Jones Soda Co.

He says...

It's all the flavors of the Nuka-Cola collection by Jones Soda.

It's still 4XP, but it's still cool and good.

Holy crap.

So at the start of 2000, Van Stoke moved the company to Seattle.

That August, Urban Juice & Soda changed its name to Jones Soda after the drink, by then, made up most of its sales, directly contradicting what he told Inc. three years prior.

In 2003, after years of mostly losing money, Jones finally turned a profit.

That November, it sold a turkey and gravy-flavored soda for Thanksgiving, and the first batch sold out online in about three hours.

I do think that nostalgia is a really powerful vehicle.

As children of the 90s start to approach their 40s, I think Jones is the type of brand that many would like to see make a comeback.

That's the story of Jones Soda.

If there's a brand from your pantry or your freezer or your childhood that you think has a story worth telling, send it my way.

Then it cuts to Michelle explaining how a box truck showed up at their house and people started unloading wood and equipment from it in their front yard and she has no idea what's going on.

And did you notice that it's also a Jones Soda truck?

Yes, I did see it.

I was like, just like the Duggars, their box truck is a Jones Soda.

So that had me thinking, is this their truck and they let them use it? Or is it really because because it really is people that they don't know.

Like you can tell it's not people that they know.

So either it's just a coincidence that they also have an old Jones Soda truck and everyone just bought up Jones Soda trucks at the same time in the area or it's the Duggars.

But I don't really know.

This is a great fight.

And some Jones Soda.

Nice.

Yeah.

Like, actually putting-

He's on Jones Soda.

Right.

Well, that's...

Y- you know what this is all reminding me of? And I was keeping quiet about it till right now so as to not further ruin this some more.

Andre, remember, oh, God, it must've been 20 years ago now, when Jones Soda had the Thanksgiving stuff?

Yeah, they still put that out every so often.

Do they?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But, like, I'm not gonna try no turkey Jones Soda.

Anyway, Kevin, I, have you recovered? I feel like- [laughs]

Which, um, I left a comment.

Jones Soda made a mistake last week, and they put a, uh, they put a survey out that was like, "What do you think the Nuka-Cola Quartz tastes like? Is it A, a milkshake, B, a birthday cake, C, a sugar cookie, or D, something else?" 80% of people put D, something else.

It's supposed to be vanilla cream soda.

It smells like and tastes like, because olfactory senses, uh, it tastes and smells like either a Flintstones vitamin or, or herbal supplement.

Yeah, I mean, it took a little while to sort of translate the, the handwriting and, and, and figure out what it was.

Meet Eric Chastain and Mike Spear, respectively the VP of operations and the marketing director at Jones Soda in Seattle.

Jones makes its living on flavors like cream soda and green apple soda, but they're also known for being willing to try anything.

They have made turkey and gravy soda.

And we do a second taste test.

All right, so we've got the, the, the revised cola on the left, and then Coca-Cola on the right.

In the lab with us and Mike from Jones Soda were David Ames, who runs the flavor company, and his staff.

Going with the idea that our essential oils were much stronger than Pemberton's, they ended up cutting the amount of flavor in half.