SPT - Gotta love them genius kids (870 hits)
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Submitted by CookieLass (View user info) at 2007-06-07 10:43:43 EDT
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - 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 ($1.35-$2).
Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored 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 flavoring, 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.
It's only a matter of time.
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Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-06-11 10:36:33 EDT (#)
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I think I've missed you a little.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2007-06-08 21:09:15 EDT (#)
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where do I sign up for some?
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-06-08 11:46:46 EDT (#)
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Show me you hole
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2007-06-07 23:01:58 EDT (#)
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i read fark too
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-06-07 18:18:05 EDT (#)
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+2 drunken babies
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-06-07 18:17:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-06-07 14:58:54 EDT (#)
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I wonder if they could do powdered McEwan's...
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-06-07 14:48:50 EDT (#)
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Holy shit. You're still alive?
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2007-06-07 12:46:58 EDT (#)
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I can completely accept a -1 from someone who can actually prove it.
Indeed, that is far far better than alcoholic drink powder.
Submitted by Flapjacksupreme (user info) at 2007-06-07 12:16:59 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Flapjacksupreme (user info) at 2007-06-07 12:15:42 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Void_Where_Prohibited (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:32:46 EDT (#)
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News to me. The drunken baby pic was the clincher tho.
Submitted by raebuf (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:14:03 EDT (#)
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...looks like someone has stopped giving a fuck.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:12:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:12:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:09:39 EDT (#)
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Auto +1 drunken baby picture.
Submitted by The_Hitcher (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:09:34 EDT (#)
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Fuck it, get the little bastards liquored up and in dolphin suits!
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:08:39 EDT (#)
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Yeah, you can tell how much I care about Ubersite these days by the fact that all I've posted in the last 6 or 7 months are cut and paste news articles I find on Yahoo. I'm not even sure why I post anymore with all the changes for the worser (that's right, I said worser) that have been going on.
Can't a girl at least get a +1 for her drunken baby picture?
Submitted by raebuf (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:04:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-06-07 11:01:09 EDT (#)
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anus
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2007-06-07 10:57:52 EDT (#)
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Sorry, Lass, old cake here.
Submitted by Flapjacksupreme (user info) at 2007-06-07 10:49:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-06-07 10:48:07 EDT (#)
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Where the fuck were those kids when I was underage?