That was something I noticed (and loved) about Budapest, Hungary as well!
What beer comes in 24 oz. at 9.9%? “Malt liquor” you mean, which is sometimes not legally beer, even if pretty much the same?
What I mean is: some macrobrews come in 24 oz, but are normal alcohol. Some micros are high alcohol, but either 22 oz or 750 mL (25.4 oz), if not 12 oz.
8 energy drinks a day? I need to buy shares in diabetes drugs.
This speaks to a misconception – the price of a thing is not determined by the cost of making that thing. The price of a thing is determined by supply and demand, and if that price is 1000 times what it costs to make, then someone is going to make a tidy profit.
For commodity-like products, eventually more manufacturers will enter the market and undercut the high-margin manufacturers, but that is not possible for branded energy drinks. No one else can make “Monster”.
Caffeine’s melting point is 238 °C. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to be consuming it in liquid form.
What a world we live in, where a so-called “energy drink” would advertise and brag about how little energy it gives you.
When people say “energy” in this context, what they really mean is a caffeine high, and they only need energy drink quantities because they’re badly addicted. It would never be socially acceptable today for someone to say the same thing about opium, or even alcohol or cigarettes. Why is caffeine addiction so mainstream?
Isn’t the thirst mutilator… you know… water?
People are willing to pay the price.
Might have something to do with them being addictive.
Withdrawal from water addiction can be deadly, so be careful.
I’ve never seen the draw to energy drinks, too sweet for my tastes, coffee is the better value. My 879 gram (2 lbs)tin costs £5 ($7) and last a good seven to ten days (1 to 1.5 weeks). Plus I’d rather see the profit spent on feeding the hungry and housing the homeless in the places coffee is grown, rather than going to the sugar beet magnates in some First World luxury cityslicker’s gardener’s retirement account.
Yeah, that’s the one. Looks like 161mg of caffeine, which is about perfect for me without getting me too jittery. And it somehow doesn’t seem to have that odd “energy drink” taste the others have.
When I lived there (98-03), they weren’t really quite that popular yet, but I noticed the same price differential with beer vs soda. A half liter of the local beer (Dreher, Arany Aszok, Borsodi) were usually cheaper in restaurants than a soda (which came in a 0.33L glass from what I remember–maybe even smaller–and no free refills.) I became quite the regular beer drinker then…
Why not go all out and drink Four Loko?
Some of us don’t like coffee.
I bought a kilo of caffeine powder a couple of years ago so I’m set for another 7-8 years.
Low-calorie energy drinks? Now I really have heard it all. :smack:
Mostly they are water, mostly.
Look for Moxie(Doesn’t taste like the soda), Spider, or Venom. These are all sold for 99 cents.
When I drink them, that’s pretty much the only kind I ever drink. Not sure what the amazement is. I’m drinking them for the caffeine and whatever other dubious crap they have in them that may or may not do a thing when I don’t feel like having (or want something more portable than) a cup of black coffee.
No you haven’t. Monster also makes a zero calorie, CAFFEINE FREE energy drink. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qBP7pl3hTfc/VCsItf9IL8I/AAAAAAAAF8g/qwMKqbYikBk/s1600/monsterunleaded.jpg
NOW you’ve heard it all.
That has sugar, just no caffeine.
Moved to Cafe Society.
Colibri
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