NEWS: Cocaine is High Energy, Low Marketing

They already have the formula:

Oops. That first line was meant for an iTunes thread.

Frickin' copy and paste gone amok.

I'm not surprised by this one bit. Blatantly naming your product after a drug is bound to ruffle at least someone's feathers.

Okay, I'll say it since nobody else has mentioned.......

"RED BALLS; mmmmmm, It's cocaine in a can baby!"
(Chappelle's Show: Season Two)

Maybe they could purchase the "intellectual license" of this for a new name.

Just a little side bit of info, slightly off topic but still related. Found out yesterday about data released in March of employee and applicant urinalysis related to illegal drug use for 2006. From a sample of 9 million (that's a huge canvas of people!) 3.8% tested positive for illegal drug use. Okay, so what! Until you realize that's an 18 year low from 13.6% in 1988 (height of the crack epidemic; and all time high historical percentage). That's a 3/4% reduction from the all time high (no pun intended)! And down from 4.1% in 2005 (almost a 10% yearly reduction). Check out QUEST DIAGNOSTICS for an authoritative analysis brief. Amazing statistics that didn't make much news.

And some interesting facts, considering I live in the country's meth central (or what I hope used to be).

By the way: Don't pass up reading a new book coming out by nationally syndicated, local T-Town (Tacoma, WA), author MARK LINDQUIST (author of 'Carnival Desires,' 'Never Mind Nirvana') called 'King of Methlehem.' It's supposed to be a sort of neo-noir, Sam Spade type thriller, essentially based in Tacoma. Will be kind of an awkward read for me considering it references many of my favorite haunts (coffee shop, independent theater, bar, even video rental place). Highly suggest you check it out!

good riddance.

i tried it, took a drink, my throat got all scratchy and i sneezed. threw it in the trash.

hyphy juice is better anyway.

i thought that was Fosters.

could be wrong...

Hey, if I can't munch on some tasty candy cigarettes every now and then, it's only fair that they take down the Cocaine energy drink.

I knew this was gonna happen.
Seriously, the FDA & the government keep bitching about how they can't control the drug flow in this country. Yet they keep wasting time & money going after a drink with a catchy name. ::sigh:: when will these people learn???

"We think it is most likely legal in the United States to ship our product."

I love that line. It's like, wouldn't you have maybe wanted to be 100% sure on that?

i tried it once...because they were giving it away for free.

it was pretty good with vodka, and it was a lovely shade of hot pink

Maybe someone else said this, but I think the company expected this to happen.
It's a marketing gimmick, pure and simple.

FOUR EASY STEPS TO PUBLICITY AND CUSTOMER LOYALTY:

1. Invent a controversial brand in an over-saturated, over-priced market.
2. Make the product name so controversial that it is outlawed.
3. Build a cult following for the 'rebel' brand who are sympathetic to the company who had to fight against The Man.
4. Months later, release the same product with a new name, and collect on the subversive brand image.

Yet another boring, predictable, publicity stunt which is designed to market 'cool' crap to suckers.

It's just caffeine and amino acids, people.
Quit wasting your money on chemicals you can get for 50 cents a cup.

Man, I wish I'd gotten more cans of it while it was still around! It tastes pretty good.

I hope they change the name to Totally Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake.

I know what you mean about thew sneezing. And the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose, and when I tried to cook it with bicarbonate . . . well, we won't even GO there!

I despised that, and I still do. Smug and deliberately offensive.

Isn't that the original tagline for SuicideGirls?

That's fucking hilarious.

I enjoyed the cocaine and the company that came along with the cocaine, for a little while, then the cocaine would run out, or that empty feeling would catch up, and then all of the sudden it was like five or six in the morning and I had to get home or stay up until the afternoon and feel like shit for two days. so i chose the cocaine, for a little while, then moved on to codeine, and then the ocean, and then the sunset, and then the early morning. and it was all good because, sooner or later, it all comes to an end.

I'd be a lot more excited by energy drinks if they weren't priced somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5x (or more) vs. a regular soda while not actually being substantially different. That, and most of the energy drinks I've tried (on sale) were not exactly thrilling unto my tastebuds.

Those cherries better stay the fuck away from my cherry coke.

FH: 100% artificially flavored since 1984.

EDIT: FUZE brand energy drink tastes pretty good, Omega I think it's called.

Worry about tainted pet food? Nah. Inspecting for Mad Cow? Nah. Let's just worry about those things when they happen. An energy drink called Cocaine? WhAT?! Holy smokes Batman we have to pull that off the shelves!