No more FourLoko or Joose in my hood!
Big_Chan
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I think this is a good move by the liquor control board.........
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013395010_drinkban11m.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013395010_drinkban11m.html
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Channy State!
I think it's a power move by the WSLCB, all puffed up by their victory last week (apparently we want to stay with our Prohibition-Era/East German-style liquor setup?)...
weak.
Do your job and keep it out of kids' hands, if it's so bad for kids. The same specious argument, over and over.
It's class warfare, and it's silly. So weak, so predictable. Get me outta here!!!!
It tastes like ass(at least the Watermelon one does).
so banning the drink isnt fixing the problem at all and what about all the other drinks out there that are fruity or tropical flavoured are they all marketed to underage drinkers as well..strawberry daiquiri's anyone?
i am sure this ban isnt going to effect bars that offer mixed drinks of redbull and vodka and other energy drink with booze
what about my hot chocolate and baileys i have on the weekends...isnt that in the same catagory..
b/w
All the controversy makes me want to actually try it and get smashed, although I feel like the hangover from this shit will be epic.
Bonus Beat: Chan, your boy Frank Bruni reviewed it for the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/weekinreview/31bruni.html
yeah i hear that...i have no clue how i could even get this stuff even if i tried...
Seriously. Sugar plus booze equals pounding headaches.
Its more the caffine that has me a little shook, all booze has sugar in it. But fuck it I think I'll try it anyway. Look out for police reports of shenanigans along the Gowanus Canal.
Schumer wants the SLA to ban it, start stocking up.
Also, please tell us about some your good times on four loko.
Tasted like crap, so much so that I couldn't drink a full can.
And I grew up drinking Tango and Boone's Farm
Our society is in love with Teh Ban.
Sparks > FourLoko
I'll get into a fistfight with Schumer then.
Honestly -- the times I've had drinking Four Loko aren't that amazing. I say this in all honesty, I shit you not, I just like the drunk. Shit doesn't make me feel all cracked out or anything like that -- I think I'm the only person that it effects appropriately. I just have more energy and a good buzz. It's a complete anomaly.
Also - when I'm the only one feeling like this, the rest of the people around me drinking it are completely tossed, so that makes it more fun.
Orange Jubilee!
Ah, college memories....
Isn't there already a law in place to keep "kids" from buying it??
I love the fact that there's a "Red Grape Wine" flavor. I think it's made with pears.
I guess that explains the "We I.D" sticker
Buying rush follows Washington ban on Four Loko
SPOKANE ??? Just hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire announced a state ban on alcoholic energy drinks the Hamilton Market near Gonzaga University in Spokane sold 30 cases of Four Loko.
By The Associated Press
PAUL SAKUMA / AP
Four Loko, a caffeinated malt beverage, offers a fruit-favored blend of 12 percent alcohol and about as much caffeine as a 12-ounce coffee ??? all packed in a 23.5-ounce can.
SPOKANE ??? Just hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire announced a state ban on alcoholic energy drinks the Hamilton Market near Gonzaga University in Spokane sold 30 cases of Four Loko.
KREM reports some college students are stocking up before the ban takes effect next Thursday.
Gregoire said Wednesday that the caffeine-and-alcohol combination encourages excessive drinking and the fruit-flavored drinks in brightly colored cans are aimed at the young.
Nine Central Washington University students who drank Four Loko were hospitalized after a party.
Not anymore. Teh ban strikes again!
I think they should reduce the size of the cans, it would solve the majority of the issues, and make it more difficult for the homeless on my block to pass it off as Arizona Iced Tea.