More Game Fuel

Last year I posted about four Mtn Dew Game Fuel cans. 

A couple of weeks ago someone sent a pic to me from the store showing two Game Fuel cans from this year.

They were $2 each, but since I haven't bought a can for my collection in a while I told them to get them for me.  And since energy drinks aren't my thing, someone else had the excitement of drinking them.

So this year's cans are the new "Charged Watermelon Shock" (which sounds delicious) and last year's "Charged Berry Blast."  So does the Berry Blast count as a new can?  Yes.

2020

2019

Last year's can had "New" written near the top of it.  This year's can is identical except the "New" has been removed.  So they are different cans.  I call it a "variation."

Having been on furlough from work since mid-March (with no current end in site), I've been doing some extra gaming.  So it's only appropriate that I finally did a post about Game Fuel.

The Big Boys

This week I acquired two new cans.  These come from two of the big boys in the soda game.

First is the cherry vanilla Coca-Cola can.  Nice flavor combo.  Nice simple can design.

The second is a Pepsi can "Made with Real Sugar."  It has the logo from their 1940's rebranding.

These are three certainties in this world:

• death
• taxes
• continuous new Coca-Cola and Pepsi can designs

New Waters

As the heat of summer hits, water is the best thing to quench my thirst.  And lately I've been trying out various brands and flavors of water.  This week, I tried three new ones.

Bubly, as I've previously posted about, is a bit flat for my taste but that doesn't keep me from trying different flavors.  And this week's flavor was blackberry.  As usual, the flavor was a bit bland, but I'm still interested in trying more Bubly flavors.

Clear American, another brand I've posted about, was the second brand this week. It was also blackberry.  How does this flavor compare to the rest?  Not as much flavor as the others, but it was still ok.

And finally, pamplemousse flavor by La Croix.  It's been a long time since my two years of French back in high school, so I didn't realize pamplemousse is French for grapefruit.  I just thought it was a fun flavor to say.  But when I got home and tried it, the closest flavor I could guess was... grapefruit.  And the pink color on the can also made me think grapefruit.  So good job, La Croix!  Without knowing what I was drinking I assumed it was grapefruit and I was correct!

Technically summer hasn't even started, but at this rate the Flavored Water Wing of my can collection is sure to grow by leaps and bounds over the next few months.  Oui, oui!

New Cokes

Someone I know has started using the Walmart curbside grocery pickup where you place your groceries order on the Walmart website and then pull up to a designated area at the store and they load groceries order right into your car.

As a bonus for using the service, she was given a small grab bag of samples.  Included in the bag was a Coca-Cola energy drink, the can of which I didn't yet have.  So I immediately claimed that for myself from her grocery loot.

And soon after that, someone else had a small 7.5 oz can of Cherry Coca-Cola and asked if I had that can.  Nope.  So they gave it to me.

And that's how these two Coca-Cola cans came to be in my collection.