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Get Ready for Powdered Alcohol to Hit Liquor Stores This Fall
Mediaite ^ | 4/20/2014 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 04/21/2014 3:18:24 AM PDT by markomalley

Powdered. Alcohol. Putting aside whether you think it sounds like a good idea, does it not seem like an intriguing concept? Well, Palcohol has officially been approved by the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, so expect this alcoholic version of the Kool-Aid powder to be in liquor stores soon enough!

Here’s the pitch for Palcohol on its website: “Wouldn’t it be great to have alcohol in powder form so all one had to do is add water? Since powder is light and compact, it wouldn’t be a burden to carry.”

They expect to be selling it starting this fall, and offer a variety of flavors to get the powder in. Below are a few of them.

Now I know what you’re thinking: “Holy crap powdered alcohol I could snort that!” Well, snorting Palcohol is a serious no-no, with the site explaining “You would feel a lot of pain for very little gain.”

It will be sold in liquor stores where you can buy non-powdered alcoholic things, as well as online, and the same rules about the drinking age obviously apply.

Palcohol did have a slightly edgier website before, but it was edited because, as they put it, “It was not meant to be our final presentation of Palcohol. Also posted were labels that were incorrect.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: alcohol; booze; weird
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To: Bobalu

Sheesh, I remember the Doris Day in just a man’s pajama top scene. I was just old enough to get it at the time...


21 posted on 04/21/2014 5:05:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: markomalley

I got a package of powdered water, but I didn’t know what to add...


22 posted on 04/21/2014 5:06:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: ClearCase_guy

How many “lines” will do the trick?
Should I wash a packet down with a Colt 45,
or just eat 3?
So many unanswered questions?


23 posted on 04/21/2014 5:13:54 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: markomalley

Prepper PING!

Talk about a space saver!


24 posted on 04/21/2014 5:15:54 AM PDT by LadyBuck (Strangeways, here we come....)
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To: markomalley
Can you smoke it or mix it with heroin and inject it?
I'm sure some one will find a way to misuse it.
25 posted on 04/21/2014 5:17:02 AM PDT by oldbrowser (Does the federal government qualify as a terrorist organization?)
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To: markomalley

I always wondered why you couldn’t make gelcaps with Everclear in them for people who want the effect but don’t like the taste.

Just pop them like a few NyQuil caplets and no one is the wiser. Thinking back I know there were a lot of girls who would have loved something like that.


26 posted on 04/21/2014 5:17:39 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
The fascists approve this but cancer drugs for people who have a few months to live will have to wait another 10 years.

Yeah. At this point in human and technological development, there's no need for an FDA. Private accrediting agencies could provide better and more useful information to consumers.

And if someone wants to huff paint, who's going to stop him? Are we going to outlaw spray paint, too?

Better to take the tax money we spend on the FDA and use it to fund anti-drug PR campaigns. Those campaigns were very effective in decreasing cigarette smoking.

27 posted on 04/21/2014 5:28:44 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Exeter
If you think airlines had problems with unruly & obnoxious drunks before, just wait till those boors start flying with a pocketful of these alcoholic fizzies...


No, this is targeted at kids, high schools and Jr highs are going to hate this.

28 posted on 04/21/2014 5:57:13 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Might as well “dust your whistle” or “take a powder” while you wait...


29 posted on 04/21/2014 6:00:04 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: Caipirabob

“.. college kids will be snorting this stuff..”

Gives new meaning to “powdering your nose”, doesn’t it? :)


30 posted on 04/21/2014 6:04:17 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: markomalley

The neat thing is that now homeless winos will have a use for their bodily fluids, and not spread them over every bus stop. . .


31 posted on 04/21/2014 6:44:11 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: markomalley; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; NFHale; Bender2; BillyBoy; ..

I’m surprised the government approved this, the company must have given enough campaign contributions to the right people.


32 posted on 04/21/2014 8:51:48 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

Yep...just like the corn industry.


33 posted on 04/23/2014 7:21:17 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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