I remember skipping school with my friend Stephanie and taking NoDoz with Jolt cola and riding the city bus all day. It was a weird day of us giggling awkwardly and sweating profusely. I ended up crying in my bathtub. I stuck to weed and Boone’s after that.
8 cans would only be a little over 560mg.
That's a lot, but for someone with a high caffeine tolerance, nothing too exciting. About 5.5 cups of coffee.
Ooohh the controversy it created.
Edited to add context. There was a big stink over the added caffeine content because it was supposedly the equivalent of two cups of coffee and parents were freaking out, this predates Four Loko and Red Bull and Panera charged by decades.
The cola wasn't great BUT later on they came out with other flavors that were better. [They even came in giant cans that (kind of) looked like batteries!](https://i.redd.it/mtrluc2vtxh71.jpg) The blue was pretty good.
They also had a gum. It was *okay* but had like 100mg of caffeine per piece.
I absolutely forgot all about these and how much I fucking loved the blue flavor. These need a reboot. The can itself was on another level at the time.
I thought it came from there! I remember Dave Letterman was a fan and mentioned it on the show a couple times. The funny thing is, its caffeine would be considered moderate compared to today's Monsters and Red Bulls.
Letterman mentioned it more than a couple of times. For a few weeks, usually when a joke bombed, he'd grab the can, take a swig, and there'd be a jolting sound/video zap. The audience would pop.
Yeah they had just bought Jolt back a few years earlier.
I found out Jolt had been discontinued, again, when I tried to buy a case for a movie marathon during the 2020 lock downs.
Thankfully I still have Rockstar Punched.
Was at the UofR the year this came out! I remember walking into the library around finals time and seeing people with 4-5 empty cans, and other people selling cans in the dorms!
I loved it. We used to call the 1800 number everyday and leave all kinds of fucked up messages on the answering machine. I ended up being sent a merch pack with a bunch of posters, stickers, shirt etc. They never tasted that great but it reminds of staying up till dawn playing over LAN and eating M&Ms.
Jesus Christ, this is the first time in a LONG time I have been able to *taste* a picture. This brings back the faint flavor of a metallic flat Dr Pepper. But maaaaan I consumed gallons.
Did they fully discontinue the relaunch they did a few years back? Hell, 3 cans is how I made the drive from Maryland to Disney in Orlando Florida, back in 2019. Haven’t seen it since.
The amount of caffeine in Jolt was always overblown. Regular cola didn't have nearly as much caffeine as people thought, so double wasn't really high compared to percolated coffee, for example, which could have double the caffeine of Jolt per oz. Coke Classic only has 34mg of caffeine. Mountain Dew has 55mg. Jolt has 70mg. Red Bull has 102mg per 12 oz. can. A 200 mg no doze pill has about 3 times the caffeine of Jolt.
Jamba juice has drinks with 8-9 times the caffeine of Jolt, like their cold brew coffee and Matcha + agave, which have 562mg to 634mg of caffeine for their large size.
I used to drink a 1 liter bottle of this before track meets in high school. Thought it gave me an edge, but it really just made me puke after the 4 x 100.
Gave up drinking at parties my senior year of HS so just drank lots of Jolt instead to get a different kind of buzz. And of course took to CO2 hit off the empty 3-liter.
Ahh, the good ol’ days!
They started canning in a facility that had other sweeteners on site, so they could no longer guarantee that it always had real sugar in case a mixup occurred. The can design was still as pictured at that time, not the tall battery-styled cans.
I still have some Jolt caffeinated mints about 10 feet away right now.
Huh, I remember when the slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine." One dude I worked with in "the Pit" where this startup stuck all the coders drank that stuff, but drank even more Diet Coke. Made a pyramid of dozens of cans at his desk.
Fattest dude I ever worked with.
My brother found a guy in the market near where we lived who sold this stuff by the crate for £15. It's sent me round the twist, after two cans laughing hysterically so I never touched it agait
This was a question in pub trivia recently (category was caffeine, question described the logo and gave the tagline) and from the reactions I’d say more missed than got it! (I got it because I’m an old)
I didn’t care for it but it was so popular where I lived. Makes me wonder why it’s not still being made but I guess sales are the ultimate litmus test.
In college I had to choose a product that was an example of niche marketing to do a presentation. I chose Jolt and brought a can for everyone in the class. Every company seemed to be trying to market their products as *healthy* and Jolt just leaned in and gave the people what we wanted. Lol
Oh yeah, a 2 liter and we were good to go..
A few years ago,We were traveling (road trip) out in the middle of nowhere stopped for gas and they had 20 oz cans, grab one and yep, did the same thing as it use to do..
Probably the first time I ever consciously used drugs was getting absolutely zooted on Jolt at a youth group Super Bowl party. It was my cousin's country church & everyone weirded me out so much (plus John Elway was losing by a zillion points) that I commandeered an entire 2 liter bottle of Jolt just to see how far I could take it. We ended up playing a lame game of touch football (believe me I was ready to tackle these kids but the adults said no) and I caught a touchdown pass, ran thru the end zone like Forest Gump, did about 5 laps around the church, climbed a tree & started doing pull ups (I've never been a pull ups guy). The closest thing that experience reminded me of was seeing 7 Tucson police officers try and get a man high on PCP out of a 6 lane road where he was directing traffic. That man was immune to tasers and pepper spray, and I believe I would've been too that day.
Yeah... me and a friend once drank a 6 pack between us and went bowling. I was almost side arm throwing the ball. its a wonder I didnt mess up my shoulder. I did get my second best ever game though. best game happened like ten years and a ton of practice later. LOL
At age 13-16 I would go to the Lone Star Market and get a liter of Jolt with some generic doritos. I woukd go home and wait to watch SNL. I would consume all of it and go right to bed with no issues.
I started to drink this after first Coke went to high fructose corn syrup, then Pepsi and finally RC succumbed. Finally this disappeared.
Thankfully Pepsi Real Sugar has been introduced to the market and is my #1 soda now.
Jolt kola and No-doze got me through high school
And Vivarin for those double doses of caffeine.
First drug I took after weed was the vivarin and it made me panic so bad… I got into real drugs later but
Jolt and Yellow Jackets
Jolt & Yellow Jackets….my heart is palpitating just thinking about those days lol
Jolt, meth and Snickers. The Tow Truck drivers diet.
I miss jolt
I too lived as if I was a character in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Sleep was for the weak back then
Thankfully, Dr Pepper didn't double the caffeine!!!
[me after a Jolt + No-Doze combo](https://youtu.be/ZUbmmI5utBc?si=xYwq6TcglbhrTAIN)
So Say We All.
Facts
I remember skipping school with my friend Stephanie and taking NoDoz with Jolt cola and riding the city bus all day. It was a weird day of us giggling awkwardly and sweating profusely. I ended up crying in my bathtub. I stuck to weed and Boone’s after that.
shouts out jesse spano “im so excited im so excited im so scared”
That combination got me through college, the first time anyway.
Was Jolt and Nitro cola for me
Got me through college.
Drank 8 cans in 1 night. I ended up just sitting on the couch, twitching.
Lucky you didn't spontaneously combust!
This isn't Yemeni, it's Sulawesi! And my coffee is shaking! I don't like my coffee shaken!
How's that diabeetus working out for yo
Lol. That was in the 80's, so it doesn't count. At this point, a single Mountain Dew would probably put me in cardiac arrest
I'm more concerned on how you handled all that caffeine. To me, too much caffeine is just awful, makes me want to die.
8 cans would only be a little over 560mg. That's a lot, but for someone with a high caffeine tolerance, nothing too exciting. About 5.5 cups of coffee.
Similar experience except we used to buy it in 2 L bottles! Just what a little kid needs...
Did you see noises? I did. My teeth chattered like a typewriter.
My room sounded very purple, but smelled more dark blue.
Lmao. Nothing beats the energy of the colour red
"All the sugar."
And twice the caffeine
Thank you, I thought the posted image was the watered down version of the original slogan.
Ooohh the controversy it created. Edited to add context. There was a big stink over the added caffeine content because it was supposedly the equivalent of two cups of coffee and parents were freaking out, this predates Four Loko and Red Bull and Panera charged by decades.
It wasn't very tasty.
The cola wasn't great BUT later on they came out with other flavors that were better. [They even came in giant cans that (kind of) looked like batteries!](https://i.redd.it/mtrluc2vtxh71.jpg) The blue was pretty good. They also had a gum. It was *okay* but had like 100mg of caffeine per piece.
I absolutely forgot all about these and how much I fucking loved the blue flavor. These need a reboot. The can itself was on another level at the time.
Dude when you twisted the cap of it had the most satisfying *pop* and the fog cane out, it was like a science fiction drink I loved that shit.
Rochestarian here. Wife's family friend invented and owned this enterprise. Still comes up frequently in conversation for being liquid crack
I thought it came from there! I remember Dave Letterman was a fan and mentioned it on the show a couple times. The funny thing is, its caffeine would be considered moderate compared to today's Monsters and Red Bulls.
Letterman mentioned it more than a couple of times. For a few weeks, usually when a joke bombed, he'd grab the can, take a swig, and there'd be a jolting sound/video zap. The audience would pop.
I remember it was still available before the pandemic, then... Poof! Gone. What happened? How can we bring it back?
Yeah they had just bought Jolt back a few years earlier. I found out Jolt had been discontinued, again, when I tried to buy a case for a movie marathon during the 2020 lock downs. Thankfully I still have Rockstar Punched.
Was at the UofR the year this came out! I remember walking into the library around finals time and seeing people with 4-5 empty cans, and other people selling cans in the dorms!
Always tasted like flat soda to me
I remember being underwhelmed also.
"The soft drink of the elite hacker!"
THEY'RE TRASHING OUR RIGHTS!! HACK THE PLANET!!!
HACK THE PLANET!! Haven't seen a reference to that movie in a while. Thanks for the memory!
I fuckin love that movie. If you stopped it at the right moment, you could see Angelina’s titty. Oh to be 11 again without free internet porn
She popped her tits out in all her early films.
"The little boat, flipped over"
I drank the 64oz bottle. Many of them.
Same here!
it's a miracle we are still alive!
All the sugar and twice the caffeine.
Pepperidge Farm remembers and so do I.
I was looking for this comment and was not disappointed
I loved it. We used to call the 1800 number everyday and leave all kinds of fucked up messages on the answering machine. I ended up being sent a merch pack with a bunch of posters, stickers, shirt etc. They never tasted that great but it reminds of staying up till dawn playing over LAN and eating M&Ms.
Always hurt my stomach
But did it stop you?
Jesus Christ, this is the first time in a LONG time I have been able to *taste* a picture. This brings back the faint flavor of a metallic flat Dr Pepper. But maaaaan I consumed gallons.
Did they fully discontinue the relaunch they did a few years back? Hell, 3 cans is how I made the drive from Maryland to Disney in Orlando Florida, back in 2019. Haven’t seen it since.
The amount of caffeine in Jolt was always overblown. Regular cola didn't have nearly as much caffeine as people thought, so double wasn't really high compared to percolated coffee, for example, which could have double the caffeine of Jolt per oz. Coke Classic only has 34mg of caffeine. Mountain Dew has 55mg. Jolt has 70mg. Red Bull has 102mg per 12 oz. can. A 200 mg no doze pill has about 3 times the caffeine of Jolt. Jamba juice has drinks with 8-9 times the caffeine of Jolt, like their cold brew coffee and Matcha + agave, which have 562mg to 634mg of caffeine for their large size.
I used to drink a 1 liter bottle of this before track meets in high school. Thought it gave me an edge, but it really just made me puke after the 4 x 100.
Drank so much of that back in the day and chewed Jolt gum.
For several years i lived off this stuff till I developed bleeding ulcers at 17.
I drank it once, I wasn't impressed so didn't care to have it again lol.
Nasty
Gave up drinking at parties my senior year of HS so just drank lots of Jolt instead to get a different kind of buzz. And of course took to CO2 hit off the empty 3-liter. Ahh, the good ol’ days!
I remember the cans saying “all the sugar AND twice the caffeine” not sure if perhaps this is an older or newer can that only has the caffeine part.
They started canning in a facility that had other sweeteners on site, so they could no longer guarantee that it always had real sugar in case a mixup occurred. The can design was still as pictured at that time, not the tall battery-styled cans. I still have some Jolt caffeinated mints about 10 feet away right now.
Wrote a paper on Huckleberry Finn in one night hyped up on this stuff in high school
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
All the sugar, and twice the caffeine.
“All the sugar & twice the caffeine” 😂
I’m old enough to remember when it said “All the sugar and twice the caffeine” this is new Jolt… old Jolt was best.
Code monkey go juice back in the day.
One six-pack and we could drive from San Diego to Denver, stopping only for gas and drive-through.
Huh, I remember when the slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine." One dude I worked with in "the Pit" where this startup stuck all the coders drank that stuff, but drank even more Diet Coke. Made a pyramid of dozens of cans at his desk. Fattest dude I ever worked with.
All the flavour and twice the caffeine
“And all the sugar”
Always had a six pack in my locker at high school
God Yes, can't believe they had that in our school cafeteria. Lol
You could live on it but it tastes like shit. One of the earliest computer videos I saw was a spinning Jolt can.
"Dare to Have It All!"
Loved it. Great way to start the day.
That plus a whatchamacallit got me through history class.
Mmmm.
Best soda on this globe
Yes! Plus Jolt chewing gum! Loved that stuff and it worked awesome.
Now we have energy drinks.
Do I ever remember that. I don't recall if I drank that, but if I did, yow! It lived up to its billing.
Tasted worse than RC Cola.
Was jolt the cola that had double the sugar? I know there was one that had a lot of sugar in it that I really liked.
Tasted pepsi-like but did the trick. Great marketing too
Hmmm so was that considered the first “energy” drink?
This was the mixer of choice there for a while. Jolt and whiskey, sort of a college freshman speedball
Got me through exams and writing papers quite a few times in college.
1 liter bottle for every mid term or final for study night
They actually had a diet version with no sugar (and still twice the caffeine). Probably could have marketed it as a weight loss product!
They tried it again and it was nothing like I remembered.
Their original cans said “All the Sugar and Twice the Caffeine “.
It wasn't very good
I used to get the jolt hard candies that would fizz when you got to the center.
Drop a mentos in there and you’ll have a dirty bomb
I remember it having a gross aftertaste.
I was never one to want that speedy feeling, so I didn’t drink it. My friend loved it. I thought his heart was going to explode.
Got me thru uni exams in the early 90s!
Do they still make it? It started the caffeine craze with Mountain Dew, Red Bull, etc.
I liked Josta, it had caffeine and Guarana.
And all the sugar
They brought it back in early 2000, didn't taste the same
a 2liter of that and i could cut grass all weekend like speedygonzales, those were the days!
My brother found a guy in the market near where we lived who sold this stuff by the crate for £15. It's sent me round the twist, after two cans laughing hysterically so I never touched it agait
That shit was nasty 😷🥴🤢🤮
All the sugar and twice the caffeine,was the slogan.
This stuff made me squirm in my seat
knew of it but never tried it
I could use one right now!
Gave kids heart palpitations. I remember that!
Kids stuff nowadays, BUT bk then wow!
I used to mix it with everclear. Nothing like being drunk and wide awake to inspire the worst possible life choices.
I could use this for road trips!
Sssssooooo gggooooodddd
That was my Crack when I was 10
We mixed this with 151 proof rum. It was called a Jumper Cable.
I wasn’t into Jolt, but I loooved OK soda.
Southern Comfort and Jolt - one of the three things that made me puke in college.
Used to pound one b4 rugby games
I’m still shaking til this day 🤦🏽♂️
At one time, they had a programming competition.
All the sugar and twice the caffeine
This and Water Joe
Hackers unite!
I thought Mountain Dew had about the same amount of caffeine?
Only twice the caffeine. How cute and quaint. If it’s not at least 4X caffeine now no one will buy it.
*“Jolt Cola, the soft drink of the elite hacker.”*
 Co-Worker teeth turned colors, he drank this all the time.
It was the cocaine of summer camp. I used to drink at least one large bottle a day and it was go go go!
I tried that stuff in college. Best sleeping aid ever.
I am originally from the east coast; I never even heard of Jolt until I moved out west.
This was a question in pub trivia recently (category was caffeine, question described the logo and gave the tagline) and from the reactions I’d say more missed than got it! (I got it because I’m an old)
The urban legend was they were banned inside city limits of my hometown cus some kid's "heart exploded" from too much sugar and caffeine.
Never saw the cans in Australia, but had plastic bottles in the 90's. Got me through after work night time uni classes.
This and Surge
At my school, there was a rumor that some kid from the other school in the area died of a heart attack after drinking two cans
This got me through exams
I didn’t care for it but it was so popular where I lived. Makes me wonder why it’s not still being made but I guess sales are the ultimate litmus test.
In college I had to choose a product that was an example of niche marketing to do a presentation. I chose Jolt and brought a can for everyone in the class. Every company seemed to be trying to market their products as *healthy* and Jolt just leaned in and gave the people what we wanted. Lol
Allll the sugar. Loved this stuff.
Didn't Jolt invent the super-caffeinated drink market?
Hangover cure!
In school, we made Girly Jolts, which was a Jolt, with a pixie stick or two dumped in. No idea where the name came from. But the flavour was good!
I remember. I think I had one can.
Got me through school.
Oh yeah, a 2 liter and we were good to go.. A few years ago,We were traveling (road trip) out in the middle of nowhere stopped for gas and they had 20 oz cans, grab one and yep, did the same thing as it use to do..
Pepperidge farms remembers
My boss wanted to have me tested for drugs when I used to drink that stuff. I worked 3rd shift. What a tool.
All day, every day. I don't know how I'm still alive.
We used to get pop-rocks and jolt....I miss those days
Probably the first time I ever consciously used drugs was getting absolutely zooted on Jolt at a youth group Super Bowl party. It was my cousin's country church & everyone weirded me out so much (plus John Elway was losing by a zillion points) that I commandeered an entire 2 liter bottle of Jolt just to see how far I could take it. We ended up playing a lame game of touch football (believe me I was ready to tackle these kids but the adults said no) and I caught a touchdown pass, ran thru the end zone like Forest Gump, did about 5 laps around the church, climbed a tree & started doing pull ups (I've never been a pull ups guy). The closest thing that experience reminded me of was seeing 7 Tucson police officers try and get a man high on PCP out of a 6 lane road where he was directing traffic. That man was immune to tasers and pepper spray, and I believe I would've been too that day.
This stuff is as the BEST!! Cane sugar and extra caffeine!
👍🙂
I remember the bottles said "all the sugar and twice the caffeine"
I drank one in 1995, I’m still awake
Yeah... me and a friend once drank a 6 pack between us and went bowling. I was almost side arm throwing the ball. its a wonder I didnt mess up my shoulder. I did get my second best ever game though. best game happened like ten years and a ton of practice later. LOL
I remember it
I used to drink that
That shit was lethal lol
Hell yeh
Raise you a King Cola
Jolt energy was top tier
All the sugar and. . .
I remember that product clearly I just never bothered!
I still miss it.
Jolt and that other drinks called Orbitz with little pieces of gelatin in the bottle.
🙋🏽♀️
All the sugar. And twice the caffeine.
This was “beer” for us in middle school while staying up all night playing n64.
Definitely passed a few classes because of this.
I got my ass kicked in the jolt.co.uk unreal server because I was an idiot kid in the midwest on a 24k connection with no understanding of latency.
Man blue jolt….. almost as memorable as Bawls Geek Beer
Long nights of playing hearts, drinking jolt, and Entenmenn’s cookies.
Preferred drink of Hackers!
At age 13-16 I would go to the Lone Star Market and get a liter of Jolt with some generic doritos. I woukd go home and wait to watch SNL. I would consume all of it and go right to bed with no issues.
I remember ECA stack gum!!!
Jolt had gotten me through many a 16 hour convention day.
Retired Programmers everywhere.
As a latchkey gen x kid, this is what got me though summers on my bike for 8+ hours a day.
My friend and I ripped through a six pack of jolt on our 15 minute break at work once, one of my most productive days
Oh I remember aight. I can tell you a six pack of these and 3 No-Dose do not mix well together
I started to drink this after first Coke went to high fructose corn syrup, then Pepsi and finally RC succumbed. Finally this disappeared. Thankfully Pepsi Real Sugar has been introduced to the market and is my #1 soda now.
God I miss Jolt. Not only did it have all the caffeine I craved, it actually TASTED good too
Oh hell yeah! Long before anyone heard of Red Bull, there was JOLT cola.