For a brief history of the origins of Gatorade (hat tip: my favorite “Gator girl” Sydjia R.), check out this Wikipedia page as well as the tweet and YouTube video below:
PS: My favorite quote (from the video) was this one: “the initial taste left some athletes vomiting.” Personally, I still don’t like the taste of Gatorade.


I will have to watch that video later. Looks interesting.
rest assured, it’s a super-short video by YouTube standards: less than one-minute long!
I have an odd fascination with the origin of products and companies.
Same here! When I was in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London this summer, I visited “The Museum of Brands”!
I could picture myself visiting that museum for sure.
That was a worthwhile watch! We can thank U of FL for sports drinks. Now that is an intriguing bit of trivia.