MEMORIES:
kendra remembers...I remember this little fad. I didn't have one,but I did see it around the cafeteria. More »
Posted on 05/30/08
PHOTOS:
Burple: The drink, the myth, the legend. OK, so maybe a lot of the kids who grew up through the mid-to-late 80s who actually remember the stuff have it sitting on some kind of pedestal. Is that really so wrong? After all, the stuff is called Burple, therefore it just had to be cool.
In reality, Burple was a glorified Kool-Aid. Available in purple and orange, it was a powder ready to be mixed with water for a tasty fruit-flavored drink.
There were two ways to manage your Burple container as the drink disappeared. 1.) Collapse the container fold-by-fold as the contents dwindled, or 2.) wait until the burple container was completely empty and push the entire thing down quickly, creating the famous burping sound the drink was named for. Other options for post-consumption fun included filling a cleaned out container with water, poking a hole in the cap and turning it into a simple, cheap and rather high-powered water gun (long before the days of the Super Soaker). Other ways to finish up a Burple were likely created during its short life span. For those lucky enough to get a taste of it during the neon-coated years of 1987 and 1988, the memories won’t collapse as quickly.
