The store in our neighborhood would freeze them. My sisters and I would get them all during the summer.

I have been trying to remember what these were called! Everyone looks at me like I am crazy when I ask about them. The commercial had a guy riding the drink bag like it was a magic carpet.

Yep, I was really little and the bags were very soft clear plastic...if you weren't careful youd spill them all over. It was like Red Hawaiian Punch, they were juice boxes way ahead of their time.....I think it was 73-74-75 these were sold. Our corner store sold them frozen too...these were an awesome 1970's summer treat. Most people think I'm nuts when I talk about these too....

The advertisement was a cartoon indian chanting "get some poke ums, get some poke ums"

I also remember a TV spot where the kids were at a bar, and the barkeep slid a Poke Ums down the bar to one of the customers. I would sometimes stab completely through the bag, of course.

I grew up in Northlake Illinois, back in the days when your neighborhood actually had a "corner store" that was privately owned, had a deli/butcher shop, groceries and the kids favorite...the candy/ice cream counter. In the 70's and early 80's we had Vic's finer foods on Fullerton and Roberta....I remember being very little (1973/4) and going there in the summer and my sisters would buy a frozen box of "Poke-Ums". They were the new sensation...a clear plastic bag with a sharp straw and a bright red Hawaiian Punch sweet drink inside. They didn't last long, they would rupture, break, spill, etc. But they were juice boxes LONG before their time and a great cold summer treat. I mention these and I get looked at like I'm nuts...wish we could find a picture on line. I get told same thing when I mention Yabba Dabba Dew or Moonstone Ceral or my favorite candy bars: Choco-Lite and Marathon.

I used to love those. I thought they were futuistic at the time. I remember thinking they were called Kisco's but couldn't find them on line.

drank them in jr high. We froze them and snipped the bag and ate them like snowcones...I loved the grape ones...you cant find that flavor anymore...who made them?

Omg, I've been thinking about Poke 'Ems for a long time. I also get the crazy stare when I ask people if they remember them! They made Pokahantas Punch, Lakawanna Lime, Gitchy goomy Grape and Okeechoby Orange. I loved them! I had no idea why they were discontinued. I usually froze them and drank them as a slushy. I bet those clear bags were not that tough. Wish I could find some again. Probably wouldn't taste as good as I remember but they were a special treat back in the day!

Hey bartender...." give me a gitchy goomy grape for the road "

I was fresh out of college and took a sales job with a chemical distributor in Dallas,Tx. We sold to the food industry and being the new kid I handled a lot of the new accounts and start up companies. I called on the poke ems mfg plant in an industrial area in Dallas. The owners were a bunch of young guys in their thirties. One of them even roomed with ole Don Meredith of the Cowboys. Said he was crazy. Didn't seem to me like they knew what they were doing, even to a rookie like me. They were all really nice though and bought some raw materials from me but soon fell on hard times. The soft drink industry is brutal. They didn't seem to have the capital they needed to stay in business so I guess they folded shortly after I changed jobs in the mid seventies. It was like caprisun drinks today. Thought it was cool back then but they didn't make it I guess. Too bad,they might have been able to get patent and sell the cool packaging idea to caprisun. PepsiCo owns that today. Missed opportunity.

Ron, that was Fullerton & Roy! Do you remember Vic's last name?

Around the beginning of the 1970s a number of drinks inspired by the space program came out. I remember Poke ems (the neat drink in a bag), Big Sip (similar to Poke ems), and Super Sip. All of these were predecessors to Capri Sun. About 1971 to 1973.

OMG!!! I have been looking for some information on Poke Ums and could NEVER find any. I myself remember the commercial with the kid at the bar and the kid bartender sliding him a Poke Ums. Everyone thinks I'm crazy when I talk about them as well. My brother and I loved them!!!

Vic?? I thought his last name was "Finer Foods"...nyuk nyuk

Pokahantas Punch, Lakawanna Lime, Gitchy goomy Grape and Okeechoby Orange. yeah, just try getting away with those names in this day and age.