I bought some Game Fuel online last week, and it finally came in! It's a 2007 yield, emblazoned with the Halo 3 marketing push. I like the 2009s, too, but I definitely think the Horde flavor is going to age better than the Alliance. I lucked out, also, because the eBay listing described the condition of the individual cans as "Acceptable or Better" but there's only two or three cans that dip below "Good." You really don't know what you're getting when you buy from auctions.
You know, it's funny. I feel like some kind of connoisseur of discontinued soda beverages. An expert on expired foodstuffs, if you will.
For instance, I think people give Crystal Pepsi a hard time. When that stuff came out, people weren't used to too much of companies coming in and sending something truly odious out into the world with no research, no focus testing, no walking up to somebody, anybody, and asking them "hey, can you try this real quick and tell me if it's unsettling in any way?"...none of that. America, as a whole, was one big test market and we did not take kindly to it. But nowadays there's all sorts of crap like that. People buy soda because it looks like it's from a different decade, even if that particular soda did not exist in that particular decade. And, instead of being horrified that every OTHER soda we buy is jacked up full of high fructose corn syrup, we get excited that just this once, for a limited time, we get a drink with some actual sugar in it.
I don't mind all that. I'm just interested in collecting double-takes in Uptown Charlotte when those Wells Fargo financial analysts realize that I'm chuggin' down a fizzydrink that hasn't been made for half a decade, dogg.
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