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10.05.08 by Widge @ 12:11 am So Dan Aykroyd believes in a lot of whacky stuff. Which is cool for him. But now we wants to take spirituals and spirits and combine them. But that's okay, because this eight minute presentation about new Crystal Head Vodka is still better--and more believable--than the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found by Ken at the Lair of the North American Hodgman who wonders if it can possibly be real. I would say yes as well, however if so why doesn't the site have any information about where to purchase? Regardless, compare and contrast this vid with this classic vid. Show your work. Categorized as: Drinks
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09.26.08 by Widge @ 4:16 am  The journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence this month will contain a study, "Caffeinated Energy Drinks -- A growing problem," which expresses some serious concern and a lot of hoopla about caffeinated energy drinks. Some of their findings aren't nonsense. For example, the idea that the labels should inform the consumer how much caffeine they're about to ingest is a good idea. The idea that the labels should tell consumers to "not be a fucking idiot and drink more of this than you can handle" (my proposed label language) is also a good idea. Because otherwise you can get caffeine intoxication. Caffeine intoxication, a recognized clinical syndrome included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases, is marked by nervousness, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, gastrointestinal upset, tremors, rapid heartbeats (tachycardia), psychomotor agitation (restlessness and pacing) and in rare cases, death.
Death is bad. So are tremors, because that means if you move around on the ground the giant worms will find you and kill your ass. Or maybe that's the DTs. Categorized as: Drinks
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09.02.08 by Widge @ 2:11 pm  Those of you who enjoy walking up to a soda fountain in a convenience store and creating your own Frankendrink comprised of a little of this and a little of that--prepare for your heads to explode. Coke is doing what amounts to alpha-testing this summer--and will beta test the first part of next year--fountains that have a hundred drink choices in them. "The new dispenser works by using highly-concentrated ingredient packs that are about as easy to change as print cartridges." Basically this will allow for Coke to have every single damn drink they sell in one machine, from Zero Coke drinks to Fanta to regular unleaded Coke, and leave room for energy drinks and a slew of other possibilities. If Coke were smart, they would give one to me to test, because if I can't break the thing, you know it's golden. And perhaps you've already considered this--and perhaps your mind is still reeling from the possibilities of this new device--but am I the only one who wants to knock back a "highly-concentrated ingredient pack" to see what happens? Categorized as: Drinks
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08.25.08 by Widge @ 12:58 pm  While I am a stimulant junkie, there are times when even I want to relax. And I have been, on occasion, known to drink something that doesn't have caffeine in it. Like milk. And...you know. Milk. But I do like trying new drinks, especially when they sound as nice as "Vacation in a Bottle." It's pomegranate berry flavored, it says, so that is nice. It promises a "wave of relaxation," which is also nice. And while the fact that it has no caffeine makes it sound like something that I would burst into flames if I ever tried, I would say that you're thinking about it the wrong way. Vacations take time. So if you can have the equivalent of a vacation in the time it takes to drink something--how could that not appeal to a stimulant junkie? Granted, I was worried that the thing might lose its mojo, considering that it arrived in cans. But if you consider it, "Vacation in a Can" just doesn't have the same elegant sound to it. Popping the top, you get the whiff of the berry-ness, which is pleasant. The first sip is very pleasant--there's more berry flavor there than full on pom, but that's pleasant. It's extremely mild, mellow even. Then...the wave of relaxation is drowned by a wave of chemical aftertaste. And that's the sucralose undertow, folks. Categorized as: Drinks and Reviews
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08.10.08 by Widge @ 7:55 pm  Whoops, no, my mistake. The name of the drink is Surging Eel and actually has nothing to do with our dearly departed Surge. In Japanese it's Unagi Nobori. And it doesn't just taste like eel, it is eel. "Contains extracts from the head and bones of the serpentine fish." On one hand, I eat eel with my sushi, so that's not so odd. On the other hand, the concept of drinking an eel smoothie just doesn't, you know, thrill me. But because this is supposed to "boost stamina" that makes it, technically, an energy drink. And dammit, that's my jurisdiction. So I have a responsibility. Therefore I declare I will reimburse the costs if anyone wants to send me, from Japan, a bottle of this stuff. (As long as they send it via the slow, inexpensive transport instead of, you know, FedExing to me. Let's not crazy here.) Anyway, I will review it on the site. Contact me for details. I would hit up Japan Tobacco for a sample but I have a sneaking suspicion that since it's probably never going to show up stateside, they would derive no benefit from a review here, even though we do have readers in Japan. I declare also that I will also give a dollar to the first person who posts to YouTube a film of themselves taking a swig of Surging Eel and saying into the camera, "That's a moray!" Categorized as: Drinks
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