Boy, drinks are deli­cious, right? Oh yeah, noth­ing screams relax­ation like a tasty bev­er­age. Yet, did you ever stop and think about just how many of these drinks have mas­cots? No. Prob­a­bly not. Well, for the sake of argu­ment, let’s just say that ten of the most pop­u­lar bev­er­ages have a anthro­po­mor­phic ‘thing’ as their spokes… thing. Seri­ously! For this list we’ll focus on the “soft” drinks and fol­low it up with a list of Alco­holic Bev­er­age Mas­cots in the future. Oh, and we stuck to North Amer­i­can mas­cots (sorry, no Pepsi Man), so grab your glass, and take a look at these ten famous bev­er­age mascots.

10. The Cal­i­for­nia Dairy (Milk) Cows

Since 2000 these Happy Cows have been mug­ging for the cam­era and doing a moo-velous job (sorry) sell­ing Cal­i­for­nia dairy.

9. Don­ald Duck Orange Juice

Intro­duced on it’s pack­ag­ing by Cit­rus World bev­er­ages in 1940, comes everyone’s favorite severe-anger-issues duck. No, not Daffy. That’s just silly.

8. Sprite and the Sun Fizz

In 1998, Sprite released an ad that has become some­thing of a Pop-Culture his­tor­i­cal phe­nom­e­non. I’m not even going to explain it’s hilar­ity, all you have to do is watch.

7. The Icee Polar Bear

In the 1960’s, the ICEE machine was first introduced, and it’s mascot was created as a Polar Bear. Makes sense, but who knew they’d become so widely available at K-Marts, Wal-Marts, Sears, and Burger Kings? Not me, that’s not who.

6. The Great Root Bear

The Great Root Bear has been the pop­u­lar mas­cot for A&W Root Beer since 1974. The Great Root Bear’s role as mas­cot was reduced in the late 1990’s as A&W became more known as a burger chain, but he is still used to this day.

5. The 7-Up Cool Spot

In the 90’s, 7-Up’s Cool Spot was the anthro­po­mor­phic red dot on the pop can. He’s not around much any more, but he did spawn a video game!

4. Nesquik Bunny (”Quiky”)

Since 1973, this sugared-up animated rabbit has been gracing the adverts and packages of this powdered and liquid chocolate milk mix, as well as the pre-bottled Yoo Hoo evil twin. Tasty.

3. Coca Cola Polar Bears

The Coca Cola Polar Bears were introduced in 1993 and have become one of the most popular advertising campaigns for one of the most popular beverages. In fact, they became the mascot quite accidentally, as a one time commercial was so popular that they continued to come up with new ideas for the Bears, which are seen primarily in the winter.

2. Punchy

This slyly vio­lent Hawai­ian Punch mas­cot has been offer­ing, “How about a nice Hawai­ian Punch?” and then clob­ber­ing them silly since 1962. He gets #2 on the list purely for his vio­lent nature.

1. Kool-Aid Man

Start­ing in 1954 as the oddly-named (duh) “Pitcher Man”, his name was thank­fully changed to the “Kool-Aid Man” in 1975. And he’s been caus­ing mas­sive build­ing dam­age ever since. He is joined by lesser mas­cots such as Pur­ple­saurus Rex and Sharkle­berry Fin.

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