The Faygo Kid

[Faygo Kid]

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I was raised in Michigan and remember drinking Faygo...

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... in particular -- root beer and red pop.
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A buncha new flavors now, including City Water (eeyeewww) and Faygobrau (BWAHAHAHA).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faygo
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[Denninmi]

3. I never see anything very exotic

Most stores only carry the dozen roughly core flavored. Probably heresy to say this but honestly it is not as good as the comparable flavor of a national brand. Their cola drinks are particularly bad. It's a "value" brand sold at discount prices, so they probably cut corners. The only one I like, but haven't had for years, is Rock'N'Rye, a kind of cherry-berry cola cream soda blend thing- reminds me of Pepsi's Josta soda from the 1990's which I loved then they discontinued.

Pop is not on my diet these days anyway.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I remember them as being VERY fruity-sweet (the Faygo Kid was obviously marketing to kids).

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And I bet the exotic flavors are sold almost exclusively through their website.
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Rock and Rye soda was GREAT!!! I'm not sure I was drinking Faygo's version, though.
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[Denninmi]

5. Yeah, that is the issue. Sweet but the flavor is weaker than comparable ones.

Crush makes better grape, orange, and strawberry. A&W is a better root beer, etc. Coke and Pepsi are dramatically better, Faygo Cola has a weird flavor I recall as "dusty" or "old". Their diet formulas still use saccharin so are noticeably bitter compared to brands using sucralose.

To be fair, I haven't tasted any flavor of Faygo in a few years. Maybe it improved.

I'm waiting to be tarred and feathered by the Detroit pop purists for my heresy.

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. I always wondered... n/t