Right after pouring some water enhancer (which is just concentrated liquid that you squirt a small amount in water to make something akin to Crystal Light) into some vodka and water, I noticed that the label said not to mix it with alcoholic beverages. I drank it anyway and nothing bad happened except it tasted like cherry cough syrup (the flavor was cherry lime but there was no lime taste!), but I’m curious if there’s some reason for this beyond something like them covering their ass in case someone mixes it with straight liquor in order to mask the taste (since it would barely dilute it, unlike mixing it with normal beverages) and dies of alcohol poisoning or something. That seems kind of stupid because people take shots of straight liquor all the time anyway but I don’t know what else it could be.
I was going to email them and ask, but their stupid website doesn’t even allow that, they only have a phone number and I don’t want to call.
After a bunch of searching, it looks like technically they only recommend against using the caffeinated one with alcohol because caffeine+alcohol leads to “unsafe behaviors” according to many studies. (A rule followed by exactly nobody, I think the Jack+Coke market is still thriving)
I’m not convinced, though, because as far as I can tell MiO’s website lists this for the normal, non-caffeinated one too. Maybe they’re just being cautious?
Ah, it does have caffeine in it, I didn’t even notice that. Do energy drinks have warnings like that on them too? Because otherwise, that’s still weird. And yeah, I haven’t gotten it in years but as far as I know, vodka and Red Bull is still a common drink and bars are happy to serve it.
And if MiO says it on their products without caffeine too, that’s also weird. Well, I’m going to live on the edge and do it anyway, unless they all taste as gross as this cherry “lime” deal. My usual mixer is Crystal Light but sometimes I don’t feel like making a whole pitcher, but on the other hand, that’s about the laziest thing in the entire world.
The FDA did crack down a while ago on drinks that contained both alcohol and caffeine. But only if they were packaged that way. I haven’t seen that kind of warning label on anything else, and mixed drinks containing caffeine are still very common.
I have some Crystal Light Energy, which contains caffeine, and comes in little packets that you’re supposed to mix into a bottle of water. No warning label.
This is 100% not reverse psychology. Please do yourself a favor and do not mix the mio energy’s with alcohol. I don’t drink hard liquors, only the 5% seltzer’s and i’ll add mio to make them a little sweeter. Last night i grabbed one to bring out with me and i picked up a energy one not thinking much of it (also not reading the label) i only had three drinks and put 2-3 squirts in each one. Within 30 minutes of when i finished my third one i was incapacitated and vomiting non stop, i couldn’t hold my head up and was nodding out off of seltzers that any other time wouldve given me a buzz. Fast forward to this morning and i had to get brought to the ER and spent most of my day there being pumped like i had alcohol poisoning and i still feel no better. If there’s a label on something it’s for a reason, and even better always read the labels on your stuff so this doesn’t happen to you.
It was “like you had alcohol poisoning” because you had alcohol poisoning, which was caused entirely by the alcohol. You would have gotten the same effect by drinking the same amount of booze without the flavoring. If the flavoring had any effect at all, it was just to trick you into drinking more.
Sometimes people who drink to excess don’t remember exactly how much they had to drink, and sometimes people who drink too much are inaccurate in reporting just how much they drank. I know, it’s amazing, but true. That’s more likely than there being some unknown interaction between the absolutely ordinary ingredients in Mio and alcohol.
Amazing. I remember reading an old Stainless Steel Rat novel (joins the army?) where he snuck powdered alcohol (it might have said dehydrated) onto the base. I remember thinking “That’s stupid. You can’t dehydrate alcohol”. Looking it up they use some micro-encapsulation process. Neat.
Vodka/lime juice/triple sec (Kamikaze) vs. tequila/lime juice/triple sec (Margarita) tastes the same? You are clearly not using enough tequila in your margarita.
