Hawaiian Punch
It's from 1934, before you were born.
- Maker
- Keurig Dr Pepper
- Type
- Fruit punch drink
- Debuted
- 1934
- Note
- mascot "Punchy"
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About
As of 2026, it's 92 years old.
Hawaiian Punch is intensely, suspiciously red fruit punch that started life — plot twist — as an ice-cream topping before realizing its true calling was birthday parties. Its cartoon mascot, Punchy, spent decades asking 'How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?' and then decking whoever said yes.
Sweet, tropical, and a shade of red that stains everything it touches, it became the default kid-party beverage and the natural enemy of white carpets everywhere.
Fruity, fun, and faintly violent in its advertising, Hawaiian Punch is a glass of pure childhood (and one spilled cup away from disaster).
Hawaiian Punch through the years
Created
First an ice-cream topping, then reborn as a red fruit-punch drink.
"How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?"
The mascot Punchy and his comic wallop become a long-running gag.
