{"id":961,"date":"2015-06-16T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=961"},"modified":"2015-06-16T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:17:15","slug":"crystal-pepsi-might-be-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Pepsi Might Be Coming Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Last week I wrote about some drinks that need to be resurrected<\/a>, and one of them was \u00a0Crystal Pepsi. \u00a0 Well apparently a guy named Kevin Strahle decided to go on a personal crusade to get Crystal Pepsi back and he appears to have succeeded. \u00a0 Be warned that the YouTube video is somewhat graphic, unless you happen to enjoy watching someone vomit in rainbow colors you might want to skip it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Have to give the guy kudos for getting funding and actually convincing a monster corporation like Pepsi to bring back a product which probably lost them money. \u00a0 I hope he hasn’t done permanent damage to his digestive system or else he’ll be mounting a campaign to bring back Titralac antacid.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Competitive Eater Who Helped Bring Back Crystal Pepsi<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In 1992, after a string of test market successes, PepsiCo launched a brand of clear soda, Crystal Pepsi, nationwide. After early buzz that included a Van Hagar-soundtracked Super Bowl ad<\/a> and some initial success, the cola\u2019s popularity petered out and by 1994 PepsiCo had stopped production. More than 20 years later, Crystal Pepsi is poised for a comeback, and it’s all thanks to a persistent competitive eater and a whole bunch of vomit.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Kevin Strahle, a.k.a. L.A. Beast, runs a YouTube channel<\/a> where he takes on extreme eating challenges and stunts. In 2013, he bought 20-year-old Crystal Pepsi off eBay for $80 and filmed himself chugging it. In the video he expresses surprise that the stale soda tastes “amazing,” but he soon becomes queasy, asking, \u201cIs it supposed to sit in your stomach like that?\u201d before he barfs it all out in a wide, crystal clear spray. The video currently has over 11 million views<\/a> on YouTube.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSince that day,\u201d Strahle says over the phone, \u201cI\u2019ve been passionate about Crystal Pepsi.\u201d The video helped grow his fame on the Internet, and L.A. Beast’s YouTube channel currently has 1.2 million subscribers.<\/em><\/p>\n

This April, Strahle bought another bottle of Crystal Pepsi with an even grander goal in mind. In a video titled \u201cPepsi Needs To Bring Back Crystal Pepsi (Warning: Extreme Rainbow Vomit)<\/a>“, Strahle drinks five squirt bottles of colored milk through his nose, chugs a SURGE (another once-discontinued soda), and pounds a yellow-tinted 20-year-old Crystal Pepsi. He then takes a homemade painting of a Crystal Pepsi bottle and upchucks neon puke all over it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n