PRIZE DRAWING: Because I Have Bottles of Baobab

I have two unopened bottles of the limited edition Pepsi Baobab, which I reviewed last week.

There are a number of things I could do with those bottles, like sell them on eBay for $5 plus shipping; wait six months, let them become more scarce and then sell them on eBay for $7 plus shipping; or wait five years, sell them on eBay for $10 plus shipping and hope the buyer doesn’t give me negative feedback when they get sick from drinking a five year old soda. Or I could have an Impulsive Buy prize drawing and have two lucky readers each win a bottle.

Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.

To enter The Impulsive Buy’s Pepsi Baobab prize drawing, leave a comment with THIS post. You may say whatever you like, but your comment MUST include what your favorite fruit is.

Please don’t forget to fill out the email field because I’ll be emailing the winners for their mailing addresses. The Impulsive Buy will stop accepting entries on Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time. Only one entry allowed per person and it’s open to everyone who’s 18 years old or older.

Good luck!

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Comments

137 responses to “PRIZE DRAWING: Because I Have Bottles of Baobab”

  1. I would so love to try this because I never had baobab before let alone every heard of it until your orginal post. Leave it to Pepsi to put it in a drink. Maybe it will be a pop tart flavor next? Anyway, My favorite fruit is pesticide free strawberries (aka organic).

  2. julie

    my favorite fruit is the guaavana (or sweet sop).

  3. eric

    I’ve been a big fan of starfruit since I first had them about a year ago at a work function.

  4. Brian

    Honeydew

  5. govtdrone

    Well, I could say my favorite fruit is Paul Lynde but that just wouldn’t be very politically correct so I will say peaches. Speaking of peaches, When I was a little kid my dad was in the Navy and we lived in West Germany at the time. One summer we drove to Spain and one the way there stopped at a fruit stand and bought some fresh peaches. I ate so many of them that I got the “runs.” My poor dad had to stop and find a bathroom. Somehow he found a nice lady in her Spanish farmhouse who let me use her bathroom.

  6. Leah

    Baobab’s a pretty amazing flavor, but that could be the rarity of it here in the US and the good memories associated with the one time I had it (I led African orphans in a round of baobab seed spitting). I’d love to try baobab flavored soda. But if I had to pick just one fruit? Strawberries in the summer time.

  7. Ross

    I like apples. Yup, nothing pretentious like pomegranate. Just a simple Granny Smith. I also don’t have time for yuppie fruit like Kiwis.

  8. T.M.

    I’m not sure if I have a favorite fruit… No wait, I take that back. I love watermelon.

  9. My favorite fruit is a Young Coconut and a star fruit cause they make a mean smoothie

  10. I like oranges. Well, chocolate oranges.

  11. Tony

    I would love a bottle of Baobab… My favorite fruit is the cherry. I can live off just about any food with cherries or cherry flavor it it.

  12. sarah

    Favorite fruit is tomatoes in sandwiches. =)

  13. Jason

    I love blood oranges

  14. jrdunn

    I LOVE CANTALOUPPPPPPEEE

  15. ct0wer

    Like Black Flag said “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme”. My favorite fruit the Macintosh Apple but only from Upstate New York in the Fall.

  16. Guanabana is the champion of fruits. Bonus: the word guanabana can be sung to the tune of “Mah Na Mah Na.”

  17. Tim

    Why the rhinocerous? I mean, everybody likes a good picture of a rhino, but what’s the connection? Does Baobab taste like rhino? Come to think of it, I would like to know what rhino tastes like. I tried to eat rattlesnake last week, but apparently you have to be in west Texas to find snake to eat. I was in east Texas. Oh, and I like bananas. Especially those little finger ones from Puerto Rico. But they have to be just on the green edge of yellow. When they go brown, it is banana bread time!

  18. Margaret

    Only one favorite fruit?? No? Ok, here’s my top three: mango, banana, grapefruit. MMMmm, I love fruit. And Pepsi.

  19. Ashley S

    I love grapes!

  20. My favorite fruit would have to be the kiwi fruit. Just sucks peeling them….

  21. Devika

    I love mango, but I don’t know if I’d drink a mango cola…

  22. Aarika

    My favorite fruit is the elusive watermelon.

  23. Rhubarb. Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb. I’m a pretentious douche.

  24. LOVE peaches! But I also had the world’s sweetest cantaloupe last night that comes in a close second!

  25. Michelle

    Strawberries are fantastic! Especially in a milkshake.

  26. Andrew

    Nectarines are where it’s at… They’re definitely my favorite. But maybe Baobab will be my new favorite!

  27. Suzanne

    Dates are the best.

  28. Ah, to pick a favorite fruit… Well, for snacking, I love an apple or some grapes. For queso, can’t beat a tomoato. When it comes to shower gel, the pomegranate is best. 🙂

  29. My favorite fruit is bananas, because it gives me empathy for what female porn stars do.

  30. Michael

    pineapple ftw!

  31. The way I’m acting anyone would think I was a fruit. Gary probably is. He looks like one. He’s my favorite.

  32. Matt

    Figs, not the nasty dried ones you find at super markets, but purple figs freshly picked off of the tree

  33. Thomas

    Avocados. Yeah, definitely Avocados…wait is that even a fruit? Well it is a fruit to me and my favorite one to boot. Now I might be willing to change my favorite to say Baobab if I was given a tasty bottle of the stuff…

  34. Lynn

    I love peaches.
    They’re so summery!

  35. One time I was like, “ManGo get me a beer.” And he did.

  36. Tyler

    This drink sounds awesome. And Raspberries are fantastic.

  37. Lindsey

    My favorite fruit is Honeydew!

    Awesome Giveaway!

  38. Zachary Jacob Zblewski

    I have never had a Baobab, but my favorite fruit would have to be Kiwi. Love that stuff.

    And any scientifically engineered fruit has to be good, right?

  39. DZ

    i’d have to say my favorite fruit is a tomato. but wait! is tomato a fruit?? ohmigod nooooooo paradoxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxzzzzzz1211!

    otherwise i enjoy pretty much any citrus-y fruit.

    p.s. i don’t really like tomatoes.

  40. I like bananas. Because they’re as close to candy as fruit gets. Not for any freudian reason.

    Shutup.

  41. oldebekn

    Avacados. Avacado colored Kitchen appliances and mmm Guacamole…

  42. seema

    mangosteen!!

  43. Alex

    My favorite fruit is persimmon. Peeled, dried, fat juicy red, or small crunchy orange, it is the best.

  44. Andrew

    It’s all about the Banana

  45. Step

    My favorite fruit is pineapple. Best fruit. Abrasive exterior with a heart of gold.

  46. JulieD

    My favourite fruit is the Rainier cherry. Never even paid attention to varieties of cherries until I tasted one of these and now I look forward to their season (which is right about now!) every year.

  47. What?? No other lychee lovers out there?!?
    – S

  48. Anj

    Oh, my favorite fruit is the quince. Or the honey tangerine. Or maybe the Honeycrisp apple. I really love fruit. I’m not sure there are any types of fruit I don’t really enjoy. This question is awful. Fruit fruit fruit!

  49. Meagan Bryant

    I love fruit. Pretty much all of it. My favorite fruit, if I must pick one, is currently rhubarb.

  50. Dylan

    Pineapple. No contest.

  51. Joe

    Pears. Mmm.

  52. Josh

    Strawberries, nothing better than a good strawberry. I want to win this because I am really curious what one of Pepsi’s red headed bastard step children sodas is like

  53. Raymond

    Apples are the best.

  54. howfaralice

    Cherries!

  55. Danielle

    My favorite fruit is my friend, Seth. Also grapes, those suckers are delicious!

    I collect unique Pepsi products, please pity me and my sad excuse of a hobby.

  56. Sara

    Mangos are pretty groovy.

    Oranges are terrible, though. Probably the most terrible thing in the world, second only to people who *enjoy* oranges. (But orange juice is A-okay.)

  57. Jamar

    Food and beverage is my life. I work at a food mag, yo. And my favorite fruit is the ever ubiquitous maraschino cherry. Boom suckas!

  58. I love all things Pepsi, so I’d totally give it a go. Coincidentally, my favourite fruit is probably… ze apple.

  59. stephanie

    My favourite fruit is pomegranate which is, sadly, never available in this horrible state I live in. Go, Wyoming! >.<

  60. Cherimoya! 🙂

  61. swgc5

    Franken Berry is my favourite fruit (for obvious reasons…)

  62. Pineapple!

  63. Gary

    My favorite fruit is apple but I don’t think I’d like it if Pepsi Apple came out. I would still try it though. Maybe.

  64. Mark

    I like Oranges

  65. Rachel

    My favorite fruit is one I’ve never had before–the chocolate pudding fruit Andrew Zimmern ate in Australia, or whatever. It looked good.

    BTW, my brother emailed me a couple weeks ago about Baobab–he bought some on Kadena in Okinawa. Liked it.

  66. Sarah

    cherries!

  67. Roy Spray

    I would love to try it but also wanted to ask something. Are you not doing your webcast reviews anymore? I thought they were pretty funny. My favorite fruit is the wonderful tomato followed by pineapple.

  68. Dave

    It would be awesome if I could try the Baobab. My favorite fruit is the pineapple… I wonder if they make a pineapple pepsi.

  69. This is clearly something that I need.

  70. Bao…Bao…Bao…Baobab…ra….ann

    Since we are on the topic of Japanese Pepsi, do they incorporate YUZU into any variety?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu

  71. Clevegal42

    Since I can say whatever I want, I choose to say…tuba.

    My favorite fruit is watermelon.

  72. Ana

    Mmm, honeydew melon.

  73. TheWarden

    Bananas are my fave. What other fruit can you throw on the floor for comedic effect when you are done with it?

  74. Tony Jaguar

    Avomacado

  75. Rob

    I love durian!!!! Especially when paired with watermelon.

  76. Katie

    I would have to say nectarines are my favorite fruit. So hard to choose though… I love pretty much every fruit I’ve tried so far.

  77. Tara

    Currently peaches.

  78. sgf_

    I fucking love peaches.

  79. Brittany

    I love grapefruit. But when the time is right the drupes win my heart: peaches, apricots, plums, cherries.

  80. Charity

    My favorite fruit is a tomato. Actually, I hate tomatoes, but, I made you think, didn’t I?

  81. Philip

    Strawberries errrday!

  82. Alec

    Peaches. Nothing says love like Breyer’s Peach ice cream (back when it was all-natural, of course).

  83. My favorite fruit is the Pawpaw aka The Hoosier Banana. Unfortunately it’s kinda hard to get your hands on.

  84. misterwrite

    Peaches. Took me like a millisecond to decide.

  85. Jennifer

    My favorite fruit is strawberries.

  86. Helldog

    I really do not like fruit. I like fruit pies and cakes, but eating fruit is very foreign to me. I guess I like kiwi fruit the best. Or quince.

  87. griffin73

    I LIKE PINEAPPLE. It’s my favorite fruit. When I was a young lad I convinced my girlfriend that pussy tasted like pineapple. That’s how I got her to eat pussy the first time.

    PS…Pepsi doesn’t taste like pussy, it’s still good.

    True story.

    G

  88. Rob

    Raspberries are the greatest thing ever 😀

  89. Chuck

    Hmmmm… fruit? I like tomatoes but didn’t know they were classified as a fruit. Probably my very favorite is a perfectly ripe, big red raspberry.

  90. Noella

    Hmmm, I’ve never heard of that stuff. It’d be nice to be the only one in my town to have Baobab

  91. Howard

    Aw man, I was going to say Paul Lynde as well. Love that guy. Not in that way though.

    Since I was born in MI, I’m going to say cherries. Mmmmm, cherries!

  92. Winnie

    Bananas, bananas….I love bananas!

  93. Rick

    Favorite fruit is easily grapes, frozen on a hot summer day, yummy!

  94. Big Al Thurman

    I have never had Baobab, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say that my favourite fruit is . . . Baobab! Thanks for the entertaining and sometimes informative website. Would love to spend an hour with you some day. Thanks!

  95. My favorite fruit is oranges!

  96. I love me some bananananas.

  97. Alex

    Apples ga suki da yo.

  98. Jesse

    Cool man, I actually checked out eBay for these after reading your post cause it sounded pretty good, but didn’t want to end up payin almost 15 bucks for it. Anyways, my favorite fruit is bananas.

  99. thedogismine

    Pineapple!

  100. My favorite fruit is banana!

  101. Dan

    WATERMELON!

  102. Kristen

    i can never decide! it changes with the seasons. i love blackberries. and pineapple. and really ripe peaches. but i think my favorite is cherries. yes, i will go with cherries.

  103. Hi from Holland!
    Yeah that’s right, your blog reaches pretty far : )
    Really like your posts. I am a a visitor of this blog about every other day or so.

    Got a (Dutch) blog about food and drinks myself. The amount of followers is still very limmited, but perhabs a more recurrent weekly post will help this further. But than first gotta find more discipline or more disciples ; ) to get weekly posts.

    anyway : )
    Fruit: Lemons

    I don’t know if you are willing to send the soda all the way to the Netherlands, but that would be very very cool!

  104. Sam C

    my favorite fruit is the mango, though pineapple comes as a close second. also, http://www.kittehroulette.com is awesome. but not as awesome as mangoes.

  105. harleytexas

    These look interesting and I love blueberries

  106. Amy

    Mango! I’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo of one (is that weird? especially since I have no tattoos?)

  107. Lobster

    Favorite fruit? Lime or lychee. But hopefully soon I can say Baobab!

  108. My favorite fruit has to be limes, with blueberry as a close 2nd

  109. WATERMELON!!

  110. Jimmy James

    My favorite fruit would have to be pineapple.

  111. Pamela Krest

    I am a watermelon freak, when you get an awesome melon it’s hard to beat

  112. Ant29

    I love strawberries because it’s sweet and tarty.

  113. Gordon Shumway

    Marvo, you may convince me that Pepsi in different flavors is a good idea. My favorite fruit is Neil Patrick Harris. He’s the bee’s knees.

  114. bob

    My favorite fruit is the humble banana.

  115. Mr. Comfort Wipe

    Dingleberries, but seeing that some crybaby will go “Dingleberries come from the ass, not a tree!” waaaaaaa! “Dingleberries don’t taste like chocolate coverd berries, they taste like poo!” I will have to say
    green apples.

  116. Dustin

    My favorite fruit is Marvo!

    If we are talking about food it has to be Oranges.

  117. Zooey Deschanel

    I like pears.

  118. I like bananas.

  119. David

    My favorite fruit is forbidden ones!! bwwahaha.. Just kidding.. my favorite fruit is really strawberries.

    … adding things that are sticky, so my comment will be pulled out..

  120. Travis

    Apples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  121. millions of peaches… peaches for me.

  122. kim k

    I gotta say cantaloupe. Or cherries. No, mango. I think. Yeah, those three. Oh wait! Black raspberries. Those are definitely my favorite.
    Aw dang I want to win this! If I could get it before July 25th that would be great, that’s when my husband goes to basic training and it could be the last soda he drinks for MONTHS! It would be so exciting! We could make a video!

  123. Shannon

    Hey Marvo!

    I like Pomegranates. THEY ARE SO FREAKING GOOD!

  124. I would certainty like one.

  125. My favorite fruit is mango. But I wrote a post about mango love a few days ago. I don’t know how kid friendly this site is, so I will leave out the stories of what I do with the gloriously yummy mango seed. and I’l complain about doing fifteen minutes of work and only ending up with three tablespoons of mango puree. I will stick to mango flavored teas, drinks, sorbets and expensive precut chunks at whole food. Oh, I also love rainier cherries. Yum.

  126. My favorite fruit is pineapple!

  127. Bob T

    I enjoy watermelon ans my favorite fruit.

  128. My favorite fruit is GUAVA.

  129. mandy_Reeves

    mango!! and baobab

  130. Stephen S

    Since I’m from New Jersey, my favorite fruit has to be blueberry. Besides, Boo Berry is my favorite cereal because of it.

    Mmmm…. Blueberries

  131. Jessica J

    I love every single fruit I’ve ever eaten, and my favorites are fresh-picked fruit like raspberries, strawberries, peaches, blackberries and cherries.

  132. Jason H

    I loves me some pluots.

  133. Salymsmommy

    I love Banana. That’s so boring isn’t it? But they are GoOd!

  134. Jaie C

    I love peaches and pears!

  135. Sue

    What a great prize–so glad I got my internet back just in time to enter.

  136. alana

    Cherries are my favorite fruit because…well do I need to explain further?

  137. Thank you to everyone who participated!