Sunny Delight

[howthemighty]

I've been enjoying this podcast series called Toast, about the rise and fall of big name companies such as Toys R Us, Jamie's Italian, Club 18-30, and the Commodore 64. This episode is about Sunny Delight: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JeMKDnFayh1wu4GCzbwsK
(Also available on BBC Sounds if you don't use Spotify).

I was a teenager when Sunny Delight was launched, and my mum bought it once, so we could try it, but we weren't hooked in - my mum was pretty good at reading ingredients lists, even back then. But it's quite fascinating to hear the background about the marketing, and how it almost out-sold Coca-Cola for a while (before everyone realised it was full of sugar and might turn the kids yellow if they drank too much). 😁

For some reason I thought it had veg oil in it too like another poster. I may have been older but I remember realising it was crap!

Also remember lucozade being wrapped up and used for illness. So random!

I once heard it described as it tasting like someone had tried to make orange juice without using any oranges.

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The US version has canola (rapeseed) oil in it, I expect the one we used to get in the UK was the same before they made it 'healthy'!

https://sunnyd.com/flavors/tangy-original/

And yes, I do remember it, I really liked it. Can still remember the taste really clearly.

Same with mountain dew, loved that stuff. I bought some on a whim the other week and it was absolutely grim!

I used to.love Quatro

Ah yes! That will be right.

Yes I think it was an ambient product that was chilled for "effect" - and the second largest ingredient was sugar

I hated Sunny D - so overly sweet. I never had a sweet tooth though.

I loved the California one! Used to but it with my pocket money as my parents wouldn’t buy it for us. They didn’t fall for the marketing ploy.

My children loved Sunny Delight for a while. None of them turned yellow. I didn't mind buying it for them. I couldn't be puritanical about such things since I'd grown up on Creamola Foam and full sugar fizzy pop, and Lucozade when I was ill, as previous posters have mentioned.

Use to love it! My mum bought it all the time for my little brother but we use to drink it all. Preferred California one. I would still buy it now if I could, tried the one now that’s been rebranded but it was nowhere near the same and tasted very watery.

Does anyone remember the green sunny delight? I loved that, must have been around 17 then.

I remember someone at work in the early 00s saying. They gave there children sunny delight every day because it was good for them

I never bought Sunny Delight - one look at the radioactive colour told you something was not right.
I also get wary of products with made-up names. I buy stuff like 'beef' or 'cheese' (because I know what they are!); things like 'Sunny Delight' or 'Elmlea' are UPF hiding behind cute-sy names.