Sixteen pounds of sugar, 65 days and $260 is what Nate Boehr went through on his way to trying all 130 flavors at Tad’s Tropical Sno, 939 Iowa St. Boehr, a Topeka sophomore, tried flavors Nos. 129 and 130 yesterday.

The feat is nothing new for Boehr, who consumed all 130 flavors at the Tad’s in his hometown. He even has a flavor named after him there: a strawberry, watermelon and orange concoction referred to as Boehr’s Blast.

For Boehr, it was a personal challenge that began four years ago. Boehr had recently tried his first Tad’s sno cone at the urging of high school friends, and was standing in line for another when the idea came to him.

“I’d be waiting in line, and I would hear people talking around me saying, ‘Oh, someday I’m going to try all the flavors,’ but no one ever stepped up to the plate,” Boehr said.

He accepted the challenge then, and accepted it again early this July.

Boehr said that when he came to the University of Kansas, he was happy to learn there was a Tad’s in Lawrence. He said he was disappointed when he discovered his flavor had been left off the list. The discovery gave him a newfound determination, and he started preparing for the undertaking.

One thing Boehr had to plan for was the financial burden of buying 130 sno cones. A regular, the size Boehr typically purchases, costs $2. After eating the last bite of Wipeout, the final flavor on the list, Boehr had spent $260 on the summertime treat.

“When I did it back in Topeka, I had a job to help finance it,” Boehr said. “With school now, I don’t really have time for a job. That’s why I didn’t start until July. I was nervous about asking my dad for the money.”

Boehr said his goal was to leave his mark in Lawrence by getting his flavor added to the list. Tad Gellender, owner of Tad’s Tropical Sno, has agreed to add Boehr’s Blast to the Lawrence menu, Boehr said.

Zach Macchi, Topeka sophomore, has known Boehr since high school. He said he has accompanied Boehr to Tad’s — in Lawrence and in Topeka — on several occasions.

Macchi said that he would never join Boehr in his quest for flavor domination, but that it was fun watching his friend go after it.

“It’s cool how he plans it out so far in advance,” Macchi said. “He always seems pretty excited when he goes, unless he knows he’s getting bad flavors. Then he’s not always so pumped.”

Boehr, a self-proclaimed expert on Tad’s Tropical Sno flavors, confessed he didn’t like them all. There were a few he said he didn’t enjoy. Among those flavors were chocolate, cheesecake and birthday cake.

“It’s a three-way tie for last place,” Boehr said. “Those just really don’t fit my tastes. It’s called Tad’s Tropical Sno, which sort of implies the flavors should all be fruit-based.”

Macchi said he thought it was funny how Boehr built relationships with the workers at Tad’s.

Ali Dankenbring, a manager at Tad’s, said she had seen Boehr many times since the beginning of summer. She said that trying all 130 flavors was not a common activity.

“There are usually one or two people who try to do it each summer,” Dankenbring said. “Those people rarely make it through them all though.”

Boehr knows he may not be the only one in Lawrence to try every flavor, but he said he was confident he was the only one to do it both in Topeka and here. The evidence of his feat is a clean, labeled cup from every flavor.

The two-a-day consumption of sno cones worried Boehr at times. He said he got concerned about diabetes because each treat contained 55 grams of sugar. After doing the math, Boehr said it came out to 16 pounds of sugar when all is said and done.

With the two nearby Tad’s down, only the one in Manhattan, Kan., remains. Boehr said he was quite sure he would never make the trip.

“Man I tell you what,” Boehr said. “If Tad’s in Manhattan was the last place on earth you could get one of those delicious sno cones, I would sooner try all 168,000 drink combinations at Sonic before I had just one sno cone in Manhattan; I hate K-State.”