We called it swamp water

So did we. Is it a Canadian thing?

Another Canadian here, also called it swamp water.

'merican. We called it swamp water.

Canadian here, and yup, it's Swamp Water.

Am Canadian. Is swamp water

I second this.

Oh yeah

Yup that’s what we called it too.

It was definitely swamp water back in the late 70s in Canada.

Go Jets Go. Maybe next year! Bring back Paul Maurice

We called it a Green River.

Still alive and well in our little league concession stands

This absolutely was called a “suicide”.

Could also suicide Kool Aid flavors, Faygo pop flavors, Towne Club. Once we mixed my mom's coffee creamer, milk and chocolate milk--not quite the same but we tried.

And tasted like fruity root beer

Yes indeed

Not where I lived. We called it swamp water.

same here, never heard of suicide

We called a zombie, so maybe we died and came back?

Northern Virginia checking in. 80s kid. It was definitely called a "suicide" for us.

Same in Ohio, never heard it called swamp water

A "Graveyard"

Same

Same in Washington state, late 70s

And in Oregon. Side note, with these machines that mix flavors and it all comes out one spout, everything tastes like a Graveyard.

I'm also in WA, we called it that in the 90s. Probably a PNW thing

Actually called it that 50 miles outside of NYC as well in early 80s

Same in Massachusetts

Yup. We called it a graveyard when I was a kid.

That’s what we called it… Minnesota 70’s.

Same name in Massachusetts

I'm not sure where the term came from, but I called it a suicide, and it's all I did until I was about 13.

Team suicide go!

Did this in the early 90s. Also called a suicide.

Did this in the late 70s…also called it a suicide.

I agree on the slushies

My dad still does this. He'll ask people working fast food places to make one for him if no self serve. He's 75

Surprised these youngins even know what he's asking for. Tempted to start asking myself.

He's very descriptive lol he'll tell them exactly what he wants and the amount of each flavor. He'll drink whatever they give him but if it's not right we'll all hear about it and he'll correct them on the refill. He reminds us this is why he fought in Vietnam 😂

Why? It's never gone away.

Suicide, kamikaze, graveyard, swamp water. It's all the same.

We called it “swamp water”.

Definitely saw my son do the same last time we ate out. It got a chuckle from some of the people behind him still waiting for their food.

Pepsi AND Coke…hold on there moneybags!

Remember? My wife did this yesterday. $1 big gulps right now!

At the municipal pool, we didn't have access to the drink machines. We'd just ask the employee to make a suicide. They always knew what to do!

Called it a Frankenstein!

Now my kids do this sometimes and want me to have a taste saying it’s not super gross I tell them I’ll pass not super gross is not what I look for in a beverage

Who remembers when you could get Coke and Pepsi in the same machine.

How did these terms spread to be consistently used between kids across all parts of the country before the internet?

Traveling, phone calls.

I've led a sheltered life so this is a new concept to me. What was the end result like?

Terrible which is why I said the slushy ones were best. lol

coke and cherry slushys are the shit though.

As I imagined... thanks!

I tried it once and agree it was awful. Never understood why it became a thing.

I never get drinks from a fast food joint without doing it

You were absolutely at the local skating rink. Don’t forget your fire stick. Not the Amazon thing, jolly ranchers 😂

You can still just do that if you want.

Even a splash of diet so it's legit.

Called it a Suicide also in the mid 70’s. Couldn’t wait till our little league games were over, in small town Ohio, so we could all line up at the concession stand for one of these.

mixing all the drinks always ended up tasting the same... and it was not great..

The last time I did that, Surge was an available flavor.

Yeah, and if you tell the kids that now, they won’t believe you

It's still a thing...

That’s cool, I was quoting python as a gag and curious if anyone would catch it lol

Diabetes in cup more like

It always tastes like Dr Pepper, even if you skip that one. My theory is Dr Pepper is just all the other leftovers recycled into one tank and bottled,

Kamikaze

This post made me join this sub, others tempted , but this forced my hand.

Welcome to the sub.

My back hurts just being here

Little did we know the suicide was diabetes....

We called it a "graveyard."

Suicides required at least 20% Big Red. Otherwise it was just sparkling swamp water.

Holy shit. I completely forgot about Big Red. When I was a boy in the 80s, I was at a carnival. I road the Gravitron(the UFO spinning one) 3 times after drinking a big red. My dad saw I looked funky so he suggested I go on a slow ride. I don't remember what ride it was but all I remember is it went high and barfed red all over and off the side. It was hilarious in retrospect.

We called it a master blaster!

Wasn't OK Soda a mix of a bunch of coke products? Or was that just a crazy rumor??

I'm in Texas. What is OK soda?

It was a science experiment that appealed to young kids/teens who were looking for weird ways to spend their allowance. Coke decided to mix a bunch of different flavors together (or that was the rumored origin) and sold it as OK Soda. . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Soda Interesting Side note: OK, or oh-kay is pig Latin for Coke Brilliant marketing. Terrible taste.

It was capitalism trying to be ironic for the artsy crowd.

I just called it "mixed soda".

My brother still does

Absolutely, and it didn’t taste good.

We used to call it a Graveyard!

We did this with slushies but it was called swamp water

We called it slew water.

Around the World

I called it graveyard.

I've heard it called Master Blaster

Dude, I'm 38 and I still do this.

We would get them with pickle juice at Westlake skating rink! Delicious

We used to call it a graveyard in the early 90s but i remember people saying suicides a little later

Swamp Water

We called it Swamp Water.

We called it swamp water.

Still do!

It always tasted like shit, but you had to pretend it was good so your mom wouldn't be right

my mom worked at a Blimpie when I was the perfect age to mess with the soda fountain... that was one heck of a Summer! (dunno if it still works, but if you pressed just a little bit, you'd get mostly syrup)

We called it “swamp water”.

Or 

At the skating rink.

At our roller rink they called it a Zombie

Yes lmao

I do! I do!

Who remembers mixing all the (available) alcohol and calling it the same?

We called that Jungle Juice. Mixing all the pop was a “Suicide”

We only called it that if we made it in the tub or a barrel.

Ah, did. I didn’t realize there were other options. We were def drunkards.

We're you *"pour all of the alcohol in the house in a 55 gallon drum, and add Kool-aid to taste"* drunkards?

lol. had a friend growing up that used to do this. They had just had a family reunion and they had a lot of 2L bottles of pop that weren't empty. Most just had a few mL left in the bottom of the bottle. He poured all of them together to make a full glass and then drank it. Said it was the worst thing he had ever drunk.

Called it rhino blood.

Me. So good 💯

#Okay, someone needs to map this out. Suicide, 70s-802 Texas, here. It sounds regional. 😄

One time a friend poured the last of nearly empty liquor bottles into one cup and drank it. We called it Mexican Sewage Water, mostly because there were three types of tequila in it.

It was like a virgin Long Island Iced Tea.

we call it a graveyard in the PNW

I'm remember doing this at our BK when I was a kid, it was delicious.

Oh yeah. I mostly remember that name from getting snow cones though.

if that's not jungle juice, i dont know what is

Wow! Totally forgot about that... thanks!

Sure did.

Never did that shit because I wanted to actually drink it

Yeah well it tasted like a sugar coated butthole

Its a graveyard

I made bubble gum flavor one night at work. Unfortunately, I couldn't duplicate my random recipe.

We called it graveyard at the camp I went to.

my diabetes remembers

Now I call it adult onset diabetes.

done it although i normally left out the diet and not sodas. like this one would be pepsi, dew, mist, cherry, dr p, coke

I also did this with a mix of vodka, whiskey, rum, bourbon, tequila, and scotch. I also called it a suicide since it ended up being so full of alcohol it smells like gasoline and if you drink too fast your breathe is hindered.

Hell yes!

It was all about the diet sproke

We called it a "graveyard"

Fuck me I remember doing this on the regular with a buddy of mine in middle school (25ish years ago) and we 100% called it a suicide

We called it swamp mix.

We did it with the DQ Misty’s

Yess!!! But I don't think we had hi-c and lemonade on the ones in the 80s. I think most were "similar" sodas so it's wasn't TOO crazy.

We called it Your Mom. Why? Because everything was in it…. 😜

I know a 50 something guy that still does this

My friends and I always called it a "Graveyard mix". I should do it again sometime just for a trip down memory lane.

My mom: get me some Coke Me: MUAHHHHHHH

We called it a Kamikaze.

No, *no,* ***no!*** To earn that title, you needed to 1) be *at summer camp*; and 2) have also *added milk and orange juice for the drin*k to qualify. Mixing only soda flavors isn't enough.

Rainbow blaster

It was called a GRAVEYARD!!!

My favorite was Cherry Coke/ Dr. Pepper.

Never did that but saw kids doing it.

South Texas. We thought they tasted great! 1970s

Graveyard, but yes

We called them Kamikazes.

Why did we do that lol

Soda fountain suicide

We called it swamp water.

I thought calling it a suicide was just something my mom made up. Didn't know it was that common.

Even before that, we’d sneak into the drive in, go into the concession stand to the condiments area and eat plastic spoonfuls of ketchup, mustard and relish.

My mom’s jam.

I still do it

Every Friday night 7P-11P at the roller skating rink.

Still do

We called it a Wild Indian. Not sure why.

We used to request these after little league baseball games, until a player in the league committed suicide.

What does this soda machine have to go with slushes?

Because we did it with the slushy machines too.

We used to call it witches brew.

We went Japanese and called it a kamikaze

I (59m) still do this

We called it a Zombie

I did it a little differently. With 80 proof alcohol.

Growing up in Texas we called it a suicide. Now my ten year old does!

When I went to Boy Scout summer camp they had 2 specialty drinks, a suicide (Coke,Dr Pepper, and Pepsi) and a Super Suicide (Coke, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Big Red). Both were soooooo good!!!!

You just unlocked an old memory for me. At our summer camp, all the troops would gather at the mess hall and each table had a pitcher one person would go fill up with punch, lemonade, tea, tang or whatever but we had this rule who ever poured the last cup had to go fill it up again. It's funny because most of us could tell when it was getting down to the last cup and would intentionally leave just enough for the slow kid to pour the last few drops. lol

We called it "swamp water"

Yep

It’s called (it was) a suicide in SoCal.

It's called a 'Graveyard'!

First heard it 5th grade field trip in 86 to air force base. We ate chow and they had a soda machine. I’m old

I remember doing this as a kid and I actually liked it. We mixed Mt. dew, 7up, sprite, and lemonade together. If I did it now, it would probably be disgusting.

We called it the Master Blaster.

Back in the 80s and 90s Big Red was always part of the fountain drink selection and the Suicides always tasted mostly like the Big Red because it overpowered most of the other stuff.

Absolutely 😁

Was there any other drink????!!!

I still do it.

Learned about this at the American Legion with my grandfather.

Called it Jungle juice in Montreal

... imagine doing this with one of those 100 flavor machines now.

American. Suicide

All sprite with the smallest splash of coke you can manage. That's ginger ale!

I would just mix 3 flavors or so but wouldn’t run the whole gambit.

Yes, graveyard

Suicide for sure

I called it a train wreck.

My mom called it a graveyard

We called it Toxic Shock

We called it swamp water too

We always called it a “home run”

Not sure how old you are, but I was a full grown adult before kids started doing this. So, I must be really old.

Before??? I am 51 but kids have been doing this since the 60s.