dead soda

as a teenager i used to put an empty surge can in the middle of the snow and then yell, “surge!” and race to it, eventually diving for victory. i’ll grant that it would have been sweeter if i’d have had any friends to race with. but not only was surge a great drink, it was the most extreme soda of the late nineties (sorry faygo). that is why i enjoyed this article about dead sodas so much. i remember almost all of them. and, yes, i too was an orbitz poser for a while. of course this was all before it became hip to be square, before i gave up soda for diet snapple, heineken light, and occasionally pomegranate juice.