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Remembering Tab
February 8, 2006

Posted by Phil.Gomes

Flash back to 1985. "We Are The World" was the Grammy-winning song of the year. Kids packed video arcades that smelled of stale sweat in order to pump quarters into the 8-bit entertainment marvels of the day. Mark Knopler and Dire Straits decried a world where rockstars got "money for nuthin' and chicks for free."

And we drank Tab.

In Back To The Future, one of the year's most popular movies, there was an exchange that would clearly be lost on most people watching it today:


Soda Fountain Owner: You gonna order something, kid?

Marty McFly: Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab.

Soda Fountain Owner: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.


Listening to the Bill Handel Show on the way to work today, I heard that Tab is back. Well... Actually, Tab hadn't really died. Contrary to what I was led to believe, the original Tab has been in limited production and has enjoyed an almost cultish following. Now, the Tab brand is being applied to an energy drink, iconic pink can and all.

Today's Tab drinkers are a few but passionate bunch, evoking memories of another relatively small group of brand devotees.

Steve Isaacs, a self-described "Tab nut" and former Washington Post editor who teaches at the Columbia Journalism School, has been told by several doctors not to drink it. "I tell them to go to hell," he said recently.

My master's instructor at Annenberg asked me what brand I'm "loyal to without reason."* To be the answer to that question is every marketer's goal.

*: In case you were wondering.

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