This PBLOG entry is inspired by a BLOG on Mike Beddall's site about sports drinks in Japan. Mike complained about the fact that all Japanese sports drinks, no matter what brand all look and taste the same. They are all a cloudy white colour and taste slightly grapefruitish. Even Gatorade in Japan doesn't come in the choice of flavours it does in other countries. Mike mentioned that the only Gatorade he's found in Japan was an Orange coloured one, but it wasn't Orange flavoured.
I wrote on the comments (which I can no longer find on the site), that I had found a Blue Gatorade in Shiga, but since I've got no photographic record of this, I can't prove it.
Now other than photography and maintaining this website and other websites, the other thing (outside of work, church, family and trying to learn Japanese) that I like to do is running (actually in Australia cycling as well, but now here in Japan cycling is my transport, not my recreation). So, needless to say I consume a lot of sport's drinks and I've been putting up with the milky white slight grapefruit flavoured Pocari Sweat, Aquarius, and Dakara (whichever is cheapest for 2 litres this week at the local Co-op supermarket).
Well, during a photography trip, I finally found a vending machine which sold Gatorade. No Blue Gatorade this time, just the Orange coloured one which tastes like every other Japanese sports drink except with a slight mikan (mandarin) taste, rather than a slight grapefruit taste! I still believe I found a much more delicious Gatorade in Shiga which was blue coloured, but until I do find it again, this is all I've got to show. Still hoping for my favourite Red (Raspberry flavoured) Gatorade to turn up here too.