Pepsi Jazz

Do you know one of the reasons why I enjoy collecting soda cans?  It's because they are so quick and limited.  The often exist for only a brief moment in time before they are discontinued or designed differently. Also, since I rarely had soda as a child, I find as an adult I really appreciate it when I have it to drink. Consider the cans below, which sadly, I don't have in my collection.

These are discontinued Pepsi sodas.  They definitely seem exotic now.  I remember buying them and drinking them with my friend in his apartment playing Texas Hold 'em.  Not a grand memory, but a nice one. And I associate the memory with these cans.

These nifty cans only lasted from 2006 - 2009.  Then they went kaput. So sad.  They came in Black Cherry French Vanilla, Caramel Cream, and Strawberries and Cream. One reviewer thought the Caramel one was best. I was prone to agree.

RC Cola

I got a new soda can over the weekend.  It's been one I've been meaning to collect.  I finally got it because my friend who was visiting loves this cola more than Pepsi and Coke, so he bought a 12 pack for our fridge. It's Royal Crown Cola, made by the same people who bring us Dr. Pepper.

RC Cola 2013

Caffeine Free Coke Zero

I found a new can shortly after it was released.  Apparently, Coke Zero is doing great.  So great that they decided to release a Caffeine Free Version.  It came out this very month and I picked up a 12 pack at my local store.  I think the black and gold can is rather stylish.

2013 Caffeine Free Coke Zero

The target audience is apparently also people like me: young adult males (just look at the official site.) Diet Coke is too womanly, so the Coke Zero line is targeted towards men.  Interestingly, it was already available in France and Japan, but not here.  To correct this oversight of leaving North America out, a petition was made to bring it here.  It only had 5 signatures, but I guess that was enough!

It's Still Going On...

It's been some time since I've last posted.  But less you think I have given up on my soda can collecting habit and written it off as some childish fad, here is an updated picture of the "basement" where the cans in my collection are located.

Not bad, huh?  Back in February I only had a photo of 15 cans. I will try to be more diligent in posting...perhaps not once a day but a goal of once a week.  As a side note, I set a goal of having at least 100 cans by summer.  Well, it certainly is summer now and I have exceeded my goal and have a total of 123 different soda cans in my collection.  As always, what the mind can conceive and believe, it CAN achieve.(See what I did there?  I am awesome.)

More Cans!

More cans collected in the past weeks.

Adirondack Black Cherry Soda

My wife sent me out to get ice cream one evening once the weather warmed up.  Turns out they only took cash but no problem!  I bought some soda and got cash back.  Adirondack Black Cherry Soda.

Adirondack Black Cherry Soda 2013

Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer

To round out my cans from our trip to the in-laws I found this can at a nice country store where we went for ice cream.  It's Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer.  Birch Beer tastes a lot like root beer but has a slightly distinctive bitter flavor to it too.  I'm not sure if Pennsylvania Dutch makes any other sodas, but I have at least one of them now.

Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer 2013