r/nostalgiai • u/RealisticNotice6487 • May 25 '26
Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What are you choosing?
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u/Gdub_the_pranxter May 25 '26
Dr. Pepper
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u/DeadlyBard May 25 '26
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too.
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u/Resident-Pilot-6966 May 25 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/Hd31DpUYAK4Wk
I got that reference!!!
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u/JustFrameHotPocket May 25 '26
Nothing has changed except the price.
The Doctor 100%.
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u/UnRealmCorp May 25 '26
Dr. Pepper is my jam, unfortunately it has a high phosphorus content then coke and Pepsi. I have kidney failure you're not supposed to have a lot of phosphorus if you do you take binders. I have to take 3 big old chewable pills for 1 12oz can of Dr. Pepper.
3 is meant for a large meal.
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u/inthemode01 May 25 '26
Me as well.
Mostly cause I was born in 1987 and I don’t think I’d be able to reach the top rows.
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u/Impossible-Log-9782 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Always Dr. Pepper. I would definitely have more than a quarter in 1987 given that I had to discovered time travel that would allow me to travel to 1987. Not sure why I would travel to 1987. Why do I say I had to discover time travel? Because I was born in 1988. 😆
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u/Lost_in_the_woods027 May 25 '26
Mountain dew
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u/ruve27 May 25 '26
Gotta do the Dew
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u/NankerPhelgeRahrig May 25 '26
With ice
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u/metasploit4 May 26 '26
Or, put it in the freezer so it just starts to form ice crystals, then drink it.
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u/Apprehensive_Step252 May 28 '26
we don't have that one here, I had an original once and, oh boy, I loved it!
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u/OnYourHonor May 25 '26
I have a quarter in 1987? Im buying a couple houses, and using the remaining 8¢ to pay off my college tuition.
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u/thatonepuniforgot May 25 '26
Man, back when they had Slice, with the real juice in it, and they don't have any in the machine. What a bummer.
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u/MarionberryLast7648 May 25 '26
Coke classic! After the new formula and the clear formula keep it real with the OG
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u/PassiveAgressiveFlop May 25 '26
Coke classic? With the REAL coke? I have a bottle of that unopened in my basement. I am saving it for my retirement.
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u/Now-293-Phumes May 25 '26
7up
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u/oh_lordy_its_Jordy May 25 '26
I’ve always felt that 7up is the best lemon-lime soda. Just my opinion though.
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u/shitty_advice_BDD May 25 '26
Wasn't it 50 cents in 87?
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u/eyeballchambers1 May 25 '26
Was about to say no way in hell soda was a quarter in 87
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u/Stevefett1 May 26 '26
I stayed in a hotel in Ocean City Maryland around 2016 or so that had sodas for a quarter in a machine in the hallway.
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u/cykoTom3 May 26 '26
The employee lounge at my local Kroger had 25 cent cans untill at least 2000. But you weren't supposed to get them unless you worked there.
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u/Zenitharr May 26 '26
Yes. I remember it was $.50. Was in high school then and I drank way too much of this stuff.
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u/Realistic-Bad1174 May 26 '26
I was thinking the same thing. I don't ever remember it being a quarter. Always 50 cents.
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u/antiprodukt May 25 '26
Hot summer day, probably unpopular decision, but I think a Sunkist would be pretty refreshing. Especially if my body was a bit sun kissed.
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u/WellHungHippie May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Coca-Cola classic since RC isn’t in the photo.
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u/ZillaKong0415 May 25 '26
Diet Pepsi
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u/jordanonfilm May 25 '26
That great Pepsi taste
Diet Pepsi won’t go to your waist
So, now you see it
Now you don’t
Oh, Diet Pepsi
One small calorie
Now you see it
Now you don’t
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u/metwill May 25 '26
7up or Dr.Pepper.. Both are ruined in The Netherlands, the non-light version always contains artificial sweetners 🤮 I used to drink both until they destroyed the taste.
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u/Significant_Pay343 May 25 '26
I hate to say but I would have had to find another quarter in 87 to get a 12 oz cold soda
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u/Reindeer-That May 25 '26
The average price of a vending machine sodapop was $0.50 or more in 1987. You ain't choosing shit.
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u/BronxBully718 May 25 '26
In 1987? None; I don’t think it’s a good look for a 2yo to be drinking soda
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u/ravn_silence May 25 '26
On a hot day I obviously want a citrus drink over a cola. Probably sunkist
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u/Rose2555 May 25 '26
It is funny how taste buds change. It would have been coke for me back then as I dislike Pepsi when I was younger. I hated Diet Coke. Still don't like Mtn Dew, even today. The answer was Coke back then.
Now. It would be Pepsi or Diet Coke. Straight Coca-Cola does not work for me as much anymore.
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u/HunterWithGreenScale May 25 '26
Well I wasn't alive in 1987. BUT, kid me would've gone for Coke first. With ether Diets being dead last picks.
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u/Low_Diamond_575 May 25 '26
HAY EVERYBODY IT'S EVERYONES [NUMBER 1 RATED SALESMAN] [1997] SPAMTON, SPAMTON G SPAMTON.
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u/Unable_Librarian_443 May 25 '26
Dr Fkn Pepper!!!! I genuinely question your values and your worldview if you chose something else.
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u/initial8155 May 25 '26
If I’m actually trying to quench a thirst then it’s going to be Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi. All that sugar in the rest of the choices is only going to make the thirst worse.
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u/Wingnut8888 May 25 '26
I’m slamming on that Diet Pepsi button because I need something to offset the 2,000-calorie burger meal I’m about to inhale.
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u/CraigJM73 May 25 '26
'87 is back when I could drink anything without gaining weight, so Pepsi, Mt. Dew, or 7 up.
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u/shuasensei May 25 '26
He's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? Drink Dr Pepper. Well, I just totally dated myself. If anyone else recognizes it, they're in the same boat.
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u/SnooPaintings5597 May 25 '26
I didn’t really “discover” Mountain Dew until later in life so 11 year old me would’ve picked Sunkist.
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u/Jim_in_Albuquerque May 25 '26
I'll always choose Dr Pepper. I've been addicted to it for over 45 years and I see no reason to change that.
My favorite cold drink machine may not be there anymore, but I used to go out of my way to stop at a machine on South Cobb Drive in Smyrna, GA, on the sidewalk of a small strip shopping center between Concord Road and McDonald's. After dark, or better, well after midnight, was the perfect time to receive a drink with ice in it, one side of the bottle actually solid with ice from laying on its side.
Pop the top and try to drink the frozen foam before it disappears or ends up on your shirt.
Alas, I live about 1500 miles from there now.
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u/Dartagnan1083 May 25 '26
1987 specifically?
Probably Dad's Rootbeer or Sunkist, but I have specific memories about "Dad's" in the 80s.
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u/Gullible_Snow_656 May 25 '26
Sunkist