NECTAR OF THE GODS! I haven’t been this excited for the return of a chemically created drink since Ecto Cooler made a comeback about 10 years ago. Come to think of it, is Ecto Cooler actually just Hi-C Orange Lavaburst with different branding? They do taste similar. They both purport to be ‘orange’ flavor. Ecto Cooler is green in color, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not the same flavor compound. Huh. I wonder if all Hi-C drinks are actually the same flavor, just different colors. Well we’re going to have to spend some time getting to the bottom of this. Brewer, to my archives!
Anyway, McDonalds discontinued their most popular drink 4 years ago for reasons that are still ill-defined. Let’s take something that is universally loved, and throw it in the trash. Makes no sense. It didn’t then, it doesn’t now. Unless the whole reason was to shelf it for a while, make people miss it, only to trumpet it’s return years later which could lead to an orange tidal wave of sales. It’s the best working hypothesis I can come up with at the moment.
In any case, it sounds like it’s going to be slowly making it’s comeback in some markets by the end of the month, with a full re-launch nationwide by summer. My only fear at this point is that they reworked the flavor somehow. I want that thing to taste like an over-sugared orange with zero nutritional value. Let’s go!
PS: You know what drink I used to GUZZLE when I was a kid? This stuff:
I don’t know if anyone else drank this particular apple juice, but I recall them coming in small, 8-ounce cans. I would flat out crush 4-5 cans a day. Shotgunning one or two after a particularly intense game of backyard Nerf football. I think there were supposed to be vitamins or some redeeming quality to this beverage but all I know is I loved it.
