Gawker.com - The caffeine-infused cultural phenomenon known as Four Loko will no longer contain caffeine, guarana or taurine, according to a statement last night from its producer, Phusion Projects. The company remained defiant, saying, "the combination of alcohol and caffeine is safe."
Doctors would disagree with that statement, but whatever. And what is Four Loko without the caffeine? Another run of the mill, shitty alcoholic beverage in a can. Several states have moved to ban the drink, and the FDA is expected to say that it doesn't like Four Loko very much either, maybe even today.
Say it ain't so! Looks like I'm going to have to get drunk the old fashioned way. Instead of being able to buy 2 of these for 6 bucks, drink em' down, and have a pretty decent buzz for pregaming, now I'm going to have to buy a fifth of jager and a 4 pack of red bull for 28 bucks and get twice as blacked out from pregaming. Thanks a lot FDA. Not only do you affect my pocket book, but now I'm going to drink more. Thank you.
The real kicker of this that pisses me off is Washington, who took the first step to banning these, only did so after 4 kids fell ill from the beverage. The thing is, all 4 of those kids were under 21. Typical right? Kids under 21 being pussies and ruining it for the rest. If anything they should be fighting underage drinking. Banning this drink will not change anything. Now kids are going to be taking Jager to the face with a couple of rails of blow to achieve that mysterious 4 Loko-ness. Thanks Washington. Now kids are doing blow since they can't have their 4 Loko. Good move.
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