Perhaps you’ve been asleep for the last few years and missed
it, but the nation is becoming overrun by energy drinks. According to the
commercials, all one needs to do, when feeling tired in the middle of the afternoon,
is grab an energy drink and you’ll be back to work, bustling with energy and
filled with a joy to be working once again. I’m not sure if those drinks are
about giving one energy or making one fall in love with their work.
Has anyone ever checked what those things contain? Are we
sure that they’re not filled with drugs? Maybe they’re really some sort of
special drug, manufactured under a joint venture agreement by a number of
companies; with the goal of making people work harder.
Our youth seem to be especially enamored with these energy
drinks. Like fancy coffee, sushi rolls and expensive ice cream; energy drinks
seem to be created especially for the younger generation. What people used to
call normal tiredness is now looked at as a problem, which needs the solution
of an energy drink.
Have you seen the price of those things? Why, they’ve got to
be more expensive per gallon than gasoline. If one was to have an energy drink
a day, they’d need the extra energy, just to make enough money to pay for their
energy drink habit.
Of course, the easy solution to this is for the cheapskates
amongst us, is to start making our own energy drinks. It’s a fairly simple
recipe. All you need is three parts sugar, one part pure caffeine and some sort
of a bad tasting liquid base to put it in; and voila! You’ve got you own “designer
energy drink.” If you want to make it more impressive, add some ginseng or
other exotic sounding roots and herbs. The more of those sorts of ingredients
you can add, the more impressive it will sound to your friends. Even so, it’s the
sugar and caffeine that will make it work.
I don’t know how, but in all this hype of energy drinks,
everyone has missed the greatest energy food of all… chocolate. How can so many
companies create drinks which are supposed to make you full of energy, and
forget the greatest energy food of all times? It’s mind boggling, that’s what
it is.
At least with chocolate, one knows what they’re getting.
With some of those drinks, I’m not all that sure. Maybe they give you energy,
and then again, maybe they just convince you that they’re giving you energy.
Whichever it is, they’d definitely do a better job with that ageless magic
ingredient called chocolate added in.
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