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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.

Posted by Matt on 07/31/2005. E-mail me!

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ah, the great one finally gets his moment!

Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 07/31/2005 7:21 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 07/31/2005 7:46 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 07/31/2005 8:36 PM

Awesome. I’ve been waiting for Bluedini!

Chestnuts roasted by SuperRecoome @ 07/31/2005 8:47 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 8:54 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/31/2005 9:10 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 07/31/2005 9:20 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Trevor @ 07/31/2005 10:01 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Modern Day Pirates @ 07/31/2005 10:16 PM

Trevor:
I just picked up the five packets of "Latin" Kool-Aid flavors myself like half an hour ago. According to the http://www.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/2001/ka_flavors_aguasfrescas.html">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.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 10:52 PM

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….

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 07/31/2005 10:57 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 07/31/2005 11:23 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 08/01/2005 12:06 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 08/01/2005 12:16 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 08/01/2005 12:37 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Flarekatana @ 08/01/2005 1:03 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 08/01/2005 1:05 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 1:40 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 1:47 AM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 08/01/2005 2:44 AM

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).

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 9:20 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/01/2005 10:40 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/01/2005 10:41 AM

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!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/01/2005 10:51 AM

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.)

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

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