N43. The worst energy drinks are now $1.90 at WinCo. Bangs are ~$2.50. I’m probably going to hate this flavor by the time I get through 72 of them, but it’s a great deal, if you need 300mg of caffeine to get through the afternoon.
@spiralingside can confirm. Tasty. Tropical fruit punchy. Like fruit punch but coconut and pineapple forward. Also, hella fast shipping within dfw— ordered Tuesday, received Friday. Not that any of this matters with the same being over…
Can’t stand Red Bull, but I actually like Bang (best refrigerated). I have yet to find a flavor I don’t like, including this one. It’s not a drink I normally have (I prefer iced tea), but $1 per can is too good a deal to pass up.
FYI for anyone who has preferences on artificial sweeteners- This has sucralose as the sweetener according to amazon. I find sucralose disgustingly, cloyingly sweet, may just be me.
TBH I started making my own energy drinks a few years ago. Sugar, koolaid of choice, l-theanine, taurine, guarana, ginseng, lion’s mane, liquid IV hydration powder, and a b vitamin tablet as needed. I also have caffeine pills to take when I really need them, but I rarely do. I mix up a batch every couple of weeks, dissolve about 2 tb of the mix in 8oz water, and haven’t gone back to the commercial stuff.
(one “serving size” scoop of each of the things per batch works well for me, YMMV, I am not a doctor so please ask them about health stuff. I just got annoyed by how cloying a lot of energy drinks were since I don’t like sweets in my morning)
@Jamileigh17 Exactly the problem with this stuff. Just say no to artificial sweeteners. Energy drinks as a whole aren’t good for you but on the rare occasion I feel the need for one, Rockstar is just about the only one I’ll reach for as it uses good old fashioned sugar.
@ybmuG The question I’d like answered is are the unicorns squeezed for their juices or are they hiding the Unicorn Mills where their juices are bled out? Either way it looks like Big Cola might be hiding a horror show.
@narfcake Me too. I could have hundreds of milligrams or none and can not tell the difference either way. I would say the 3 pm snack at work was a much better pick me up.
@narfcake@ponagathos So am I, but I stopped drinking coffee past 6pm because even though I can fall to sleep right away, having caffeine in your system will affect the quality of your sleep whether you realize it or not. As it is, I rarely get enough sleep so I decided to stop late night caffeine since it wasn’t helping me stay awake anyway.
Just a tip. If they’re not doing anything for you, ditch those late night coffees. I might sacrifice sleep quality if the coffee helped me stay awake/alert but it doesn’t so makes no sense to me to worsen the quality of the little sleep I get.
@narfcake@ponagathos
Man I can’t drink caffeine past 2, 3 if I’m really pushing it. Coffee has to be before noon and only a pop in the afternoon in I’m absolutely dragging and I’ll still be up till 1-2 at night. I rarely have any caffeine anymore though. In the winter months I drink coffee more bc im cold but I’ll go months without it.
Every time! Every time I say “I haven’t ordered anything in a long while, I’m gonna cancel so I stop paying $5/mo for nothing” the next few days they always have a deal that’s too good for me not to sign back up again.
So now I’m paying $6/mo and I have a case of bang coming
@MrMikenIkes I hear you MrMike. Last month was a good one for me though with four orders including an IRK and a couple christmas gifts. Although the IRK did live up to its acronym.
@whogots they already have a cotton candy flavor though, and it’s the best flavor. It tastes like liquid cotton candy. Might be a bit sweet for anyone not expecting it, but damn tasty. If the sweetness bothers anyone in these drinks, NEVER try the birthday cake flavor. It’s like pouring cake batter down your throat.
Warning - sucralose derivatives are a potential neurotoxin to many people. This is especially a problem in prepackaged drinks that are unrefrigerated and stored for a long time (looking at you, Meh warehouse). Over time the air in the can reacts with the sucralose, turning it into poison. So if your cans look a little collapsed (squished) it means the reaction has occurred and you should throw them away. Some symptoms of sucralose poisoning are muscle weakness, memory problems, vision problems, clinical depression, and seizures.
@uwacn this is a pile of horseshit. Unless they’re baking the cans, the sucralose isn’t breaking down. Find an actual scientific reference for this nonsense please. Don’t quote some holistic “medicine” site or some other pseudoscientific study by someone trying to sell their particular brand of snake oil. Sucralose isn’t breaking down into neurotoxins in a can stored in a warehouse, and not by some reaction with air in the can. How is a neurotoxin only a neurotoxin for some people? Wouldn’t it just be a neurotoxin?
If the cans look squished, it means they aren’t sealed properly, and you should probably throw them away. But it doesn’t mean there was some chemical reaction between sucralose and air because the warehouse was warm, which then somehow deflated the can.
@mike808 yeah, if they’re just squished a little. I think crazypants was referring to the can appearing otherwise intact but being a little “deflated.” I wasn’t suggesting an improperly sealed can from the factory. I was saying something happened to the can that screwed up the seal it had, causing a loss of carbonation or a leak. Either way, the reason not to drink it would have nothing to do with sucralose performing deadly neurotoxin experiments with canned air in a warm warehouse.
@warpedrotors
Yeah. A broken seal/puncture, a hot, dark space, protected from weather for the moat part, and loads of sugar amd organic compounds. What could possibly go wrong? And we’re certain it has to do with the sucralose, and not just everyday botulism festering in a perfect swamp.
I mean, come on! That would be as dumb as injecting bubonic plague (also a neurotoxin, btw)!
If you need/want caffeine and are looking to save money, consider No-DOZ, Vivarin, or Jet-Alert, should be available at most grocery/pharmacy/big box stores, as well as online. There is also generic/store brands for even less. Also, there is a million supplement alternatives to the three mentioned above, in case you are looking for USDA Organic, or Caffeine from a specific source, etc. I keep this and a multi-vitaman around (at home and in the truck), in case I need a pick-me-up. No Artificial Sweeteners or excess sugar, and high cost. Just sayin’ . . .
@BuddTX Seconded. Food grade caffeine from a supplement company. I like pipingrock.com and they often have sales. 200mg caffeine runs about 1¢ per pill.
I was running low on the C4 strawberry starburst flavored ones I have been drinking. Rainbow Unicorn is one of the better Bang flavors and I am smack dab in the middle of my work’s busy season so I’m in.
If this was cotton candy Bang, I’d get 3. To me, Rainbow Unicorn Bang and Monster (original) both taste like carbonated cough syrup with added bittering agent. Perhaps this is great for people who like the green/black Monster.
My local expired goods store had pallets of these, including a bunch of other flavors. Been buying them for months at 18$ for 24. Ran out over the weekend (crazy timing) and crashed HARD all weekend. I think it’s time to ween off.
Tempting, but for health reasons have to cut back on the energy drinks.
And FWIW, as cheap as these are they still can’t beat my former “go-to” overly caffienated beverage - RipIt. Nice thing about RipIt is they never bothered with the “energy additive” pseudoscience. Just (mostly) tasty soda flavors loaded up with sugar and lots of caffiene at $1/can msrp and conveniently available at my local Menard’s hardware store and/or Dollar Tree.
@Turken I used to buy RipIt from gas stations while working late. I’d get the sugar free ones though, which meant they tasted like a combo of piss and wet shoes. I swear I got a good 6-8 extra hours of being wide awake from those things though.
@warpedrotors yeah, not every RipIt flavor was great… the zero-calorie “green” flavor is particularly nasty. But for awhile they were making some pretty good fruity flavored sodas (strawberry, grape, lime, coconut-mango, raspberry lemonade) that were unique in a good way, whereas 95% of the other energy drink makers out there seem only capable of producing “poor imitation of the already nasty red bull” and “liquified sweet-tarts” flavors.
Okay now this is tempting, but my local cheapo grocery chain has some weird brand called AShoc for 69¢ and I don’t know if this is substantially tastier.
@Hiz It can’t be any worse; Walmart had some cans of AShoc with BOGO coupons and Ibotta rebates, so I bought them. The only one I could get past my tongue was the blue raspberry; the rest were absolutely awful, not even good enough for repeat rebates.
As someone who has drank their fair share of energy drinks, rainbow unicorn ain’t bad. I know some guys who would list it as one of their faves.
However, I won’t be buying, as I get my bangs for free, cuz I’m awesome. Lol no, but I work at a fire house, and the bang girls come by every so often and drop off several cases. Also, the hospitals have a massive spread of flavors, and they’re free for us. Also, I’m trying to kick the energy drink habit.
This one tastes like amoxicillin. Which is weird, but good. If you google amoxicillin flavor you’ll almost certainly see a can of this in the search results.
This is the only energy drink that actually made me vomit. I drank a can and about 15 minutes later I was feeling very ill, about 30 minutes later I couldn’t hold back any more and was feeling like I was going to be sick no matter what - quickly rushed to the bathroom and made it just in time. Spent about 10 minutes retching up every last bit of this stuff.
So no, I wouldn’t recommend drinking it or buying it. I don’t know what is in it that’s different from Monster or any others - but this alone made me very sick.
@Artimid this was the only thing you ate or drank or were exposed to that day? Weird. Yes, everyone must avoid this since one person puked after drinking it.
@warpedrotors It wasn’t the only thing I ate or drank all day - but when I was sick it was pretty clear to see what was coming out. The only thing that came out was this stuff. Not sure if you’ve ever been sick before, but it’s pretty gosh darn easy to find the stomach contents, and when it’s a blue/purple liquid only? Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what may have caused it. I know, a shocking mystery.
And it wasn’t “Everyone must avoid it” as it was sharing an experience and a review, which is sort of what this entire forum is for when it comes to products. As I stated, I wouldn’t recommend drinking or buying it - because I had a bad experience.
@Artimid@warpedrotors
Back when I was much younger, I got a cup of root beer from a vending machine whose cooler was failing; it was well short of being actually cold, but I was thirsty, so I drank it. And less that 15 minutes later, my stomach took violent exception to my choice, and returned it in one very swiftly delivered flood. It was a long time before I was willing to try root beer again.
@Artimid I once had the flu and drank a bunch of Gatorade. I puked 13 times in 12 hours. One of those times was right after drinking the Gatorade, and it came back up still a little cold… just Gatorade. Guess it was a bad batch of Gatorade. OR it was the last thing I drank before puking, so that’s what came up, regardless of what actually made me sick. Do you honestly think your body decides to puke up the thing that made you sick, and somehow bypasses anything else you ate or drank in the process? If you got sick from a bad can of bang, but ate a big bowl of chili after, would your body decide to keep the chili, somehow shooting the bang up past it? Your story is ridiculous, but your attempt at reasoning is hilarious. My point was that you have no idea if the bang made you sick or if it was something else. My other point was that your anecdotal puke evidence shouldn’t influence anyone else’s decision about buying these. If your intention was not to sway other people away from buying this, because it might make them sick, then what was the point of your story?
@Artimid@warpedrotors blue/purple? This one has food coloring? Most bangs (if not all, except the teas/ coffee of course) are clear so I’d guess you definitely had some other shit going on.
@airjer@Artimid good catch! I totally missed that detail while reading the fabricated story. This is definitely clear, not blue/purple. Sounds like he’s full of shit. Or maybe someone poisoned his bang with a blue/purple poison!
@airjer@warpedrotors … Fabricated story? So you work for Bang or just seem to be that much of a trollish idiot?
Part of this is for Airjer: As for the food coloring, no idea if it’s always been that way or if it was maybe the tea.
We’d have to ask the troll the entire chemical make-up for the entire run of this company. I’m not sure. It was a Bang energy drink bought from a store. For all I know it interacted with the bile and stomach acids and turned colors because CHEMICALS CHANGE THINGS WHEN THEY INTERACT, INCLUDING CHANGING COLOR!!! but yes. It came out blue/purple-ish. Heck, maybe it was expired and they kept selling it, I don’t know. I don’t care. It freaking happened, and if the stupid troll really wants to doubt it? Then put a pillow DEEPLY over your head and scream into it, because I’m beyond over it. It was a review, whether you liked it or not. So punt right off you annoying pest.
@airjer@Artimid wow! Really struck a nerve there, huh? Fabricated story, as proven by this response. You have no idea what you drank. You don’t know what color it was or if it was tea. Think about that. You don’t know if you drank rainbow unicorn flavored carbonated energy drink, or tea. Yet you somehow know that this was the only thing you ingested and it was solely to blame for your vomit. The teas have a brown, tea-like color. No bang product is blue or purple in color, nor could they be mistaken for blue or purple. My assumption, if there is any truth to your story at all, barring fabrication or delusion, is that you are remembering wrong, and you actually drank an entirely different product. The fact is, as you’ve admitted here, you don’t remember what you drank. Since you don’t remember what you drank, it’s safe to assume you also don’t remember what else you may have consumed that particular day. So, you have no idea what made you vomit. Even if you did somehow prove that you in fact did drink only this, there would be no way of knowing that this caused you to vomit. In short, your story is bullshit, and your feelings are hurt. Get over it. No one cares.
@rphawx well, with that extremely detailed, scientific, fact-based analysis, we should all cancel our orders and start the ball rolling on the class action lawsuit.
@rphawx let’s start over. Back up anything you stated here with any proof whatsoever. Tell us the source of your “truth.” Tell us about the damage on a molecular level. Tell us which organs are affected and how. Tell us what ingredient or ingredients have been shown to cause this damage. I’ve got my notepad ready.
Well, people know vaping and smoking are bad for you but they still do it. Oh well. Look at that… I started with a well and finished with a well, pure jenius!
@rphawx that’s because there are facts showing that those things are bad for you. Your “this is poison” fearmongering doesn’t really qualify as proof that this is poison, or even that it’s mildly unhealthy in any way.
Why not. Wonder how it tastes mixed with some of that Arbys Curly Fries Vodka.
/giphy scattered-alluring-bit
Or with Crinkle Fries Vodka?
/giphy makeshift-sulky-tarantula
It arrived today, and after sitting on my doorstep for a few hours, was nicely chilled.
I can’t pinpoint what it tastes like, but it’s pretty decent. It is vaguely strawberry-ish. Very sweet, so unless you huff Pixie Stix, it’s impossible to chug down a can fast. Which, for me works out nicely, because I have a habit of going through cans of energy drinks like some folks go through water.
No regrets with this purchase
OK… I don’t care if it is called “Rainbow Unicorn,” this stuff is awesome! I found a cotton candy energy drink at a local dollar store that they no longer sell and this is pretty dang close. SO glad I bought it!
I finally got around to filching one of these from my SO’s stash today.
Meh, indeed.
Pro: Does not have the kind of actively nasty flavor or smell of many Monster and other guy-market energy drinks.
Con: The flavor it has is merely tolerable, entirely unattractive while also inoffensive; BORING.
I added a whole bunch of True Lime to it, and it became somewhat less bleh, but this is not the energy bev I’m looking for. (Plus, Way Too MUCH Caffeine.)
Specs
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$47.52 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Nov 15 - Friday, Nov 19
Ugh, they are notorious for paying “influencers” on Instagram to pimp their product. No wonder it ended up here on Meh.
@guybrush01 So, they…advertise?
/giphy gasp
@guybrush01 @tnhillbillygal
Cut out the middlepersons.
/image pimp juice can
What exactly are the “natural flavors” of a unicorn?
@dasred
@dasred
@dasred @GLaDOS my kid loves Bluey. But it’s the most Australian thing I’ve ever seen. The whole show is like a trip. 10/10 would recommend
Shame my doc says lay off the caffeine.
Also… that’s alotta Bang for your buck
/giphy facetious-forgetful-reason
N43. The worst energy drinks are now $1.90 at WinCo. Bangs are ~$2.50. I’m probably going to hate this flavor by the time I get through 72 of them, but it’s a great deal, if you need 300mg of caffeine to get through the afternoon.
@trent I think they’re pretty tasty, as far as energy drinks go.
@spiralingside can confirm. Tasty. Tropical fruit punchy. Like fruit punch but coconut and pineapple forward. Also, hella fast shipping within dfw— ordered Tuesday, received Friday. Not that any of this matters with the same being over…
@spiralingside @trent
Just got mine today too! That was some fast shipping. Meh must have wanted to get this crap the heck out of the warehouse.
I’m gay for banging rainbow unicorns! Sign me up!
Can’t stand Red Bull, but I actually like Bang (best refrigerated). I have yet to find a flavor I don’t like, including this one. It’s not a drink I normally have (I prefer iced tea), but $1 per can is too good a deal to pass up.
/giphy amorous-divine-gum
Oh hey, I was just talking about how Bang was the worst tasting brand of energy drinks earlier today!
@Narwalt Oh hey, I was talking earlier this week about how Bang is the best tasting energy drink on the market today!
FYI for anyone who has preferences on artificial sweeteners- This has sucralose as the sweetener according to amazon. I find sucralose disgustingly, cloyingly sweet, may just be me.
TBH I started making my own energy drinks a few years ago. Sugar, koolaid of choice, l-theanine, taurine, guarana, ginseng, lion’s mane, liquid IV hydration powder, and a b vitamin tablet as needed. I also have caffeine pills to take when I really need them, but I rarely do. I mix up a batch every couple of weeks, dissolve about 2 tb of the mix in 8oz water, and haven’t gone back to the commercial stuff.
(one “serving size” scoop of each of the things per batch works well for me, YMMV, I am not a doctor so please ask them about health stuff. I just got annoyed by how cloying a lot of energy drinks were since I don’t like sweets in my morning)
@Jamileigh17
The energy comes from the adrenaline jolt you get from how fast you have to run after you trim a lion’s mane that he didn’t want trimmed?
@Jamileigh17 Exactly the problem with this stuff. Just say no to artificial sweeteners. Energy drinks as a whole aren’t good for you but on the rare occasion I feel the need for one, Rockstar is just about the only one I’ll reach for as it uses good old fashioned sugar.
You can taste the unicorn!
@ybmuG The question I’d like answered is are the unicorns squeezed for their juices or are they hiding the Unicorn Mills where their juices are bled out? Either way it looks like Big Cola might be hiding a horror show.
@Kerig3 I think @GLaDOS answered that question above
@Kerig3 @ybmuG They just bought a few Blendtec blenders from Meh and turn the whole unicorn (except the horn) into a smoothie.
The horn is given to Darkness.
@Kerig3 @ybmuG they aren’t squeezed; they’re milked!
These aren’t my favorite, but I do like them. At this price, I can’t resist buying some.
/giphy homegrown-endurable-crab
@Pony that is a pretty cool gif watching a crap eat a strawberry.
ok, I do not relish the thought of making margaritas out of unicorn piss.
not even conceptually.
Why don’t they just say. “These drinks are for banging, and that’s just what you’ll do. One of these days they’ll drink to bang all over you.”
@hchavers
You ready, drinks? Start banging.
@hchavers as in “these boots are made for stompin…” reference?
@akatz227 @hchavers Is it Weasel Stomping Day again?
@akatz227 @hchavers walkin*
so if redbull gives you wings, this stuff makes you horny?
@alacrity Or makes you a carpenter. Jesus Juice?
Why’d they add coconut? I miss original.
Anyone else not notice any lift at all from Caffeine?
@ponagathos yep, I have to give up caffeine for a month or two twice a year to get back into feeling it…
@ponagathos I’m one of those who can drink coffee at midnight.
@narfcake Me too. I could have hundreds of milligrams or none and can not tell the difference either way. I would say the 3 pm snack at work was a much better pick me up.
@narfcake @ponagathos So am I, but I stopped drinking coffee past 6pm because even though I can fall to sleep right away, having caffeine in your system will affect the quality of your sleep whether you realize it or not. As it is, I rarely get enough sleep so I decided to stop late night caffeine since it wasn’t helping me stay awake anyway.
Just a tip. If they’re not doing anything for you, ditch those late night coffees. I might sacrifice sleep quality if the coffee helped me stay awake/alert but it doesn’t so makes no sense to me to worsen the quality of the little sleep I get.
@narfcake @ponagathos
Man I can’t drink caffeine past 2, 3 if I’m really pushing it. Coffee has to be before noon and only a pop in the afternoon in I’m absolutely dragging and I’ll still be up till 1-2 at night. I rarely have any caffeine anymore though. In the winter months I drink coffee more bc im cold but I’ll go months without it.
If you’re already subscribed to Meh, this will be absurdly cheap for soda can delivery to your door!
Every time! Every time I say “I haven’t ordered anything in a long while, I’m gonna cancel so I stop paying $5/mo for nothing” the next few days they always have a deal that’s too good for me not to sign back up again.
So now I’m paying $6/mo and I have a case of bang coming
@MrMikenIkes I hear you MrMike. Last month was a good one for me though with four orders including an IRK and a couple christmas gifts. Although the IRK did live up to its acronym.
@ponagathos I’ve been banned from buying IRKs based on the amount of regret that shows up at my door
Hey I can drink these with my ssstraws.
Yeah!
/giphy wooden-jumpy-key
Yeah, sounds like a great price and all but I don’t see what I look for when I buy something I consume. Where is the damn expiration date meh!
I prefer my unicorns inflatable.
I don’t use energy drinks. so why I am I writing this at 1:23 AM?
Where is this stuff made?
@kvs2000 In a factory?
@kvs2000 Bangladesh
@DoggyDov @kvs2000
No, silly. It’s US-made, canned in a number of plants around the country. I don’t know which one rhese are sourced from.
I’m pretty sure unicorn should be in the cotton candy flavor family.
This stuff tastes like artificially sweetened ass. Remember how bitter saccharin was in the eighties? That kind of artificially sweetened.
And just ass flavor, no hint of cotton candy or bubblegum or cherry or fruit punch.
I don’t think I’ve been so mad about a drink purchase since Orbitz.
@whogots they already have a cotton candy flavor though, and it’s the best flavor. It tastes like liquid cotton candy. Might be a bit sweet for anyone not expecting it, but damn tasty. If the sweetness bothers anyone in these drinks, NEVER try the birthday cake flavor. It’s like pouring cake batter down your throat.
I still have bottles of Orbitz in my garage
/giphy Orbitz bottle
Warning - sucralose derivatives are a potential neurotoxin to many people. This is especially a problem in prepackaged drinks that are unrefrigerated and stored for a long time (looking at you, Meh warehouse). Over time the air in the can reacts with the sucralose, turning it into poison. So if your cans look a little collapsed (squished) it means the reaction has occurred and you should throw them away. Some symptoms of sucralose poisoning are muscle weakness, memory problems, vision problems, clinical depression, and seizures.
@uwacn
/giphy sure
@uwacn this is a pile of horseshit. Unless they’re baking the cans, the sucralose isn’t breaking down. Find an actual scientific reference for this nonsense please. Don’t quote some holistic “medicine” site or some other pseudoscientific study by someone trying to sell their particular brand of snake oil. Sucralose isn’t breaking down into neurotoxins in a can stored in a warehouse, and not by some reaction with air in the can. How is a neurotoxin only a neurotoxin for some people? Wouldn’t it just be a neurotoxin?
@uwacn, yeah, science says you’re wrong
@DavidChurchRN @uwacn Unfortunately #science doesn’t bode well these days.
If the cans look squished, it means they aren’t sealed properly, and you should probably throw them away. But it doesn’t mean there was some chemical reaction between sucralose and air because the warehouse was warm, which then somehow deflated the can.
@warpedrotors A more plausible reason is they can be squished from improperly stacking them over the rated limits.
@mike808 yeah, if they’re just squished a little. I think crazypants was referring to the can appearing otherwise intact but being a little “deflated.” I wasn’t suggesting an improperly sealed can from the factory. I was saying something happened to the can that screwed up the seal it had, causing a loss of carbonation or a leak. Either way, the reason not to drink it would have nothing to do with sucralose performing deadly neurotoxin experiments with canned air in a warm warehouse.
@warpedrotors
Yeah. A broken seal/puncture, a hot, dark space, protected from weather for the moat part, and loads of sugar amd organic compounds. What could possibly go wrong? And we’re certain it has to do with the sucralose, and not just everyday botulism festering in a perfect swamp.
I mean, come on! That would be as dumb as injecting bubonic plague (also a neurotoxin, btw)!
/image Shrek in his swamp
If you need/want caffeine and are looking to save money, consider No-DOZ, Vivarin, or Jet-Alert, should be available at most grocery/pharmacy/big box stores, as well as online. There is also generic/store brands for even less. Also, there is a million supplement alternatives to the three mentioned above, in case you are looking for USDA Organic, or Caffeine from a specific source, etc. I keep this and a multi-vitaman around (at home and in the truck), in case I need a pick-me-up. No Artificial Sweeteners or excess sugar, and high cost. Just sayin’ . . .
@BuddTX Seconded. Food grade caffeine from a supplement company. I like pipingrock.com and they often have sales. 200mg caffeine runs about 1¢ per pill.
Way cheaper than overpriced K-cups, too.
The utes of the nation call it’s liquid meth or meth in a tall boy
I was running low on the C4 strawberry starburst flavored ones I have been drinking. Rainbow Unicorn is one of the better Bang flavors and I am smack dab in the middle of my work’s busy season so I’m in.
/giphy abrasive-cheerful-falcon
If this was cotton candy Bang, I’d get 3. To me, Rainbow Unicorn Bang and Monster (original) both taste like carbonated cough syrup with added bittering agent. Perhaps this is great for people who like the green/black Monster.
My local expired goods store had pallets of these, including a bunch of other flavors. Been buying them for months at 18$ for 24. Ran out over the weekend (crazy timing) and crashed HARD all weekend. I think it’s time to ween off.
PSA: These are GREAT with vodka
@TuxFL the pina colada ones are great with rum.
Tempting, but for health reasons have to cut back on the energy drinks.
And FWIW, as cheap as these are they still can’t beat my former “go-to” overly caffienated beverage - RipIt. Nice thing about RipIt is they never bothered with the “energy additive” pseudoscience. Just (mostly) tasty soda flavors loaded up with sugar and lots of caffiene at $1/can msrp and conveniently available at my local Menard’s hardware store and/or Dollar Tree.
@Turken I used to buy RipIt from gas stations while working late. I’d get the sugar free ones though, which meant they tasted like a combo of piss and wet shoes. I swear I got a good 6-8 extra hours of being wide awake from those things though.
@warpedrotors yeah, not every RipIt flavor was great… the zero-calorie “green” flavor is particularly nasty. But for awhile they were making some pretty good fruity flavored sodas (strawberry, grape, lime, coconut-mango, raspberry lemonade) that were unique in a good way, whereas 95% of the other energy drink makers out there seem only capable of producing “poor imitation of the already nasty red bull” and “liquified sweet-tarts” flavors.
Okay now this is tempting, but my local cheapo grocery chain has some weird brand called AShoc for 69¢ and I don’t know if this is substantially tastier.
…ehh, it’s not like I won’t drink it anyway.
/giphy obsolete-romantic-burst
@Hiz Outta sight!
@Hiz It can’t be any worse; Walmart had some cans of AShoc with BOGO coupons and Ibotta rebates, so I bought them. The only one I could get past my tongue was the blue raspberry; the rest were absolutely awful, not even good enough for repeat rebates.
As someone who has drank their fair share of energy drinks, rainbow unicorn ain’t bad. I know some guys who would list it as one of their faves.
However, I won’t be buying, as I get my bangs for free, cuz I’m awesome. Lol no, but I work at a fire house, and the bang girls come by every so often and drop off several cases. Also, the hospitals have a massive spread of flavors, and they’re free for us. Also, I’m trying to kick the energy drink habit.
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
Bang!
Bang!
You’re dead
@pixelated If you drink 2 of them back to back like that, you’re probably right.
/giphy you-know-you-want-it
After reading some of these comments, I think I need to give up my username to someone more deserving.
Okay .
I’m in.
/ knobby-granular-dog
Q Park goes hard on this crap, lol.
Wish these were their key lime pie flavor but I’m in anyway.
These are really good IMO but be careful, 300mg of caffeine is more than triple the amount in most “80mg” energy drinks.
I drink half of one at a time and save the rest.
This is a great price, also.
Why is there tax on this item
@jolschefski Try to checkout again and let me know if you’re still seeing that.
I know carbonated beverages are taxable in some states, but if they aren’t supposed to be in yours, you shouldn’t see sales tax.
This one tastes like amoxicillin. Which is weird, but good. If you google amoxicillin flavor you’ll almost certainly see a can of this in the search results.
@mhj Confirmed!
This is the only energy drink that actually made me vomit. I drank a can and about 15 minutes later I was feeling very ill, about 30 minutes later I couldn’t hold back any more and was feeling like I was going to be sick no matter what - quickly rushed to the bathroom and made it just in time. Spent about 10 minutes retching up every last bit of this stuff.
So no, I wouldn’t recommend drinking it or buying it. I don’t know what is in it that’s different from Monster or any others - but this alone made me very sick.
@Artimid this was the only thing you ate or drank or were exposed to that day? Weird. Yes, everyone must avoid this since one person puked after drinking it.
@warpedrotors It wasn’t the only thing I ate or drank all day - but when I was sick it was pretty clear to see what was coming out. The only thing that came out was this stuff. Not sure if you’ve ever been sick before, but it’s pretty gosh darn easy to find the stomach contents, and when it’s a blue/purple liquid only? Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what may have caused it. I know, a shocking mystery.
And it wasn’t “Everyone must avoid it” as it was sharing an experience and a review, which is sort of what this entire forum is for when it comes to products. As I stated, I wouldn’t recommend drinking or buying it - because I had a bad experience.
@Artimid @warpedrotors
Back when I was much younger, I got a cup of root beer from a vending machine whose cooler was failing; it was well short of being actually cold, but I was thirsty, so I drank it. And less that 15 minutes later, my stomach took violent exception to my choice, and returned it in one very swiftly delivered flood. It was a long time before I was willing to try root beer again.
@Artimid I once had the flu and drank a bunch of Gatorade. I puked 13 times in 12 hours. One of those times was right after drinking the Gatorade, and it came back up still a little cold… just Gatorade. Guess it was a bad batch of Gatorade. OR it was the last thing I drank before puking, so that’s what came up, regardless of what actually made me sick. Do you honestly think your body decides to puke up the thing that made you sick, and somehow bypasses anything else you ate or drank in the process? If you got sick from a bad can of bang, but ate a big bowl of chili after, would your body decide to keep the chili, somehow shooting the bang up past it? Your story is ridiculous, but your attempt at reasoning is hilarious. My point was that you have no idea if the bang made you sick or if it was something else. My other point was that your anecdotal puke evidence shouldn’t influence anyone else’s decision about buying these. If your intention was not to sway other people away from buying this, because it might make them sick, then what was the point of your story?
@Artimid @warpedrotors blue/purple? This one has food coloring? Most bangs (if not all, except the teas/ coffee of course) are clear so I’d guess you definitely had some other shit going on.
@airjer @Artimid good catch! I totally missed that detail while reading the fabricated story. This is definitely clear, not blue/purple. Sounds like he’s full of shit. Or maybe someone poisoned his bang with a blue/purple poison!
@airjer @warpedrotors … Fabricated story? So you work for Bang or just seem to be that much of a trollish idiot?
Part of this is for Airjer: As for the food coloring, no idea if it’s always been that way or if it was maybe the tea.
We’d have to ask the troll the entire chemical make-up for the entire run of this company. I’m not sure. It was a Bang energy drink bought from a store. For all I know it interacted with the bile and stomach acids and turned colors because CHEMICALS CHANGE THINGS WHEN THEY INTERACT, INCLUDING CHANGING COLOR!!! but yes. It came out blue/purple-ish. Heck, maybe it was expired and they kept selling it, I don’t know. I don’t care. It freaking happened, and if the stupid troll really wants to doubt it? Then put a pillow DEEPLY over your head and scream into it, because I’m beyond over it. It was a review, whether you liked it or not. So punt right off you annoying pest.
@airjer @Artimid wow! Really struck a nerve there, huh? Fabricated story, as proven by this response. You have no idea what you drank. You don’t know what color it was or if it was tea. Think about that. You don’t know if you drank rainbow unicorn flavored carbonated energy drink, or tea. Yet you somehow know that this was the only thing you ingested and it was solely to blame for your vomit. The teas have a brown, tea-like color. No bang product is blue or purple in color, nor could they be mistaken for blue or purple. My assumption, if there is any truth to your story at all, barring fabrication or delusion, is that you are remembering wrong, and you actually drank an entirely different product. The fact is, as you’ve admitted here, you don’t remember what you drank. Since you don’t remember what you drank, it’s safe to assume you also don’t remember what else you may have consumed that particular day. So, you have no idea what made you vomit. Even if you did somehow prove that you in fact did drink only this, there would be no way of knowing that this caused you to vomit. In short, your story is bullshit, and your feelings are hurt. Get over it. No one cares.
1,187 packs of 24 sold! 28,488 cans! How much unicorn juice can exist? I am getting that dreaded sense of FOMO. Must resist juice of unicorn . . . .
Tried this a while back. I honestly can’t recall what it tasted like, but they all ended up empty.
Oh yeah, just for the packaging. No way they’re drinkable, but that’s fine.
/Buy
@Seeds It worked! Your order number is: dull-plausible-sunflower
/image dull plausible sunflower
/giphy precipitous-devious-coleslaw
This stuff is pure poison and destroys the body on many (molecular) levels within many different organs. Sorry to be blunt but this is the truth.
@rphawx well, with that extremely detailed, scientific, fact-based analysis, we should all cancel our orders and start the ball rolling on the class action lawsuit.
@rphawx let’s start over. Back up anything you stated here with any proof whatsoever. Tell us the source of your “truth.” Tell us about the damage on a molecular level. Tell us which organs are affected and how. Tell us what ingredient or ingredients have been shown to cause this damage. I’ve got my notepad ready.
@rphawx
Somebody call the FDA and get this poison pulled from the market, stat!
So many molecular levels in so many organs! Run for the hills!
@warpedrotors If you shotgun these, you can molecular level up faster to max level over 9000!
Well, people know vaping and smoking are bad for you but they still do it. Oh well. Look at that… I started with a well and finished with a well, pure jenius!
@rphawx that’s because there are facts showing that those things are bad for you. Your “this is poison” fearmongering doesn’t really qualify as proof that this is poison, or even that it’s mildly unhealthy in any way.
Why not. Wonder how it tastes mixed with some of that Arbys Curly Fries Vodka.
/giphy scattered-alluring-bit
Or with Crinkle Fries Vodka?
/giphy makeshift-sulky-tarantula
Yeah, it’s real.
This stuff is clear. I wanted neon pink with light blue swirls…
It arrived today, and after sitting on my doorstep for a few hours, was nicely chilled.
I can’t pinpoint what it tastes like, but it’s pretty decent. It is vaguely strawberry-ish. Very sweet, so unless you huff Pixie Stix, it’s impossible to chug down a can fast. Which, for me works out nicely, because I have a habit of going through cans of energy drinks like some folks go through water.
No regrets with this purchase
Just saw a case of Bang (some other flavor) at Costco for $34. So definitely a good deal here for $24.
All three packs arrived in pristine condition. Pretty amazing for such a heavy shipment.
OK… I don’t care if it is called “Rainbow Unicorn,” this stuff is awesome! I found a cotton candy energy drink at a local dollar store that they no longer sell and this is pretty dang close. SO glad I bought it!
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
I finally got around to filching one of these from my SO’s stash today.
Meh, indeed.
Pro: Does not have the kind of actively nasty flavor or smell of many Monster and other guy-market energy drinks.
Con: The flavor it has is merely tolerable, entirely unattractive while also inoffensive; BORING.
I added a whole bunch of True Lime to it, and it became somewhat less bleh, but this is not the energy bev I’m looking for. (Plus, Way Too MUCH Caffeine.)
@werehatrack The main attraction was the price. Easily 25% less than even Costco bulk pricing.