Earlier today I made my way over to Shaolin (Staten Island) to pick up my car and bring back to Brooklyn. When I arrived I was hot--hot enough to enter the seedy bodega near the entrance to the SI Ferry and pick up a cold drink. It had been a while since I was able to enjoy the refreshing relief that comes with a 7up, so I had my heart set on that beverage.
I went in and had trouble locating a bottle. Eventually I found one and thought, "Green?" I knew that 7up had gone and made their logo all crazy and upside-down like, but I didn't realize that their beverage had become Hulk-colored. I bought it and everything tasted the same, but then I realized that it was now caffeinated. 7up had always been caffeine-free, but they must have changed it as a part of their rebranding. This makes little to no sense to me.
Something about this new, hip 'tude struck me the wrong way. Also, I realized that there is 75ish grams of sugar in a 20 ounce bottle and that is ridiculous. So, I am dropping what was once the pure, beautiful, clear lemon-lime beverage that was 7up and moving to something similar and probably diet. I'll give Sierra Mist a go and support my aunt, who is a loyal employee of Pepsi Bottling Company. I could try dropping soda pop altogether, but that would clearly be absurd.
Drop soda pop? Puh-lease.
07/23/03 11:38 PM
bro bro bro!!!!!!,7up didnot change ,what you had consume was a new line of 7up ,like cherry and diet,the new flavor is called dnl upside down 7up its like a mountain dew or better i think,also your place of purchase needs to order 7UP 20OZ BOTTLES QUICK .SO DONT WORRY IT HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN OFF THE MARKET .7UP HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1924 AND ITS HERE 4=EVER
04/13/04 9:49 PM
7up is the worst lemon-lime drink on the market today. It's been around since 1924 and was good back then, but it hasn't changed for 80 years and new technology has made it possible for other soda companies to come out with better and brighter lemon-lime soft drinks leaving 7up in the dust. 7up tastes like shit compared to Pepsi's new Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist is the best lemon lime drink on the market today and definitely doesn't taste like that 7up shit from the 20's. It has the perfect crispness to it, while 7up tastes flat and more like a lemony water drink than a soda. I have one thing to say...SIERRA MIST RULES!!!
05/07/04 5:44 PM
I have recently just started drinking pop again, after 5 years of going without. I like 7-UP personally, because it is caffeine free and is not as carbonated as sprite or siera mist. I think that if the soda has been around since the 20's, and is still going strong, then the soda speaks for it's own self!! Though the dnL has caffeine, once in a great while, I will buy one and enjoy it, it truly is a great soda!
08/11/04 12:09 AM
Sierra Mist is disgusting! It is too "thick" tasting, whereas 7UP and Sprite have a fresher, cleaner taste. Plus 7Up has been the standard lemon-lime drink since the 1920s! That really does prove it's lasting ability while others like Sierra Mist may come and go.
Plus, in various recipes they request 7Up, not Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist is not at all good for making flavored drinks, or anything else for that matter.
Pepsi will regret the day they went over to the crappy SM.