{"id":3763,"date":"2009-06-02T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T00:31:23","slug":"news-new-bumblebee-blast-slurpee-doesnt-taste-like-metal-oil-and-energon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/02\/news-new-bumblebee-blast-slurpee-doesnt-taste-like-metal-oil-and-energon\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: New Bumblebee Blast Slurpee Doesn&#8217;t Taste Like Metal, Oil and Energon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/newstransformersslurpee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I personally think Slurpee took the wrong approach with their <i>Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen<\/i>-promoting Bumblebee Blast Slurpee.  I believe if they wanted to sell a Pacific Ocean&#8217;s worth of Slurpees, they should&#8217;ve come out with a flavor called Megan Fox Frost and have four collector&#8217;s cups featuring Megan Fox on the hood of Autobots like she&#8217;s Tawny Kitaen in Whitesnake&#8217;s &#8220;Here I Go Again&#8221; music video.  <\/p>\n<p>It really doesn&#8217;t matter what Megan Fox Frost would taste like (heck, it could be mango passion fruit flavored like the Bumblebee Blast Slurpee or whatever the flavor of Ben Gay is) because as long as there are collector&#8217;s cups featuring Megan Fox (preferably in 3-D), they would sell like bottled water on a scorching summer day.  Of course, 98% percent of purchases would be made by men.<\/p>\n<p>The Megan Fox-less Bumblebee Blast Slurpee has zero grams of fat, no protein and no caffeine.  A 12-ounce cup has 96 calories and 25 grams of sugar; a 28-ounce serving contains 224 calories and 59 grams of sugar; and for those extreme sweettooths, a huge 40-ounce cup has 320 calories and 85 grams of sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I personally think Slurpee took the wrong approach with their Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen-promoting Bumblebee Blast Slurpee. I believe if they wanted to sell a Pacific Ocean&#8217;s worth of Slurpees, they should&#8217;ve come out with a flavor called Megan Fox Frost and have four collector&#8217;s cups featuring Megan Fox on the hood of Autobots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-food-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2920,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/02\/news-mutant-berry-slurpee-sounds-significantly-less-bad-ass\/","url_meta":{"origin":3763,"position":0},"title":"NEWS: Mutant Berry Slurpee Sounds Significantly Less Bad Ass Than The Wolverine Movie It&#8217;s Promoting","author":"Marvo","date":"April 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this week, 7-Eleven introduced the Mutant Berry Slurpee to promote the release of the upcoming movie -- X-Men Origins: Wolverine. 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