Not the brightest of ideas

[kierthos]

Caffeinated alcohol? What a wonderful (and possibly illegal) idea!

Okay, the FDA is looking into oh, about 30 products of the "caffeinated alcohol" variety, but I have to wonder.... WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THIS WAS A BRIGHT IDEA?

What, did some marketing weenie go "Hey, we sell booze. But you know, getting hammered, it just isn't enough. Let's add something that will make people twitchy as well. That will sell well to our trendy young-adult audience!"

Here's one variety of it...



It's Red Bull with booze! It's vodka and Jolt cola! It's... pretty fucked up.

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

They've had this stuff for years. It makes me throw up.

Somebody at work was drinking these on the night shift, they found 'em in the trash can. Yeah he got fired.

[sabrarosa.livejournal.com]

Consdering that folks have been mixing caffeinated drinks and booze since rum and coke and Irish coffee became popular, I am unsure how this is any worse. And binge drinking on college campuses has been a problem as long as there have been college students so it can't exactly be blamed on these drinks. Now if it turns out that these have more caffeine than your average cup of coffee then I can see why they need to look at safety concerns. Of course, because corporations do tend to do some pretty underhanded shit to sell products...hmmm...now I wonder.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

See, and the fact that the FDA is getting involved plus the fact that Anheuser-Busch and Miller took their caffeinated-alcohol products off of the market willingly, only bringing them back without the caffeine leads me to think that something is not going to be right.

[absynthe77.livejournal.com]

Don't recall the name, but I heard a comedian riffing on what the advert campaign for this should be: "Alcohol and uppers in a can, for those nights when you don't want to go quietly with the cops."

[mithras.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Lewis Black.

[laviemoderne.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea to me, but it probably tastes like goat ass.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would almost certainly agree about the taste. I don't drink alcohol... not for religious reasons... I just can't stand the taste of it. And I don't like Red Bull, so I would imagine combining the two would taste just completely terrible.

[copper-fingers.livejournal.com]

I remember when Red Bull first was getting popular out here, the bottle shops (liquor stores) would have deals where they sticky taped a mini bottle of SKYY to the side of a Red Bull can and that's how you'd buy it.

Personally I think those massive cans of energy drink are bad enough- let alone having it premixed with booze...this shit's for kids anyway (which is the saddest part).

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Every Wed Night, wwe have a little drinking party with friends.

One of them brought this about 6 months ago.

It was, holy crap, horrible.

[mithras.livejournal.com]

That's why I prefer to mix them manually.

Captain Morgan's and Rockstar is pretty damn good together.