Forget Happy Meals - Now They're After Your Irish Coffee

[Foxfyre]

First it was the after dinner cigar, then salt, then sugar, then egg yolks, then toys in Happy Meals, and now Irish Coffee.

Do you really want the Federal government to dictate what you should and should not be able to buy of legal substances and have authority to require private businesses to adhere to its dictates?

. . . .Executive summary: the FDA has informed four companies that caffeine is an “unsafe food additive” when mixed with alcohol. In this particular case, the drinks being affected are cans of carbonated, caffeinated, and alcoholic drinks… but if you’re wondering what’s the scientific difference between that and a hand-made mixture of coffee, whiskey and whipped cream, the answer’s simple: there isn’t one. This is strictly ‘political’… or more accurately, ‘pandering.’ And if you’re wondering what’s stopping the government from deciding that bars shouldn’t serve Irish or Jamaican coffee - or, God help us, Red Bull and vodka, which is apparently the big club drink now - the answer’s even simpler: nothing. Nothing at all. If young drinkers start consum[ing] hand-mixed caffeine/alcohol concoctions, the FDA will start going after the organizations that serve them. . . .

Next step: the War on Irish Coffee. | RedState

 

[California Girl]

Over my dead body. Seriously.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

They can have my Irish coffee when they pry it from my cold, dead Polish hand.

 

[Annie]

Dang I'm glad my friend already delivered my holiday Bailey's! Mmmmm

 

[jillian]

Over my dead body. Seriously.

you're right.. we should ignore the fact that kids are getting hold of Four-Loko and are dying.

it's their right and all...

perhaps Irish coffee, is better left at really *being* Irish coffee instead of drinks with caffein equal to about five cups?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

The "Four Loko" ban isn't based on science - true. But kids drink Four Loko - not adults.


No one's going to ban your Irish Coffee..

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

These liberals are all quite insane. Can we ban them?

I guess we can't

 

[Rat in the Hat]

If underage kids are drinking "Four Loko", then the authorities should be going after the people selling it to them, not the company making it.

Why should adults that enjoy it have to suffer for liquor store owners and their employees who don't know how to or care enough to card their customers?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

If underage kids are drinking "Four Loko", then the authorities should be going after the people selling it to them, not the company making it.

Why should adults that enjoy it have to suffer for liquor store owners and their employees who don't know how to or care enough to card their customers?

Exactly. Anyhoo... I'd like to know how big an issue this really is? Didn't this shit like, just come on the market?

 

[The T]

Will the Nanny-State Control idiocy ever cease?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Over my dead body. Seriously.

you're right.. we should ignore the fact that kids are getting hold of Four-Loko and are dying.

it's their right and all...

perhaps Irish coffee, is better left at really *being* Irish coffee instead of drinks with caffein equal to about five cups?

Oh for the love of Pete....

 

[California Girl]

Over my dead body. Seriously.

you're right.. we should ignore the fact that kids are getting hold of Four-Loko and are dying.

it's their right and all...

perhaps Irish coffee, is better left at really *being* Irish coffee instead of drinks with caffein equal to about five cups?

Yea, it is tough luck that stupid people do stupid things. Can we just stop expecting the government to take away the right of the majority for a couple of stupid people?

 

[California Girl]

We really should just make it illegal to be stupid.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

If underage kids are drinking "Four Loko", then the authorities should be going after the people selling it to them, not the company making it.

Why should adults that enjoy it have to suffer for liquor store owners and their employees who don't know how to or care enough to card their customers?

No one "enjoys" Four Loko.

 

[The T]

If these people do stupid things? So be it. Darwin was right about certain things. Perhaps self-thinning of the 'herd' is a good thing. It's not good to pee in the gene pool I guess.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Over my dead body. Seriously.

you're right.. we should ignore the fact that kids are getting hold of Four-Loko and are dying.

it's their right and all...

perhaps Irish coffee, is better left at really *being* Irish coffee instead of drinks with caffein equal to about five cups?

Yea, it is tough luck that stupid people do stupid things. Can we just stop expecting the government to take away the right of the majority for a couple of stupid people?

If it has alcohol in it, I'd say given the alcohol laws.. I'd say it has been addressed.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

If underage kids are drinking "Four Loko", then the authorities should be going after the people selling it to them, not the company making it.

Why should adults that enjoy it have to suffer for liquor store owners and their employees who don't know how to or care enough to card their customers?

Exactly. Anyhoo... I'd like to know how big an issue this really is? Didn't this shit like, just come on the market?

Came on the market about a year ago.

One can of Four Loko has as much alcohol as nearly 5 12 oz cans of regular beer, and as much caffeine as 5 cups of coffee. It's already been blamed for a number of heart failures in otherwise perfectly healthy teenagers.

 

[jillian]

Yea, it is tough luck that stupid people do stupid things. Can we just stop expecting the government to take away the right of the majority for a couple of stupid people?

yeah, there shouldn't be an FDA... businesses with protect their employees with no OSHA... and the EPA is just mean to corporations...

 

[Rat in the Hat]

If underage kids are drinking "Four Loko", then the authorities should be going after the people selling it to them, not the company making it.

Why should adults that enjoy it have to suffer for liquor store owners and their employees who don't know how to or care enough to card their customers?

No one "enjoys" Four Loko.

Ah, then the brewery will stop making it, and this "issue" will just go quietly into the night.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

If underage kids are drinking "Four Loko", then the authorities should be going after the people selling it to them, not the company making it.

Why should adults that enjoy it have to suffer for liquor store owners and their employees who don't know how to or care enough to card their customers?

Exactly. Anyhoo... I'd like to know how big an issue this really is? Didn't this shit like, just come on the market?

Came on the market about a year ago.

One can of Four Loko has as much alcohol as nearly 5 12 oz cans of regular beer, and as much caffeine as 5 cups of coffee. It's already been blamed for a number of heart failures in otherwise perfectly healthy teenagers.

Wow.. Never heard of it prior to today. Well, sounds like some nasty shit. Well, my gut says this shit will be willfully removed from production.