Posted on 10/24/2006 12:58:30 PM PDT by SmithL
The poster on the window boasted: ``The Legal Alternative: Cocaine Energy Drink Sold Here.''
Yes. Right there in the refrigerated section of a San Jose 7-Eleven. Nestled beside the Redline and Hyphy Grapple (a caffeine-packed grape-and-apple juice) Coke-red cans proclaimed, ``Cocaine.''
But hold on, before you dash out to order a 8.4 ounce can to go with your Buffalo Chicken Go Go Taquitos: Corporate 7-Eleven is having none of it.
On Monday, after fielding a Mercury News reporter's inquiry, the convenience store giant recommended franchisees remove cans of the provocative new drink from shelves.
More than recommend.
`` `We don't want you to carry this,' ''
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Maybe they have the original recipe...
Just a cheesy gimmick for an energy drink that has plenty of competition with similar formulas. Personally, I'll stick to Rockstar or Bawls (a Brazilian drink with guarana- potent stuff).
For years, I stayed away from all non-diet soft drinks, but in the past six months, I fell off the wagon work-out-wise and started drinking regular soda again. We had a promotional event at my job where we puchased several boxes of Rockstar as a giveaway. I ended up with a case of the stuff in my refrigerator and I'll be damned--at first the junk tasted like Robitussin, but I developed a taste for it. I'm sure it added 10lbs to my gut and I'll probably go though withdrawal when I kick daily caffiene dose. Poison I say.
Precisely. Like Death Cigarettes.
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