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June 6th, 2007

We really need another way to get drunk?

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor

Parents everywhere will be thrilled to learn that some Dutch students have invented powdered alcohol, which they say can be sold legally to minors.

It’s called Booz2Go, and it seems to be the latest innovation in inebriation. Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored, lime-flavored drink.

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 us. Jeez, I hope he’s not expecting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this. Here’s the story:

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Powder party! Not the same powder as in the story, but people throw colored powder as they chant religious slogans inside a temple while celebrating the Holi festival in the northern Indian city of Vrindavan March 4, 2007. REUTERS/Adeel Halim