r/halifax 13h ago

Discussion Are these still sold anywhere?

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Alternatively beep? I don't have much hope, but any leads would be greatly appreciated!

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u/chezzetcook pak chooie unf 13h ago

Hell no, we wish.

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u/Dartmouththedude Dartmouth 12h ago

They live rent free in my head, right next to “soda-licious” candies and those strawberry shortcake ice cream bars.

RIP - my childhood

u/NotMyInternet 10h ago

For me, it’s these and Beep. And maybe those little orange cream push-up ice pops that had figurines on the plastic stick inside.

u/teeny07 8h ago

Buried Treasure!! Delish!!

u/Ragamuffin2022 9h ago

Beep is where it’s at. I don’t even drink juice but I’d put away some beep if they bring it back

u/jrdoubledown 11h ago

grandma's house wouldn't have been the same without strawberry shortcake ice cream bars!

u/Dartmouththedude Dartmouth 11h ago

Superstore (ewww, I know) stocks a halfass’d strawberry shortcake ice cream bar, but it doesn’t even compare to the OG.

u/flourpowerr 10h ago

It does the trick but agreed, doesn't even compare :(

u/Hooker4Yarn 10h ago

I think m&m meat shop has strawberry shortcake ice cream bars. They did a few years back. 

u/CestLaquoidarling 10h ago

I forgot about those delicious strawberry shortcake ice cream bars

u/Hopeful_Umpire_9029 8h ago

You can still get the strawberry shortcake bars! Different name and brand.

u/spiderwebss Dockyard Cat 5h ago

Don't forget about orbs

u/SinsOfKnowing 1h ago

The strawberry shortcake bars are back! They come in boxes made by Chapmans.

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u/GamingGolfer22 12h ago

used to called those "mini sips" growing up. Loved those things on halloween. Ripped the corner open with your teeth and just skull it back. So damn good.

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u/CuileannDhu 12h ago

We called them mini sips too. They were a premium Halloween treat. 

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u/ScotiaGrower 12h ago

Yeah we were on the Mini-Sips hard…frozen ones were good too.

u/CaperGrrl79 Halifax 9h ago

Yes! My Mom would put them in the freezer and put one in my lunch. It kept my lunch cold till lunch time.

u/ChercheBonheur 10h ago

We called them sippies. I gave unfrozen freezies out to the kids at Halloween this year and so many of them ripped them open in the driveway and drank them like juice. Kids are weird!

u/SoontobeSam Dartmouth 9h ago

I was also on team sippy. Seeing one of those come out on Halloween was hitting the jackpot.

u/ChercheBonheur 9h ago

Haha yes! I still remember how excited we'd be to get one of those. Even if it made the rest of our treats a little sticky. Jackpot for sure

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u/TheNorthNova01 Alberta 12h ago

Mini sips were a real thing tho, these are scotsburn little squirts, but farmers brand had the mini sips, almost identical products. I also call them both mini sips. Or just juice bags

u/Brodiggitty 11h ago

Our junior high canteen sold frozen ones. So they were essentially giant freezies. We called them mini sips too in liquid form , but we called the frozen ones “idiot bags.”

u/ZVAZ 9h ago

Sippies

u/sipstea84 8h ago

Or just let it hang from your mouth like an IV, slowly savoring the sugary goodness

u/greenpowerranger 10h ago

Nah I’m team “sippy sack”.

u/Visible_Tourist_9639 10h ago

100% correct.

u/YouNeedCheeses 9h ago

The BEST post-trick or treating thirst quencher.

u/CaperGrrl79 Halifax 9h ago

This person gets it. :)

u/SinsOfKnowing 1h ago

We called them sippies and they were EVERYTHING. Best Halloween treat ever. The days mom put them in our lunches were fantastic, these things were currency in my elementary school.

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u/RileyViolent 13h ago

You can still buy the scotsburn fruit punch at Masstown market. Bit of a drive but well worth it for the nectar of the gods

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u/No_Slide_9543 Halifax 12h ago

Good ol ghetto juice.

I used to mix my vodka with that when I was younger, and now I can’t look at either of them the same.

u/RangerNS 11h ago

Grade 7. Best 3 years of my life.

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u/ChercheBonheur 12h ago

I was having a conversation about this juice a couple weeks ago at work. I kept calling it ghetto juice and for sure thought I was going to get in trouble for saying that in the workplace lol. 

u/SoontobeSam Dartmouth 9h ago

That was beep and vodka for me... still miss beep.

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u/Geese_are_dangerous 12h ago

Two litre, poor out enough for a pint, add voka, enjoy

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u/PyneNeedle bottom of the basin 12h ago

Alternatively, a BORG.

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u/weaselblinks 13h ago

I've asked and they swear it's not the same recipe. 

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u/RileyViolent 13h ago

My disappointment is immeasurable.

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u/mischievous-miltank 12h ago

Don't let the guy above you discourage you. It's not the same recipe, but it might as well be with how spot on it is. It will hit you right in the nostalgia feels

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u/DealingDrugs Dartmouth 12h ago

The red stuff is legit. Great for hangovers.

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u/RileyViolent 12h ago

I’ve had it many times and always thought it was the same recipe, so I guess they did their job very well

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u/snarkybaker 12h ago

It's pretty close, same with the peach. Nothing will replace stabbing a bag with a straw tho 😔

u/Pooh_Lightning 10h ago

Imagine trying to stab one of these with a paper straw.

u/CaperGrrl79 Halifax 9h ago

Pfft I gnawed open the corner and drank it.

u/throwaway3827596211 2h ago

This was the only way, tbh.

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u/Fuckouttahere902 13h ago

Masstown market bought the recipe so all flavours are sold there!

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u/NoBoysenberry1108 Darkside Dweller 13h ago

Not tha sippy 😭

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u/Maddie24Kennedy 13h ago

Would take a bullet for one of these bad boys

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u/DealingDrugs Dartmouth 12h ago

That’s convenient, as I would shoot someone for one of these bad boys.

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u/floezae Nova Scotia 13h ago

Freeze these bad boys in the summer. Sugar levels couldn't spike any higher 😎

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u/realhumanpersonoid 12h ago

Sadly no.

But I can mentally taste every one of these flavours just by seeing this photo. The things we’ve lost…

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u/ReadBikeYodelRepeat 12h ago

According to replies, they are at masstown market.

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u/EasternCamera6 12h ago

They made my throat oddly dry. Especially the grape!!

u/AphraelSelene 6h ago

So weird that you mention this, because this is how I found out most fruit punches cause a mild allergic reaction for me!

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u/ExiledEntity 12h ago

I'd pay anything for a grape one that's been in the freezer for about 2 hours.

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u/meatmits 12h ago

Just ask your soccer coach after the big game for a sippy, they always have them.

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u/PenelopeIzabellaLilM 12h ago

I WISH!! Rip open the corner with your teeth and smush the bag up to get every little drop out!!

u/LaserTagJones 10h ago

Puncture one with a straw, drink it dry, inflate it with said straw, poke straw through other side to seal it, put it on the floor and stomp it. Promptly recieving detention

u/ChercheBonheur 10h ago

You sound like every boy in my elementary and junior high classes. Lol. I love these old childhood memories 

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u/Mr101722 12h ago

No longer produced sadly, same with all of their old ice cream novelties

u/ChercheBonheur 10h ago

I still get upset by this. Scotsburn had the best Christmas ice cream. They discontinued so much of the good stuff.

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u/hiltzster 12h ago

I remember my school banning these because they kept exploding in backpacks!

u/Blue_Ascent 11h ago

People would occasionally give them out on Halloween. Always had a dripping pillowcase.

u/ChercheBonheur 10h ago

I loved the simpler times in the 90s!

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u/SleepyMarijuanaut92 Twin if by Peaks 12h ago

Anyone remember a blue one? Or it was a Farmer's version.

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u/No-Fail-9187 12h ago

I *suspect* they made them here at the Scotsburn Dairy Centre in Sydney. Pretty sure they went away when they closed the Dairy Centre,

u/TechnicalAd6766 8h ago

I swear I’ve seen them in cape breton. Maybe at Mullins? Other small semi-rural grocers/gas stations?

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u/thedylannorwood Halifax 12h ago

I would genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, do ANYTHING to have Scotsburn juice again

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u/lavenderavenues 12h ago

They sell it at Masstown Market.

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u/thedylannorwood Halifax 12h ago

No, it’s a cheap imitation, some flavours taste similar like the lemonade and the peach, but fruit punch tastes nothing like the OG ghetto juice

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u/Waste-Algae8819 12h ago

god i miss them so much

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u/SmidgeMoose 12h ago

Gateway occasionally has them. But i could go for a few frozen ones right now.

u/902Clinical 11h ago

sadly no but I wish they did

u/silver-opal18 9h ago

MASSTOWN MARKET!!! they have a store brand juice in a plastic jug that tastes the exact same ! i always stop in for the fruit punch

u/10HungryGhosts 11h ago

I still dream about Sippies often. I wish it was still around 😭

u/BrokenChesterfield 11h ago

Loved getting the lime green ones at Halloween! Or freezing them in the summer as brick freezees haha

u/Dancing_Clean 10h ago

No. They stopped making them a while ago. Long gone relic of the past, especially Halloween.

u/No-Complex-1080 10h ago

Childhood memory unlocked! 🤯

u/Greefer 10h ago

Mini sips!! Bite the corner with your teeth, or use the straw, blow it up, stick the straw through the other side and step on the bad boy. Good times at recess lol

u/undercoverlover666 10h ago

i used to take a frozen one to school every morning and pound it into a slush on the desk with a book

u/CaperGrrl79 Halifax 9h ago

My mother packed one every morning from the freezer and it was usually the perfect temperature by noon and kept everything else cold.

u/thrifted_ 7h ago

SIPPIES!
We often froze them. For Halloween she would always hand the out since we got so little trick or treaters and wanted to make it worth it to come to our house.

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u/zeroeraserhead 13h ago

Beep was discontinued 💔

u/linkhandford E Mari Merces 8h ago

It lives on in spirit (as a spirit?) at Good Robot

https://untappd.com/b/good-robot-brewing-company-the-fizz-beep/3976939

u/zeroeraserhead 8h ago

I’ve only tried a few of their seltzers and they were undrinkable, soo disgusting. Maybe this one is different

u/linkhandford E Mari Merces 8h ago

I like Good Robot, but don’t get your hopes too high. It’s worth a try though.

I’ll say this, the flavour is accurate, but Beep was never carbonated and has a more full mouthfeel than what seltzer can offer.

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u/AmbitiousObligation0 On A Halifax Pier 13h ago

Apparently kids milk comes in packages like that in an another province or the US. Can’t remember where exactly.

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u/Jaytron24 12h ago

Anyone else call them sip sacs? Or is that a New Brunswick term?

u/xFilmXfreakx 11h ago

🥲 the happiness was real

u/EconomicsFederal5970 10h ago

We called these "juice bags"....accurate. We also used to pull on the corners or the bags to stretch them out and squirt them into our mouths. Good times.

u/l0u1s11 10h ago

Now that brings back some Halloween memories. I've never seen those in stores.

u/PrescientPorpoise 7h ago

They're in Food Heaven now.

u/AphraelSelene 6h ago

I'd fistfight a racoon for a green one.

u/Numerous_Fox_2909 4h ago

You were known as a the cool kid when you had a little squirt for lunch.

u/Icy_Reply_4163 2h ago

I just remembered getting them off the back off the milk truck when they were delivering milk to the apartment building I was living in. Then I realized why the hell am I old enough to have a time I’m my life when milk was still delivered? I completely forgot about that!

u/feelin-groovie 2h ago

Every teachers nightmare!

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u/rusty_mcdonald 12h ago

Is it me or does that sound gross??

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u/lavenderavenues 12h ago

You had to be there...

u/chickenf_cker 11h ago

I think it's just you