Sun Drop
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| Type | Citrus soda |
| Manufacturer | Dr Pepper Snapple Group |
| Distributor | Local bottlers and distributors |
| Country of origin | Gastonia, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Introduced | 1928 |
| Variants | Diet Sundrop Caffeine Free Sun Drop Caffeine Free Diet Sun Drop Cherry Lemon Sun Drop |
| Related products | Mountain Dew Mello Yello Surge Vault 7 Up Sunkist Squirt |
Sun Drop is a citrus-flavored soda produced by Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Like other citrus sodas, it has a yellowish-green color imparted by Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. It has a more tart taste than Pepsi's Mountain Dew or Coca-Cola's Mello Yello, and is known for its high caffeine (64.7mg per 12oz can)[1] and sugar content. Orange juice is an ingredient in the drink, and remaining pulp matter from the orange juice provide some of the soft drink's unique taste and appearance. A diet variety was introduced in 1985.
Sun Drop was developed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949 by soft-drink salesman Charles Lazier. In the 1950s and 1960s Sundrop was sometimes produced under names such as "Sun Drop Golden Cola" or "Golden Girl Cola". The brand was acquired and standardized by Crush International in 1970, itself purchased by Procter & Gamble in 1980, which sold its soft drinks holdings to Cadbury Schweppes plc (now Dr Pepper Snapple Group) in 1989.
While extraordinarily popular in the Carolinas, rural areas in the Southside area of Virginia, (Southampton County in particular), the Jackson Purchase area of western Kentucky, south-central and northeastern Wisconsin, the Tennessee Valley areas of Middle Tennessee and North Alabama, Old Monroe,Silex and Rolla, Missouri area and west central Minnesota, Sun Drop remains relatively unknown in most of the United States. Like other regional drinks with a cult following such as Cheerwine, fans outside bottling areas have been known to pay large amounts to have the drink shipped to them. [2]
There are five varieties of the drink available for sale: Sun Drop (green can), Diet Sun Drop (white can, 71.5mg caffeine)[3], Caffeine Free Sun Drop (gold can), Cherry Lemon Sun Drop (red can), and Caffeine Free Diet Sun Drop (gold/white can).
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the drink was promoted in the South by NASCAR Winston Cup driver Dale Earnhardt.
[edit] Other Products
In some Food Lion grocery stores, Sun Drop, along with Cheerwine is the main flavor of a Food Lion brand popsicle and sherbert.
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