Share Your Gatorade Story

Did you actually like Midnight Thunder (black Gatorade) or Gatorgum? I'm looking for people to share their memories or love of their favorite Gatorade product. Please tell me about your favorite flavor and send me a picture of you drinking it and I will post for the world to see. I can be reached by at TheGatoradeGuy@aol.com.

Comments

[julian]

My favorite gatorade product was the lemon-lime flavored gatorade gum. It basically tasted like the powder concentrate, but in gum form. When I was nine years old I almost got a concussion over a pack of gatorgum participating in a ridiculous competition at soccer camp. That summer they gave out gatorgum to the campers like a trainer gives fish to a seal. The competition was a heading contest, basically our coach kicked the soccer ball high in the air and whoever headed the ball moved onto the next round. And each round the ball was kicked higher into the air. Well I was either really brave or really stupid, because an hour later the competition was down to me and another kid. It was my turn, the coach kicked the ball at least 50 feet in the air, I mean it was a dot in the sky, straight up. SO i got under it and basically waited for it to drop on my head. Well i was knocked out cold for a couple minutes. But needless to say i won a free pack of gatorgum.

Julian

[Darren]

Julian,
Thanks for sharing. I have talked on a bunch of college campuses and can't believe how many people say they loved Gatorgum. The discontinued it in the about 15 years ago because it wasn't efficacious and they had a hard time making it. As you know, a pack lasted for about five seconds, which didn't reflect too well on the Gatorade brand. Then again, neither did the recent energy bar effort.

[mfblogger]

I loved Gatorade gum, but I've been around long enough to remember carbonated Gatorade in cans. That was a great drink and I wish it was still around. Nothing against the powder I use almost all the time now, but a cooler full of carbonated Gatorade for the club soda lover in me -- yes!

[tom]

midnight thurnder was the best ever..i wish they would bring it back.

[jk]

i really wish they brought back the midnight thunder flavor. It was the best.

[Joey]

Midnight thunder is horrible it tastes like a wet fart in a bottle

[Emty Dew]

I just got the new Orbit gum Lemon Lime. I think it really tastes like GatorGum. You should try it.

[Matt]

I actually saw Raisin flavored Gatorade in one of the "dollar stores" in Pittsburgh about 3 years ago. Can't imagine that it tasted very good....or that they sold much of it.

[Jennifer Seeche]

When I was a little girl my dad had a big bag of gator gum. I must have been really little because it was in the house we moved out of the summer I turned 5. With that bag of gator gum he taught my big sister how to blow bubbles and taught me how to chew gum and not swallow it.

I still remember it like it was yesterday, sitting in our old kitchen going through piece after piece because it wasn't very good gum--it got tough really quickly. Also, my very sentimental father saved one of the wrapers and pasted it in my baby book. I would give anything to taste gatorgum again.

[Tracy]

I LOVED lemon-lime gatrogum! For some weird reason it popped into my head today and I went on a mad hunt to find it but alas, there's a reason I haven't seen it in years, they discontinued it :-(
It's true, it didn't keep it's flavor very long but it was sooo good, with a super intense burst of flavor when you first bit into it. Mmmmm, I can almost taste it. I wonder crack was in it or something, how come 15 years later I'm still drooling over it? We should ptition them to bring it back!

[Tony]

I remember buying Gator gum when I was in college. It was in 1987-1989 when I would buy the orange flavoured and lime flavoured gum. There were five big sticks and I think it was wrapped in a silver foil. It was very juicy at first then got hard very quickly. I just googled it today after trying Dentyne ice gum. I got a craving for it, so I googled it and was disappointed to read that it was no longer available.

[smitty]

I used to LOVE the gatorade gum. I still remember the bright green package. The gum was SO SOUR. It reminds me of my childhood and going to the water park during the summer.

[Charlie Dwyer]

I have an old gatorade bottle from back when it was carbonated. Is it worth anything?

[tj]

I loved the gator gum as well, I miss it. It reminds me of summers which were long and hot.

[Ryan]

does anyone remember the name of the sea green colored gatorade. That used to be so good.

[don crowe]

stopped in because of reference to carbonated gatorade, i used to play racquet ball many years ago and would always get a can of it after wards, loved it, i then went to the store and bought a case of gatorade a few years later anit was not the carbonated kind , took it back and told them it was flat, they told me there had never been a carbonated gatorade, i thought i had lost my mind.

[Cody THE CREDIT COWBOY]

Lemon flavored Quench Gum sold at Sporting good stores, tastes almost the same as Gator Gum. Search on eBay for Quench Gum and you will see it.