Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by n1 on Saturday April 19 2014, @11:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-the-weekend dept.

Lehrman Beverage Law and SB Nation have articles on a new powdered alcohol product.

First and for a long time, it was just liquid. Then it was whipped, solidified and almost vaporized. And now alcohol is powderized.

I am not astonished that this is a real product — but I am absolutely astonished that this is approved. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved seven versions of this powdered alcohol within the past few days. The person that pushed this through must be very patient or lucky and/or good. The product seems highly likely to raise a large number of legal issues and controversies.

The website for the product appears to have been taken down due to the media response surrounding their marketing.

We were caught off guard with the release of some of our labels by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. As a result, people visited this website that we thought was under the radar because we had not made a formal announcement of Palcohol.

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 20 2014, @04:48PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday April 20 2014, @04:48PM (#33642) Homepage
    Classless frat-boys appear to be clueless frat-boys. If you want to get drunk, do mostly shots. Which reinforces the GPP's point, how you get drunk is fairly important to the psyche. Social beer-bonging is actually (or at least probably) a lot more classy than several of the alternatives. (I reserve the right to change that opinion if I ever actually encounter it, which is fairly unlikely at my age, and with my social circles.)
    --
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Sunday April 20 2014, @08:17PM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Sunday April 20 2014, @08:17PM (#33708)

    Which reinforces the GPP's point, how you get drunk is fairly important to the psyche.

    You have far too much faith in humanity if you think that same sort of simpleton won't turn "how many lines can you snort" into the same sort of competition, for the sake of some "ritual" involving a liquid. It just means a lot more of the losers will end up at room temperature, rather than drooling on themselves with penises draw on their faces.

    --
    "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 20 2014, @11:12PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday April 20 2014, @11:12PM (#33769) Homepage
      You're reading way more between the lines than I ever wrote in my post; I barely recognise yours as a response to my own.
      --
      Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
      • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Monday April 21 2014, @03:12PM

        by GeminiDomino (661) on Monday April 21 2014, @03:12PM (#34005)

        It was basically a combined response to your post and GPs, I just screwed up my quoting. :)

        --
        "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 21 2014, @09:54PM

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday April 21 2014, @09:54PM (#34166) Homepage
          What you foresee will surely happen given the opportunity (humans are fluid, we fill every gap) - but there's still a difference between the party junkie, and the solo junkie. That's the "how" I was focussing on, not the delivery mechanism.
          --
          Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves