Adult Beverages
From the time Krude started to regularly drink alcoholic
beverages in my teen years (1980's), the opposite side of the potable spectrum
= Soft drinks,were indeed just that:soft.Sugary and mildly caffeinated,yes.But
aside from that,generally tame as far as an energy boost is concerned. There just
wasn't any kind of 'energy' drink back then. Except for Jolt cola,which was
introduced in 1985.Initially marketed as an 'Adult cola', it wasn't easy to
find either. Original Jolt cola was way more sugar and double the caffeine than
an average soft drink.It tasted like if Willy Wonka tried to bootleg the Pepsi
cola formula.I received 2 cases of Jolt cola cans on my 17th birthday from my
sister.Good deal.But not much of a Jolt by 2017 energy drink standards.
The 'soft' drinks sold at an average quick mart or gas
station these days are anything but 'soft'. Loaded with excessive caffeine and
natural stimulants,these energy drinks rival real speed with staying awake and
alert power. Truckers speed used to mean SPEED. Now with ephedrine outlawed in
the USA (except for asthma sufferers). Sharply decorated cans of legal speed
can be found almost everywhere with refrigerated retail stock. All packaged
with young consumers in mind.
Coffee is now a high octane,filling,morning,noon,or night
pick me up. What used to be a roach coach staple,is now an elaborate ($4/cup)
production.Thanks to slick marketing that preys on people's addiction
tendencies. Muddy,semi hot,java jacketed 20oz cups of water IS all the rage
with 9-90 year olds. Sad.
I see so many more bad drivers on the road these days. Not
just for their poor driving skills,but for being just plain dumb. Distractions
such as cellphones and big cups of coffee are a large part of an average
persons driving arsenal. The speedy nature of the drink mixed with the speedy
nature of the hand held media device = dangerous,drugged assholes behind the
wheel. Show me a cop who gives a sobriety test to somebody who admits to
drinking a massive Starbucks turbo frappe dirt puddle,while texting on their
cellphone. But to the guy who has had one alcoholic drink and drives,he will
get the full cop sobriety show,if he gets pulled over. Doesn't seem fair,does
it?
Krude believes if drinking a beverage gives a person any
kind of accelerated high or energy buzz,then those beverages should fall under
the same controlled category as an alcoholic beverage. Kids do not need to be
speeding on amped up coffee or over caffeinated cola.
I drink my share of energy drinks all the time. I also drink
vast quantities of alcohol. Kinda goes hand in hand. Mahalo.
Sleep when yer dead
KK
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