#Coca Cola

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Video thumbnail — Cherry Coke - "Ostrich"
Food 1985–present

Cherry Coke

Coca-Cola's first flavored cola—and if you were a 90s kid, the wild graffiti-scribble can is the one burned into your memory. Loud, scribbly, teenage energy on aluminum.

Video thumbnail — 1994 Fruitopia psychedelic kaleidoscope TV commercial
Food 1994–2003

Fruitopia

Coca-Cola's psychedelic, tie-dyed fruit drink 'for the mind, body, and planet.' The trippy kaleidoscope vending machines and New-Age flavor names — Strawberry Passion Awareness — were peak-'90s marketing weirdness.

Video thumbnail — 1997 Surge "Feed the Rush" Drink Commercial
Food 1997–2003

Surge

Coca-Cola's aggressively marketed neon-green citrus soda that positioned itself as the extreme-sports answer to Pepsi's Mountain Dew. Heavy on caffeine and attitude, Surge fueled the mayhem marketing of the late 90s before vanishing from shelves in 2003 — only to surge back after a passionate fan movement brought it to Amazon in 2014.

Video thumbnail — Vintage Tab Cola 'Beautiful People' TV Commercial (1978)
Food 1963–2020

TAB

The hot-pink can of Coca-Cola's first-ever diet drink — a saccharin-tart cola with a fanatically loyal following. Once the best-selling diet soda in America, TAB hung on for decades as a cult relic long after Diet Coke stole its crown.

Video thumbnail — 1994 OK Soda commercial
Food 1994–1995

OK Soda

Coca-Cola's aggressively ironic mid-'90s experiment: a soft drink built on market research showing that "OK" was the most recognizable word on Earth. The gray neo-noir cans were illustrated by alternative-comics artists Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns, the slogan promised only that "Things are going to be OK," and the whole thing was dead within a year.