Soda Diversification

[ralphmelton]

I've been noticing a profusion of new soda flavors recently:
Vanilla Coke
Lemon Coke
Pepsi Twist
Pepsi Blue
Wild Cherry Pepsi
Mr. Green
Code Red Mountain Dew
Dr Pepper Red Fusion
Sprite Remix

(I'm probably missing a few. What other flavors have come out recently?)

I am reminded of the explosion of species just before the end of the Precambrian, and the explosion of dinosaur species near the end of the Cretaceous. The analogical implication of a catastrophe following the explosion of diversity is probably not justified.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Sprite remix? What in the world is that?

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

"tropical".

http://www.spriteremix.com exists, but gives errors on my browser.

And apparently there's frou-frou capitalization: "Sprite ReMix".

[katmandu07.livejournal.com]

Theres also a White Fire or Wild Fire Mountain Dew...its orange.

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm not sure I've seen Mountain Dew LiveWire (who comes up with these names?) in stores yet. But I haven't been looking.

[40sw.livejournal.com]

wild cherry pepsi has been around for awhile now though- like years

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

Clearly, I haven't been paying attention.

I discovered that Pepsi Twist dates back to 2001, too, from this effusive history: http://www.pepsi.com/help/faqs/faq.php?category=ads_and_history&page=highlights