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Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
Xennial co-hosts Dani and Katie talk about their analog childhoods, digital adulthoods and everything in between.
Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
90's Rewind: Beverage Tasting Nostalgia
Did you get your daily dose of Vitamin C from a cardboard box? Is your favorite kind of milk unrefrigerated and laden with flavored syrup?
If you remember the "snap" of your flavored ice tea bottle's lid being way too satisfying, you might be a Xennial. And we are too.
Join Dani & Katie (and special guest Sara) as they re-taste popular beverages from the 1990's.
This episode was made possible by the following sources:
Clearly Canadian, via Sporked
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Kool-Aid Bursts via Mashed
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Yoohoo via The Henry Ford Museum
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Hi-C via History Oasis
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Fruitopia via Atlas Obscura
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Do you remember feeling like a sophisticated teenager as you sipped on flavored Canadian water in a glass bottle? Do you remember getting an extra dose of delicious caffeine when you cracked open a can of Jolt? If you remember Wendy the Snapple Lady, you might be a Zennial and we are too. Hi everyone, I am Dani and
Dani Combs:I'm Katie and you're listening to Generation in Between, a Zennial podcast, or potentially watching us on YouTube.
Dani Combs:Hi, YouTube friends and excuse our. Well, I think we look pretty cute. Actually, we look adorable, so don't even don't say anything about it if you don't agree. Where we on this podcast we revisit, remember, sometimes relearn all kinds of things from our 80s childhoods and 90s teen young adulthoods. We also interrupt each other a lot oh man and yawn, yeah, sorry, anyway, yawning is part of it, but today we have such a fun episode planned and a special guest joining us.
Dani Combs:It is our friend and devoted listener and fellow Xennial, sarah. Yay, sarah, and she came dressed to impress. She really did. She has on a custom made Lisa Frank sweatshirt and she has a labyrinth. She has, oh my God, so cute Hooded. It's so adorable and she has on this fun labyrinth shirt underneath and it's so fun as she's. If you want to flash the youtube camera, go for it there we go, we'll get some pictures, yeah we'll get.
Dani Combs:We'll get pictures, yeah, for those of y'all who don't see our youtube, but anyways, let's hear her bio katie sounds good. So, sarah, with no h, which, if you live in Florida, is very important right now because there's a storm out there the wrong spelling. Don't speak it, I'm not going to say it, so it's the right spelling, correct, because it's not your spelling, no it is my spelling oh.
Katie Parsons:It's awesome.
Dani Combs:Okay, well, just hurricanes are not Sarah's are. Okay, correct, correct. So Sarah, with no H, spent her childhood in Western Massachusetts before venturing to Florida to attend Florida Tech where, like many Xennials, was determined to get her marine biology degree and work with the dolphins Thanks, lisa Frank. Yeah, she soon realized that everyone else had the same dream and that it doesn't pay the bills. So she used her love of the spotlight to parlay a job in PR oh, same girl, but in the space realm, which she's in the right area for that that's for sure. She was then magically whisked away back to Massachusetts, this time to the east side, to start her family, and she found her love as a dance teacher dance teacher. But then, a decade later, she was pulled back to the sunshine state to help her hubby and their bff make their company successful and soon took on the role of dealing with the money. Oh, girl, that is that's, that's the whole thing.
Dani Combs:But outside of that, sarah is a self-proclaimed, self-proclaimed disney freak, tv theme song guru and a childlike empress. I love that that refuses to give up her childhood obsession and continues to find her way back to performing and looks forward to the near future when she can be a dance teacher again, yay. And give adults the love of Confidance. Ah, I love that Confidance TM. Y'all can see why Sarah is a listener of our show and our friend, because she has all the things in common with our podcast. Well, except I don't deal with money.
Dani Combs:Thank you, I mean anyways, but yeah, we're so glad you're here.
Katie Parsons:I'm so excited to be here. I've been binging you guys. I was just telling you before we started recording that I started listening to you all Y'all.
Dani Combs:I see, that's what I do, people.
Katie Parsons:For about I want to say like maybe two months. So I binged everything and I would literally text them things and they'd be like what is she talking about? Oh, we did talk about that because it'd been so long since.
Dani Combs:Well, it is funny because you don't realize and I hear this on other podcasts too like people will ask you questions about something and they're like oh, remember when you said, and I'm like blank, I'm like what, what did we do? Because we forget. Well, katie remembers more than me, but I literally am like I don't know what you're talking about. And then I'm like, oh yeah, because sometimes it's six, eight, nine getting on a year ago. Sometimes it six, eight, nine getting on a year ago sometimes when people, if they start from the beginning.
Dani Combs:God bless you. I know um us.
Katie Parsons:That's, that's a, that's a job well, and it's weird too, because you know I see you guys I know and so I feel like you, I know a ton about you guys, uh-huh, and so I was trying to like pepper in, like well, I'm getting to getting to know you guys, you guys need to know me. So I'd be like, oh, I'm totally like this, I'm totally like that. So I would kind of feel like I was, because I felt like awkward, like I know so much about you guys.
Katie Parsons:And I know from a lot of your fans is like you know nothing about us, but we are totally like I know in sync A lot of our five fans.
Dani Combs:Yes, we're in sync with five of them. I think we have three YouTube subscribers because my daughter, tegan, subscribed recently. Oh, I had a friend in LA subscribe. Maybe we're up to four or five then, but he's the one that worked in film. So I'm like, ah, don't judge it. Like, just like, don't watch that one, just listen to the audio. But also thank you, chris. But also it is fun, though, because we do share so much, like literally, that it is weird when you meet. I mean, we've known you for a bit now, so it's not weird, but like the very first time somebody's like oh, my god, well, especially, hello.
Katie Parsons:let me just read my diary to the entire universe that was amazing and I I wanted to say, like everything you were saying, been there, done you are not alone. I literally I found all of my old writings but I didn't want to inundate you guys today with them. But like the same thing, like writing a poem or you know, and then like looking back and be like what the f? I know so um, that was so. You don't get an E.
Dani Combs:Oh, we should have had an E, what? Yeah, cooper informed me that you did not put the E because I told him he I didn't want him listening to that one. Yeah, lots of reasons. And I was like I'm just not right now. And he's like, well, there's not an E and I'm starting to listen to it and you drop that bomb in two seconds.
Dani Combs:Oh well, it's my podcast, I'm going to do what I want. So, and I said I'm trusting you not to listen to that Retroactively. The E yeah, we need to just have it on all of them, because I probably will say it Just to be safe, just make it easier for you guys, because I don't know about you, but it just comes out sometimes, you just don't try to filter anymore.
Dani Combs:Yeah, Katie is so good about it and she's not really a big cursor, unless she's really mad, which doesn't happen a lot. It does happen sometimes, but there are times when she gets annoyed, but not usually around, not ever around children. Yeah, don't worry everyone. Yeah.
Katie Parsons:I wish I could say this Maybe I don't do it on purpose.
Dani Combs:Well, it's hard to now that I have older kids. Yeah, you know, I would say my own children. Yeah, like when you have older kids and you're just like. Something happened recently and I was something. I dropped a glass and it like broke in my hand, like at the sink, and I yelled what the F, but like the word, and I turned around the F dash dash, the F, the. What is it?
Dani Combs:Grandmaster of bad words, or whatever they say, I don't know, and so, like I was like bleeding a little, it was fine, but like I, I like yelled it and I turn around.
Dani Combs:All the dogs are looking at me and children are staring at me and my son, who's like probably the biggest cursor in the house, probably outside my husband, goes. I was like oh, it's just a glass, guys, like it's okay. And he's like it's weird to hear you curse. And it's like not that weird to me because I feel like I do it relatively normally. I just compartmentalize it, maybe like in my head or to certain people. You're just good about filters and I mean I yelled it like really loud too.
Dani Combs:You're really good about knowing what is okay when that is a fault of mine, but you're learning because of the show. You're in right now with all those kids, nope, I don't know, no like, because, listen, they're not really I'm not with them much. I'm with, like, my kid, yeah, and then. But you know what I'm saying?
Dani Combs:yeah right, we're not like hanging, correct, hanging hanging but also I have always been bad about filtering it and being a previous like officer's wife in the military, that was real fun because I didn't have a mask. It was just like hello. And I had a squadron commander spouse tell me one time, well, you know, you probably should blah, blah and I was like yeah, I'm not, no are you paying me?
Katie Parsons:okay, yeah, no, no, sorry is what you get anyway.
Dani Combs:Okay, so back on track for today. Yes, what are we doing with our friends? Well, we thought about doing another taste testing episode, but sarah had this idea and we were like, well, why don't you come on and do it with us and it's going to be so much fun. We always have so much fun when we do taste testing episodes they're ones that listeners love, because and now we'll have it on video everybody's like y'all need it on youtube when y'all do the.
Katie Parsons:I wish we could have had the, the candy one I feel honored to be the yeah, so good as I drink on video you were very with the talking about the candy and you're like tasting. You're're like, oh my God, I I'm sorry I did it into the cause I can't handle the noise. And as I was listening I was like, yes, that's me, I can't handle the noise. But then I make the noise all the time, right, because then my husband's like you realize that you're eating with your mouth open. Yeah, no.
Dani Combs:I am the worst gum chomper because I'm horrible, right, so I will only and I have TMJ, so I will only chew gum for like a few minutes, and then I spit it out, and both my husband and my kids are like, oh my God, like you are such a hypocrite, and I'm like I know, like I know. I mean, isn't that what they say, though the things that annoy you most about other people are probably things that you do, but you also can't hear yourself. Like Troy's a loud breather and like it's because he has big nostrils. This is like so funny and I mean he can't help it, but he breathes loud just out here. And so I'm like can you not hear yourself breathing? He's like do you hear yourself breathing? Yes, I do all the time. You're like let me think about it. No, I mean, unless you're like huffing and puffing, right, but like, if you're like huffing and puffing, right, but like if you're normally breathing.
Dani Combs:You don't hear it, so, anyways, all right. So we're tied to us. Here we go, beverages, okay.
Katie Parsons:Yeah.
Dani Combs:Famous beverage. We were going to do a mix of adult beverages but it is a 10 40 AM on a Thursday and we got work the rest of today and we have rehearsal tonight and we all have to drive somewhere.
Dani Combs:So, and like, the alcohols that we were bringing up are like horrible quality oh, they're so good. We were talking about like Arbor Mist and Mad Dog. We would have headaches, we would more than anything, we would be just like miserable and have stomach aches and headaches. So we were like we're too old for that. That's my life.
Katie Parsons:We will do it. We are going to do it. It'll be nighttime.
Dani Combs:We'll do it at night, maybe at my house, yeah, and then we have an Uber. We could do a sleepover here.
Katie Parsons:Oh yeah, we could Except no, because I'm too old to sleep on floors. I'm not doing it we could do an air mattress.
Dani Combs:No, I'm not doing that. No me either. I'd rather just forget it. It's fine today. So what we're going to do? We're going to taste test some beverages that were popular in the nineties. We're just going to give like a little background trivia about each one. We've each brought two to share and then we're going to sample them, let y'all know if they still are as delicious as our teenage selves thought they were back in the day. I have a feeling it's going to be 50, 50. I think some is going to be delicious because all of these I'm looking around are so laden with sugar and artificial flavors that I don't ingest often, and I'm sure y'all don't either. But when I was a teen that was like a food group. Correct, Liquid sugar, Correct. That was weird. Yes, oh quick, though we mentioned that Sarah's a Xeniel.
Dani Combs:But, quickly fill us in there, like when were you born and like where do you fit in that?
Katie Parsons:mix. Yes, so I am the oldest of the bunch Because I was born in 1979. Okay, so May 6th. I'm sure there's a lot of you out there who also are like oh, may 6th, oh, may 6th, because I swear everyone has my birthday. May 4th over here and then my son's May 8th. The weird thing is I was born on my grandmother's birthday and then my son was born on my uncle's birthday.
Katie Parsons:That's fun that was kind of fun to have that, and my daughter's middle name is my grandmother's. She was always kind of disappointed that I wasn't named after her. Her name is Beverly. Actually her birth name was Ava, but they just called her Beverly. I don't even know where that came from. Right, that was that generation.
Dani Combs:Yeah, whatever.
Katie Parsons:She was always kind of disappointed. So when I was little I had a secret middle name.
Dani Combs:It was.
Katie Parsons:Sarah Beverly, just because I'm Sarah Beth Again, I'm sure there's a billion oh, I know so many Sarah. Beths, what is that about? Yep, well, my brother and sister both named me, so they're eight and ten years older than I am, so so fun the whole, like how you, yeah, have a lot of Gen X stuff that you know from the 80s. It's because of our siblings, so, yeah, yeah, we, I have that in common with you as well, yeah, um.
Katie Parsons:So, sister, I asked them just recently too, like where did you guys get the names? Because I always knew they named me and my mom just really liked the names. And I asked my sister and she said, well, Beth is after the song at the time that was called Beth and it was by. Oh my Gosh, I Know You're Screaming at Me Right Now and it's going to come to me brain fart, that's part of it. It's like hair metal right?
Katie Parsons:yes, it's one of those, yeah and you're screaming and I will look I have no idea.
Dani Combs:Look it up um.
Katie Parsons:And then I asked my brother, where did you get sarah? And my first thought was he probably had a crush on a girl at the time, because he was 10, 11 years old. Sure enough, he had a crush on a girl named sarah and that's how he came. I love that that was a kiss song kiss, kiss. See, I told you, it was like something so obvious.
Dani Combs:Yes, look at me, you'll have to listen to it at some point, that is why my daughter has.
Katie Parsons:That was a very long tangent. As you can tell, I'm very much like the two of you and yes. So that is why my daughter has the middle name Beverly, because I knew even at a young age. If I had a daughter, she would have the middle name. Oh, I love that, so that was a fun little story, but yes 1979. Yeah, okay, 70s baby.
Dani Combs:That is when people are like barely yeah, Well, but I was beginning of 79.
Katie Parsons:So may so so yeah, I mean I was still 70. I mean I don't know any 70s things, but when everyone's like made in the 80s, I'm like no, I was made in the 70s. Yeah, because I was born in the 70s, but I mean, I basically grew up in the 80s.
Dani Combs:Yeah, you were raised in the 80s Formed Form. What I'm?
Katie Parsons:kind of sad, though is like if we had been growing up at the same time, even though we have a lot in common. When I look at you, I probably wouldn't have been friends with you. Why? Because you were a year younger.
Dani Combs:That was weird I was talking about because you were totally weird Because you're tiring Much.
Katie Parsons:I was like it was like a thing right.
Dani Combs:Like at that age, well, but I started school early, so we may have been in the same grade. Okay, because I started school a year early, because, like when I graduated, I was 17, right?
Katie Parsons:but you were 98, uh-huh, okay, so 97 yeah I was born in 79. I graduated in 97 okay, right yeah, my mom was born in 46. She graduated in 64. I have a lot of fun things like the numbers a lot going on my, yeah, my brother, now my 86.
Dani Combs:My daughter, er, has the exact same birthday as your son, oliver. Excellent, yes, they were both May 8th 2012. Y'all's whole family government business. Here's everybody's birthday and the middle name my grandmother.
Katie Parsons:Her name is and my daughter's middle name I mean it's not like anything you can't find if you're on social media. Well, I know that's true, that's true.
Dani Combs:I mean, I don't think anybody's going to go steal your grandma's identity, but all right let's get going. Let's do it how do we want to do this? We want to do one one one, sure, sure, sure, probably drink it and then talk about it while we're drinking it. See, I would have said the talk about it, then drink it.
Katie Parsons:Okay, let's do it, let's talk about it and then drink it, but I'll hand you what you're going to be drinking?
Dani Combs:oh gross. I'm like so not excited about this.
Katie Parsons:Sorry, I'm dropping oh okay, I could do these. Okay, I've never. I you know the other way you have okay.
Dani Combs:So youtube you can kind of see yeah, okay, cool, okay cool. So I'll tell everyone else. So my first one, and I will preface this by saying these are not like my favorite drinks from the 90s, like you all kind of have some of those. But I was just trying to think of things and things I could get, because I tried to get Jolt Cola but you can't. Oh well, that was in our intro anyway, that's okay. I read it anyway.
Katie Parsons:That's what we mentioned jolt but that was the one I wanted, like literally you can't get.
Dani Combs:The only thing you could get is like an unopened bottle from forever. We're not drinking that, nope. So, that being said, my first one. A childhood staple then, and for some people now, high c, and I have the original flavor, because there's a lot of flavors orange, lava, burst. Okay, so a little bit about high c. And yes, guys, we do have juice boxes and we are going to be drinking these with little plastic straw. Do you know? Did you know the trick that?
Dani Combs:you taught me toddlers, you rip up the side so they hold it here and they don't squeeze the fucking juice out the straw well, I wish I would have known that 15 years ago.
Dani Combs:Learn that until I had kids, yeah, same. So when caden was a toddler, I was at the park and I saw mom do that and I was like, oh my God Cause that when he was a toddler, that was before all the damn tick, tocks and hacks and tutorials and hacks and blogs and stuff, so you had to like see it in real time, yeah. So yeah, everybody, if you didn't know about juice boxes, you, you pull up the little edges, the corners, so it's like airplane wings and you hold it there so you don't squeeze the death, because that's always the hardest thing, that's the worst thing. I would always like take a sip for my kids to prevent that, like I would open it. I remember being an elementary school.
Katie Parsons:I'm ready for grandchildren in the very very far future. Yeah, I mean, I remember grabbing it.
Dani Combs:Right Every time and a straw would feed out sometimes.
Katie Parsons:Of course, and that's when you realize that it wasn't actually the color that you thought it would be. Yeah, you realize it's actually clear. Yeah.
Dani Combs:You're like it's not bright, orange or pink.
Katie Parsons:So all right, so Hi-C.
Dani Combs:American fruit juice. I'm using air quotes Made by Minute Maid and it's a division of the Coca-Cola Company. It was created by Niles Foster in 1946. And the first release was in 47. And orange was the only flavor when it first came out. So Niles Foster was a former bakery and bottling plant owner and it took him a year to develop the ideal formula for high c orange drink. And what's in it then and now really is orange juice concentrate, peel oil, orange essence, whatever, that is, peel oil from the peel of an orange I guess so okay, so there must be a way they like extract it or squeeze it, so it's like orange zest, yeah, like when you're making a cocktail.
Dani Combs:Yeah, sugar, as you probably already guessed, citric acid and vitamin C itself. And, as you may be able to guess, the name Hi-C refers to its high vitamin C content, which is funny because, looking at the box, it says 3% juice, right, right, right, because it's mostly sugar and water. But I guess there is a lot of stuff in it.
Dani Combs:It does say 100% vitamin C, so it's got your full daily serving in one of these Okay vitamins. So there is that and then, obviously, as it got like more popular, more flavors came out. Grape was the second flavor. What?
Katie Parsons:Yeah, which you don't love?
Dani Combs:And then there was an apple and cherry version, which I thought this was fun. You'll know why in a second, Dani, the apple and cherry ones were introduced at a plant in Paw Paw Michigan, Paw Paw Michigan. If you ever find yourself in Paw Paw Michigan, Where's?
Katie Parsons:that from Dear Edwina. Oh, I was like why do I know that?
Dani Combs:Why do I know a song about Michigan? I don't know. Our kids were in a musical that takes place in Paw Paw, michigan, which I guess is not made up, because they make types of high C there. So I have a question for both of you. In addition to the juice boxes, yes, where else do you associate drinking high c from? Like a fountain, like a fountain drink, not like a. Yes, what mcdonald's oh yeah mcdonald's.
Dani Combs:Yeah, yeah, like a fountain, so high. C had this like um. It was first added to mcdonald's menus in 1955. Wow, so, like less than 10 years after it was invented. It stayed on the menu until 2017. And they actually discontinued it and replaced it with, like, sprite Tropical or something like that. Oh, I remember. Oh, I love Sprite Tropical, but McDonald's customers were so upset I'd be one of them, sarah's, like I was in the protest line. Yeah, I was.
Katie Parsons:That they brought it back in 2021.
Dani Combs:I'm pretty sure it's still there, because I remember drinking it when we went not too long ago. It was gone for a couple years, but then they had to bring it back and I think that's, if anything, like a nostalgia thing yeah, like even my kids like if they get a happy meal. It's like you get orange drink with it, you know that's what we call it orange drink.
Dani Combs:We don't call it. I see, nope, we don't, but it is actually orange. It is Out of the fountain. But then it gets confusing because if they have Hi-C and Fanta, sometimes they have red Hi-C. Correct, fruit Punch, right, fruit Punch? Fruit Punch, that's like actually the most popular flavor I read. It's more popular than the orange.
Katie Parsons:I'll tell you one of my favorite Hi-Cs which one Ecto Cooler, oh, ecto cooler, oh, ecto cooler. Yeah, and I actually was looking that one up and I was I couldn't, they don't make it. They did bring it back when ghostbusters came back it was back in a couple months and totally got it and had it and was like, okay, yay, that was great. I don't know why I liked that, but I did as a child. Um, but I was looking and there's actually like recipes and ways that you can make the ecto oh okay, I don't want to make it, I just want to buy it, yeah all right, it was really cute with slime around.
Katie Parsons:Let's open, okay, wait before we start drinking.
Dani Combs:I have to say the funniest thing while we were sitting here has, we were all perusing these fucking juice boxes like they're a fine bottle of wine, like we're all sitting here like reading. I'm like watching all this.
Katie Parsons:We're all like oh that's because of the video. You feel like you have to be doing something the whole time, so they're not bored. Like why are they just sitting there like bumming?
Dani Combs:along dying like we're all like oh, it has a nice, nice essence to it, before we drink it too, probably. Oh my god, that was around. Okay, we're opening straws. Here we go, crinkle. Wouldn't it always be so bad, like if your straw had a hole in it? Yes, and then you had to like shoot it in your mouth, yes, or if it would have, like the, the bend in it where nothing could get through it. That's the worst.
Dani Combs:I hated that too okay, here we go okay, one, two, three microphones away yep, oh, the sound you got the sound? Did you hear it? Yeah, I did. It did like the bubble after you take a sip. Yeah, so orange high c tastes like tang, totally tastes like tang, yeah I remember when we talked about tang on a different episode, it was after this that it was invented, because it was powder first, right, yes, yeah, interesting. I actually could sit here and chug this whole box I'm about to do it 45 calories, not like.
Dani Combs:See my brain instantly looks at it. Why are you doing that, girl? I don't know. Because diet culture trauma yes, that's why but also we could all use a little vitamin c in our lives we could, so maybe we should try these we're gonna have to pee so bad at the end of this episode we may have to pause recording, honestly serious, and we'll be back. What is vitamin c the best for? Um? I mean it's good for you, okay? Anything else?
Katie Parsons:because for some reason my skin went to like orange sun vitamin c.
Dani Combs:Oh wait, no, that's vitamin vitamin c is really important for for like being happy.
Katie Parsons:Yes, delicious.
Dani Combs:Immunity like immune. It's like when you're sick you need a lot of IMC. It's good for fighting the germies. I think it's good for, like, organ health.
Katie Parsons:You should bring these to your rehearsal because, from what I hear, a lot of people are getting sick.
Dani Combs:I know that's what happens with shows and old buildings. Old buildings, everyone's around each other. We've got adults and kids next. So those are different sets of germs. Plus, we're exhausted. Yes, our bodies are like, you know. You get to that point in rehearsal where you're like not in tech week yet, yep, but you're not like in those early days either, yeah. So rehearsals are long and tedious because they have to be. That's where we're at, yep.
Katie Parsons:And either you're in the ensemble and you do a lot of sitting around waiting, or you're a lead and you're freaking out because you're not getting everything.
Dani Combs:Or your ensemble dances like crazy. I'm in so much stuff in this show. I know you are. I'm freaking out. I keep thinking I'm not going to get there on time. I've been getting there on time.
Katie Parsons:You're fine time.
Dani Combs:But I have like five costume changes.
Katie Parsons:You've got quick changes If you're local, you'll have to come and see it because it's going to be amazing. I'm sure it's going to be great. We're going to love it.
Dani Combs:I can't wait till you come. I'm telling you when. Who's next, sarah's next, what's your first one? I don't know.
Katie Parsons:Which one should I do first?
Dani Combs:Okay, all right.
Katie Parsons:I'm going to do the one that came first. Okay, because the two I chose, one was made because of the other one. Oh, perfect, which is what I found out. So the first one is Snapple. Oh nice, I actually had to go to Amazon and no Walmart, two places. Well, walmart, not so happy, but I had to get the original. So the original flavor for snapple their tea anyway was lemon tea and I wasn't able to just walk in anywhere and I did look and sorry oh you're fine they don't have like the fruit flavor snapples and stuff at gas stations they do, but I probably was just really lazy.
Katie Parsons:You wanted the og just moved so literally this weekend yeah, yeah, yeah so I just needed to make it easy.
Dani Combs:No listen, but you do what you gotta do. Katie orders everything from asan and I was like I literally went to wawa and I was there. I didn't this time, no she didn't.
Katie Parsons:I know she didn't because yesterday we talked and she said she didn't have it yet she went to the store and she found it.
Dani Combs:So she did do well On the shelf. And you know what? I didn't find it on the first pass either and I almost gave up. But you guys, I am resilient and I was like. Was it before?
Katie Parsons:or after rehearsal too. It was before Okay.
Dani Combs:I'm not going anywhere after rehearsal. We get out so late, it's 11 o'clock, I'm not even stopping to get gas. I needed gas. Last night I was like no, no, that's a tomorrow thing. No, but anywho Okay.
Katie Parsons:So Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks which is owned by Keurig Dr Pepper. I did not realize that Keurig Dr Pepper was a thing, but it is. And actually a lot of Merch binding. I mean, it really is just incestual, like all of the things buying everybody else.
Dani Combs:Capitalism, yes, exactly, and a lot of patriarchy Well, a lot.
Katie Parsons:That just goes with it. I got to be on here and say both. I'm so excited that's our next merch. Hello, I'm surprised it wasn't your first merch. Why did you think that? All right, it's coming guys, alright, especially now. It was founded in 1972 by a company this is my favorite originally called Unadulterated Food Products. Let's go, that's a great name. The name Snapple actually came from an early apple juice product that was carbonated that they had. This is great. One of the batches fermented in the bottle and caused the bottle caps to fly off.
Dani Combs:I thought you were going to say turn into like liquor or something that would have been.
Katie Parsons:That probably did too. They probably didn't try it after the, you know, but that whole sound and also they, so they called it like a snappy apple Cute. And then the Snapple Beverage Company was born in the early 80s. Ah, snappy apple. So it's that adulterated food product, because that just rolls off the tongue.
Dani Combs:Right, I would like an adulterate. What?
Katie Parsons:I wanted it the unadulterated I would like the adulterated beverage instead, please. Yes, please. But like I said, their first tea was the lemon tea, which was manufactured in 1987. And Snapple also. You know their slogan is made from the best stuff on earth. Yes, for sure. However, as we've clearly already said at the beginning, snapple has more sugar than soda. Of course, the whole point of them starting this was hey, you know, it's fruit juice. It's this, it's a healthier.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, you're right, because, again, diet culture these for sure Surprising Howard Stern was their first spokesperson. So in the 80s yeah, I read that. I actually saw there's actually a YouTube video of him saying it was very like low key right, but the mosts yeah, I read that I actually saw there's actually a YouTube video of him saying it was very like low key right, but the most popular you mentioned it in the intro. So it was the Snapple lady, wendy Kaufman, and she worked at Snapple. I love this story so much. She did work there. She did so. She worked in their order department and she found that people were writing quote unquote letters to Snapple, and so she took it upon herself and started answering them.
Dani Combs:Oh my God. So that's true right, because those were the commercials you would read the letters.
Katie Parsons:Oh my God, I love that and the best part is so. When they were ready to kind of have a jolt in their advertising, Her boss actually told the ad agency about her and what she was doing. And she had they had to see what she was doing and how she was responding and the letters they were getting and, you know, kind of pushed for her to do something. She said in her own words from YouTube. She said that there were a lot of people, a lot of arguments about her, because how dare we put the fat lady on?
Katie Parsons:This is from her own words.
Dani Combs:This is what she heard, but they, they did it anyway, I think she was like in her 40s or something Right when she was on it.
Katie Parsons:I don't remember her age. Or maybe I just thought she was probably was like in her late 20s, early 30s, okay, um, but I that don't quote me, that's just how I kind of look at anything back then everyone looked old when we were young.
Dani Combs:But then you go back, you're like we were only this, I know.
Katie Parsons:Go back into golden girls versus right, golden girls versus sex in the city same age as people same age, not the original sex in the city, the new one, the reboot, yeah.
Katie Parsons:So again, another exception of mine Okay, so we go on. So the actually the ads. One of the ways they sold it to them was to bring up other celebrities that were very popular at the time Roseanne and Oprah that they were heavier set women and they were popular. So we could. You know they could do this. So there it was. It was boring. They were real letters, they were real people.
Katie Parsons:They actually the first one that they did and they're all on YouTube, I actually have them saved was one with a dog and how the woman said when I opened it up, my dog goes crazy. So the woman said when I opened it up, my dog goes crazy. And as basically we have the word for it now, zoomies and just all over the house. So they decided OK, we're going to go visit this woman and her dog and see it happen. And if you watch the commercial, she actually says oh, so now you're not going to do it, like with the society we live in now, like everything is fake, right. No, that was real. That's so funny. They actually went there and did that whole thing. So I thought that. Oh, that's so cute. Like the guy who said, you know it's the best thing to come out of New York.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, I remember that way, yeah, and that was with Ed Koch, and he actually did go to the you know house and show up, and so it really had that. I think that's why we all love them and remember that, because they connected with us and, if anything, that's where all those people can, because you can connect with them and you're going to remember it forever.
Dani Combs:Yeah, I do not remember Wendy at all. What the hell? I'm sitting here racking my brain. None of this is ringing about. Well now, not the commercials, not the person, nothing that's crazy, that's crazy. But commercials, not the person, nothing that's one, that's nothing. A big, but that, I think, I wonder. I'm thinking I guess maybe I didn't watch commercials. That was the time with you. You had a more strict childhood for a few years, and I think it was probably during there's probably those years for sure well, I'll look those up later.
Katie Parsons:No, that sounds cool.
Dani Combs:There are lots of fun or I'll watch them and I'll be like, oh yeah, no, I remember, I, I remember. I mean, maybe you won't, maybe I won't. You're like reading all of them, like it's like blank. I was wondering. I was like she is not registering, that's like a blank screen. I'm like that's her cartoon face.
Katie Parsons:That's the thing. I never knew her cartoon face. I mean, I know the sound, because that's Well.
Dani Combs:Well, if we ever do cartoons again, you'll see it, because we'll be on YouTube.
Katie Parsons:Yeah.
Dani Combs:Oh yeah, oh good, you can see all the things. It's just like me. When y'all talk about country music and true crime, I'm like oh yeah, Just like that the true crime.
Katie Parsons:I'm with you there and I'm anxiety filled like you, which is hilarious because you did say not to like go off, but hello, hello is you did say I don't like scary well, I don't like real life.
Dani Combs:Scary, correct? I don't like real. I like fiction, like fantasy, like fantastical scary which gary?
Katie Parsons:gary scared me, but true crime didn't, and I don't like I don't like super gruesome, scary either, okay, okay.
Dani Combs:So that's what I've said. I'm weird, I have I have weird layers of scary specific. I get it. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, let's drink it. Are you tomorrow? No, I mean, I was just gonna say they helped propel snapple. I have weird layers of scare. It's very specific, I get it. Yeah, okay, should we try it? Let's drink it. Are you up, mara? Oh, no.
Katie Parsons:I mean, I was just going to say they helped propel Snapple's sales. Quaker Oats actually purchased Snapple in 1994 and got rid of her, and the sales went down. Oh, and so then, yep, and so then Snapple was acquired at Cadbury Schweppes Again, I talked about it yeah, it's a lot of things. And she, they brought her back, and then that's 2017 is when they became part of the Dr Pepper, and then she left Snapple herself in 2008.
Dani Combs:So she was fired. She probably got some bank now.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, I mean she's doing pretty well, Although she did have. There were 37 Snapple Lady commercials created over three years. There were 12 in 93, 12 in 94 and 13 in 95. She speaks openly about her drug addiction that she had. She actually had a food addiction as well. She said that she had an affinity for Coke, not the drink, when she got to Snapple. Actually the letters that she read really helped her because she just kind of um was in remission and she was getting.
Katie Parsons:It's not the word. I think I'm using the wrong word but she's in rehab, she's right.
Dani Combs:Yeah, yeah, she was, she was recovering um, and that really helped her.
Katie Parsons:you know, to just concentrate on the, that's great. Yeah, and then the other thing was the real facts, so the real facts on the cap started in 2000. I remember that. I remember those, yeah. And then in 2013, though, the Atlantic fact checked the real facts of Snapple and found many of them to be false. But I was interested because Big news on Snapple. Well, it was interesting because I thought that they were always there.
Katie Parsons:It's one of those things that you felt like were always there, but 2002, I mean that's not in the 90s at all, and I realized, though, is that there's a company if you're from the North and now it's national, but it was called Nantucket Nectars, which is Nantucket, is in Massachusetts, and they would always have Nantucket facts on. So I'm wondering if maybe you got him confused because they started in 89. So it was the same time. But, Nantucket Nectars. I don't think became more national until later, until later, growing up in New England, you would have had it, so anyway.
Dani Combs:There you go. You probably confused the two. Yes, awesome go.
Katie Parsons:You probably confuse the two yes, awesome, but that is it. That is all right. Do we want cups? Are we just drinking out of our own bottle she brought I think I brought one for each of you.
Dani Combs:I actually really like iced tea.
Katie Parsons:I love me the sad thing is is that they're now plastic bottles. It's not gonna snap. It also has a plastic cap right. So the only way to find the actual, like real glass ones which is kind of why I got it off of wherever I got it off of now was to kind of see if they still had glass. But they don't, and again it was like 30 year old ones. Right, yeah, which is fine, because that was kind of part of the fun, was the snap when you opened it, I know, and it popped.
Katie Parsons:We don't have this here.
Dani Combs:We don't have this out, here we go. Let's give her a try.
Katie Parsons:Is there a?
Dani Combs:fact. There is a fact. Mine says Earth is actually located inside the sun's atmosphere.
Katie Parsons:Okay, Real fact Hashtag, just kidding. Number 884. A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size. Dang.
Dani Combs:we're gonna have to fact check these real facts well, mine says a honeybee can fly at 15 miles an hour. It's faster than my golf cart. Look at that wow all right, okay, cheers on the Snapple. Here we go, guys. This is lemon tea Snapple, okay.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, tastes the same.
Dani Combs:It's good.
Katie Parsons:Yeah.
Dani Combs:I'm just curious how much sugar is in that? Six grams Holy balls. Right Dang Yep. So how much was in the high C? Just curious.
Katie Parsons:I mean the high c just curious.
Dani Combs:I mean it's a smaller box, but 12 grams 12, but if you have the same size it would be. That's yummy, I mean it's yummy.
Katie Parsons:Serving size that's a lot, so 150 calories, you know. Yeah, all the things.
Dani Combs:An apple it's good, but I don't know if I could drink a whole bottle of that in one sitting. That's definitely like I'll drink, drink some and then later, because I'm also a person. I'm not a huge sweet tea drinker, which makes people freak out Cause I'm from the South, like I'm from.
Dani Combs:Louisiana, but my mom is. My mom was military kid, so she didn't grow up in the South, but so she always made unsweet tea, and then we would just sweeten it to our liking, so I didn't grow up drinking it. I mean, and now I'll get like half unsweet tea and then half lemonade.
Katie Parsons:Yes, what is that? Arnold Palmer Arnold.
Dani Combs:Palmer and Florida thing. Well, but you know, it's weird because I try. One day. They accidentally made it with sweet tea and lemonade and I could not drink it.
Katie Parsons:That sounds awful, it was really. That was weird.
Dani Combs:Of course, I think Caden drank it. He's like this is good. Okay, well, you're 17. So, yeah, so have at it, buddy, have at it. Oh my God. Okay, all right, it was pretty good, but I agree, I wouldn't like if I was, let's say, in a gas station and just grabbing a drink.
Dani Combs:This isn't the drink I would grab, but it does taste good, I feel like. But it does bring me back, okay. So I feel like these past two are ones that I could not drink on a regular basis, but this next one I'm about to tell y'all I think I could. Okay, I'm ready. So I loved these in high school and thought I was so dang fancy when I would buy them from the Exxon station around the corner from my house. And it is clearly Canadian. Okay, did y'all drink? Clearly Canadian, I love. Clearly Canadian.
Dani Combs:So for those of y'all that don't know, clearly Canadian comes in this and they still come in the glass bottle. This is still glass. Um, they are from Canada. It's not just a marketing gimmick, and it's flavored mineral water, flavored sparkling water. So here's some facts. Nothing too super crazy about them. So they were founded in 1987, a company called Clearly Food and Beverage Company Limited, located in British Columbia, canada. They started bottling sparkling water and glass bottles that were emblazoned with their nation's iconic maple leaf, which is only on their lid. Now Can't see it? Well, that's okay.
Dani Combs:It's on the front too, but it's very small, is that? Oh, it is.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, but it used to be bigger.
Dani Combs:Yeah, to be bigger, okay, they were the very first company to market seltzer as a soda alternative. Now we find them everywhere. Right, they were the first ones and originally it was just plain water. It was like um with like perrier or something um, but then fruit flavored syrups were added so they could have flavors like strawberry, orchard, peach, which is my favorite, which is what I brought and wild cherry. They weren't a sugar-free alternative like modern day, like seltzer flavor, which I can't stand. I hate La Croix. I hate all that stuff. It's gross. I don't like it. I'm sorry, come at me. All you want people.
Katie Parsons:I don't, I have to what it is my favorite.
Dani Combs:I hate them. I hate my sister. Have you done polar? I hate it doesn't matter, I hate them all. They're gross. Like, if I'm good, here's my thing.
Dani Combs:I don't drink a lot of other things besides coffee and water, okay, so when I do have something special, I don't want it to. To me it just tastes like a sad version of a watered down Sprite. It's depressing Sprite. No, I feel that you know. Yeah, so like, if I'm going to have something different than like my usual boring stuff, it needs to be special.
Dani Combs:And that is not special and I do not like because I don't drink soda regularly, but every now and then I'll have it and it is lovely because it is like this wonderful. And I will not drink because I don't drink soda regularly, but every now and then I'll have it and it is lovely because it is like this wonderful. And I will not drink diet because gross. Actually, I did that when we went to the mall and then I regretted it instantly. Why, yeah, why did you do that? Because I did, but I ended up dumping it out, okay, and then got. We got it Just like amazing Greek food, yeah, and I drink diet or sugar-free, almost everything, and so I got some and then I saw her doing the same thing and I was like, oh, I didn't know, I did that habit because I used to be a huge diet soda drinker.
Dani Combs:That's a story for another day, but then I was like bleh and I dumped it out. I was like I can't do this Because here's I mean, like you know, people got to do things for health reasons, whatever Like I, I'm not. I'm not going to yuck your gum, but me personally um, I would rather have real sugar than the fake chemical sugar, cause the aftertaste from artificial sweetener I hate it. It lingers, it just tastes like I just ingested chemicals, cause that's what I did. And also it makes me mad because it doesn't give me the flavor that I'm after. Like I don't. So you're not satisfied? Yes, got it.
Dani Combs:So that's another reason why I like Clearly Canadian, because they don't use artificial. They use and it's just enough. It's not overly sweet, because I had one not too long ago, but anyways. So here's the deal, though. Lots of business mismanagement happened with the OG Clearly Canadian Company. The business changed hands, like several times over the years, and by 2010, it wasn't being produced anywhere. But, interestingly enough, in 2012, a venture capitalist firm acquired the brand with hopes of bringing it back, and there was an extensive crowdsourcing campaign the next year, in 2013., and it was one of the first of its kind. Now they have them for all kinds of products, and so it shot pre-sales through the roof, like before they even had it out. Yet People were like, yes, bring it back, bring it back. And because of that, clearly Canadian is still being produced and is back on the shelves. That's awesome. Yeah, that's all I've got about it, so we'll just I love it, let's try it.
Dani Combs:I did not, I've got some hot. I didn't. Sarah brought cold drinks. I was like, whatever, mine are warm too and my next one warm is not going to be good guys, I know I'm going to throw up on that one. We might have to take like a tiny sip of my next one, like here we go.
Katie Parsons:Okay, well, my Clearly Canadian was the wild cherry.
Dani Combs:Oh see, I don't like cherry stuff. Katie, do you like cherry stuff? I love cherry stuff.
Katie Parsons:Oh, here I'll just drink that. This is a whole new, like you know.
Dani Combs:Here. Do you want more than that? Yeah, just because I'm curious, because you mentioned how it has, like it tastes, like it's less sweet, how?
Katie Parsons:much sugar is in that bottle Compared to like what?
Dani Combs:we've been drinking 24 grams.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, still a lot.
Dani Combs:Still a lot, but interestingly enough it only has 90 calories, so less than 100. I hate that we've already mentioned calories three times. We're not doing that anymore. I was just curious about sugar because of how sweet it tastes.
Katie Parsons:Okay, let's try it. Sugar is just a naturally occurring sugar from the peach Could be.
Dani Combs:I preemptively took a sip. I am so sorry. No, I was very excited, very excited about it. Even warm it's good, Not bad.
Katie Parsons:Not warm Room temperature bad, not although room temperature I love. It reminds, it's good it reminds me of. There are some drinks or things that I cannot. If it smells like one of the strawberry shortcake characters, I cannot, you can't ingest it. I can't because I feel like a cannibal. Those smells remind me of little plastic figurines, so when I start drinking I'm like I am drinking a plastic figurine in my head that's hilarious?
Dani Combs:no, I don't think it does. No, well, I thought you're gonna go another way. I thought you're gonna say it tasted like something you like got sick off of, like adult beverage, wise, oh no because, like, if there's anything like cinnamon flavored, I'm out, guys. Cherry vodka heard that story but I do love wild cherry clearly canadian, but my thing is jello jello shots.
Katie Parsons:Yeah.
Katie Parsons:So in my, in my college days, I was known as the shot bitch whoa the shot, bitch guys and the funny thing is is that there are pictures, okay, um, and they are still at the theater group where I went to school. Oh, nice, whoa. The best part is is that a friend of mine her mother was the um, one of the librarians, and after she retired she did some things for archival oh, and um took a lot of the photo albums oh and archive them, nice, from our group, and she's like I've seen a lot of pictures of you and I was like what she's? Like, yeah, I'm archiving all that. I was like, wow, so that whole thing of like, I'm so glad social media didn't.
Dani Combs:Oh, I know, Because then you get there. Ok, well, I'm just putting this out there in the universe. Anybody has pictures of my sorority days in college. Do not archive them. Feel free to let them die. Oh, I've got a few. Let them die their death.
Katie Parsons:You know what it is, what it is, I lived it. It was me. I own my, I own my. Oh, that's fine.
Dani Combs:I own it, but I don't need to look at it. I don't need an archive.
Dani Combs:I mean I have some funny pictures. I, who was I talking to the other day about 21st birthdays and, um, it was that rehearsal. And I was like, yeah, you know, some people are like, oh, my 21st birthday, I did this and that. And Chris was like, oh, yeah, I was in Berlin and blah, blah, blah. I was like, yeah, so I was doing a keg stand at a fraternity. I, well, I tried to take 21 shots on my 21st birthday, like what, who thinks of that? I didn't make it. Well, thank God, thank God I was. I was like for like two days.
Dani Combs:I know, did I not know that? I feel like I should have known that. I feel like, hello, my friends didn't know that. I mean, this was before internet, so still, girl, that's crazy.
Katie Parsons:It's terrifying.
Dani Combs:Look at me. I'm like that's so crazy. Here I was Hold my feet up guys. All a hundred pounds of you, oh my gosh. So I'm going to propose how dare you? Awful decision. Your outrage was really something I know intense.
Katie Parsons:I know it was a moment concern, oh man, and that I literally could have sorry.
Dani Combs:I have no damn business. I want to watch that back on YouTube. Both of you, you were both like neck snap. I asked you know why? Because I wouldn't expect that from you. Right, that's what she did. It, really that surprised, started writing them down too, like I started with the first.
Katie Parsons:Now, that I would it wasn't who I was.
Dani Combs:But what was funny to look at a couple days later where it's like going completely off track and, oh man, I think I also my 21st birthday was like the birthday. Do you? Did y'all ever um? Did y'all ever do a beer funnel? Oh yeah, okay see, I was.
Katie Parsons:Honestly, I really wasn't much of a drinker. That's good, that's really good because I was afraid, because anxiety anxiety.
Dani Combs:Well, that's why I was a big drink trigger. No, but okay, I did, okay, but I did other things okay, so just oh, okay, okay.
Katie Parsons:So anxiety would not allow me because I would be freaked out about throwing up right and getting sick and throwing. Everybody has their right. So that was my thing. I, you know, slowly got into and I literally only during our cast parties would I partake, because I was with safe people and you know cast parties Well, and that's the thing I mean we had you know a sorority girl once come to our and I was a sorority girl too, but I wasn't a sorority girl.
Katie Parsons:Oh, I so was I was later. I did it my junior year. I've actually become more friendly with my sisters now outside of college than I was in college. But she came to one of our cast parties. She's like, oh my God, she's like your parties are insane, she's like they're crazier than the fraternity parties. And I said, Well, yeah, because you have a bunch of really, really outgoing people theater everybody wants the spotlight yes, right, you're also relieved because your show's done exactly.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, your show is done. You have worked intense, for for us it was three months intense and it was all student run, so we didn't have anybody. You know, it was all us um and we just wanted to kick back and have fun so but yeah I mean honestly I wasn't, but I didn't go and say to a fraternity party where I didn't know anybody and do all that stuff and I really barely drink now, I think I think my friends think I'm crazy sometimes, so I'll get, and I get my fizzy water, which is you're right, but no, you don't judge.
Katie Parsons:They don't judge, but they're like, oh, but that they kind of make themselves feel bad, like what I'm like. No, no, no, you go. Oh, listen you're good.
Dani Combs:I I always tell people like I am ordering a glass of wine and I don't care if you would like to or not, I would like to have one right now. So I'm going to like. Sometimes that makes people be like, oh good, I was going to order one, but I was nervous. Or some people are like you're weird and I'm like I don't care like either way, that's what you want to do.
Dani Combs:I am 44, you go. And if I would like a glass of wine with my dinner or lunch, yeah right. I mean I was gonna be like danny's right or birthday office, two no's, oh god. She said she can't do it this morning right, yeah, see again we were I am a responsible she has, you know, all right boundaries.
Dani Combs:I am going to propose a pause and a bathroom break. Okay, what do we think? Okay, listeners, hold on, I gotta find the button. We're pausing, we're not stopping, okay. Okay, guys, we're back after that little, uh little break and we are ready for more beverages. Bring it on, okay, so we're back to me. Oh, I guess in the break I could have pulled my notes back up, but it's okay, all right. So my next one and I have two flavors of it over here in juice box form again, because apparently that's how I'm doing today. Is you who Now that used to come in a glass bottle too, right? Uh-huh, okay, yep, yep, yep. I thought I remember that.
Dani Combs:Yeah, so I couldn't find a whole lot on you who, but it was invented by someone named Natal Olivieri. I thought it said Natalie when I first saw it, so I was all excited. But I do think that's actually a man's name, gotcha, because it was a New Jersey grocery store owner in 1928. Oh, probably not a woman, probably not Patriarchy, but guess who owns Yoohoo now Keurig Dr Pepper, there we go, which. Again, when I was researching this I was like what that's a thing, capitalism?
Dani Combs:But it's been a thing twice today. So far, all right. So the ingredients of Yoohoo Ew Water High fructose corn syrup, whey, cocoa and dry milk Gross. It also contains additives for preserving packaging, thickening and emulsifying. So I have chocolate and strawberry here today. So let me tell you about the nutrition of you. It's not all bad. It's not all bad. It is 99% fat free if you care about that, it was the 90s. It was the 90s. 100% caffeine free. It is rich in calcium and vitamin D. So, like this size here that I have, which is this juice box-ish size, has 47 grams of sugar. Smokey dokes yeah, is that what that says? There too, 20. Okay, so it must be a big. Maybe it's the bottle. The bottle, yeah, okay, so the normal bottle. So the juice box size has half that, but 20 is a lot, and let's see what else. So you can get it in this chocolate and strawberry. And then there's one other flavor cookies and cream, gross, gross gross the strawberry like.
Katie Parsons:I just think I can't Pepto-Bismol. I'm sorry, I'm going to try the strawberry.
Dani Combs:Good luck, gonna try the strawberry, good luck. So the front of it does say shake it, probably because all those ingredients I just mentioned. So we're shaking okay. So I have to tell y'all I do not like milk beverages because when I was a kid I was allergic to milk. Okay, oh. So I never like, drank it and like it's fine, like it's not that big a deal. We're all like oh, I know, like you take calcium supplements, it's fine.
Dani Combs:I was only allergic to like drinking it. I wasn't lactose intolerant. It was like I don't know what, I don't know what the deal was. So then I grew out of it but I never kind of developed the taste. You know, like people will be like oh, cookies and milk, drink the milk. And plus, back in those days in the 80s, there was not a lot of milk alternatives. There was soy milk and it was disgusting and that was it. So like, yeah, girls, I am not thrilled about drinking this, but I am a team player. Just a sip. I've never had it. I don't like milkshakes.
Katie Parsons:I do milkshakes, but I remember.
Dani Combs:Oh, I'm not even going to say it right before we drink. Okay, let's drink this first, especially because, okay, I'm holding it by its little. So I am doing the strawberry, they're doing the chocolate. Yeah, it's gonna be fine, it's gonna be fine if anybody out there still drinks, you who let us know?
Katie Parsons:let us know Is this like your drink of choice.
Dani Combs:Like anyone Like I'm serious who goes to the store and says, oh, you know, what I can hanker for is some Yoo-Hoo.
Katie Parsons:Somebody's yelling at you right now.
Dani Combs:I don't care. This will be the thing we hear the most about of every episode.
Katie Parsons:All the.
Dani Combs:Yoo-Hoo stands. Is this what Carlos is going to call? He might.
Katie Parsons:It's Carlos, I love you.
Dani Combs:Are we doing this? I want to get Also. I would just like to point out it is a milk product, but you just buy it off the store room temperature or off the shelf room temperature.
Katie Parsons:I'm just saying it's a big thing.
Dani Combs:And yeah in. Germany. Ok, so I used to buy the milk like that. Okay, here we go. One, two, three, nope. No, thank you, it's just like drinking Hershey chocolate. No, it's not. It tastes like Y'all ever. Did y'all ever drink this Carnation Instant Breakfast thing?
Katie Parsons:Yes.
Dani Combs:Slim Fast. That's what it tastes like to me Slim fast.
Katie Parsons:It tastes like a strawberry. I mean I don't want to drink it, but it tastes like slim fast.
Dani Combs:That's what I think it is. That's what it reminds me of. It's not good guys. No, don't drink it. It has a kind of drink.
Katie Parsons:Well, it's also hot.
Dani Combs:So, yeah, I thought it was like ice cold. But then I also feel like, if you have to drink something ice cold for it to be like palatable maybe not for you, you know what would make it taste better. Hmm, for it to be something totally different, oh, fair enough. All right, sarah, but like you, who was the one that had the bunny? No, that was Nesquik, that's Nesquik, okay, remember the bunny no that was Nesquik.
Katie Parsons:That's Nesquik, mm-hmm.
Dani Combs:Remember the bunny, the milk? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay. Well, there we go. We survived Barely. Nobody died. We did it, nobody died. It was probably at the bottom of our list for the day so far. Yes, what are you going to do? I don't know. I guess I could just put them in the fridge here in case a kid wants one.
Katie Parsons:Like I said, I have a whole pack of that Snapple Ice Tea. It is now Beachside Performing Arts, nice, and you can sugar up the kids that come.
Dani Combs:Yeah, that might be thirsty. Yeah, I'll give them to your kids when they're here. Cooper would probably drink those nasty Yoo-Hoo's too.
Katie Parsons:There you go, I'll bring him one, all right. So my next very 90s drink and I know I hope that when I drink this, I am instantly transported, transported back to middle school. Um, all right, so it is fruitopia. Yeah, it is a fruit flavored drink introduced by the coca-cola company, successful minute made brand in 1994. And its target was teens and young adults.
Dani Combs:And hey, I was a freshman in high school, you were in high school, you were in middle school, we were the target audience and we all remember it, all remember it. Yeah, it worked.
Katie Parsons:Yep. It was invented as part of a push by Minute Maid to capitalize on the success of Snapple and other flavored tea drinks. So I actually did have to purchase from Amazon because it no longer is in the United States.
Katie Parsons:But they still make it, just not here. They do still make it. It is in Canada and Australia, okay, so I got mine from Canada, which you know we were going to do this last week, and I said, but the drink won't get here until next week, so that's why it was put off was because of that, and yeah, so it was phased out in 2003. So quite a long time ago. Yeah, it was around for a while, though. It was, yeah, 94 to 2003. And some, actually, this was interesting Some of the flavors are now revamped under the Minute Maid brands, okay, fun. So I think they have a few of them. You know they're still called strawberry or whatever, and it was named as one of the top 10 new products of 1994 by Time Magazine. Ooh, and they actually had vending machines in schools and colleges.
Dani Combs:Yes, I remember the fruit toffee vending machines fruit because it was considered a replacement for soda healthier yeah, oh, are we gonna? I feel like we're gonna find that to not be true although it does have more sugar than cola.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, so they had fun names they did. So now, minute made state still has a lot of these. Like I said, they repurpose. Actually I found a video of somebody who was like guys, I found this flavor, so it's obviously a thing. I didn't. I didn't dig too deep because you know then you go down the rabbit hole. I didn't have a lot of time yeah, um, but the first one they had was strawberry passion awareness uh-huh, I loved that one.
Dani Combs:Did you bring that one? That was my favorite.
Katie Parsons:oh yeah, this was my favorite right here Strawberry passion awareness. Yeah, but this one actually came in a two pack, so I also have, so we're going to have to try both. Okay, fruit integration.
Dani Combs:So Sarah has a listener. Sarah has these drinks that are in like cardboard containers but they used to come in glass bottles Yep, just like Snapple did Yep, and. But they used to come in glass bottles, just like Snapple did Yep, and they had that satisfying little Sure did.
Katie Parsons:Sure did so. They also had the Grape Beyond Ew. Tangerine, wavelength, citrus, consciousness, fruit Integration, pink Lemonade Euphoria oh, I remember that one Lemonade Love and Hope. Raspberry, psychic Lemonade, strawberry, kiwi, ruckus and Beachside Blast euphoria oh, I remember that one lemonade love and hope. Raspberry, psychic lemonade, strawberry, kiwi, ruckus and beachside blast oh, we need that one. That would be a fun one, but I don't know if they make that one anymore. Why do they have names like this? Because it was targeting teens and young adults, so it was just like it was trying to be trendy, different, you know.
Katie Parsons:And they then that is where they would go to their television advertising yeah, because I remember okay, like their logos and stuff.
Dani Combs:Yes, it was really like fun.
Katie Parsons:Yes, I might have to pull up one of those because it just there's not a lot to it. You have to see it, but just the the sound of it kind of brings you back of sitting watching mtv and then all of a sudden it would come on. You knew exactly what it was for, so it featured animation using imagery of fruit arrayed in colorful spinning kaleidoscope patterns Very trippy.
Katie Parsons:Yes, and as we know, the 90s, with all the grunge and everything that was going on. The trippier the better. Yeah, so this was accompanied by idealistic aphorisms oh hello, word Reminiscent of hippie poetry of the 1960s, which you know was 30. When we were in the 90s it was 30 years ago. It felt like forever. And now we look and it was retro.
Dani Combs:It was retro.
Katie Parsons:Now the 90s are retro. Our kids are doing what our parents were like. I never thought it would come back. I knew it was going to come back, come on, such as might be found in advertisements which ran in underground press newspapers of the period. Background music on several of the ads were provided by the Muffs oh, the Muffs, kate Bush, which came back a little. Wow, the Cactua twins. I don't even know if I said that right, I don't know that one.
Katie Parsons:But an example ad copy ran as follows there is a wonderful person inside you was dying to get out. Please drink a raspberry psychic lemonade for him. Slash her. I love how it has a him slasher, even though right, right, and it's reoccurring, excuse me, hello words. It's reoccurring slogan was fruitopia for the mind, body and planet.
Dani Combs:Yeah, change in the world, one fruitopia at a time. It's so ridiculous, but it's. It worked. It was genius marketing. Because here's the thing 100 you market to the youths. The youths, yeah no, I'm not saying they didn't know what they were doing, but just like listening to it now I'm like how did that work? But it did, this was pre-tiktok right. So I mean, that poem did sound like something that could have come off your electric typewriter facts, so maybe they were like dialed in. I don't know. I need a need a little more tears, a little more, a little more drama, all right.
Katie Parsons:So this one I'm ready to try this. I'm excited. I mean, let's get in the mood, right. So let's just listen. I might read what it says on, but this one is the first one I believe they ever had, with Kate Bush music in the back.
Dani Combs:Here, hold it. Can we put her here and I'll explain what we're looking at everyone? But y'all should Google this, yeah.
Katie Parsons:There's like actually Google. This comes from Consumer Time Capsule, okay, which I didn't get to go dig deeper, but they have all of her.
Dani Combs:You don't have to show it to YouTube, they can look at it. Okay. Yeah, you can look, okay, because we got to see it.
Katie Parsons:Let's so. There's a bunch of words on the screen. It's like consensus can do your tongue. Imagine what it can do for your soul Love that. Rutopia. So it's like looking through a kaleidoscope you know, and it's like a bunch of shapes and colors and all the things, yeah, nice, yep. And then they had the little like and all the things, yeah, nice, yep. And then they had the little like oh, look more, that's okay, but yeah, nice. But yes, I remember. Just, you know, sitting it's very trippy, that's a very trippy yeah.
Katie Parsons:Like the Klyoscope with the fruit, and it's the fruit of whatever that drink is. So All right, so all right. So let me open this where my cup is. I've got more. Let's get any more. You're not going to want to put it with your peach I didn't use a cup because I got lots all right. Usually there's like a little thing in it, but no, no it's not it this.
Dani Combs:Oh, it poked it. It's like medicine. Yeah, okay, we got it, we're okay. Everyone we know how to open packages. Oh, I love sometimes you got this from canada, because it is the labels in english and french, I think, is it?
Katie Parsons:I didn't even notice. Oh yes, it is fun.
Dani Combs:That's so cute. So the one that we're trying is the strawberry passion. This was my favorite strawberry passion, awareness, awareness. Excuse me, I forgot about all right, here we go, guys. I forgot's. See, is Fruitopia still trippy.
Katie Parsons:Let's see Cheers.
Dani Combs:Oh, yeah, oh yeah, that still tastes like I remember. But dang, why is everything so sweet? I was going to say it's sour. It is sour, right, it's got a little tang.
Katie Parsons:Sour it is sour, right, it's got a little tang. I wonder if the sugars though in here, because in some countries, no, it still is 23 grams of sugar, because I know in some countries like Europe Canada is not Europe, I realize that, but what I'm saying is in other countries, especially like Germany, I'm sure is like they don't do the artificial coloring or anything like that, so they're very conscious out there. Yeah, we're not here.
Dani Combs:Yes, yeah, I mean it's pretty good, but it's those 23 grams. I'm kind of like you, though, like if I'm gonna drink something that's not coffee or water, it probably wouldn't be this. Now you know what? I would mix that okay. So I do this weird thing with water when I get, because, like water gets so boring it does, and I drink so much of it. So I will add just like a splash of orange juice and cranberry juice to my water, not like a whole lot, but just enough. This in my water would be delicious.
Dani Combs:You're right, this would be a good one to pop in there. Like a little infused water. Yeah, I like that idea. Okay, so now we're going to try the fruit integration.
Katie Parsons:Whatever that means Fruit, gonna try the fruit integration, whatever that means fruit punch.
Dani Combs:Okay, thank you. I mean, this has a little color to it, yeah this is what fruit integration. So we're thinking it's like oh, it's like a fun little um dragon fruit color some might say grape color? No, don't say that. Well, I'm not that. There's no grapes on the picture, so I think we're good.
Katie Parsons:So you're wrong. I'm wrong pineapple, and they got the color from carrot and blueberry carrot.
Dani Combs:That's not fruit, but I'll drink it anyway. Okay, here we go. It's like a green smoothie.
Katie Parsons:Oh, I went ahead. I remember this one.
Dani Combs:It's good. Sorry, I drank too fast. I'm sorry I'm messing us up.
Katie Parsons:No, I remember this one and it does have a kind of funky aftertaste. No, thanks, I like that one. No, I do remember having this.
Dani Combs:It's the carrot, that's it. They get you with the carrot at the end. Maybe if we wouldn't have known carrot, we would have liked it. Oh, do you not like carrots?
Dani Combs:no, I do, I love carrots weird moment is everyone okay, we all just like the cricket. Hello, oh geez, that's kind of like when you find out there's kale in something. I love kale okay there's no alcohol in anything. Sugar's just as bad well remember when we had the candy like we hadn't eaten yet that day and it like we were almost deliriously sick, it's just as bad as the candy.
Katie Parsons:The sugar count in all this stuff.
Dani Combs:It's probably worse because it's going right into your mouth. Yes, so no wonder we're getting a little goofy. I'm going to feel sick, oh God. Well prepare yourself, because the next one's the best. Oh, okay. I can see it. This is the sugar-ness. The sugar-ness is coming, okay, but I had to buy the flavor. I bought for a reason, and I'll tell you why in a minute. We're on our last one, everybody, our last taste test, last one. I have to burp, excuse me.
Dani Combs:It's the carrot, I don't know, it's the bubbly carrot, I don't know. All right. So do y'all remember Kool-Aid bursts? Yes, in the 90s they were. I was like I swear to God, they were called Kool-Aid cool bursts they were, but then they renamed them to Kool-Aid bursts. Anyways, and for those of y'all that don't know, kool-aid bursts is Kool-Aid, basically in a little squeezy bottle, and I'm going to tell you how these came about. So we talked about Kool-Aid before on a beverage episode, way back. But I'll just give you a little brief, brief moments of of its original history.
Dani Combs:So Kool-Aid itself, the OG product, was invented by a guy named Edwin Perkins in Hastings, nebraska. We always said all these inventions happen in the Midwest, so I don't know what's going on out there. Nothing, that's why. That's why I guess so. So all his experiments took place in his mom's kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called fruit smack. But to reduce shipping costs in 1927, he discovered a way to remove the liquid from fruit smack, leaving only a powder, and this powder was named Kool-Aid. Now can we just pause for a minute and laugh at fruit smack, that he it's called smack and it was powder, and I'm just like dying. Yes, okay, that's all. So that made me laugh, but kool-aid. So that was how og kool-aid came about. Okay, kool-aid first introduced the cool burst at the kool-aid burst, as cool burst spelled with a k to match kool-aid in 1990 to compete with a popular drink called squeeze it I remember they were in bottles almost exactly like this, almost.
Dani Combs:They came in plastic bottles with twist off lids, so horrible for the environment. We weren't that environmentally conscious yet, but at some point the lids became much larger with these little flaps, because kids were opening the bottles with their teeth and the lids were small and they were a choking hazard. Because what kids would do so when they first came out? I'm showing everybody the bottle, these bottles. You twist the lid. They didn't used to have these little sides, it used to just be a smaller, like this part, and kids would put it in their mouth and I mean I that's how I used to open it and you twist it but it was like just the right size.
Dani Combs:Kind of go down that that little throat there and choke you up. So they they added the little wings so it was bigger, harder to chew but I probably guarantee kids probably still put them in their mouth. Um, interesting thing I found out about the cool burst. They are banned in maine and there's not really oh it gets even weirder, there's not really a clear-cut explanation from the company or the state as to the specifics of why. Some say it's because Maine has these plastic packaging laws that go with their recycling plans and that the way they package not just the drinks but they're in the plastic thing and the way they ship them, it violates their like recycling plans.
Dani Combs:I believe it. That's believable. But some say they also have an additional tax that they apply to sugary drinks, like once they reach a certain content. I believe it. So it could be a combination of the things, but there's no clear like. No, there's nowhere that says Cool Burst or banned in Maine because blah. Nowhere that says cool bursts are banned in Maine because blah. But a lot of the boxes will say like do not. I saw online, like they have it on the picture, like not sold in Maine or like whatever Isn't that hilarious.
Katie Parsons:That's really funny. As a new Englander, though, I doesn't surprise me.
Dani Combs:Yeah. So there you go, Don't. If you want a cool burst, don't go to Maine guys, or maybe bring some there and saw them on the black market. Oh my gosh.
Katie Parsons:Black market.
Dani Combs:Kool-Aid burst. Send me a percentage, okay. Also, internet users recently discovered that you can use the twist off lid to reseal the bottle, so I'm going to show you this. Okay, I want to see so before I don't know if it works. I haven't tried it. Oh, I'll sample it and then we'll try the lid trick, okay everybody has to have their own.
Dani Combs:Because now, guys, I bought the berry blue flavor because, y'all need to know, in the 90s, blue raspberry was the hit flavor for everything, everything I loved. I mean it was like it was invented candy in the 90s, yeah, everything was blue raspberry you said these came out like 90s, 1990.
Katie Parsons:Okay, yeah, because this is definitely more for, like, the elementary set yeah, but I drank these.
Dani Combs:Yeah, I didn't. I totally drank these. I mean I was probably I was in sixth grade. I mean we used to pack these in our lunches when I was in sixth grade. Yeah, yeah yeah, middle school for real. Yeah yeah, middle school For real. Dead, I could see it, no, I remember, I don't, I don't, I don't.
Katie Parsons:All right, one of the things I didn't ask my mom.
Dani Combs:So be careful though when you open it, because you can also yeah.
Katie Parsons:All right.
Dani Combs:I'm going to try to do this for the YouTube folks, all right.
Katie Parsons:Oh, yeah, don't like overflow?
Dani Combs:Okay, I did it. Now, somebody please tell me how that goes in there. Oh, do you like tuck it in the sides? That does not work. Internet Lame, they're stupid. Or do you just do this? It's dumb. That's an internet falsity. It doesn't work. Okay, lame. Alright, we did hear that that does not work on the internet. Okay, here we go. Blue raspberry, cool birds ew, it's so bad. Oh, it's so bad. Oh, my god, that's really disgusting. Also, in a show about 90s drinks. How did we only have one blue raspberry I?
Dani Combs:I don't know, that's kind of shocking. That is so gross. That was Do you see how much? I drink that much and I'm not drinking more, but don't worry, guys, I can reseal it you can't, it doesn't work. It says you're supposed to it did it. It's like you're supposed I did it. Oh, but that's not easy. That's stupid, isn't the whole bigger wow?
Katie Parsons:yeah, awesome, just saying, yeah, well also yes, look at that, look at that? How about you just drink it? It's literally like five swallows.
Dani Combs:So I have to know just because we've asked on everything else, how much sugar is in one of these.
Katie Parsons:Oh yeah, let's find out.
Dani Combs:It tastes like a lot guys know it says 70 less sugar than leading regular sodas. Okay, so it's probably less than a soda if it has less sugar than anything else we drank today. Five, five grams, what. That's why it tastes gross. Yeah, but it literally tastes like grains of sugar. Yeah, it's 20 calories. What? Five grams of sugar, and that's in a whole bottle of this. That's surprising. Yeah, you know, that's interesting because I feel like people when you think of sugary drinks, kool-aid's the first thing you think of. But of everything we drank today, this has the lowest sugar content per serving and tastes the worst Tastes horrible, which says a lot Interesting.
Dani Combs:I mean, we'll know Yoo-Hoo tastes the worst because of gross milk. What's gross milk. Yoo-hoo was horrible. I regret my decision completely. Well, you like strawberry too? I'm completely strawberry too. I'm not a big strawberry. It was bad. Uh, my stomach is a mess. I can't wait to eat some lunch in a little bit. Help out solid and that soaks up some big giant sandwich or something. Yeah, bread for sure, oh my gosh. Well, we're at the end of this we did it.
Dani Combs:We're not letting sarah go. We have another episode we're actually going to film with her. We're getting ahead of ourselves for a week, so we're not going to tell y'all. That is. You can see what it is when you tune in next time. Do we have us? I don't have anything. What do you say at the end of this one? I really didn't either. Well, let's just each quickly say our favorite one and our least favorite, okay. So let me see. My favorite was probably the Fruitopia strawberry one. Okay.
Katie Parsons:And then my least favorite was definitely the the strawberry. Uh, yoohoo okay, yeah mine was probably definitely the fruitopia, although snapple was pretty, was your favorite one, to actually like choose to drink. It would probably be this, but I think it's more nostalgic than anything I was a fruitopia girl, so okay, I was like my thing and then probably the worst was that kool-aid that was pretty bad, okay, well, my worst is the yoo-hoo, because gross milk products, um, clearly canadian yeah, that was good.
Katie Parsons:I like star review yeah although you know now that I'm more of a like seltzer drinker. When I went to clearly canadian because that was my favorite, got it every day at the dairy mart right after, as one does as one, I don't know what is the dairy mart?
Dani Combs:I have no idea. We don't have. Yeah, it just sounds cool oh, it was like you're acting like yeah, I used to go there all the time and buy it was, and so for.
Katie Parsons:Is it like a gas station? No, it's a convenience store. So we had dairy mart and cumberland farms. So they were like 7-Eleven is down here, yeah. So we didn't really have 7-Elevens.
Dani Combs:We didn't have 7-Elevens, we had village pantries by us. Have you guys ever heard of that? Did you grow up like in Amish land? Yeah, but I mean, come on, gary, oh yes, but no, but it was like a BS. It was like a 7-Eleven, I believe you, but it was called the Village Panther.
Katie Parsons:What was your opinion store?
Dani Combs:We didn't have 7-Elevens. We had the big ones that we had around were called Time Savers, Okay yeah, and then it was like Exxon and you know all this.
Katie Parsons:Got it? Yeah, we didn't really have.
Dani Combs:So, what yeah?
Katie Parsons:we didn't really have. So what were you saying about? Clearly canadian. By the way, back to your original dairy mart. Now that I think about, like, actually what it sounds like like dairy mart, like that sounds like like what do you get milk there. Yeah, you get ice cream, so now like actually saying it. But it's one of those things growing up where you're like, yeah, we went to the dairy mart. Like you don't really associate dairy with milk when you're a kid and.
Dani Combs:But right now it's just kind of dawned on me when you looked at me like what the heck are you talking?
Katie Parsons:about but I was saying is that I used to get that drink instead of soda after after dance class every day and so um, so it definitely brought me back. So when it came back I was super excited, but I'd been drinking other seltzers for so long and I forgot they don't have sugar. The seltzers and this one did and I was like whoa, that is really sweet, and they also. But they have a new one now that has like less zero.
Dani Combs:They have zero, clearly Canadian zero, but I'm okay, does it have like? It has artificial. It does have artificial. Oh yeah Okay, the sugar is bubbling over Artificial sweeteners. Y'all just don't even know. I know. Yeah, I get it. I get it too. I mean, I use them all the time but I get it I don't know how you do it, I don do it. I don't know, it's just just don't think about it. Yeah, like I, we were making coffee one morning before we were recording and I was like do you have creamer?
Dani Combs:she's like yeah, I was like yes, and I was like no, what for god? Oh wait, what kind of sugar-free? Vanilla sugar-free? Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean, I still drink it, yeah, I still drink it. It's better than nothing. I'm not just black coffee. That's great, and mine's not like a diet thing at all. Mine's a joint joint health, oh okay so real sugar inflames me, and fake sugar, because it's fake and chemical, does not. So if I need something sweet then I have to go with the artificial, and that's okay.
Katie Parsons:So what about having these drinks, though with the sugar, is it?
Dani Combs:I might be hurting later, okay, especially because you gotta get a rehearsal, yeah, and I gotta dance and you gotta dance a lot. Oh, I've been dancing my character. Shoes in the joints are like hello um, but but better than other shows. I've done okay, so that's good.
Dani Combs:That makes me feel like, okay, I'm doing the right things for my body like as far as, like, exercise and stretching and, um, what I'm eating and all of that, yeah, so nice, because I'm like, okay, I'm sore but I'm not in pain, right, and previous like shows where I was actually dancing less yeah, a little, joseph, I dance a decent amount, but it was still, I think, a little bit less than what I'm doing right now. Um, I was in pain, yeah, and I'm not in pain, so, okay, I'm doing it right now.
Katie Parsons:Yeah, that's oh okay now we're definitely zennial okay.
Dani Combs:Well, because we're talking about okay, okay but yes, I, I totally get it.
Katie Parsons:But if you have plantar fasciitis or yeah, yeah, it helps.
Dani Combs:Getting rid of the sugar helped, it did, yeah, a lot also. Yeah, just like processed foods, but anyway, yeah, which I've just totally broken all that today, but it was worth it because it was fun and thank you guys for doing this beverage tasting with me and thank you, you, listeners and viewers, for watching us here on Generation Between, a Zennial podcast. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube, even if you don't want to watch us there, even if you just listen to us somewhere else. Look us up and just give us a subscribe because that helps other people find us. But don't judge us yet because we were like, ok, we're going to try to like, not look like a mess, and we're taking Two times it doesn't work, sarah doesn't.
Katie Parsons:Sarah came prepared, but then they're ready we just we do what we can.
Dani Combs:Guys, you know what y'all you like us to be real, so this is us. We're real and one day we're gonna look like amazing because we're gonna like do our makeup and stuff and y'all are gonna be like I don't like this, like no, like fake. Yeah, this is you, this is us, and you look, we're never gonna do that because we do not have the time, so we're never gonna do that, ever. Be fancy. If you want to see us in makeup, come see our show a christmas story at the henninger opening soon.
Dani Combs:But, um, leave us a review wherever you do listen, share us with your friends, join us on patreon. Uh, sarah's a patron. We've got all kinds of fun content there. We've got got merch now, so make sure you check it all out. Oh, do we have any here? No, we haven't got it yet. We've ordered some.
Katie Parsons:But yeah, it'll be here soon.
Dani Combs:Yeah, no, we will Not yet, but soon. It's exciting. And join us next time here on Generation Inbetween yes, bye, guys, bye.
