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X-E Loves Sharkleberry Fin Kool-Aid!

Merry Easter! And what better way to celebrate than with the Ultimate Tribute To Sharkleberry Fin Kool-Aid! Yes, Kool-Aid is my latest obsession, something I'm not very proud of but totally welcoming of it all the same. I've decided to devote a whole ten minutes of my life each week to tracking down old packets of Kool-Aid, and since Sharkleberry is an awesome pink shark wearing sunglasses, his flavor topped my list. Long thought discontinued, the mix is now on sale again in the United Kingdom. Article provides a taste test, commercial review and a look back at the pages of an all-Sharkleberry edition of The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man comic book. Oh. Yeah. Is this the part where I tell all of you to raid the back of your kitchen cabinets and send me all of the old Kool-Aid ya find? That'd be swell, thanks.

Thanks to the whole two of you who sent in egg pictures! I kid, I know it was a late request. The R2 egg was created by a reader named Anthony, and I've definitely done the same thing to eggs in the past. "Wanda Waddle," the blue beauty on the right, comes from Kristin. Big bonus points for using plastic googly eyes.

When you're done celebrating GAWD or waiting for your friends who celebrate GAWD to finish celebrating GAWD, get down with this survey: What's your favorite Kool-Aid flavor of all time? I told you...I'm on a kick.

Edit: Blog regular and old pal Manimal sent in a great batch of Easter Egg pics -- click "more" to see 'em...

Manimal calls it: "Busted on a joy ride."

Manimal calls it: "The Max Eggo Band."

Manimal calls it: "Emmie Side Up."

Okay, off to stuff the mush.

Posted by Matt on 03/27/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 126 comments
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first post!!! sadly though, my favorite flavor is boring old strawberry. yep. plain jane eh? KICK ASS.

Chestnuts roasted by shean-o @ 03/27/2005 12:02 PM

Second post, and my favourite Kool-Aid has to be cherry. Anyway, I WOULD’VE sent in an egg, but I have no egg colouring shit, except for a sharpie. Hey Matt, whatever happend to that store that sold food long forgotten, (the one you bought the ten year old Jell-o at)? I wish I had a store like that.

Chestnuts roasted by Well @ 03/27/2005 12:16 PM

Wow, i forgot about this one. Thanks for mentioning the all mighty purplesaurus rex…always my favorite. I remember being quite addicted to the heavenly frozen variety

Chestnuts roasted by the dark soldia @ 03/27/2005 12:17 PM

So tell me, when is Shark Week exactly?

Happy Easter!

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 03/27/2005 12:18 PM

Thanks for clueing us in on the ecto cooler/screaming tangerine name swap. I know that was like a year ago, but thanks.

Chestnuts roasted by naturekid @ 03/27/2005 12:21 PM

Pics sent. Enjoy!

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/27/2005 12:25 PM

woo hoo, I’ve finnaly found time to catch up, and I’m even rewarded with a new article…man am I spoiled. My fav koolaid is lime..I dunno why, I just like green sturff.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 03/27/2005 12:57 PM

Kool-aid kicks major ass but who could forget Freshie drink mix, with the little kids on the cover licking their lips, well thats as i remember it. I’m sure no one will remember, because it was a canadian company from the 60′s, my dad had saved up packages of it lol.

My favorite Kool-aid flavour is cherry.

Chestnuts roasted by Hayley @ 03/27/2005 1:36 PM

Kool-aid articles were among the first things I read here at X-E and this one is every bit as good.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 03/27/2005 1:45 PM

Great Bluedini. favorite blue flavor(Though blue lemonade’s a close second) probably the first to use that color changing powder,plus the fact that it’s a octopi magician, which seems like a random choice, but it made for an interesting commercial. I found it weird though that the octopus was a cartoon in the kool-aid stuff store spot then appeared in his own commercial as a puppet with a human face. at least it lasted a few more years as a kool-aid blast flavor.(do they still make those?)

Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 03/27/2005 1:54 PM

I think he’s still available as a plastic-bottled Kool-Aid. (Are those Blasts or Bursts?)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/27/2005 1:57 PM

yeah, i think bursts were the real name. I never seem to bother with those store sections anymore.

Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 03/27/2005 2:12 PM

I loved sharkleberry! Kick ass flavour, man. Let’s see, what else? All the old ones you can’t get anymore… purplesaurus rex, the blue one they had around ’90 (i think it may have just been an early blue lemonade, i don’t know), that black halloween one, and that really really red one that my mother always absolutely refused to buy because if I dropped it on the carpet she’d cut off my fingers. I think it had a dinosaur on it too or something. Anyway, that’s my kool-aid, sigh, meeeeemories.

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 03/27/2005 2:18 PM

I just read the article and realized the blue one was berry blue. Damn, I loved that Windex poser.

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 03/27/2005 2:22 PM

Black Cherry or Orange. Big Berry Blue fan when it was out.

There used to be kool-aid races in our house to see who’d be the one to finish the current pitcher and select the next flavor.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/27/2005 2:24 PM

Favorite Kool-Aid flavor? Definitely Ice Cool Arctic Green Apple. It makes my mouth feel like I just brushed my teeth…with Kool-Aid. Has anyone heard or seen anything about there being a Mort The Dead Teenager Movie being made?

Chestnuts roasted by Jerkface @ 03/27/2005 2:25 PM

Kool-aid burst are still avialable at a local gas station here, they sell them in singles and over priced.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 03/27/2005 2:45 PM

Do you EVER get relief from the mush stuffing detail?
Fav flav would be Strawberry, followed pretty closely by Cherry. Reading the Kool-Aid FAQ reminds me of those bygone days when we thought that mixing hard liquor into any flavor of Kool-Aid made an delicious and even sophisticated cocktail. We were simple and naive back then…
Awesome that E. Claire seems to have more interest in the Doc Ock egg than the frilly pinky girlie one. The R2 and Wanda eggs are cool too.
Happy Easter, all. My churchiness was limited to watching four hours of "Jesus of Nazareth", and that only started because the tv guide told me the dude from Deadwood played Judas.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/27/2005 4:08 PM

Three articles in a week? It’s almost like the good old days! Happy Easter, all!

Chestnuts roasted by WP @ 03/27/2005 4:20 PM

Gawd rawks! Gawd rolls! Gawd does the flying drumset better than Tommy Lee!

I had friends in town last night, so we went out and closed a bar down, it was killer (duck?) Then I just stayed up all night, since I had to be at church at 5:30 in the fucking morning. I had to play trombone in our church choir, which is kind of hard when you’re still drunk from 3 hours before! :) It was a blast, I smoked a bowl so I was down with Jesus for the morning. Then I went to breakfast, came home and took a nap. Then I went to my grandma’s house for ham. HAM!! It was delish. Now I’m home trying not to crash until bedtime. If I take a nap now, I’ll be up all night again and that would be bad for work tomorrow.

Fave Kool-Aid? Hmmm…prob Berry Blue or Great Bludini. I also dig plain lime. The green is a big draw for something you put in your belly!

Happy Easter!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 03/27/2005 4:22 PM

Has Berry Blue been resurrected? Kool-aid has it on their site as a current flavor.

http://www.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/2001/ka_flavor_detail_berry_blue.html

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/27/2005 4:55 PM

The "new" Berry Blue isn’t really the same as the old one, even if it is, if that makes sense.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/27/2005 5:02 PM

Kool Aid was okay. I tried it a few times. The only powdered drink I ever really drank a lot of was Country Time. Is it just me or are most powdered drinks 99% sugar or aspartame?

Never tried the Sharkleberry Fin. From the picture you have, Matt, that strong pink color makes it look more like liquid bubble gum or a weak Pepto Bismol solution.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 03/27/2005 5:07 PM

It makes perfect sense Matt.

If this article had come a day earlier I would’ve been inspired to experiment dying easter eggs with kool-aid.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/27/2005 5:08 PM

When I was younger, I used to drink Kool-Aid like it was going out of style. Now, I can’t stand any drink that comes in powder form (even Nestle Quik I only get in syrup form). Of course, my mom only gets the sugerfree diet flavors so that maybe why.

I guess my favorite flavors are the citrus ones or combination flavors like Sharkberry. One fruit flavors are too simple for me.

I had the mugs, but they were clear plastic. Never collected those points.

Cool pics. I really like the R2D2 one.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 03/27/2005 5:33 PM

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