Limited Edition Foods

Today’s post is about the Championship Red bottles in the Limited Edition Michael Jordan Gatorade bottle set. The Championship Red colored/flavored ones in the set have the 5 of 6 and 6 of 6 label designs. The theme of the Gold ones are Forever. Read about bottles 1 and 2 (Championship Blue) here and bottles 3 and 4 (Championship Gold) here.

The last two bottles in the Michael Jordan set of Gatorade bottles are the Championship Red flavor. This flavor is a just plain Berry and not a flavor blend like the other two flavors in the set. This flavor is pretty good in at least being very berry. It is also not extremely sweet seeming, but it still is a little on the sweeter side than the Championship Gold/Citrus Orange flavor.

The label of the bottle that is 5 of 6 in the series has an image of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen as Chicago Bulls players. The text on the label talks about him turning to Gatorade to stay hydrated in one of his most memorable performances playing with the flu and scoring 38 points to help Bulls win in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. It is part of the Forever theme in that this is one of the things he is expected to be most remembered for.

The label of the 6 of 6 bottle has an image of Jordan going up for a dunk. This is my favorite bottle because part of the text talks about him retiring from the NBA to try his hand a AA baseball and that is my favorite sport despite being a Jordan fan anyways. The text also says that he will be remembered as the greatest basketball player of all time, but that seems like a biased statement. Who knows the greatest player to date might be discovered next year and I am sure there are other just as great players at least in some people’s opinions. Anyways it is a cool collection of Gatorade bottles nonetheless.

Today’s post is about the Championship Gold bottles in the Limited Edition Michael Jordan Gatorade bottle set. The Championship Gold colored/flavored ones in the set have 3 of 6 and 4 of 6 label designs. The theme of the Gold ones are Now. Read about bottles 1 and 2 here. I will post about bottles 5 and 6 tomorrow.

The second two bottles in the Michael Jordan set of Gatorade bottles are the Championship Gold flavor. This flavor is a Citrus Orange blend. It is more of a tangerine orange taste than just plain orange. I am also surprised that it is not too sweet of a flavor like pretty much all Gatorade flavors are in my opinion. This is one flavor I can actually stand to drink more than a few sips of without majorly diluting it with water. Perhaps it is the tartness of the citrus flavor that balances out the super sweetness that Gatorade seems to usually have.

The label of the bottle that is 3 of 6 in the series has an image of a person on a motorcycle. The label talks about Jordan’s launching of Michael Jordan Motorsports and the success the team has already had. Thus I believe the image is not of Michael Jordan, but actually one of the people on the Michael Jordan Motorsports team, but I suppose I could be wrong.

The label of the 4 of 6 bottle has an image of recent portrait style image of Michael Jordan. The label talks about how he now leads the Jordan Brand and is a part owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.

Today I went to the grocery store to get some grape tomatoes while they were still on sale for 99 cents a container and I happened upon the just in Limited Edition Michael Jordan Gatorade bottles. I thought for sure I would never see these even though I had already heard about them because my store just is not that good at getting most limited edition items. Not only did I easily find all 6 of the label designs, but they were all on sale for only 75 cents a bottle, which is the cheapest I have ever seen Gatorade at my Safeway store. Of course, I just had to get the whole set. I ended up getting one of each design for my bottle collection and one of each color to actually try for “review” purposes (i.e. because I just like trying limited edition things and saying it is for the blog makes the spending of the money seem more justified). Anyways this post is about the first two bottles in the set and I will get to the other 4 in two more posts to come over the next few days.

The first two bottles in the Michael Jordan set of Gatorade bottles are the Championship Blue flavor. The flavor is a berry cherry blend. It is a decent Gatorade flavor, but like pretty much all Gatorade it is too sweet for me to drink more than a few sips unless I majorly water it down. I feel like the flavor is all berry and little cherry, as it tastes a lot like the berry pomegranate flavor, which I guess means that one is basically berry and not much pomegranate.

The label of the bottle that is 1 of 6 in the series has an image of Jordan playing for his high school team. It talks about Jordan being cut from his high school team as a sophomore and then working his way back to the team the next year and performing good enough to land a scholarship to University of North Carolina.

The label of the 2 of 6 bottle has an image of playing in college. The bottle talks about Jordan getting a jumper to win the NCAA championship for the University of North Carolina in 1982.

A few days ago at the grocery store I actually needed some ice cream and found the Limited Edition Hot Cocoa Ice Cream. The Dreyer’s brand was not the cheapest brand, but it was still on sale and the flavor sounded more interesting than anything from the cheapest brand that day. It seems while I was gone this summer they majorly changed the ice cream section and limited the amount of Safeway flavors and added boring Lucerne ice cream to the stock. Anyways there just was not as much variety to compete with as there used to be and it really did not take much to make me want to pay the extra $1 for something I would hopefully enjoy eating.

The Hot Cocoa flavor is basically chocolate ice cream with marshmallows mixed in. It is a wonderful flavor for summer because the ice cream is cold and goes with it being hot outside compared to in the winter wanting hot cocoa to drink to go with the cold weather. I do not always like chocolate ice cream, but this one does not have too strong of a chocolatey flavor. I think it is actually the marshmallows, though, that make this not just a tolerable flavor, but a great tasting one. I am a fan of marshmallows in my ice cream and it is part of what makes my top favorite ice cream Phish Food even though it is a chocolate base ice cream, too. The Hot Cocoa ice cream is a little slim on the marshmallows, but it is better than having marshmallows in actual hot cocoa because they always seem to melt and be pointless in hot cocoa.

I posted about Coconut M&Ms coming out this summer as a limited edition a few months ago. Since then I had kind of forgot about them and was not even looking for them. Then today I found some of the Transformers Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms on sale for 50 cents each at a gas station and right next them was a display with the new Limited Edition Coconut M&Ms for 2/$2. I ended up getting some of each, as I loved the Transformers ones and the coconut ones sounded at least interesting.

The Coconut M&Ms are larger than normal M&Ms, but they do have 1.5 ounces of them in a package compared the 1.4 ounces of the Transformers ones. However, I do think this is still less than a normal M&Ms bag of this size. There are three colors of M&Ms in the coconut package. They are green, white, and brown. Some of the Coconut M&Ms have the normal M stamped on them while others have a palm tree with M design, umbrella with M design, or sun with M design.

The Coconut M&Ms definitely do have a taste of coconut to them, but it is not too overpowering. It does, however, seem to make the aftertaste very different and more lingering than regular M&Ms. At first I thought they were pretty good, but the aftertaste kind of spoils the enjoyability of them. I think those that like coconut will like these and if you only do not like coconut because of the odd texture of coconut shavings in some candies and not because of the flavor then you might like this because it is regular chocolate texture. If you do not like coconut, though, then you should stay clear of these. Personally I do not usually mind coconut, but because of the aftertaste I will stick fall back to peanut butter M&Ms and am glad I have some Transformers Strawberried Peanut Butter ones to enjoy next.

Earlier this month at Walmart I spotted the Limited Edition Cap’n Crunch’s Home Run Crunch. Normally I do not buy cereal, but I could not pass this one up because it is baseball themed and we are on a baseball road trip all summer. Limited Edition Cap’n Crunch’s Home Run Crunch has a fun box design, but inside it is not as cool as the box makes it seem.

The box has the Cap’n ready to bat a baseball that says Crunch-a-tize Me Cap’n on the front with a baseball diamond in the background and a bowl of Limited Edition Cap’n Crunch’s Home Run Crunch in the foreground. The back of the box has some baseball themed games to play. This includes a word search with baseball terms, a fill in the missing letters game also using baseball terms, and follow the path game to see which kid hit the baseball the farthest.

The cereal inside the box is supposed to be special because it has baseball themed shapes. However, the shapes are rather disappointing. There are supposed to be baseball bats and baseball shapes inside. While there definitely are red and blue shapes they really do not look much different than Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries other than the fact their is not all the colors that variety has. The baseball shapes are fine, as Crunch Berries are circular, but the baseball bats are rather sad looking. Most of the baseball bat shapes just do not look that much like bats, especially when compared to the nice cover art of the cereal box. Anyways the cereal tastes the same as Crunch Berries, which are not too bad in my opinion. Just the baseball theme is not that great other than perhaps the box as a collectible, but that is not a possibility when the box has to travel over 10,000 miles in our car before we get home.

I am always on the look out for special Airheads, as my brother loves Airheads and it gives me an excuse to actually buy the limited edition item. The other day I found a Limited Time one that is called Shock Your Airheads. It is not as interesting as the movie tie in ones that often come with some special collectable item, such as the Pop Up Pooch card that they put in the Hotel for Dog Airheads. The Shock Your Airheads also do not really even have any special flavors like the Rock Your Mouth Airheads had. Instead the only thing special about the Shock Your Airheads limited time Airheads is that it comes with a super sour gel pack.

The Shock Your Airheads package comes with the normal amount of 6 Airheads bars. Inside there is one small gel pack about the size of a ketchup pack. The pack has what they call Super Sour Gel. My brother did not end up even trying it because the whole pack was sticky on the outside and was just too big of a mess to deal with before it was even opened. There are three different colors of the sour gel, although only one random color per pack. The one in the package I bought was a reddish orange. I am not sure if the different colors are actually flavored differently or if they are just differently colored. It really is just a sticky worthless limited time Airheads and it would have been better to just get him a pack of regular Airheads.

In honor Michael Jordan being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame Gatorade is releasing six limited edition Gatorade Bottles. Gatorade has been one of the brands Michael Jordan has been partners with for a while. The limited edition bottles are the 32 ounce size ones like the Limited Edition Super Bowl XLIII ones. The bottles will not only include special labels, but also special flavors.

The limited edition Michael Jordan Gatorade bottles are to be in three special flavors. The three flavors are called Championship Blue, Championship Gold, and Championship Red. The blue flavor is berry cherry, the gold flavor is citrus orange, and the red flavor is berry blend. I am not sure if these are exactly unique flavors, as I do not know all the flavors Gatorade has these days, or they are just renamed flavors.

The bottles labels commemorate moments from Jordan’s basketball career. The labels include images from moments in his career along with text about his career. The labels also feature the design of his signature next to the G logo part of the label. There are six different label designs. I am not sure if the designs are mixed in all the flavors that they are releasing for this limited edition or there are two per flavor for the three flavors they are releasing the labels on.

I am not much of a Gatorade drinker nor I am much into basketball, however I once did watch basketball and that was when Jordan was on the Bulls. I think I will try to track down all these Gatorade bottles, which are to be released in the millions at supermarkets, convenience stores, and Walmarts, to add them to my bottle collection in my kitchen.

The other day at Target I found some Special Edition Doritos flavors. Both are called Late Night. The one is called Last Call Jalapeno Popper, which I did not even care to get because it sounded too spicy for me. The other flavor is called Tacos at Midnight. That flavor sounded interesting enough to buy and try. Of course, we were going to get some sort of Doritos either way because they were on sale and we needed snacks for our trip.

The Tacos at Midnight flavor really does taste like tacos, but best thing is that there is no meat in it. It basically has all the seasonings of a taco. The ingredients to make the taco flavor include tomato powder, sour cream, onion powder, paprika, cheddar cheese, and Swiss cheese. Overall they taste great, but Cool Ranch is still my favorite Doritos flavor.

Earlier this year Tango released Limited Edition Tango Thanks cans. Now they have come out with another limited edition can design as part of their new ad campaign. The new cans are bigger than the normal size, as they are 440ml compared to usual 330ml. These new cans say New Size on top. The can has a black background. In the middle of an orange picture it says Tango With Added Tango. The can lists a number to call for those having unusual side effects from drinking too much Tango. Those that call the helpline will be entered into a contest with prizes that include a PlayStation and a bicycle.