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**Slurpee flavors by brand name**
Brand name	Flavors
Current Flavors
Barq's	Crème, Root Beer
Bawls	SnoBawls
Coca-Cola	Cherry Coke, Coca-Cola Classic, Vanilla Coke
Crystal Light	Lemonade, Lemon-lime, Orange Pineapple Ice, Peach Mango, Raspberry Ice, Strawberry Kiwi, Strawberry Banana, Passionfruit, Berry Pomegranate
Dr Pepper	Dr Pepper, Dr Pepper Vanilla
Fanta	Banana, Birch Beer, Blue Cherry, Blue Raspberry, Ginger Ale, Grape, Green Lemon Lime, Green Melon, Kiwi Strawberry, Orange, Orange Cream, Pineapple, Purple Berry Cherry, Mandarine Tangerine, Red Licorice, Super Sour Apple, Super Sour Cherry, Super Sour Watermelon, Vanilla, Watermelon, White Cherry, Wild Cherry, Wild Cherry-Reduced Calorie
Full Throttle	Frozen Fury, Blue Demon
Hawaiian Punch	Regular, Green Berry Rush
The Hershey Company	Bubble Yum
Master Chill	Bruisin Berry, Sour Green
Mello Yello	Mello Yello
Minute Maid	Blue Cherry, Blue Raspberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Grape, Lemonade, Orange, Passionfruit Orange, Peach, Pineapple, Raspberry Lemonade, Strawberry
Mountain Dew	Mountain Dew, Code Red, Livewire (Orange), Pitch Black (grape), Kryptonite Ice (lime-ish), Blue Shock(Blue Raspberry), Game Fuel (Citrus-Cherry), AMP Freez
Pepsi	Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Blue
Sierra Mist	Sierra Mist, Shrekalicious
Sprite Remix
Twizzler	Twizzler
Tropicana	Blue Raspberry Rush
Other flavors	Piña Colada, Grapermelon, Frawg, Honeycomb,Blue Meanie (Australia). Arctic Burst, Gully Washer, StrawberrWii Banana, Blue Woo-Hoo! Vanilla (in tie in with The Simpsons Movie), Mango Bango Totally Wild Tea, Slurpuccino

Two large Slurpees in a car cup holder.

A Slurpee is a frozen carbonated beverage sold by 7-Eleven. In 1967^[1], 7-Eleven licensed the product from the ICEE Company, and began selling it as the Slurpee. Slurpee is a registered trademark of the 7-Eleven Corporation.

7-Eleven currently sources their FCB equipment from supplier FBD and previously from suppliers IMI Cornelius and the Taylor Company.

The Slurpee machine has a dispenser knob for each flavor at the front of a tumbler or freezer, where a patron pours his or her own Slurpee. When Slurpees were first introduced, the dispensing machine was located behind the counter, and the clerk on duty would dispense the product. Common flavors are frozen Coke and cherry, but new flavors are introduced regularly. In the early days flavors rotated much more vigorously than in modern times.

In the summer of 2006, 7-Eleven re-designed their cups to appeal more to young adults and teenagers to compete with the rising energy drink market. New signs and banners supported the change with lines such as "Mountain Dew Livewire: Shocking, like your report card."

1 Worldwide consumption
2 Dietary Information
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Worldwide consumption

7-Eleven stores, once only found in the United States, are now a worldwide franchise and Slurpees are offered in many but not all covered countries.

Canadians purchase an average of 30 million drinks per year. Despite its status as the coldest city in the world with a population of over 600,000, ^[2] Winnipeg, Manitoba was crowned the Slurpee Capital of the world for the eighth time in a row in 2007. In Manitoba, 7-Eleven stores across the province sell an average of 8,330 slurpee drinks per month. The rest of Canada sells an average of 5,990, which makes Manitobans the world leader of Slurpee Sales.

Kennewick Washington is vying for the crown of Slurpee capital of the world.. The city of 54,693 people (as of 2000 census)has now held the record for 6 out of the last 9 months in 2008. The store in Kennewick, achieved the status of most slurpee's sold in the U.S in 2007. ^[3].

[edit] Dietary Information

Slurpees are mostly water ice and are heavily infused with air; there is less food energy in a Slurpee than in the same volume of a soda of the same name.

Many Slurpee flavors are certified kosher "parve" as well as halal^[4]. The Diet Pepsi flavor uses sodium caseinate as an anti-freezing agent (sugar is a natural anti-freeze in other flavors) which only gives it the status of kosher dairy. The Piña Colada flavor however is not kosher^[5].