[Jill Reichow]

Pepsi had a lemon pepsi product out in the '70's. What was it called? They added lemon to the diet pepsi to help cut the awful flavor of the first artificial sweeteners. Was it Pepsi Free? I prefer a slice of lime in my diet coke and a lemon in the diet pepsi...weird I know........

[monpetitchoux]

Man, they keep everything in the Midwest. Glad to hear that Mello Yello is still around. My cousin and I used to love drinking Mello Yello and Mountain Dew. We grew up in New York City. But I stopped seeing Mello Yello when I was a teenager. Now I live on the west coast. We took a southern route on the drive cross country so I probably missed the Mello Yello. Had I known, I would have insisted on taking a northerly route through the heartland. By any chance, you wouldn't have apple flavored Slice there, would you?

[BevReview Steve]

luv2bake, to answer your questions...

Pepsi Light came out in 1975 "with a distinctive lemon taste, is introduced as an alternative to traditional diet colas."

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Ironically, the term "Pepsi Light" is still used in some countries instead of the term "Diet Pepsi"

Pepsi Free came out in 1982 as "the first major brand caffeine-free colas." It was also referenced in the movie "Back to the Future"

Lou: You gonna order something, kid?
Marty McFly: Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab.
Lou: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something!
Marty McFly: Alright, give me a Pepsi Free.
Lou: You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!

[Jill Reichow]

Chiliboy, that's it! My hubby and I found it a great improvement over tab. We also grew up on Fresca b4 it was taken off the market and reformulated to be less"grapefruity." My folks used to hault it from Minnesota for us to wherever the AF had dumped us. The midwest gets all the neat stuff for test markets. Unfortunately, they often discontinued things b4 it reaches where we were living at the time...

[dei4al]

the red mountain dew tastes likes cherry limeade

[mudbug]

Al,

Does it really? If I'd 'a known that, I would've tried it a long time ago!

[ June 24, 2001: Message edited by: cchiu ]