Drink your drug

Skybird · 05-23-09, 09:11 AM

In the US, since longer there is an energy drink named "Cocain".

In Germany, more and more federal states are prohibiting rivaling energy drink "Red Bull" and enforce that RB is being taken off the shelves. Chemical analysis showed that amongst it's ingredients are small amounts of cocain - not the drink of that name, but the drug.

Do you still live, or are you already flying?

Jimbuna · 05-23-09, 10:02 AM

I have decided to produce and sell a strong alcoholic drink called "Responsibly"

That way everyone in the country can get sh!t faced drinking responsibly.

And all the other drinks makers will be advertising for me on their cans with the slogan "please drink responsibly"

Probably will piss off the government as well.

Frame57 · 05-23-09, 12:26 PM

I find nothing wrong with that at all. Small amounts of the derivitive from the Coca plant is actually quite beneficial. The natives use it medicinally and like all stimulants in excess can be harmfull and addictive.But what is not?

XabbaRus · 05-23-09, 12:52 PM

Do you have a source for this Sky?

Etienne · 05-23-09, 01:30 PM

Didn't Coca-Cola have some trace amount of coke in it until recently?

What's the big deal?

(Beside, I've seen people on coke and I've seen people on Red Bull. Not the same thing. At all.)

Dowly · 05-23-09, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Etienne

Didn't Coca-Cola have some trace amount of coke in it until recently?

1929 Coca-Cola was cocain free says Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

Skybird · 05-23-09, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Do you have a source for this Sky?

Various German newspapers. For example:
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/articl...en-Kokain.html
Currently, RB gets officially classified as a narcotic, and a violation to current food-law. However, the main issue about RB is not that it is considered to be a serious risk to health, but violating these laws. I personally consider the ammount of phosphate in Coca Cola as more health-threatening (and as a health risk: widely underestimated). But good for me that I hate the taste of RB - and most softdrinks - anyway, with the exception of Cola.

It's so bad that Coca Cola tastes so good. Both that ridiculous amount of white sugar and of phosphate make it a really bad thing. Why must the healthy things often be so boring in taste, more expensive and taking longer time to prepare, and the easy, cheap, tasty things often so bad for your health?

Kapitan_Phillips · 05-23-09, 04:16 PM

Red Bull gives you wings.

Cocaine gives you:

Michelle Pfeiffer.

Wait..what?

Highbury · 05-23-09, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

It's so bad that Coca Cola tastes so good. Both that ridiculous amount of white sugar and of phosphate make it a really bad thing. Why must the healthy things often be so boring in taste, more expensive and taking longer time to prepare, and the easy, cheap, tasty things often so bad for your health?

Coca Cola does not use white sugar, I worked at the Richmond, BC. CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) plant for 14 years. Depending on the market it is produced for it contains Fructose or Isoglucose (called High-Fructose corn syrup in the US). Nowhere do they use Sucrose (white sugar) alone.

As for the Red Bull issue in Germany, here is an article in English for those that could not read the other one:
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090523-19457.html

05-23-09, 09:11 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,616 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Drink your drug In the US, since longer there is an energy drink named "Cocain". In Germany, more and more federal states are prohibiting rivaling energy drink "Red Bull" and enforce that RB is being taken off the shelves. Chemical analysis showed that amongst it's ingredients are small amounts of cocain - not the drink of that name, but the drug. Do you still live, or are you already flying? __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I have decided to produce and sell a strong alcoholic drink called "Responsibly" That way everyone in the country can get sh!t faced drinking responsibly. And all the other drinks makers will be advertising for me on their cans with the slogan "please drink responsibly" Probably will piss off the government as well. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Frame57 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: 1300 feet on the crapper Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I find nothing wrong with that at all. Small amounts of the derivitive from the Coca plant is actually quite beneficial. The natives use it medicinally and like all stimulants in excess can be harmfull and addictive.But what is not? __________________ "My Religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds." Albert Einstein

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XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Do you have a source for this Sky? __________________

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Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	Red Bull gives you wings. Cocaine gives you: Michelle Pfeiffer. Wait..what? __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

05-23-09, 01:30 PM	#5
Etienne Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 695 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Didn't Coca-Cola have some trace amount of coke in it until recently? What's the big deal? (Beside, I've seen people on coke and I've seen people on Red Bull. Not the same thing. At all.)