7-Up Gold Commercial

I never posted a commercial for the elusive 7-Up Gold soda that briefly appeared in 1988.  I wrote before the soda had a ginger-ale taste, but I have since read it also had an apple-cinnamon zing too.  I wish I could have tried it.  Sadly, I doubt I ever will.  I can least imagine how awesome I would have been at a classy restaurant with 7-Up Gold served to me as a teenager.  So wild.  Nothing like bothering the well-to-dos at the table next to you by trying that new-fangled soda with your wild friends.  Maybe that was the problem.  Why market 7-Up as having a wild side? If they would have left out the caffeine and marketed it as a homey grandma's house beverage with a heart warming hearth or something mom's might have bought it. Maybe it could have even been a seasonal thing.  Dr. Pepper/Snapple should try to bring back 7-Up Gold as a holiday beverage.  If it sticks, then they can expand.  That's what I think.  I should contact Dr. Pepper/Snapple.  In fact, I just did.  So can you.

You too can be wild if you drink 7-Up Gold

7-UP Gold

Since thinking about Cool Spot, the 7-Up mascot in the 1980s, I've been on a little 7-Up kick lately.  I thought I'd look into 7-Up varieties to someday add to my can collection.  I came across this can I'd like to find:

7-Up Gold

7-Up Gold was only available for a short time in 1988, long before my can collecting times.  It was a spicy ginger-ale beverage that executives hoped would capture at least one percent of the cola market.  It also had caffeine which ironically went against their advertising campaign at the time of bragging how 7-Up drinks didn't have caffeine.  It's didn't work.  By 1989, it was gone and a fitting obituary was published in the New York Times that can be read here. If anybody have a 7-Up Gold can, please let me know!