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Order the actual drink which is surprisingly easy to find online.If you want to capture that signature commercial POG flavor (which has so many other things in addition to actual fruit juice), best to either: These natural, homemade versions taste great (especially if you add rum or whiskey, and super especially if you add rum/whiskey + blend it with lots of ice to make a slushy!), but don't make those thinking that you'll replicate the commercial canned versions we grew up with. I may earn a small commission (at no cost to you), if you purchase through the links. Hawaiian Sun's powdered POG mix POG Juice Recipeįyi, I’ve included affiliate links below. You'll even see POG offered to passengers on Hawaiian Airlines! They serve small POG cups on interisland flights, and whole cans (Aloha Maid brand) on mainland flights. POG on a Hawaiian Airlines interisland flight Local bakeries and sweet shops make POG-flavored treats like POG pies! You'll see POG as a syrup option at many shave ice shops, including Waiola Shave Ice. POG as a syrup offering (top right of the menu board) at Waiola Shave Ice (Oahu) Visit any local food place, and you'll see POG listed on the drinks menu, right alongside sodas and other juices. The main brands are Hawaiian Sun (both canned and powder mix), Aloha Maid (canned), and Meadow Gold (64 ounce carton).

You can find the canned/bottled juices at all markets including Whole Foods, Longs Drugs, and Costco Hawaii. If you keep your eyes open and alert, you'll start to see POG everywhere in Hawaii. But also very cool.Ĭans of Hawaiian Sun POG at Long Drugs, Kahala Mall location (Oahu) POG in Hawaii It worked! This was how the game of POG got its' 'official' name. Right as the Pogs game was getting popular, the marketing manager for Haleakala Dairy order a ton of milk caps with POG (the drink, which was then Haleakala Dairy's best selling juice) printed on the milk caps. It took off from there and became a worldwide craze. It was forgotten about for a long time, but got re-popular and then commercialized in the 1990s when an Oahu school teacher introduced Pogs to her elementary school kids. The Pogs game was invented on Maui in the 1920s. I even sold some of my collectible Pogs to the local comic book store in Kaimuki. Each insert could hold 20 Pogs, and you'd carry the binder around school, and play/trade Pogs with friends.

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I remember collecting binders full of plastic inserts that were designed to hold Pogs. Just don't go around thinking this is a healthy fruit drink ^_^Ĭans of Aloha Maid POG (plus other flavors) at Whole Foods Pogs, The Gameĭo you remember the 'Pogs' game from the early 1990s? Pogs centered around collecting milk bottle caps (they were flat discs). There's nothing wrong with that as long as you are aware of it (same way you know you're not drinking sodas for health). If you read the can carefully, you'll see that most POG brands are 10-12% fruit juice.

And today, Meadow Gold produces POG juice by the carton.Īloha Maid POG juice Is POG Actually 'Juice'? Haleakala Dairy eventually sold to Meadow Gold in 1998. The signature POG blend of three juices was created by a food consultant for Haleakala Dairy (Maui) in 1971. Note! In Hawaii, we call passion fruit by the Hawaiian name, lilikoi.

POG is made mostly from tropical fruits.

People often call POG, Hawaiian juice because: It's a drink made of three fruits, served chilled. POG stands for Passion Fruit, Orange, and Guava. POG stands for Passion Fruit, Orange, and Guava! It's a chilled fruit juice that was invented on the island of Maui, and is now popular worldwide.

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