"Green and blue food coloring for color." That's kind of cute in a way. I like how they wrote the recipe in Nerd. You also want to add a few drops of the blue in the mix to get it a more even green. It won't be that happy bright green we remember, but at least it'll be green. The red in the Flavor Aid is deep enough to skew the color of the green, but with enough drops, you can make it green. Again, if you're using Countrytime Lemonade, sugar is already added to the mixture so you might have to adjust for your personal taste by adding more sugar than the stated 1½ cups.Ĥ) Add your food coloring. You may have to adjust to get it to your taste.ģ) Add water, put in your sugar and stir until dissolved. The lemonade is used to make the mixture slightly more bitter to give it the zing the original Ecto-Cooler had. If you happen to be using the mandarin oranges as a juice source, be sure to strain the pulp out unless you so wish it.Ģ) After your juices are in, put in the packets of Kool-Aid / Flavor Aid and the ⅓ scoop of Country Time Lemonade mix and mix up the concentrate. ⅓ scoop Countrytime Lemonade (regular or pink).ġ) In a one gallon pitcher, start by putting in your orange juice and tangerine juice. cup Tangerine Juice / 1 can mandarin oranges (mashed). Meaning that Ecto Cooler was lost forever in 2003.Īfter years of exhaustive toil and no doubt countless trips to the bathroom, the nerds at Ghostbusters: Chicago Division have shared their groundbreaking research.ġ packet Kool Aid / Flavor Aid Tangerine. It was non-staining Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen that was renamed Crazy Citrus Cooler. So sources such as Wikipedia which claim that Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen was renamed Crazy Citrus Cooler in 2006 and discontinued in 2007 are incorrect. The list of ingredients changed dramatically. Circa August 2003, Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen was reformulated as non-staining. Renamed Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen in 2001. Widely regarded as The Non-Carbonated Soft Drink Of The Gods. But it had been so popular in the early 90's that it is fondly remembered today by kids who grew up with it, so much even that some people reverese engineered it and came up with recipes for you to create your own "Ecto Cooler". Then, in 2006 it was renamed again, this time called "Crazy Citrus Cooler", and it 2007, the recipe was officially discontinued.
Yummy.Īround 1997, Slimer was removed from the box all together, and it was renamed "Shoutin' Orange Tangerine". So basically you were drinking a slime/snot looking beverage. The drink itself was bright green (like the ectoplasm was in the movie/Cartoon). The drink box featured the ghost "Slimer" from the show, and the name "Ecto Cooler" comes from the Ectoplasm which is the slime left behind from a ghost.
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Almost as much as I miss OH MY GOD DO YOU REMEMBER ECTO COOLER!!?!?!?Įcto Cooler was a drink made by Hi-C in 1987 as a tie in with the Cartoon series "The Real Ghostbusters", and actually outlived the Cartoon series (which ended in 1991). Two days later, it pops in your head again for some reason (you see a hearse, maybe?), and you make the jump from thinking about The Real Ghostbusters to that adorable cartoon ghost, Slimer. Then you stop thinking about it for a while. Then, after thinking about Ghostbusters (the Movie) for a while, you think of The Real Ghostbusters, the cartoon. And when you think of ghosts, you start to think of that great movie, Ghostbusters. When you think Halloween, one thing that often comes to mind is ghosts.
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