BRING BACK CHILDHOOD SODA: R.W. KNUDSEN SPRITZERS


BRING BACK CHILDHOOD SODA: R.W. KNUDSEN SPRITZERS
The Issue
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, we used to go to a small country store known as "Echo Hill Country Store". It was there we made many fond memories. The best of times, the worst of times when the bus broke down and we had to have the Youngs pick us up and illegally had seated children on the floor of their van... But that is neither here nor there.
Echo hill is still around. But it has begun to be missing something... the childhood envy of our tastebuds... the only sodapop we were allowed to, and yet wanted- so badly, to have. Spritzers.
Spritzers are a fruit juice based soda, but have been discontinued. Previously owned by the smuckers company, which is obviously still around if you still eat PB&J, R.W Knudsen, and therefore the Spritzer's name, was sold to Nexus Capital Management LP in 2022 and we are looking to bring back this childhood favorite of ours to make it as popular as PB&J so that smuckers regrets their decision to sell.
On top of that who WOULDN'T want a soda with a cool name like "Mango Fandango". I mean, gives me flashbacks to Freddy Mercury singing Bohemian Rhapsody... "I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me-" You know the rest!
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The Issue
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, we used to go to a small country store known as "Echo Hill Country Store". It was there we made many fond memories. The best of times, the worst of times when the bus broke down and we had to have the Youngs pick us up and illegally had seated children on the floor of their van... But that is neither here nor there.
Echo hill is still around. But it has begun to be missing something... the childhood envy of our tastebuds... the only sodapop we were allowed to, and yet wanted- so badly, to have. Spritzers.
Spritzers are a fruit juice based soda, but have been discontinued. Previously owned by the smuckers company, which is obviously still around if you still eat PB&J, R.W Knudsen, and therefore the Spritzer's name, was sold to Nexus Capital Management LP in 2022 and we are looking to bring back this childhood favorite of ours to make it as popular as PB&J so that smuckers regrets their decision to sell.
On top of that who WOULDN'T want a soda with a cool name like "Mango Fandango". I mean, gives me flashbacks to Freddy Mercury singing Bohemian Rhapsody... "I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me-" You know the rest!
Please sign and share this petition to spread the word... we love you!

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Petition created on May 11, 2025