#Soft Drinks

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Video thumbnail — 7up dnL Willie the Leprechaun
Food 2002–2006

dnL

Take the 7 UP logo and flip it upside down: dnL. Take the drink and flip it too — green soda in a clear bottle instead of clear soda in a green one, with caffeine instead of none and an extra citrus kick. The most committed-to-the-bit soft drink of the early 2000s lasted four years and left behind a small, devoted cult.

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 — Britney Spears - Pepsi Blue Commercial 2002
Food 2002–2004

Pepsi Blue

The electric-blue, berry-flavored soda PepsiCo pushed with a huge early-2000s marketing blitz — Britney-era ads, Papa Roach tie-ins, and a taste somewhere between cotton candy and berry. Gone by 2004.