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| Fast Turtle |
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Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.
The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros (70 pence-1 pound).
Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-coloured and -flavoured drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.
"We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.
Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.
"Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop.
The legal age for drinking alcohol and smoking is 16 in the Netherlands.
In Germany, alcopops -- sweet drinks containing alcohol and in powder form -- caused quite a stir when launched on to the market. Alcohol powder, classified as a flavouring, was sold in the United States three years ago.
The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070606..._uk_dutch_drink |
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| inconspicuous |
| lol smart kids, that lot. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| so what if u just ate the powder? would u just end up being drunk off a few grams of the stuff? |
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| Fast Turtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
so what if u just ate the powder? would u just end up being drunk off a few grams of the stuff? |
Yeah. I guess you could put it into gelcaps or something. It's made by a company called 'senba' and apparently it's sugars mixed with ethanol to form a solid that's about 30% alcohol.
apparently this company sells it too:
http://www.geraldi-panama.com/en/su...-true-blood.php
edit: though searching around for this stuff, it seems like it's a lot easier to get GHB than it is to get powdered alcohol |
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| Marc Summers |
| YEAH just eat the powder :D |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Marc Summers
YEAH just eat the powder :D |
worst drink ever :( |
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| iammesol |
so now even alcohol is going to be instant and nasty in the future.
Yay for innovation! |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fast Turtle
Yeah. I guess you could put it into gelcaps or something. It's made by a company called 'senba' and apparently it's sugars mixed with ethanol to form a solid that's about 30% alcohol |
it's 3% not 30% :wtf: You gota eat a lot of that stuff to get drunk. |
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| Abercrombie |
| Will it give you a quicker buzz if you snort it? |
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| Fast Turtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Will it give you a quicker buzz if you snort it? |
You don't wanna snort 15 grams of sugar.. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fast Turtle
You don't wanna snort 15 grams of sugar.. |
that would make some really sweet snot |
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| AndreaCKY772 |
| that's smart but 3% is not enough... i deal with 40% and up (champagne is an exception). |
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