{"id":15195,"date":"2016-07-25T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15195"},"modified":"2016-07-05T19:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:13:35","slug":"hi-c-ecto-cooler-returns-my-childhood-in-a-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/25\/hi-c-ecto-cooler-returns-my-childhood-in-a-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-C Ecto-Cooler Returns! (My Childhood in a Can)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ECTO3\"<\/a>A new Ghostbusters movie was recently released, with a lot of mixed reactions from fans.\u00a0 When I first heard about it, I said, \u201cHey, I\u2019m OK with it if they bring back Ecto Cooler,\u201d not thinking that they would.\u00a0 Well guess, what?\u00a0 They DID bring back Ecto-Cooler so I guess I\u2019m OK with the movie now!\u00a0 The new Ecto Cooler is sold in cans (although I\u2019ve seen pictures of it on the Internet in juice box form as well).\u00a0 Only problem with it is that it\u2019s REALLY hard to find.\u00a0 Luckily I found a movie theater that served it in cans, so I snagged a few and here\u2019s my impressions of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But first a bit of background.\u00a0 I was a kid in the 80s and the Ghostbusters movie was insanely popular.\u00a0 People wore shirts with the Ghostbusters logo and the theme song blared on radios and MTV so much that even I got tired of it!\u00a0 Ghostbusters was even popular with kids and I remember commercials for action figures and the Saturday morning cartoon!\u00a0 The cartoon was so successful that after a while, Slimer even got his own spinoff cartoon (it wasn\u2019t as good, by the way).\u00a0 Slimer was so popular with kids back then that when I went to see the second movie in theaters, when Slimer came on screen all the kids in the audience yelled out, \u201cIt\u2019s Slimer!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Believe it or not, at one point Slimer even had his own fruit juice drink. It was called Hi-C Ecto Cooler and it was an orange tangerine citrus juice drink that was colored green.\u00a0 It was mostly sold in juice boxes and I drank tons of it as a kid.\u00a0 I loved the stuff.\u00a0 Apparently it was popular with others as well because I remember they sold Ecto-Cooler well into the 2000s, long after Slimer was taken off the box.\u00a0 I even heard that they still sold it later under a different name, but if you scanned it at some grocery stores, the receipt still said \u201cEcto-Cooler\u201d on it!<\/span><\/p>\n

So now I guess to help promote the movie, they\u2019ve started selling Hi-C Ecto Cooler again!\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I found it in cans at a movie theater.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the can.\u00a0 I\u2019m disappointed that Slimer\u2019s not on the can, but I guess they didn\u2019t want to pay more licensing fees.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\"ECTO1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So what do I think of it?\u00a0 It still tastes great.\u00a0 I shared some with one of my brothers and he loved it, too!\u00a0 You know how sodas taste a little different when they are in cans as opposed to in bottles?\u00a0 Well, Ecto Cooler does taste a little different in the can, although it could just be my memory being a bit hazy about the taste.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t remember it being as sweet, but that may be my tastes changing as an adult.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never really liked sweet stuff, even as a kid, but I notice I\u2019m less tolerant of it as I\u2019ve gotten older.<\/span><\/p>\n

I poured some in a glass to see if it\u2019s still green, and it is!\u00a0 I took a picture of it below.\u00a0 Mmm, doesn\u2019t that look appetizing?\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a color not found in nature!\u00a0 But you know, kids love eating and drinking things that are weird colors.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we had Kool-Aid flavors like Berry Blue and Purplesaurus Rex when I was a kid, and how my little brothers had green and purple ketchup when they were young.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ECTO2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, when served in a glass, it tastes a bit more like how I remember.\u00a0 I recommend serving Ecto-Cooler chilled in a glass, and make sure to shake the can a bit before opening and pouring.\u00a0 So I\u2019m glad to see a little bit of my childhood come back, if only for a little while.\u00a0 All I need now is some Garfield fruit snacks and episodes of Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers, and I\u2019ll be all set!\u00a0 –Cary<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new Ghostbusters movie was recently released, with a lot of mixed reactions from fans.\u00a0 When I first heard about it, I said, \u201cHey, I\u2019m OK with it if they bring back Ecto Cooler,\u201d not thinking that they would.\u00a0 Well guess, what?\u00a0 They DID bring back Ecto-Cooler so I guess I\u2019m OK with the movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15198,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions\/15198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}