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I just thought it was so odd that he died from kidney disease.

:love: Dr. Cade. I wonder if they will stop running that great Gatorade commercial about the Swamp with Keith Jackson and Dr. Cade? It's a classic. :clap: Gives any good Gator the chills.
Oh, yeah, I love that commercial!

If money is going to UF with each purchase of Gatorade, I'm switching back to the funny tasting PowerAde products. Go DAWGS! woof, woof.
$80 million to UF and the inventors since 1973.
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http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Detail/gatorade.html
 

ShallowsNole

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The original yellow and orange flavors are nasty, but some of the newer g'ade products are actually pretty good. The blue ones and the "frost" products aren't bad at all.

Obviously, we use Powerade but Coca-Cola needs to get with it on some of the flavors.

It is sad to learn of Dr. Cade's passing. The development of sports drinks in general is a pretty amazing story.
 

Romeosmydog

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Of course, this is interesting, although I've never heard this before...:D

http://www.historyofbranding.com/gatorade.html

Actually, this story has been going around for some time. There is no evidence to prove its validity. Also, athletes have been chewing salt tablets and eating high potassium foods such as bananas for a very loooong time to replace electrolytes in the body. It is not a new concept. UF got the patent, and they have made so much money off the deal that Dr. Johnson would have sued for rights. I am like many others out there and gonna call BS on this one. (I know you are a big fan of FSU and I respect that, but my money goes to UF every semester along with Offspring #1)
 
Actually, this story has been going around for some time. There is no evidence to prove its validity. Also, athletes have been chewing salt tablets and eating high potassium foods such as bananas for a very loooong time to replace electrolytes in the body. It is not a new concept. UF got the patent, and they have made so much money off the deal that Dr. Johnson would have sued for rights. I am like many others out there and gonna call BS on this one. (I know you are a big fan of FSU and I respect that, but my money goes to UF every semester along with Offspring #1)
Hopefully we, too, will have another family member at UF, our daughter who plans to move to Gainesville to be a grad student at UF next fall. :love:
 

ShallowsNole

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Actually, this story has been going around for some time. There is no evidence to prove its validity. Also, athletes have been chewing salt tablets and eating high potassium foods such as bananas for a very loooong time to replace electrolytes in the body. It is not a new concept. UF got the patent, and they have made so much money off the deal that Dr. Johnson would have sued for rights. I am like many others out there and gonna call BS on this one. (I know you are a big fan of FSU and I respect that, but my money goes to UF every semester along with Offspring #1)

No problem; like I noted, I had never heard that before. That little snippet was courtesy of some buddies in Tallahassee.

I'm still having issues with the mental image of the same company that produces G'Ade also canning Van Camp's Pork and Beans. That sounds like a pregnancy craving from hell. :creepy:
 
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