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08.15.07 by Widge @ 2:58 am  Okay, Energy Fiend posted how to make an energy drink in seven easy steps. Did you know that there are services that will slap your custom label on their energy drink can? I did not. This is really, really tempting. Of course, if I were to create Chazz in a Can, or whatever the hell it would be called, would anybody buy it? If you have thoughts, share them here. Categorized as: Drinks
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08.11.07 by Widge @ 7:25 pm  Review: Party like a rockstar, sure, but only if your idea of a party involves a sucralose-laced drink that tastes like somebody took all the flavoring you would expect from a pomegranate Dum-Dum lollipop and then melted it down with some low-grade plastic. This drink might be 50% juice and 100% energy, but it's 125% undrinkable. Two decent sized sips, then the rest went into the sink. Time: 18 seconds. Categorized as: Drinks and Reviews
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07.19.07 by Widge @ 8:16 pm  Well, Playboy has been no stranger to the stimulant-loving demographic. After all, they have been stimulating men for decades. And, speaking as one of the three males on the planet who actually read the magazine part of the magazine, the articles and interviews are actually very interesting. Now, BevBlog tells us that we will soon see a Playboy Energy Drink. They joke that the secret ingredient is Viagra, but we beg to differ: it's obviously a serious secret, but whatever it is, they had to lower Hef's supply of it during development of the drink. We know this because he did, after all, downsize from twenty-four girlfriends to just three. Categorized as: Drinks
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06.29.07 by Widge @ 12:13 am
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06.22.07 by Widge @ 1:09 pm  Coffee + energy should = kickass, yes? Well, yes. But doesn't always happen in practice. Read on. Pop the top, stick in a straw, suck down the first gulp. First thing that hits is an overwhelming taste of sweetness. So much so that I immediately turned the can around to check the ingredients again. No, there's not huge amounts of sugar in this. Take another swig. Nope. Something's definitely wrong here. Skim the ingredients: there it is. Oh for fuck's sake. Shoulda known. Sucralose. Sucralose and aspartame give anything and everything a weird taste and then an unpleasant aftertaste. It just screams "FAKE" at my tastebuds. In fact, drinking this reminds me almost of that abomination, Coke Blak. But after my initial horror of putting some of this crap in my system, something else hits me--and maybe it's the Coke flashback that reminds me: "Big Black"? To me, "Big Black" implies straight-up black coffee. I was looking forward to Monster-level stimulants in a bigass can of coffee. But this has "reduced fat milk" along with sugar and fake sugar. So the name throws me right there. I'll have a mixed coffee drink that's sweet every once in a while, sure, but for straight up coffee, I haven't had anything this sweet-tasting since I first got hooked right out of high school. That's when I was taking free coffee from the customer center I worked out of desperation to stay awake in college--yes, that's how it all started, folks. Categorized as: Drinks and Reviews
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