Vanilla Coke

schwarcw

What happened to vanilla flavored Coke? I used to buy the diet variety. It was one of the flavors that I could keep in the fridge without worrying that my lovely wife would chug down a twelve pack while I was at work. I noticed the supermarkets were out of stock around Christmas. Now, they've introduced cherry-vanilla coke. I like this flavor, but I would prefer plain vanilla or plain cherry. I've been stung by the mass marketing consultants again. Maybe sales of this flavor were sagging, I dunno. I'm dissapointed and drowing my sorrows in lime flavored Coke (my second favorite)

audiobliss

I've not had lime flavored Coke, and I've not even seen the cherry-vanilla Coke (though I have seen the cherry and vanilla Cokes), but I love Vanilla Coke. It's a joy to drink. But come to think of it, it has been a while since I've seen it in stores. I wonder if they've stopped making it, or if Coke is just pushing the other products more.

Mike682

Looks like its gone. I checked: http://www.dietcoke.com/index.jsp and it is not listed. Also, I checked the reg coke website and their link to vanilla coke sends me back to coke's main webpage..

Demiurge

Bleh, I don't drink soda often, but Vanilla Coke made it's way in to quite a few mixed drinks on the weekends.

michael_w

It never really made it big here. People either seem to love it or hate it, and with extremes like that the majority rules so they probably just pulled it.

I myself didn't like it very much.

cmy330go

Ick! Never could handle that stuff. Just too sweet. Even worse when mixing it.

I do however get quite tired of products like that appearing and disappearing. Way back in the day when I was a little kid I remember drinking 7-UP Gold. I loved it, and a few months later it was gone.

Oh well. So goes life.:rolleyes:

brettw22

I thought all those flavored diet cokes tasted flat. Like the carbonation was dissipated because of the flavoring..........never got into any of them.

joelll

Vanilla Coke is pretty easy to make. Just find vanilla-flavored fountain syrup (used also to make "Italian Soda", there's a number of Italian brands like Torani), and mix it in with ordinary Coke. About 12:1 proportion, if i remember right.

I see the near-total vanishing of old-style soda fountains as a symbol of the downfall of our civilization.

Demiurge

joelll wrote:

Vanilla Coke is pretty easy to make. Just find vanilla-flavored fountain syrup (used also to make "Italian Soda", there's a number of Italian brands like Torani), and mix it in with ordinary Coke. About 12:1 proportion, if i remember right.

I see the near-total vanishing of old-style soda fountains as a symbol of the downfall of our civilization.

haha, that's a good idea, I put those flavored stuff in coffee a lot.

At least there are some companies still making the old style flavored soda, like Sprecher here locally. Best Root Beer and Cream Soda I have ever had, hands down.

joelll

There are a bunch of little soda companies around New England. Also, a part of pre-WWII city life still remaining in Providence and NYC is seltzer siphon delivery service. The ultimate in vintage soda! :-)

There's a company in Rhode Island, Stella Brothers Seltzer Delivery Service that delivers seltzer siphons by the case, along with their own syrups (and Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup for egg creams). They don't deliver to where I live (Somerville MA, just north of Boston and Cambridge), but they do deliver to Arlington, just one town away and where a friend of mine lives. Every other week they drop off a case of 26-oz bottles and, plus syrups if ordered, and pick up the empties. Yum!