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Coca-Cola quietly axed one Reagan-era drink that disappeared from store shelves

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Coca-Cola quietly axed one Reagan-era drink that disappeared from store shelves
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Coca-Cola quietly discontinued the Five Alive citrus drink around 1995, but the Minute Maid beverage still sparks nostalgic social media posts from fans who miss it.

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’Coca-Cola, Minute Maid's parent company, quietly discontinued Five Alive around 1995. Another post from the same time showing an ad for Five Alive from 1979, the year it launched, drew sentimental reactions. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERBoth posts drew enthusiastic reactions from like-minded readers. "Remember how it would slide slowly out of the can?

" wrote a Redditor a year ago, drawing the response of,"SSHHHHHHHHHPLOP" from yet another commentator. Five Alive faded from the U.S. market in the mid '90s when Coca-Cola introduced Fruitopia in 1994 in a bid to keep up with trends,Despite a $30-million marketing campaign, a spot in McDonald’s drink offerings and a shoutout from Stephen Hawking on"The Simpsons," Fruitopia didn’t last either.

Coca-Cola did away with it in 2003.that Minute Maid is discontinuing its frozen juice concentrate products altogether"in response to shifting consumer preferences," as Fox News Business reported. Five Alive may have evaporated from American stores, but it isn’t fully extinct. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP, and agree to receive content and promotional communications from Fox News. You understand that you can opt-out at any time.

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