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I see it in Maine all the time when I'm up there for work trips. I always buy a few to bring home because I like how weird it is. It's really fun to give to people and see them be like "hm, okay" for a moment before the gentian hits and they hyper-grimace.
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The best description for Moxie I've heard is "if root beer was a prank"
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We have a store called Rocket Fizz that sells all sorts of weird soda and candy and I think is a national chain. They definitely carry Moxie, if anygoon wants to try it themselves.
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It’s in RI and if you have an ocean state job lot, they’ll carry it on occasions. It’s a kissing cousin to root beer and Dr. Pepper, if Mr. Pibb was watching from an ajar door.
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teen witch posted:It’s in RI and if you have an ocean state job lot, they’ll carry it on occasions. It’s a kissing cousin to root beer and Dr. Pepper, if Mr. Pibb was watching from an ajar door. Ahh the preferred drink of Ted Cruz.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Arizona Tea doesn't do anything but PR, iirc And putting the 99 cents on the can itself so resellers need serious balls to mark it higher
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Tunicate posted:And putting the 99 cents on the can itself so resellers need serious balls to mark it higher Ultimately you'll be paying more money in wages while customers argue with cashiers that they have to give them the price on the can than you'll get in raising the price. Even the vending machine at work, which is stocked by a third-party vendor, sells them for $1
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Randaconda posted:Coke must have been amazing when it still had literal coke in it Protip: You can still put coke in it
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Big Grunty Secret posted:The best description for Moxie I've heard is "if root beer was a prank" God is a giant loving eye
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, it’s one of those drinks that started as a health tonic sort of thing and is still around. It’s a more acquired taste than typical soft drinks because of the gentian but it’s not bad or anything. I like it myself but it definitely tastes like medicine. My wife won't touch it but one of my daughters is OK with it. I imagine that if you ever had cough syrup that tasted like Moxie as a kid, you probably just associate it.
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https://twitter.com/iamtannenbaum/status/1211761607577153537?s=21
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Big Grunty Secret posted:The best description for Moxie I've heard is "if root beer was a prank" The best description for Malort I’ve heard is “tonight you’ll fight your dad.”
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From the thumbnail I thought the joke was going to involve the guy going crosseyed from the glasses but apparently that dude's just vaguely crosseyed.
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Jan 1, 2020 02:32
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You can get moxie at noted racist bastion Cracker Barrell.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:You can get moxie at noted racist bastion Cracker Barrell. What? This is the first I’ve heard of this. Next time I’ll be sure to get moxie
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Here's a dumb marketing timeline: Dec 30, 3:19 pm - I decide to donate to the Bernie Sanders campaign to help meet last-minute 2019 fundraising goals. Dec 31, 5:39 am - An email from the Bernie campaign asking for another donation to help meet the goal I just contributed to. 9:46 am - A text from the Bernie campaign asking for the same thing. 10:23 am - Another email. 11:56 am - Another email. 2:41 pm - Another text. 4:42 pm - Another email. 6:06 pm - Another email. 6:51 pm - Another text. 7:38 pm - Another email. And the night's not over yet.
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It's not Bernie's fault, but actblue. Every Democrat I like has signed up with that piece of poo poo service. Not only do they blatantly distribute your data to everyone and everything, they will call your phone, text you after you reply STOP and send you unsolicited mail for years. It took me a year to unsubscribe.
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Maybe, but I also donated to Warren's campaign a while back and only got a quarter as many contacts from them this week. Which is still too many. If a campaign is courting that hot fresh progressive millennial demographic then maybe they should consider that millennials loving hate spam. But yeah it's not like I blame Bernie personally for it or anything, that's just how political advertising works now. 
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Nitrox posted:It's not Bernie's fault, but actblue. Every Democrat I like has signed up with that piece of poo poo service. Not only do they blatantly distribute your data to everyone and everything, they will call your phone, text you after you reply STOP and send you unsolicited mail for years. It took me a year to unsubscribe. What have you learned about cats though?
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I donated to Lee Carter's and Jessica Scaranes campaigns using actblue, haven't received any texts and the only email I've gotten was jessics saying she met her goal so here's some other progressives to donate to.
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I lived a decade in Vermont and Moxie always was the worst thing that only old people drank. It's continued existence is a prank on everyone younger than 80.
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IUG posted:Mass and north. Not here in CT, but anytime I go to NH or Maine I see it around. It's carried by Big Y here on the shoreline. (Also it tastes like garbage.)
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Phanatic posted:The best description for Malort I’ve heard is “tonight you’ll fight your dad.” Wasn't that an actual ad, it should be if not, I've heard that before too
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Somfin posted:There's an early bit in Accelerando where a shopping mall is decked out in dead elves because the AI driving its marketing determined that combining war crimes and christmas would move product like hell
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mandatory lesbian posted:Wasn't that an actual ad, it should be if not, I've heard that before too 
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That's great
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Tunicate posted:And putting the 99 cents on the can itself so resellers need serious balls to mark it higher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMUZ2sVjLfY
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That's the best commercial I've ever seen.
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Unfriend as in... Kill?
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Lol, this owns
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Was this the result of the same contest that included “Jeppsen’s Malort: Tonight you fight your dad”?
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Ok, where do you get this poo poo?
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Chicago. Also it sucks, but that's the point. Do it.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Chicago. Also it sucks, but that's the point. Do it. Medical history Sawbones did an episode recently where they talked a little bit about Malort, because it came up when they asked for topics related to Chicago. It's in their most recent episoode, on the Chicago River Reversal. In very brief: It was a popular drink in Chicago during the prohibition, because it tasted so awful that it HAD to be medicine, because nobody would be drinking that poo poo voluntarily.
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Buddy, I drink R&R
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Cleretic posted:Medical history Sawbones did an episode recently where they talked a little bit about Malort, because it came up when they asked for topics related to Chicago. It's in their most recent episoode, on the Chicago River Reversal. Hard to say how true this is, as Malort was supposedly first made in the 1930s. It was a homemade drink by a Swedish immigrant (it's a variant of Swedish-style wormwood schnapps) and supposedly the guy invented it because smoking dulled his taste buds until he could barely taste anything else. People describe Malort as "bitter", but that's like describing a blowtorch as "mildly warm." The one shot I had tasted like burning plastic. It's one of those things where you say to yourself that it can't be that bad and everyone's descriptions of "pencil shavings and heartbreak" or "swallowing a burning condom filled with gasoline" is an exaggeration, and you're one of those guys who does shots of Fernet with the bartender so you can handle something bitter! And then you realize that they were, in fact, absolutely correct about what it tastes like.
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I picked up a six pack of malort mini bottles to send some to my SASS santee (I think Chicago has laws against selling single mini bottles so the six pack is a way around that), and the box said they were for sharing with friends or enemies. No word yet on whether my santee is a friend or enemy, but I only sent him two. The rest went to some local friends and my brother in law.
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A lot makes sense considering how many people used to start smoking at about 12.
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