The Drinks of Fallout: Soft Drinks! 

This definitely makes sense!

Lmao your pic

Lmao your pic

This idea for Victory also makes sense as to why it was only found on the West Coast other than at Nuka-World, as the East Coast is heavily more into Nuka-Cola than the West Coast, which is pretty decently Sunset Sarsparilla territory. So, I'd imagine that a limited-edition release flavor may have sold off their stock far quicker in the East than the West, meaning DC drank their stock before the bombs dropped while Vegas had some still lying around ready to be sold. This has historical precedent, given Pepsi's release of Crystal Pepsi a few years back - when outside of metro areas, despite a lower supply being sent out, the east coast sold their supply out almost 10 months faster than the midwest and west coast (once again, outside metro areas). Not a perfect one to one proof, but it gives the idea some basis

@@MrDelgado559 lmao your pic

Absolute chad

Of course. It’s courier six.

Protein

Is that not how you drink soda? Plastic or glass

That’s 6 for yah

That is actually more plausible than a shortage of toilet paper and guess which actually happened.

That got a good laugh out of me, thank you!

@@andreibaciu7518 there was never a shortage of toilet paper it was just a shipping issue. Its not that we didn't have toilet paper, its just that they couldn't get it out fast enough bc dummies were mass buying and screwing everyone else over

"middle class" Bruh what type of middle class do you mean? The middle class hardly exists you are thinking of upper class or rich yuppies who shop from sprouts.

@@johnychrist5475 It depends where you live. Most toilet paper in most of the world is produced in the country it is used. In a handful of nations, like Australia, it is imported. Those nations did have toilet paper shortages, but because we are all on the internet and effectively socialize pan-nationally, people across the world thought they were having a toilet paper shortage whenever any of those nations were.

We called them that when I was a kid in 2010

we called it a Graveyard

I recall watching a commercial in the 2000’s that was maybe for pizza street, and the kid in the commercial was mixing every flavor of soda claiming he could make suisides for cheep or something. After seeing this, I always called my mixed together sodas “suisides” as a child

Graveyards, we got them at the ball fields when playing baseballs. Every soda flavor, plus every snow cone flavor, and 3-4 crybabies. No one had to explain them, it was like the original secret menu.

Suicide of deliciousness

Looks like piss Tastes like piss Strong hated that

Lmao

Hey don’t worry! There are a lot more drinks to talk about

Lol

What else costs 1 cap and heals 40 health? It's PERFECT!

Oh THAT guy. I just saw some guy in the game with the same name as me and tried to kill him. And then I wondered why he was invincible. And then I fucked with the files until I could kill him. The immortality makes more sense now.

he’s one of the few characters who doesn’t become hostile to you no matter what, and will let you take anything from his house

Even with their faults, this is why I love developers in the Bethesda and Blizzard teams, as well as others. Immortalizing a player into their favorite series is one of the highest honors

@Crimson Fox yeah I think with the trevonator in 3, I can't remember any others despite playing every god damn borderlands game (except tales).

@Crimson Fox Maybe IDK gonna have to check the wiki

Ah yes select marjet makes perfect sense

Very rare yet I seem to find them literally everywhere I go

This especially makes sense for New Vegas. There exists only 1 bottle in the entire Mojave region.

@@kitkatkruncher22 the marjet probably has a French sound to it like Mar-Xiay phonetically. I'm about to start using that in my vocabulary when I wanna sound smart.....lol...

​@@mr_beezlebub3985 Some soldiers family member who worked at a factory probably got their hands on some and sent it to them.

You’re spot on. I love all the little lore details they put in their games. Even if it’s head cannon type/up to interpretation, though I do think you’re right about the whole situation

Huh, I assumed that festus was downplaying the side effects

it also mirrors the real life issue with why sarsaparilla fell out of flavor, and why all modern "sarsaparillas" are imitation: sassafras is illegal. The plant grows in abundance in the Americas, and it was desired by European settlers and Native Americans for its health benefits and flavor. Sassafras is one of many components in making the drug that the "spirit vision" trope was derived from. The never-ending desire to squash native American cultures, and eliminate effective frontier medicines in favor of cocaine, led to the criminalization of using sassafras because its "carcinogenic." At some point a study is conducted that concludes basically everything can give you cancer in certain quantities, and the findings for Sassafras are extremely underwhelming, especially when you compare its potential health benefits.* Sassafras is probably the inspiration for Broc flowers, as Sassafras leaves and flowers were used in poultices, a lot like the "healing powder" encountered in the game. The fact real-life sassafras medicine was often just: "shove the leaves in an open wound until you have time to clean it properly" is also why healing powder has such a low survival skill requirement. Broc leavFlower isnt required to home brew sunset however, and instead xander root is used. The drink originally was made with Sassafrass root and Birch oil, but when Sassafrass became illegal, they dropped the Root. Xander root (as the other part of healing powder) may be a way of dividing Sassafras into Broc flower (which looks like Sassafras flowers) and Sassafras root. *safrole, the oil that was carcinogenic, is also found in cinnamon, nutmeg, and a whole host of other foodstuffs, but those didn't have native American associations.

But didn’t Festus say that it was a local report?

@@portalworld9880 It's not unheard of for a big company to have shell companies. Just look at Disney's market shares if you need proof.

I bet coke was just very overshadowed by nuka.

@@isaacsrandomvideos667 Well thats kind of the idea. We aren't drinking Coke Zero, so I would say thats a given

Actually it could Be that “vim” too right? (Rival company) Wouldn’t make any sense though cause they are wine bottles I believe lol

@@isaacsrandomvideos667 As it says in the video, Nuka Colas bottle design is based off of of the older Coka Cola bottle designs

@@isaacsrandomvideos667 Vim wouldn't have a case, Coke would

Great points! I realized 3/4 through editing that the name was a mash up of two names but couldn’t find an adequate way of adding it. I knew someone would mention it for me though :)

The cocaine thing isnt real coca cola said that coca cola never contained cocaine

@@wolfie5135 Yeah no shit they would say that, it would look bad if they say “yeah we originally had cocaine in our drinks”. Doesn’t mean it don’t have it at the start.

@@wolfie5135 it's been proven it did once hold I quote "held the main ingredients found in the man made substance known as Cocaine" so yeah short version there was coke in the cola

@@SasoriZert no coca cola said it never contained cocaine

I seriously hope this is true.

Makes too much sense.

@@pedrocx486 At least coffee is filtered.

I still don't understand why anyone would want less caffeine in thier sodas, If anything I'd want double the caffeine in mine. When i was younger I would crush up like half a caffeine pill and mix it into my diet cokes (and I'd add some real sugar into it too). I was an odd 15 year old 😅

@@Rad_Kingaround 11:35 you said that nuka cola quarz is only found in new Vegas but they also appear in the nuka world dlc for fallout 4 (sorry for the random topic change this was the only comment that had you in it that had less then ten comments) Ps just got to the part where you are talking about nuka world 😅

Also, the combined drinks are radiation free, so it could be a matter of boiling the drinks to remove radiation and/or to allow mixing. There are two types of drinks, ice cold and normal, meaning we could be drinking hot cola.

@@The_Stumbler. Boiling doesn't remove radiation, though. It's great for killing certain pathogens or microorganisms, but radiation is not any one of those.

@@dragonbornexpress5650 it doesn't in real life, but in fallout it does.

@@dragonbornexpress5650 I think 76 is the only game to address that.

Actually, it's likely that the mixing stations don't actually use the sodas themselves (I know that's not what the game says) but are just using the appropriate syrups, and mixing fresh with carbonated water. That's how the things work in real life. Maybe you just need the bottles to unlock the syrups? It would explain why they aren't radiated, perhaps.

That's probably bc she's seen some less scrupulous folk try the same thing on her and the other traders multiple times. She's definitely got a reason to be skeptical of such claims.

Damn blueberry lemonade sounds amazing.

Ha! I nabbed the Nuka Cola water bottle from GameStop and filled it with that to achieve the same effect, having no clue that they’d done that. Thoroughly entertained with that.

Wow that's definitely a collectors item

@@PortCityBalrogyeah it is, it’s like 20 bucks so not on the expensive side

Missouri counters with a 'no, soda is right.'

Is that said in game somewhere?

​@@Rad_King In Fallout 76... Anyway a terminal in Kanawha Nuka Cola plant has notes on a few flavors. The Quartz note mentions adding sugar flakes to simulate crystals in the drink. So its just a programming mistake that's sort of correct.

@@Rad_King idk of ya know this to…or I missed you saying it in video but nuka cola quartz is a parody of crystal pepsi

@@R4ZOR154 I believe that it is also mentioned somewhere in Nuka-World aswell.

Quartz is probably referring to the California gold rush, since gold can be found in quartz

Thanks when I go to visit family I'll ask

From Ireland myself, we call them 'Fizzy Drinks' here

I'll take a basalt please.

But... theres no minerals in it.

The fuck in Ireland do they call it minerals

This is mentioned in nuka world

@johnwilliamson3752 absolutely not, I think it was just bethesda changing the design to be more marketable so they could sell it in real life

He mentioned that

Moxie actually tastes good going down. But the aftertaste to me is like the smell of burnt rubber.

It tastes more like black liquorice or like jaeger

@@IHateMilkbruh I've never had jaeger, so I can't remark on that. I wouldn't personally describe the taste of Moxie as being similar to black licorice, but I can see how someone could reasonably compare it to such a taste. However, I still stand by my statement comparing it to the taste of sweaty gym socks (don't ask how I know what that tastes like in the first place).

Are you on crack? Moxie is like coca cola, but with a more realistic, less syrupy sweetness, and a great caramel aftertaste. How the hell does that taste like sweaty gym socks?

I think this explanation makes the most sense.

Have you made it yourself or did you just look at the recipe?

@@Rad_King My friend has made about 3 or 4 batches for special occasions

Had no idea fallout had a cook book...😮 that would make for some great content making different recipes you could get quite a few different videos from that book

Hahah

This guy is good on lore of the items, for locations lore and dry-ish humor, I recommend Oxhorn.

Ha! That’s a first!

@@Michael-vh3jp I oxhorn is trash and a Bethesda shill

@@TDenterpriser I have yet to find another channel that break down the lore of a building in fallout down to the smallest detail. Any recommendations?

It wasn’t accidental. The glow produced by the Strontium 90 was desired in order to appeal to kids.

@@509Gman I'm talking about Nuka Cola Quantum.

@@509Gman I know about the nuclear ingrediants.

Yes, we called it something else, but I don't remember! I do like adding those flavored water enhancers to a Sprite now! Black cherry into a cold Sprite, OH!

My friends always called it “Brown” because that’s what color it would be after you combine them all.

I do that but with one or two flavors in larger amounts.

We called it a "graveyard"

We call it Swampwater

Trying use a perk to determine lore or info about items is a very slippery slope my guy. Thats like me in NV trying say that cause with the jurry rigging perk, since you are able to take a bb gun and repair a anti material rifle with it that it proves that all gun in NV/fallout have interchangeable parts which anyone who knows guns even on a first grade level will know that's simply not possible

@@SasoriZert well there is more edvidence sometimes in vault 101, a nuka cola may randomly spawn in a box, proving that it is irradiated besides isn't weird that sunset sasparilla is irradiated but nuka cola is since mr house stopped nukes from dropping on the mojave

@@johnnycruelty5195 Don't get me wrong there is a lot of info on it pointed at bring irradiated I'm just saying a perk itself can't be used to justify that it's true as we all know fallout has some wacky perks.

⁠@@SasoriZertI would argue yes. Im sure the springs, metal components, and some parts of the barrel are probably interchanagable with one another. Remember, this perk is locked at level 90 repair lol. Also, sunset sarsaparilla is never radioactive, but nuka cola always has been, meaning nuka cola was definitely radioactive pre war lol

Wouldn't be surprised if there were some Fallout universe bottled water brands similar to Kirkland or Danelli. (I believe that's how you spell the second one? Correct me if I'm wrong.) Also, there's GOT to be a Fallout version of Pepsi in there.

I can relate. Root beer was definitely my favorite as a child but I still enjoy smaller craft root beers, sasparilla and birch beers though.

They have bawls

Thinking of the impulse buy beverages, the kind usually seen at gas stations. The Red Bulls, your Gatorades so on what ever is behind the cooler doors in the back. I imagine that the mentats corporation would make a twisted version of vitamin water. There would even be a pre war radaway type beverage marketed as a detoxifying or cleansing refreshment.

@@dragonbornexpress5650 If there was a Fallout Universe version of Pepsi or Dr. Pepper I imagine it would be a play off the word Pep in both. Like zeal, spirit, or gusto hell even Vim is synonym for Pep. I like to think that there was a competitor to the Nuka Cola Corporation like Pepsi, but most everything in the lore tells us they were pretty aggressive with buyouts, hostile takeovers, corporate espionage and downright sabotage attacks to knockout any competition.

Welcome! Also good on you for kicking the habit!

@@Rad_King Thanks! It took a diabetic incident and a life flight to get things started. But I'm better for it.

I'm Taking a Break from Coca Cola Too mostly because it hurts my guts so I'm going like less acidic drinks

@@thundertazzy4127 Do yourself a huge favor and dump it completely. Your future self will thank you. Seriously.

@@sski What he said, Pepsi is a solid replacement but don't go wild with that either

Bet your bawls that’s going to happen

@@Rad_King yep. And it will be the first (and maybe last) time you mention Brotherhood of Steel on this channel

@@ciel-9373 it takes alot of bawls to even talk about that game these days

Say what you will but Bawls fucking rules.

I grew up in the bay area of commiefornia and we called it a suicide

It's called a suicide in the states, or at least where I'm from

Fountain?

Commenting on a year old comment

​@@GrosvnerMcaffrey I call it a RANDOM BULLSHIT GO soda

Southerners use coke as the dri nk type then asked which one you specify coca~cola or other drinks. Pepsi is also used by named of the place has Pepsi products

In Scotland, some (mainly older folks), refer to all soda as “ginger”. At least Coke makes some sense!

@@CorvoFG Ya but I can only imagine a Scottish Grandma calling a soda "ginger" with her accent being adorable.

At a certain point you have to do it just to annoy people :)

@@kaleb.soneal8011 Maybe it depends on region, but here in Georgia and Florida most people I know just call it soda and only use Coke for specifically Coco-cola. Though funny personal story, my family use to live in Michigan and we referred to soda as Pop. When we first moved down to the south, my family was at a McDonald’s and my sister ask for a Pop and the cashier was confused and thought she was referring to a literal alcoholic product.

We need some fanfic on this

@@Rad_King if only I knew enough legalese to write it 😆

Nuka clear is a parody of crystal pepsi.

Where I grew up it was called the graveyard

I’ve been able to upgrade my equipment to the point I can play them all and record. So this will be the norm!

I agree, such a small touch but definitely worth it instead of just having fallout related content playing

I remember that some of the codeine and other opiods had caffeine in them when I was young.

I've had asthma attacks, and treated them by drinking coffee with plenty of sweetener. It's not a quick fix, but it can help.

my personal theory is that the "health tonic" thing isnt BS and it actually has healing properties

​@@anarchybeauty638 def not actual medicine or really much, but they probably helped. (Im not that educated on health tonics) but im assuming most were just crushed pine cones and spit or something.

This is for you! Hope you enjoyed it.

@@Rad_King I absolutely loved the video. I didn't even know about Vim being a fictional soda BASED off an actual soda in the northeastern US. So I was able to learn something new. Thank you for the information brother. May Atom's light guide you safely in the wastes.

Happy to hear it! You should try the soda that inspired vim and let me know what you think

@@Rad_King I'll do it and Buy Moxie sodas. A full 12 pack of 12 oz bottles of it made with cane sugar is EXPENSIVE though. Still i'ma do it.

Plot Twist: The Fallout universe is one where new coke took off and becake nuka

@@andreibaciu7518 thats canon now idc what people say

I imagined a lawsuit between the two long since forgotten and lost to the fires of atomic war, like many other things.

@@andreibaciu7518 If thats the case I'm glad the world was cleansed in nuclear fire

I wondered the same thing

Take that back

considering the technical ability shown by various NPCs throughout the games, i think a nuka cola cap machine is easily craftable: it would require metal scraps, red paint and white paint

That’s awesome, glad this could help

Ligma balls

@@henrycrabs3497 exactly what I was thinking

so you're saying bethesda fucked it up again? 😂

pignessman 7: "Everything changed when the Coke Nation attacked"

Those who live down south around Texas or around rural areas In the southern and western america

@@frankieb9444 Only the Pepsiman, master of the four soda-gangs, could stop them.

"Yeah i'll have a coke coke"

It’s actually a pretty common term down south and, as far as I know, parts of the central US.

I mean Coke does predate ww2 which is the supposed timeline brake from the real world

Yes

@@wesss9353 Thanks, also the more I think about this the farther I feel like It should go. What if instead of her just being a supplier what if she had a full faction? The water merchants had a LOT of power in the original fallout, so she could be similar but with Nuka-cola. Her guards could even have Nuka-weapons. I am not saying every guard would have a Quantum Gun and shoot blue nukes. But radiation weapons like the children of atom have would make sense. Just paint them red and scribble the word Nuka across the side. Actually, now that I think about it, it seems odd that the children of atom aren't connected to the nucular soda. I would expect them to at least worship Quantum because it literally glows blue.

Would be interesting if Fallout 5 could take place in Atlanta Georgia. It’s the headquarters of real world Coco-cola is located at so you can do the same with Nuka-cola, you could fit your little story in there and it be nice if we had a game taking place in the Deep South as that place has been relatively unexplored so far.

@@rolay7730 I could see Sierra leading like Julie Farkas in the followers of the apocalypse

​@@rolay7730glowing super soakers that do small aoe/rad damage

Loading screen from base game of Fallout 4.

You deserve a medal of some sort

@@Rad_King watching your content is its own reward lol

I also just got the cookbook! Time to try some of them out

@@Rad_King you should do a video covering a few recipes, perhaps some you’ve mentioned in past lore videos?

Curing it how? That wouldn't work, it would just kill them. You need a copy of your original genome.

@@DIEGhostfish Ah dang, this one's an old post. So it turns out it doesn't cure FEV outright, it just restores a super mutant's original cognitive faculties. So they're still big and green, but their intelligence has been restored.

I’m a Nuka Cola sellout. This is a form of shadow marketing to get you to buy more of their product.

@@Rad_King Don't matter if you are or not. Take money, I need more Nuka Cola now.

@@Rad_King YES. NEED *TO CONSUME.*

😅

It's not soda it's coke. I'm gonna have to turn my canons on you.

From New York, it’s soda here too

@@shadowdemonic13 most new yorkers say pop though I stayed their on a family visit and I asked a guy what sodas he had dude literally looked at me like I said it in a foreign language

Thanks. And that’s not a problem in the prewar, it’s standard operating procedure!

After Nuka world it got a little absurd

*All of the south disliked that* Atlanta is the worst for it, though.

​@joluffman9634 As a North Carolinian, I'm going to have to vehemently disagree with you there on "All". It's only common in the deep/central south, not the south east/Atlantic coast south. Soda is the common term in VA, NC, SC, FL (except in the panhandle).

That would be smart, but I wouldn't suggest putting a melted radioactive beverage seared over a open wound.

@@boom8474 Oh, I imagine it would be just like, warm or room temperature, basically you'd use it like a glue. They were probably going for the carbonized thing, but they constantly ignore Interplay's lore.

@@NemFX it would be like glue. But it is still radioactive, burnt against an open wound.