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From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Jolt
Message-ID: <475@cci632.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 11:43:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: cci632.475
Posted: Tue Oct  7 11:43:09 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 04:03:27 EDT
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Reply-To: rb@ccird2.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Organization: CCI, Rochester Development, Rochester, NY
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Summary: Background and experiences

In article <745@hope.UUCP> allanon@hope.UUCP (Kenneth Leung) writes:
>>>>There is a new cola drink made by a company in Roch., NY, called "Jolt",
>>>>whose ads say "all the sugar and twice the caffeine".

A little background.  Roch. N.Y. is a town loaded with engineers, chemists,
and other "high tech" professionals.  This group is not so "health oriented"
and lives out of the candy machine and the pop machine.

Jolt, for this group, is the answer to the "it's 10:00 PM, the cafeteria
is closed, and I still have 4 more hours worth of tests" problem.  A
bottle of Jolt can keep you going for another 4 hours (or more :-).

>>> 	I've tried Jolt, its ok, I know its sold in Illinois.
>> We get it here in Eastern PA now.  Good stuff, now if only they'd make a
>> diet version (10-15 of these babies can mean lots of calories, which I'd
>> rather spend on beer).

Actually, the caffine is supposed to help you burn of those extra calories.
I wouldn't expect to see a diet version.

>> ============================================================================
>> Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
>That stuff is nasty if you
>happened to be very thirsty and on an empty stomach (which my roommate 
>*KINDLY* arranged for one time I came back from a trip) I was not exactly
>feeling mellow.

Unless you were very tired, you could've shook like crazy :-).

>Another time I drank it after drinking some milk an hour
>before and the effect was  ...eh... should I say ..."interesting"?
>-ken

What's fun is to drink about 16 oz, just before a big meeting.
You can't stop talking. :-).

Maybe this should be discussed in net.drugs :-).

I still like Dr. Pepper or Mr. Pibb better, but here in Rochester, it
isn't all that easy to get.  You have to go to another county to get
Mr. Pibb.