Three of my faithful coworkers and I sat down to a table with four cans of Four Loko: lemon-lime, orange, cranberry-lemonade, and grape. (Note: Upon checkout, the liquor store clerk asked me: "So, are you planning on getting arrested tonight?") Here are the verdicts on flavor.*
Grape: Barely drinkable. If you dig Robo-trippin', this one's for you.
Cranberry Lemonade: It sounds like the most appetizing flavor; but, unfortunately, pink does not mean tasty. It tastes like a hangover going down.
Orange: Apart from the sickly aftertaste of cheap energy drink? This one actually ain't bad.
Lemon-Lime: Meh. It's like Surge, but shittier.
*Note: interestingly, these are also rated in order that we tried them. (Wha?!) See our first testimonial for details.
Testimonial #1: "Four Loko is some pernicious shit. You have a sip, and you know it tastes bad, and you remember later on how bad it tasted. Then, you have another sip and it doesn't seem so horrible, even though your brain is trying to remind you that the first wave of revulsion was a desperate signal to stop this. There's so much booze in the stuff -- and it hits you so quickly -- that your internal computer is shorted out. None of these thoughts make it to the surface of your mind in one piece, and you just keep drinking the crap, which, half a can in has gone from stomach-churning to passable. When you do eventually sober up, the afterburn from the stimulants will leave you feeling jangled and weird, and not at all certain of what you should be doing at any given point or how to behave. The next day I had to ask the people around me to help piece together the night's events and make sure I hadn't done any lasting damage to myself, or others. Personally, I'm a drinker. I'm good at it. But the morning after a tequila binge never carried the same sense of shame I felt after drinking Four Loko. It was as if I had committed a crime against myself."
liked energy drinks, I like alcohol, and thought that the booze might
make it more palatable. Wrong. I couldn't take more than a few sips of
each flavor...okay, one sip of each. Grape tasted exactly like Robitussin
but more medicinal, if that's possible. That cranberry one (which was cotton-candy
pink) was almost as disgusting. The orange wasn't too bad. It tasted
like carbonated Triaminic. Lemon lime (Nickelodeon slime-colored) was the
best, though I'd rather drink really shitty vodka and chase it with a
cup of coffee than drink Four Loko in any flavor. These were the most artificially flavored beverages I've ever put
in my mouth. The colors were absolutely stunning, like Red No. 5 and Orange No. 2 were the main ingredients. When you mixed the flavors together, the
mixture bubbled up, made a brighter color, and then quickly faded down,
like some sort of chem lab potion."
Testimonal #3: "I think anyone who can actually drink four cans of Four Loko might deserve to die."
The feds might actually ban Four Loko today.
UPDATE: Thursday, November 17, 2010, 11:13AM: Yup. It finally happened: the FDA killed your buzz, and Four Loko is now banned. Read more over at the Plog.
In case the FDA deprives you of your janky-ass alcoholic, caffeine-riddled drink, the guys over at Buzzfeed have put together a video that shows you how to moonshine your own Four Loko, you desperate sonofabitch.
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Im a physician, taking care of a patient who has ATAXIA , unsteady gait, (inability to walk) after drinking 6 four lokos....bad shit...don't drink...it's effect may be permanent...and you are screw for life.
A friend of mine drank 2 cans of the stuff the other night and said that he passed out on the sidewalk in front of Westside Local. He said one second he was walking and the next he was out.
He got a face bruise with a black eye and says he also broke 3 ribs.
Wicked stuff.
You guys are dumb what's redbull and vodka the same shit they have in a bar will they ban that
Personally, energy drinks are terrible, and energy drinks with alcohol in them are even worse.
But I do support free will, so if you want to drink this horse piss, go right ahead.
Them Damned Young Livers LOVE the Fo'Lo'. Its gonna be a travisty when it goes away. Its been soley responsible for every crazy ass thing that happens on stage with us... broken guitars, smashed drums and all.
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