KICKAPOO JOY JUICE – THE ORIGINAL DOGPATCH RECIPE, Soda Pop Review
November 17th, 2009 | by Conrad Walton |
KICKAPOO JOY JUICE - THE ORIGINAL DOGPATCH RECIPE
When I was about in Jr. High, which is what we called Middle School back then, I have a vague memory of going to a county fair or someplace like that, where there was a lot hustle and bustle. I remember that, as we were leaving, we came across a wagon, I think it was a wagon, with a bunch of people, (maybe girls?) handing out free samples of a new soft drink.
I’m a sucker for free stuff so I got a bottle of it and drank it down. It was like nothing I’d ever tasted. I saved that bottle for years before losing it in an annual bedroom cleaning with my mom.
It was Kickapoo Joy Juice.
What a great name! I want “joy juice”, doesn’t everyone? The bottle I saved had a painted label and is probably worth some money today, but it’s long gone.
I remember feeling like I was in on a secret, on a new soda pop that was coming to market and I got it first. It was like owning the first record of a band that got famous later, but you could always say that you liked them first.
I never heard of Kickapoo Joy Juice after that encounter, but Mountain Dew came out soon after. I always thought that the just changed the name because of marketing reasons or something. It seemed like the same stuff to me. The labels even looked the same back then. Of course, Kickapoo Joy Juice never sponsored the X Games.
You do get the whole Dogpatch comic strip tie in, right? If I remember correctly, this drink was featured in the comic strip.
That brings me to this bottle. It’s back. The label is printed paper, instead of painted on.
The smell is the same. The taste is the same. It’s sweet, but citrus. I never knew it was “citrus” back then, or even that Mountain Dew is “citrus”. This has a full, sweet, citrus taste. I really like it.
Mountain Dew has more a chemical taste, but otherwise it’s similar to this. This is what Mountain Dew SHOULD taste like.
I’ll buy this again. I do like it. It takes me back to being 13 years old.
I think the girls were wearing Daisy Mae outfits, the original “Daisy Dukes”.
INGREDIENTS: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (a preservative), Concentrated Grapefruit Juice, Caffeine, Gum Arabic, Sodium Citrate, Natural Flavor, EDTA (to protect flavor), Brominated Vegetable Oil and Yellow 5.
Tags: 13 Years, Bustle, Citrus Taste, Comic Strip, Daisy Dukes, Daisy Mae, Dogpatch, Encounter, Free Samples, Free Stuff, Fructose Corn Syrup, Girls, High Fructose Corn, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Juice Recipe, Kickapoo Joy Juice, Labels, marketing, Mom, money, Mountain Dew, Soda Pop, Soft Drink, Sucker, Vague Memory, X Games
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