- Um--
- Mm-- - Boy.
- It's got some bite
to it, y'all! <i> ( music playing )</i> Studies show that
if you're from the midwestern
part of United States, you call it "pop."
if from the South,
you call it all "Coke," and if you're from everywhere
else, you call it "soda." Whatever you call it,
we're drinking it today,
because it's time for... All right, we're gonna be taste
testing some discontinued sodas that we bought on eBay, which means
they are aged. - Vintage.
- Mm. - Or probably horrible.
- Right. We will then judge
whether we should
bring it back or say,
"Nah, that's wack! Leave it discontinued." - Yes, okay--
- And let's get to the-- - Let's get to the first one.
- Yeah, first one. Coca-Cola introduced
Vault in 2005. It's a citrus soda-
energy drink hybrid, and we have a acquired
the zero-calorie version,
Vault Zero! We paid $24
for two disfigured bottles. - Dang!
- This is one of them. They have been warped
over time. This is what happens
to Vault as it ages. - I-- it's like--
- Negative pressure. The bottle is just-- it's just choking
the beverage. Now this may explain it,
'cause in 2006, Vault Zero
was reformulated in response to a lawsuit
over allegations that the ingredients
in Vault Zero had the potential, in certain circumstances,
to combine to form
carcinogenic compounds. The expiration date
on our bottles is
November of 2006. - What the crap?
- So we've got 12 years of well-aged
carcinogenic compounds. - I'm so thirsty all
of a sudden.
- Yeah! But I can't--
all right. So-- man! I feel like I need
to be careful
when I open it. You're not gonna get cancer
by opening it. - No. I--
- We gotta drink it to do that. No, I think that
the bottle is gonna go-- - And then it's gonna--
- Well, let's see. - Make those sound effects
when you do it.
- Okay, let's see. Okay. No,
it's got negative pressure. It's not gonna--
it's pulling things into-- - Oh, gosh!
It's permanently warped.
- "Oh, gosh" what? - Yeah.
- It's not popping back out. It's coming-- it's coming out--
No, permanently warped. - It's permanently warped.
- Okay. I've been really
watching my figure, so I only drink diet
carcinogenic compound. So-- Really glad
that we got the Zero version. - Pour yourself some of this.
- It's nice and cold. ( sighs )
Okay. Looks like Mello Yellow
or Mountain Dew, but almost has
a more neon-- almost like
something that-- that the Ninja Turtles
would've had to dispose of. Yeah. Radioactive. - ( sniffing )
- Very citrusy. No surprise there. Smells like cleaner. It would taste less like cleaner
if it was carbonated. It has a Powerade-- - a very Poweradey taste to it.
- Yeah. Right. - Um--
- Um-- I-- to me,
it tastes fine. I think I'm going
with the packaging. - whether it should be brought
back or not for this one.
- Oh, okay. - Aesthetics.
- 'Cause that's
pretty cool, man. Look at that "V". It's got a "V" on it.
Zero, V Zero. That's what they should call it
when they bring it back again. V Zero. I don't think
they're bringing it back again. - V-Zero. No, it's up to us.
- Ooh, don't say that. If we say it's gonna
be brought back,
they're gonna bring it back. I think there's just
too many products
similar to this that don't necessarily
cause cancer. - They just might cause cancer.
- That's a good point. You know, you don't wanna know
for sure you're getting cancer. Uou wanna know there's a chance
you're getting cancer. - True.
- So, because of that-- Back in 1994, Starbucks
released Mazagran Spiced
Coffee Soda. Now, we paid $67.78
for this drink... Hmm. ...in this
collectable bottle that expired in 1996. The year we graduated
from high school. The eBay seller
described this soda as, <i> "A mint, unopened, extremely
rare pre-Frappuccino brand</i> <i> bottle of Starbucks Mazagran
Spiced Coffee Soda.</i> <i> This is the very first ready
to drink, consumer tested,</i> <i> but not nationally released
item in Starbucks
brand history.</i> <i>I wouldn't recommend opening or
attempting to drink the
contents</i> <i> of this collectible bottle."</i> You know what we should do?
We should open and drink-- Both: The contents of
this collectible bottle. - Yep!
- Oh! There was some fizz. Oh, there was.
Just a teeny. - Just a little teeny?
- Oh! Just a teeny. - Let me--
- Smell that. - Mazagran!
- Mmm. Wow! - Mazagran!
- Carbonated coffee. Pour it.
I'm pretty-- I never smelled
Mazagran before. - Excited about this.
- Until now. Come on, where's your--
where's your form? Oh, look at that!
Ooh! It still got bubbles. Yeah, it's got
a head on it. That--
that's quite. That's some strong
carbonation. Look at that.
It's still there. From 1996. That was back when Starbucks
were only on every other corner. - Right. Mm-hmm.
I remember those days.
- All right. - Dink it.
- Has a chocolatey smell to it. - Ooh, it really does!
- Mmm. Maybe it turned
into chocolate. That's odd. - But--
- It's like holiday-ish to me. And that's a good thing! - ( smacking lips )
- It's good! I don't find anything
off-putting about this at all. I might drink the whole bottle
when no one's watching. You think
there's pudding in it? - I don't know why I'm holding
my glass like this.
- Now am I crazy in-- We've had carbonated coffee
on the show, in "Buy It Before--
"Try It Before
You Can Buy It." - And it taste a lot like this.
- Yeah. But this has
a vanilla taste. - Whoo!
- This tastes better
than the one we made. Link:<i> This is good! </i>
Both:<i> Bring it back!</i> Next up, we've got one
I never remember hearing about. 7UP Gold! Not even the touch
of King Midas could've
saved this soda failure developed by Dr Pepper. It launched and was
also discontinued in 1988. We paid $16.52
for this bottle that expired
in May of 1989. Dang! This is an old soda, man! - Yeah, it is.
- We were 10 years old, which means
you weren't born. I was 12, actually, in '89.
You were probably 11. - No, '88
when it first came out.
- Oh! This-- - It expires in '89.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- 7UP Gold? - Made by Dr Pepper.
- It doesn't look gold. - It looks--
- Black. Was it gold at one point? Maybe it's-- It's cinnamon flavored. This may be some
of the oldest soda ever consumed
on the internet. And you're here for it. - Thank you.
- Absolutely
no carbonation left. I'm telling you,
them Mazagran people,
they got something figured out. I don't know how they kept
that carbination in there
for 30 years, but they did. Or 20 years,
however many years it was. Mmm. - Smells--
- Oh, wow! Smells caramely
but kinda rancid. Doesn't smell like
something you should drink,
it smells like something that-- Medicinal. - Yeah.
- But again if there's-- It smells like a byproduct
of a process. You know what I'm saying? Let's taste it. Dink it, drink it. Oh! The cinnamon! Cinn-- cinnamon! - Ooh, spicy!
- Comes late. - Whoo!
- Comes late but it-- Ah! It-- I mean, it's flat.
You gotta get past that. I think probably-- my guess is that this bottle
achieved some sort of stasis, like 20 years ago, and it's just been
exactly the same since then and it will forever
be this way. 'Cause it just tastes
like flat soda. It doesn't taste
like something spoiled or bacteria got in there
or anything. - Yeah.
- It just tastes like old soda that you could tell
somebody was trying something that definitely
had no chance of working. But the cinnamon-y
quality is like... - it's subtle.
- Subtle. Subtle cinnamon, that's what they should've
called it. - A subtle suprise.
- Subtle Cinnamon from 7UP. I think that's--
I think it needs to come back just because
that slogan is so good. "7UP with a subtle
cinnamon surprise." Subtle cinnamon surprise! - Yeah!
- So should we bring it back? - Link:<i> Yeah, let's
bring it back. </i>
- Rhett:<i> Yeah, bring it back!</i> Following the release
of 2008's Mountain Dew Raspberry Citrus
Voltage infused with ginseng-- - You remember that.
- That was a mouthful. They released
this diet version-- Bring it in, Rhett.
In 2011. Now we paid $26.20,
including shipping for this can which expired
in June of 2011. Both:
"Diet Moutain Dew Voltage
Raspberry Citrus Diet Dew." "With other natural flavors." It's got "Diet Dew"
on it twice just in case you forgot
what it was when you started reading
that really long title. They go,
"Let's put it in the end, too.
They'll forget it's diet!" I mean, this is
a niche soda, man. Let's pour it. Now, there's rumors
floating around that even though it is certainly
discontinued in America that there's some place on Earth
this is still sold. And we started--
Ooh, it's got some effervescent. It's got some fizz.
Got some fizz. - We reached out
to Mountain Dew
- Ooh, it's blue! in all different
countries, and the only place
that responded was
Moutain Dew Australia, which told us that
they did not sell it
in Australia. So now we know
it's not there. Look at that!
That is beautiful! Low cal, too. Love lookin'-- drinking stuff
that looks unnatural. It's cool.
Got a cool can, man. Ooh, smell it!
This has got all - its initial properties.
- It's very candyish. It's smells like a-- smells like a sour treat. - Sour treat. Sour Patch.
- Sour Patch Kid. - It's like
Sour Patch Kid blood.
- Dink. Drink it.
The blood of a Sour Patch-- You cut the head off
of a Sour Patch Kid, - this is what you get.
- Drain it. It's nice to experience
carbonation again
in this episode. - Um--
- Mm. - Boy!
- It's got some bite to it,
ya'll. I think it just needs a couple
extra words in its name and then I'd like it. You know,
if you gave me just some more descriptors in the name,
I'd be all over it. - You know what?
- It's not bad. It tastes like a fizzy,
melted freezer pop. Freezer prop. I just wanted to say-- make it look like I knew
what you were saying. But now that you actually
heard me say it-- - Freezer pop. It's not bad.
- You know, like a melted-- - Like a melted blue
Chilly Willy.
- Blue Chilly Willy. Yeah. - Does it or does it not?
- It's not bad. - Honestly, it's not bad.
- The flavor-- The flavor's
kinda weak, though. I think it's just the flavor's
died a little bit over the past couple of years.
You know? This thing is-- This particular ones were
like six or seven years old? - Yeah.
- So I think that
this could work. I mean, I don't drink this
kinda drink anymore, but if I did make decisions
and drink this kinda drink I'd drink this kinda drink. - I'd drink this drink.
- Voltage. Rhett:<i> Bring it back!</i> So there you have it. Three out of four of our sodas
are making a comeback. - Yeah! Thanks to us!
- Well, we'd like 'em to. And thanks to you for liking,
commenting, and subscribing. You know what time it is. Hi! I'm Molly from England. And it's time to spin
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