Shout out to Shasta. For keeping us poor kids refreshed.

Alright. It's Saturday night, I have no date, A 2 Liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mixtape. Lets rock.

Copyright law is so weird. It's either surprisingly lenient or incredibly draconian depending on what the product is.

Hospitals across the US love Shasta.

I love the Tiki Punch Shasta. I used to find 2.5 liter bottles of it at the dollar stores in my area.

Finding out that Al Jourgensen was involvd in writing an advertising song for Shasta Soda may have broke my brain.

As someone who grew up very very poor. Shasta got us through some hard times when we needed a caffeine rush

I remember when they sold the 3 Liter bottles at the Dollar Tree a long time ago. When my mom would get soda, it was always Shasta!!! Love the flavors still as an adult.

Shasta isn't a generic or off brand, they were once a big player. It's not a coke knock off, it's just yet another cola

Sometimes knock offs are just better than the original....and cheaper...sometimes.

I enjoyed Shasta when I was a kid. They were much less expensive than name brand sodas and tasted just as good

shasta and faygo are proof you can drink the same stuff without paying for the name.

I have fond memories of spending a quarter at the Shasta vending machine in front of the local grocery store and getting a strawberry kiwi soda.

Flavors do not fall under one of the enumerated categories of copyrightable subject matter, and thus, as a matter of law, may not be registered for copyright.

BEST voice-over artist EVER!

Damn, I didn't realize shasta was responsible for so many of the standard practices in the soda industry. Coke and Pepsi are lucky Shasta was primarily content just being the knockoff brand instead of being a major competitor.

I like Shasta's Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew knockoff flavors. Walmart has decent knockoffs too with the Sam Cola and Mountain Lightning brands.

Most don't refer to the store brands as knockoffs they're more like private labels which tend to be better than the actual main products in some instances, As an example some store brand cereals like their take on Apple Jacks if you read the ingredients list it has apple in it whereas the actual apple jacks has more of a vague fruit flavor.

Shasta twist is the best soda on the market. I work at a nursing home with a relatively unlimited supply of it

Even Moxie had imitators.... Hoxie, Proxie, and Modox.

Their black cherry soda was my favourite in the 80's.

The shout-out to Rush made this Rush nerd very happy. 😊

Shasta was the one soda we loaded up the ice chest with before every family camping trip. They were 15 cents a can, and we grabbed every flavor the store had .

I associate Shasta with hospitals and 4oz cans. That's a kind of penetration you can't get anywhere else.

It's kinda hard finding Shasta products in my neck of the woods. You used to see it in just about every grocery store back in the 90s. I loved the Tiki Punch and Dr Shasta. I used to be able to find it in Dollar General stores, but it's nowhere to be found nowadays. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough lol

I haven't had a Shasta since like 2006, Heading to Dollar Tree now

Do Detroit's own Faygo, or Vernors

I can't believe that Faygo refuses to acknowledge the fact that if it wasn't for ICP noone would know who the hell they are

Shasta,Sunny D and barf jelly beans this week. Who ever comes up with the ideas for the videos is a evil genius. I approve

I genuinely have no recollection of ever seeing Shasta anywhere IRL. I remember hearing it in Futurama, but that's about it.

Never knew Shasta had lore. Always assumed it was the cheaper Walmart brand.

This making me really thirsty for a Shasta..

I just found this channel and I'm hype, good stuff

@2:40 Akshually, he was, he founded Ministry in 1981, released singles in 1982 and released his debut album "With Sympathy" in 1983

It has ta be Shasta was, in fact, in use by 1968 when my family moved to SoCal. The t.v. adverts for Shasta draft root beer were a hoot and the rhyming catch phrase beat this video’s claim by two decades.

I click on your videos and just hope it’s your narrating. Always a great vid when ya do!

Paul Harrell would like a word with you…

Another thing. ‘Recipe’ isn’t so much as “one cup flour, half cup sugar, 1 egg, teaspoon vanilla” as it is a formula that might measure flavorings by the milligrams. It’s a very precise formula that will produce the same results every time. That’s why there is Coke and Pepsi and RC and all the rest that sell cola. Each is a distinct formula that might use the same ingredients, just in different ratios. Or have one or more the others don’t. Shasta Cola tastes like Coke? Almost but not quite. Same with all the other copycat flavors❤

I drank so much Shasta as a kid. Loved all the fruit flavors, cola, and cream soda! It's hard to find them locally, now (Minnesota). I crave a grape pop!

Dr Shasta! Having a doctorate in Fizzalogy paid off. 😂

There is this small country in Mexico that is addicted to Cola. Most people drink about 2L of coke daily because it is cheaper and safer than water

For every Superman there is a Homelander, Supreme, Gladiator and Omni-Man.

They made a Nintendo-themed soda line when I was a kid and that stuff was delicious.

We only had Shasta pop growing up, root beer, kiwi strawberry, orange, grape and tiki punch (although I seem to remember tiki punch coming later..)

Shasta orange actually slaps incredibly hard

by not tasting even REMOTELY similar to it, that's how

I love Shasta. Ever since coke and Pepsi started prices non stop I’ve switched and won’t be looking back.

I’m not gonna lie, Diet Shasta was my go to drink for a few years. I’d take them to work and a fellow genXer or old say “Good Lord! I haven’t seen a Shasta in years! I didn’t know they were even around anymore!”

Shasta sounds like some sort of psychedelic a shaman would use, Hydrox sounds like toilet cleaner.

I have not seen Shasta soda in years

I drank Shasta POP on Shasta Lake in 1970's ,I must have snuck over 100 cans to bottom of lake

Paul Harrel is probably the only person keeping Shasta's doors open.

Thanks for this! 🥤

Love the squirt shoutout!

I would spend a good portion of my paycheck for tiki punch. Love it.

Ironic that I’m looking at this stream while drinking a soda (does that make it a SODASTREAM?) 😁

Back in the 40's and 50's there was a cream shampoo named Shasta.

tiki punch was my fave

Shasta is soda for the people ngl. Its like 2.50 a case sometimes

Thank you Shasta. You saved us so much money in college mixing drinks

I remember trying Chocolate Shasta as a kid once. Emphasis on the ONCE! Damn that was some nasty shit....

I like ginger ale Shasta. I don’t see it often at the supermarkets where I live but there is one place I see that is in hospitals. Whenever I would go visit either my mom or dad in the hospital a small can of ginger ale Shasta would be waiting for me. That was one of my childhood memories.

I grew up in Shasta County, near Shasta Lake. When I was a kid I had no idea Shasta Cola was a national brand.

I miss Shasta soda, can hardly find it now that I've moved out of California. I haven't had their raspberry cream soda in so long. Got a case of Tiki Punch at Winco months ago and I was thrilled.

I’m from Oakland we lived on Shasta products growing up. I can really drinking then all over California, Tahoe, SoCal, Mojave Desert, East Bay, on San Francisco Bay. Those old can images bring back various time and place memories. Later in by the 80s I worked at a place that made the Root Beer flavor for Shasta. If you were drinking their root beer in 88 and 89 I probably mixed the ingredients and poured it into drums for shipping.

Dr. SHASTA IS HILARIOUS 😂

I was a little kid in the 80's...I'd be at the Ski Trek drinking Shasta sodas and watching people wipe out and flip across the top of the water around the ski trek. It never got old. There were shells all over the ground that would cut your feet, and the people that wiped out on the other end of the trek had to walk barefoot all the way back around to the dock to ski again.

A+ video! LOVE IT! Amazing to see a video about Shasta!

“That’s crazy who drinks just straight mixer?” -Always Sunny

Pepsi adopted the 12 ounce can in the fifties and had its own jingle to advertise based on it while others were still using 8 ounce cans. My parents still sing it once in a while.

the faygo for my west coast upbringing

Toast em up is actually sold at dollar tree. That’s wild that both Oreo and Pop Tarts are actually the imitation.

"How Shasta gets away with imitating Coke". *Proceeds to spend the first 9 min talking about unrelated information*

“po’ a fo’ up in my shasta” - the raff riff

Off Brands... the true backbone of America.

Shasta continues to be a quality soda brand today. Shoutout to Winco for keeping it rolling. Probably the last place on earth you can get a soda from the vending machine for 25 cents.

Did not expect to encounter uncle Al in a weird foods video.

Came for Shasta, stayed for a lesson on IP and patent law.

Shasta has a grandfathered law working in their favor. I was surprised not to hear anything about that.

I don't know exactly when, but for some time, I got really hooked on Shasta Black Cherry. I also like Mountain Rush.

Faygo is a Michigan classic! Grew up with those❤

I fondly remember Dr. Shasta and Shasta grape as a kid.

There's a special place in hell for Shasta for switching to HFCs

Shout out Hayward, California. Home of Shasta cola. I can still see the soda tower when I close my eyes.

Back in the 70’s, my grandma use to have the diet Chocolate one in her fridge.

Also a reason why a company wouldn't patent something, in order to get a patent you have to divulge everything in your recipe. Basically it works out to, do you want to have something secret or a patent.

I started drinking Shasta again I fell in love with their carbonation recently

That Shasta Tiki Punch on Ice tho!

Vess is the St. Louis version of Shasta.

Drank Shasta as a kid. I was a fan of the red apple. Haven't had a Shasta in years.

the shasta cream soda and dr shasta are surprisingly good

How dare you, Give up our secrets!!!

Glad to live in Hayward, CA where Shasta is from

Shasta go hard. This video makes me want buy one. I wish there was more places where I lived where I can buy cold ones that would be really nice 👍🏽

I never heard of them until I started working in a hospital. That's usually what they give patient's. If we couldn't afford Coca-Cola, we got the store brands from Walmart, Kroger, etc.

You make the best videos

The Shasta bottling plant is in Hayward CA and we kids of the Bay Area would buy Shasta because more flavors, fresher taste and cheaper.

I live in a small city in the Midwestern US. When I first moved here in the mid-00's there was actually a Shasta soda machine in the entryway of one of our grocery stores. It was gone within just a few years, and IIRC replaced with a Coke machine. I haven't seen Shasta soda anywhere in the city since then. I remember that it was significantly cheaper then the big name soda brands (I believe 75 cents at the time), and it tasted cheaper too. It wasn't bad soda, but it certainly wasn't a threat to Coke or Pepsi. If you can find a place that sells 12 packs of the stuff, I'd say it's not a bad choice if you're looking to save a couple bucks or just try something different. After watching this video, I'm surprised to learn about how many things Shasta did first! You'd think they'd be a bigger deal with all those innovations.

Love Shasta my old store would have all the flavors and you could mix and match for a quarter a can

My mom still sometimes gets Shasta and I had it growing up a lot. I remember it actually being good and telling my mom to get it over coke because why not save some money. Same with faygo