What ever happened to Nesbitt's Orange Soda Pop and the company that
made it?  Is the recipe out there somewhere begging to be picked up?

Hello Philip

Rather to my surprise I've found you some Nesbitt's orange.  There are
so many nostalgia products out there with its name on - advertising
signs, old bottle caps and so on - that I thought it must have gone
for ever.  But Nesbitt's soda is being produced in Texas, according to
the National Soft Drinks Association.

Kentucky is where I found it actually on sale.  You can order
Nesbitt's "classic quality orange soda" in a case of 24 cans for $8.53
+ $5.75 standard delivery charge from:

http://www.kentuckyvirtual.com/shop/uscitemdetail.asp?item=5&stk_code=gb00522

And there's a story about the Kentucky plant that bottles it at:

http://www.kybiz.com/lanereport/departments/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs601.html

Here's the link to the NSDA (soft drinks  association) page showing
Big Red, Inc. in Waco as manufacturers of Nesbitt's:

http://www.nsda.org/Brands/

There's information about it being produced in El Paso in the fifties
here:

http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/Chapter7/7b/chap7b.html

The Nesbitt brand was owned by Monarch for some or all of the time
from the El Paso days up until it was bought by Big Red in the late
nineties:

http://www.beverage-digest.com/editorial/000331.html

Enjoy - hope it still tastes just the same.  
Please feel free to ask if any of this needs clarification .

Regards - Leli

search terms: nesbitt orange retailer bottler manufacturer distributor
              "soft drinks association" monarch beverages soda

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Clarification of Answer by leli-ga on 12 Sep 2002 07:46 PDT

Thanks for the nice rating.  Glad I could help.

All I have to say is "Yum!".  Thanks to both the asker and the
researcher; I'd forgotten about this soda pop from my youth; now I'm
going to have to order a case!