Was it canned? Did it come in large multi-liter bottles? Both are inferior to sipping from the old glass bottles or even drinking from a glass or hard plastic drinking cup. Try looking for cans with the longest expiration date possible from a grocery, chill them well, and pour an entire can into a chilled glass cup, maybe over a little fresh ice. That will be closer to what you had as a youth. Even better, go mow your lawn in eighty-plus temperatures with your shirt off, come right inside, and drink the beverage in front of a fan set at high while your mom nags that it’s bad for your health.
Have you seen this?
Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/japanesescientistscreatesmeatoutoffeces?wtf
yes it was canned, yes i know moving away from the glass bottles ruined the taste, and yes i always use ice and i NEVEr drink straight from a can. YUK.