

Жыл бұрын

We called those people Retards.

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.

@thesquad2253

Жыл бұрын

dude i think u just stole my memory 🤔

@plnkfloydian7814

Жыл бұрын

Yes same !

@Connection-Lost

Жыл бұрын

You lived under the pool?

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.

@Mskompass

11 ай бұрын

yup

@NeverPr

10 ай бұрын

Yes right, when I was Surge in the thumbnail I was like "what the hell is this a joke" because now it's Urge and I thought it was a mandela effect lol I played some games with my friends for some days ago and they drank Urge so yeah it's popular I watched the video and haha I feel so powerful I can get something so hard to get in other countries so easily

@Nfk2224

10 ай бұрын

Urge is my favorite drink while going skateboarding

@infinidominion

8 ай бұрын

Dew is banned in Norway and Austria

@Nfk2224

8 ай бұрын

@@infinidominion no i drink dew all the time in norway

Burger King still carries it as an exclusive at their soda fountains. I miss this and Jolt Cola.

@Silvergun_Raven

Жыл бұрын

I don't think the BK in my town does, but I haven't been to Burger King in years.

@Zeiss120

Жыл бұрын

@@Silvergun_Raven I live south east region and most of the BKs here carry it. Might be a regional thing.

@LiveTUNA

Жыл бұрын

I live in PHX and we have surge at BK

@CastleBravo023

Жыл бұрын

Interestingly I can get Jolt in Dollar General down in Texas.

@Zeiss120

Жыл бұрын

@@CastleBravo023 I've seen a few places around me have Jolt from time to time as a promotional item. Usually only around for a summer and usually when I get a feeling for one the promo is over and back to not seeing it again for another half decade.

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.

@jacksampson1347

Жыл бұрын

I used to buy vault because I could get Leiter of it for Less than a dollar

@thestarseeker8196

Жыл бұрын

I remember Vault…but I liked the red Vault 👌🏻

@cuddlebug8106

Жыл бұрын

Vault - “ get to it “ As though it was the more professional and ambition surge minus the flavor. Surge and Vault is like comparing Tony Hawk to Bam Margera only instead of flavor we’re comparing skills.

@Atromnis

Жыл бұрын

TBH I liked Vault better than Surge and Mountain Dew.

@GouShin1

Жыл бұрын

I liked vault a lot actually, wouldn't mind for a vault revival.

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.

@Jordan__Sloan

5 ай бұрын

They changed it? I tried it when they brought it back and I thought it wasn’t as good and maybe my taste changed thats a shame

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.

@2aminitials

Жыл бұрын

Were those the same Pepsico 20 oz bottles that had a B1G1 free label under the cap the you could read if you held the bottle upright and looked under the cap before buying it? I remember a friend and I checking bottles at the convenience store before buying them.

@tdestroyer4780

Жыл бұрын

Those soda cap bottles had decent win rates too. I remember "1 in 6 wins" was advertised once.

@stevenbrooks1243

Жыл бұрын

Coca cola red hot summers I remembered those as well I always won a free Coke

@Thegrowerofthegreens

Жыл бұрын

I went to a nascar race when I was 12 and spent about half of the time under the bleachers collecting winning caps. People were too busy watching the race to pay attention to the cap and then they just dropped the bottles through the openings in the bleachers. I filled a big plastic sack full. I had over 100 winning caps and could have got lots more. I gave at least half of them away.

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. So you had a large group of 11-14 year olds chugging multiple bottles of Surge in 25 minutes. Many went home sick that afternoon, with teachers wondering what the hell was going on.

@celtekrider2

Жыл бұрын

Surge was my favorite! But I never got sick drinking it. Mountain Dew code red was a different story though. That stuff was way worse imo.

@AAbram-yt9de

Жыл бұрын

They gave it away in my high school . The entire place was stick for a week.

@Helladamnleet

Жыл бұрын

Because that makes more sense than putting it in your locker.

@celtekrider2

Жыл бұрын

@@AAbram-yt9de I call BS on that. Surge never made me sick.....

@AAbram-yt9de

Жыл бұрын

@@celtekrider2 it never made me sick either. Kids just sprayed it everywhere.

They brought it back a few years ago. I kept trying to stock up on them because I knew they'd eventually discontinue it again, but I kept drinking them. Surge is addictive. They should bring it back again, but permanently...and with a zero sugar variation.

@thedefamationleague

Жыл бұрын

@CaptainSpalding Where?

@SEPHICHI420

Жыл бұрын

They still have it in Fla 😮

@thedefamationleague

Жыл бұрын

@@SEPHICHI420 If you are in Florida, you should be selling it online. Just saying.

@creatorsfreedom6734

Жыл бұрын

the wife felt the URGE ..........

@blakesoergel2264

Жыл бұрын

Its still available at almost every convenience store in Iowa

The taste of Surge was really good. One of the best tasting sodas I've ever had. Anyone remember DNL, that upside down 7up? It had the same color as Surge and a similar, great citrus taste. I miss that one, too.

When it came out, our middle school gave cans away for free, full backpacks of it. Then they set up a 3 dedicated vending machine setup for Surge, with its name stretching across all 3 at 25 cents a can, Half the cost of normal cans. Kids used to buy the machines out, till the officials started locking the purchase times down.

@chrisgenovese8188

Жыл бұрын

What?! That almost defies logic.

@HacksawMutilator

Жыл бұрын

Same here minus the vending machines. They placed cylindrical coolers at the intersections of all the hallways and filled them with mostly warm Surge cans.

@biggreenblob

Жыл бұрын

I definitely remember having a surge vending machine in my middle school

@patrickaker4380

Жыл бұрын

Same at my middle school! Suburban Detroit.

@CordeliaWagner

Жыл бұрын

Sugary drinks should be banned from schools.

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.

@stagger9660

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like ignorant parents

@jamesmorris9120

Жыл бұрын

I never drank either one but always believed the same thing. I was a kid who didn’t care about labels but adults don’t really have an excuse.

@DavidLLambertmobile

Жыл бұрын

They meant Jolt. Jolt had chewing gum too.

@polycube868

Жыл бұрын

​@Stagger what was it about the 80's and 90's and dumb parents!?

@H.EL-Othemany

Жыл бұрын

@@stagger9660 sounds like American parents

I'm not sure it's 100% discontinued, my dudes. I can literally drive to the corner store 45 seconds from my house here in Jacksonville and buy a can of Surge right now. Also, for the record (not related to this video, but on a similar topic): Oreo Cakesters are definitely not discontinued. They are currently sold in every gas station and grocery store in my area. That one always confused me because I never saw them disappear from shelves and have seen them in multiple "discontinued snacks" videos.

@SuaveCityGear

Жыл бұрын

Burger King, not all but some have some

@daniillasso2916

Жыл бұрын

Was about to say I still see it sometimes in nyc

@jrgenjohansen2799

Жыл бұрын

You have to drive 45 seconds? How about a walk instead?

Loved the commentary! How about a vid on "what happened to Fruitopia?"

Can you do one for Jolt Cola? Twice the sugar. Twice the caffeine.

@Playername_Blue

Жыл бұрын

I was talking to my coworkers about Bawls and Jolt just the other day😂

@NekoiTV

Жыл бұрын

I still talk about how much I miss Jolt to this day

@LiveTUNA

Жыл бұрын

Remember Josta?? The one with the black panther creeping over the top of the logo. I used to drink that ask the time. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josta

@todda2888

Жыл бұрын

​@@LiveTUNAthat's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title and thumbnail of this video! I drank Josta all the time as a kid!!!

@jbmp1390

Жыл бұрын

​@@Playername_Blue Bawls 😂. Forgot about that one. That was the elite energy drink when I was a teenager.

It's always weird to me that drinks/foods that have these massive cult fanbases that routinely sell out whenever they're brought back within minutes never just become a permanent fixture in the market again. It just feels like they're leaving money on the table tbh

@Blitz6804

Жыл бұрын

Unless they only sell out BECAUSE they're limited time.

@francishandscomb8108

Жыл бұрын

Cheaper for companies to have few products especially as most drink are owned by a few companies

@Redfoot138

Жыл бұрын

I don't know anything about the mass manufacturing of soda, but I wonder if it costs the companies too much to allocate resources for niche products like this. They realize the demand is so limited so they only make limited amounts.

@jaymzx0

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like they plan to bring it back on occasion, milk the cult following to saturation, then take it away. Sort of like the McRib.

@dougiebuckets1364

Жыл бұрын

@@Blitz6804 exactly. If the mcrib was always on mcdonalds menu, nobody would order it

Great episode! I'd love to see something similar about Josta. That drink left us way too soon 😢

This just makes me miss 90s youth culture in general. Everything just seemed so upbeat and positive.

@SaanMigwell

Ай бұрын

The Berlin wall came down in 89, and the cold war was won by 91. It was a good time, it only took us 30 years to bankrupt ourselves with the celebration wars of the 2000's

I loved Surge, Kick and Mountain Dew growing up in the 90s. When Surge came back through Amazon, I got a pack. Loved it. Always thought it was incredibly dumb to bring back a soda exclusively through an online retail store… why not partner with Walmart or Target or some grocery store instead?

@starrdowning2554

Жыл бұрын

it had a comeback for like a year and was sold in walmarts and dollar trees. Now it is only at select burger kings in freestyle machines.

@Lifesizemortal

Жыл бұрын

I swear they re-released it under the name "Vault" which I also used to drink by the case in the mid-late 2000's

@rabbi4skin666

Жыл бұрын

I see it all the time. Only in Dollar General or local grocery stores, never in walmart/target or any other national chain around.

@Lifesizemortal

Жыл бұрын

@@sincityfox i think it was the added taurine

@graefx

Жыл бұрын

I thought Vault was different but that was also a favorite of mine growing up too. Vault definitely had a more early 00s new millenium branding vs Surge pure late 90s

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.

@GenerationX1984

Жыл бұрын

Society reached peak coolness in the '90s and early 2000s when rock and grunge music and Surge were popular. Things just aren't as cool anymore.

@boejudden9011

Жыл бұрын

Bro just said he drank 8 sodas a day and now the world is a crazy place

@shawnwatson1419

Жыл бұрын

@@boejudden9011 🤣 funny thing is i rarely if ever drink soda anymore.

@shawnwatson1419

Жыл бұрын

@@GenerationX1984 agreed!

@jarlwhiterun7478

Жыл бұрын

You gonna cry about the world while you beat off to the thought of drinking 8 Surge drinks in your moms basement?

BK wasn't the first to have Surge slushes, as I distinctly remember getting them from Six Flags all the time. In fact, the drink was so good I'd often go to the park just to feed the craving for one. What a time to be a teen.

Here in NE Ohio we have Surge available through Coke as a lower price option- not many stores stock it and Covid has disrupted things tremendously. I remember the look on a customers face- seeing it for the first time since he was a kid. This video explains why he was so wide-eyed and enamored.

@delrachdubal

Жыл бұрын

Where at in NE Ohio? I am in Central Ohio and cannot find it anywhere lol

I swear slurm (futurama) was based on surge

The latest rerelease Surge tasted like 7-UP. Classic Surge tasted very unique. It was as if the Ooze from the Ninja Turtles, or Nickelodeon Gak were something that was designed to be eaten. It had such an overly sweet, ambiguously citrusy flavor, that it almost didn't taste like citrus. God, I miss it. I'm about to track down an Urge to see what's up with that!

@ToyInsanity

Жыл бұрын

It was carbonated Ecto Cooler

@jimdino77

Жыл бұрын

Lol spot on description

@rexsexson5349

Жыл бұрын

I urge u 2

@nordgeit

Жыл бұрын

Urge here also looks suspiciously like dark pee, I once trolled a little with it by putting it in a pot and telling some idiots in the chat I was in I was boiling down pee I just wanted the urge syrup actually

@Tornado1994

Жыл бұрын

@@ToyInsanity Yes. It tasted VERY much like Ecto Cooler if it were a Soda!

I lived in Alpine, Texas, up until August of 2021. There is a produce market there called Porter's (2 to be exact, but I only ever went to the one on 5th St.). As of Aug of '21, you could still be Surge there. They sold them in the 16 oz tall boy size in the coolers by the registers. Oddly enough, they were not for sale in the room temp soda section with all the other soft drinks, only in the coolers. I'm not sure why exactly, but they were there consistently. And they were just as addictive as I remembered from my teenage years!

I drank this stuff constantly when they brought it back a few years ago, I was surprised at how good it was

Josta was my favorite mid to late 90s eXtreme soda. In the mid 2000s I became addicted to one of Coke's Surge replacements, Vault. Well, Vault Zer. That's the one I really would like them to bring back.

@montgomeryfitzpatrick473

Жыл бұрын

I miss Josta

@krawlspacekustoms

Жыл бұрын

I loved Josta.

Please do a vid on Vault Soda

Surge is my fav pop ever. It came back for a bit I WAS SO HAPPY, then it went away and left me sad

I loved Surge in high school. I was very sad when it was discontinued. Vault was pretty awesome too, and naturally they got rid of that too!

The weirdest thing I remember about Surge was that there was one of the branded vending machines in the middle of my local Kroger at the time. Also, really surprised Mello Yellow gets as much press in this, but no mention of Vault at all. (No disrespect to Mello Yellow, it's my personal favorite of the radioactive yellow-green citrus drinks, but Vault was totally aimed at the same market as Surge in those years it was absent.)

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

Жыл бұрын

Never heard of Vault, honestly. Surge was okay, but I don't miss it. I'm not a Mountain Dew fan, either.

@0Heeroyuy01

Жыл бұрын

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 Vault was basically the spiritual successor to surge, growing up riding motor bikes with my dad and his friends when we would stop to rest or refuel the bike its what me and my dad would get along with EDGE brank slim jims. EDGE being a WWE wrestler

@Keonyn

Жыл бұрын

I also love Mello Yello. When they replaced it with Surge I was pissed, especially since Surge tasted like someone watered down some Mello Yello, let it go flat and then added some rancid orange juice to it. That stuff was just awful.

@moo-snuckle

Жыл бұрын

@@0Heeroyuy01 whoa...your dad snapped into a slim jim and it was with edge ,and not the macho man randy savage? dude, i wouldnt say that out loud, its embarrassing lol

@0Heeroyuy01

Жыл бұрын

@@moo-snuckle the only thing embarrassing if your attempt a joke

So happy I’m Norwegian 😅 Urge is my favorite soda 😁 While as an exchange student in the US, I loved Vault (many years ago) been to America several times afterwards but haven’t found Vault again 😢

@InfamousCrimeLocations

Жыл бұрын

I tried urge for the first time in Norway 🇳🇴 I do miss it

@humorbegone

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been missing Vault for years and years 😢

@Fjdndjdbxjdndj

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately vault was discontinued several years ago. I am curious though, how close were they? I remember them being quite similar but there was a large gap between surge being discontinued and vault being released, and another large gap between the discontinuation of vault and the re release of surge

@0Heeroyuy01

Жыл бұрын

Vault was discontinued in like 2007 bro

@jacksonshoemaker2013

Жыл бұрын

Try a Full Throttle energy drink

I was in high school and administrators called an emergency assembly in the gym. When we got there it was some guys with ice chests handing out cans of surge and some crazy pep rally kind of thing. After we had little survey things to fill out. A while later they installed a couple of surge machines. Brilliant.

I was an elementary school student during the Age of Surge and i can tell you that our going berserk was definitely because of the marketing. Seeing the clips from Surge commercials brought back memories of me and my friends seeing them and deciding to recreate them as best as we could.

In 2020, my local gas station's coke cooler was stocked with Surge. No idea how that happened.

@Silvergun_Raven

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if they just ship out a few thousand cans to random areas every few months or so.

@ToyInsanity

Жыл бұрын

Can you check for us?

@steamingpileofspaghetti9755

Жыл бұрын

@@Silvergun_Raven yeah seriously, cause i remember trying it for the first time (cause it looked cool) some time in 2016-2017

@sn0fx

Жыл бұрын

yep, late 2019 I drove to another state because they were STOCKED.

The Surge at school issue was driven by Surge only pop machines being put next to the Coke machine in middle and high schools. Not only that, but a can of Surge was 25¢, while all the other pops were 50¢ a can. This was a very important part of the *Surge* in popularity of this soda at the schools I went to.

@maddog3902

Жыл бұрын

50c 20oz bottle VS a 1.00 20oz bottle, at my school, meant tons of kids got dubbed losers and/or white trash for guzzling the cheap stuff.

@RyanEglitis

Жыл бұрын

Exactly - nobody seems to mention this piece.

Growing up in the mid and late 90's surge was my go to drink..

I missed the original era of Surge but it came back briefly in like 2015-2016 and I did rather enjoy it when I got to try it out.

I'll always remember Surge from Monday Nitro when WCW announcer Tony Schiavone would pick up a bottle of Surge, put it to his mouth like he was going to drink it before going to commericals and however many times he did this the level of Surge in that bottle would never go down. Also, I'd love to see a video on OK Soda.

@crushedscouter9522

Жыл бұрын

He chugged the bottle every time and got a new one before the next break. That's why the bottle was always full. Kayfabe saved

Josta was my favorite 90’s soft drink that left us too soon. I’ve never tasted anything quite like it, and containing guarana, it probably could have been a hit if the marketing was a bit different.

@freesheep0

Жыл бұрын

Bawls cola flavor is the closest you can get now.

@MadeThisStuff

Жыл бұрын

Vitaminwater Power-C + Pepsi makes something with a similar flavor profile.

@freesheep0

Жыл бұрын

@@MadeThisStuff To the lab! I mean my kitchen.

@sn0fx

Жыл бұрын

@@freesheep0 bawls cola is so damn good, one of the most under-the-radar brands (been drinking for ~25 years)

@freesheep0

Жыл бұрын

@@sn0fx Ah a person of culture.

I love Surge good times. Surge had some of the coolest advertisements. Surge is the 1990's icon drink. Cool video. ^_^

Besides this, those Orbitz drinks that seemingly disappeared after 30 seconds had a smell that I can’t place and occasionally still get reminded of.

I loved Surge and I am so happy that some burger kings have it now! I wish it would be back out in stores regularly.

@gumball110

Жыл бұрын

They sell it in most gas stations

Around 1998 or so, my family went to Disney World. I forget what resort, but they had a free Surge Slushie machine in the lobby. Needless to say that won me over. What a time to be alive.

@CordeliaWagner

Жыл бұрын

Looking at all the fat adults with diabetis: 90s paved the way they waddle on...

they brought this back a few years ago and it was like a blast from the past

Surge? It finally came back 2 yrs ago in my state after being gone for so long! It’s back baby!

I drank them as a kid (occasionally) when my parents would buy them, but then they bought into the anti-Surge sentiment and quit buying it all together. I tried it again when they brought it back a few years back and it wasn’t bad. I just think the market is saturated with energy drinks and stuff now.

@ShenMerrick

Жыл бұрын

Energy drinks taste like shit, and a horrible for you. Yes, soda is bad for you...but energy drinks will destroy your heart, kidneys, and liver over night. Only a fool drinks those things.

Urge is a must every time i travel to Norway, compared to the sad sugar tax versions of soda the UK has now... Urge is like travelling back to my teenage years :D. Weird that you can't find exporters of the Norwegian variant!

In 4th grade, I distinctly remember coke sending a surge truck and rep to our school to promote the drink, then leaving a dedicated surge vending machine that sold only surge for 25 cents a can.

This brings back memories. I used to have a Surge alarm clock that I won. It was black with a green surge logo that lit up. What was cool was that the alarm clock would yell "Surge!!!". 🤣

Oh hell, the nostalgia is real. Always wondered what happened to surge.

Words cannot describe what joy it is to just walk into the local grocery store and pick up a tasty bottle of Urge. Whatever global franchises that we miss out on due to our tiny Norwegian market, we make it up with this everlasting beverage of ours. Yes I remember the ads but most importantly, it's my favourite carbonated drink next to 7Up. Also it went away here in Norway as well until the FB campaign brought it back and it's still around to this day, never to fade away ever again.

@unafflictedgaming

Жыл бұрын

Think it's possible to order that in the us? I really want to remember what these tasted like lol

@potterportraits

Жыл бұрын

@@unafflictedgaming I never drink mt don't. it hurts my kidneys. I bought a few cases of surge in 2014 when it came back out and several more up till 2018. I haven't had one since maybe 2020 but. I was just craving one. and am now very disappointed. you can get URGE way over priced online or through the norwegian food supply store for about $10 usd per .5 liter bottle

@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

Жыл бұрын

Fun Facts! "Norwegian Wood" is a good Song and Norwegian Wood tastes, better, than "Surge", regardless of how many Coats of Lead-Based Paint the Wood has!

I remember drinking surge. It was the summer of ‘98. My sisters friend Natalie had an Uncle Loui with a big farm in Northern California. We would drink surge & play popcorn on the giant trampoline. That’s when everyone takes there shoes off & puts them on the trampoline, and everyone jumps around. Shoes would be flying everywhere & if one touched you, you were out. Catching a shoe with your feet meant you could tag someone back in, if we were playing teams.

i won a Surge Screaming alarm clock that i used for a decade plus 😂. The Screaming "Surge" was the stuff of nightmares.

No mention of Vault? I'm like 95% sure it was a tweaked recipe of Surge with different branding. While we're on the subject of extreme 90s citrus sodas, I'd like to see a video on Kick.

@angelface925

Жыл бұрын

Or Citra 😊

@floyd2386

Жыл бұрын

@@angelface925 I'm not familiar with Citra.

@angelface925

Жыл бұрын

It was out around the same time. I remember flip flopping between the two. It reminded me of a sweeter citrusy sprite. It said it was a grapefruit flavored soda, but it was lighter than squirt. From my memory, if I'd been asked to recreate it, I'd mix 3/5 sprite with 2/5 squirt. May try that one day!

@floyd2386

Жыл бұрын

@@angelface925 Sort of sounds like 50/50, which was grapefruit and lime.

@angelface925

Жыл бұрын

@@floyd2386 I would love to try that!

Used to work with an older woman that loved Surge so much that's what everyone called her, it's all I ever saw her drink

Surge got me through many a night shift. It's very nostalgic for me. I don't drink soda anymore, being in my 40s.

I wish I could say I have fond memories of that Easter Sunday where me and my cousin (9 and 12) drank 4 liters of Surge. Alas, the sugar, caffeine, and extreme citrus flavor wiped out a bunch of those memory cells.

I would love to see an episode on Josta soda. It was only out for 1 or 2 years that I know of. It was great and weird.

@trontosaurusrex9532

Жыл бұрын

That was a good soda.

@norml.hugh-mann

Жыл бұрын

Longer than that, I remember it being around for around 5 or so....I loved it,

@infinity2z3r07

Жыл бұрын

with guarana lol

@bigcheezmoe

Жыл бұрын

It's sad that Josta did not survive longer than it did. The demand just wasn't there.

@jollygiant-xq1lk

Жыл бұрын

Lmao. I was in high school when josta came out. Was always sold out. Finally found out that the machine by band class and stage craft always had it. Still miss it. Surge too but josta more

Here in Norway, it's simply known as Urge, and still sold pretty much everywhere!

Bring surge back. I loved it.

I remember when it came back for a bit and a few of my friends were excited for it. Got it a few times, was still good.

Do a video about jolt cola!

The urge to surge🍀

They missed the perfect ad for Surge. 10 hours playing Goldeneye during finals weeks your Sophomore year.

When they switched from the rounded Surge font to the more 'digital' font, they had a scratch off game on the back of the label. My friends and I drank so much that we won like 10 cases, a few shirts, and a stupid bucket hat. Thats like giving kids speed and then sending them into the casino! Man, i miss that 😊

I was in middle school when surge came out. For weeks they gave out free 12pks of cans after school to anyone who wanted them. No limit. Whatever we could carry... when they finally started charging we paid 25 cents per can. Our school never tried to limit or restrict surge. From my perspective the product only died when they started charging regular price for them after everyone became use to them being dirt cheap. Coke missed the mark so hard. Surge could have only succeeded as discount mt dew.

@macysondheim

Жыл бұрын

More like Mountain Dew is the discount surge. Don’t be disrespecting surge & the surge creators like that. You’ll get handled…

I saw a reissue of Surge and Crystal Pepsi when I was visiting Texas in the summer of 2016. Had to buy both just because I grew up in the 90's.

I found Surge today at Burger King (Dunbar, PA to be exact). It was one of the options on the Coca-Cola Freestyle machine.

Do one about Citra next plz, that was my favorite to disappear.

@angelface925

Жыл бұрын

SAME! Squirt is a grapefruit soda, same as Citra. It's not as light tasting as Citra, but still a really close option 😊 give it a try

Damn, I have good memories of drinking a bunch of Surge and eating Nutrageous in the mid 90s when they both were new 🤩

i'd remember those commercials as a kid. i thought they were so stupid. but i still was drinking the soda😂

they never stopped making it. I still see it from time to time and buy it.

I really wish you guys would do an episode on this short lived soft drink called OK. It was another coke product but was only available between 1994 and 95. Its black and white 12-can boxes with red trim around the name OK looks kind of 90s kind of cool. They also had an interesting (during that time) phone-based marketing campaign, where you call this number to hear either weird “ok” jokes or other crazy, supposedly funny noises. Best of all, the drink itself tasted really good! It tasted like a mix of 7-up with Fanta.

@Tornado1994

Жыл бұрын

1993-94 actually. And it was Terrible.

I really fkn miss Sobe drinks. I looked it up online and i guess they still sell locally on where the drink is made but a lot of the flavors have been scaled down and that place is California. And yes, this narrator is the man!

@ColoradoStreaming

Жыл бұрын

Sobe was the shit back in the day. Looking back it had an insane amount of sugar though.

@danielsatter1805

Жыл бұрын

@@ColoradoStreaming worse than something like Fanta

i still remember the day they introduced Surge to my highschool with a Free Surge campaign where they gave a can to everyone who wanted one. It was pretty good stuff, though i don't know if it was any better than Mountain Dew. i drank it the rest of that school year whenever i could afford a can, and was a little sad when the overprotective parental backlash happened and it seemingly disappeared as suddenly as it had come.

I remember getting Surge Icee's at Circle K. Those were amazing.

I worked grave shift at a casino in 2007-2009. We had Surge for free on a fountain in our break room. That was the only place that I ever saw it after its main discontinuation in the early 2000s. Who knows if it was just old stock or what but it was always restocked when we’d run out.

@k_ir3868

Жыл бұрын

There was a fountain of surge? What the hell

I remember there was a school rumor that it shrunk "something" and everyone slowly stopped drinking surge, thing is I don't remember if I was in 6th or 8th grade but it was a little before they discontinued the drink. All I know is that 1 kid heard it from the high schoolers and never questioned if it was true or not and spread like a plague.

@ParisiticPictures

Жыл бұрын

The rumor I always heard the second Surge was seen or mentioned was that it killed Sperm count… I thought that’s what it was synonymous with. Was surprised that wasn’t mentioned… Rumors man…

I was 16 when Surge first came out. I remember really liking it at the time, and always felt really energized and hyper after drinking some. I think half of the reason was because of the sugar and caffeine content, the other half being psychological (because of the TV commercials). 😂

I remember being on summer break in 6th grade: I got an ad in the mail for a free 6 pack of Surge. It reminded me of a sweeter Mello Yello, but I did appreciate the free 6 pack.

Surge started the whole energy drink craze. I remember being a kid and talking about how surge had more caffeine than the dew.

@JoelSinn-sd5fn

Жыл бұрын

Jolt was around long before Surge, Surge never really had more caffeine than Dew, it was just advertised more crazily.

@myfavoritebigbootylatina6980

Жыл бұрын

yep started the worst addiction of my life with surge iv even kicked a sever meth addiction still cant kick my energy drink addiction..

@Cautela

Жыл бұрын

I remember it like this as well, kids were going nuts in school for some reason with surge before they took it away...

@buckrodgers1162

Жыл бұрын

@@JoelSinn-sd5fn, Yeah I remember Jolt. And that actually had in it's advertising that had double the caffeine than other sodas. It was part of it's charm.

@G3ZAAHS

Жыл бұрын

Mt dew had 4 more miligrams of caffeine.

I loved Surge, but honestly couldn't tell you what it tastes like lol. I'd love to see a video about Fruitopia or the Snapple Elements! Both were faves of mine when I was younger.

@ToyInsanity

Жыл бұрын

I promise it was carbonated Ecto Cooler. Which they say is tangerine.

@djhollis8841

Жыл бұрын

Dude I miss fruitopia so much

Absolutely love your videos. Would love it if you could make a video on Indian food brands. For example Indian sodas like campa cola, gold spot thums up etc.

The fastfood joints still sell surge here where I live. Both Firehouse subs and burger kings freestyle soda machines still have surge, even in other flavors like grape! Some regions can have exlusive deals to sell it, like my favorite MTN dew flavor is whiteout but they discontinued it but apparently some cities in other states have it still in their gas stations because of exclusive deals and small profit margins on it in that region.

Yup, that was me in the 90's. Chugging Mountain Dew and giving books the finger!

I loved Surge back in my high school days. It would get me through my gaming hours, and I was overjoyed when I say it in convenient stores for a short while. They should really bring this back.

@raiden72

Жыл бұрын

I was even happier when they sold it on Amazon but then for some reason it just disappeared. Why did they stop selling it!???

@Toosii2times

Жыл бұрын

Go Noles

@EncryptEdits

Жыл бұрын

It is back

@bobbygetsbanned6049

Жыл бұрын

@@raiden72 Because by only selling it on Amazon they limited their market to people who were willing to pay beer prices for a damn soda.

@The_Conqueeftador

Жыл бұрын

The rumor I grew up with was that surge caused erection issues. So men stopped drinking it.

Maaaan I hope they bring the hype back I totally forgot about getting these drinks I used to have to go to dollar tree because it was the only place they had surge in my area

Would love to see a video about 7-up Gold, that was one fantastic soft drink.

You confused me a bit, so here's a minor correction. Surge is still sold at BK, I drink it often. AL for anyone wondering. We have a coke bottling plant nearby, so maybe it's a local thing.

@kronostvx

Жыл бұрын

its not a local thing. these brainlets somehow missed it being brought back.

@oreoxDEATH

Жыл бұрын

What is BK and AL?

@jokeropsairsoft1706

Жыл бұрын

@@oreoxDEATH burger King. Alabama

The depressing thing about the surge comeback was that it was almost impossible to find. They said it was at places like Walmart and Circle K, but no. I could only get it at a bodega that was covered in roaches and smelled like rotten meat.

@JoelSinn-sd5fn

Жыл бұрын

Most Burger King's still have it. every time I go to a town with a Burger King, I stop and get some. I just got some last week.

@mikewlazlinski4309

Жыл бұрын

Dude. That's where surge lives my man.

@aridragonbeard745

Жыл бұрын

@@JoelSinn-sd5fn I haven't seen it in the Boston area, but there's only one or two that i go to with any frequency

@Karmy.

Жыл бұрын

I only ever found it at Dollar Tree

@Karmy.

Жыл бұрын

@@JoelSinn-sd5fn it's a total crapshoot on getting it imo, you can't select it as an option anymore in the app so you just have to get lucky that they just hand you an empty cup at the counter and that the machine isn't out of syrup and some of my local BKs actually got rid of the freestyle machine and for some reason Surge isn't available in the regular pop fountains

When I was a kid in the 90s at the YMCA they had a surge vending machine. I remember being thirsty and was so excited I had change to get a can... Turns out it was a Surge shirt rolled up inside. Great shirt but I was still thirsty.

Please do one of these on Vault. I feel like it was very under-appreciated.

Do fruitopia