Before & After Ecto Cooler there was…Ecto Cooler?
Of all the expired and long gone junk food products over the past 30-40 years there is one stand...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 23, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture, Personal, Soda Pop Culture | 4 |
Of all the expired and long gone junk food products over the past 30-40 years there is one stand...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 16, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Podcasts, Soda Pop Culture | 4 |
So, one of the small projects I’ve been working on this past month is the resurrection of...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 21, 2016 | Branded in the 80s, Eat Your Pop Culture, Soda Pop Culture | 17 |
…Glorious! But before I get to that, let me back up a second. One of the most bittersweet...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 12, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Podcasts, Soda Pop Culture | 0 |
Just about done with the yearly hiatus, but in the meantime, I was a guest on the The Nerd Lunch podcast again, this time to geek out about the more lunch-y side of nerdom. The show features NL alums CT and Jeeg, as well as...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Feb 24, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Soda Pop Culture | 2 |
So by “next week” I guess I really meant almost-a-month. I didn’t plan on getting sick twice in the past month, not to mention the latter bout lasting for almost two weeks straight. Stupid...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 27, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Soda Pop Culture | 5 |
So, I thought I’d start off this new column with a quick explanation of why I wanted to start writing about bubbly colored sugar water, as well as to sort of backdate the column to include some pieces I wrote about six...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Feb 8, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Soda Pop Culture | 1 |
Wow, so Hoover just tipped me off to an interesting tidbit in the mythology that is frozen drink treats. In addendum to the series of entries I did reviewing various frozen drinks (you can find them all at the end of this blog...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 16, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Soda Pop Culture | 3 |
Jolly Rancher sodas, who’d thunk it. I keep meaning to write about these, but I keep putting it off and I don’t know why. So here it is. Jolly Rancher Sodas. I came across these during my Christmas 2005 visit to my...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 11, 2006 | Branded in the 80s, Soda Pop Culture | 6 |
So this has ended up being a much longer list of reviews than I thought it was going to be. This is the second to last of them though, and a double whammy at that. These last two entries will cover the more long running and...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 10, 2006 | Branded in the 80s, Halloween 2006, Soda Pop Culture | 2 |
So today we divert a little from your classic American frozen drinks and venture into the unknown world of Asian slushes! Okay, so like pretty much the entire city where I live has had a make over in the last three or four years...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 9, 2006 | Branded in the 80s, Halloween 2006, Soda Pop Culture | 2 |
Thatsa creamy frozena drinka! Today’s entry in the textbook of Frozen Drinks 101 is a double whammy as we take a look at the Burger King Coke Float and the Sonic Creamslush! I was introduced to the BK Coke Float before...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 7, 2006 | Branded in the 80s, Halloween 2006, Soda Pop Culture | 0 |
Okay, so now we’re sort of getting to the end of the first year of Frozen Drinks 101. I’ve searched near and far for everything that even possibly resembles a Slurpee in the north Georgia area (which is why I...
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