planeflyer21 Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 U.S. Army says they are bad bad bad: http://www.kshb.com/news/national/army-warns-of-new-threat-energy-drinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 A friend of mine is an addiction consoler she was telling me it takes like 5 days for your kidneys to filter out a Red Bull like 14 for a monster. I quit drinking both after she told me that also I drank so much of is back in the day from being locally sponsored buy monster and events we when to being sponsored by Red Bull I've either gotta drink a lot of it or it don't do shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 I did a job at Red Bull and they were like take as many as you want. I don't care for them at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikedaddyH Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 I worked for Shasta (NBC) for 6+ years and we made our stuff and other companies drinks. The worst of all was Rip It... That stuff would melt through cans sitting in our warehouse. We would chug it in the break room like frat boys did beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbas4570 Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 I used to work for one of the Monster distributors here, and that crap would also eat through the cans before the expiration dates....and you should have seen what it does to concrete . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikedaddyH Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 1 hour ago, bubbas4570 said: I used to work for one of the Monster distributors here, and that crap would also eat through the cans before the expiration dates....and you should have seen what it does to concrete . No F...ing $hit ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbas4570 Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 Yup, if you have a neighbor that needs some education on just how nice his concrete looks, pour some on there......preferably the middle of the driveway. It doesn't stop eating through the concrete until the monster ingredients are used up. Even washing, dilution, cleaning didn't stop it whenever it hit the concrete at the warehouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 Coke will do the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 My deployment drink option was ambient temperature water (bottles if we were lucky, Buffalo if we weren't) and MRE instant coffee. These kids are spoiled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 I carry water on the job warm/hot water is better than no water.....when it freezes I try to break it up and stick it in my jacket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beantown Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) When I was at Fort Irwin for desert storm training, the troops were drinking Gatorade by the gallons. We had troops falling out left and right from the stuff. Literally over dosing from the potassium chloride in it. The post commander had all of it yanked from the PX and the post. The stuff is OK to rehydrate with right after a serious work out, and that's it. It will never replace good old H2O. Edited January 2, 2017 by beantown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 3 minutes ago, beantown said: When I was at Fort Irwin for desert storm training, the troops were drinking Gatorade by the gallons. We had troops falling out left and right from the stuff. Literally over dosing from the potassium chloride in it. The post commander had all of it yanked from the PX and the post. The stuff is OK to rehydrate with right after a serious work out, and that's it. It will never replace good old H2O. Here, in the harshest of summer conditions, the locals had it figured out aeons ago: salted fruit and lots of water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Salted fruit? does salt on watermelon and cantaloupe count? I also like salt on an apple with a bottle of water for an extended time at the range, or out in the field, during the hot summer days in Texas, it has worked for me for about 50 years. When George Tubb (David Tubb's father) and I held a training session for our NRA Junior Rifle Club shooters (National Match M1) at the range in Pampa we always had a watermelon and water break for lunch time. I remember one time George complaining about having to spend $2.00 for a Black Diamond watermelon. Yes those were the good old days. Edited January 2, 2017 by mrmackc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 It does count as salted fruit. I should have specified "Dried, salted fruit", plums (saladitos) and apricots (chamoy). Some people call all of it saladitos. As kids, the stores had them in a jar by the register, like 3 for a nickel. So dry they resembled leather, kinda like beef jerky used to be. Like beef jerky is now, there is an unfamiliar moisture content from something sprayed on them. Really have to go out of your way to find them truly dry-dry now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 While I can see some benefit to them in a situation with limited resources....I really hate saladitos lol. I have bowls of prepackaged ones in my house from all the pinatas at birthday parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 Working at U.S. Steel in the summer we were given salted chuckle's. Now working in heat it's a frozen Gatorade and water and not drinking enough water I get God awful leg cramps. The I have to take a Magnesium pill to make them calm down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 23 hours ago, unforgiven said: Working at U.S. Steel in the summer we were given salted chuckle's. Now working in heat it's a frozen Gatorade and water and not drinking enough water I get God awful leg cramps. The I have to take a Magnesium pill to make them calm down. Have you got diagnosed on the magnesium shortage? Potassium shortage will do that too. If I eat a banana or an orange a day, I avoid them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 16 hours ago, Sisco said: Have you got diagnosed on the magnesium shortage? Potassium shortage will do that too. If I eat a banana or an orange a day, I avoid them. Epsom salt bath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbas4570 Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 On 01/01/2017 at 8:33 PM, shepp said: Coke will do the same Yes coke will eat concrete, but not even close to how well the monster does it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 On 1/3/2017 at 2:04 PM, Sisco said: Have you got diagnosed on the magnesium shortage? Potassium shortage will do that too. If I eat a banana or an orange a day, I avoid them. I do both brother but the job is very physical and I'm old and beat up. Polio didn't make things any easier. 5 more months...God help me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armed Eye Doc Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 2 hours ago, unforgiven said: I do both brother but the job is very physical and I'm old and beat up. Polio didn't make things any easier. 5 more months...God help me.... We'll pray for May for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Thank you brother. Every day that goes by is another day closer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 I drank a Monster drink my son-in-law left in our fridge and didn't like it too much, I liked the Sam Adams beer he left a lot better. He is always buying those strange beer and energy drinks, it only adds pounds to his body, that I can tell. My old ex-Air Force doctor gave me a prescription for Potassium pills (KCl?) , big suckers!....and said that I could eat a dozen bananas and only get half as much Potassium as one pill. I took one a day for a week and quit having the leg cramps at night. I still take one on an occasion when I have leg or hand cramps, seems to help. I lucked out on the polio, my school mate got it when we were in third grade. He spent months in an iron lung, missed a year of school and had ump-teen surgeries, the polio affected his arms, he was a tough kid. He became a bookkeeper and manager for his dad's grocery store. I think I was 17 when I took the Salk vaccine on a sugar cube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beantown Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 6 minutes ago, mrmackc said: I liked the Sam Adams beer he left a lot better. He has damn good taste in my book. It's my go to beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 I'm usually a what ever is cold if offered, buy Coors or Bush lite, Micalob but I liked the Sam Adams enough to pay the extra price. By th way I dont think words hav 2 B speld rit to B understood, if u no what I mean. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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