Posted on 11/26/2010 2:29:12 AM PST by FTJM
In a crowded Washington DC bar one recent Friday night, a patron carrying a nefarious-looking black plastic bag pushes his way past bearded hipsters and preppy Capitol Hill staffers, stopping at a table packed with weekend revelers.
“Check this out,” he says, holding up the bag. He pulls out a tall colorful can of Four Loko, a fizzy-lifting drink loaded with caffeine and booze that has made headlines recently when it was banned by the Food and Drug Administration.
Nearly everyone at the table lunges to touch the taboo cocktail, pulling it in close to finally catch a glimpse of what they had heard so much about.
“I’ve got a fridge full of this stuff,” says the grinning supplier. “I loaded up.”
It’s not every day a hip crowd goes bonkers over a malt beverage that tastes like raspberry battery acid and sells for a Jefferson at the gas station next door. Since the federal government announced a vendetta against the idea that you could profit from putting liquor and caffeine in a can, everyone wants a shot at the tin Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. You can’t resist it.
Nevermind that many of the party-goers are three drinks into other concoctions of caffeine and alcohol — Rum and Cokes and Vodka Red Bulls abound — the only banned substance at the table was the fruity-flavored Four Loko.
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FDA - another government agency looking to do ANYTHING to justify its continued BLOATED budget.
When they came for the smokers....
Just don’t tell them about Kahlua....
“We want the products gone,” said Michael J. Scippa, a spokesman for the Marin Institute, a group that has led the charge against Four Loko. “We find them to be of no redeeming value whatsoever. We are asking the FDA to intervene because they have the ability to say caffeine should not be an ingredient in an alcoholic beverage.”
Apparently, the new criteria for products is redeeming value and the government has the power to decide which ones have redeeming value.
The Marin institute - Government hacks and educators from California.
Yup, just what we need. Losers from a failure of a state to regulate and dictate what the rest of the nation should do, eat, smoke, drink.
Their main target - “BIG ALCOHOL”
And it’s ALL about the money. Your “welfare” is one big effing smokescreen.
Thanks for the heads up on this LEFT WING organization.
The will have to take it from my cold, because I was holding a Kahlua milkshake when I died, dead hands...
Raspberry battery acid huh.
They ought to sell the stuff as a pak of one big can of the booze part and a tiny bottle of the caffeine part. It will be up to the consumer to pour the caffeine into the booze, self-mixing the drink, before imbibing. Myself I’d probably never touch the stuff, but I don’t believe in blaming inanimate things for people’s misbehavior.
Then partake of them do not!
You might be, no you certainly are, a libtard if you think that something you don't like should be banned for everbody.
C. S. Lewis called them a certain kind of bad person.
The lemonade one is worse. I don’t know how anyone drinks those, but it’s not up to me to decide.
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