![]() ![]() Wild, Silly Billy Strawberry, Rockin' Red Puncher, Mean Green Puncher, Smarty Arty Orange, and Troppi Tropical Punch. In addition to Chucklin' Cherry and Grumpy Grape (later changed to Gallopin' Grape), flavors included Berry B. The drink was no Surge, but it was still a solid lunchbox staple for over a decade - even despite these horrible ads, which feature children drinking out of and torturing anthropomorphized bottle-men: With flavor names like Chucklin' Cherry and Grumpy Grape and the tagline "Squeeze the fun out of it," it appealed to a crowd that liked to play with their food as much as possible. Their name came from their modus operandi - that is, the fact that you had to squeeze the bottles order to get any juice out of them. Instead of the standard juice box, the vessels that carried this particular drink were plastic bottles with wacky character faces molded onto one side. But whatever happened to Squeezits, anyway? Where did they go - and why did they vanish in the first place?įirst introduced to kiddos in the 1980s, Squeezits were juices with the gimmick of a bottle that you had to squeeze. That might be why Squeezits, the line of juices with a lot of personality, were already behind in the game many, however, still look back on them fondly. ![]() Blue Pepsi, purple ketchup - the more radioactive-seeming, the better. In the 1980s and 1990s, the marketers of the world somehow determined that in order to grab children's attention, all they had to do was make products as far away from from colors found in the natural world as possible. When it comes to kid-related fare, the branding is everything. ![]()
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