@Woody1 Maybe better than firearms. The woman in pic #4 got my attention but the woman in pic #6 looks like she could kick my ass, that makes me a little uneasy. They blurred out the woman in pic #10 other than her nails which… all I can say is that I am not impressed. But she looks like she’s having fun!

@werehatrack Oh yikes, thanks for pointing it out. I was half considering it but yeah no

@werehatrack that had me worried so I checked some other energy drinks that I consume. Monster’s sweetened with erythritol although it’s the third ingredient after citric acid.

Since I get Monster’s from Costco when they are on sale & drink them without a problem, I assume these won’t bother me either.

@werehatrack Better, worse, or about the same (as far as we know at this point) as sucralose?

@werehatrack The only thing I found was that it has been found to cause upset stomach when 50g are consumed at a time. Otherwise, about 1g/kg of bodyweight is considered “safe” in the short term.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/erythritol#TOC_TITLE_HDR_7

@wickhameh Sucralose has recent troubling research directly linking it to bad behavior at the cellular level, but establishing the real risk at typical consumption levels has not happened yet. Erythritol has a much longer history as a sweetener without apparent harm, the biochemical action in it is less troubling and the linkage to an actual cause for concern is less strong so far. But there are a substantial number of people who don’t tolerate the sugar alcohols very well; some folks can’t tolerate them at all. (Gastric distress and diarrhea issues.)

@werehatrack @wickhameh There’s an n=1000 NIH-funded study published in early 2023, finding that relatively high erythritol use increases the risk of cardiac events.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/erythritol-cardiovascular-events

While erythritol occurs naturally and was isolated in the 1800s, both it and sucralose were commercialized in the nineties.

@whogots @wickhameh I recall seeing both erythritol and mannitol showing up in the '60s, but not in many things. You’re right that it went into far more widespread use about 30 years back, which means that now is the time when we would be seeing a significant upward tick in problems that can be attributed to it, if it was going to require long term exposure to cause them. I haven’t checked to see whether that is the case, or whether anybody has been trying to tabulate any results and establish whether there is a correlation present. I’m sure someone will, but the question is whether their agenda is to publish or bury the data.

@Rowsdower I was clicking through the pictures and thought I’d reached the end when I got to the 4th picture. The one with the woman posing with a can and half an orange in the same hand…

Personally, I thought it looked like more of a photoshopped joke than the baby in the actual joke picture at the end.

@Rowsdower @xobzoo It’s a lemon for the pink lemonade flavor. More than anything, this tells me they couldn’t afford to have Pink model for that picture.

@wickhameh On closer inspection, I’ll accept that as a lemon.

Still does nothing to make me interested in the drink, so that’s some failed advertising. But I’m not their target audience.

@narfcake Good news! We’re never gonna hit that date.

@narfcake So… are you looking for a new purchaser/agent/whatever? I would think the negotiating between the two went with: it isn’t even remotely close to the marketing date, and you just can a bunch of shit that anyone could take a multivitamin and a caffeine pill?

Oh, I get it. You paid pennies for these. Which is why you can afford to fabulously rewards VMPs with gifts, and sell IRKs that don’t abjectly suck.

@KNmeh7 Meow? I’m not staff.

@qazxto Or some distributor had a multi-pallet shipment up on top of a rack in an unrecorded location, and when they found it, went “oopsie”. Hey, it could have been worse. You do not want to see what a pallet of dog kibble looks like when it’s been in a warehouse for an extra six months, unless you’re an easily entertained entomologist.

@Joedetroit Sorry, this deal contains 4 unique items and I’m not sure which one you want. You can review how to pick one, or just try ordering from the checkout page.

@mediocrebot well dang, now I gotta make a choice?!

@ArmchairGamer It’s better as “shifty” than “shitty” (which is how I read it first).

@w3kn do tell

@ronaldr321meh It’s NASCAR driver Kyle Busch

@ronaldr321meh @w3kn Which is why there is a ton of this stuff to sell. He has devoted fans but a LOT of people, like myself, who aren’t as friendly to him.
Rowdy is his primary nickname. So he assumed that he could sell an energy drink based on his celebrity.

@Fodder650 @ronaldr321meh @w3kn He would have done better to get his name applied to a brand of beer. Oh, wait…

@DrunkCat You can still get it! It’s still for sale, click through on the image. Not all the flavors, though.

@ESQuireTech Good luck! The taste alone should just perk them taste buds right up.

@ESQuireTech @whomeyesu And to hear some folks talk about it, they’ll take one look, and fix to get skedaddlin’ off to a safe distance. But I guess that depends on what you consider to be tasty.

@ErikRL Got news for you the Pink Lemonade taste far better than that of the Watermelon. Tried the Watermelon first and was like who the hell would like this shit. Now possibly my wife since she enjoys those sparkling seltzers so eye understand there is a market for these type of products. Suppose eye should have read more about this product before purchasing just thinking its an energy drink. How bad could it taste?

Now at least the Pink Lemonade doesn’t taste as bad as the Watermelon yet it still doesn’t taste anything like what eye would actually ever purchase again. Now eye have purchased energy drinks from meh before however after getting stuck with these. Eye will have to read more indepth before just jumping on a lower priced expired deal.