Shasta (soft drink)
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Shasta is a brand of U.S. soft drink that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. It is generally cheaper in price than brands like Coca-Cola or Pepsi. It's available in U.S. grocery stores, especially 99 cent stores, where a six-pack or 3-liter bottle are available for that price. It began as The Mt. Shasta Mineral Springs Company on December 6, 1889. It was also known as The Shasta Water Company. It produced bottled mineral water from Shasta Springs in northern California. For a while the water was shipped in glass-lined railroad cars for local bottling. In 1931, Shasta produced its first soft drink, pale dry ginger ale. Until the 1950s, the company's products were mainly mixers for alcoholic drinks: mineral water, club soda, ginger ale. During the 1960s, Shasta was purchased by the Sara Lee food company (then known as Consolidated Foods). In 1985, it was acquired by the National Beverage Corp., which also owns the popular Faygo line.
Shasta claims to have been the first to introduce metal soft drink cans and diet soft drinks.[1]
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[edit] Flavors
- Apple
- Black Cherry
- Diet Black Cherry
- Club soda
- Cola
- Cherry Cola
- Caffeine Free Cola
- Diet Caffeine Free Cola
- Diet Cherry Cola
- Diet Cola
- Chocolate Soda
- Diet Chocolate Soda
- Cranberry
- Creme soda
- Diet Creme Soda
- Dr. Shasta (similar to Dr Pepper)
- Diet Dr. Shasta
- Ginger ale
- Diet Ginger Ale
- Grape
- Diet Grape
- Grapefruit Zazz
- Guava / Passion fruit
- Horchata (cinnamon, vanilla and nutty rice flavor)
- Iced tea with Lemon
- Jamaica (hibiscus flower flavor)
- Kiwi Strawberry
- Diet Kiwi Strawberry
- Lemonade
- Mango
- Moon Mist, similar to Mountain Dew
- Orange
- Diet Orange
- Peanutbutter zingo (peanut-butter flavor)
- Pineapple
- Pineapple Orange
- Raspberry Creme
- Red Pop (similar to Big Red)
- Root beer
- Diet Root Beer
- Ruby Red Grapefruit
- Diet Grapefruit
- Sangría
- Strawberry
- Diet Strawberry
- Strawberry Peach
- Diet Strawberry Peach
- Tamarind
- Tiki Blue
- Tiki Mist
- Tiki Orange Mango
- Tiki Punch
- Tonic Mix
- Twist Lime Lemon
- Diet Twist Lime Lemon
- Fruit punch (Carbonated & non-carb)
- Vanilla Cola
- Diet Vanilla Cola
- Zázz (grapefruit/lime flavor)
[edit] Shasta-related quotes
- "It's Saturday night; I've got no date, a two liter bottle of Shasta, and my all-Rush mix tape... let's rock." — Fry, about to use his video game skills to stop an alien invasion, Futurama ("Anthology of Interest II")
- "'Cause I'm the Master Blaster drinking up the Shasta / My voice sounds sweet 'cause it has-ta" — Professor Booty by Beastie Boys
- "I want a pop, pop, pop! I want a Shhhhhhhhhhhasta, Shasta!" — from a 1980s vintage Shasta TV commercial
- "Shasta! It has'ta be Shasta!" — from a 1970s vintage Shasta TV commercial
- "That's all that's left in those soda machines on Sunday morning: Mr Pibb, Diet Shasta Orange, and that yellow can of Canada Dry Tonic Water that nobody wants!" George Carlin, in a bit about motels.[citation needed]
- "Do you happen to have any diet creme-sickle Shasta, by any chance?" Turtle to Carla, Adam Davies' assistant. — Entourage Season 2 Episode 1, eight minutes into the episode
