Consumables Soda or soft drinks are consumables found and mentioned across the Fallout Series.
Background[edit]
Popular before the war, sold by vending machines or dispensed via Soda Fountains. After the war, soda is still found and can be consumed.
Nuka-Cola[edit]
Nuka-Cola is a beverage produced by the Nuka-Cola Corporation.[1] The product dominated the market as the most popular American soda.[2] In the aftermath of the Great War, the soft drink is still found and the bottle caps of Nuka-Cola are the most commonly used currency.[3]
Nuka-Cola entered the beverage market in 2044, with the invention of the soft drink by John-Caleb Bradberton after two years of experimentation.[1] It contained 120% of the recommended daily allowance of sugar, was immediately successful in the United States, and within a year could be purchased nationwide.[4][5][6][7] The unique taste of Nuka-Cola is the result of a combination of 17 fruit essences, balanced to enhance the classic cola flavor.[8] The formula consists of Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (to protect taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, and Caffeine.
Additional formula research resulted in numerous flavor variations, popular additions including cherry, grape, and orange released just a few years after the drink debuted.[9] The last Nuka-Cola taste variant was created in October 2076, dubbed Nuka-Cola Quantum based on an isotope of strontium-90, the first cases of which hit the market in select cities before the war.[10][11] Ingredients were combined in just the right proportion, to the level that shortages of ingredients or changes to the recipe were noticed by consumers, as said to have happened during the Great Passion Fruit Famine of 2044.[12] Nuka-Cola Quantum was the result of a three-year research program focused on creating an isotope safe for human consumption.[13]
It was marketed and labeled as being fortified with "vitaminerals" and "health tonics."[14] Frequent consumption could cause addiction, which led to splitting headaches.[15] The color of this soda is described as "brown".[16] Post-War, the taste of it is described as "warm and flat".[17] Scientists at the Kanawha Nuka-Cola Plant were attempting to utilize chemical substitution in Nuka-Cola beverages to create new flavors.[18]
Sunset Sarsaparilla[edit]
The Sunset Sarsaparilla Company was founded in 1918.[19][20] By 2077, the soda's popularly had spread nationwide and into Canada, despite competition from Nuka-Cola Corporation's Nuka-Cola Wild, an attempt to replicate the soda's flavor and success.[21][22]
Despite the widespread success of the drink, a study was conducted that claimed the soda was hazardous to consumers' health. Channel 6 broadcasted that the study showed consuming large quantities of the product resulted in a wide range of harmful side effects, including kidney damage, nausea, digital numbness, anxiety, loss of visual acuity, dizziness, occasional nosebleeds, joint inflammation, tooth decay, sore throat, bronchitis, organ rupture, and halitosis.[23] The drink is made with pure cane sugar.
Some bottles have a bottle cap with a blue star on the bottom. The Sunset Sarsaparilla Star Bottle Cap bottles were used as part of a promotion before the Great War, where participants needed to redeem 50 of them at the Sunset Sarsaparilla Company's headquarters in Las Vegas to receive a prize.
Vim![edit]
Vim! Pop Incorporated was founded in 1931, initially sold as a health tonic.[24] In New England it was more widely consumed than its rival Nuka-Cola.[25] Vim was even referred to as a state tradition and about to become the official state drink of Maine but during the process of making this official, legal situations forced the company to back off its marketing.[26]
Vim was going to be bought out by the Nuka-Cola Corporation before the war. Doyle Reed, the owner who held the company in his family for years, was fighting against the takeover. However, with certain financial problems being caused by the company's legal issues, the CEO was being urged to sell the company.[27] The only legal entanglement that the public was aware of consisted of a male employee of the Vim! Factory, Alex, allegedly punching a female bar patron,[26] though several witnesses denied this, instead supporting Alex's claim that the female hit him unprovoked and he hit back as a reflex.[28] Still, the local news attached to this story and forced the company to hold back on television advertisements and product release.[29]
One successful form of marketing which continued despite these problems was the Vim! Ambassador program, where salespeople in fully functional T-51 Power Armor painted in Vim! livery would go out among the public.[30] Two sets of such armor are available: one in Vim! Paint at the Vim! Pop Factory next to the terminal where the paint schemes can be downloaded,[31] and another in Vim! Refresh Paint in a truck along the coastal road north of the National Park Visitor's Center.
Mentioned[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 World of Refreshment PA tour: "Nuka-Cola began its journey in the year 2042 when our founder, John-Caleb Bradberton, was a budding chemist. He dreamt of a delicious soft drink that would provide energy, focus and 120% of the recommended daily value of sugar! It took almost two years to perfect the formula, but in late 2044, Mr. Bradberton was finally successful and Nuka-Cola was born!"
- ↑ Fallout 4 loading screen: "Nuka-Cola, the most popular American soda before the war, manufactured so many bottles that the drink can still be found and enjoyed now, more than 200 years later."
- ↑ Fallout 4 loading screens: "All across the United States, in the aftermath of the Great War, the bottle caps of Nuka-Cola are the most commonly used currency."
- ↑ Nuka-Cola Accident Report
- ↑ Welcome to the Nuka-Cola family!
- ↑ Sierra Petrovita: "When Nuka-Cola was invented by John-Caleb Bradberton in 2044, it quickly became the world's most popular soft drink. The wonder drink soon drew a dedicated following which prompted the Nuka-Cola Corporation to release many promotional items like these. By 2067, a Nuka-Cola machine such as this rare pristine model could be found on almost every street in America. Even in today's crazy world, Nuka-Cola is still the number one choice of refreshment among Armageddon's survivors."
(Sierra Petrovita's dialogue) - ↑ Fallout 4 loading screen: "Amateur chemist John-Caleb Bradberton discovered the formula for Nuka-Cola in 2044. Within a year, Nuka-Cola could be purchased across the entire United States."
- ↑ Nuka-World loading screens: "Nuka-Cola's award-winning taste is derived from a secret combination of seventeen fruit essences which are balanced to enhance, but not overwhelm, that classic cola flavor."
- ↑ Nuka-World loading screens: "Nuka-Cola introduced fruit-flavored beverages such as Nuka-Cherry, Nuka-Grape and Nuka-Orange only a few short years after the corporation was founded. They were an instant success."
- ↑ Nuka-Cola plant terminal entries; Packing line terminal, Company Announcement
- ↑ Bradberton's Office Terminal Entries; Bradberton's project terminal, 10-20-2076 JCB
- ↑ Lone Wanderer: "The taste... I could never get used to it."
Sierra Petrovita: "No no no! You're mistaken! The flavor is the essence of seventeen different fruits mixed in just the right proportion to give the beverage that delicious taste. In fact, in the Great Passion Fruit Famine of 2044, people actually noticed the taste difference when the flavor was changed!"
(Sierra Petrovita's dialogue) - ↑ Nuka-Cola plant terminal entries; research terminal, Company Announcement
- ↑ Lone Wanderer: "Never mind. I think you've had enough sugar for one day."
Zip: "But Nuka-Cola's fortified with vitaminerals and health tonics! It even says so on the label! That means it's healthy for me!"
(Zip's dialogue) - ↑ Dugan: "{116}{}{It is the stuff of life . . . Well actually, if I don't drink it on an hourly basis I get a splitting headache.}"
(Dugan's dialogue). - ↑ Lone Wanderer: "Why a blue bottle if the soda is brown? That's just weird."
Sierra Petrovita: "Aha! That's where you're wrong! Market research done in 2052 said that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of 100 polled. And the particular hue of blue is Dazzling Blue, scientifically proven to be the most pleasing of all blues!"
(Sierra Petrovita's dialogue) - ↑ {10600}{}{Nuka-Cola}
{10601}{} {A bottle of Nuka-Cola, the flavored softdrink of the post-nuclear world. Warm and flat.}
(PRO ITEM.MSG (Fallout)) - ↑ Overseer: "Nuka-Cola's scientists were trying chemical substitutions to make new flavors. That's how we're going to trick it into making the inoculation. We just need to figure out how to mix soda ingredients to produce human antibodies. Easy, right?"
(Overseer's dialogue) - ↑ Sunset Sarsaparilla sign
- ↑ Festus: "So one day a man, a saloon owner in a small town, decided to make a new type of soft drink, and asked his patrons what flavor they'd like it to be. After getting no help from them, a stranger at the end of the bar suggested the man make a sarsaparilla flavored drink."
(Festus' dialogue) - ↑ Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters Terminal Entries; Terminal 3
- ↑ Fallout 4 loading screens: "Although the Nuka-Cola Corporation would never admit it, Nuka-Cola Wild was released to directly compete with Sunset Sarsaparilla after attempts to acquire that company met with failure."
- ↑ Festus: "Lastly, if you're here about the health advisory that aired on channel 6 recently, say "Silly Ol' Advisory.""
Courier: "Silly Ol' Advisory."
Festus: "I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand that. Could you repeat it?"
Courier: "Silly Ol' Advisory."
Festus: "I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand that. Could you repeat it?"
Courier: "Silly Ol' Advisory."
Festus: "While Sunset Sarsaparilla is perfectly safe, a recent independent study - whose validity is currently being challenged - revealed the following: Excessive ingestion of sarsaparilla can lead to deleterious effects including, but not limited to: kidney damage, nausea, digital numbness, anxiety, loss of visual acuity, dizziness, occasional nosebleeds, joint inflammation, tooth decay, sore throat, bronchitis, organ rupture, and halitosis. Note that you'd have to drink a heap of Sunset Sarsaparilla to match the quantities used in the study. How much, you ask? A lot. A whole helluva lot. In fact, you'd have to get full as a tick on Sunset Sarsaparilla to even come close. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, partner! And keep drinking Sunset Sarsaparilla!"
(Festus' dialogue) - ↑ Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; Vim mixing terminal, tour notes #1
- ↑ Fallout 4 loading screens: "Vim! was a prewar soda pop native to New England. Residents considered it a point of pride to drink it over the more nationally recognized Nuka Cola brand."
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; Vim marketing terminal, [DReed] - That's great news!
- ↑ Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; CEO's terminal, Meeting with investors
- ↑ Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; Vim marketing terminal, [WRudd] - Alex is being framed
- ↑ Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; Vim marketing terminal, [MYoung] - Have to delay TV ads
- ↑ Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; Vim Ambassador terminal, Vim Ambassador Program
- ↑ Vim! Pop Factory Terminal Entries; Vim Ambassador terminal, Tour Notes #8
