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Wendigee posted:They banned alcohol+caffeine beverages in the US several years ago. I've never really understood outlawing alcoholic energy drinks. People have told me before it has something to do with discouraging drinking with a younger crowd, others say it's for health reasons because of the alcohol and energy drink combo, but either way if you can legally buy a bottle of vodka or whatever, there's nothing stopping you from picking up a case of Redbull or your energy drink of choice while you're at it and pouring them together into a glass, it's a fairly popular drink. It might not be super good for you, but neither is a lot of stuff, and I don't think I've heard of anyone dying from drinking one of those or even anything super serious happening unless maybe they had some preexisting condition. Alternatively, if it's to discourage young people from drinking, I'm pretty sure they were popular because it's a cheap tallboy at the convenience store, not because people can't figure out how to pour a high ball.
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# ? Apr 3, 2023 07:41 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 10:21 |
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Didn't it cause a bunch of insane poo poo to go down at like every college simultaneously? Like a bunch of alcohol poisoning cases. I think combining caffeine with alcohol blunts the depressant effects of the alcohol so you don't think you're as drunk as you really are, so you drink more than you normally would. Also you can still act out all the insanely stupid poo poo you want to do (or at least that frat boys want to do) under the influence of alcohol without that pesky drowsiness getting in the way. I guess looking it up it also had "other stimulants" that were also removed from the product so who knows how those interacted with alcohol.
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 10:33 |
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But yes you can still just make a mixed drink with it, you just have to be aware of the possible effects. If anything four loko didn't even have that much caffeine, just 156 mg. Nowadays there are drinks that have almost twice that amount in a can.
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 10:35 |
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The problem with original recipe 4loko was that it didn't taste like alcohol, it tasted like candy, and you could put back two cans of it before you noticed the effects.Dixville posted:Didn't it cause a bunch of insane poo poo to go down at like every college simultaneously? Like a bunch of alcohol poisoning cases. It caused the destruction of a rental house at my school. Campus-wide invite because someone had acquired an entire shipping pallet, come morning there was nothing attached to any wall in the house, all the porch railings were gone, windows broken, holes everywhere, garage door in the street somehow with blood on it. I gave my girlfriend a piggyback ride and fell on my chin on the sidewalk in time to see people having a front flip competition off the second floor balcony. They should bring it back
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 18:00 |
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OG 4loko was fuckin nuts. One can and you're having a blast. Two cans you're trying to break open parking meters but not for the money inside, just cuz.
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 18:14 |
i never had an original 4loko. part of me is disappointed and part of me feels incredibly lucky.
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 18:49 |
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it wasn't magic and it wasn't like meth or joose or whatever. it was just really cloyingly sweet so college kids would drink a ton of them quickly and get really hosed up. relive the magic in your own home by drinking too many vodka red bulls
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 20:12 |
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Been trying them Ghosts lately since I just started a job where I have to get up at "gently caress You" in the morning. Every flavor I've tried so far has been close to the thing the can says which is unlike so many other energy drink flavors
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 00:55 |
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Ghost are real nice op i like the citrus one and the watermelon one
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 03:35 |
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ghost energys are too drat sweet but I just tried faze pop and was impressed by the sweetness not being overpowering and hope the other flavors follow suit
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 08:42 |
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The trick with Ghost is that it needs to be a sour flavor. Faze pop has that lemon element, sour patch kids and warheads are sour candy. When it doesn’t have that acidic element, like the Swedish Fish and orange cream flavors, it’s just weird.
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 17:02 |
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OG 4Lokos were wild, I still remember the way the Gold can smelled after I threw up on myself. Sparks was another caffine/alcohol mix that got changed I'll have a silver RedBull maybe 3 times a year
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# ? Apr 26, 2023 15:22 |
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BAWLS
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 16:10 |
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I was going to get some Ghosts after reading this thread (your street teaming works) but despite there being a big "GHOSTS" sign at the door of the convenience store, there weren't any in the actual store. This was a small store in the middle of nowhere so maybe that's why.
Oel ngati kameie Los Ingobernables de Onsite BYOB FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 19:37 |
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Is Monster Hydro still a thing? I found one purely by accident at a gas station while pulling an all nighter a couple years ago and it was shockingly drinkable for an energy. I got a couple Watermelon flavored ones and slammed them back like they were nothing.
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# ? Apr 28, 2023 00:57 |
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Thread delivered, I enjoyed a sour Ghost more than I liked the sweet ones. Also it's kind of wild that this is a sugar free energy drink because it somehow is really well balanced as if it had sugar with the sour version. Q_res posted:Is Monster Hydro still a thing? I found one purely by accident at a gas station while pulling an all nighter a couple years ago and it was shockingly drinkable for an energy. I got a couple Watermelon flavored ones and slammed them back like they were nothing. It's been a while since I've seen one. Oel ngati kameie Los Ingobernables de Onsite BYOB FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
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# ? May 2, 2023 03:26 |
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Monster is even selling alcohol versions of their swill called Beast now. I don't think it has caffeine though.
Another day in the life of Randabis...
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# ? May 2, 2023 13:27 |
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I used to fill a cup with ice and a monster and add jagermeister to fill the rest People questioned my taste They were right
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# ? May 3, 2023 01:18 |
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In 2008 there was a Monster slurpee flavor called Black Ice. It turned your mouth dark purple and your turds dark green.
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# ? May 3, 2023 18:16 |
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Car Hater posted:I used to fill a cup with ice and a monster and add jagermeister to fill the rest My wife will still do a shot of jager and chase it with Red Bull or Monster. I find Claussen pickle juice to be more effective though. I cant smell Red Bull without wanting to puke now. Plus a $4 can always goes to waste. I knocked one over in the fridge and was nauseous for a week. ----------------
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# ? May 4, 2023 09:07 |
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Nikumatic posted:apple flavored nos is maybe the only drink on the planet where i can't taste the sucralose or w/e they added to it, so it's obviously made by wizards Took me a while to track down a NOS sonic sour, wish I had known about these a decade ago.
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# ? May 8, 2023 21:58 |
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i didn't even realize nos had flavors all i know is blue one purple one green one
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# ? May 9, 2023 00:57 |
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It would help if I wasn't so dead-set against the energy drink taste they all seem to share. I don't feel like spending three buck on something I'm going to take a single sip of and pour out, so I don't experiment much. I've probably missed out on dozens of drinks that I'd like - but jesus loving christ, that energy drink taste is loving foul.
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# ? May 12, 2023 21:04 |
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I can't tell if I've become acclimated to the taste or not but it was what originally kept me from them so I understand; there's definitely plenty of normal ones but you have to try to so many to find them. For what it's worth I think Mountain Dew Amp just tastes like Surge.
Oel ngati kameie Los Ingobernables de Onsite BYOB FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
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# ? May 12, 2023 22:31 |
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Dixville posted:Didn't it cause a bunch of insane poo poo to go down at like every college simultaneously? Like a bunch of alcohol poisoning cases. I think combining caffeine with alcohol blunts the depressant effects of the alcohol so you don't think you're as drunk as you really are, so you drink more than you normally would. Also you can still act out all the insanely stupid poo poo you want to do (or at least that frat boys want to do) under the influence of alcohol without that pesky drowsiness getting in the way. when sparks was a thing, I drank 8 of them while visiting a friend at their college, and there was a fight going on outside randomly on the street, and naturally I decided the best idea was to run out into it and just start hitting people indiscriminately. I ripped my shirt off which had all my money in the pocket, threw it in the trash, and then started swinging on people. stupid, wild times with that poo poo. did things I would never normally even think of doing.
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# ? May 13, 2023 15:05 |
hark posted:when sparks was a thing, I drank 8 of them while visiting a friend at their college, and there was a fight going on outside randomly on the street, and naturally I decided the best idea was to run out into it and just start hitting people indiscriminately. I ripped my shirt off which had all my money in the pocket, threw it in the trash, and then started swinging on people. stupid, wild times with that poo poo. did things I would never normally even think of doing. why did they ban this stuff, this sounds like a fine ol' time. ----------------
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# ? May 13, 2023 16:00 |
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Found this at a local store, seems to be Austrian but marketed towards Saudis. It’s just straight up Red Bull, no complaints
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# ? May 24, 2023 00:56 |
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I've only seen that once and it was at a gas station in San Luis Obispo. I recognized it because of this
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# ? May 24, 2023 01:29 |
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If you are someone who thinks Gatorade is too sweet stay away from the new energy Gatorade because drat it's like drinking homemade (by me) Koolaid. Now personally I am down with that but I thought I would put that out there.
Oel ngati kameie Los Ingobernables de Onsite BYOB FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
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# ? May 28, 2023 08:48 |
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I'm still mourning the Monster M-80. Monster Ripper is not the same.
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# ? Jun 29, 2023 22:19 |
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Aussie Lemonade is still my #1. poo poo is so drat tasty.
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# ? Jun 29, 2023 23:13 |
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rndmnmbr posted:Took me a while to track down a NOS sonic sour, wish I had known about these a decade ago. looking forward to trying one, NOS is the only energy drink that "works" for me. All other caffeine just makes me tired, so a single NOS has me grabbing a rake and fighting a brush fire in the park next door. One of the ingredients is a sugar with antidepressant effects called "inositol" which should actually be the punchline to a Simpsons joke about nerds. crimes
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# ? Jun 30, 2023 03:09 |
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I'm trying ASHOC this morning, passionfruit flavor. It's supposed to be ~all natural~ which I don't really care about but it tastes pretty drat good. Zero sugar with 200mg caffeine too which is pretty good. Will probably try the other flavors at some point.
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# ? Jun 30, 2023 16:00 |
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I want to shake hands with the beverage scientist who made the "sour heads" bang that managed to taste sour without managing to BE sour. so i can then hurl them into the sky like a discus.
crimes
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# ? Jun 30, 2023 16:01 |
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BaconCopter posted:Aussie Lemonade is still my #1. poo poo is so drat tasty. They just started selling it in 4 packs. It's absolutely the best flavor of sour energy for real. Plus, it looks like piss.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 22:42 |
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drat,, makes me wanna go down under
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 23:04 |
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Grip It N Rip It
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 23:11 |
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watermelon adrenaline shoc best energy drink even if it frequently takes two days for me to drink one because of how much caffeine is in there.
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# ? Jul 29, 2023 22:19 |
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I miss Pepsi X. It was around for like a year or something but it was p good. ----------------
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# ? Jul 31, 2023 11:16 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 10:21 |
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Wendigee posted:They banned alcohol+caffeine beverages in the US several years ago. This never made sense considering you can literally order this at any bar (Vodka + Red Bull).
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