Why doesn't anybody drink Tang anymore

I used to sprinkle it on vanilla ice cream as a kid. I was deprived okay.

Yup,i get a big can on order from Amazon. It dosen't taste the same,but i love it anyway. Those were the days

Um, because it was disgusting?

Growing up in the 80s, our trashy neighbors served the kids Tang in the summer instead of Kool Aid. Gross! Who would willingly drink that stuff?

That family also ate....Miracle Whip! Can you still buy that stuff? Probably on eBay.

Try this! They sell it everywhere.

I'm old enough to remember when the stuff came out. It was disgusting then, probably even worse now.

The astronauts drank Tang in outer space. Powdered orange juice along with Carnation powdered milk were foodstuffs of the future. Anyway, I think Sunny Delight came along and stole Tang's market for an oversugared fake breakfast juice - no mixing required.

Tang - introduced in 1957 - i catered a 60th birthday 2 years ago - we had stuff introduced in 57- whoppers, buckets of chicken, homemade versions - so we served martinis with the tang - called them Buzzed Aldrins...

The only time our family had tang was when we went on vacation to a state park in a cabin - it was a treat!

I drink out of hot poontang. Sticky and delicious.

Not enough Astronauts anymore.

Buzzed Aldrins is hilarious, R8. Totally stealing that idea.

I've replaced it with Citrocel.

Because it’s shit.

It is hilarious, R11, but only people of a certain age will get it (and we're rapidly dying out).

Mix the Orange flavor with the Grape and you get Cherry!

R8 That's cool as hell, I want to come to your next party. My sister and I always begged for Tang, but then when Mom actually bought it we got over it very quickly. It's not very good.

Tang, Kool-Aid, Flavor-Aid et al are all just sugar laden drinks.

I was very fond of the grapefruit Tang.

As a young one, I used to steal the big can out of the pantry, sit down in front of the tv, lick my finger and dunk it into that orange powder from heaven. Eat and repeat. Pure bliss.

I used to drink Tang with Cheerios for breakfast when I was a kid. Is it any wonder I was a fat kid?

Like Pixie Stix without the straw, r19!

R8, R11, R14, the idea has already been stolen! "The Continental" martini bars in Philadelphia already have "Buzz Aldrins"-they were originally called that at the bars but they had to change the name to "the Astronaut" . It'll cost ya $12.50.

Sunny Delight haters swarm in to discuss how bad tang is for you.You hateful Jezebels are hilarious.

I never thought it tasted bad at all, very tangy. And wasn't it supposed to be more nutritious than Kool-Aid since they formulated it for astronauts?

[R24].....it was,Sunny Delight and Cool-aid has hendered their thinking skills.

[quote]Sunny Delight haters swarm in to discuss how bad tang is for you.You hateful Jezebels are hilarious.

I didn’t realize there was a turf war between aficionados of orange powdered chemicals.

used to get the worst stomach aches after drinking it... every time.. don't know if it was too acidic or what?...

Remember, it's "Gnat" spelled backwards.

My mom bought Tang for us all the time it was really high in vitamin C but also had tons of sugar.

I used to drink it every day.

I miss that and Bosco chocolate syrup

You had me at Walmart OP

[quote]used to get the worst stomach aches after drinking it

Oddly enough, R27, I have the opposite reaction.

Real orange juice, although I enjoy it, is inevitably followed by severe heartburn. As a result, I've mostly avoided it for 20 or 30 years. Tang doesn't cause that problem, although it seems to be just as acidic (maybe more so). So, without the pain and with a taste that's "close enough," I'll stick with Tang.

Was there ever a grape flavored Tang or am I imagining that?

I wanted grape Tang but my mother would only buy orange Tang. Our relationship was never the same.

[quote] "[[R24]].....it was,Sunny Delight and Cool-aid has hendered their thinking skills. —Anonymous"

"Hendered?" You're kidding, right?

Tang wipes!

The name Tang is racist.

Tang now makes water-flavoring drops - sugar free (like the Crystal Lite stuff). It doesn't take exactly like Tang, but similar enough - and no sugar!

Fun fact. Kool Aid was invented in Hendley, Nebraska - a little spit in the road town that has a population of about 30. Inventor worked at his father's family store and was intrigued by Jello so he created a powered drink using basically the same technique. Birthplace of Kool Aid is listed as Hastings, NE where he eventually moved but most of the "inventing" was done in Hendley - which gets very little credit as the birthplace of Kool Aid.

[quote]Tang, Kool-Aid, Flavor-Aid et al are all just sugar laden drinks.

No shit, Rose.

If it's good enough for the astronauts, it's good enough for me. Maybe the reason we haven't been able to get back to the moon is because people stopped drinking Tang.

Make America Tang Again

I basically drink Tang everyday - just with added psyllium, it’s call Metamucil. Now that I’m off cocaine, need something to kill the appetite.

Love that stuff.

Tang and Nestle Quik were a staple of my diet growing up

Yeah some get stomach aches,oddly never happened to me.I love that vitamin c taste. Maybe i'm crazy.But Coolaide and the other powered drinks are nasty to me.Tang dosen't have that aftertaste...

An yes,Bosco drinker here too.Small world.

I still buy tang once a year - but not to drink. I use put Tang in the soap compartment in the dishwasher, and run it empty. This will clean out the grunge inside your washer. I think I picked this up from Heloise.

I do this once a month or so. Works better (and less expensive) than other cleaning potions.

Tang-wich anyone?

R5 R42

The sugarless store brand Metamucil is my go to... I buy the CVS brand. It has the same effect of eating a huge bowl of salad. 2 tablespoons in the morning keeps the pipe clean, saves on toilet paper, and boosts confidence to present hole at any time.

Did your mother give you such sage advice, R48?

Let's have Tang at 5:05

No one is bringing a drink to the moon any longer.

We drank it for a while, as it was trendy. But, living in Florida, we didnt think it was particularly good or that it tasted like OJ, even then. As someone said, ok for camping.

My mom wouldn't buy us Tang. It was too low class (and we weren't even high class).

I had an excess of tangerines and made juice. The flavor was surprisingly close to Tang powder.

When I was a kid, my mother made "Russian Tea". It was made from Tang, lemon ice tea mix and spices. It was pretty good.

[quote]My mom wouldn't buy us Tang. It was too low class (and we weren't even high class).

Not drinking it would have been disrespectful to the U.S. space program, especially during the Cold War. There's no excuse.

R48 et al. Metamucil is not a Tang substitute because it doesn't dissolve in water. Also, if you don't drink it fast, it thickens into a slurry, as the psyllium absorbs water.

It does taste OK, though. I don't understand why so many people shrink in horror from the idea. As long as you can drink 10+ oz. of slightly grainy, orange-flavored water at one go, it's great. (I'm not being sarcastic. I literally don't understand why people have a problem with this.)

R8 you are awesome. Your party sounds very amusing.

R4 You can buy Miracle Whip in most every supermarket in the US. I don't like mayonnaise or salad dressing so I've never had it, but my mother prefers Miracle Whip because it is less oily than regular mayo.

The 70s were the absolute best.

Nothing like coming inside, opening the fridge, and seeing some Tang.

Shit, I bought some sugar free tang yesterday at the grocery store!

I miss Ho-Hos.

To call them swiss rolls is an abomination.

It's a nice chemical mix with lots of sugar..

Ingredients: Sugar, Fructose, Citric Acid (Provides Tartness), Calcium Phosphate, Contians Less than 2% of Orange Juice Solids, Natural Flavor, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Vitamin E Acetate, Niacinamide, Vitamin B6, Vitamin A Palmitate, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Beta Carotene, Maltodextrin, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium, and Neotame (Sweeteners), Guar and Xanthan Gums (Provide Body), Artificial Color, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, BHA (to Help Protect Flavor).

Because these fellas are long gone.

I don't even like Tang but I so want one tall, cool glass of that shit, thanks to this thread. Putting it on my grocery list!

R55, I was just about to post that I went a Russian tea room and had tea there. When I asked the waitress what was in the recipe, she included Tang as one of the ingredients. As unlikely as it may sound, it was very good and soothing...

[quote]The 70s were the absolute best. Nothing like coming inside, opening the fridge, and seeing some Tang.

We had dropped Tang from our menu, and our fridge, by the '70s.

[quote] Anyway, I think Sunny Delight came along and stole Tang's market for an oversugared fake breakfast juice - no mixing required.

You are so right. It's not just Sunny Delight, but just about every other beverage out there. If it's not pre-made and ready to go, I don't think people favor it. Mixing it at home and pouring it by yourself into containers? Too much hassle.

One thing I must say about Sunny Dellight is that no other beverage in the world gives me gas as much a glass of Sunny D. It's unreal how quickly I turn into a gas ball.

Because the world has become overrun with low caliber people.

Tang was my drink of choice all through my jr high and high school years. While the rest of my family drank iced tea for dinner, I had my ice cold pitcher of Tang in the fridge all to myself. When it's refrigerated until super cold, then poured over ice, it's delicious, or at least it was when I was a kid. I outgrew it when I went to college but man, I loved that stuff.

I was addicted to it in college. So glad that monkey is off my back now.

Mom decided it was too expensive and returned us to drinking canned grapefruit juice. It was like living in hell.

I told my husband about the fabulous party idea and the drink name r8 posted. He sniffed: "No one would have known who Buzz Aldrin was at that time though, *maybe* John Glenn".

We are now working out our POST nup. Joyless Tang flavored metamucil addict cunt.

R8 Are you single?

Lol r8 is single.

Do the moon walk like the astronauts

Join the space gang, drink your energy TANG

TANG is for breakfast, lunch, or after school,

TANG is energizing like rocket fuel!

So, if you wanna do like the astronauts do,

Join the space gang and do the moonwalk too!

I far prefer Miracle Whip over awful Helman's mayonnaise for tuna sandwiches.

^^ typo: Hellmans

simple question: why was it named TANG? does tang stand for something?...

Tangential to orange juice.

R76 I do enjoy Miracle Whip from time to time. It's much sweeter than mayo.

Safeway sells it, I saw a lady buying a big can a few weeks ago. I thought, how funny, Tang.

[R69]

Your so right,Sunny D is a real toot...on your stomach. But these heathens knocking Tang consider Sunny D more "nutritious"as they fart their way through their days with stained underwear.Cretins.Whenever somebody tells me they love Sunny D...I automatically know don't stand near them downwind.Stinky bastards.

I don't believe I've ever had Sunny D.

But, since kids like Yoo-Hoos so much, I tried one.

NASTY

R82 YOU"RE. (you are = you're)

OP, are you Homer Simpson?

“Hello, is this President Clinton? Good. I figure if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it’d be you.”

My experience with Sunny D. occurred when I participated in a psychology department experiment concerning the effects of alcohol. I have no idea what the hypotheses were since the subjects of the experiment were blind to them or the group they were in (experimental vs. control). Subjects had N drinks and blew for a blood alcohol readings over time. I did learn that a the time Sunny D was the preferred mixer of alcohol researchers. Why? Apparently, Sunny D was good at disguising the flavor of vodka so it subjects were less likely to guess if they were in the experimental or control groups. Imagine that.

So, for three sessions I was a gas ball and then I got drunk.

What R46 said. When I was selling my second condo, I pointed out the stains in the dishwasher to the realtor who told me to go buy some Tang and run an otherwise empty load before the open house. Not that I drank Tang (since childhood), but my first thought was "... and we drink this poison?"

Thats like soaking rusty bolts and cleaning chrome bumpers with coca cola..

[R84]....sure,but its also a mental illness....OCD meds could be your friend love.

To all the grammar police on Data Lounge, has it ever crossed your slightly disturbed minds people might be purposely mispelling things to trigger you. Just a thought....laughs

R78 Because they didn't want to call it Taint.

It's the citric acid which "cleans" your dishwasher.

So you could just pour some lemon juice in it, too.

Do people still drink Kool Aid?

My piss is tang

R93 Poon Tang?

Oh, what a TANGled web we weave.

R28, Evian is naive.

Yeah, and while we're at it, why doesn't anybody eat Space Food Sticks anymore?

Wait...here.

What does Robert Parker have to say?

Used to eat those a lot growing up. :/

[quote]^^ typo: Hellmans

No, dear.

Um...

The point was that, even in correcting the typo, he misspelled "Hellmann's."

"Why doesn't anybody drink Tang anymore"

Because it looks like Donald Trump bathes in it.

OT but related, because of old grocery products, I just saw on the late news that a grocery store was forced to honor a 20 cents off for any Crisco Oil product coupon from 1983 because it explicitly stated "No expiration date."

1970s Holy Trinity of powdered sugary drinks:

Grape Kool-Aid

Lipton Lemon iced tea

Tang

What was yours?

Tang was awesome. My mom didn't like to buy it because she considered it junk and we always had orange juice instead, which I never really liked. But every once in a while she'd buy Tang. It was so much better than orange juice, which I always thought was too tart.

At one time both Lipton and other companies made powdered lemonade products: sugar sweetened, artificially sweetened or unsweetened. I bet someone still does.

I grew up in the rural South and the very idea of powdered sweet tea was anathema. Mama got raves for her tea. She only used Lipton in her tea ball but everyone LOVED her tea. Her secret was she poured well over a cup sugar in the teapot before she poured boiling water over the tea ball. Her friends couldn't figure out her "secret."

And yet neither she nor any of her friends were fat back then. What happened?

It's pure sugar and all kinds of artificial crap. If I need energy, I'll stick to all natural Cocaine

R8, you're hired.

[quote] OT but related, because of old grocery products, I just saw on the late news that a grocery store was forced to honor a 20 cents off for any Crisco Oil product coupon from 1983 because it explicitly stated "No expiration date."

That's hilarious because when I was in college (late 1980's) I worked in a grocery store. I kept all the free coupons and just put the items in the people's grocery bag with out ringing them up. Just last week I found those coupons. One was for a carton of milk (the picture is the cardboard half gallon of milk) and one is for Tide in a cardboard box. I even have a coupon for a package of Sizzlean. I'll have to post some pics on my account and link it here

When I worked in a grocery store in college, customers would steal our sale signs and then bring back after the sale was over, demanding the items be sold to them at the previous sale price. We eventually started putting dates on our sale signs to put an end to these fraudsters.

I'd rather have some Space Sticks

[quote]At one time both Lipton and other companies made powdered lemonade products

Country Time still does

R73 is right. Tang was sorta junk food, but it was also more expensive than orange juice. It wasn't poor people food. My mom bought it only occasionally and when on sale.

Space Sticks were great. Darn you guys, now I have a craving for Space Sticks.

Does anyone still drink a Tang?

Yes, r118, but they put on a hat for the occasion.

Hmmm.

Tang was created in 1957, but there were no astronauts until 1959.

Well, the Mercury Seven couldn't have drunk a product that hadn't been invented yet, now could they?

It might not have been developed for space.

I remember my first year of college, that's all I had for a drink when in my dorm room: water from the tap and a jar of powdered Tang.

My ears would start to ring if I drank too much! I never found out why, but it's when I knew I'd "had enough" for the night. lol

Never will understand the hate for Tang. In a world of flavored soft drinks and mixes, it's pretty harmless.

I used to mix it so strong that crystals of orange flavored rock candy would start to form in the bottom of the glass.

Too much sugar, r123.

I suppose it goes without saying that no DLer ever made Tang Pie.

In case you're wondering, it's very much like pink lemonade pie, which is to say, the combination of citric acid and heavy dairy makes it pretty gross.

It's a good way to ruin a pleasant beverage mix.

It seems that pie would be slightly more palatable without the sweetened condensed milk

DL confession: I have eaten Tang pie.

Was it awful?

WHET to Ovaltine?

The pie was gluttonously sweet with just a hint of tartness, so I loved it, r129. But I was a little boy! I know I wouldn't have any tolerance for it today.

I was completely grossed out after my first bite.

What I was expecting was something lighter, brighter, cleaner tasting, and closer to the filling in a lemon pie. Not something that tasted and felt like loose cheesecake. Yuck.

I’d still give it a try r126.

I suspect the quality of Tang pie varied hugely from mom cook to mom cook but I doubt there was any version I could stomach today.

BTW, sweetened condensed milk was very popular when and where I grew up (rural North Carolina in the 1950s). My parents used it in their coffee every day.

There's just something about the citric acid from the Tang hitting the milk and curdling it that's just.......vomitous.

And to clarify:

Love Tang.

Love sweetened condensed milk.

But never together.

Weirdly enough, Tang is very popular in the middle east especially the Gulf states.

I would imagine it would be popular wherever oranges and orange flavor are popular.

When I lived in Kuwait, everybody would drink Tang and Vimto especially during Ramadan.

Sugar water sells. And it's much healthier than High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Ever watch old films and wonder why everybody was thin before diet drinks became popular?

[quote]WHET to Ovaltine?

I bought some two years ago. It's just a powder now, like Nestle Quik used to be. It has none of the crunchy goodness of Ovaltine of yore. I used to eat it right out of the jar. Who needed that nasty milk? Or I'd put it on cereal or ice cream. The current stuff may have bought the Ovaltine name, but what they make is not Ovaltine.

When did Ovaltine transition into powder? I used to eat it out of jar, too. I preferred it to Quick. There's something about the malt flavor.

Is Tang still on the market?

Did you read the thread?

Well my sons are now 23 & 25 but I gave them Ovaltine for years when they were little. They thought it was chocolate milk but it was chock full of vitamins.

Today I learned Quik was renamed to Nesquik at some point

[quote]When did Ovaltine transition into powder?

I don't know. I bought it two or three years ago, but it had been decades since I even thought about it.

South American sales of Tang are still strong:

The last time I got Ovaltine was maybe 20 years ago and it was still in the crunch form. Funny, I never knew it actually had nutritional value. I just looked up the labels. Ton of vitamins and minerals -- almost the entire RDA of iron.

It was an orangeutang, not a monkey, R72

I killed the market for Tang, singlehandedly

I thought I remembered the deadly beverage being green, Jim.

Or purple, r152.

Jim's beverage of choice was actually Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid or Tang.

But grape, r154? It was grape?

You're a cheap bastard, aren't you Jim?

Did you say Tang or Wang?