What Exactly Is The Gay Bear Brotherhood Pri Flag, And What Do It Mean?

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• GAY MEN TO THE RT OF : YOU’RE LATE TO WHE CLAW
• WHY WHE GAY MEN HAVE RUED LGBTQ+ PRI MONTH FOR MESHAWN BANKS·FOLLOW6 M READ·JUN 15, 2020--4LISTENSHAREPHOTO BY CLAY BANKS ON UNSPLASHIT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGA, AND THOUGH THE WORLD IS A TEGORY 5 CRISIS SEEMGLY BEYOND REPAIR, WE STILL MT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT JUNE 2020 IS STILL PRI MONTH. Y, THE ONE MONTH OUT OF THE YEAR WHEN EVERY RPORATN THAT SELLS MERCHANDISE RANGG OM T-SHIRTS TO MOTOR VEHICL SLAPS A RABOW FLAG ON THEIR PRODUCTS AND CLAIMS TO BE AN ALLY. THIS IS A MONTH THAT IS MEANT TO BE VOTED TO UNY AND CELEBRATN, BUT WH THE WORLD DIVID NOW MORE THAN EVER SEEMS LIKE THAT MSAGE IS BEG LOST.WHEN I WAS YOUNG GAY BOY, THE IA OF AN ENTIRE MONTH VOTED TO UPLIFTG PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF ED TO BRG ME SO MUCH JOY AND HOPE, HOWEVER NOW THAT I AM OLR AND UNRSTAND THE NCEPTS OF PALISM AND PRIVILEGE, MY VIEWS ON PRI HAVE ALTERED QUE A B. WHEN I LOOK AT THE MON NOMATORS AS TO WHY THE IA OF PRI HAS BEE MORE OF AN ANNOYANCE PROVOKG NCEPT RATHER THAN A SPARK OF JOY, ALL BOILS DOWN TO ONE THG — THE ACTNS OF WHE PEOPLE; GAY, STRAIGHT, OR ANY OTHER INTY. WHE PEOPLE HAVE AN EXPANSIVE HISTORY OF APPROPRIATG CULTUR, IAS, AND MOVEMENTS, AND QUEER PRI IS NO EXCEPTN. LET’S DISCS A FEW OF THE WAYS, SHALL WE.WHE GAY PRIVILEGE IS VERY REALLET’S START WH THE SASSY, BRAVO-OBSSED, VENTI ICED FFEE DRKG WHE GAY MEN THAT ARE G PRI OM THE SI OUT. GAY WHE MEN HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE MOST, DARE I SAY, PROBLEMATIC MEMBERS OF SOCIETY DUE TO THE FACT MOST OF THEM HAVE THIS PLEX THAT MAK THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE JT AS DISENANCHISED SOCIETY AS BLACK PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF LOR, AND EVEN WOMEN AS WELL. WHILST BEG A GAY PERSON DO QUALIFY YOU AS A MORY FACG VAR LEVELS OF OPPRSN, THEY HAPPEN TO FET THE TOTEM POLE OF PRIVILEGE THAT EXISTS 21ST CENTURY SOCIETY.FIRST OFF, YOU’RE WHE, WHICH IS THE GOLD MEDAL OF PRIVILEG, AND THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT YOU’VE SNATCHED THE BRONZE MEDAL OF PRIVILEG BY BEG A CIS-GENRED MAN AS WELL. EVEN I AS A BLACK GAY MAN, STILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE PRIVILEGE OVER WOMEN AND TRANSGENRED DIVIDUALS. AND Y, THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE THIS WORLD STILL YELLG TO END MARRIAGE EQUALY, HOWEVER WHAT I WOULD LIKE FOR THE MEN TO DO IS S BACK, ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR VAST LEVELS OF PRIVILEGE, AND PLEASE NOT TO TRY PLAY THIS GAME OF ‘WHO HAS IS HARR’; BEE SWEETIE, YOU WILL ALWAYS LOSE.THIS LEVEL OF LN WAS MA PECIALLY CLEAR LAST YEAR DURG NYC’S ANNUAL PRI CELEBRATN AT THE FAMO STONEWALL BAR, WHICH JT SO HAPPENED TO BE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL UPRISG. IT WAS REPORTED THAT AT A DRAG SHOW AT STONEWALL, A YOUNG BLACK TRANS WOMEN ATTEMPTED TO HONOR HER TRANS SISTERS WHO WERE KILLED THAT YEAR ACROSS THE UNTRY, HOWEVER A WHE GAY MAN REPEATEDLY TERPTED HER BY YELLG “SHUT UP, SHUT UP.” THE RT OF THE CROWD, WHICH IF YOU HAVEN’T GUSED BY NOW WAS PREDOMANTLY WHE, JOED BEHD THIS MAN AND ALSO SCREAMED SHUT UP TOWARDS HER, AND EVEN THREATENED TO LL THE PS ON HER. LUCKILY, THE PS WERE NOT NEED BUT BAR SECURY DID FORCE HER OUT OF THE BAR, UNJTLY MIGHT I ADD.THE ENTIRE CINT WAS RERD AND POSTED ON FACEBOOK, AND WH A DAY THE VIO HAD REACHED MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS AND SENT TWTER ON A TIRA. THIS UNFORTUNATE CINT GO TO SHOW HOW ENTLED OUR GENERATN AS A WHOLE HAS BEE, BEE WHILE WHE MEN ARE G THEIR PRIVILEGE TO EVICT A TRANS WOMAN OUT OF A BAR, THEY FET THAT WAS TRANS WOMEN OF LOR JT LIKE THIS GIRL WHO FOUGHT FOR THEM TO HAVE THE RIGHTS THEY HAVE TODAY. MARSHA P. JOHNSON, SYLVIA RIVERA, AND A SLEW OF OTHER GAY MEN OF LOR WERE ON THE ONTL THROWG BRICKS AND FIGHTG FOR QUEER RIGHTS. THE FACT THAT THIS CINT HAPPENED WHERE QUEER RIGHTS WERE VIGOROLY FOUGHT FOR BY TRANS WOMEN IS CREDIBLY IRONIC ALL THE WORST POSSIBLE WAYS.ARE LABELS REALLY NECSARY?AMONG THE MANY NEGATIVE THGS WHE PEOPLE ARE NOTOR FOR, AND ONE OF THE THGS WHE CULTURE IS MOST NOTABLE FOR, IS THE IA OF SEGREGATN. WE ALL KNOW THEIR HISTORY WH SLAVERY, JIM CROW, AND MANY OTHER HEO ACTS AGAST BLACK PEOPLE, BUT MANY DON’T SPEAK ENOUGH ABOUT HOW WHE GAY MAN HAVE CREATED A LEVEL OF SEGREGATN WH THE GAY MUNY. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NICKNAM OF OTTER, BEAR, CUB, AND ETC, THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY SYNONYMO WH GAY MEN, AND MANY HAVE ADOPTED THE LABELS WH PRI. HOWEVER, THE LABELS ARE CREDIBLY WHE-WASHED, AND THE LABELS ARE NORMALLY GIVEN SPECIFILLY TO WHE MEN AND HAVE BEEN THAT WAY SCE WAS CREATED THE 1970’S SAN FRANCIS GAY SCENE, WHICH WAS PREDOMANTLY POSED OF F, WHE MEN.AS SOMEONE WHO NEVER LOVED THE IA OF BEG PUT TO YET ANOTHER LABEL, I WAS NEVER ONE TO TRY AND F MYSELF TO THOSE ANTIQUATED TEGORI, BUT WHEN I WAS ONCE TOLD BY A USIAN PERSON THAT “THOSE KD OF LABELS DON’T REALLY WORK FOR ME”, I IMMEDIATELY KNEW WASN’T BEE OF MY REBELL PERSONALY; WAS THE LOR OF MY SK. WHAT THIS DIVIDUAL WAS TRYG TO MICRO-AGGRSIVELY SAY TO ME WAS THAT AS A BLACK PERSON, THE LABELS OF BEG A BEAR, OTTER, CUB AND MANY MORE DON’T REALLY WORK ON SOMEONE LIKE ME SCE THEY’RE RERVED FOR THE WHE MEN WHO CREATED THEM. INSTEAD, GAY CULTURE HAS TRIED TO F ME AND OTHER BLACK PEOPLE TO THE TEGORI OF BEG A THUG, A DL MAN (DOWN-LOW AKA SECRETLY GAY), OR A FEM AKA FEME MAN. THIS KD OF TERNAL SEGREGATN WH A MUNY THAT IS MEANT TO BE BUILT ON UNY AND CLN, HAS LEFT A SOUR TASTE MY MOUTH WHEN TO PRI CELEBRATNS. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE FORTABLE BEG MY TE AND THENTIC SELF, WHEN THERE’S SO MUCH PRSURE WH YOUR OWN MUNY TO BE WHAT THEY EXPECT/WANT YOU TO NFORM TO?QUEER PRI IS NOT A PRODUCTTHE MASS MERCIALIZATN OF LGBTQ+ PRI MONTH HAS ALSO BEE SOMETHG THAT HAS TAKEN OVER AND HAS ALLOWED BE BLEED TO MASTREAM HETEROSEXUAL CULTURE, WHICH HAS BROUGHT QUE A FEW POSIVE ASPECTS, AND QUE A FEW NEGATIVE ASPECTS AS WELL. Y, ’S GREAT THAT PRI HAS BEE A RPECTED TIME OF CELEBRATN ACROSS THE WORLD, BUT THIS HAS OPENED A PANDORA’S BOX OF PANI THAT SHOW THEIR PSDO-SUPPORT BY SLAPPG A RABOW FLAG ONTO A SMALL SEGMENT OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO SHOW THEIR ALLY-SHIP. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT MANY OF THE PANI THAT CLAIM TO SUPPORT THE QUEER MUNY ACTUALLY DO THE OPPOSE, AND JT E PRI AS A WAY TO PULL MORE CTOMERS TO CREASE THEIR PROF MARG.CORPORATNS SUCH AS COMST, AT&T, AND UPS THAT CLAIM TO STAND FOR THE QUEER MUNY ACTUALLY HAVE DONATED HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF DOLLARS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS, BUT MANY PEOPLE STRAIGHT OR OTHERWISE, ARE UNAWARE OF THIS RMATN AND GO BLDLY FORWARD SPORTG PRI PARAPHERNALIA TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT, WHICH IS QUE A SMALL GTURE IF WE’RE BEG HONT. AND TO BE ANK, IF I HAVE TO SEE ONE MORE POORLY MA TOTE BAG WH A RABOW FLAG LAZILY PLACED ON HANGG OFF THE SHOULR OF A MIDDLE AGED WHE WOMAN, I THK I MIGHT HAVE A PUBLIC OUTBURST MORE OUTRAGEO THAN A PRI PARA FLOAT.WE ARE ALL THIS TOGETHER
• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY BEAR BROTHERHOOD PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

GAY MEN TO THE RT OF : YOU’RE LATE TO WHE CLAW

While I n’t speak for my entire hort, this is exactly what a gay man wants to drk, pecially if ’s a marathon and not a sprt toward tipsy. They’ve sentially adopted the holy grail gay-guy cktail of sparklg water, liquor, and juice and nned and rebrand for mastream sparklg seltzers cultural appropriatn of the way gay men have been drkg for years? This means that as a gay man (some women feel this way too, I image), they don’t have the same pro-patriarchy brand feel of classic le beers, which is a major turn off.

Spiked seltzer ns are mi wreckg balls, molishg the the walls between gay and straight, and male and female. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

WHY WHE GAY MEN HAVE RUED LGBTQ+ PRI MONTH FOR MESHAWN BANKS·FOLLOW6 M READ·JUN 15, 2020--4LISTENSHAREPHOTO BY CLAY BANKS ON UNSPLASHIT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGA, AND THOUGH THE WORLD IS A TEGORY 5 CRISIS SEEMGLY BEYOND REPAIR, WE STILL MT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT JUNE 2020 IS STILL PRI MONTH. Y, THE ONE MONTH OUT OF THE YEAR WHEN EVERY RPORATN THAT SELLS MERCHANDISE RANGG OM T-SHIRTS TO MOTOR VEHICL SLAPS A RABOW FLAG ON THEIR PRODUCTS AND CLAIMS TO BE AN ALLY. THIS IS A MONTH THAT IS MEANT TO BE VOTED TO UNY AND CELEBRATN, BUT WH THE WORLD DIVID NOW MORE THAN EVER SEEMS LIKE THAT MSAGE IS BEG LOST.WHEN I WAS YOUNG GAY BOY, THE IA OF AN ENTIRE MONTH VOTED TO UPLIFTG PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF ED TO BRG ME SO MUCH JOY AND HOPE, HOWEVER NOW THAT I AM OLR AND UNRSTAND THE NCEPTS OF PALISM AND PRIVILEGE, MY VIEWS ON PRI HAVE ALTERED QUE A B. WHEN I LOOK AT THE MON NOMATORS AS TO WHY THE IA OF PRI HAS BEE MORE OF AN ANNOYANCE PROVOKG NCEPT RATHER THAN A SPARK OF JOY, ALL BOILS DOWN TO ONE THG — THE ACTNS OF WHE PEOPLE; GAY, STRAIGHT, OR ANY OTHER INTY. WHE PEOPLE HAVE AN EXPANSIVE HISTORY OF APPROPRIATG CULTUR, IAS, AND MOVEMENTS, AND QUEER PRI IS NO EXCEPTN. LET’S DISCS A FEW OF THE WAYS, SHALL WE.WHE GAY PRIVILEGE IS VERY REALLET’S START WH THE SASSY, BRAVO-OBSSED, VENTI ICED FFEE DRKG WHE GAY MEN THAT ARE G PRI OM THE SI OUT. GAY WHE MEN HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE MOST, DARE I SAY, PROBLEMATIC MEMBERS OF SOCIETY DUE TO THE FACT MOST OF THEM HAVE THIS PLEX THAT MAK THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE JT AS DISENANCHISED SOCIETY AS BLACK PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF LOR, AND EVEN WOMEN AS WELL. WHILST BEG A GAY PERSON DO QUALIFY YOU AS A MORY FACG VAR LEVELS OF OPPRSN, THEY HAPPEN TO FET THE TOTEM POLE OF PRIVILEGE THAT EXISTS 21ST CENTURY SOCIETY.FIRST OFF, YOU’RE WHE, WHICH IS THE GOLD MEDAL OF PRIVILEG, AND THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT YOU’VE SNATCHED THE BRONZE MEDAL OF PRIVILEG BY BEG A CIS-GENRED MAN AS WELL. EVEN I AS A BLACK GAY MAN, STILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE PRIVILEGE OVER WOMEN AND TRANSGENRED DIVIDUALS. AND Y, THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE THIS WORLD STILL YELLG TO END MARRIAGE EQUALY, HOWEVER WHAT I WOULD LIKE FOR THE MEN TO DO IS S BACK, ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR VAST LEVELS OF PRIVILEGE, AND PLEASE NOT TO TRY PLAY THIS GAME OF ‘WHO HAS IS HARR’; BEE SWEETIE, YOU WILL ALWAYS LOSE.THIS LEVEL OF LN WAS MA PECIALLY CLEAR LAST YEAR DURG NYC’S ANNUAL PRI CELEBRATN AT THE FAMO STONEWALL BAR, WHICH JT SO HAPPENED TO BE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL UPRISG. IT WAS REPORTED THAT AT A DRAG SHOW AT STONEWALL, A YOUNG BLACK TRANS WOMEN ATTEMPTED TO HONOR HER TRANS SISTERS WHO WERE KILLED THAT YEAR ACROSS THE UNTRY, HOWEVER A WHE GAY MAN REPEATEDLY TERPTED HER BY YELLG “SHUT UP, SHUT UP.” THE RT OF THE CROWD, WHICH IF YOU HAVEN’T GUSED BY NOW WAS PREDOMANTLY WHE, JOED BEHD THIS MAN AND ALSO SCREAMED SHUT UP TOWARDS HER, AND EVEN THREATENED TO LL THE PS ON HER. LUCKILY, THE PS WERE NOT NEED BUT BAR SECURY DID FORCE HER OUT OF THE BAR, UNJTLY MIGHT I ADD.THE ENTIRE CINT WAS RERD AND POSTED ON FACEBOOK, AND WH A DAY THE VIO HAD REACHED MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS AND SENT TWTER ON A TIRA. THIS UNFORTUNATE CINT GO TO SHOW HOW ENTLED OUR GENERATN AS A WHOLE HAS BEE, BEE WHILE WHE MEN ARE G THEIR PRIVILEGE TO EVICT A TRANS WOMAN OUT OF A BAR, THEY FET THAT WAS TRANS WOMEN OF LOR JT LIKE THIS GIRL WHO FOUGHT FOR THEM TO HAVE THE RIGHTS THEY HAVE TODAY. MARSHA P. JOHNSON, SYLVIA RIVERA, AND A SLEW OF OTHER GAY MEN OF LOR WERE ON THE ONTL THROWG BRICKS AND FIGHTG FOR QUEER RIGHTS. THE FACT THAT THIS CINT HAPPENED WHERE QUEER RIGHTS WERE VIGOROLY FOUGHT FOR BY TRANS WOMEN IS CREDIBLY IRONIC ALL THE WORST POSSIBLE WAYS.ARE LABELS REALLY NECSARY?AMONG THE MANY NEGATIVE THGS WHE PEOPLE ARE NOTOR FOR, AND ONE OF THE THGS WHE CULTURE IS MOST NOTABLE FOR, IS THE IA OF SEGREGATN. WE ALL KNOW THEIR HISTORY WH SLAVERY, JIM CROW, AND MANY OTHER HEO ACTS AGAST BLACK PEOPLE, BUT MANY DON’T SPEAK ENOUGH ABOUT HOW WHE GAY MAN HAVE CREATED A LEVEL OF SEGREGATN WH THE GAY MUNY. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NICKNAM OF OTTER, BEAR, CUB, AND ETC, THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY SYNONYMO WH GAY MEN, AND MANY HAVE ADOPTED THE LABELS WH PRI. HOWEVER, THE LABELS ARE CREDIBLY WHE-WASHED, AND THE LABELS ARE NORMALLY GIVEN SPECIFILLY TO WHE MEN AND HAVE BEEN THAT WAY SCE WAS CREATED THE 1970’S SAN FRANCIS GAY SCENE, WHICH WAS PREDOMANTLY POSED OF F, WHE MEN.AS SOMEONE WHO NEVER LOVED THE IA OF BEG PUT TO YET ANOTHER LABEL, I WAS NEVER ONE TO TRY AND F MYSELF TO THOSE ANTIQUATED TEGORI, BUT WHEN I WAS ONCE TOLD BY A USIAN PERSON THAT “THOSE KD OF LABELS DON’T REALLY WORK FOR ME”, I IMMEDIATELY KNEW WASN’T BEE OF MY REBELL PERSONALY; WAS THE LOR OF MY SK. WHAT THIS DIVIDUAL WAS TRYG TO MICRO-AGGRSIVELY SAY TO ME WAS THAT AS A BLACK PERSON, THE LABELS OF BEG A BEAR, OTTER, CUB AND MANY MORE DON’T REALLY WORK ON SOMEONE LIKE ME SCE THEY’RE RERVED FOR THE WHE MEN WHO CREATED THEM. INSTEAD, GAY CULTURE HAS TRIED TO F ME AND OTHER BLACK PEOPLE TO THE TEGORI OF BEG A THUG, A DL MAN (DOWN-LOW AKA SECRETLY GAY), OR A FEM AKA FEME MAN. THIS KD OF TERNAL SEGREGATN WH A MUNY THAT IS MEANT TO BE BUILT ON UNY AND CLN, HAS LEFT A SOUR TASTE MY MOUTH WHEN TO PRI CELEBRATNS. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE FORTABLE BEG MY TE AND THENTIC SELF, WHEN THERE’S SO MUCH PRSURE WH YOUR OWN MUNY TO BE WHAT THEY EXPECT/WANT YOU TO NFORM TO?QUEER PRI IS NOT A PRODUCTTHE MASS MERCIALIZATN OF LGBTQ+ PRI MONTH HAS ALSO BEE SOMETHG THAT HAS TAKEN OVER AND HAS ALLOWED BE BLEED TO MASTREAM HETEROSEXUAL CULTURE, WHICH HAS BROUGHT QUE A FEW POSIVE ASPECTS, AND QUE A FEW NEGATIVE ASPECTS AS WELL. Y, ’S GREAT THAT PRI HAS BEE A RPECTED TIME OF CELEBRATN ACROSS THE WORLD, BUT THIS HAS OPENED A PANDORA’S BOX OF PANI THAT SHOW THEIR PSDO-SUPPORT BY SLAPPG A RABOW FLAG ONTO A SMALL SEGMENT OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO SHOW THEIR ALLY-SHIP. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT MANY OF THE PANI THAT CLAIM TO SUPPORT THE QUEER MUNY ACTUALLY DO THE OPPOSE, AND JT E PRI AS A WAY TO PULL MORE CTOMERS TO CREASE THEIR PROF MARG.CORPORATNS SUCH AS COMST, AT&T, AND UPS THAT CLAIM TO STAND FOR THE QUEER MUNY ACTUALLY HAVE DONATED HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF DOLLARS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS, BUT MANY PEOPLE STRAIGHT OR OTHERWISE, ARE UNAWARE OF THIS RMATN AND GO BLDLY FORWARD SPORTG PRI PARAPHERNALIA TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT, WHICH IS QUE A SMALL GTURE IF WE’RE BEG HONT. AND TO BE ANK, IF I HAVE TO SEE ONE MORE POORLY MA TOTE BAG WH A RABOW FLAG LAZILY PLACED ON HANGG OFF THE SHOULR OF A MIDDLE AGED WHE WOMAN, I THK I MIGHT HAVE A PUBLIC OUTBURST MORE OUTRAGEO THAN A PRI PARA FLOAT.WE ARE ALL THIS TOGETHER

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY BEAR BROTHERHOOD PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.