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07/31/2005: Great Bluedini Kool-Aid!

The computer that I called home broke last March, and since then, I’ve been stealing the woman’s comp to do my site-related things. Finally got around to buying a new comp, so whatever I’m doing next weekend for the site should be good. Meantime, there’s been a special addition to the Kool-Aid Section I think you’ve heard of this flavor before: It’s Great Bluedini! Fronted by an octopus, with color-changing abilities and a scent that makes the God of Noses share his kingdom, this ’90s-era Kool-Aid turned tongues blue and lip-ends northward. Look for a Cereal Prize Project update during the week.

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ah, the great one finally gets his moment!

Ghosted by cheaptrick @ 07/31/2005 7:21 PM EDT

Dye your hair with kool-aid? This is something I’d like to see done. Sounds truly outrageous.

Ghosted by Kennef @ 07/31/2005 7:46 PM EDT

It’s been awhile. Lot of happenings that I think the X-E crowd will find mildly interesting.
1. I watched THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE. First of all, if you missed Matt’s review, it is a MUST READ. (I can’t believe it was written over 2 years ago. "Memories…"). Anyway, I don’t think you (Matt) had a particularly bad copy because I had to put on the subtitles to understand what they were saying and this was a new DVD (!). Also, Matt mentioned that it made 2 million but it didn’t even make that! Click the Manimal to see a website regarding the GPK movie.
I guess I would have been more horrified if I had not read the review because I wasn’t that repulsed. Just thought it was terrible but at least I have seen it now.

2. Saw the TOYFARE article. Good stuff. I wanted the B. Dalton clerk to tell me that I wasn’t at the library but no such luck.

3. I also saw the new NECO GREMLINS 2 MOHAWK figure and it is the most beautiful action figure I have ever seen. I am guessing an article is forth coming??? There is also a Jason, AMERICAN PSYCHO, and the CROW. What got me was how big the gremlin one was compared to the others. I am behind on my action figures but I guess that is how things go.

4. Finally, while visiting the old GPK article, I clicked on the "advertising" link and saw that the highly sought after 18-25 demographic was mentioned. Does it make you sad to be 26 and thus, unimportant?

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 07/31/2005 8:36 PM EDT

Awesome. I’ve been waiting for Bluedini!

Ghosted by SuperRecoome @ 07/31/2005 8:47 PM EDT

I especially like Kool-Aid Man’s "wink and gun" gesture on the Bluedini package art. He’s so cool!
I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a supporting character grab ahold of Kool-Aid Man’s handle like Great Bluedini does on the package. That’d be great if Bluedini all of a sudden swooped Kool-Aid Man up and drank his innards. That’d take him down a notch. Roast my toast!

Ghosted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 8:54 PM EDT

Great Bluedini is the last "new" flavor I remember before growing out of the phase is my life where my mom brought home kool-aid. It was one of my favorites. I too died my hair with it, as well as with red flavors. I also died the hair of my cat blue. She actually didn’t claw me, I just made a small batch and kind of patted it on her back. My parents were understandably upset, and it never happened again.
Thank goodness I discovered punky colors.

Ghosted by kb @ 07/31/2005 9:10 PM EDT

I keep plugging the X-E Kool-aid Section and people are so skeptical that a packet of extinct kool-aid would have any value whatsoever. How much is spent on these things? Other than the laminated Strawberry Falls I don’t think there’s been a single purchase price that I could throw in the face of the non-believers.

Ghosted by Carri @ 07/31/2005 9:20 PM EDT

Hey, Matt, great update as per usual. Been reading for a while now, but never commented. The reason I’m writing today is that I ran across some Spanish Kool Aid at a local farmer’s market and thought of you and the Kool Aid section. So, out of curiosity — do you have a packet of Tamarind Kool Aid? I have an extra on hand that I could send if you emailed an address (in the name line), and I’m sure it’d be weird as hell.

Anyway, either way, I love the site. Absolutely great.

Ghosted by Trevor @ 07/31/2005 10:01 PM EDT

YES! I’ve been waiting for the great bluedini. When I was around 8 my neighbor and I used to do kool-aid stands in the summer. On the 4th of July we made $40 and mostly because people loved the Great Bluedini.

That drink got me so many baseball cards

Ghosted by Modern Day Pirates @ 07/31/2005 10:16 PM EDT

Trevor:
I just picked up the five packets of "Latin" Kool-Aid flavors myself like half an hour ago. According to the official Kool-Aid website, the Jamaica and Tamarindo flavors are based on traditional Latin American drinks. I’m a little too scared to try them out.

Ghosted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 10:52 PM EDT

YES! On that same note as my last post, according to my calculations, I now own every current Kool-Aid flavor (and a few recently out-of-production flavors)!!! But I’d still trade them all for a packet of Great Bluedini….

Ghosted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 10:57 PM EDT

Yes, I must agree that the Kool-Aid man and the great one look extremely pimpin on the packet. Makes me wanna put on some jams and scream, "RADICAL!!!!!" Yeah, I know this flavor was produced pretty much after jams died down in popularity (except maybe in some third world countries) but it just gives me that urge to wear something reminicent of the Fresh Prince’s attire. Perhaps a hot pink tank top, flourecent green bike hat with the bill flipped up, and a big pair of flourecent orange jams. ehhh….maybe not….hehehe

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 07/31/2005 11:23 PM EDT

Oh, bad early 90s fashion comment! That randomly reminded me of the school ban on sunglasses and how I got away with wearing a pair of Dwayne Wayne flip-shades in school because my 5th grade teacher thought they were real perscription glasses.

Ghosted by Carri @ 08/01/2005 12:06 PM EDT

Forgot to mention 3 things but that is understandable when you have a laundry list like my earlier post was.
1. The GPK movie did have one 5 star moment with the immortal line, "Don’t shake hands with Messy Tessy.":)
2. That TOYFARE magazine also introduced a Spud Trooper to go along with Darth Tater. Will the hilarity never end?
3. Speaking of Darth, I am going to have to let out a "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" since I go back to work tomorrow thus ending my endless summer.
Good work on the Kool-Aid project. I wasn’t allowed to drink it which explains why I haven’t had much to say on the subject but I do appreciate the articles and the commercials.

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 08/01/2005 12:16 PM EDT

Oh yeah, I totally dyed my hair with Kool-Aid. I didn’t do it alone though. I was at an out of town ringette tournament with my team and, as kids always have to come up with weird shit to do in a hotel after getting in trouble for running up and down the hallways screaming, we ALL decided to dye our hair with Kool-Aid. The bathroom and the towels of the room we used were a stained mess and when we used the swimming pool later on it was like we were swimming in a rainbow.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 08/01/2005 12:37 PM EDT

So, matt, what exactly do you do with all those Kool aid packets? do you just chuck it or do they pile up, because it would be awsome to see a gigantic stack of empty kool aide packets, don’t ask why, it just would.

Ghosted by Flarekatana @ 08/01/2005 1:03 AM EDT

Manimal,

So when I turn 26 in oh, 36 days (September 7th if y’all want to get me something), I too will no longer be important? And apparently unable to use correct punctation and spelling? Sigh…At least I’m still in the coveted 18-39 bracket right?

Today is August 1st. Oh wow, how time flies, 23 months ago today I met my wife Heather, in a Taco Cabana in Houston. Never thought two years ago I’d be married living in a foreign country (again) and with a little boy to go along with two wonderful little girls. I can almost die a happy man, still don’t have that truck and college degree yet.

Enough sappy stuff. I’m going to go blam something on Newgrounds. And when I hit the Powerball (er, my gambling mom does), I’m going to rebuild that damn Castle Dracula just so I can pee myself and relate to all of y’all. That’s right, I said it. Y’ALL!

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Ghosted by EMajorwitz @ 08/01/2005 1:05 AM EDT

Hey Erik! I turn 26 on September 11! Yeah yeah, 9-11, I know I miss John Ritter!

Anywha…I loved Great Bluedini! It was fun to put the water in slow and try and take as long as you could until it totally changed colors!

Gozer any chance telling me the store you got those at? New, or like online old ones from Ebay or something?

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 1:40 AM EDT

I didn’t know antifreeze came in that style of jug. That looks more like a windshield washer fluid jug to me. Does’t antifreeze come in rectangular jugs with handles on the corner?

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 1:47 AM EDT

Mmmm…windshield washer fluid. Man, I had some great times with windshield washer fluid. Yep…just sitting on the porch with the guys in that hot July heat, chugging back whatever we could find in the garage. That might explain how Glenn died…

Ghosted by Road Block @ 08/01/2005 2:44 AM EDT

kidneyboy:
You mean where did I get the wacky Latin American style Kool-Aid packets? Well, I got mine at a local grocery store, but I’ve heard rumors that it’s the biggest grocery store in the country (Woodman’s in Madison,WI). They’ve regularly got upwards of 15-20 different flavors on the shelves. So they are at regular grocery stores. Actually, I think I got everything in my current collection from two grocery stores (after checking like half a dozen other ones with little luck).

Ghosted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 9:20 AM EDT

Gozer…
Yup, exactly what I needed to know. I’m going down there in two weeks for a doctor’s appt. and I wanted to find some of that krazy Kool-Aid! Woodman’s eh? I’ll have to ask my friend where that is. Is the really old Kohl’s on East Wash still there?

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 10:40 AM EDT

Nothing like Kool-Aid with a Kool-Aid chaser.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 08/01/2005 10:41 AM EDT

kidneyboy:
I think the Kohl’s is still there, although I don’t visit the eastside of town very often. By the way, I got my Kool-Aid at the westside Woodman’s, although I imagine the one on the eastside is similarly stocked. Westsiiiiide!!!

Ghosted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 10:51 AM EDT

I think the very fact that I associate blue with cleaning products is why I don’t enjoy anything blue. Blue is one of my favorite colors and I SO want to enjoy blue foods, but when I drink blue drinks or try those blue ice pops, I can almost swear there’s an industrial aftertaste. It must be psychological because everyone else in the world tends to think they’re the official beverages of God himself (with the exception of Pepsi Blue, which just may have been Windex.)

Ghosted by Lori (26 as of July 15th) @ 08/01/2005 11:18 AM EDT

lets hear it for ‘79.
has anyone tried the chikcen fingers at BK? great commerical, really makes me want to try it even though I haven’t eaten at a BK in months. for anyone interested the cookie dough blast wasn’t that great, wasn’t even topped with cookie dough bits.

Ghosted by RAS (26 on 7/20) @ 08/01/2005 11:40 AM EDT

Trevor-
For awhile I lived in a town in eastern Washington state that grew apples, and therefore had many migrant hispanic workers, and many hispanic foods. I remember the tamarind candy having chili powder in it. Is the tamarind Kool-Aid flavored with it as well?

Ghosted by kb @ 08/01/2005 11:50 AM EDT

I just think it is interesting that of all the long winded things I posted on this thread, the one that gets noticed is the fact that some of us were born in 1979.

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 08/01/2005 12:13 PM EDT

Matt, do you have a wishlist for kool-aid flavors that you haven’t found so that your loyal readers can aid in the search?

BTW, I consider the last picture of the review with the glass pitcher of kool-aid the money shot. I think a photo montage of all of the pictures of pitchers would be awesome!

Ghosted by Queej @ 08/01/2005 12:56 PM EDT

I’d say I feel like the young one in the room, but it’s only by 3 years. Sure I haven’t slipped out of a demographic, but I have been immortalized in song by artists as diverse as Yellowcard, DMB. The Ataris, and of course Blink. This is the year I’m supposed to be as big a jack@$$ as I’ll ever be. And, unfortunately, I have been.

I’d like to personally atone for every stupid act I’ve committed in the past 3 months

Ghosted by Knegative @ 08/01/2005 1:03 PM EDT

atone for it by buying kool-aid?

Ghosted by RAS @ 08/01/2005 2:36 PM EDT

From the article: " That’s not to infer that Great Bluedini rode through the skies on Hollywood’s magic carpet and ended up cleaning vomit for a living at TJ Maxx"
Don’t you mean ‘imply’? You fucking dropout.

Unless you did that on purpose, in which case I feel stupid.

Ghosted by Wyatt @ 08/01/2005 2:46 PM EDT

Oddly enough I have been drinking Kool-Aid this year (after about a 15 year or so absence). It hasn’t helped

Tastes great, but no powers of absolution.

Ghosted by Knegative @ 08/01/2005 2:59 PM EDT

I loved me my Great Bluedini. Heck, we might even have a packet or two left somewhere.

Shame that all of the Kool-Aid flavors that were truly special are dead now, though. I don’t want the plain, boring fruit flavors – give me my Incrediberry, my Sharkleberry!

Ghosted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 08/01/2005 3:40 PM EDT

Wyatt:
"Infer" has pretty much the same meaning as "imply". Technically there are subtle differences I suppose, but infer works in this case.
/Grammar police

Ghosted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 3:57 PM EDT

I remember that kids in elementry school would just eat kool-aid right from the packet. You could always tell which kids did it as their hands would be stained, red, purple…etc back in class

Ghosted by T-Dot @ 08/01/2005 4:40 PM EDT

When I was in high school, there was a girl a grade ahead of me who ate Kool-Aid straight out of the packet. Red finger 24/7. I ran into her recently, and asked if she still did that. Not lately.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 08/01/2005 5:36 PM EDT

RAS, I just tried those chicken sticks yesterday, and I’d place them squarely in the "Eh" region of tastiness. Really, they pretty much were just chicken nuggets in stick form, although BK swears they are made up of only the finest all-white breast meat. They also neglected to include any sauce, a shame, since the box actually has a nifty built-in sauc holder. Anyway, i give them 3 outta 5 stars, something I’d gladly eat if given, but won’t go out of my way to have again.

Ghosted by Red Menace (24) @ 08/01/2005 5:51 PM EDT

Gozer:
Yeah, subtle difference such as one is transitive and the other is intransitive. They made a joke about this on the Simpson’s recently. "I imply, you infer."
/Real Grammar Police

Ghosted by Wyatt @ 08/01/2005 6:15 PM EDT

Hey Gozer, saw in the Saturday night blog thread that you work for Epic….don’t they use MUMPS as a programming language? If so, welcome to the fold…been programming in it for 9 years now.

Ghosted by Overkill @ 08/01/2005 6:23 PM EDT

Overkill:
Well, apparently it was "MUMPS", but then it turned into simply "M", and now it’s "Cache". I start that part of the training next week so I don’t really know the difference yet, but I think they’re either very similar or pretty much exactly the same. For one thing, on the first day they gave me a book on "M" to help me learn the material. I could be wrong but I think I was told that "Cache" is a propriatary language. Either way, it’ll be my first real programming languge that I’ll have ever learned (not counting BASIC for my Apple 2g or Matlab stuff).

Ghosted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 6:40 PM EDT

Wyatt:
Wow, I think you just served me. I’ll be careful not to serve you back so it won’t be "on". I guess I thought you didn’t really know the difference between the two words. Roast my toast!

Ghosted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 6:43 PM EDT

79 whut whut!

Seriously, thanks for the info Gozer. I usually have like hours between appt’s, so I go "drive around" and I will prob. see if I can find my way to the Westside Woodmans. New and unusual Kool-aid flavors have the potential to excite almost anyone!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 7:46 PM EDT

78. . .anyone? I’m the old one. (yet still 26)

Ghosted by kb @ 08/01/2005 7:57 PM EDT

77 – missed 78 by four days.

Ghosted by Carri @ 08/01/2005 9:22 PM EDT

Someone told me Tatanka was on Raw tonight? Anyone can confirm??

Ghosted by emanon @ 08/01/2005 11:45 PM EDT

I’m so sad that I missed my chance to join the Grammar Police. Next time I’m gonna grammar-taze somebody.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 08/01/2005 11:47 PM EDT

And don’t bug me about grammar-taze not being a word. I made it up. Besides, if you understand my meaning then it’s technically a word anyway.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 08/01/2005 11:48 PM EDT

The Manimal:

Knegative: Born in 82, were you? So was I.

I may be younger than you, though. My birthday’s coming up this month.

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 08/02/2005 12:38 PM EDT

Dammit Matt! Why must you always make me wish I had my favorite Kool-Aid flavors from when I was a child. There are times when I can’t even read your articles because it’s too damn depressing that I don’t have any of the flavor being reviewed. It’s not fair!

Ghosted by Matt @ 08/02/2005 1:09 AM EDT

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