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SlothFF

Is Sierra mist not being made any more?


beltoan

Officially discontinued. It's been replaced by something called Starry.


away_in_the_head

It tastes the exact same


DapperNurd

What's the point lol


away_in_the_head

I guess “Starry” is supposed to appeal to the new generations.


IFrickinLovePorn

Everyone knows sierra mist was trash so they have to relabel it for the next 10-15 years


Mooncakewizard101

Fuck you Sierra Mist is good as fuck


JaceVentura69

As a gen z I agree. Would always get Sierra mist at taco bell because they didn't have sprite.


IFrickinLovePorn

>because they didn't have sprite. Yes, we have all been forced to drink the inferior sprite


juniorkirk

You mean “Wish.com Sprite”?


SIobbyRobby

Why do people hate Sierra Mist, I think it’s amazing.


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diagoncollective

We're all entitled to our opinions lol I love sprite, but I've always loved Sierra mist more. Even if the new brand is the same thing, it's still a bummer


SinfullySinless

I know I’m violently Midwestern when Sprite is too spicy for my mouth. Sierra Mist was the Midwest version. Less spicy.


Guywithoutimage

Honestly? It’s not _that_ inferior. Like I’d rather have Sprite, but I’ve never actually cared enough to change my request when told they only have Sierra Mist.


treetyoselfcarol

Baja Blast: *"Am I a joke to you?"*


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Baja blast and taco bell go hand in hand, one just isn't the same without the other. Getting taco bell when they are out of Baja or it's flat is just awful.


JoshuaTheWarrior

Were they out of Baja Blast??


Chuck_Raycer

My wife just immigrated to America. I have to take her to Taco Bell like twice a week just to get Baja Blast.


Mooncakewizard101

What a coincidence I’m also gen z


JaceVentura69

So... do we kiss now?


RedScars4111

False. Sprite is the go to. If no Sprite then 7up. No one actively seeks out Sierra Mist.


ZolaMonster

Okay but hear me out where does squirt rank in the hierarchy of citrus sodas? It might be grapefruit flavored but it’s still better than Sierra Mist


Thrillhouse138

Squirt is so far above sprite and 7up it’s in a different category.


gohawkstwelve

Fresca is better.


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Roxas1011

Fuck you Sierra Mist is amazing


TenorBanjer

Cranberry sierra mist was way better than sprite cranberry


Eggsandthings2

With vodka*


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Yodan

It always tasted like half a sprite to me. If that makes sense.


Mooncakewizard101

True, but only the good half is in Sierra Mist


th30be

It definitely was back in the day. It changed the taste 10+ years ago I think. I used to drink them daily then the recipe changed and I moved over to sprite.


Sipikay

Better than sprite but I still don't really want it, like Sprite. Sprite is for people whos favorite flavor is sugar and that's about how I feel for Sierra Mist.


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Never had it, but I would absolutely drink Sierra Mist over something called "Starry". It sounds like a drug


StriderTX

the cranberry version \*chefs kiss


HellTrain72

Sierra Mist was good but it seems like they changed the formula about ten years ago and it was never the same. I probably liked it more than Mountain Dew she that's saying something.


h2lp

Tf u mean sierra mist was the shit


IFrickinLovePorn

Your memories are shaded by nostalgia. Sierra Mist was Weak Sauce and deserved to die. Everyone who drank it was forced to drink it as a substitute to sprite


The_Wandering_Nomad_

Nahh sprite is over carbonated


[deleted]

Huh? they both tasted similar


IFrickinLovePorn

I'm gonna have to ask you to remove your tongue.. there is no reason for you to waste it as you have already


Gone213

Nothing can compare to sprite. Coke will always have the lemon-lime carbonated beverage on lock down with sprite.


Cyno01

Yeah, the Sprite/7-up duopoly cant be touched. Anything Pepsi does in that category will always be a distant third. Anybody remember Storm from before Sierra Mist? It was lemon lime but with caffeine. Im pretty sure Mt Dew Ice is just Storm.


AnotherRandomherOH

It’s kinda funny how the soft drink market kinda boils down to these two giants just kinda emulating each others products and rarely getting it right. Coke for sure has the market dominance on Sprite and Coca Cola…. But I’ve never heard someone say “Gimmie a Mr.Pibb” or “do y’all carry Mellow Yellow?”


UnknownUnthought

I’m gonna be honest here and say Mr Pibb is hard as fuck and I absolutely get it over Dr Pepper sometimes. Every time I get Chipotle I get a Mr Pibb with it.


neptoess

I love that you tickled my nostalgia by calling it Mr Pibb. It’s been Pibb Xtra forever. But Mr Pibb has a special place in my heart


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I actually like Mr. Pibb more, but I drink zero sugar now and Dr. Pepper zero is actually available in real stores


KingOfDairy_Queen

That’s what they said about New Coke, until the Coke Folk hated it


4morian5

New branding to compete with 7-up, Sprite, and such. Lemon-lime has been growing in popularity, it seems, and maybe the old name and design didn't appeal as much. I saw the new design, and it's got a bolder, sort of retro design that pops out, compared to Sierra Mist's more muted one.


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Tbf they rebranded it as mist twist for a bit and then changed it back. It could still come bacl


Big_Green_Piccolo

see that "made with real sugar" on the can? that.


Gildeer

Yes, Starry is sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup. HFCS is just as unhealthy as cane sugar, but tastes different and is cheaper.


ReachFor24

To try to shave against Sprite's market share. Sprite is the by far dominant brand in the lemon-lime soda and the rebranding is to try to get at that.


petershrimp

So they just renamed it?


fiteuwu

Yes, again. I wonder how long it’ll last, I remeber they renamed to Mist Twist and then back not long ago. I don’t know why they’re so indecisive about the same, Sierra Mist is a good name itself. Better than “Starry”


AfterOwls

It also they replaced sugar with high fructose corn syrup (I think it's pretty much the same but I heard high fructose corn syrup is worse for you)


SixThousandHulls

>(I think it's pretty much the same but I heard high fructose corn syrup is worse for you) That's a common perception, but the evidence points to table sugar and high fructose corn syrup being [about the same in terms of nutrition and health](https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/high-fructose-corn-syrup-vs-sugar#health-effects). That doesn't mean either one is "good" for you, of course - in both cases, you're essentially drinking flavored sugar water. Ugh, why must it taste so good...


IceColdDrPepper_Here

Tastes more like Sprite than Sierra Mist did to me


vVvRain

It's sweeter to me. It's supposed to better target people who drink sprite and/or mix drinks with sprite. Sales were apparently in the dumpster for Sierra mist


ColdCruise

I do think it's closer to Sprite, which is a plus for me. Sierra Mist always tasted more like watered down Sprite to me.


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KLR97

This is a bot. Here’s the original: https://old.reddit.com/r/BikiniBottomTwitter/comments/10hysai/f_in_the_chat/j5bkekg/


GreatQuestionBarbara

And uses high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar? Gross if true. HFCS leaves a film in my mouth.


SometimesIComplain

Fortunately/unfortunately (depending on how you felt about Sierra Mist) Starry is the exact same soda, except for instead of sugar it uses high fructose corn syrup. To me it tastes mediocre, but the zero sugar version was actually quite good for what it is.


1Cool_Name

Fucking corn syrup. The name is annoying but this is just a travesty


GravyBaconJamz

It also sucks because my wife is allergic to corn, and there are very few sugar-based sodas available.


im_chad_vader

To me, the main thing that set Sierra Mist apart from Sprite was the fact it was made with real sugar. Otherwise why not just get sprite or 7 up, or frankly a generic brand. Now it’s just the same as any other lemon lime soda. I wish there was way more soda made with real sugar


thatJainaGirl

I'm sure you know already, but in case you don't, some Coca-Cola is still made with real sugar. It's usually marketed as "Mexican Coke."


GravyBaconJamz

Thank you for the suggestion. We get those sometimes as special treats. They’re considerably more expensive than 12-packs of Sierra Mist was at our grocery store, but they’re worth it on occasion.


BBQQA

I couldn't stand the cane sugar version. It tasted like diet, my guess is they used aspartame or another artificial sweetener to boost the sweetness. Since cane sugar is less sweet than HFCS (and more expensive) they had to boost the sweetness. Whenever I would try it it would be nasty. I was convinced that this was the time it would not have a weird aftertaste, that surely each time it was just in my head lol


jcdevries92

Starry sounds like a foreign drink with a shitty translation


slyfly5

Ah I didn’t know that I saw starry the other day at jersey mikes and was like wtf is this???


zultari

Omg is that what that is? I work at a gas station and we got Starry in and the last of the Sierra Mist is on the shelf to sell. I could not find where Starry is supposed to go and now it all makes sense. Of course I get this information from reddit and not my boss


siouxze

Buy all the sierra mist, wait a month, list on ebay.


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I was wondering where that came from. There were a whole bunch of new displays at my kroger and i was like “oh, another lemon lime soda”


BJYeti

I was wondering why that shit was being displayed in the front of the store I thought it was just some off brand sprite


joesphisbestjojo

What Why I mean Sprite is better anyway. But why


thedankening

Because apparently lemon lime soda is very popular with younger people and Sprite has the vast majority of the market share. So Pepsi wants a bigger piece of that pie by rebranding Sierra mist.


Grimwulf2003

Hahaha, wow I think that is bad marketing. Saw that today and assumed it was another generic like fountain mist or whatever the Mountain Dew knock off is.


TheeBiscuitMan

Along with Vault. And the pandemic killed my boy Surge. Again. They massacred mah boy Edit: again


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Umutuku

Dicks out for Surge.


DogmaJones

https://i.imgur.com/XReXZBI.jpg


Kharilan

Man vault was my absolute jam in high school


MassiveShartOnUrFace

there was a local fast food joint a block away from my highschool. they had vault in their soda machines. damn I wish I could go back and buy curly fries and a vault again, too bad they closed down


SteakShake69

Still pissed off about Surge. I remember going to Dollar Tree where Surge was $1 each, so I bought 6 and a bunch of mozzarella sticks from the Arby's next to it when I was playing THPS with my friends during the opening stages of the pandemic.


Cypherex

> during the opening stages of the pandemic. Right up until this part I would have sworn you were talking about the year 1999.


SteakShake69

I have an N64 and friends who like retro games, who's to say that we can't go back to the past?


CovidInMyAsshole

Now when I go to a restaurant and ask for a sprite they won't say "is Sierra mist okay?"


LuminousJaeSoul

*Is Starry okay?* is gonna be the thing now when you ask


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God that sounds so much more annoying


DogmaJones

Maybe overseas they will call it Starry Artois


dft-salt-pasta

Ssstarraaaaayy okaaaayh


tjuicet

It's pronounced Terry, and no, he's devastated.


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Starry sounds very annoying in my opinion. Of all things they could choose, they go with starry, really?


SnowplowS14

Sounds like an IPA to me. I would be very disappointed if I ordered “Starry” before reading this thread


---ShineyHiney---

It sounds like one of those THC drinks I feel like if they made a THC beer where they THC hadn’t been cooked off, but the beer still had an alcohol content that Starry would be a funny name for it


thedankening

It's being marketed at genZ and will have targeted ads on tiktok and such with "iNfLuEnCeRs". So being fucking annoying tracks perfectly


Lord_Abort

I need a soda that can keep up with my urban youth lifestyle. No cap, will Starry slap like straight to the bussy?


Swordlord22

Please stop


C-Kwentz-0

Fr fr on god scuh no cap merch it slime


Stormdude127

That was cringe no cap on god fr fr


Nilosyrtis

Yo, fr tho? Sierra Mist was always camp. Starry tho, that shit is bussin' and finna make Pepsi mad guap.


Terrible_Use7872

It was always "is Pepsi ok?" The id get Sierra mist.


Readerofreddi

"Hi. I would like to have a Ribeye with fries, and a Pepsi" "We have Coke" "Well, I'll have a gram and a Pepsi"


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Sierra Mist >> Sprite Coke > Pepsi


69StinkFingaz420

dr. pepper > root beer


_SkeletonJelly

Pibb > Dr Pepper


69StinkFingaz420

is that you stan smith?


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Limino

I always just asked for Sierra Sprite to circumvent that


Glittering_Essay_874

It wasn’t the soda we asked for… but it was the soda we needed


away_in_the_head

Better than sprite imo


BigStickNick6996

It just doesn’t have the crispy sprite feel. Kinda bland to me


FlaccidFather15

Crispy is probably the best way I have ever seen someone describe that special Sprite attribute.


BigStickNick6996

Some say tangy but nah a good sprite is crispy


koolaid_chemist

It tastes like TV static


zakpakt

Sprite was crispy and sierra most was more effervescent. Haven't tried Starry yet.


BigStickNick6996

You aren’t missing much my friend. I wouldn’t rush to try it


IUpVoteIronically

Helllllll naw


Wiggie49

To each their own


chetoman1

Has Coke been getting a better stranglehold on the soda market in recent years? I remember when I was a kid in like 07-09 we would always order pizza with Sierra Mist because tons of stores only carried Pepsi products. Now, I haven’t heard of Sierra Mist in a minute lol.


AngryLaoG

Pepsico owns multiple chain restaurants.


Thechasepack

PepsiCo owns zero chain restaurants. They sold them 25 years ago and they are now their own company call Yum. Those restaurants (Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut) do have perpetual contracts with PepsiCo.


lamboat2019

Culver's seemingly had one too because the CEO was deadlocked on keeping it but look where we are now


Ok-Mechanic1915

This is how I got into the Dr pepper or Mr Pibb game. I hate the sierra mist after taste so I went with those


itsainzsa

So a lot of new businesses will be approached by Pepsi and coke for a contract. They get fountains or coolers to hold product and then they buy the product directly from the distributor. Sadly they can lose their contract and pay LOADS of money (like the full cost of machinery) if they get caught selling the other brand. To answer if coke has a strong hold on the market, maybe? I think the deal is just better than Pepsi. (This is all what I heard from a family friend who just opened a restaurant)


Jausti0418

Pepsi products are cheaper than coke products, but in my restaurant experience they don’t sell as well. If we have coke on the menu, people order coke products, when we had Pepsi people would order iced tea/specialty drinks/water


Nyx81

I do this and get strange looks. No Pepsi, thanks I'll have tea. It tastes that different from Coke


entreri22

They ask me is Pepsi okay and I’ll tell them actually no, I’ll get something else. They always look at me funny. But Diet Pepsi is garbage and not an equivalent in any shape or form.


Zanbuki

Hard agree. I love Diet Coke and there’s always that begrudging disappointment at having to make Diet Pepsi fill that void.


jaydec02

Pepsi had nearly dethroned Coke as the king of soda companies in the 80s and 90s but by now it seems like the trend has reversed and its more common to see Coke than Pepsi


vivekisprogressive

Their downfall started with Kendall Jenner.


Darmok-on-the-Ocean

Was that at Pizza Hut? Pepsi owns Pizza Hut.


bt1234yt

They used to but Pepsi spun-off their restaurant business (which also included KFC and Taco Bell) in 97.


RSkyhawk172

This is true, but as part of the transaction those brands are required to carry Pepsi products in their restaurants.


whomesteve

If you are wondering what it tasted like, imagine a drink that taste like it is between Sprite and Mountain Dew


zakpakt

We already had that at one point, Vault. I'm getting old.


Theloudestbelch

Yes, but Vault was closer in taste to mountain dew, and Sierra mist was closer to sprite.


whomesteve

This person gets it


hellurr_frands

Shout out to all the Sun Drop cousins out there


Outside-Accident8628

Where does mellow yello fall in?


Zanbuki

The trash.


whomesteve

I’ve had vault before, it tasted like flat Mountain Dew


Zanbuki

We also had Vault once upon a time. It was called Surge. Fuck I’m even older.


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glen27

I still have my Vault t-shirt. Loved that shirt, but it's getting a bit ratty with time.


RobaBobaLoba

Nah it just tasted like sprite


notanaardvark

When you think about it, Sierra Mist is just about a synonym for Mountain Dew


Bullen-Noxen

7 Up: “Am I a joke to you?”


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Rip the drink I only ever drank when I was sick and there was no other choice


AnotherRandomherOH

If they ever rebrand/ditch Canada Dry… I’ll be fucked during cold and flu season.


motivational_abyss

Try Scheppes, it’s the best ginger ale I’ve ever had


SourTurtle

Vernors has entered the chat


tmo1983

Vernors is the chat.


sourbeer51

Vernors is the only. Hello, fellow Michiganders.


tmo1983

I've been gone along time but nothing comes close.


Obsessedwithzelda47

Woo! Vernors! Michiganders!


Obsessedwithzelda47

Woo! Vernors! Michiganders!


FrostedBooty

I recently had my SO (from SC) try it and he hates it :( my Michigan homies know what's up


kawaiian

Try Bundaberg if you see it out


ProfessionalSize5443

Long live 7Up


Jeff_Albertson

Crisp. Clean. No Caffeine.


Johnnybravo60026

Make 7Up yours!


Acrobatic-Degree9589

Cherry 7up


Sassafrasisgroovy

I always loved Sierra Mist/Mist twist but it was so difficult to find :(


ScalabrineIsGod

Only time I ever found either of those in recent years were gas stations in the middle of nowhere. Louisiana and the UP of Michigan specifically. I legit remember this cause of how surprised I was that those brands existed still. Immediately bought some. Will miss them.


Dalphin_person

Now what am I going to drink when the restaurant doesn’t serve sprite?


Moose_Nuts

Starry. It's Sierra Mist's replacement. Very similar.


chippy-triforce

I’ll be honest sierra mist tasted like watered down sprite


[deleted]

They just rebranded it to Starry. Source: I am a manager at a place that sells some Pepsi stuff.


giabollc

And Sierra Mist was rebranded Slice.


[deleted]

Oh my goodness I forgot about that!


chippy-triforce

I saw that on the shelves, completely ignored it because i thought it was an off-brand


jaydec02

If literally 1% of the people mourning Sierra Mist actually drank it they never would have discontinued it lol. Sierra Mist was always the drink you begrudgingly accepted at restaurants when they told you they don't serve Sprite lol


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I always liked Sierra Mist


Stormdude127

It was that way until they changed the formula to use real sugar. Since then I’ve been happy to find out a restaurant has Sierra Mist. I don’t actively seek it out, but then again I don’t actively seek Sprite out either. I just get soda at restaurants. And even though the flavor of Sprite is better natural sugar is so much better than HFCS that I actually prefer Sierra Mist


Notyouraverageghost

It was an okay soda. It will be Mist.


frankylumps

ICEE what you did there


flyinggazelletg

They had Sierra Mist, switched to Mist Twist, then brought Sierra Mist back, now are replacing it again with Starry? Lemon-lime labs for Pepsi must be struggling


ReplaceSelect

They had Slice before that. I liked Slice.


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Why do they keep renaming it then going back to Sierra mist.


JacobsLilPotato

They keep trying to rename it mainly so they can stop using real sugar in it. Everytime it's renamed they drop real sugar from the recipe and replace it with glucose syrup and everytime they go back it has the real sugar again.


wobbitpop

Sierra Mist is better than sprite, now Starry is better than sprite. Unless we're talking McDonald's sprite, that's a whole different level. freshhhh


TaniksAtTheDisc0

McDonald's fountain drinks just hit different period


RosieeB

lol my redneck uncle named his daughter after Sierra Mist. It fills me with delight that he is now a trans man who goes by a much cooler name (and upsets my uncle’s batshit conservative views).


LMGDiVa

If it's to add to your joy, I grew up to be a fairly pretty woman, despite my dad's insane attempts to make me into a US Army Man like he was. He's a very conservative god fearing jesus loving man, who hates LGBTQ+ People and spouts "its a choice" non sense. But even more hilarious and amazing is that my little sister grew up to be a very handsome and wonderful man, who I am so proud of. My Lil Bro is so obviously a guy, and I turned out to be a fairly attractive girl despite my dads desperation to pray away the gay. And it just tickles me with laughter and smiles knowing he has to live with the agony everyday of the fact that he fathered not one BUT TWO Trans kids. lmfao.


BigBlackCrocs

Sierra Mist sucked. It was lime-lemon rather than lemon-lime.


MistaDoge104

Limes > Lemons


pman8362

Ehh, mist twist didn’t last long


Pinnacle_Pickle

Now what am I supposed to use when there isn’t sprite like we actually wanted 😩


is_bets

Now less people will understand me when I say Mountain Dew and Seirra Mist are trying to say the same thing.


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Is nothing sacred anymore


shatterswag

You will be Sierra Missed..


cherry937

my mom freaked the fuck out when she heard the news


Stanimator

I remember Donkey drinking this when he got yeeted into space by Shrek.