4 Loko Appreciation

[seagullboy]

4LOKO is good for bicycling in the sun...but when I'm in Seattle I sip micro's...

[Deloner]

perfect way to nail underage bitches = 4lokos.

 

not that i do that kinda stuff.......... (im 19 :D )

[Tavaruawon]

I dunno how you all are finna get faded off this shit. I put back a couple of these and only feel a slight buzz. I guess that's what I get for being an alchy with a high tolerance.

[Pfffffffffft]

the 3a btm homies got me to get down with em'.

 

 

way to name drop

[Butter_Milkshake]

would rather drink a joose

[forsit]

way to name drop

 

HAHAHA. you have no idea what you're talking about.

[the dark horse]

4lokos are gross as shit, but they get you hammered 4sho. if you say you drank a few of these and didnt get drunk, you must be a fucking ox. shit gets ugly on loko nights.

[KILZ FILLZ]

I think they taste like Hawaiian punch

 

My taste buds are fried tho

[Roke Reserve]

 

shit will really fuck your shit up but steel reserve for the win

[Chubbs]

4loko now has at least 3 threads on this board..swat i'm talkin bout

[itsallafarce]

shit is fucking scust....but the one time i drank some i did pass out in the front lawn of my friends house.

[SHIT.]

all about the lemonade.

[KINGSHITOFFUCKMOUNTAIN]

would rather drink jameson

 

*fixed

[KM4RT]

^^^

[Inappropriate_Responder]

 

Fresh: The Happy Meal on the day it was bought by artist Sally Davies in New York

 

 

 

 

Tasty: Looking a little dry and with an 'acrylic sheen', but the burger has no signs of mould - not even on the bun

 

 

 

 

Fast food: Five months into the experiment, and although the burger patty has shrunk a bit it doesn't look that different to the original

 

 

 

 

 

Worrying: More than three months in and the usual effects of time appear to have had no impact

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319562/McDonalds-Happy-Meal-bought-Sally-Davies-shows-sign-mould-6-months.html

[2Blazzed]

i was gonna try this shit the other night.People in my neighborhood have been talking about it all summer. ill give it a swig this weekend

[DjKeNNyKiLoz]

88% water 1% sugar

[viperface]

thread's racist.

[Realism]

88% water 1% sugar

 

100 percent gross and potent...the only flavor I can drink without pulling a face is the Lemonade, which just tastes like spiked Minute Maid to me...

 

Then again, having your vomit smell exactly like whatever flavor you drank earlier in the night can be fun.

[injury]

i'm about the watermelon.

[HIPHOPDONTSTOPATOP]

why do ppl drink that shit..

that stuff is soo horrible..

even bums dont drink that shit..

id chose a md 20 20 over that stuff any day..

only stupid up class white ppl drink that shit..

 

Lets get fugggged up..

[Manute Bol]

I think you meant to say low class black people

 

[yinz n'at]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10292/1096384-455.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX

 

From the same small town brewery that conjured Rolling Rock from mountain spring water comes a brew that, depending on whom you talk to, is either as conventional as a rum and Coke or the beverage from hell.

 

Four Loko, a caffeinated malt beverage produced at City Brewing's Latrobe plant, 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 that sells for about $2.50.

 

Like Joose and other caffeinated alcoholic beverages, Four Loko provides a ready-to-drink version of what its originators observed young drinkers doing on their own: combining energy drinks with alcohol.

 

"Mixing caffeine and alcohol has been around a long time. It's nothing new or novel," said Jaisen Freeman, a former Ohio State University hockey player who started Phusion Projects, the Chicago-based maker of Four Loko, with two other OSU grads.

 

But while Mr. Freeman views Four Loko as an extension of traditional mixes such as Irish Coffee and Jack Daniel's and cola, some doctors and behavioral scientists say caffeinated alcoholic beverages turn drinkers into wide-awake drunks who are more dangerous to themselves and those around them.

 

"I think the science is clear that consumption of alcohol with caffeine leads to risky behaviors," said Bruce Goldberger, director of toxicology at University of Florida College of Medicine.

 

Dr. Goldberger and former University of Florida College of Public Health professor Dennis Thombs published a study on alcoholic energy drinks this spring in Addictive Behaviors, a scientific journal.

 

Their findings: College-age adults who had consumed energy drinks mixed with alcohol left bars later and were more likely to leave intoxicated than those who drank just alcohol. They also were more inclined to think they were capable of driving than those who consumed just alcohol.

 

"When you mix caffeine with alcohol, you get problems," said Dr. Thombs, who is now with the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

 

He called caffeinated alcoholic beverages "a new, emerging drug problem."

 

Doctors and state attorneys general have taken their concerns to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In November, the agency sent letters to Phusion Projects and 26 other alcoholic energy drink makers, asking them to document why it is safe to mix caffeine with alcohol. The FDA has approved caffeine as an additive for soft drinks, but has never made a similar ruling with alcohol.

 

Nearly a year later, 19 of the 27 companies have responded, including some who asked for more time, FDA spokesman Michael Herndon said.

 

The agency will evaluate what the producers have to say as quickly as possible but "a decision regarding the use of caffeine in alcoholic beverages could take some time," Mr. Herndon said in an e-mail.

 

The delay angers Mary Claire O'Brien, who teaches emergency medicine at Wake Forest University.

 

"I'm mad as a hornet that they didn't do something in the first place, and I'm mad as a hornet that they haven't done anything yet," Dr. O'Brien said.

 

Research shows that those who use the beverages drink more often, binge drink more often and are more likely to engage in risky behavior, such as driving with a drunken driver, than those who drink just alcohol, Dr. O'Brien said.

 

"There is no general consensus among health professionals and the scientific community that the use of caffeine in alcoholic beverages has been demonstrated to be safe," Dr. O'Brien wrote in a September 2009 letter to the National Association of Attorneys General's committee on youth access to alcohol.

 

The letter also was signed by Dr. Goldberger and three other doctors. A few days later, the attorneys general group asked the FDA to immediately remove the drinks from the market. MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev agreed to stop making alcoholic energy drinks in 2008 following complaints from a group of state attorneys general.

 

Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., banned all caffeinated alcoholic drinks, including Four Loko, from campus this month after about two dozen students were hospitalized with alcohol-related problems this semester. Only a handful of those cases involved Four Loko, spokeswoman Anna Farneski said.

 

Mr. Freeman said Phusion Projects submitted its report this summer on why Four Loko is safe. The findings, which were based on a study conducted by scientific and food safety experts, are being reviewed by the FDA, he said.

 

Alcoholic energy drinks are a relatively new product. Mr. Freeman said Phusion Projects produced its first version in late 2005. The product will be available in all 50 states by the end of the year, he said. The market for the drinks is growing faster than the overall beer market, but not as fast as demand for craft beer, Mr. Freeman said.

 

"It's a relatively small part of the beer market, less than 1 percent," he said.

 

He declined to speculate how sales could be affected by the outcome of the FDA review.

 

City Brewing's D.J. O'Donnell, who is in charge of business development and scheduling for the LaCrosse, Wis., company, said Four Loko represented a good portion of production at the Latrobe brewery, which employs about 115.

 

He said it would be hard to speculate on how production might be affected by what, if anything, the FDA decides to do. Whatever the outcome, Mr. O'Donnell does not believe jobs in Latrobe would be affected.

 

Those who want the FDA to act concede that the regulations would apply to only ready-to-drink versions of the cocktail. They wouldn't stop drinkers from buying energy drinks and alcohol and mixing them on their own. The combination is appealing to young drinkers because "it's rapidly intoxicating," Dr. Goldberger said.

 

"It's consistent with that instant gratification that young people crave today," he said.

 

 

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10292/1096384-455.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX#ixzz12vy1q5hE

[sausage party]

jam a four loko up my butt lez get a party started

[yinz n'at]

LIKE DRINKING

 

[injury]

[BELTOLEUM]

Yea its unpleasant...i didn't know this shit has

been out for that long

[rushawn wuan]

a group of friends and i were drinking these and hyping them up like we were getting payed. had us all wilding the fuck out. last time i had some was during a tomatoe fight a few months ago. ive chilled on them pretty tough cause i be wildin out on them, fuck what ya niggas heard.

[facemeltAAARGH]

Im a man of class when it comes to my alcohol. Not gonna lie, I drank 4lokos before, its like O.E. for gay folks.

 

I dont hate it nor like it, but I make attention-seeking spoiled whores drink those things so I can take advantage of them.

 

 

[sneekatoke]

they had sparx or whatever before this and i tried those once...

 

ive since not touched an energy/alcohol shitmix, if im that hard for cash ill just get some lone stars..