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1970-1989 - American soda fountains, malt shops, drive-ins, malls, smoothie bars, and regional drink counters
Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Smoothie brings juice-bar color and American smoothie-counter energy to the glass: Gym America.
Difficulty
Easy
Prep time
10 minutes
Cook time
0 minutes
Total time
10 minutes
Servings
2 servings
Region
Kenner and New Orleans, Louisiana health-food smoothie shops
Era introduced
1970-1989
Introduced by
American soda fountains, malt shops, drive-ins, malls, smoothie bars, and regional drink counters
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Smoothie shows the modern American smoothie bar at its most colorful. Gym America. From mall kiosks and gym counters to airport juice bars, drinks like this turned fruit, vegetables, dairy, and boosters into a grab-and-go ritual. It is bright, practical, and part of the country's late-20th- and 21st-century drink culture.
Research basis: Soda Fountain, Malt Shop, Mall, Drive-In and Smoothie Bar Drinks source list, adapted for home preparation. Provenance update: For functional smoothies and protein smoothie variants, the best map anchor is the early American smoothie-shop category associated with Steve and Cindy Kuhnau's 1973 Smoothie King health-food store in the New Orleans area. Flavor-specific first preparations remain hard to document, so these are mapped to the category origin. Source: Smoothie King, "The History of Smoothie King" (https://www.smoothieking.com/stories/the-history-of-smoothie-king-and-whats-coming-back/).
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