If so, this is the drink that possibly saved my life one rainy night when driving home from New Jersey. I was falling asleep at the wheel and almost drove off the road at least once. I pulled into a rest stop and purchased a $4.95 (!) can of this substance at the convenience store there. I was turbocharged from that point on! I stopped for another can in Connecticut and by the time I got home, I was wired and listening to some loud rock station as I pulled into my driveway. I couldn't even get to sleep that night. Powerful stuff but the best $10 I ever spent.
That stuff comes from Austria, made under license from the Thai product owner. The Thai product is syrupy concentrate in a 100ml. or 150ml. square bottle. It used to be sold in the US but when the Austrian stuff got popular about fifteen years ago they changed the artwork a little and sold it under Kratieng Dang, which is “Red Bull” in Thai.
You can get the original stuff or its Kratieng Dang equivalent in Chinese grocery stores for about a dollar a bottle.
In Thailand Red Bull sponsors the Saturday Morning kick-boxing show, or at least used to.
As for the grandson and the cop, now it’s a “battle of the Pu Yais, jockeying for influence. Who can get the bigger big brother in his corner. Not unlike Mafia wars, but more low key, and NO fingerprints.
Why didn’t you just find a roadside motel and rent a room for the night where you could have gotten some sleep before continuing your journey?
Red Bull / Kratingdaeng rocks ! As a commercial driver I depend on it daily . It’s too bad we can’t get the original formula from Thailand , the syrupy vitamin blast , in the States . The closest I have found is M-Roy-Ha-sip (M150)
yet even this has caffeine way toned down from what you can get in M.Thai .