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Subject: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: cinnabon on 03/10/08 at 4:47 pm
Most of us children of the 70s and 80s probably remember that Coca Cola had another diet soft drink on the market called Tab, which got its unique taste from its saccharin sweetener - I remember trying it when I was a kid and thought it was pretty good.
Remember the commercial slogan: "Tab Tab Cola what a beautiful drink, Tab Tab Cola for beautiful people..."
I think it most likely started to dip in popularity with a combination of the introduction of Diet Coke in 1982 and most diet soft drinks switching to Nutrasweet by 1985 - however Tab is still available in limited markets (its now sweetened with both saccharin and Nutrasweet and Tab even came out with an energy drink as well). :)
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Tanya1976 on 03/10/08 at 5:13 pm
It was okay. I would offer sneak tastes because my mom didn't want me to drink it.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: AmericanGirl on 03/10/08 at 6:01 pm
I tried it. I wasn't a big fan, though. I thought it had an aftertaste :P
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Brigitte on 03/10/08 at 7:17 pm
I used to drink my Mom's too but I would never buy it. I hate the aftertaste of all diet drinks too. 8-P
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: cinnabon on 03/10/08 at 7:22 pm
I used to avoid diet sodas too because of the aftertaste but when I was dieting a few years ago I started out by drinking diet root beer or Diet 7-up which didn't have an aftertaste until I got past that - now I drink Diet Pepsi all the time and I love it!
Remember when diet soft drink cans used to carry warnings about saccharin being cancerous?
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Jessica on 03/10/08 at 7:30 pm
I STILL drink it, but only when I can afford it. :P
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Brigitte on 03/10/08 at 7:43 pm
Remember when diet soft drink cans used to carry warnings about saccharin being cancerous?
I think that's why I don't drink diet sodas but I thought the aspertame could cause brain damage. I heard that somewhere, I dunno?
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: snozberries on 03/10/08 at 8:26 pm
I STILL drink it, but only when I can afford it. :P
I didn't realize they still made it...
I drank it- I didn't like the aftertaste either but for some reason I thought it was cool because all the adults were all drinking it... then I found out it was diet soda and never drank it again
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: lorac61469 on 03/10/08 at 8:28 pm
YUCK!! I hate Tab, to me it has the worst flavor. That's all my mother ever drank.
Kool Cigarettes and Tab, my mothers 2 favorite things.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Jessica on 03/10/08 at 10:03 pm
I didn't realize they still made it...
I think they only make it on this side of the Mississippi. I have failed to find it in California. :P
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Gis on 03/11/08 at 2:12 am
It was only out for a short time in the U.K, I don't think it was very popular. I do remember Tab Clear which I used to buy every now and then.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: coqueta83 on 03/11/08 at 8:11 pm
I didn't like TAB all that much. The aftertaste was too strong.
Whenever I think of TAB cola, though, I think of my 4th grade teacher, who used to keep several cans of it on her desk everyday. ;D
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Andria on 10/31/08 at 12:16 am
I drink Tab all the time, straight or mixed with Diet Dr Pepper and/or Barq's Root Beer. I live in Oregon, and it is readily available at places like Fred Meyer's, Winco and Albertson's in both 6- and 12-pack form. Tab is NOT the original diet cola, nor was Diet Rite. In the late 1950s, the now-defunct White Rock company introduced "Diatonic Cola", which, according to my 86-year-old grandmother, tasted awful and was a bomb.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: mooster on 11/01/08 at 7:53 am
I wasn't that keen on the taste 8-P I preferred one by the name of "Export Cola" - it was in a gold textured can ???
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: whistledog on 11/01/08 at 8:05 pm
Marty McFly: "Gimme a tab"
Lou: "Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something"
McFly: "Ok, then gimme a Pepsi Free"
Lou: 'You want a Pepsi pal, you're gonna pay for it!"
:D
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: apollonia1986 on 11/02/08 at 8:43 pm
I never drank Tab but I do rememberthat wicked line from "Adventures on Babysitting"
"I spiked her Tab with Drano" ;D
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Midas on 11/03/08 at 1:22 pm
Meh. Never liked TaB. 8-P
A couple years ago I had a strange dream about being in some redneck setting and they offered me some beer called Nibbly-Bibb™ that came in a pink can and it was totally the TaB of beers - it tasted like cr@p. 8-P :D
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Davester on 11/03/08 at 1:31 pm
Chances are I drank some...
Tab was definately a drive-in movie intermission commercial..."t-a-a-a-a-b, it's right for you..."
*gurgle-gurgle* *fizz-fizz*
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Davester on 11/03/08 at 1:32 pm
No wait, I'm thinking of RC Cola...so nevermind...
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Midas on 11/03/08 at 2:27 pm
No wait, I'm thinking of RC Cola...so nevermind...
RC Cola rocks. I bought some a couple weeks ago.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Marty McFly on 11/03/08 at 4:01 pm
I totally assoociate Tab with the '80s (sodas in general seem 80s too, and I was really into them as a kid then), but it's been so long I kinda forget how it tasted. I always preferred Coke over Pepsi and I think it was kinda like that.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: ninny on 11/03/08 at 4:02 pm
RC Cola rocks. I bought some a couple weeks ago.
At the Arby's I worked at we use to sell RC Cola until @2004 when we switched to Pepsi,people use to make fun of us for having it.
I never was into Tab.
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Davester on 11/03/08 at 5:46 pm
RC Cola rocks. I bought some a couple weeks ago.
Man, I haven't had RC in a looong time. So I guess they still make it...
Remember Fresca? Yuck..!
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Jessica on 11/03/08 at 5:50 pm
Man, I haven't had RC in a looong time. So I guess they still make it...
Remember Fresca? Yuck..!
They sell RC all over the place on this side of the Mississippi.
And don't diss Fresca! I loved that stuff! ;D
Subject: Re: Who liked to drink Tab Cola way back when?
Written By: Davester on 11/03/08 at 6:15 pm
They sell RC all over the place on this side of the Mississippi.
And don't diss Fresca! I loved that stuff! ;D
My parents had me convinced that if I drank Fresca it would eat through the lining of my stomach, then continue on from there, where I'd be reduced to a pile of bones and goop...
It was a mean way of telling me to stay out of their soda, I'll betcha..!