Teem

Teem was a brand of

In the pre-planning stages, Teem was known as "Duet"; however, due to a potential copyright dispute with Swift's, a food manufacturer with a margarine carrying the same brand, the name was changed before marketing could begin. On April 10, 1959, three Pepsi-Cola representatives from Chicago, New York, and San Francisco converged on St. Joseph, Missouri, to give the public the first taste of the new drink, as the city was chosen for Teem's primary distribution market before being shipped elsewhere. Three days later, on the following Monday, advertisements cropped up in area newspapers advertising the drink as being for sale in stores. Teem was sold in the United States and Canada until it was discontinued in 1984 due to declining sales. Lemon-Lime Slice was introduced to replace Teem,^[2] though it was still available at some soda fountains into the 1990s. Later, Sierra Mist, and then Starry, became Pepsi's lemon-lime soda offerings in the US.

By the 1990s, Teem was available almost all over the country^[