I can remember being in Little League Baseball in the late 70's and making my parents take me to this little store in the middle of nowhere AR to buy Rondo Soda to fill a cooler to give to my team....That was a great, unique soda. A mix of Mellow Yellow and Sprite.....I'm from Kennett, MO.

Do I remember correctly that Rondo was marketed as a thirst quencher? In June, 1980, I had the pleasure of driving on I-10 from Las Cruces, NM to Phoenix in a car with a broken air conditioner. The sweat poured. I stopped at every exit and bought a Rondo.

Yes it was a sort of thirst quencher. The sloan was to slam it down fast. They even put T-shirts in cans as a promotion at one time

It was the "Thirst Crusher"

When I was about 9 or 10 yrs. old, I bought a Rondo & Reese's peanut butter cups. I gobbled the Reese's like I always had & chugged the Rondo. As it was my first, I didn't know what was about to happen. With the blast of sugar and the caffeine in the soda, I laid back in the grass and enjoyed what must have been my first buzz. Oh, I remember Rondo fondly.

I remember a cowboy in the commercial;and it was said to be Lightly carbonated so you could easily "slam i down"

Rondo was a hoople

When we were in grade school, my buddy and I would hit the QuikWay down the road two or three times a week to buy Rondos. We'd sit on our bikes and drink two each in the parking lot. We had this perverse joy in the thought that people driving by would think we were two bad kids drinking beer. The cans looked like no other soda can on earth. I love that memory.

It's funny that so many people remember rondo from such a young age, as I do...: around 3rd grade or so for me, so about 1979, one of the rondo commercials that most impressed us involved japanese martial arts with a weapon. Like kendo (but another comment suggested that it was sparring with a staff). My best friend from two houses around the corner took our almost-weightless plastic baseball bats on the front lawn and beat them together--and a passing car yelled the rondo reference out the window. I can't remember if at the time that was embarrassing or not.

Its a shame you can't find the cowboy commercial anywhere. The guy comes in from the hot desert all parched then to the bartenders dismay he orders a bag of potato chips and eats the whole bag then orders a Rondo. My brother's always said the cowboy's last line before he walks out of the saloon, "One more for the road" and he sounds a little like Clint Eastwood when he says it. And I thought for sure the slogan was "It's the thirst quencher." Maybe they changed it for that particular commercial?

I distinctly recall enjoying several cans of Rondo in the summer of 1979 in a suburb of Pheonix, Arizona. As I'm sure you can all imagine, the weather was unbelievably hot. My brother and I assessed the situation based on what we knew from watching the television ad (this was a long time before the interwebs kids) and we concluded that we were men who had in fact worked up a "rondo thirst." Having reached this conclusion there was basically only one thing left to do especially in light of the fact that we did NOT want anything we had to sip, and that was to reach for, you guessed it, the 'thirst crusher'. I remember thinking that the lemon yellow color of the can was perfect and that in a moment my thirst would be crushed hard by the Rondo. These were the days of pull tabs so we pulled the tabs like they were grenade puns and started slamming it down fast. It was almost startling how rapidly one could slam this beverage down and that had a lot to do with how they engineered it's delicate carbonation. Afterwards we felt like a million dollars. It was a great experience. Later we realized that one of the main ingredients was high fructose corn syrup which is basically poison so we never touched the stuff again. That was a great day tho.

Regarding the cowboy commercial, search Youtube for "Teem comercial". This Rondo commercial was dubbed into spanish to advertise a brand of mexican soda called "Teem". You may not be able to find the original but this is a worthy substitute.

I had a t-shirt in 1980 - it was black with the RONDO logo across the chest. The lettering had a felt-like feel. It was so cool. I really liked the slogan "Slam it down fast". they advertised Rondo as "lightly carbonated so you can slam it down fast". We thoughts that was so cool. I believe there was a commercial where the actor crushed the can in his hand after slamming a Rondo. We did this all the time! We felt so cool.

There was a “Slam it down” promotion for Rondo in Fayetteville NC in the late 70’s. Our friend won and went to the next level. First place was a Jeep, I think? He came in second and got a pair of leather cowboy boots with RONDO stenciled across the toes.

In North Carolina in he late 70's as Gary Harris is referring to, Rondo was distributed by Pepsi distributors I believe...during one summer, Rondo held a contest in North Carolina sponsored by the Pepsi Distributors and held at different locations throughout the state. The contest involved Slamming down a Rondo as fast as you could with each contestant being timed. Winners at each location won some Rondo swag, including a pair of awesome Rondo Leather cowboy boots. Winners also advanced to the old North Hills Mall in Raleigh to compete for a new Wrangler CJ7 Jeep tricked out with Rondo logos and such. The state contest was held on the top parking deck of North Hills. I was one of those winners that went to Raleigh, but came up short on the Jeep....as I recall a fellow from the Western part of the state won the jeep.....I continued to drink Rondo until it was discontinued....great drink, especially in the summer.

I used to drink Rondo when I was in High School in the late 70's in Iowa. It tasted very good on those hot summer days