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Where Has All the Tab Gone? A Shortage Panics Fans
NY Times ^ | October 17, 2018 | Laura M. Holson

Posted on 10/19/2018 7:16:43 AM PDT by C19fan

The plea for Tab came across in a message on Facebook.

It was Sept. 27, and Anne White saw a post from a neighbor telling her their local grocery store in Cincinnati had been stripped of the diet soda, last popular in the 1980s and now a cult favorite.

“I drank my last one a few days ago and I’m suffering from withdrawal,” the neighbor wrote. “Where are you guys getting it?”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: soda; tab
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To: Fai Mao

I switched to Perrier. Still feels to me like drinking a soda.


21 posted on 10/19/2018 7:33:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

IIRC, Tab had the worst aftertaste of any drink ever made.

Nasty stuff. And I prefer the taste of diet sodas over corn fructose sodas.

But Tab? Seriously?


22 posted on 10/19/2018 7:33:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: C19fan

It must be wherever they keep the MentaDent, which I also cannot find.


23 posted on 10/19/2018 7:34:24 AM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: dfwgator

Oddly enough, it’s suddenly everywhere here in Boston. Never saw Fresca in my life until this year, now I see in vending machines and many supermarkets


24 posted on 10/19/2018 7:37:32 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: dfwgator
Found Fresca a couple of years ago and bought four cases . . . A co-worker offered me a dollar a can.

Tab? Always thought it tasted like a defective version of Diet Dr. Pepper.

25 posted on 10/19/2018 7:45:25 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: C19fan

Do you carry Tab to go with that?

26 posted on 10/19/2018 7:45:29 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: z3n

just add a width=”300” attribute to your img=


27 posted on 10/19/2018 7:47:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: C19fan

Just empty a can of coke into a 2 liter jug, fill the rest with water and add a package of saccharin - and you got yourself 2 liters of Tab.


28 posted on 10/19/2018 7:53:38 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Mr. K

“Drink Dr. Pepper instead”

There ya go - I’m a pepper, too!


29 posted on 10/19/2018 7:54:38 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

Gaaak !


30 posted on 10/19/2018 8:03:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: C19fan

Last time I saw a TAB,
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Was in the Movie;
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The Jerk.


31 posted on 10/19/2018 8:04:59 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I thought they stopped selling it in 1980 something. Not sold around here.


32 posted on 10/19/2018 8:09:26 AM PDT by madison10
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To: C19fan

Next thing you know Tang will be gone.......


33 posted on 10/19/2018 8:10:24 AM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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I drink diet cola with bourbon... Wally market sells for .68 per liter. Their Diet Dr. Thunder is okay. But mostly I drink water and 1 or 2 cups coffee per...


34 posted on 10/19/2018 8:11:08 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: dfwgator

Mexico along with Fanta and RC cola. At least in the tijuana area.


35 posted on 10/19/2018 8:15:37 AM PDT by Fhios
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To: dfwgator

I was actually offered Fresca on a recent flight. Can’t remember which airline. Possibly Delta?

Tab is awful. Possibly even worse than Diet Rite.


36 posted on 10/19/2018 8:17:04 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: LouieFisk

don’t forget the table spoon of cheap perfume.


37 posted on 10/19/2018 8:18:24 AM PDT by Fhios
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To: Clutch Martin

Wife and I are both addicted to Wally’s diet Dr. Thunder. Like the low price compared to brand names.


38 posted on 10/19/2018 8:18:52 AM PDT by neal1960 (D m cr ts S ck. Would you like to buy a vowel?)
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To: C19fan

I had no idea that Tab was still produced.

Then again, I stopped drinking soda over 5 years ago so I guess I just didn’t notice.


39 posted on 10/19/2018 8:19:11 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: C19fan

This is serious. I can’t go more than an few days with out that “licking a car key” taste!


40 posted on 10/19/2018 8:23:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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