7/4 Posted June 6, 2007 Report Posted June 6, 2007 Students invent powdered booze June 6, 2007 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- Dutch students have invented powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors. The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gram packets that cost €1-1.5 ($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. 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. Quote
catesta Posted June 6, 2007 Report Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) "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. Way to go! This is exactly what we need to be selling the 15 and under crowd. It will help them cope with the stress involved with things like that first flush of pubic hair, whether or not Amber likes Billy and the ever so awful, "my cell phone is a piece of shit" syndrome. Only 3 percent alcohol means they will need to drink more to catch a buzz. I wonder, how many calories? Edited June 6, 2007 by catesta Quote
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