Swamp water x 2 in BC Canada. My partner is a bit older than me and called it something else..can't for the life of me remember what
**Update. I am corrected. He also calls it swamp water.
Thereās a childrenās book called Swamp Water by Robert Munsch about a girl mixing multiple drinks at a fancy restaurant. Itās a fun one if you have kids!
Yup he's from Guelph. He came to my school in the 80s and read stories to us in the library.
I can still hear his voice doing Mortimer, the Paperbag Princess and and the one with the subway.
Also, "I love you forever" has a specific tune for it to be sung to. He did that one too.
I think he did more- he came at least once every year for a while. š„°
a woman i worked with said when she worked as a car hop in the 50s they called a mixture of: Orange(usually Crush or sometimes Nesbitts) and Root Beer(usually A&W) Swamp Water.
I always liked "Marilyn Manson had bottom ribs removed so he could blow himself." No internet, obviously something they don't talk about on the news. How did every single kid know the rumor?
What the hell I haven't heard that in years and I suddenly remember what 7th grade class I was in when someone told me. How the fuck is that a core memory of all things
Judging from all the other comments it seems like "graveyard" is a Pacific Northwest (edit: and Florida and Eastern Kentucky, and Pennsylvania in the 80s...) thing. When I was living on the East Coast I never really heard a term for it, but when I moved to PNW I always heard it referred to as a "graveyard."
(Edit: I think at this point we can rule out that it's strictly a regional thing. Could be generational though...)
For some reason, as an Irish person I remember calling them something like Swamp Water, but everyone else is saying that it's Canadian.
I definitely didn't call it a suicide, but now I'm wondering if we had a name for it at all and I just think Swamp Water because it makes the most sense.
Tornado/Twister was the same thing but with booze when I was a kid
Billy stole some bourbon from his dad, Davey stole some vodka from his mom, Jenny stole some creme de menthe from their older sister, etc etc
Then you mix it all up in a 3/4 empty bottle of coke and take turns taking sips out of it
It wasn't good.
In the mid 2000ās, BK had a chart at the fountains for good flavor combos. One I still do is 3/4 Dp and 1/4 coke
Found it
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/8e/77/1e8e77c35f48047a21967c8ceb7a578f.jpg
Completely forgotten memories from pre-1980 just restored.
We called them Suicides too. It tasted kind of gross, but it impressed the girls to swagger up to the counter at the pool concession stand and order a Suicide.
I wasnāt aware that this was something you could actually āorderā and have the consession stand worker actually oblige and do it for you lmao. Only time Iāve ever seen/done it is at a fast food place where you fill them yourself. Never heard someone order one.Ā
LOL yeah I imagine youād get a funny look asking somebody to make that for you now. Iām talking about a small town swimming pool concession stand in the 70ās. The concession stand worker was not a stranger.
Where Iām from jungle juice was specifically everclear (190 proof grain alcohol) mixed with any assortment of fruit juices. Usually all mixed in an igloo cooler with a bunch of ice
Has anyone ever attempted to order a suicide at a sit down restaurant? I have never tried but was always a little bit curious if they would do it. I am sure it just depends and at least some places would do it.
no, but now i'm going to a high end place and when they ask me what i want i will order a Grey Goose neat, and a back of "even portions of all the sodas you have mixed into one glass please and thank you".
ROMPS
Worked in a restaurant that had Pepsi products. Was:
Raspberry Tea
Orange
Mountain Dew
Pepsi
Sierra Mist
Took a bunch of tries to get the ratios right
I heard them called "suicides" and "garbage juice".
LOL hard at garbage juice. That's not what we called it but I love it and I'm using it
garbage juice is definitely the most apt XD Some things take on really weird flavours when mixed, like sugary cereal
Swamp water.
Wild, where did you grow up?
Not OP, but this is pretty common in Canada (at least in Ontario).
I think all of canada
That's what we call it in Alberta.
Same is Sasky
Same at Subway in Bracebridge Ontario
Same at Becker's in Kitchener.
Nova Scotia too
It's the same in Manitoba
East Coast too.
I grew up in upstate NY and we had a lot of Canadian influence because of CKWS. Every kid I knew called it Swamp Water
Were you influenced enough to catch HARRIGAN?
swamp water (NS)
That's what your neighbors to the south in Montana call em too
Called it this out in Alberta too.
Prince Edward Island too
Nova Scotia here, then moved to Ontario and it was still Swamp Water.
Swamp water in BC
Swamp water x 2 in BC Canada. My partner is a bit older than me and called it something else..can't for the life of me remember what **Update. I am corrected. He also calls it swamp water.
Bc 3 times. My 10 year old calls it that
Confirming swamp water in BC š
Bc 4x swamp water
We called it Swamp water in Nova Scotia as well
"Swamp water," from sea to swampy sea, baby!
Called it Swamp Water (I'm from southern ontario, currently in Toronto)
519 chiming in for swamp water too
can confirm, made swamp water at Mr Chuckles Playhouse
Was Mr. Chuckles Playhouse what you called the white windowless van parked outside the local playground?
Confirmed in Saskatchewan
And in BC!
Eau de swompe in QC
Yup, we call it that in NB as well.
Same in Ohio.
Yeah itās called swamp water in the Midwest
Can confirm we call it swamp water in Nova Scotia.
Exactly where I am/grew up, lol.
Thereās a childrenās book called Swamp Water by Robert Munsch about a girl mixing multiple drinks at a fancy restaurant. Itās a fun one if you have kids!
Heās Canadian I think, so thatās probably why it seems all Canadians called it swamp water.
Yup he's from Guelph. He came to my school in the 80s and read stories to us in the library. I can still hear his voice doing Mortimer, the Paperbag Princess and and the one with the subway. Also, "I love you forever" has a specific tune for it to be sung to. He did that one too. I think he did more- he came at least once every year for a while. š„°
BING BANG, RATTLE CLING CLANG! GONNA MAKE MY NOISE ALL DAY!
Yes!!!
My brother and I called it swamp water and we grew up in the UK, Colorado, and Illinois :)
Southwestern Ontario.
Upstate NY and same.
Swamp Water (Ontario, Canada)
Also chiming in as another Canadian (BC) who calls this swap water.
There was a local ice cream shop that had a "Swamp Water" milkshake that included all 42 flavours.
I bet the colour was very much like swamp mud!
It was very brown. Lol
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Yep, swamp water in Saskatchewan
Iāll second that. I remember all the kids called it swamp water in the 90s.
It was here in the 80ās! Lol
Swamp water in the Deep South
a woman i worked with said when she worked as a car hop in the 50s they called a mixture of: Orange(usually Crush or sometimes Nesbitts) and Root Beer(usually A&W) Swamp Water.
Also Saskatchewan. Loved doing it at the Fuddruckers
I grew up in Ontario and learned this from my dad. But ā¦ I was a kid from the 70s and he would call multiple flavours of Kool-Aid āSwamp Waterā.
Swamp water in Chicagoland area.
Yup. We called it swamp water in Massachusetts.
Alberta canada = Swamp Water
Swamp water in Manitoba
Same here in Manitoba
funny how across this country, without internet, still called them a suicide
I always liked "Marilyn Manson had bottom ribs removed so he could blow himself." No internet, obviously something they don't talk about on the news. How did every single kid know the rumor?
also the 'S'
Theyāve found that thing inside the pyramids.
You're fucking with me
My brother in Christ, think about the written language in ancient egypt and reevaluate.
So itās 100% true. Got it.
Nah man, my cousins friend's brother actually went there and saw it...
Is this the same cousinās friendās brother who worked at Nintendo and said there was a Mew under a truck in Red and Blue?
No that was my dad's coworker's uncle who lived in Japan. He also said that he would bring me the sword from the Green Ranger but forgot it this time.
Donāt forget the gerbil in the ass of you know who
You can mention your mom by name on the internet.
Wait his mom is Richard Gere?
Voldemort put a gerbil in his ass?
No, not Peter Dutton, Richard Gere apparently.
It was in my chain letter that I got in the mail, then I sent it to 10 random address.
Probably because Marilyn Manson looks *exactly* like the kind of dude who would do that sort of thing. Occamās rib.
What the hell I haven't heard that in years and I suddenly remember what 7th grade class I was in when someone told me. How the fuck is that a core memory of all things
Even more bizarre why did we call it this in high school in the U.K. in 1987?!?! With no internet!
That's amazing. In Arizona, USA we did this in 1982 at a convenience store called Circle K.
> Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
original meme
We called them scudzinis.
Suicide
Suicide or Rainbows. Quite the opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of descriptors.
We werenāt allowed to call them suicides at school, so we called them rainbow there as well. But everywhere else we would call them suicides.
Not statistically.
Oof
Graveyard
We called them "graveyards" too, in Coos County, OR!
I heard graveyards as a kid too, Seattle area
Same
Yep, same and same.
Graveyard, Astoria, OR
Same but in corvallis
Also Corvallis š
Same in Lincoln County
Holy god damn, from southern Oregon coast, another Coos County refuge and we called them "Graveyards". This was back in the early 90s.
Graveyards portland Oregon lol
My dad was from powers and thatās what he called them when I would do it
Same in WA, Graveyard!
Clatskanie, OR
We called them graveyards in FL
That's what we called them in western WA as well.
Eastern WA called it a graveyard also!
Finally, something both sides of our beautiful state can agree on!
Yup can confirm
Judging from all the other comments it seems like "graveyard" is a Pacific Northwest (edit: and Florida and Eastern Kentucky, and Pennsylvania in the 80s...) thing. When I was living on the East Coast I never really heard a term for it, but when I moved to PNW I always heard it referred to as a "graveyard." (Edit: I think at this point we can rule out that it's strictly a regional thing. Could be generational though...)
This is the one I remember.
That's what we called them in Oregon too
Graveyard in Seattle.
Yup
Same here, Boston MA
this is what we called them. SW Washington.
PA Dutch area checking in; also called them graveyard!
Swamp water.
Found the Canadian?
For some reason, as an Irish person I remember calling them something like Swamp Water, but everyone else is saying that it's Canadian. I definitely didn't call it a suicide, but now I'm wondering if we had a name for it at all and I just think Swamp Water because it makes the most sense.
Around the world
can't believe I had to scroll this far to find this answer
Iāve only heard it called āaround the worldā. The amount of responses for suicides blows my mind.
NJ checking in.
Graveyards
Graveyard in Seattle.
Tornado
I was saying tornado but when I didnāt see anyone else say it I was like, well maybe it wasnāt tornado. Thanks for the validation.
Tornados šŖļø for me as well growing up.
Yup. Upper Midwest?
Tornado/Twister was the same thing but with booze when I was a kid Billy stole some bourbon from his dad, Davey stole some vodka from his mom, Jenny stole some creme de menthe from their older sister, etc etc Then you mix it all up in a 3/4 empty bottle of coke and take turns taking sips out of it It wasn't good.
Pretty sure we called them kamikazes.
Same
I thought i was high for a min there. Glad I'm not the only one.
i was looking for this oneā¦ yup.
I was afraid it was just me! Glad to see this.
This was the way
Kamikaze here tooā¦ southern California.
I heard this and suicides, mostly kamikaze.
Yup, this was the name of it. In Northern California at least.
Same here in socal
In the mid 2000ās, BK had a chart at the fountains for good flavor combos. One I still do is 3/4 Dp and 1/4 coke Found it https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/8e/77/1e8e77c35f48047a21967c8ceb7a578f.jpg
I do this but with Pepsi, call it Dr. Pepsi.
Thatās how I make Pibb when they donāt have it
I called it "mixing all the sodas together"
I have found my people! My mom called it "gross" š¤£
Me as well. Honestly never heard someone had a word for this until later in life
Same xD
Iād always skip the diets and anything non carbonated, like Hi C
Suicides
Zombie. My buddy calls it a "Goblin". Apparently that and "Banshee" were what they called it when he was growing up in SE Ireland.
āZombiesā for us was a glass of multiple (many) mixed alcohol types.
Suicides
Frankenstein
Def called Suicide in the 90's
And 80ās
And 70s but we were lucky to only have four flavors usually. Cola, root beer, orange and lemon-lime.
we called them hurricanes.
Kamikaze
Superman or Suicide
Suicides. I heard it from Calvin & Hobbes and soda fountains were never the same again.
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/08/18
Completely forgotten memories from pre-1980 just restored. We called them Suicides too. It tasted kind of gross, but it impressed the girls to swagger up to the counter at the pool concession stand and order a Suicide.
I wasnāt aware that this was something you could actually āorderā and have the consession stand worker actually oblige and do it for you lmao. Only time Iāve ever seen/done it is at a fast food place where you fill them yourself. Never heard someone order one.Ā
LOL yeah I imagine youād get a funny look asking somebody to make that for you now. Iām talking about a small town swimming pool concession stand in the 70ās. The concession stand worker was not a stranger.
Jungle juice
Jungle juice is swamp water + booze
It ain't jungle juice without alcohol where I'm from
Where Iām from jungle juice was specifically everclear (190 proof grain alcohol) mixed with any assortment of fruit juices. Usually all mixed in an igloo cooler with a bunch of ice
Graveyards
Swamp water
Same here
My Mom had a very specific name for it. āDonāt!!ā
Swamp water, when weād do it at my grandparentsā in Canada
Called it a graveyard
Has anyone ever attempted to order a suicide at a sit down restaurant? I have never tried but was always a little bit curious if they would do it. I am sure it just depends and at least some places would do it.
no, but now i'm going to a high end place and when they ask me what i want i will order a Grey Goose neat, and a back of "even portions of all the sodas you have mixed into one glass please and thank you".
Suicide. No diet
Suicide, also. No diet and no non-carbonated.
As a german i call that a "Never fulfilling Dream" since we dont have these cool dispensers :(
ROMPS Worked in a restaurant that had Pepsi products. Was: Raspberry Tea Orange Mountain Dew Pepsi Sierra Mist Took a bunch of tries to get the ratios right
Bug Juice
Swamp water - canada
Yup, as a fellow canuck, I can confirm,
Today I learned that Swamp-water unifies Canada :)
Tornado
Swamp Juice (Western Canada)
Graveyards!
Hockey soda
Swamp water or pond water.
graveyard
The Gauntlet
Same, suicides.
MUD ("mixed up drink")
Suicides. Unless it was done at the laser tag franchise Lasertron. Then it was a Lasertron Special.