Floating gel balls in clear soda. Lava lamp beverage. Unopened bottles fetch $50.
The Clearly Canadian company put edible gel balls floating in a clear fruit-flavored drink in 1997, creating the lava lamp of beverages. The balls were suspended using gellan gum and had the texture of small gummy bears. It looked like a science experiment you could drink. Discontinued within a year because — turns out — most people found floating balls in their drink unsettling. But for the adventurous '90s kid, Orbitz was the coolest thing in the convenience store cooler. Unopened bottles now sell for $30-50 on eBay.

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