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[OOG][REFERENCE] Slusho! Competition
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 		[OOG][REFERENCE] Slusho! Competition
In a fit of frustration I decided to revisit Slusho's competitors - Icee and Slurpee....

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The story of Slurpee® drinks began in 1959 with a broken soda fountain machine in Kansas. When Omar Knedlik's soda machine broke at his drive-in hamburger restaurant, he began serving icy-cold bottled soft drinks from his freezer. Customers fell in love with the slushy drinks, sparking Knedlik to come up with the idea of creating soft-serve frozen drinks.

After failed attempts to create a machine to make his icy beverages, Knedlik contacted the John E. Mitchell Company, a Dallas machinery manufacturer in 1959. Mitchell was attracted to the idea and began working with an automobile air conditioner to create a machine that would freeze carbonated soft drinks that could be served in a sherbet-like form and would be drunk through a straw. Mitchell's machine used a complex system to freeze the beverages so they could be served at an icy 28 degrees.

Although a revolution in the soft drink field, Mitchell's frozen drinks were not a huge success with retailers. He tried selling his machines to drugstores and restaurants between 1960 and 1965, but the product's novelty and stores' inexperience with refrigeration equipment kept it from making an impact. But a chance encounter with a 7-Eleven manager would forever change the success of the frozen beverage.

While visiting a competitor's store in 1965, a 7-Eleven zone manager came across one of Mitchell's machines and thought that it had a huge potential for success. In the Fall of 1965, 7-Eleven purchased three machines to test the product in their stores. They were an immediate success, and by the Spring of 1967, the machines were in almost every 7-Eleven® store.

The Slurpee mark was created in May 1967 during a brainstorming session at 7-Eleven's in-house ad agency. While drinking the product through a straw, agency director Bob Stanford commented that it made a slurping sound. The Slurpee® drink phenomenon was born. For the past 42 years, Slurpee® drink has evolved from Fulla-Bulla to Fire Water to Shrek-a-licious. But no matter the flavor, it will always be The Coolest Drink on Earth™.



http://slurpee.com


Icee doesn't have a history page per se...

http://www.icee.com/

Just checking them both out it seems Slusho! was patterned more after Slurpee than Icee....


Anyway, maybe studying the competition it might jar a clue loose from the blurred hallucinations we all seem to slip into after each new frustrating update....

One that I caught is that for Slurpee, the temp is and icy 28deg. Slusho needs near freezing temps...we got a range.


Just because I couldn't resist...on Slurpee's feedback form I wrote: We love Slusho! best! You can't drink just six!!! and signed the email as satoshiSPLATslusho.jp

Had to be done.

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Maybe Slusho is a combination of Slurpee and Icee! AHHHHH! Two really bad drinks just got worse!
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 		maybe the tag "Y ou can't drink just six!" is a referal to slurpee and 7-eleven, giving a number range to look at that is more than 6, which could be between 7-11. does that get us anywhere, not sure. just thought i'd add that

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 		7 and 11 are consecutive prime numbers ... maybe something in that ... Question

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dunce wrote:
7 and 11 are consecutive prime numbers ... maybe something in that ... Question


Or maybe it's because the original 7-11 was open... say it with me... from 7 til 11. Razz
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tygr20 wrote:
dunce wrote:
7 and 11 are consecutive prime numbers ... maybe something in that ... Question


Or maybe it's because the original 7-11 was open... say it with me... from 7 til 11. Razz

yeah we know
but that doesn't stop it being referenced, and 7+11=18 Laughing

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 		Slusho doesn't say exactly what type of ice drink it is (i.e icee, slurpee) so don't forget to look into slush puppy. And coincidence that the whole chEEse, haMMer, MiTTen theory just happens to go with icEE, slurpEE. Yeah, I know they aren't in the middle of the word but still can't help but wonder. Dunno
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 		ICEE has a history, it was made by Omar Knedlick in the old diary queen of coffeyville kansas, which just happens to be where i live (this town blows ._.) when he had no fountain machine and needed something for his customers to drink. so he froze bottles of pop and served them to his customers when they were in the slush stage.

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i figured it out i know what slusho is
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squished or hammered melted blue swiss cheese thats why you cant drink six cause you probably cant drink one


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