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Living in Wisconsin when I was younger, it was a common practice to order a suicide soda. I can remember ordering this often at summer camp where my girlfriends and
I not only ordered the drink but drank it too. So yes girls also order this drink. This was in the early 60's. Hearing this on the show today made me think it's been a long time since I had this drink, maybe I should order one next time I'm out….then
again, it doesn't seem to be a taste I have craved over the years so maybe not.
When I think of "Suicides" I think of 7-11 Slurpees. In the summer, on Sunday afternoons after church, the best way to get a Suicide was to start hinting to Dad a block or 2 before the 7-11: "Gee Dad, its hot" and "I sure am thirsty." It rarely ever failed (thanks Dad!).
And yes, I am a girl (girls like them, too!). Even now that I am a thirty-something-year old, sometimes I just need that that frozen sugar combo (even if it is just Coke and Cherry mix).
I sure am thirsty!
chris here, in milwaukee ... i love your program, always have ... in response to the guy who called about mixing different kinds of pop/soda to make a suicide, i know we did this in central indiana in the early '70s. as a small boy i often helped out in the concession stand while my brother played little league and i know we served lots of "suicides". we charged 5 cents more for these concoctions and yes, and customers were almost exclusively boys (whose mothers were not accompanying them to the counter!).
great memory evoked!
Back in the early and mid-fifties, we used to make flavored cokes often, mostly for teenagers, both male and female. I worked at a soda fountain and would often pull a coke for a customer. No self-serve then. The most common flavors ordered were cherry, chocolate, lemon, and vanilla. Once in a while, a customer would order one with all the flavors, and that we called the infamous suicide coke.
I forget what a soda fountain coke cost then, probably 10 cents, because a cup of coffee was five cents, and simple sundaes with one fair sized scoop of ice cream were 15 cents. Black and white sundaes had half chocolate syrup and half marshmallow. A customer could also order chocolate ice cream with marshmallow syrup. A fancy sundae with two scoops of ice cream and chopped nuts and whipped cream was 25 cents, and a banana split was 35.
Jean from central Indiana
Hate to admit it, but I have a different memory of a "Suicide" from my teen years. A Suicide was sneaking into someone's parent's liquor cabinet and siphoning off a small amount of liquid from every bottle into one glass. A drawing of cards and the winner amongst the assembled Zit-Rangers got to down the Suicide Cocktail.
Tom from Milwaukee
I loved this episode (I love them all!!) and smiled when I heard you all wonder about whether girls drank them too. We sure did! I remember doing self-serve sodas at the country club in Florida around 1976. We would put a little Coke, 7-Up, Grape, and Orange soda all in one cup. It was yummy and rebellious at the same time!
Zit-Rangers!!! Tom, I'm stealing that.
Deric, I always thought sasparilla was a drink with one specific flavor. Anyone else?
And geez, judging from everyone's comments here and in email, I guess there were girls who drank this stuff on a regular basis. Kitty, I think you summed it up: "yummy and rebellious at the same time!"(Although I have yet to be convinced about the yummy part.) 🙂
When I was a teen in Springville, Utah, in the 80s we had a drive-up burger joint that would actually make one of those for you if you asked for "a wild Indian" (un-PC, I know!). I don't know if the folks at this particular greasy spoon invented that name or were using a term that was already common in the area. For that matter, I don't even know if that place exists any more, but I do seem to remember girls getting them too.
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