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It's the British equivalent of Four Loko.
by Metacelsus 4y ago
It's the British equivalent of Four Loko.
- bee_rider 4y agoIt is a bit funny that Four Loko got this reputation, when alcohol+caffeine have been helping people make bad decisions faster for ages (it isn’t like the FDA is gonna somehow ban rum and coke).
- TheCondor 4y agoI don’t know that I’ve ever seen or heard about rum and coke resulting in the same effects as four loko or vodka Red Bull. Could be the formula, could be the intent of the drinkers. I don’t think it’s a cognitive bias, but there is a rowdiness at a party with a keg and then there is a different level at a party with 40s.
- jonhohle 4y agoThe median rum and coke drinker is very different from the median Four Loko drinker for any metric except maybe height and weight.
- SturgeonsLaw 4y ago> I don’t know that I’ve ever seen or heard about rum and coke resulting in the same effects as four loko or vodka Red Bull Then I take it you have never been to Australia... https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/cane-champagne-is-the-most-dangerous-drug-in-australia/ https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/cane-champagne...
- fknorangesite 4y agoBecause there's practically no caffeine in a rum and coke. Very fuzzy napkin-math incoming: if you were to consume an equivalent amount of caffeine as a Four Loko via rum-and-cokes, you've now had about 50oz of rum. The caffeine would, uh, not be the problem. Edit: Hm, though maybe this says more about my "rum, wave a Coke over it" preferences.
- bee_rider 4y agoHaha, that could be it. I guess it is a mixed drink anyway so you could do whatever, but coke has a pretty overpowering taste, so if you want to taste the rum, you’d have to go pretty strong I guess.
- fknorangesite 4y agoYeah. I guess the point is Four Loko has (had, I guess?) ~2.5x the caffeine by volume as Coke does - before adding any liquor to dilute the Coke.
- bee_rider 4y agoFair, another comment mentioned Red Bull and Vodka which would probably have been a better example, but I suspect that’s more a case of “we’d ban it if we could.”
- red-iron-pine 4y agoIn college we used to mix Sparks or Four Loco with Vodka -- "maniac juice". Nothing good ever came of it. Redbull mixed with anything e.g. Jager, was also known to lead to terrible things. Sort of an entry level cocaine and scotch.