Stay Hydrated

During the recent heat wave, I kept hearing "Stay Hydrated".  That means finding cans of sparkling water for my collection.

These two cans came to me this week.  I hadn't heard of either brand before.

The first is Select Fare, a yummy-looking Sparkling Watermelon flavor.  The second is Topo Chico, this one being Lime with Mint flavor.

Whether it's soda or water (or tea or coffee or energy drink or juice, etc.), people need to stay hydrated and keep giving me their cans.

More Flavors

My daughter is home for the summer.  And she's made it a goal to try as many prebiotic sodas as she can.  I've encouraged her to keep up the good work (it gets me more cans).

Recent additions to my collection are above.  The main three brands she drinks are Bloom Pop, Olipop, and Poppi.  I'm not sure why all the names have to be so similar, must be a prebiotic soda rule.

She may drink the same flavor more than once because she's aware of can variants.  I've taught her well.  

And summer isn't over, so I can expect more prebiotic cans to come.

Phorm

Last week I looked in a barrel at work and saw something interesting.

Inside were these three cans.  Quick note: when I find cans in the wild like that they get a very thorough cleaning before being processed and added to my collection.

So I saved them from imminent destruction and added a new brand to my collection.  Quick fact: I had never heard of this energy drink before and now I own Grape Smash, Screamin' Freedom, and Silver Lightning.

Quick tip: Always be aware of your surroundings.  Cans be hiding anywhere.

Olipop Week

The prebiotics continue to dominate the air waves.

Four new Olipop cans from my daughter.  These flavors are Banana Cream, Crisp Apple, Ginger Ale, and Raspberry Sherbet.

She's loving the sodas and I'm loving the cans.  More to come...

Jolts for July

The return of an old favorite from back in the day...

I remember stopping at gas stations back in the 1990's while running around with friends.  We didn't need the extra energy, but Jolt was our go-to beverage to take it up a notch.

Recently, someone I know started drinking Jolt and saving the cans for me.  So far I've received a can of the original flavor, one that tasted like Dr Pepper, and a limited edition Street Fighter can advertising the new movie.

I have older Jolt cans in my collection, so as soon as I find those I'll send the person pics of what the cans used to look like. 

But for now I'll keep collecting the new cans.

ARIH

Another week, another new prebiotic soda brand.

This is called ARIH, a brand co-created by the K-pop group BTS.  The flavors of my original haul are Berry Bliss, Clear Lemon, Peach Mango Horizon, Pineapple Drift, Positive Orange, and Red Ruby Galore.  This is a pre- and post-biotic soda, double the colon comfort.

More flavors will be coming, but during this hot upcoming week I'll not worry about it.  I just want to Swim.

Hummingbirds

A few months ago my daughter questioned the extent of my can collection.  As an easy line I chose many years ago, I collect cans for drinks that don't contain alcohol.  I have nothing against alcohol, but it's a nice black/white line that determines whether it's in my collection or not.

She asked if I would collect a can for hummingbird nector.  YES!

She found the 16 oz can on the left and I said I'd take it!

A couple months later my parents surprised me with a can they bought at the store for hummingbird nector.  They had no idea I already had the 16 oz version, so it was awesome to get the smaller can of the same brand!  How weird is that?

My only question was how do the hummingbirds open the cans without having hands?  A bad dad joke, but worth it.