Who you gonna call?!
I was watching Ghostbusters on T.V. today, which I loved when I was a kid. It's still pretty funny, I think, in a lot of ways. There are some funny lines, but the absurdities of the whole situation is even funnier. Like that car - what a riot!
Anyway, it got me thinking about some other stuff when I was little. Like Ecto Cooler. Remember the Hi-C drink that came in a cardboard box? It was green I think... it didn't really taste like anything else (as opposed to orange, which is sort of derived from oranges). What the hell was that shit?
Thoughts, comments, explanations?
posted by Rit @ 2/20/2005 03:42:00 PM
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I can't really speak to what was in it, but man I remember it. Green, but distinctly orange tasting. Great stuff.
I saw part of that on TV today too....parallel lives, you and me Rit! ;-)
In 1990 my family moved from Cincinnati to Dunedin, Florida. While they looked for a house, my parents stayed in a condo with my little brother and sisters. I, being the oldest, was sent to stay with my grandparents for two months. There were no kids in the neighborhood, and my grandparents were not very much fun when I was a kid--they made me eat creamed spinnach and got upset when I left my toys lying around the house. I spent my eighth birthday with them, and my parents didn't even come over, and all I got was a journal. I used that journal to write sad stories about lonely 8 year old girls. I was a pretty melodramatic kid.
One day I got to go visit my family in the condo, and they had Ecto Cooler in the fridge. I was completely dismayed--here my younger siblings were living in the lap of luxury, drinking Ecto Cooler in the condo with Mom and Dad, and I was being subjected to a regimen of skim milk and weird frozen dinners. I think for me, Ecto Cooler represents "basic trust."
Ok, yeah, I remember now, it was definitely a citrus-like taste. I agree with Susan, I liked that stuff, and drank it for years. But, really, it was practically phosphorescent.
And Kate, that is messed up that your parents didn't visit you for your birthday. I am sorry your childhood was so rough. However, I like skim milk.
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