Where O where has the Sport Shake gone?
September 8, 2007Sport Shake is supposed to be healthy, for athletes and so forth, but it tastes so good that you know it’s not really good for you except in the trivial sense that it increases your enjoyment of life. It used to be stocked at Walgreens hereabouts, and other places.
But now I cannot find it anywhere. One Walgreens store dropped it, then restored it to its shelves at my request, then dropped it again later. Cumberland Farms also dropped it. I found a web site about Sport Shake and there’s even a page there about purchasing it. I called the number and the Sport Shake lady told me there’s no distributor in Florida. Anyway, they have no data on which stores might carry it. “Have you tried convenience stores?” the lady asked me. I guess I was asking which stores carried their product because I didn’t actually know, but okay, yes, I’ve tried.
Plugging “sport shake” into Amazon, all I can find is a Banana-flavor Sport Shake, which I don’t want, as I cannot abide Banana-anything. I want the vanilla. And I can’t find any other entry for “Sport Shake,” the real Sport Shake, in all of that wide, wide river.
My backup is the Hershey’s milkshake, which is also getting harder to find. I dislike the taste and texture of the Nestles milkshake; which is, of course, quite easy to find. I am lost.
November 29, 2007 at 12:14 am
Have you thought of reading the ingredients label to see if you could reverse-engineer the shake and make it from scratch? By the way, what happened to the LFB blog? I missed that.
December 28, 2007 at 11:34 pm
That’s two questions, two dollars. I guess you’re just never going to learn whether I ever attempted to reverse-engineer the Sport Shake.
As I’m feeling temporarily charitable I’ll answer the second question. Laissez Faire Books ended LFB Blog a few months back when the then-owner decided to close the business. The service was later bought by the International Society of Individual Liberty, which I gather is in the process of building the site and doing other things to get a handle on its acquisition. Their announcement is at lfb.org and isil.org.
The LFB Blog is gone from the LFB site but I have the archives and may repost them on the net at some point, perhaps at davidmbrown.com.
December 29, 2007 at 4:23 am
Hello, finally, a response. I thought maybe you had acted on your knowledge and disappeared altogether. By the way, re-reading the post again, I didn’t know you are in Florida. I’d thought LFB was in NYC.
Anyway, here is my recipe for a sport shake: combine in blender 1 cup plain yogurt, 1 egg white, 1cup soft fruit (peach, strawberries, mango, seedless grapes), 1 cup crushed ice, 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Blend. Fill in enough water or soy milk to make 1 quart. You can substitute the egg white for one scoop of whey protein. If you want it sweeter, add a packet of Equal. Let me know how you like it.
December 29, 2007 at 8:14 am
Apple, Apple, Apple. Yogurt? No.