The Lemon-Lime Gatorade Debate

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Mike has been working very hard to "win" the YELLOW-GREEN gatorade debate.

Here is the story behind it all:

One evening Mike was feeding Cayman and he asked me if I would get him a glass of gatorade. He had just bought several different flavors-orange, grape, red, and lemon-lime. I went to the pantry, which is viewable from where Mike was sitting on the couch. I opened up the squeaky pantry door and asked him, "What flavor would you like?"

He replies, "The Green kind."

I proceeded to pull out from the pantry the orange gatorade, then the red one, then grape, and last, the yellow one. I did not see any green gatorade. So out came a case of pop, a few jugs of water, and still no green gatorade.

Finally, I asked, "Where did you put the green gatorade? Is it in the refridgerator?"

Mike said, "No. I can see it right there next to you. "

I stood there for a bit looking at all the items that now surrounded my feet. I saw no GREEN gatorade.

That is when the YELLOW-GREEN Gatorade Debate was launched.

Majority of the voters said YELLOW but Mike has continued to stay firm in his opinion that it is GREEN. I suppose in his desperation to get me to stop smiling over reading all the YELLOW votes, he created characters that left me comments voting GREEN. But it was the comment left by the "Smartest Man Alive" that has brought me to surrender and declare, yes indeed the Lemon-Lime Gatorade is GREEN, not YELLOW.

Click here to go to the official website of Gatorade, and you will see for yourself.

"Yes, honey, you are the smartest man alive! Thanks for making life fun!"


9 Showin' Comment Love:

Cheryl said...

ONLY men can manage such a WIN.ha

Anonymous said...

so it really is green??
what??
Would have never guessed!!

So, i am completely losing it Kristen!! I cannot for the life of me remember my login in password for here. LOL!
Valerie

Anonymous said...

Hi
I have to say I'd vote yellow too but then I'm known for being wrong so.....

As I've said before I linked to your blog off of Kasey and the Amazing Ella Grace's blog site but I've begun to feel like a bit of a creepy internet stalker so while I don't blog you can check my family out at myspace. My name is Mary Kibbe and I believe my profile is now open to the public so you can check out my beautiful kiddos as well. My younger son Riley has Down Syndrome which is how I met Kasey. Our kiddos go to the same school for therapy.

Your little girl is such a cutie. I just can't resist stopping by to see how she is doing and check out the pics. You have an amazing story to tell...thank you for sharing it.

Anonymous said...

oh thanks for the message Kris!! Never would EVER think you were yelling at me!! :-) U r too sweet to yell!!

I did all these things yesterday not really thinking. All I knew was the possibility of having a baby last night and me not being prepared!!! It's all ready now!!! We are praying for at least a week or so yet to help mature everything, but God has his timing all planned for us so we will see!!! Have a great day!!

Lisa Christine said...

I'm still sticking with yellow!

Thanks for sharing....I was wondering how the debate got started :)

Anonymous said...

this is one of those things where we let the men think they've won, right? because there is no blue dyes at all in that gatorade, but there is yellow. so.... how does it magically become green when lime jiuce barely has a tint of green? hm.... i still think you're just being nice and letting him think he won.
love ya girl
amy kruse

Anonymous said...

oh oh, kris, i was just on the phone with aaron - my wonderful hubby who usually does things like this debate with me- and asked him what color lemon-lime gatorade was. he goes, "yellow. why?" as if it were so obvious. he he he. is mike color blind? :) [all in good humor, mike]
amy k

Anonymous said...

In my opinion - a MAN probably tagged the "green" color to the gatorade in the first place which made it to their website....

SuzanSayz said...

I will be the odd duck. I feel that it is a yellow green color. No way is it just yellow though. If it was a crayon it would probably be named "green apple yellow" or possibly "buttercup green"