Parade Water

My daughter played with her school band in a parade this afternoon.  There were several organizations in the parade handing out cold bottled water, perfect for temperatures in the 90's.  But what I didn't expect was a float stacked with cases and cases of canned water to be handed out to the parade-goers.  The cans weren't cold, but I didn't get one for my thirst, I got one for my can collection!

Canned Water 4 Kids, that's the "brand."  It uses the logo cW4k.  I've never seen anything like this before.  It's also a .org website.

Bright colors, nice design, a good message.  Just what my collection needs.

I didn't open the can at the parade, it was brought home to be bottom-opened and drained.  But there were a handful of other people who had brought their opened/emptied cans to me for my collection.  It's nice to have others on the lookout too.

Drink up!  And stay hydrated!

Tall Cokes

Three 16 oz Coca-Cola cans found me this week.  The first was a St. Louis Cardinals can someone saw at a store and bought for me.

I'm not sure if this is leftover from last year's baseball season or if it's a new can for this year.  But either way it's a can I didn't have yet.

And the other two cans were from someone who has access to the PX on a military base.  They said there were about a dozen different designs of these USO Coca-Cola cans.  They didn't know if I had them or not so they just got these two for me.  I definitely don't have these, so they may get some of the other designs for me the next time they're there.

I also say Thank You to all who have served or currently serve.  And less importantly, a thank you to all who help add to my can collection.

Pepsi from Hawaii

A while back, someone told me they had a friend who lives in another state that had a Pepsi can made in Hawaii.  Interesting.  And last week that someone got a package in the mail from their friend.

That someone gave the can to me for my collection.  And sure enough, it says it was made in Hawaii.

At first I thought it may be an older can, but then I noticed at the bottom it says "Retro design."  After a Google search, it seems this was a retro promo can from 2018.  And of course, it was made in Hawaii. 

I'm not sure why the state was printed on it, but it made me wonder if they would ever do a collection with a can made in every state.  And of course that made me think of the 1970's 7-Up "United We Stand" collection and the image of Uncle Sam.

Maybe we could get an Orange Crush set and have the cans build an image of Donald Trump.  Ok, no more politics.

The Innocent One

At first glance these two La Croix cans look the same.  But a closer look reveals the font and color difference of the flavor text. 

Both of these are cran-raspberry flavored sparkling water.  I got the can on the left several months ago.  I got the can on the right earlier this week.  I almost threw the new can away because I knew I had the old one, but I decided to make sure nothing had changed in the design.  And that's when I noticed the change in the flavor text.  Whew, that was a close call.  I almost threw away a whole different design!!!

And then something else caught my eye.  Along the bottom of the new can it lists this:

"0 - calories   0 - sweetener   0 - sodium   =   innocent!"

Haha, my first "innocent" can...