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Where O where has the Sport Shake gone?

September 8, 2007

Sport 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.