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I'm pretty sure it was discontinued years ago, but I LOVED Citra. It was kind of like mixing fresca with orange soda, but it wasn't too sweet.

I love Fresca, but I prefer Squirt, another sort-of citrus flavored soda.

I drink almost no pop/soda at all anymore, but about once a year for nostalgic purposes I have to have a Faygo redpop.
Not even vaguely flavored like any fruit I know of, though they say they use every red fruit.
We would get it at the 7-11 as kids, or in glass bottles to take to the beach with us. I can't really claim to love it anymore, but the taste now and again is enough to being back fun memories.

I have an unhealthy relationship with grape-flavored soda. When the craving hits, I would kill for a glass. Otherwise, meh.

Next on the list would be Sonic cherry limeades and Archer Farms blood orange soda at Target.

I have fond memories of going to Farrell's, an ice cream parlor, on my birthday drinking a Green River (I have NO clue what flavor that really is) and having a horn blaring the delivery of my banana split by a soda jerk.

*mourn* Ruby Red Squirt :(...

More than a few years back, Fresca mixed with white wine was our after hours light drink of the night. Add in some cranberry juice and you had our most requested bridal party punch. Nix the wine; just cran and fresca was one of my favorties when recovering from giving birth. It's my option for the craving I get for citrus (grapefruit juice alone in does a # on my stomach) and paired with other juices/fruit sodas, makes me feel like I'm kind of being good.

I just did a search- I remember it now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_(soft_drink)

Big Red, a Texas fave....absolutely delicious over vanilla ice cream (Blue Bell, of course) for a Big Red Float.

Caffeine throws me off, and I prefer to eat my calories, so I get excited by any unorthodox caffeine free diet soda (i. e. diet sodas that are not diet coke). Fresca is great, but I usually have to specifically pick it out at the supermarket to get to drink it! Diet cherry limeades at Sonic are a treat too.

I love Fresca and just discovered that it mixes so very well with Vodka and Cranberry to have a very refreshing summer drink. I also like to use it when I make Sangria to add just a bit of sparkly fizz...

Black cherry soda! I like Stewarts brand. I'm also a big fan of orange soda. I've loved it ever since I was a kid.

Pineapple soda is one of the strangest I've tried, its pretty popular here in Philly, I'm not sure if its a local thing or not.

Fresca is so refreshing and delicious. I need to buy some tomorrow.

in and around st. louis they have vess soda. many flavors. i'm not sure if they are all still around (i don't live there any more) but i liked peach, pineapple, cream, grape, and orange called whistle and most of all strawberry.
also, a soda that i think is artificial and natural is ski. the best.

i love fresca too, but I also like to just mix my own - poland spring sparkling water + any of the fruit juices from Trader Joe's. Or go alcoholic and add plum wine to my sparkling water!

SUN DROP

oh, do i love artificially flavored drinks. here are my favorites: grape nehi, bark's root beer, dr. bronner's black cherry, jarritos brand tangerine soda, desnoes and geddes ginger ale {which i drank nonstop in jamaica 32 years ago and haven't found since} and orange fanta.

but i don't drink them anymore... sigh...

i had no idea fresca came in flavors. From the ages of about 11-15, that is literally all i drank. and there was some weird point when it got very scarce here in nyc and my mom would stock up on it whenever she was able to find it. somehow i don't drink soda at all now. it wasn't even a conscious decision, my fresca phase just fizzled out and i never went back to diet coke, which is all my mom drinks. i don't like the fizzy full feeling soda gives. ah well. those were the days.

I'm a Fresca addict, too. In fact, I posted a recipe for Fresca cake on my blog earlier this year.

Welch's grape soda and Mountain Dew. Kinda trashy of me, but that's how I roll.

Nehi Peach is hands down my favorite unnatural soda ever. If I cold find some here in New Mexico, I'd be a very happy girl.

Vess Peach Soda
Vess Cream Soda (if it's not bright pink it's not really cream soda)
Jones FuFu Berry Soda

About 10 years ago, my dad took us to a "soda pop museum" in LA where you can buy the exhibits. :) We tried Green River there, that was tasty.

I love Jones Green Apple soda, mostly because it reminds me of the copious amounts "melon" soda I had in Japan. (Melon soda doesn't taste melon. Mostly like sugar. Very tasty.)

Mountain Dew, or its low-brow store brand counterpart, Mountain Breeze. YUM.

I too am a lover of Fresca, but I also like Mountain Dew Big Red.

I am obsessed with fresca...obsessed

Welch's Grape! It's the best...

vimto. you've probably never heard of it, it's found commonly in south asia and the middle east. I can't even describe the flavor...cherry? overwhelmingly sweet but amazing. wow.

Diet Sunkist forever!

Nesbitts

I love Fresca. And it's even better with tequila. I'm also a sucker for anything artificial grape flavoured. I remember having the best grape soda in southern NJ when our family vacationed there in the 80's. Unfortunately I don't remember the name. I also loved, loved Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer and still love any soda that tastes of wintergreen or sarsaparilla. When I was a kid, we used to go to the Pop Shoppe. They had the best unnatural flavours.

Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper

Go here to find what you want:

http://www.sodapopstop.com/home.cfm

I'm a cream soda and birch beer girl. ; )

Imma Cheer Wine girl!!!

I'm really enjoying the SodaMix Fountain Mist flavor from the Soda Club USA site. It's a Mountain Dew knock off and very tasty.

Diet Squirt (grapefruit) and Diet Vernors (ginger ale)!

Squirt, Fresca, or my favorite.... 50/50! Haven't seen it in years.

D&G Jamaican Kola Champagne

Mountain Dew Code Red

Dr. Browns Cream Soda

Dr. Browns Key Lime Soda

Add me to the other Fresca fans, with Diet Squirt a close second. I also use it as a mixer, with vodka and a squirt of lime.

@sunbyrne and coolname: They still do make Vess! My mother is from St. Louis, and we grew up on the stuff. We would bring cases back every time we visited. I live in Central Illinois and can get it here, too, so now they bring it back when they come to visit me. Our favorite treat when we were little was a Vess Red Cream soda float with vanilla ice cream. Sooooo good!

Polar Diet Orange Dry.

As a Texas girl, when I drink the occasional coke, it's always Dr Pepper!! But in the fruity category, Big Red is always a good way to go.

I share your passion for Fresca, but age has its advantages, at least for those who can enjoy their memories, true or not. As I remember it, Fresca was even better in its original formulation, which included cyclamate. Cyclamate was ultimately banned from the market because a rat eating its weight in cyclamate might get cancer -- there was a law, the so-called Delaney Amendment, that banned from food any additive that caused cancer when ingested in any amount. Since that was almost everything but exempted substances historically added like saccharine, it had the ironic effect of forcing the substitution of something that tasted worse but caused more cancer. Coca-Cola pulled Fresca from the market until aspartame was approved, then reformulated it, and the new stuff is great, but at least in golden memory the old stuff was even better. I bought a large quantity when they announced it was being pulled, but it had a limited shelf life and then there was no more. It's a little like the sugar/corn syrup story, I guess, except this substitution was prompted by a berserk regulation;

Also Fresca. When the new flavors debuted a few years ago, MY MOM BOUGHT OUT THE GROCERY STORE. I was born to love it.

I am one of those Diet Coke addicts. However, we do have a pretty awesome NATURAL sparkling water - Klarbrunn - made here in Wisconsin. Just carbonated water and natural flavor. It doesn't have sweeteners, just a touch of lemon or lime or black cherry or raspberry, so it doesn't taste like someone poured a ton of sugar in it.

I don't like their "citrus" flavor though, without sweetener it tastes bitter. I think I'd rather have a Sprite or 7-Up than drink that flavor.

It's a tradition local to the Allentown PA region, but I LOVE A-Treat soda. It's actually not unnaturally flavored--at the very least, they use cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, and it's so, so good.

I really like Fresca. I remember when I went to Naples there was Coke (of course) and Fresca everywhere. There's citrus all over that part of Italy and I guess that's where they get some of the grapefruits for it...at least in Europe. So Fresca reminds me of Italy.

I'm not a big soda-drinker otherwise, though. I do have a weakness for cherry-flavored sodas (I used to have a Cherry Coke Zero habit) but I generally would rather just have tea or water. I am a sucker for unusual-flavored anything though and that definitely extends to soda. The last unusual flavor I tried was maple. It didn't really work in soda.

I'd have to second Frank's Black Cherry Wishniak and add the gone but not forgotten Frank's Extra Gold Ginger Ale. Recall Frank's Cream soda was darn good too.

Cherokee Red.

I love all perversions of grapefruit but my favorite is Ting! Marketed as "a little island sunshine in a bottle" and sold from a deli on 14th and 4th.

I love Stewart's Key Lime. I haven't ever seen in it VA, though. I miss Wegmans :(

Has anybody ever tried the weird flavors of Jones soda that come in mini-cans for Halloween? My husband and I tried some of the candy corn flavor last year, and it tasted like carbonated fake maple syrup. The first sip wasn't so bad, but the second was a little much.

So many great "unconventional" sodas:

Green River, Big Red, Crush Grape, Fanta Strawberry, Nehi peach, and Faygo Rock n Rye.

Why did this post come at a time when I am trying to limit my soda consumption? *Sigh*

PC makes both grapefruit pop and a fresca knockoff - both good but different. Ting is definitely the best for grapefruit flavour.

I have tasted all three popular grapefruit-flavored sodas: Fresca, Squirt, and Citra. Citra had the most flavor out of the three. In 2004, Citra became "Fanta Citrus". I haven't tried Fanta Citrus yet, but I really hope its the same recipe as original Citra.

Desnoes & Geddes (better known as D&G) Kola Champagne, Ting (both Jamaican sodas from my childhood)

I heart Fresca too (and my mom is the ultimate Fresca addict!), but my absolute favorite is Diet Sunkist. I had a huge orange soda craving while pregnant with my daughter three years ago and have been hooked ever since. I'm pregnant with my second child now and am staying away from caffeine, so Sunkist is out... Diet Fanta Orange is caffeine free and quite a good substitute, though. Also LOVE Sundrop (a Carolina thing) and, when I could find it a few years ago, Diet Grape Crush.

Oh and Aranciata is also a must!

So glad others like Polar! Diet Polar cranberry dry for me...
Polar (based in Worcester, MA I think) still makes birch beer...and golden ginger ale - much better than "dry" ginger ale. Moxie isn't bad as long as it's cold.

I was a Fresca addict for a few years, and I still enjoy it occasionally. Then I discovered flavored selzter. When I lived in Colorado all I drank was Canada Dry Cranberry-Lime Seltzer. Sounds odd, but was it refreshing, and as I've gotten older (alas!) I don't enjoy sweet drinks as much as I used to. Now I live in St. Louis now I can't get it here. However, I've found LaCroix "Pamplemousse" seltzer, which has the grapefruit taste of Fresca, but without the sugar or artificial sweetner. Does anyone out there like flavored seltzers?

In South Florida/Miami there are three sodas in particular that I'm nuts for, and now that I live in Arizona they are pretty hard to find (though I've occasionally found them): Jupiña (pineapple soda), Materva (yerba mate soda) and Ironbeer (I have no idea what kind of soda this is, it's dark like cola but is kinda fruity with a bit of a bite). And since I, too, prefer to CHEW my calories, I was thrilled to find diet versions of all of these (in Florida of course). So those are my must-haves when I visit my parents in Miami.

OH! There is another one that is really good too, Coco Rico - a coconut-water soda.

Seriously - no amount of Fresca, Sierra Mist, Diet Mt. Dew or Diet Sunkist will ever top my South Florida favorites.

I love Barq's diet root beer - but they've stopped making it! (At least in the 2-liter bottle - I can still find the 12-packs of cans occasionally.) Everything I love eventually disappears. Companies should pay me not to like their fringe products so they won't fail.

BobbieAnne, it's TAHITIAN Treat and is made by Canada Dry. I know this because I, too, used to love it!

First of all, I love this post & reading all the comments - so many unknowns to me!
Fresca, LOVE! Just tried the Black Cherry which was excellent! Never thought to use it as a mixer!
Polar Orange Dry, which we picked up when our usual Lemon Seltzer was out; we didn't realize it was pop but loved it!
Tahitian Treat, good memories with this one! Somehow delicious with its sickening sweetness!
Ale-8-One, I can't believe it hasn't come up yet! It's an excellent ginger ale with a pun-y name. Maybe just a regional thing but you could only find it in KY where it's made forever. Then a few years ago, they started to allow it to be sold "'cross the river" in Cincy and southern OH. I loved this stuff!
Canada Dry Green Tea, a new favorite! Great combo (though a bit sweet) & such sparkling goodness!

I am not really big on soda anymore BUT last summer I was in Nags Head, NC and found the famous Cheerwine, a NC thing. It is fizzy cherry-flavored soda, not cherry cola, just cherry soda. It is out of this world delicious.

Last week when we were close to the border of NC and leaving for WV, I hit a supermarket and bought myself a 12 pack to take home to NJ. We can't get it here. It is my favorite soda in a really long time.

Otherwise I really like Cherry 7Up but they don't sell it in cans around here, just 2 liter bottles, which I have no room for in the refrigerator. I also love Crystal Light Wild Strawberry (comes in a powder that you mix with water) and their Citrus stuff too. Excellent mixed with some green tea! I make fusions of all kinds of things.

I have never liked Fresca. When I was a child, all the skinny cool girls drank the Diet Fresca and that was all they drank (that and lots of folks drank Tab) - neither of which I could get a tasting for. My favorite soda at the time was Pepsi - just plain Pepsi. To this day, I prefer plain Pepsi over anything Coke, don't know why. BUT I prefer Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi.