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The road to these findings has been long, sometimes arduous, and full of trips to the grocery store. 'If you can find Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen Hi-C, without the 'no stain' label, you have found Ecto Cooler. It was, and that name was Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen. The pop culture site X-Entertainment released an oddly riveting account of trying to figure out if the drink was still being sold under a different name. There has long been a strong secondary market for anything related to Ecto Cooler, from bootleg T-shirts to actual containers of the stuff kept long past their expiration dates. More coming soon to a store near you.Īnd it was chased with incredible devotion after it was removed from the shelves. The most successful spin-off of the Ghostbusters property may not have been any piece of media it might have been a juice box with Slimer on the front. The drink was sold long after the movies had come and gone, and for around a decade after the cartoon ceased production. The press release for the re-released Ecto Cooler states the beverage was available through 2001. The cartoon, called The Real Ghostbusters to avoid confusion with an unrelated Filmation property called Ghost Busters that involved a gorilla named Tracy, ran from 1986 to 1992.

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For reference: the first Ghostbusters movie was released in 1984. In many ways, and for a certain populace of latchkey kids like myself, the drink may have been more of an influence than the films. That celebration requires the nostalgia of people like myself who had grown up with the drink, and were willing to cast off their normal aversion to sugary drinks to relive a bit of their childhood. The fabled drink of the hyperactive godsĮcto Cooler, a Ghostbusters tie-in from Hi-C, was a nuclear green drink that tasted of tangerines, if every inch of that tangerine were to be coated in sugar.Įcto Cooler was a formative experience for many of us now in our mid-30s, and Coca Cola has brought the drink back to celebrate the upcoming Ghostbusters film.

I could understand his lack of experience in this matter, especially since he looked to be around the same age as my oldest son, but I wasn't out hunting anything as banal as a new flavor of Sprite or a rare packet of Kool-Aid. The confused grocery store clerk said this was the first time a customer had ever explained the release date of a soda.

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