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Boozy Guinness Ice Cream Floats
Who says ice cream floats are only for kids? A scoop of coffee ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate turn rich, dark Irish stout beer into a celebratory dessert drink for adults. It’s a great final to an Oktoberfest party!
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Mixing caffeine, alcohol common for underage drinkers
College-age drinkers who mix caffeine and alcohol are more likely to make risky decisions and require medical care, research has shown. A new study suggests younger drinkers often combine caffeine and alcohol as well.
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35 Secret Starbucks Drinks You Didn’t Know You Could Order
Most people don’t know this, but Starbucks has a secret menu created by dedicated baristas and enthusiastic customers. It’s not listed anywhere, and most of the drinks are region specific. But if you know the recipe–you can ask for them anywhere!
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16 Sinful Hot Chocolate Recipes You Have to Try
We know it’s hard to put down your pumpkin spiced latte in favor of any other warm winter drink. But that will get a whole lot easier once you read these 16 absolutely sinful hot chocolate recipes. Looks like its time to start stocking up on marshmallows! ;)
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Flame Retardant in Your Mountain Dew? Yep
There’s flame retardant in your Mountain Dew. That soda with the lime-green hue (and other citrus-flavored bubbly pops) won’t keep your insides fireproof, but it does contain brominated vegetable oil, a patented flame retardant for plastics that has been banned in foods throughout Europe and in Japan.
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Diet Soda Makes Breathalyzers Think You’re Drunk
If you think you might be breathylized, skip the diet mixer. In a recent study, researchers breathlyized drinkers after they consumed one of three different beverages: vodka with soda, vodka with diet soda or placebo vodka. Those who had downed the diet drink had breath alcohol levels 18 percent higher than when they had consumed vodka with fully leaded soda.
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South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians and more than four times as much as Americans
South Koreans drink 13.7 shots of liquor per week on average, which is the most in the world. And of 44 other countries analyzed by Euromonitor, none comes anywhere close. The Russians, the second biggest in Euromonitor’s sample, down 6.3 shots per week; Filipinos drink roughly 5.4 shots per week; and Americans consume only 3.3.
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Pepsi to Reintroduce Limited Edition Crystal Pepsi in Early 2014
PepsiCo announced on Monday that its failed clear cola, known as Crystal Pepsi, would be making a comeback in early 2014 as a limited edition re-release. The soda was an early 90s flop, making now the perfect time to bring it back from the dead Crystal Pepsi was originally marketed as a caffeine-free “clear alternative” to normal brown colas, casting the drink’s clear color as healthy and pure. The drink’s original marketing slogan: “You’ve never seen a taste like this”.
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The Secret Origins of the Bloody Mary
From Prohibition, Paris, and something called a "Bucket of Blood," to Hemingway, and your hangover
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The 10 Habits of Highly Unflabby People
So you want to keep an eye on the old waistline, but you hate diets. Join the club. Rather than give you recipes for “yummy” quinoa-kelp granola, we suggest following these simple rules, rituals, and metabolic sleights of hand. You'll eat better, eat less, and burn calories all day long, even while checking your e-mail
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Does Coke Taste Better Out Of A Fancy-Shmancy Glass?
The contour of the classic Coca-Cola glass bottle is absolutely iconic. It was created in 1915 by a glass manufacturer in Indiana, and chosen by Coca-Cola because its distinctive curves wouldn’t be confused with competitors. The bottle was not, however, designed specifically for Coca-Cola's flavor profile, and today the soda maker has set out to remedy that oversight.
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US approves 'Palcohol' - powdered alcohol is on the way
A new brand of powdered alcohol - designed to be mixed into a drink or sprinkled over food - has been signed off by the US government and will be available in autumn of this year
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The Age Of Aspartame May Be Coming To An End As More Health Risks Are Confirmed
Aspartame has been on the debate block for years as time and time again independent research reveals dangers associated with aspartame consumption, while industry funded research reveals no dangers. In a new study observing over 60,000 women, diet drinks containing aspartame consumed at 2 or more per day increased the risk of heart related illness by 50%.
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Powerade drops controversial ingredient
Coca-Cola is dropping a controversial ingredient from its Powerade sports drink, after a similar move by PepsiCo's Gatorade last year. The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, had been the target of a petition by a Mississippi teenager, who questioned why it was being used in a drink marketed toward health-conscious athletes. The petition on Change.org noted that the ingredient is linked to a flame retardant and is not approved for use in Japan or the European Union.
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What Are You Drinking?
Let the author and bartender Rosie Schaap make you a custom summer cocktail.
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What Will Happen If You Boil Coke?
Coca Cola is tasty and obviously, you can put it to many uses. But what happens when you boil it?
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Coke's New Low-Cal, Low-Sugar Soda Is Designed to Quiet Critics
In the central lobby of the Coca-Cola (KO) museum in Atlanta, a glass display case features all the types of carbonated drinks currently sold by the company. There’s the classic red can and its no-calorie iterations: Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Then there’s Sprite, Fresca, and the citrus rainbow that is Fanta. Over on the left is a small green can that most American visitors won’t recognize: Coca-Cola Life, a stevia-sweetened version of regular Coca-Cola.
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The Bruce Lee of Bartending - World's Greatest Flair Bartender
What if Bruce Lee decided he wanted to be a bartender instead of being a martial artist?
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How strong is that drink? The “cocktail content calculator” will let you know
No one ever really knows when they have had "one too many" but you may now at least have a chance to keep better track. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has created what they are calling the "cocktail content calculator" in an effort to let drinkers know just how much alcohol is in that drink they are about to gulp down.
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Three states join lawsuit against 5-Hour Energy drink maker
Oregon, Washington and Vermont filed suits Thursday against Living Essentials LLC and Innovation Ventures LLC, makers of the highly popular energy booster. Attorneys for the states want a permanent injunction against the parent companies’ misleading marketing and are seeking civil penalties.