Review: Tropicana Twister Soda Orange
Sep 12th, 2006 by Steve
I found a bottle of Tropicana Twister Soda Orange during a recent road trip Amy and I took. This beverage has pretty much disappeared from the Chicago area, probably due to poor sales.
It's another installment in the questionable Tropicana Twister Soda line of drinks from Pepsi, including the previously reviewed Tropicana Twister Soda Citrus. The Orange flavor came first, which is sort of obvious given the "Tropicana" name. It was somewhat intended to fill the void left by the phase-out of Orange Slice. (Mountain Dew LiveWire doesn't really count as a pure orange drink, I guess.)
The packaging has somewhat of a goofy logo, though I must admit that I really liked the contrasting orange/blue color scheme. It was somewhat… festive. The drink itself was nothing to write home about, surely not better than Orange Crush or Orange Slice… and nowhere near as good as the ethnic Fanta Pomarańczowa. It was better than Fanta Orange, however… then again, a dead rat tastes better than that vile drink.
The big claim to fame on the packaging was that Tropicana Twister Soda Orange contained 1% juice. Whoop Dee Do! It still tasted like McDonald's orange drink (much like Vault did.) The aftertaste was pretty lame as well. Overall, not an impressive orange drink by any account.
You are way off man ! This soda is 4 th in line for sales right after Pepsi,Coke and Mountain Dew. In fact, it is so popular it is almost always sold out on shelfs in Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho. Every store from Coast to Coast sells it. The taste is far better than Crush. Sorry you were not impressed, but if you talk to any store that sells it, you will find out just how popular it is.
Agree. Twister Orange and especially Grape are really good and they sell like they were about to go out of market in the next 24 hours. I personally love Grape.
Orange twister is so much better than any other orange soda on the market. Fanta has no flavor at all, and Crush tastes like pure sugar.
Personally, I think twister tastes better out of the can than out of a plastic bottle. It's usually the other way around. Either way I'm thinking the factory botched-up a batch and that's the one you tried.
Tropicana Twister Orange is the best. Unfortanely I can't seem to find it on the shelves anymore. I really wish they would bring it back. It was always sold out so I don't understand why they did away with it. Wrong move!!
I'm guessing this has been replaced by Orange Crush. Sad news. I'd rather have Twister Orange stick around. I went to a vending machine and picked a bottle of Twister and it spit out a bottle of Orange Crush. Of course I'd pick Orange Slice over Twister. I'd pick Sunkist over that. And I agree with you that I'd pick all of them over Fanta ha.
I agree that Twister Orange is by far the best orange drink out there and it was always getting sold out. I think that it tastes better in cans than plastic, too, but now it's almost impossible to find either on the west coast but it's still available in Florida and other places in the south. Being a Pepsico product it wouldn't be replaced by Orange Crush as that's a Coca Cola product.