Why Your Favorite Childhood Drink Is Suddenly Full Of Booze
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2023
- The business of spiked drinks is BOOMING right now. But only recently, are we seeing products like Coke & Jack Daniels and Hard Mountain Dew hitting the shelves. So why is Big Soda just now jumping on the spiked drinks train?
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I just think it’s funny that tobacco companies will get fined and sued over this but it’s ok if alcoholic beverages have kiddy flavors.
Well it's not really a surprise, alcohol tastes like shit. Mix it with every little sugary shit on the planet to make it palatable and it still tastes awful. And it's not an "acquired taste" it's just your brain learning to tolerate the horrible taste because it associates alcohol with serotonin and dopamine.
Weed in arizona can't have candy names anymore because of kids. but hard mtn dew cherry etc and lipton and all the others liquor is allowed with kid flavors
Tobacco is more addictive than alcohol so it receives stricter scrutiny as a result. Meanwhile, marijuana still isn't legal under federal law so the recreational/medical pot industry has to tread very carefully as a result.
I picked up a hard mountain dew outta the fridge one night that my roommate had not realizing what it was I about threw the hell up that crap taste like straight poison
@@helygg8892same thing happened to me with a hard monster (phrasing). I don't advocate for more sin laws like treating this trend the way they treated cotton candy vape, but you know somebody in recovery is going to grab a sunny D canned cocktail without reading the whole label and get spun back into alcoholism after six years of sobriety
I have the inverse problem. My favorite childhood drinks are now suddenly full of Soda.
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Now wait just a minute...
“When are we gonna get some spiked Kool-Aid?”
I dunno. The last time someone did that, 918 people died.
Oh yeah!
It was actually Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid.
And what? Are people too stupid to figure out how to make a mixed drink?
@@fuzzywzhe i mean it was just a joke, dude.
@@RVBMichaelJCaboose I'm just saying I don't understand why anybody would buy a mixed drink, when they can just mix it themselves.
@@fuzzywzhe laziness maybe. and people want that perfect balance of booze and soda/juice
Jack Daniels Coke Zero tastes great but it was around $15.50 for a 4 pack.
At that rate you might as well just mix it yourself.
Yeah, the prices are similar here in Germany as well. You pay a lot for the convenience
Same in the UK £12 for 4 cans or £14 for a 350ml bottle and £2 for a 2L of coke £4 more for 3X as much whiskey.
Exactly making a jack and coke is so simple that its not worth paying the extra money. Plus you have the liberty to make it as boozy as you want
@@dakotanelson8315 it was over 7% in the can if anything you'd be making it a little less boozey.
@@genghisdingus I can’t math with that how much jack daniels would it take to get to 7%
The one that really hit home for me was spiked Arizona tea. I don't know why but that one truly made me feel like we're living in the end times
All the boring parts of the cyberpunk genre are coming into play
why did it make you feel like that? im curious.
Wasn't even 99 cents. That's what hit me the most.
@lil.dogbyte Jesus dude it's just a drink lmao
I drank 12 at school@@lil.dogbyte
I feel like the big reason is because the Gen Z generation drinks less than any previous generation. Millennials drink more, but less than Gen X. So, in order to entice new drinkers, they are coming out with an easy entry from familiar non alcoholic drinks
As a non drinking millennial i wish my gen z girlfriend would put down the booze but it’s part of her job basically (running a country club)
I'm under 30 and love IPA's..., but yeah, you have a great point. Turning all of these childhood drinks into alcoholic beverages. It doesn't feel right to me.
@@Skateandcreate9 little creepy…
@@nickhollister2268 ???
Considering half of Gen Z is under 21, that takes out Gen Z in the US. I wonder if their data is taking the rest of the world into account.
"what flavor is it? mens jackets?" 😂😂😂
Belt
Correction: High Noons are not malted. They ACTUALLY ARE Vodka & Soda in a can.
That’s what hard mtn dew should have been. Idk why they chose a mtn dew flavored malt beverage
@@portalbuilder7021taxes
@@portalbuilder7021cheaper
@@portalbuilder7021They no doubt made it malted to take advantage of the much lower excise tax for malted beverages vs distilled, a distinct advantage that was pointed out in the video.
I would speculate that the Mtn Dew and High Noon products are going after different market segments, and that the Hard Mtn Dew drinkers would be more price conscious than someone going for a High Noon.
I recently heard about a guy who saw a pack of Simply (spiked) he thought it was now in individual cans. He brought it up to the register at the grocery store and was confused why he was IDed. The clerk said well be you're buying alcohol. He then realized it was spiked.
Very few of the malted seltzer drinks taste even ok to me. The best description I saw about them was “They taste like a combination of dog piss and TV static” which seems oddly accurate
Yep
If you agree with that statement, then my question for you is how do you know what dog piss tastes like?
Because you don't like seltzer, duh
Truly citrus pack is good. The "full flavor" versions of the seltzers are just awful. I actually like to drink vodka and club soda so my opinion kinda sucks
They’re distinctly perfume tasting
Would you like to pay 3x the cost of a normal rum n coke that you don't even get to pick the ingredients? Boy do we have the product for you!
Yeah if its made at home. At a bar canned drinks are often half the price of a mixed drink
@@Dylans503Getting canned beverages at a bar is pretty silly
@@Dylans503 Bro you're genuinely better off just buying a 30 pack and drinking at home if you're concerned about the price of canned alcohol at a BAR 😭
@@RipRLeeErmeyif you wanna drink on the cheap don't buy any premixed and just get the coke and rum on its own.
I think what he was more concerned with his what kind of shit bar serves RTD canned drinks lol
I’m Australian and when I first went overseas I was surprised I couldn’t find whiskey and coke rtds anywhere. Turns out it’s a very Australian thing, every whiskey brand has an rtd here.
They would be popular everywhere but they cost too much, here in the UK the jack and coke are £12 for 4 tins when a 350ml bottle of JD is £14 +£2 for a 2L of coke.
£4 more for 3X as much whiskey surprised they sell any at all.
I thought premixed drinks would've been everywhere as well. Really surprised that in Aus we have more than countries such as the US.
I think taxes are to blame. In the U.S. malt based alcohol is taxed cheaper within certain conditions. Liquor is taxed higher, so they would have to charge too much for it and no one would buy it at that price.
@@K0sm1cKid It's actually the culture of BYO house parties in australia.. NZ is the same but way cheaper. People don't want to bring a bottle of spirits and 2 bottles of soda to a stranger's house in general, and premixed drinks are easier to look after and count, and perfect for degenerate drinking games. Plus most people who go to these parties are not rich enough to drop the money on a bottle of spirits and the mixer, while risking the bottle going missing or not being able to get it home due to clubbing afterwards.
I'm old school I guess but I just can't stand stuff with a ton of sugar and sweetness in it, I've tried a ton of these because I work in the booze industry and they all have that fake artificial sweet taste to them. A lot of them don't sell very well either, companies are just throwing everything they can at wall and hoping it sticks.
I've tried a bunch out of curiosity, and I agree. Bacardi mojitos in a can taste like mint toothpaste. I have tried a few good ones, but I can't remember what brand they were, but they were from a small "craft distiller" not a huge multinational conglomerate. The idea is sound, but the execution usually isn't.
@@minuteman4199any canned drink with mint tastes so ducking strong it’s disgusting. It misses all the subtleties of fresh mint.
I wonder if some of these companies are capitalizing on people’s nostalgia as well. Nostalgia as a concept has been a very popular phenomenon in countries like Japan and Korea for Millennials and Gen Z, and has recently become popular here in the US as well (we saw how people obsessed over bringing back long defunct fast food items like Mexican pizza at Taco Bell). When I see spiked Sunny D and Eggo waffle flavored booze, I can’t help but wonder. 🤔
It's both nostalgia marketing and trying to market to younger people as an easy gateway drink.
Bro thinks nostalgia is a new thing 😂
It’s not really nostalgia. It’s what lots of people were already drinking mixing their own. A lot of these are super classic, basic cocktails. It likely has more to do with soda companies looking to get in on the “canned alcohol but not beer” phenomenon.
There was a boom in 'alcopops' in the 90's in Ireland and the UK. Wine coolers were also popular. Then they changed the taxation on them so they went away again for the most part.
Quality content! It's already interesting to see how different brands are trying to differentiate themselves in this mega mega mega competitive spiked seltzer market and I have a feeling it's only going to get crazier
Last sip of alcohol around 5 years ago
Last sip of soda over 3 years ago
I got out in time- addict me would of adored these products
Doubly poisons... you did the right thing.
Congratulations! That is an amazing accomplishment!✊🏽
I was in college the year white claw came out. Overnight everyone stopped drinking beer and started drinking white claw. Way less of a hangover.
Speak for yourself, that crap makes me feel worse than beer the next morning. Everyone's guts are different, but in general beer and clear spirits give less of a hangover than malt liquor and dark spirits.
white claw yuck
white claw is disgusting i cant stand it
If you don't want a hangover just drink straight Vodka, and make sure to drink some sort of fruit juice type shit
@@y0h0p38 you're trolling that's the definition of hang over
mountain dew was created as a mixer for whiskey. "Mountain dew" Is slang for moonshine in fat...
Been mixing with SunnyD long before this. It does something magic when combined with clear liquors that OJ doesn't.
Based, that’s what’s up
Tampico punch for me but I feel this
imagine the alcoholic version of a old school soda becoming more popular or recognized as an alcoholic drink in the future. it would feel like you were just giving your kid non alcoholic booze at the restaurant lol
Dunkin Donuts adding coffee and booze together? And selling it? Legally?
That's how you black out. 4Loko was forced to change their formula. Now Dunkin is allowed to do this? Wow. Good job, politicians.
id be very surprised if there’s caffeine in it. it’s almost certainly coffee flavored
personally i like whiskey in my coffee. breakfast of champions.
Coffee doesn't have enough caffeine to be dangerous in this context
I know they have hard monsters too which I avoid buying because of how close they taste to the real thing, but the hard monsters don't have any caffeine. My guess would be the coffee to be the same deal.
Coffee and booze? OMG! We're all going to die!
I mean, "rum and coke" has been a thing ever since rum and coke has existed together. So it's natural eventually companies are going to spike their soft drinks with a little booze.
Yea, I find this whole video kinda strange. Its not like its a recent thing (heck there's even a 30s or 40s song called "Rum and Coca Cola" and Cuba Libre i.e. Rum and Coke has been "officially" a drink since the Spanish/American war).
I think it has more to do with "convenience" products (e.g. like a frozen pizza):
Like: "Why should I mix my own drink when I can buy it premixed?"
@@NoFluit’s almost like she talks about that in the video. She knows.
Canned (and branded) Jack&Coke has been around for years, but maybe not in the US. I saw it in convenience stores in London at least 6 years ago when I was there.
omg why haven't i been able to get my hands on spiked breastmilk replacements
honestly just think its because the kids that drank a lot of these drinks are now old enough to drink alcohol. the moment i turned 21 there was hard MTN dew and sunny D. I LOVED these when i was young so its nice to have a hard version. (its all i drink socially now lol). they taste good and dont even seem like your drinking anything hard.
Hard shit tastes good too though, you just have to be an adult man and acquire taste. You have the palate of a child rn. There’s a whole world of delicious beers wines and whiskeys out there. Hell there are bottles so good they’re worth thousands.
I know Jack Daniel’s sold a RTD version before the Coca Cola partnership. It was sold as Jack and Cola. They were pretty good.
Awesome video, Macy has the best sense of humor… and that SunnyD seltzer is delicious
SunnyD with gin is delicious. But buying it in a can? Never.
i'M STILL WAITING FOR THE SPIKED CAPRI SUN
im always so interested in small channels that can produce high quality and entertaining videos. Being able to do it on a budget and with a small audiance is always super impressive to me.
Yeah, I will just stick to beer.
Beer is just a hops flavored malted seltzer.
I'm dying, the JC Penney "Men's Jackets" is a hilarious bit.
Coke and jackdaniels existed in Europe when I went their. Poland had a bunch of jack and cokes 8 years before it came to the states
Solid content. good work!
What a good quality video! Nice work.
Mixing the drink yourself is better in taste and possibly cheaper than the products shown here
Great editing, great information!
Pre-mixed drinks like this are an old thing, but it's only now that the branded mixer wants to be noted on the can. At least down under, I've heard many stories from older family members about the prevalence of these drinks and how potent they could be.
The mixed Jack and (diet ) Cola was out WAY before these zero to little calorie drinks was out . I am happy that Coke Zero came out though . Love em .
Fun fact Prohibition is the reason why we pay income tax.
Where did you hear/read that? Not tryna call fake news, just have never learned that before and curious to read more
@portalbuilder7021 they introduced income tax as a part of prohibition to get state officials on board with it. Before, a large part of funding came from the taxes from alcohol. So the lobbyists who wanted prohibition knew that the officials would never vote it in unless they had a replacement source of funding. So they proposed and income tax, and it worked.
Fun fact: Prohibition crippled European mobs into irrelevance.
Imagine if they legalize weed...
@@portalbuilder7021 there wasn't a federal income tax until 1913 when Is temperance movement through pressure politics got income tax so blow to loss income from alcohol sales wasn't as bad.
Income tax was more because the government needed more revenue because the previous methods weren't drumming up as much revenue. Struck down initially by the supreme Court so congress simply modified the constitution to get around it.
Source on the prohibition part? Seems interesting
This is so interesting and well done!
Simple, to bank on nostalgia.
Big Beverage tried this years ago, like Anheuser-Busch's Chelsea. They were too early and the products generally didn't catch on.
2:50 i'm not so sure it's a result of prohibition, look at literally any other country that sells alcohol and it's taxed massively high today
Funny how big corporations can do w.e they want by advertising alcohol to kids but if you want to quit cigs and start vaping, it's a no no b.c they will lose money
I've never heard the term "Big Soda" before...
I love it and I will now use it.
Good video. Very informative
Title should be why your favorite childhood drink is suddenly full of soda :3
Premixed gin and grapefruit has been a corner stone of my society since 1952
First time I saw spiked Sunny D in a friend's fridge I audibly laughed.
"and for whatever reason they fell out of favor" JUST SAY THE REASON
Why not tax based on alcohol content percentage and not whether that 5% alcohol drink is "beer" or mixed drink
Are consumers really supposed to think seltzers are vodka cocktails? From day 1 I always just thought of it as alcoholic carbonated water.
Some of these have been available outside of the U.S. for years. I remember seeing jack/coca cola in Leipzig.
5:51 Remember folks, there's no such thing as staff shortages, there are however low salaries and bad working conditions.
Restaurants expecting their staff to survive from tips and doing *pikachu surprised face* that they can't find workers anymore.
That's interesting that in the states these are malt based. Where I am they are almost exclusively vodka based!
It's interesting the effects taxes have on business. I imagine malt liquor is more expensive to make than vodka, but in the UA the tax makes the vodka more expensive.
When I visited the states regularly it was surprising to see how many mixed beverages that were made with actual vodka, whiskey, tequila, gin etc. here in Canada were simulated (to lackluster effect according to my palate) with malt liquor. White Claw has always been made with vodka up north.
Here malt liquor is typically only found as Old English and Colt 45, which don't have the most sterling reputation but certainly are cheap...
So glad I don't drink anymore
It's just the government having goofy laws again
White claw isn’t made with vodka in Canada, it’s still the same malt liquor base bro
@@Nordic.Joshua.Graham Not always. If you're buying a White Claw in Ontario, the one you get from the LCBO will have a vodka base, but the one you get from the Beer Store will be malt.
Her voice is soooo cute! ☺️
Soda pop sales have been decreasing because people prefer healthier options but people are fatter than ever. Something else is up
Over eating, companies making "Healthier" options that just have a ton of sugar (Although the V8 Energy drinks are not that bad in terms of sugar), etc.
As a man Im so glad it’s starting to get more socially acceptable to not drink beer. I’m 23 and I still HATEEE it. It makes me bloated it tastes like ass and I always get the worst hangovers. Liquor, Seltzers, and RTD cocktails are the way to go. I don’t drink to casually sip on 10 beers throughout the night. Give me some mixed drinks shots and get me fucked up right away and I’ll sip on ONE seltzers throughout the night
If theres no caffene in these new coctails i will be dissapointed, then i will crush up a caffene pill and snort that then drink some jim beam😂😂😂😂
biggest thing I learned; booze is only expensive because the government doesn’t want everyone drunk but it also happens to make them huge profit.
The real question is why have I not been able to find hard mountain dew anywhere? Want!
Most of the hard seltzers ive tried taste like ass, but the spiked arizona iced tea is actually really good. Tastes almost exactly like the original, the alcohol flavor is minimal.
I've seen Jack & Coke cans in stores in the UK for at least 5 years now
They suck lol imagine the worst jack and coke you've ever had but multiply it by 3
i remember taking some premixed whiskey and coke cocktails in a can on a float trip around 2005. i dont remember them being any good. i think the statement that these companies started making them since white claw launched in 2016 is flat wrong. yes there's more variety and their more popular but they've been around for a while. hell, zima wasn't too dissimilar to many of these drinks and that launched in 1993.
That's because Jack Daniels initially had a canned version with generic cola. Now they use actual Coke
Factories add few cent worth of vodka to some drink and then sell it for insane markups
The coke one just makes sense to me cause jake in coke is a such a staple and the monster beast makes sense cause it was the 21st anniversary but the other ones are weird to me
I bought a can of Jack and Coke in Rome, Italy years ago. It's only "new" in the USA
Eggo sippin cream 😭
Liquor in a can has been around for ages, just not in the US for some odd reason...
I remember back in like 2016 Not your fathers rootbeer really took off, but I dont see it around anymore
I have remember a powdered alcohol that more or less failed because people were snorting it. Would be cool to see it's potential in a spiked kool aif
i didn't believe you until i looked it up. holy shit that's so cool! it's illegal in most countries though due to suggestions like spiked kool-aid... it would make it much easier for kids to gain access to it and it would be 1000% easier to smuggle lol
There is no such thing as "powdered alcohol."
Even my jarritos which I tried the orange and it was a bit sweet but good.
ive never really liked white claws and the like, too bland, might as well mix it myself and save some money. but ive found the competition tends to have way better flavor, and is overall more drinkable. my personal favorite is the monster beast ones, they taste a bit like an energy drink but without all the caffeine and that energy blend taste all energy drinks have.
she is the best I predict she starts her own personal brand because she does not need morning brew
I love a classic cobes drink combo. TWU!
Jack and coke has been canned and sold in the UK for about 20 years.
What’s funny is non alcoholic versions of alcoholic drinks are becoming popular as well.
Bruh, drinking any of these is some smooth brain activity 😂
I've yet to try one of these canned seltzers but I can tell they r really popular.... Def college women drinking these instead of beers at parties... That's the biggest consumer I bet.
At this point I won’t be surprised to see adult versions of Kool-Aid Koolers and Bug Juice!
When I was a kid, too young to buy alcohol, we just had to learn to drink gross beer or booze flavored booze
Literally became an alcoholic because of these things.
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dont tell me you’re an alcoholic drinking white claws. come up to me when you’re chasing 151 with mouthwash
I'm not complaining 🍷
Saw Arizona spiked for the first time yesterday
hard solo is my favourite thing ever
Spiked breast milk and formula coming soon
90s and early 2000s kids need a drank
I feel like I just listened to a mouse speed reading to me for 6 minutes.
I just saw Arizona put liquor in ice tea.
I don't drink alcohol or energy drinks. I drink mostly water.
Nice reporting.
My 6 year old cousin took a few sips out of a whiskey lemonade, idk why but he probably thought it was just lemonade
good to start when you're yung
we have had this in Sweden since forever
I really don’t think many people thought white claw and other similar seltzers was a canned vodka mixed drink.
It’s not even vodka most of the time it’s malt beverage so basically flavored beer
Man most of these seltzers make even bad beer seem good
The only good fruity beers are the sours from o dell brewery. The sippin series in particular.
in the 90s I had a friend come back from Germany and said they he got sprite in his bear , I have a feeling that they were putting him down , but it was delicious
Bottled Jack and cola has been around since the 1990s
I only drink my whisky neat... I find these drinks make both the Coke and the whisky taste bad. 😄
Yeah, we definitely need spiked Kool-Aid
Spiked seltzers allways give worse hangovers than beers for me