• SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    47
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Alcoholics have entered a kind of renaissance where all your favorite junk food brands are offered with liquor inside and the heat's been talking off drunks with the state's power looking at opioid addicts instead.

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
      hexbear
      37
      3 months ago

      Dissolving crushed up estradiol tablets in my hard Mountain Dew Baja Blast because alcohol makes your body absorb estrogens faster

    • buh [any]
      hexbear
      26
      3 months ago

      And they say capitalism doesn’t innovate 😏

    • @GinAndJuche
      hexbear
      21
      3 months ago

      Somebody is going to make a hard protein shake and the gym bros are going to never recover from the impact it’ll have on their subculture

        • @GinAndJuche
          hexbear
          9
          3 months ago

          That arm logo do be looking nice tho

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        10
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        Mike Mentzer already trained while on heavy doses of amphetamines in the late 70s, and the original Jack3d formula from over a decade ago contained DMAA (dimethylamylamine). So hard pre workouts have been a thing in the subculture for quite a while. It's just usually that amphetamines or amphetamine like substances are used instead of alcohol.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          hexbear
          4
          3 months ago

          I vaguely remember hearing about one of the first doping fatalities in Tour de France where a contestant dropped dead on his bike from ingesting a cognac-based concoction of every stimulant known to man.

    • @GinAndJuche
      hexbear
      13
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      6.5 instead of 12-13 %. Probably less caffeine too, idk how much is/was in either but these are legal and the original four loko isn’t anymore so something changed.

      • dead [he/him]
        hexbear
        24
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        https://beastunleashed.com/faqs/

        Show

        no caffeine sicko-wistful

        • @GinAndJuche
          hexbear
          11
          3 months ago

          Tragic, they decided to be Icarus except a 737 max version that automatically descends when too close to the sun.

    • chungusamonugs [he/him]
      hexbear
      11
      3 months ago

      Four loko (the extra fuck you up recipe) had some other drug besides caffeine in it back in the day. Forget which one. This is merely a simulacra

      • Nakoichi [he/him]
        hexagon
        hexbear
        9
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        guarana probably.

        That's what BAWLZ soda had in it and that shit was like speed in a can

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
          hexbear
          2
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          Isn't guarana just a plant that contains caffeine and caffeine metabolites like theobromine (which are also ingredients in energy drinks, as well AFAIK stuff that just naturally occurs in coffee and tea too). So realistically that should be getting counted in the caffeine listing for total mgs, if that's determined with actual lab analysis and not just a rough guess based on how much caffeine powder is added. Something having "guarana extract" in it is meaningfully the same as it having "coffee bean extract" or "tea leaf extract," it just sounds exotic because guarana isn't traditionally brewed into drinks in north america or europe (but it is in south america).

    • @GinAndJuche
      hexbear
      8
      3 months ago

      Red Bull missed an opportunity there.

  • Gorb [they/them]
    hexbear
    20
    3 months ago

    Nothing quite beats the vodka and redbull. A perfect combination even better with a slice of lime.

  • ped_xing [he/him]
    hexbear
    15
    3 months ago

    I already did it. If you've ever used Monster as a mixer for vodka or soju, it's exactly that flavor. There's no caffeine nor any of their "energy blend," so we're not going to see a repeat of Four Loko chaos. I was going to say that I overpaid for a decaf Monster cocktail, but it looks like they discontinued the caffeine-free version so this might be the only way to get such a thing.

    • Nationalgoatism [he/him]
      hexbear
      19
      3 months ago

      Wait is decaf lmao. Isn't the caffeine the whole point of drinking monster?

      • dRLY [none/use name]
        hexbear
        17
        3 months ago

        That's what I always get annoyed by when brands known for caffeine get into alcohol. Is it bad to mix a high or kind of high level of caffeine with alcohol given the Four Loko stuff? For sure. But shit is basically false advertising for these things. I don't drink energy drinks for the taste, and there are much better things to mix if that is the point of this drink. It isn't even a very high percent in the first place. So calling it "The Beast" is also lame af. I am guessing it is perfect for the teens that already drink a lot of regular Monsters to jump to and looks enough like the non-alcohol versions to be easy to sneak.

      • ped_xing [he/him]
        hexbear
        14
        3 months ago

        Yeah, but a caffeine-alcohol combo is the sort of thing the CIA would market to destabilize other countries, so the US banned prepackaged drinks with both in 2010.

    • WashedAnus [he/him]
      hexbear
      9
      3 months ago

      Yeah, back in the day we would buy a BFC of Monster, drink like a quarter of it, and fill it up with vodka. I had the worst hangover of my teenage years when I drank this instead of water on a five mile trek to a concert in like July.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
    hexbear
    14
    3 months ago

    Does anyone else remember terminally online evangelicals sharing a diagram claiming that the Monster logo is a coded satanic message using Hebrew symbols?

    Almost makes me miss Facebook.

  • Mokey [none/use name]
    hexbear
    12
    3 months ago

    These are undrinkable because you want an energy drink and these arent energy drinks

  • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    10
    3 months ago

    This stuff actually doesn't have any "energy" stuff in it. It's basically just hard seltzer that is flavored like Monster. It's not too horrible but if I had the choice between this and any beer better than American light beer I'd go with the beer.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
      hexbear
      13
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Dunno about these, but a lot of the hard versions don't have caffeine. It's just a flavor and branding thing

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
    hexbear
    9
    3 months ago

    if it's anything like hard mountain dew it'll be way better than expected