Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Five Alive! from the carton not from the frozen can of concentrate

Chocolate milk, Kool-Aid, Fizzies

I have always loathed and feared carbonation, and I seriously dislike sweet and sticky things, and did even as a child. Therefore I have never tried coke or sprite or anything like that, and although I like fruit, I don't like fruit juice. So when I was a kid I mostly drank milk and water. I recall being horrified by those drinks that are powdered colour mixed with water ('purple' flavour - ugh) and by even the smell of things like Ribena ('black currant' - argh). Actually, even the memory of these things is making me feel nauseus.

I had apple or grape juice for breakfast, milk at school and for supper (chocolate when I could convince my mom), and then "extra" drinks included Quench, which was kind of like KoolAid, Vernors or other pop.

We drank the cheaper version of Kool-Aid--Wyler's. And for special occasions, like camping, we might get store brand Red Pop. I did drink plenty of water from the garden hose, too. :)

I drank milk like crazy, then years later became lactose intolerant. We also drank a lot of apple juice that came in big cans. My mom didn't allow sugary drinks or soft drinks in the house and I didn't like soft drinks because the bubbles hurt my young, sensitive mouth (but I didn't loathe and fear the carbonation like Caley did :) ). Once I got used to carbonation the sweetness and stickiness of soft drinks turned me off tpp. No gin and tonics or rum and cokes for me, but I'll happily take it in sangria. Mmmm... sangria.
What was the question?

Also a child of the 50s and 60s, we were pretty much relegated to apple & orange juice, milk and tap water - except when we were at my grandparent's house. Nana & Ausin's was the home of exotic [to us] drinks. Fresh-from-the-tree peach milkshakes, cold Hires from the cellar, limeade with crushed cherries and watermelon sodas, blended in the Waring and fizzed with some tonic. All sipped through glass straws topped with a big red bubble, meant to look like a cherry.

And the one glorious moment on a baking Salt Lake City afternoon, when Ausin a thimbleful of his icy Coors' beer into a cordial glass so that I could take a sip. The heat of the day, the sound of Ausin's voice, the sparkly, grownup glass, the tingly bubble of the beer and that new, complicated taste - forever emblazoned onto my 5-year-old brain.

I liked having Shirley Temples because they made me feel older (even though they're the sure sign of youth in actuality.)

Hillary
Chew on That

I drank 2% milk religiously - pretty much with every meal. I rarely got to have juice, and no sugar drinks until I was older. Though I went through a soda phase as a pre-teen, I never really developed a taste for it.

I never liked soda, so my occasional sweet drink was usually iced tea. That's pretty unusual as a kid. Every once and I while, still love a Yoo-Hoo!!

Tonic water. My mother wouldn't buy pop (soda to you--I grew up in Canada) but she'd always let my sister and me have leftover tonic from parties. I really acquired a taste for it (tho I like gin in mine now). My sister complained it tasted like earwax.

Oh I forgot about Quik! I love nostalgic topics like this....thanks JEP!

I was a childhood snob. I drank shirley temples. Mocktails of all kinds.
Old coke like it was water. Orangina, apple beer and cranberry juice.
When my parents had company if we were out of grenadine syrup I would use tahitan treat soda with maraschino cherry and orange slice.
I occasionally had a cold stewarts root beer or a frank's black cherry wishniak.

Alaina---interesting link --I had never heard of Suicides---again, my very sheltered life (:

The only soda we had was ginger ale in case one of us had an upset stomach...really. Whole milk and orange juice and Nestle's chocolate Quik in the winter.

O suicides... I still like them occasionally... Cherry Limeades were amazing... Since I hate the taste of milk, orange juice was my breakfast drink of choice... And Ting from the visiting Jamaican ministers...

Yoohoo & chocolate milk made with Bosco.