It’s chocolate milk for me!
I still love the stuff and have it every day with my 12-year-old daughter, it’s our twice-daily ritual(midmorning and night time)–blowing bubbles with a straw and all!
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Comment by ~DanaB~ on 10/4/2007 @ 7:35 am
It’s Kool-aid, man! We had that old-fashioned metal pitcher with metal classes (aluminum?) and made it all the time. Kool-aid pops, Kool-aid to drink, Kool-aid slush, all sorts of Kool-aid! I think I had a permanent Grape Kool-Aid mustache one week. hmmm…maybe I’ll make a quick run to the store for some mix….
Comment by Minette on 10/4/2007 @ 7:55 am
My childhood drink was also Kool-Aid. Mostly Cherry and Orange. My brothers lked purple (or grape, as it’s sometimes known), so sometimes I had to drink that. And, as wit the previous poster, we also had those aluminum tumblers. I etched my intials on one after somebody kept using my cup… Milk ws a close runner-up, with or without chocolate (we used a lot of the syrup on peanut butter sandwiches, but that’s another story)syrup.
Comment by Kathy Pearlman on 10/4/2007 @ 9:50 am
Root Beer Floats, for sure! At birthday parties I would always take the ice cream scoop, which was sitting next to the cake on my plate, and dump it into my root beer. Yummy!!
Second Runner Up - Hot Cocoa. But only when it’s served with Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches, like my Memere used to give me. Yummers!
Comment by Donna Cutting on 10/4/2007 @ 9:56 am
Okay, remember going to the gas station or what they used to call the “filling station” and going to the really cool vending machine filled with glass bottles? I do! My drink of choice was an ice cold chocolate Yoohoo Soda in a glass bottle and it cost a whole 5 cents. I would get my chocolate soda a wait for the attendant to fill up the car, wash the windows, check the oil and smell that mixture of oil, gas and all the other greasey odors coming from the gargage of the station. It was an adventure and a mini field trip indeed to get to go to the filling station with my dad for gasoline and get that Yoohoo soda. What a great memory! Thanks for letting me share this with you.
Comment by Lori on 10/4/2007 @ 9:59 am
Homemade root beer. Every year at Halloween my church would have a “Trunk or Treat” where people hand out treats from the trunks of their car in the parking lot of the church. They had lots of games and activities. It was awesome. One of the best things there for me was always the homemade root beer. They would add dry ice around it to make it look like a brew. One of the ladies would dress up as a witch and have the root beer in a “cauldron.” Loved it. Every year, I still go to the Trunk-or-Treat and get that root beer, even though I do not drink soda anymore. It is the one soda that I allow myself to drink and it totally takes me back to childhood.
Comment by Meredith on 10/4/2007 @ 10:58 am
O’So Soda Pop - greatest soda ever… came in flavors like Black Cherry, Grape, Orange, Lime, and the one we fought over the most, Cream Soda…. not Cream Soda by today’s standards, but 1970’s Cream Soda, so sweet it hurt your teeth as you drank it and gave you the most ultimate sugar rush ever. A&W has nothing on O’So! I would hide them in the bottom of the vegetable drawer so my sister couldn’t find them… though I doubt now if that was a good hiding place!
Comment by Jill on 10/4/2007 @ 12:49 pm
For me childhood brings back tons of memories of interesting beverages including the following: Yes kool-aid makes my list but with a twist. My grandma used to make us kool-aid using the first Tupperware pitcher ever made. You know the kind that had that slight milky color to it. Grandma was up in age and I think her counting was off a bit because her kool-aid was terrible! It was so sour! I also grew up with fizzies! Yes those little flavored tablets that came in a foiled card which when dropped in water fizzed. I used to beg my parents for them as we passed the spinner that they were displayed on. Every flavor know to man was there to lure a weak lad including root beer. The taste? Well lets just say they colored the water and root beer looked like rusty water and they had a hint of the flavor almost. I don’t know why I never thought of just putting one in my mouth and let it fizz. Çhocolate milk was also a popular drink of the day and still is. However I have taught my grand daughters to eliminate the milk and just pour the chocolate surup on a spoon and drink it straight. My mom would have killed me if I did that back in the day!
Comment by Walt on 10/4/2007 @ 6:09 pm
Honestly my childhood drink is Koolaid…. Every day it was Koolaid with that big scary Koolaid glass pitcher man. Go figure I can’t stomach the stuff now!
Comment by Elea on 10/4/2007 @ 9:56 pm
Kiddie cocktails - Whenever I went to dinner with my grandparents, I was treated to a kiddie cocktail to feel like the “big kids” or adults. I loved the cherries. The more the merrier.
Comment by Toni Brown on 10/10/2007 @ 7:47 am
Probably hot chocolate
Comment by Tiffany Smith on 10/18/2007 @ 11:16 am
Boy, does this question in itself bring back the memories!! I loved those aluminum tumblers…and yes you always picked one that was “your” cup!! Chocolate milk has to be the best childhood drink. Vitamins, calcium, cool bubbles and ice cold in those cool colored aluminum cups! What more could you ask for???? I could list other favorites, but that is the one that popped into my head first!
Comment by Kealy Keeney on 11/29/2007 @ 12:35 pm
Hot chocolate, my mom would make her own.. YUMMY
Comment by Sonya on 1/31/2008 @ 10:56 am
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