Remember when the Irish media wanted to ban Red Bull ?

Master Anorak · 20-09-2022 8:43am #1

In the early 00s, there was massive hysteria in the Irish media about Red Bull killing people, the reason I drank my first can of red bull in 2002 was because I heard an episode of Joe Duffy trying to ban it https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-10099060.html

BailMeOut · 20-09-2022 8:50am

Irish Media wanted to ban Red Bull? I call bull on the title of your post.

Allinall · 20-09-2022 8:52am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058264157/remember-when-the-irish-media-wanted-to-ban-red-bull

Fair play.

It's the reason I insist on smoking in every pub I go into, and I still use leaded petrol in my car.

I am struggling to get smokey coal, so they may have got me on that one.

bad2thebone · 20-09-2022 8:53am

I remember that, back in the day I'd have a red bull and double volka lol

Gave up the hooch in 2003 aftershocks did it for me, lost a friend after a binge on aftershocks. We just kept drinking them until we couldn't drink no more. He walked out in front of a car on the way home.

Now and again I still get a can of red bull if I'm going on a long drive in the evening time.

bad2thebone · 20-09-2022 9:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119640315#Comment_119640315

I prefer to cut up tyres into small pieces and feed them into the fire myself. Gives it an 80's feel to it. And of course a bit of Huey Lewis and the news in the background and cigarettes smoking in the background. Top up the carpets with stale beer...oh I how I miss the 80's

tabby aspreme · 20-09-2022 10:25am

Red Bull and Monster, are a popular choice for breakfast nowadays, recently seen a lady in her sixties having 2 boiled eggs and a can of Red Bull for brekkie

bb1234567 · 21-09-2022 7:29pm

There is such misinformation spread about red bull. A can has the same caffeine in it as one coffee. ONE coffee. Lots of people drink multiple espressos all over the world every morning of their life, and it's fine of course. It's ridiculous, you'd think there was the caffeine of 100 coffees in a can the way some blow on about how 'unhealthy' they are

21-09-2022 7:32pm

Jagerbombs put me off the stuff before I'd ever even tasted it on its own.

kippy · 21-09-2022 7:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119647721#Comment_119647721

In fairness it's more the sugar I'd be concerned about. But there's too much sugar in tonnes of stuff we eat and drink.

Count Dracula · 21-09-2022 7:38pm

Nanny state personified.

It is also an intrinsic Irish trait to mistrust anything new or different.

They would ban summer if they thought they could get away with it.

breezy1985 · 21-09-2022 7:44pm

I'm sure the incredibly smart lads at Red Bull were pushing the hysteria.

GSBellew · 21-09-2022 7:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119640315#Comment_119640315

I can hook you up with some real coal, but don't tell anyone 🤫

The Mighty Quinn · 21-09-2022 7:49pm

I remember the father asking me what I wanted to drink in a pub around the time, I was 15 I'd say, red bull new in pubs. Served in a brown glass bottle. He nearly hit the floor with the price of it, was near a pint price rather tham a coke price. He didn't buy me many after that!

Jim_Hodge · 21-09-2022 7:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119647749#Comment_119647749

What nanny state? It was a media report concentrating on action taken elsewhere. It didn't call for a ban and the state didn't enact any ban.

riffmongous · 21-09-2022 7:52pm

Yeah I remember some sort of hysteria about it too, that it would make your heart go mad and some other crap. Only started drinking it once I was abroad.

kneemos · 21-09-2022 8:11pm

Heard somebody on about energy drinks and kids the other day on the radio. Apparently they were jumping out of their skin in the classroom or something.

Larbre34 · 21-09-2022 8:17pm

All those disgusting high sugar, super high caffeine drinks should be banned anyway, everything about them is negative and it seems to be teenagers that mostly buy them.

The likes of Red Bull and Monster have over 300% more caffeine than a 500ml Coke and some others have 600% more! There's absolutely no justification for their existence.

Quantum Erasure · 21-09-2022 8:43pm

Remember headshops and that time we legalised all drugs for a day?

Riddle101 · 22-09-2022 1:50am

I remember the Red Bull craze but I didn't know they tried to get the drink banned. I mainly just remember the funny ads that used to play on TV. Red Bull gives you Wiiings!

https://youtu.be/1l92x0GBTbE

Jim_Hodge · 22-09-2022 8:07am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119648843#Comment_119648843

Yes the ads were good. The reason you don't know they tried to ban it is because they didn't try to ban it.

Hotblack Desiato · 22-09-2022 12:46pm

Can Jolt Cola still be got anywhere? Was a great 'cure' back in the day.

Hotblack Desiato · 22-09-2022 12:47pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119647749#Comment_119647749

Thought you'd be all in favour of the latter, those short summer nights must be a bítch.

Dramatik · 22-09-2022 5:38pm

I seem to remember a teenager died playing basketball after they had a Redbull, think that was what all the fuss was about. Not sure if they were ever able to prove that it was the cause of death.

edit: found it

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/jury-calls-for-research-into-stimulant-drinks-1.1115757

DublinWriter · 22-09-2022 5:48pm

"It's a disk-race Joe, I drink fifty-squillion pints every weekend, but that Red Bull stuff is killing are kids"

"Shure caller, shure shure, good man"

Don't ever expect cannabis to be legalised in this country. Ever.

Hotblack Desiato · 22-09-2022 7:31pm

@dramatik Same as when mushrooms were banned, all they need is media hysteria not evidence.

Fun fact: if you're sitting outside a pub having a pint and some stone cold sober eejit crashes their car into you, that goes into the stats as an "alcohol related accident" 🙄

Booze burkas, late opening, early closing, MUP - what next, rationing? They might as well make any form of enjoyment illegal.

EmmetSpiceland · 22-09-2022 7:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119652075#Comment_119652075

They had highly processed foods in their sights but doesn’t look like that’s going to go through just yet.

Good way of getting the lower classes to pay a little more.

Badly Drunk Boy · 22-09-2022 8:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119647912#Comment_119647912

I like some of the Monster drinks, for the slightly unusual taste rather than any buzz they might (or might not) give, whether that would come from caffeine, sugar, ginseng or taurine. And you'll never hear me say "I'm useless before my first Monster for the day!".

I know they're not healthy for you but I remember a colleague sent me a scaremongering article about them which stated (if you did the calculations) that you'd need to drink 23 litres of water to rehydrate fully after drinking one can of Monster. 🙄 And this colleague of mine had training in diet and nutrition!