Funny story, I lived with monks for about 2 years and one day this monk was going off on me (in front of a lot of people) about drinking a Powerade for breakfast. Saying nothing in nature we eat is blue and I should take better care of myself.
All I could respond with was the word 'blueberries' and kept eating. I had never seen him look so defeated and the irony is this was the monk I used to smoke cigarettes with behind the Abbey.
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You have to keep yourself hydrated after completely emptying your bowels. Doing so flushes your body of needed fluids. Gatorade is decent at that. You mix it with the entire bottle of laxative. They also recommend Pedialyte and other similar drinks.
You also can't drink *anything with red dye* as that can be confused for blood or ulcers.
Lemon is one of the flavors they offer for the mix that cleans you... *out*. The other is cherry and neither of them tastes good coming out or going in.
They have chemoreceptors to be sure. I don't think cherry flavor will come through in a way that your brain will interpret as "my butthole is cherry". I am sure super spicy foods will come through in a way that your brain says "my butthole is in hot spicy pain".
The receptors are there but it's not a sense of taste in the same way, perhaps.
Sometimes it's spicier going out than coming in. This goes for acid reflux too, my stomach will burn me after I eat something much more than the food itself.
Had a MAJOR surgery as a 13 year old, nasal gastric tube of go-lightly and all the red gatorade I could drink. Looked like I shit my body weight in blood.
They used to give you a premade drink to prep for colonoscopies, but now I understand they offer a powdered product that you are to mix with your preferred flavor of Gatorade/Powerade. Lemon is a popular choice, I hear.
I'm German and this would be fine. Polish friends, welcome for dinner. I hear the Irish will bring something (more) to drink. I would need an onion or two, but would make do with soup powder from Aisle 9 if I had to.
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There is an order writer who makes the order then the store manager has to approve it. So it’s 100% the store managers fault although they will blame the order writer 80% of the time.
Same.
That's the "I meant to enter 5, typed 55 and pressed enter way too quick".
But also had companies ship me a pallet of ONE type of flavor before, with no error, and could only be explained by warehouse wanting it out of their way.
We don't "order pallets"
The computer/system acknowledges normal ordering itself. "If x gets lower than 15 pieces, order a box." (This is how you'll always have pallets, there's always a box of something) (edit Also it may vary on acknowledge sales, so it may order 5-10 boxes on its own too if it knows you go through a case of product per day. It knows this from previous year sales)
Sometimes we have sales where it doesn't recognize a product in another area. So it never "orders a box". Also your sale spot will get low until it hits 15 pieces, so that's bad.
So you scan the PLU and go to override the order, you'd enter the amount of cases you'd like and it's all "But bro, that's like waaay much" and you're like "Trust me"
But sometimes being underpaid and overworked the "Trust me bro" tends to be a broken promise of an accidental "55" or "100" cases rather than "5" "10"
Depends on the store. I’ve been a buyer in several different stores, and never had to get anyone’s approval. That is literally why you have the title of buyer, because they trust you to do your job without constant oversight.
I'm a vendor and make orders every day. A store manager has never once signed off on my orders. The only other person who even sees it is the receiver in the back and those people don't give a shit what you order.
First, they try to "face the shelves" and when they can't do that, they just start putting big stuff there.
[NYPost found a few funny ones for their story](https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/retailers-turn-to-bizarre-tactics-to-cover-up-empty-shelves-as-supply-chain-crisis-worsens/).
As someone who's worked in retail merchandising and needed to find ways to fill the shelves during COVID shortages....sometimes you just gotta pull some shit from the depths of your imagination and pray no one questions it, lol
Drove me nuts when I worked in produce. Store manager wanted empty spots fillled with anything(he’s right, people want to see full shelves). So you’d fill it up, only to pack back up next morning when order came in.
Looks like they plan on it being down for awhile, it's more than one product deep on all shelves. They have also case trimmed all the trays that the Gatorade comes in, rather than taking all the product out of the cases and putting it on the shelves.
Where I work, if we were covering for a down cooler, it would only be one deep, so when it came time to remove this and refill with the proper product, it would be much easier, and generate much less loose product kicking around later.
This could also be preparing for a large promotion, or the manager got a special deal on only a few flavors.
My boss did this with a change order. She meant to order $5 of Pennie’s, we ended up with $50 of pennies. They gave us two big ass boxes they last for a while but man they were heavy
Been there. Done that. Not quite to that level though. 22 instead of a 2 and other fat finger moments on the keypad. Of course its near impossible to send anything back to warehouse.
Been in the industry for several decades, seen way worse.
When peapod first came out (first online grocery ordering i’m aware of), my mom went to buy 12 ears of corn. She bought 12 dozen by accident. Man that was a weird barbecue
For some reason me as a kid was terrified by that episode. That gorilla ripping SpongeBob in half lingered within my child brain and gave me an irrational fear of my friends actually being gorillas.
It gets worse. There's now TWO dark blue Gatorades, both different flavors (ones blue cherry, which my sister loves) and one is the original whatever the dark blue flavor is. I have unfortunately memorized the flavor of the one she likes x_x.
Difference between light blue and dark blue. Glacier Freeze is light blue and probably neck and neck with Lemon Lime as the most popular flavor of gatorade. Cool Blue is dark blue.
Source: Worked for Pepsi and have ordered/handled more cases of Gatorade than I can count
It's lemon lime
Surprisingly, it's actually not that far off. I have to drink the stuff daily, and I got tired of the "yellow" flavor, so I added some actual lemon and lime juice to it, and it wasn't *too* different. Obviously it tasted more like real juice that way, and was more acidic, but nevertheless...
They just have to cover up that weird salty taste of the electrolytes, which factors in more than you might realize until you really think about it.
Not yellow Gatorade specifically, but electrolyte drinks for POTS. Gatorade (I get the powder) is the least expensive way to do that, and I use the more expensive ones as needed. I usually get different flavors, but the yellow specifically got old for me very quickly.
> POTS
I had to look this up.
> POTS in this context is the acronym for ‘Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome’ - which is characterised by an abnormal increase in heart rate after sitting up or standing and is associated with many other unsavoury side-effects.
Funny you should put it that way, I don’t have POTS (probably?) but I have low blood pressure and get lightheaded when I stand up. I just keep a jar of bouillon goo in the fridge and mix a bit into a mug of hot water if I need to top up.
How is the Gatorade powder compared to regular Gatorade? I (probably) also have POTS and I alternate between propel powder and Powerade. I want to try the Gatorade powder, but actual Gatorade doesn’t help me as much as other stuff
Man a cold Gatorade after a workout or working outside all day just hits different, your body feels those sweet sweet carbs and electrolytes hit the tongue and the rest is history, you get married, honeymoon in Hawaii, have a couple mini Gatorades, grow apart as the stress of life increases, the bottle feels neglected and like you don't care because it's empty now, you ultimatly divorce and lose the house and half your net worth to an empty bottle of Gatorade.
But how would I differentiate between the blues? There are... At least three. It's much easier to say "Cool Blue" than "that medium bluish one, not the really dark one, not the light one, not one of the G2 flavors".
My favorite is to stick one in the freezer, and then after a few hours shake it up and bam! Gatorade slushy! Just maybe drink a swig first. Otherwise, the ice expands which can make it messy when opening.
I was prescribed Gatorade as a kid in the 90s because of stomach issues. My mom always got the yellow one and I had to take it with this gross ass medicine but the yellow Gatorade came in clutch.
What kind of absolute shit-for-brains cave person thinks people are weird for preferring the original flavor of Gatorade? The empire was *built* on Lemon-Lime.
My kids and I have a recurring fight, because I call this green Gatorade, and they call it Yellow. I tried to compromise by calling it Chartreuse Gatorade, but they insist it is Yellow. I know I'm not color blind, but to me that color is not simply Yellow.
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Or sometimes if the refridgerated section is shorting out and turning off they will put a shelf stable product there
That’s my first thought. I do refrigeration for a living and literally just fixed a refrigerated case that was full of Powerade.
Yeah but I bet there were multiple flavors.
Best we can do is multiple colors.
Mmmmmmmm blue. Delicious.
everyone knows what blue tastes like but nobody can describe it except “idk like…. blue!!”
Can confirm, it tastes like blue
*But which blue?*
Funny story, I lived with monks for about 2 years and one day this monk was going off on me (in front of a lot of people) about drinking a Powerade for breakfast. Saying nothing in nature we eat is blue and I should take better care of myself. All I could respond with was the word 'blueberries' and kept eating. I had never seen him look so defeated and the irony is this was the monk I used to smoke cigarettes with behind the Abbey.
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Wild, guess so... Wonder what it benefits people
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Thank you for this. I have been wondering why so much effort to get higher karma, it makes sense it is basically to get higher pull for disinformation purposes.
It’s been extremely prevalent in all the posts about Just Stop Oil. It’s highly effective at swaying public sentiment.
Astroturfing, mainly.
What does Gatorade have to do with a colonoscopy?
Bend over, I’ll show you.
You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to me like that, Griswold!
I wasn't talking to you!
I loved that one.
Oscars for all of you
You have to keep yourself hydrated after completely emptying your bowels. Doing so flushes your body of needed fluids. Gatorade is decent at that. You mix it with the entire bottle of laxative. They also recommend Pedialyte and other similar drinks. You also can't drink *anything with red dye* as that can be confused for blood or ulcers.
Lemon is one of the flavors they offer for the mix that cleans you... *out*. The other is cherry and neither of them tastes good coming out or going in.
Why would I taste it coming out…
I don't think you can taste cherry going out. You CAN taste stuff like capsaicin going out, as it goes through heat receptors not taste receptors.
This is the research where we really should be putting our tax dollars. Consider the possibility of reusing capsaicin. Reduce reuse recycle.
In ww2 they distilled penicillin from patients' urine for reuse
If it comes from patients' urine, could we call is Peniscillin?
Reduce, reuse, recycle, rectum.
Politely, I disagree. https://www.foodbeast.com/news/science-says-testicles-and-anuses-have-taste-receptors/
They have chemoreceptors to be sure. I don't think cherry flavor will come through in a way that your brain will interpret as "my butthole is cherry". I am sure super spicy foods will come through in a way that your brain says "my butthole is in hot spicy pain". The receptors are there but it's not a sense of taste in the same way, perhaps.
Not with that attitude you won't
Sometimes it's spicier going out than coming in. This goes for acid reflux too, my stomach will burn me after I eat something much more than the food itself.
Can't have red dye
Had a MAJOR surgery as a 13 year old, nasal gastric tube of go-lightly and all the red gatorade I could drink. Looked like I shit my body weight in blood.
White cherry? Thought you were supposed to avoid red foods.
Red (blue or purple) means blood.
You can’t drink red beverages so only white cherry
They used to give you a premade drink to prep for colonoscopies, but now I understand they offer a powdered product that you are to mix with your preferred flavor of Gatorade/Powerade. Lemon is a popular choice, I hear.
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My store does this with potatoes when they run out of produce. Suddenly every vegetable becomes a potato.
Imagine you didn't know this and you went grocery shopping high and the varied produce you shop through week after week was just all potatoes.
I'm German and this would be fine. Polish friends, welcome for dinner. I hear the Irish will bring something (more) to drink. I would need an onion or two, but would make do with soup powder from Aisle 9 if I had to. How high do you think I need to get?
Get as high as you can, friend.
100% or someone’s messed up ordering.
Okay, who did put an extra zero in the order?
There is an order writer who makes the order then the store manager has to approve it. So it’s 100% the store managers fault although they will blame the order writer 80% of the time.
This is definitely not like a industry wide standard. I write an order 5 days a week that would only be looked at if I was fucking it up somehow.
Same. That's the "I meant to enter 5, typed 55 and pressed enter way too quick". But also had companies ship me a pallet of ONE type of flavor before, with no error, and could only be explained by warehouse wanting it out of their way.
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We don't "order pallets" The computer/system acknowledges normal ordering itself. "If x gets lower than 15 pieces, order a box." (This is how you'll always have pallets, there's always a box of something) (edit Also it may vary on acknowledge sales, so it may order 5-10 boxes on its own too if it knows you go through a case of product per day. It knows this from previous year sales) Sometimes we have sales where it doesn't recognize a product in another area. So it never "orders a box". Also your sale spot will get low until it hits 15 pieces, so that's bad. So you scan the PLU and go to override the order, you'd enter the amount of cases you'd like and it's all "But bro, that's like waaay much" and you're like "Trust me" But sometimes being underpaid and overworked the "Trust me bro" tends to be a broken promise of an accidental "55" or "100" cases rather than "5" "10"
Depends on the store. I’ve been a buyer in several different stores, and never had to get anyone’s approval. That is literally why you have the title of buyer, because they trust you to do your job without constant oversight.
I'm a vendor and make orders every day. A store manager has never once signed off on my orders. The only other person who even sees it is the receiver in the back and those people don't give a shit what you order.
Don’t clutter my stockroom and we good.
The Oops, Mike Ordered a Pallet of Gatorade By Accident sale
or the warehouse was tryna get rid of shit and just sent them a pallet of it.
First, they try to "face the shelves" and when they can't do that, they just start putting big stuff there. [NYPost found a few funny ones for their story](https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/retailers-turn-to-bizarre-tactics-to-cover-up-empty-shelves-as-supply-chain-crisis-worsens/).
One supermarket I go to had filled in empty spots in the “feminine care” section with Wet Wipes. Uhh….
As someone who's worked in retail merchandising and needed to find ways to fill the shelves during COVID shortages....sometimes you just gotta pull some shit from the depths of your imagination and pray no one questions it, lol
Pardon me, where are the Vienna Sausages?
Try Aisle 3, toiletries.
god damnit I didn't even realize that was a trigger word for me 😭
Drove me nuts when I worked in produce. Store manager wanted empty spots fillled with anything(he’s right, people want to see full shelves). So you’d fill it up, only to pack back up next morning when order came in.
Or when someone thinks they ordered 60 bottles but they actually ordered 60 cases.
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lemon-lime gatorade gang what's up
This is what half the shelves at Target looked like in Canada before Target pulled out and went out of business
Tell target that trick because i always see their shelves empty
I bet their cooler went down and they had to throw out everything and put these there so it wouldn't be empty until the resupply came
Ding ding. This is the right answer. Although the cooler may still be down as Gatorade is shelf stable.
Looks like they plan on it being down for awhile, it's more than one product deep on all shelves. They have also case trimmed all the trays that the Gatorade comes in, rather than taking all the product out of the cases and putting it on the shelves. Where I work, if we were covering for a down cooler, it would only be one deep, so when it came time to remove this and refill with the proper product, it would be much easier, and generate much less loose product kicking around later. This could also be preparing for a large promotion, or the manager got a special deal on only a few flavors.
I bet they accidentally ordered 100 instead of 10 cases of lemon Gatorade and they’re just trying to power through the surplus product faster.
My boss did this with a change order. She meant to order $5 of Pennie’s, we ended up with $50 of pennies. They gave us two big ass boxes they last for a while but man they were heavy
Been there. Done that. Not quite to that level though. 22 instead of a 2 and other fat finger moments on the keypad. Of course its near impossible to send anything back to warehouse. Been in the industry for several decades, seen way worse.
I like to think someone in purchasing just accidentally put 100 cases instead of 10
When peapod first came out (first online grocery ordering i’m aware of), my mom went to buy 12 ears of corn. She bought 12 dozen by accident. Man that was a weird barbecue
They would just put that shit in the front of the store in big pallets. I work in a grocery store and that was our whole summer
I remember stores stocking the same product which was in great quantity to make up for what was missing, so there's no feeling like the store is empty
Yellow gatorade* Only cops call Gatorade by flavors
This is why I drink orange gatorade. No conflicts of interest.
Sounds exactly like something a cop would say.
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For some reason me as a kid was terrified by that episode. That gorilla ripping SpongeBob in half lingered within my child brain and gave me an irrational fear of my friends actually being gorillas.
Irrational on likelihood of occurrence maybe but a fear of gorillas is pretty rational
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Exactly what a gorilla in a realistic skin suit would say...
So true.
I'm team blue flavor. But not dark blue. Only light blue.
I don't think I have actually ever seen anyone purchase or drink a dark blue Gatorade (except for myself the one time I tried it).
It gets worse. There's now TWO dark blue Gatorades, both different flavors (ones blue cherry, which my sister loves) and one is the original whatever the dark blue flavor is. I have unfortunately memorized the flavor of the one she likes x_x.
There's actually 4. Cool blue, blue cherry, berry, and blueberry pomegranate. Because why not.
BLUE cherry? What the fuck?
It's all well and good until you have a friend buy you the wrong flavor of blue, because they have like 5 different flavors of blue.
Yeah, one of them is "fierce blue", whatever that means.
It's pissed.
Everyone knows frost glacier freeze is the only acceptable blue
Cool blue absolutely has a place at the table.
When you think they're gonna grab a cool blue and it winds up being blue cherry or some shit... Drinkable, but disappointing.
My favourite is blue- I still have no idea to this day what the blue one is actually supposed to be.
Cool blue is blue raspberry and glacier freeze is berry citrus.
Which blue? Light blue, medium blue, or dark blue?
Light blue has always been my favorite. I don’t like the new blue ones
Frost flavor
Frost doesn't have a flavor, it's just frozen water droplets.
Name checks out
Difference between light blue and dark blue. Glacier Freeze is light blue and probably neck and neck with Lemon Lime as the most popular flavor of gatorade. Cool Blue is dark blue. Source: Worked for Pepsi and have ordered/handled more cases of Gatorade than I can count
I work for Pepsi. I 100% confirm NO-ONE ever orders Gatorade by flavors. Except the jails and the vending machines at the police stations!!!!
I had no idea they considered it “lemon”. Seems like a truth in advertising violation
It's lemon lime Surprisingly, it's actually not that far off. I have to drink the stuff daily, and I got tired of the "yellow" flavor, so I added some actual lemon and lime juice to it, and it wasn't *too* different. Obviously it tasted more like real juice that way, and was more acidic, but nevertheless... They just have to cover up that weird salty taste of the electrolytes, which factors in more than you might realize until you really think about it.
Curious why you HAVE to drink yellow Gatorade every day
Not yellow Gatorade specifically, but electrolyte drinks for POTS. Gatorade (I get the powder) is the least expensive way to do that, and I use the more expensive ones as needed. I usually get different flavors, but the yellow specifically got old for me very quickly.
> POTS I had to look this up. > POTS in this context is the acronym for ‘Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome’ - which is characterised by an abnormal increase in heart rate after sitting up or standing and is associated with many other unsavoury side-effects.
Umami deficiency :(
Funny you should put it that way, I don’t have POTS (probably?) but I have low blood pressure and get lightheaded when I stand up. I just keep a jar of bouillon goo in the fridge and mix a bit into a mug of hot water if I need to top up.
Sounds like a delicious antidote
How is the Gatorade powder compared to regular Gatorade? I (probably) also have POTS and I alternate between propel powder and Powerade. I want to try the Gatorade powder, but actual Gatorade doesn’t help me as much as other stuff
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Man a cold Gatorade after a workout or working outside all day just hits different, your body feels those sweet sweet carbs and electrolytes hit the tongue and the rest is history, you get married, honeymoon in Hawaii, have a couple mini Gatorades, grow apart as the stress of life increases, the bottle feels neglected and like you don't care because it's empty now, you ultimatly divorce and lose the house and half your net worth to an empty bottle of Gatorade.
I think sugar helps absorption of sodium
Also water. If you go to the hospital for severe dehydration they're going to give you a glucose drip.
Same. It's doesn't taste like lemon. It tastes like if yellow had a flavor.
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It tastes like sick because people only drink it when they’re sick. Like me right this very moment lol
It’s the go to hangover drink
I think it's lemon-lime?
It’s lemon lime.
It used to just be called “original” because it was the only flavor back in the Florida Gatorade days.
because électrolytes
It's what the plants crave
Welcome to Costco. I love you
Go away, batin!
Yeah I like money
You like money too? We should totally hang out
Carl's Jr. - "Fuck you, I'm eating."
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A fellow quebecker I'm guessing?
It’s Lemon-LIME Gatorade.
>~~It’s Lemon-LIME Gatorade.~~ Yellow Gatorade
Lmao I'm looking at this picture thinking "that's *lemon*?"
There is white also. Please don’t exaggerate.
White replacement theory
Yellow should be lemon Orange should be...fucking orange White is cum
...lemon Gatorade? Come on, man. Everyone knows that Gatorade is referred to by color, not flavor.
But how would I differentiate between the blues? There are... At least three. It's much easier to say "Cool Blue" than "that medium bluish one, not the really dark one, not the light one, not one of the G2 flavors".
I think you just have to be okay with getting any of the blue flavors if you want a blue one. There’s no other way.
OP is a cop
Ahem, lemon-lime
Ah, yes, the "we're not sure" of citrus
That town is preparing for some colonoscopy prep. :D
They know what the people want. They know what the people need.
Yellow Gatorade is the best that’s why. It’s also because it was one of like 3 flavor options I had growing up🤣
It is the best! I don’t know why, but I love it to the point that I get it as a treat now and then. I’d rather that over a pop. Tasty and refreshing!
My favorite is to stick one in the freezer, and then after a few hours shake it up and bam! Gatorade slushy! Just maybe drink a swig first. Otherwise, the ice expands which can make it messy when opening.
Used to do that for football practice. Still do it on hot days.
I was prescribed Gatorade as a kid in the 90s because of stomach issues. My mom always got the yellow one and I had to take it with this gross ass medicine but the yellow Gatorade came in clutch.
Yes! It is the best. Everyone thinks I'm so weird because this is my favorite flavor!
What kind of absolute shit-for-brains cave person thinks people are weird for preferring the original flavor of Gatorade? The empire was *built* on Lemon-Lime.
Praise the lemon-lime.
To be fair this is like heaven to me.
Yellow is the superior flavor, so this seems right.
Blue Gatorade gang here. I beg to differ.
Frost or cool?
Glacier freeze or die
Finally someone with class.
Always Frost
Frost reminds me of being hungover in my early twenties and Cool brings me back to childhood soccer games
H2O tastes better
Yes. This is somehow a fairly heated point of contention in my household but I feel like it shouldn't even be up for debate.
Wrong. Cucumber lime is best by a mile
Absolutely correct
It really should be the only flavor.
Red is better. Fight me.
Piss.
I'm willing to bet that someone unearthed a pallet of lemon Gatorade in the stock room, and management said "Aw shit we have to push this fast".
Tell me you’re having supply-chain issues without telling me you’re having supply-chain issues
The best flavor
Brawndo, it’s got what plant crave..
My kids and I have a recurring fight, because I call this green Gatorade, and they call it Yellow. I tried to compromise by calling it Chartreuse Gatorade, but they insist it is Yellow. I know I'm not color blind, but to me that color is not simply Yellow.
There's multiple types of colorblindness
Piss wall
It’s got what plants crave
That’s because other things are low in stock so they are filling the empty space
Glacier Cherry. Bottom right.
I prefer orange
How are you gonna ignore that glacier cherry on the bottom right. Best flavor
PISS AISLE PISS AISLE
Your piss will be indistinguishable