Scrounging through the cabinets...

[smeddley]

I have 1,300 Kool-Aid points.

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[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Wow, dude.

... and I just remembered, I forgot to buy Kool-Aid today. Duh, self.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I know - and I have no idea what to do with them, it's not like I'm dying for anything they can buy!

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

You could get them and give away to a good cause, maybe? Some kids place or something.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I thought about that - I just have no idea how to find a place like that. I'm not exactly... involved in anything that has to do with kids. On account of not liking them, and all.

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'll have to think on it a bit. My first thoughts are the Scouting programs and the Children's Hospital type places. But I'm not sure, so ... yeah.

[revoked-soul.livejournal.com]

Pffft, Kool-Aid points. I'm way cooler - I have about $5 of Canadian Tire money. ;)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Hrm... but I also have 334 MyCoke points, too!

[revoked-soul.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but can your points buy you a roll of duct tape, or other such awesome things?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

No, but I'm only 5 points away from the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End soundtrack! I also got a year's subscription to House Beautiful, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping, all of which are stacked in a neat pile completely unread.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Considering that I don't even drink coke, sometimes America terrifies me.

(Also apparently our 7 Up has no/a lot less caffeine in it.)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

7-Up doesn't have any caffeine here, either. None of the 'clear' sodas have it.

You have 9 billion insects and animals that can kill you and this place terrifies you?! What about Kool-Aid is scary? ...other than the giant pitcher mascot thing. That is kinda creepy, I admit...

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Oh! Not 7 Up, Mountain Dew.

If I drink fizzy drinks I throw up. They seem to be much more abundant over there.

"Kool-Aid's website indicates that the Kool Points program will be discontinued as of 2007-06-30." Better get a hurry on!

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Except... the website doesn't say that anymore. Huh. I figure I'd make a pop-culture poster out of them or something, because I really don't want anything they have on their site. The S&H costs are more than I'd pay for those items.

...besides, I already have a Kool-Aid pitcher...

Mountain Dew, yes, that has caffeine. And is yellow. And tastes like someone strained 7-Up through a piece of cardboard.

They are abundant, but not the only thing. Tea and coffee are just as big, as are frou-frou waters. Ugh, and those energy drink things. We're just a really hydrated country.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

And I don't drink tea or coffee or energy drinks. DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE JUICE? PLAIN JUICE. ORANGE JUICE, NO MILK, PERHAPS SOME MANGO.

Do I want to know what frou-frou water is?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Yes. We have juice out the wazoo. Orange juice, lemonade, limeade, apple juice, grape juice, cran-apple juice, white cranberry juice, cran-raspberry juice, cran-grape juice, tomato juice, clam juice, banana-mango-peach juice, pineapple-banana-strawberry juice, and every other freakish combination humanly possible. THERE IS AN ENTIRE AISLE OF THE SUPERMARKET DEVOTED TO JUICE.

By that I simply meant very expensive drinking water. People have this weird aversion to tap water, and spend more money to buy bottled water than I do to buy soda.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I don't like the taste of bottled water. =(

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I don't like it because it is unregulated by the FDA and more likely to make you sick than the tap water. Plus, it seems bloody stupid to pay $2 for a liter of untested and possibly contaminated water when I can get perfectly safe water from my tap for about a half-cent per gallon. AND I'm not filling up landfills with all those plastic bottles! Well, I wouldn't be, anyway, because I recycle, but still.