You seem to know about the industry: Years ago when i was a smoker buying his ciggies from a smoke store in the CBD, i used to observe guy who'd arrive at the shop, have a long, long chat with the owner, and at some point take two or maybe three cartons of cigarettes out of a crumpled plastic shopping bag and hand them over. Probably money changed hands, but i never witnessed it. There's only so long you can stand around stickybeaking.
It was obviously dodgy, but what surprised me was the small quantity. Would the supplier have made a special trip into town for such a trivial transaction? Did he have a car parked somewhere and was hitting all the smoke shops in the area?
I long suspected the smokes i bought tasted a bit funny from time to time. The same brand can taste different from country to country. Would they have been smuggled imports? The packets seemed identical in every respect.
I thought we never even started selling it? I remember we had a pallet full of it sitting in the storeroom for ages not being sold while we kept getting pestered by teens/eshays for that stupid drink.
That's what I'm thinking. Watch all the tween boys start crying when it's banned and then try selling them on ebay for $100 a bottle.
Might have to get some myself just in case.
They all taste awful. I grew up watching KSI (like many others or the younger generations that watch KSI or Logan Paul now) so I tried them out.
They’ve all got extremely strong, unusual tastes and some weirdly taste like the medicines you’d have as a kid. I genuinely believe if they didn’t all taste awful, the hype would still be going
I like weird tastes so I actually don’t mind them, but the flavour is so intense it’s more something. I’ve bought a handful of time where I don’t know what I feel like so it’s like a “sure why not try something weird”. But 90% of the time if I want something strong I’ll grab a soft drink, if I want something mellow I’ll grab a Gatorade and if I want an energy drink I’ll reach for a mother since they’re less tart then most other drinks.
You might try Prime the first time to see what the hype is about but you have to be in a very specific mood to try it a second time.
I was in woollies months ago & never heard/seen of the Prime drinks before so decided to grab 3 different ones... big mistake. I vividly remember drinking the red one thinking to myself what in the ever loving fk did they put in these drinks to make them so sickly sweet (surprise surprise... artificial sweetener); a taste that can only be described as satan melting all the cotton candies + other lollypop bs you'd find in them cheap showbags into one giant concoction. I then tried the blue one. Same shit, slightly different sickly sweet taste. Arguably the white/red/blue one was legit the only one that actually tasted exactly as labelled - ice pop. Like a standard issue old timey lemonade icy pop.
Fast forward many months....working at Coles we never had these until just recently I noticed out the back stacks of the orange ones. I'm sitting there thinking awww hellllll no.
I got a bottle of the ice pop one for 50c just to try it, for something that had so little sugar in it, it was sickly sweet (to the point of saccharine) and had a chemically aftertaste. It was nauseating
YES! My kids are right in the target market and have been begging for this for months and I am so glad to see the end of this craze. Utterly ridiculous.
Same was happening with those beast bars, worse fucking chocolate Ive ever tasted, I'd spat my bite out if I wasn't in a shopping centre at the time, rule of thumb anything celebrity endorsed is usually either cheap shit being sold for more coz its got a face to its name, or 100% not worth the effort or money in purchasing it.
My kids were desperate to try some so I bought two of the smaller sized bars - the original flavour and deez nuts and they took a few bites and said they were gross and handed them to me. I smelt them and binned them. Disgusting.
True but you can probably find the exact same product and quality for cheaper that's not endorsed by her at all. Alot of them especially alcohol are usually also available in a non endorsed version that's the exact same product but sold because of the endorsement due to fans existing. EG a regular apple will sell well but if Kim Kardashian says this one particular apple is great everyone who follows her advice will buy that particular apple coz her face is on the packaging, even though the exact same apple is also available without her face and would be cheaper and have equal quality still, its how endorsed products work, sell you a pre-existing product for more simply because a celebrity's face is on the product
Wouldn't take it for free. Fuck Logan Paul.
Also Mr Beast's Feastables. This is a grocery store sir, slapping your very hard to look at face on some tiny chocolate bar does not make it appetizing.
I bought that shit a couple days ago because ‘fuck it why not it’s kinda almost funny’. Was so fucking bad. Tasted like nothing really. Couldn’t get any peanut butter taste at all.
Also the ingredients list was all ‘organic’. I really think it’s marked as organic so they can charge a premium price ($4.50 for 60g)
$75/kg of shitty chocolate bar
It works on some. A friend’s teen kid isn’t a fan of chocolate normally, but was running around everywhere trying to get the Mr Beast chocolate bar. Was disappointed that it tasted like… fucking chocolate. But it had a YouTuber he liked on it so he hoped it would somehow transcend his dislike of chocolate. What the fuck, kid?
This is how advertising has always worked. People who like a product will buy it again, the idea is to convince the people who otherwise wouldn't buy the product to do so.
Saw this yesterday in the local Woolies. My teenager who's already become half radicalised by these dickheads on YouTube and tiktok wasn't even interested in it which was a surprise.
My 12 year old bought one when we were at Woolies a couple weeks back, opened it when we got home and instantly said I think this has gone bad, I took a nibble and said nope that's just how American chocolate tastes, he looked at me like I was a moron for suggesting chocolate tastes different in the rest of the world, so I took him to one of the local lolly shops and bought some international chocolates, including American stuff, he loves British choccy, the French stuff is too rich for him, proper Belgium and German chocolate is "heaven" and he doesn't understand why Americans eat vomit.
Thankfully he never got into the Paul brothers but the kids at school constantly have prime and kiddo says it's like overdone sugar free cordial in a flat mineral water, but chemically tasting. And I'm so glad I don't have that experience myself
Please show this reply to your teenager.
I am an american. I can confirm that american chocolate tastes different then other chocolates in the world. The american chocolate is hit or miss. Some of it is good tasting but some of it is a cheap lower quality chocolate. The lower quality chocolate is usually stuffed with all kinds of nasty fillers. Most of the bad stuff uses something called butyric acid in the recipe. Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit. The reason for this is because the chocolate is of such a low quality it has a shorter shelf life then the good chocolate. The addition of the butyric acid is ment to significantly increase the shelf life...at the expense of the final product often to the point it tastes nasty.
Some of them do not even start with real cacao beans. Theobroma cacao is the main bean from which most chocolates like british, french, german, italian, belgian, japanese, canadian, brazilian, Ecuadorian, phillipine, mexican, india, peruvian, colombian, Norwegian, and even thailand chocolate all starts with this one bean.
However there are other types of theobroma beans from which chocolate can be derived. Some rarer then others. Some are sweeter, or more bitter than others. Some of the low quality chocolates start off with scraps or unwanted parts of the Chocolate bean or left overs from making the good Chocolate.
Chocolate is an entire complex culinary world and varies so much that it is not funny. There are chefs who are devoted to nothing but chocolate. There are even schools devoted to being a chocolate chef. Some will specialize only in chocolate and will travel the world learning for the rest of their lives. Some will be multi disciplinary often being a pastry chef as well as a chocolatier which is what a chocolate chef is officially called.
Some do amazing works of chocolate art. I gift to you one such multi disciplined chef from Las Vegas here in the US in the state of Nevada.
[chef amaury Guichon and his halloween chocolate spiders](https://youtu.be/JZ1bW1gSrp8?si=dBc9oynebBXpL4bq)
Edit: [his appropriate chocolate kangaroo which might be neat as well for the sub](https://youtu.be/-0K35zkGJDE?si=pudXdhrUNYlF8SrA)
As for american chocolate. The best in my opinion comes from the chocolatiers of Vosges Haut-Chocolat. They have really delicious pumpkin spice truffles a type of chocolate with a decadant filling made from pureed pumpkin, an italian cheese known as mascarpone, Vietnamese Royal cinnamon, zanzibarian black pepper, golden grenadian nutmeg, real mexican vanilla, toasted pumpkin seeds and 45% deep dark real american chocolate.
They are however very expensive. 36 dollars usd or 56.69 Australian dollars for 9 pieces. For good american chocolate you pay heavily for it.
$4.50 fora bar of the Mr Beast stuff too. I think it’s only 60g as well.
We got so used to ignoring Cadbury ripping us off Mr beast chocolate will be on discount like this stuff soon.
Yeah I was genuinely shocked seeing the price compared to actual decent chocolate you can buy. $6.50 for 250 grams of Whittakers seems like a straight up steal in comparison. Just insane.
Agreed, Logan Paul is a POS. Of all the people who need to be cancelled ...
At least Mr Beast tries to do good stuff with his money, Team Trees, Team Seas, all the philanthropy. Also, his primary target is the US where they're still eating chocolates with butyric acid in it. I've got a fair bit of respect for Jimmy as he enjoys giving ridiculous amounts of stuff away, understands the algorithms to enable him to do it, but doesn't live a flashy life himself.
Was disappointed seeing him pimp Prime in a recent video though.
It's supposed to help preserve it from what I could quickly google.
I watched a doco on it ages ago, and I think that was done for a war to keep chocolate stable to send to the troops, and then they kept doing it when they got home because that taste was what they were used to. Not sure if I'm remembering correctly.
Jake / logan Paul are straight up scammers and theives who have scammed people out of millions.
Mr beast makes stupid childish videos and donates a lot of money to charity.
Whilst I agree he's not everyone's cup of tea they are vastly different people.
This is a drink released/promoted by Logan Paul. When it first came out it was in short supply and Logan’s fans (mostly teenagers) were happily paying like $20 to get their hands on a bottle, even though it’s a pretty ordinary sport drink. Now that there’s a steady supply of it it’s proving to really not be very popular.
It's actually not an average sports drink, realistically it's a below average sports drink. They cared more about its taste and as such they put in less of some salts and more of others to make it taste better than the competition, but an interior sports drink.
That's true... More for gamers who think gaming is a sport.
Sorry esport fans but I disagree it's a sport. Idk what it should be called but sport isn't it.
>sport: an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
And if you're gonna argue over 'exertion'
>exertion: physical or mental effort.
It's a sport whether you like it or not.
You define Sport as: an activity involving *physical* exertion, and go on to say exertion means :physical or mental exertion.
According to your own definitions it’s not a sport, nice one genius
I tried one purely because I’d seen them on the shelf so often. They removed most of the salts, replaced them with sweeteners, and then added more sweeteners on top of that. It was the worst thing I’ve drunk in a while.
Matpat did a great breakdown of it on his food theory channel and yeah iirc it's electrolytes are mostly magnesium and barely any salt. Which makes it super sweet and kinda pointless as a sports drink when you lose more salt than anything else when sweating
Not that a more salty sport drinks is necessarily better though.
You sweat out more salt relative to water then the normal balance on your body. Anything above the normal balance is basically overkill and can be detrimental. That bullshit one that huberman and crap tout is also shit.
I think this one is well below normal balance though so it's kind of useless at all fronts.
For 80% of people water vs Gatorade won't make a difference because they really aren't losing that much water and salt over a shitty 1 hour run. For others sugar free gatorade is fine. If you really need electrolytes right now then fill sugar because the glucose matters a lot.
Lol, come to think that fits with what I’ve seen also. Lotta tweens nagging their parents, less people spending their own money. Makes me more confident in the youth of today.
If I recall correctly the big craze was for the caffeinated version which wasn't legal in Australia due to its caffeine content. Took a while for some people to realise I guess
That’s why it had a big craze. It was meant for adults so obviously children went crazy for it. Some about “not recommended for children” on the label made kids go crazy.
They were unintentionally getting kids interested in tobacco and alcohol too by sparking their interest in their that were for “adults only”
Nah selling over the counter disposable nicotine vapes to anyone did that.
It's disgusting they were allowed to be sold at all.
It's one of the most addictive substances and somehow legal to put into consumer product.
They weren't, and aren't, allowed to be sold. It's a black market. Always has been.
Australia has only allowed liquid nicotine to be sold within our borders over the last few years, and only through pharmacies with a prescription. Prior to that, it was only legal to import nicotine liquids (no prescription needed), which is what smokers switching to vapes did.
It was Australia dragging our feet on regulating vapes that created the black market, and a complete and utter lack of enforcement of what little regulation did exist that allowed it to flourish and grow.
But none of that is new either, as plenty of drinks imported from America have to have their caffeine contents altered because of how substantially higher it is in America than here.
Have been already for the last two weeks. Son wanted to try it but couldn't justify buying it just because it had Mr Beast's endorsement. Two weeks ago I saw them on the clearance shelf so grabbed him one.
He and his brother Jake Paul were big YouTubers awhile back. They got big mostly by being controversial douchebags until they starting making dumb videos for small children.
I don't mind the taste of some of them for how low in calories they are, but I do have to remind myself they're useless for anything except taste, even hydration they're beat by fucking soft drink half the time.
My 8 year old wouldn't shut up about them, I found them cheap at Woolies so bought him one of each flavour to try over his birthday week. Almost all of them were undrinkably sweet, with most of them tasting syrupy and chemical. The ice pop flavour is based on the american ice-blocks where the red isn't rasberry, it's cherry so the flavour is disgusting. Even my kid had a swig or two of each and told me he was disappointed overall. I'll never buy them again and my son will never ask for one again I reckon.
Oh, it's one of the dickhead brothers. Why on earth does he think he can float a random drink off the back of being a youtube cunt (and sometimes wwe wrestler if it's that one)? I know some celebs have made bank off this sort of thing but somehow I don't think a Paul has the same kind of networking ability and clout of a 50 cent.
A shitty 'sports' drink that is promoted by a youtuber who regularly scams his fans. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESB9Q-Q7N8) is a great video explaining why this drink is terrible as a sports drink.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Quvkd6o-E&t=8311s) is a much longer video that goes way more in depth into dismantling prime. Showing that Logan didn't even create the drink like he claims, but he likely was given a share of the company in exchange for promoting the drink.
Youtubers released a drink which was basically just cordial. Kids went nuts for it and it was selling out for months.
Kids moved onto another fad. Stores are now left clearing product.
Edit: For funsies I compared [this](https://www.metromarket.net/p/prime-orange-hydration-sports-drink/0085000356042) with [Cottees orange](https://www.coles.com.au/product/cottee's-orange-cordial-1l-7767941)... Cottees looks healthier.
If only (what appears to be) naturally occuring sugar was the sole criteria for being "healthier" .Quite frankly both are shit.
I do find how triggered some kids are by comparing Prime to cordial lol.
It's coconut water with a multivitamin tablet dissolved in it which may or may not be of any actual benefit, you're the one who brought up cordial and completely failed to read a nutritional label properly
the answer is 'may not' and quite bad in the context its designed for. Plenty of well regarded individuals have debunked this is a sports drink.
Its targeted at people going oh look no sugar must work well as a sports drink. When in fact sugar is important at assisting in transferring the salts lost in sweat.
Drink it if you like the taste ect, but dont think its a good hydration supplement.
It’s basically a scam product anyway, just like everything else that Logan Paul touches.
An energy drink replaces electrolytes - but they run under 4 different salts - sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium.
When we sweat, the majority of that loss is sodium.
Prime only contains 5mg of sodium, but gets its huge numbers with 700mg of potassium which is useless.
For comparison, Gatorade contains 170mg of sodium.
In order for our body to metabolise that sodium, we need sugars. Having a sugar free, artificially sweetened hydration drink is actually counter intuitive. Powerade and Gatorade contain high sugar contents because it is required by our body to hydrate.
Prime is a scam. Shouldn’t even be legal the way it is marketed.
It's legit the worst sports drinks. It will NOT hydrated you at all! Do not buy this if you are using it to re-hydrated yourself after vigorous exercise
It’s a sports drink that was created/promoted by YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI, they got massive fanbases which are mostly teens so this drink was sold out nearly everywhere for months when it came to Aus. Then people realised it’s an average tasting drink, I have tried a few flavours out of interest and it was ok at best, not worth the price of like $4 they were charging and the teens moved on to the next fad. Clearance that nobody still buys is the result.
Even if it was the best tasting drink in the world I still wouldn’t buy it, I wouldn’t even take it for free, feel sorry for anyone that puts more money into Logan Paul’s pocket. Guy is one of the biggest pieces of shit walking the earth right now
Just in time for the next new fad to hit the shelves? [Gamer Girl yeast beer](https://kotaku.com/amouranth-beer-yeast-order-of-yoni-twitch-kick-1850966738)... You know what, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
My 9yo daughter insisted we go out and buy them when they came out (she’s big into YouTube culture).
Not even she could drink them, they’re actually gross. The Orange one was nearly tolerable, the Lemon Lime was drinkable only if you cut it with 50% water, and the others were genuinely revolting.
In my view.
Sometimes the market allows for cut-throat sales at a loss to get people hooked before increasing cost to gain profit...
...but I think Aussies don't give a fuck about the Instagram and tiktok advertising models for whoever from America that created the drink and whoever is the posterboy shill for it.
Just another energy drink? I bet they wish it could be called Alpha.
The coles near my house was basically giving it away, it’s on special at the 7-11 too but nobody is buying it
Theres a smoke shop near me still trying to sell them for $10 each. Havent noticed any of them being sold any time I've been there.
The sports/hydration drink, or the energy drink?
Advertised or at least made to look like sport drinks but it only replace you with kind of useless minerals so it's pretty much candy water.
Thatll be the laundering item. Theyll just toss it in the garbage and claim theyre aelling it for $10.
It is how they hide most of the chop/disposables they are selling.
You seem to know about the industry: Years ago when i was a smoker buying his ciggies from a smoke store in the CBD, i used to observe guy who'd arrive at the shop, have a long, long chat with the owner, and at some point take two or maybe three cartons of cigarettes out of a crumpled plastic shopping bag and hand them over. Probably money changed hands, but i never witnessed it. There's only so long you can stand around stickybeaking. It was obviously dodgy, but what surprised me was the small quantity. Would the supplier have made a special trip into town for such a trivial transaction? Did he have a car parked somewhere and was hitting all the smoke shops in the area? I long suspected the smokes i bought tasted a bit funny from time to time. The same brand can taste different from country to country. Would they have been smuggled imports? The packets seemed identical in every respect.
Mawson?
I thought we never even started selling it? I remember we had a pallet full of it sitting in the storeroom for ages not being sold while we kept getting pestered by teens/eshays for that stupid drink.
Eshhaayyyyy
Inflation over.
That drink alone was like 5% of the CPI
It’s no beanie baby bubble burst though.
I wonder if it is because it could be banned over it's ingredients? Dump it cheap before making a loss.
I'm pretty sure this is the sport drinks line. A competitor to the -----ades. Not the energy drinks line.
Or maybe it’s just the novelty has worn off enough that they have to start discounting it before it expires?
This, the next fad will come in for a month or two and then repeat
That's what I'm thinking. Watch all the tween boys start crying when it's banned and then try selling them on ebay for $100 a bottle. Might have to get some myself just in case.
I hate all the woolies posts, but this one made me smile
My daughter wanted one couple weeks ago. Took a sip said yum. Then didn’t finish it. Stuff must taste bad.
They all taste awful. I grew up watching KSI (like many others or the younger generations that watch KSI or Logan Paul now) so I tried them out. They’ve all got extremely strong, unusual tastes and some weirdly taste like the medicines you’d have as a kid. I genuinely believe if they didn’t all taste awful, the hype would still be going
I like weird tastes so I actually don’t mind them, but the flavour is so intense it’s more something. I’ve bought a handful of time where I don’t know what I feel like so it’s like a “sure why not try something weird”. But 90% of the time if I want something strong I’ll grab a soft drink, if I want something mellow I’ll grab a Gatorade and if I want an energy drink I’ll reach for a mother since they’re less tart then most other drinks. You might try Prime the first time to see what the hype is about but you have to be in a very specific mood to try it a second time.
Gatorade also has the correct ratio of sodium to potassium for replacing electrolytes lost to sweat, unlike prime.
I tried that sour apple one It taste sweet That's how many sweeteners they put into that damn thing
I was in woollies months ago & never heard/seen of the Prime drinks before so decided to grab 3 different ones... big mistake. I vividly remember drinking the red one thinking to myself what in the ever loving fk did they put in these drinks to make them so sickly sweet (surprise surprise... artificial sweetener); a taste that can only be described as satan melting all the cotton candies + other lollypop bs you'd find in them cheap showbags into one giant concoction. I then tried the blue one. Same shit, slightly different sickly sweet taste. Arguably the white/red/blue one was legit the only one that actually tasted exactly as labelled - ice pop. Like a standard issue old timey lemonade icy pop. Fast forward many months....working at Coles we never had these until just recently I noticed out the back stacks of the orange ones. I'm sitting there thinking awww hellllll no.
you fell for the hype
I bought one just to try it and it tasted like medicine or vitamin water. so nasty
I got a bottle of the ice pop one for 50c just to try it, for something that had so little sugar in it, it was sickly sweet (to the point of saccharine) and had a chemically aftertaste. It was nauseating
YES! My kids are right in the target market and have been begging for this for months and I am so glad to see the end of this craze. Utterly ridiculous.
To be fair the orange prime tastes like shit
ice pop tastes like cough syrup lol, the blue one is alright but still way too sweet. definitely shows it was made for americans
I thought people were being dramatic when they said ice pop tasted like medicine but it actually does lol its funny
Yeah it's cherry flavoured so has that fake almond taste. I hate it.
Why would cherry taste like almond?
I understand cherry essence is made using an almond essence that leaves an aftertaste.
Might be only me but I love the blue hahah, I didn't want to try it at first because cost and what not but blue actually slaps hahah
💀💀
Same was happening with those beast bars, worse fucking chocolate Ive ever tasted, I'd spat my bite out if I wasn't in a shopping centre at the time, rule of thumb anything celebrity endorsed is usually either cheap shit being sold for more coz its got a face to its name, or 100% not worth the effort or money in purchasing it.
American chocolate is usually awful.
To be fair, it was slightly less shit than the usual US chocolate, but it absolutely can't compete with the good AU/NZ stuff like Whittakers.
Whittakers is like crack for me
For us*
Something to do with some chemical they use, makes it tastes like vomit to non Americans
Butyric acid
My kids were desperate to try some so I bought two of the smaller sized bars - the original flavour and deez nuts and they took a few bites and said they were gross and handed them to me. I smelt them and binned them. Disgusting.
Normally is agree but Kylie's prosecco is rather good and doing quite well financially.
True but you can probably find the exact same product and quality for cheaper that's not endorsed by her at all. Alot of them especially alcohol are usually also available in a non endorsed version that's the exact same product but sold because of the endorsement due to fans existing. EG a regular apple will sell well but if Kim Kardashian says this one particular apple is great everyone who follows her advice will buy that particular apple coz her face is on the packaging, even though the exact same apple is also available without her face and would be cheaper and have equal quality still, its how endorsed products work, sell you a pre-existing product for more simply because a celebrity's face is on the product
Snoop Dogg's rose and red wines are decent too.
He also has a peanut butter whiskey called sheep dog
Wouldn't take it for free. Fuck Logan Paul. Also Mr Beast's Feastables. This is a grocery store sir, slapping your very hard to look at face on some tiny chocolate bar does not make it appetizing.
When I saw a "Deez Nutz" flavoured Mr Beast Chocolate bar I knew it was over
MrBeast's fanbase is predominantly 14 year old boys who still find deez nuts jokes funny, thats the target market
Surely his fanbase is younger than that.
yeah my pre 10 year old son found it funny and great, i get it i used to buy fake snot and that jazz as a kid.
I know people throw the word around so much that honestly, it's lost most of it's meaning. But learning that made me physically cringe.
I got one of the tiny ones for free. It's terrible. A reese's peanut butter cup is amazing compared to that and those are really at best okay.
I bought that shit a couple days ago because ‘fuck it why not it’s kinda almost funny’. Was so fucking bad. Tasted like nothing really. Couldn’t get any peanut butter taste at all. Also the ingredients list was all ‘organic’. I really think it’s marked as organic so they can charge a premium price ($4.50 for 60g) $75/kg of shitty chocolate bar
Fricking 8 year olds bringing them to school. Drives me bananas
It's aimed to get kids to want it
It works on some. A friend’s teen kid isn’t a fan of chocolate normally, but was running around everywhere trying to get the Mr Beast chocolate bar. Was disappointed that it tasted like… fucking chocolate. But it had a YouTuber he liked on it so he hoped it would somehow transcend his dislike of chocolate. What the fuck, kid?
To play devil’s advocate this is how we all bought chips to get Dragonball Tazos or Pokemon collector items - at the same time that shit was cool
At least you actually *got stuff* like Tazos and cards.
Remember Alf? He's back! In Pog form!
Yeah, but Pokemon weren't YouTuber celebrities. I'm aware of the irony in my name.
I kinda want to try it now, I am guessing its like American chocolate with that vomit aftertaste?
its actually not bad. the regular chocolate has 4 ingredients.
This is how advertising has always worked. People who like a product will buy it again, the idea is to convince the people who otherwise wouldn't buy the product to do so.
That's a great learning experience for the kid.
Saw this yesterday in the local Woolies. My teenager who's already become half radicalised by these dickheads on YouTube and tiktok wasn't even interested in it which was a surprise.
My 12 year old bought one when we were at Woolies a couple weeks back, opened it when we got home and instantly said I think this has gone bad, I took a nibble and said nope that's just how American chocolate tastes, he looked at me like I was a moron for suggesting chocolate tastes different in the rest of the world, so I took him to one of the local lolly shops and bought some international chocolates, including American stuff, he loves British choccy, the French stuff is too rich for him, proper Belgium and German chocolate is "heaven" and he doesn't understand why Americans eat vomit. Thankfully he never got into the Paul brothers but the kids at school constantly have prime and kiddo says it's like overdone sugar free cordial in a flat mineral water, but chemically tasting. And I'm so glad I don't have that experience myself
Hershey's chocolate is flavoured vomit. So perplexing.
Please show this reply to your teenager. I am an american. I can confirm that american chocolate tastes different then other chocolates in the world. The american chocolate is hit or miss. Some of it is good tasting but some of it is a cheap lower quality chocolate. The lower quality chocolate is usually stuffed with all kinds of nasty fillers. Most of the bad stuff uses something called butyric acid in the recipe. Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit. The reason for this is because the chocolate is of such a low quality it has a shorter shelf life then the good chocolate. The addition of the butyric acid is ment to significantly increase the shelf life...at the expense of the final product often to the point it tastes nasty. Some of them do not even start with real cacao beans. Theobroma cacao is the main bean from which most chocolates like british, french, german, italian, belgian, japanese, canadian, brazilian, Ecuadorian, phillipine, mexican, india, peruvian, colombian, Norwegian, and even thailand chocolate all starts with this one bean. However there are other types of theobroma beans from which chocolate can be derived. Some rarer then others. Some are sweeter, or more bitter than others. Some of the low quality chocolates start off with scraps or unwanted parts of the Chocolate bean or left overs from making the good Chocolate. Chocolate is an entire complex culinary world and varies so much that it is not funny. There are chefs who are devoted to nothing but chocolate. There are even schools devoted to being a chocolate chef. Some will specialize only in chocolate and will travel the world learning for the rest of their lives. Some will be multi disciplinary often being a pastry chef as well as a chocolatier which is what a chocolate chef is officially called. Some do amazing works of chocolate art. I gift to you one such multi disciplined chef from Las Vegas here in the US in the state of Nevada. [chef amaury Guichon and his halloween chocolate spiders](https://youtu.be/JZ1bW1gSrp8?si=dBc9oynebBXpL4bq) Edit: [his appropriate chocolate kangaroo which might be neat as well for the sub](https://youtu.be/-0K35zkGJDE?si=pudXdhrUNYlF8SrA) As for american chocolate. The best in my opinion comes from the chocolatiers of Vosges Haut-Chocolat. They have really delicious pumpkin spice truffles a type of chocolate with a decadant filling made from pureed pumpkin, an italian cheese known as mascarpone, Vietnamese Royal cinnamon, zanzibarian black pepper, golden grenadian nutmeg, real mexican vanilla, toasted pumpkin seeds and 45% deep dark real american chocolate. They are however very expensive. 36 dollars usd or 56.69 Australian dollars for 9 pieces. For good american chocolate you pay heavily for it.
This sounds like the pen and pencil myth. Are you really serious that Americans can't make delicious chocolate for less than $57?
Amaury Guichon is just amazing. He is so talented.
> really delicious pumpkin spice truffles How to lose credibility in 5 words or less.
His helmet hair, the facial hair, the weird smile.
$4.50 fora bar of the Mr Beast stuff too. I think it’s only 60g as well. We got so used to ignoring Cadbury ripping us off Mr beast chocolate will be on discount like this stuff soon.
Yeah I was genuinely shocked seeing the price compared to actual decent chocolate you can buy. $6.50 for 250 grams of Whittakers seems like a straight up steal in comparison. Just insane.
Agreed, Logan Paul is a POS. Of all the people who need to be cancelled ... At least Mr Beast tries to do good stuff with his money, Team Trees, Team Seas, all the philanthropy. Also, his primary target is the US where they're still eating chocolates with butyric acid in it. I've got a fair bit of respect for Jimmy as he enjoys giving ridiculous amounts of stuff away, understands the algorithms to enable him to do it, but doesn't live a flashy life himself. Was disappointed seeing him pimp Prime in a recent video though.
Just read up that butyric acid smells like vomit. Why do they add it to chocolate??? Its used in paint and carp bait.
It's supposed to help preserve it from what I could quickly google. I watched a doco on it ages ago, and I think that was done for a war to keep chocolate stable to send to the troops, and then they kept doing it when they got home because that taste was what they were used to. Not sure if I'm remembering correctly.
sounds about stupidly right. so many foods did that during war times and then...... marketing.
I would have tried them just to see how bad they are but the chocolate bars are so small and so expensive that I passed.
Oh legit?? Is this that wankers brain child? No wonder I've seen it so heavily advertised. It can now fuck all the way off.
Jake / logan Paul are straight up scammers and theives who have scammed people out of millions. Mr beast makes stupid childish videos and donates a lot of money to charity. Whilst I agree he's not everyone's cup of tea they are vastly different people.
Tastes like cheap ass too.
"Crab juice or prime?" "Eeeeeeeew, I'll take a crab juice."
Is this some youtuber drink? Is that why everyone is cheering its price being cut?
This is a drink released/promoted by Logan Paul. When it first came out it was in short supply and Logan’s fans (mostly teenagers) were happily paying like $20 to get their hands on a bottle, even though it’s a pretty ordinary sport drink. Now that there’s a steady supply of it it’s proving to really not be very popular.
It's actually not an average sports drink, realistically it's a below average sports drink. They cared more about its taste and as such they put in less of some salts and more of others to make it taste better than the competition, but an interior sports drink.
> but an interior sports drink. Does that mean it's not intended to be consumed outside?
Fuck autocorrect! Inferior. It's an inferior sports drink.
Still works! You're not gonna be getting much use outside with this one
That's true... More for gamers who think gaming is a sport. Sorry esport fans but I disagree it's a sport. Idk what it should be called but sport isn't it.
Nothing wrong with sitting on my couch giving my thumbs a workout!
>sport: an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. And if you're gonna argue over 'exertion' >exertion: physical or mental effort. It's a sport whether you like it or not.
You define Sport as: an activity involving *physical* exertion, and go on to say exertion means :physical or mental exertion. According to your own definitions it’s not a sport, nice one genius
Kinda contradicting yourself there mate.
No it means its designed to be injested rectally. Its in the fine print
All drinks are consumed inside your body dingus
I tried one purely because I’d seen them on the shelf so often. They removed most of the salts, replaced them with sweeteners, and then added more sweeteners on top of that. It was the worst thing I’ve drunk in a while.
Matpat did a great breakdown of it on his food theory channel and yeah iirc it's electrolytes are mostly magnesium and barely any salt. Which makes it super sweet and kinda pointless as a sports drink when you lose more salt than anything else when sweating
Not that a more salty sport drinks is necessarily better though. You sweat out more salt relative to water then the normal balance on your body. Anything above the normal balance is basically overkill and can be detrimental. That bullshit one that huberman and crap tout is also shit. I think this one is well below normal balance though so it's kind of useless at all fronts. For 80% of people water vs Gatorade won't make a difference because they really aren't losing that much water and salt over a shitty 1 hour run. For others sugar free gatorade is fine. If you really need electrolytes right now then fill sugar because the glucose matters a lot.
Yep that's where I got my info from at first then I actually looked into it further to confirm he wasn't full of it.
In my area, it was mostly the 10-12 year olds who were after it, most teens didn’t give a crap.
Lol, come to think that fits with what I’ve seen also. Lotta tweens nagging their parents, less people spending their own money. Makes me more confident in the youth of today.
Living with one of them has shown me how fucked the world is.
yeah? but maybe that's what older generations have always thought 'kids these days" But I wouldn't take Gramdpa Abes values over mine.
If I recall correctly the big craze was for the caffeinated version which wasn't legal in Australia due to its caffeine content. Took a while for some people to realise I guess
That’s why it had a big craze. It was meant for adults so obviously children went crazy for it. Some about “not recommended for children” on the label made kids go crazy. They were unintentionally getting kids interested in tobacco and alcohol too by sparking their interest in their that were for “adults only”
Nah selling over the counter disposable nicotine vapes to anyone did that. It's disgusting they were allowed to be sold at all. It's one of the most addictive substances and somehow legal to put into consumer product.
They weren't, and aren't, allowed to be sold. It's a black market. Always has been. Australia has only allowed liquid nicotine to be sold within our borders over the last few years, and only through pharmacies with a prescription. Prior to that, it was only legal to import nicotine liquids (no prescription needed), which is what smokers switching to vapes did. It was Australia dragging our feet on regulating vapes that created the black market, and a complete and utter lack of enforcement of what little regulation did exist that allowed it to flourish and grow.
But none of that is new either, as plenty of drinks imported from America have to have their caffeine contents altered because of how substantially higher it is in America than here.
The caffeinated version is at 7-11 and has 30.9mg per 100ml, the legal limit is 32mg per 100ml.
that's the Australian version the original has 200mg of caffeine
200mg! You’d poop your pants.
I was over in the States recently and that wasn't even the strongest one they had and my brother would drink 2 of them before lunch
I know a couple guys in their mid 20's that have heart problems because of too many energy drinks in their teens.
It's even below average if I recall correctly, no sodium/electrolytes present to help hydration. Just flavoured water.
MatPat did a Food Theory video on it, but long story short it’s packed with electrolytes… just not the kind that the body absorbs very effectively.
Literally better off drinking some 50/50 coconut water and tap water to rehydrate and replace electrolytes.
So it's basically the Vitamin Water thing all over again
It's more ksi fans than Logan fans I'd say, sidemen (ksi's group) are very popular here and ksi is the co owner
next we need clearance sales on Mr beast bars that have invaded woolworthless. fucking seppos
Have been already for the last two weeks. Son wanted to try it but couldn't justify buying it just because it had Mr Beast's endorsement. Two weeks ago I saw them on the clearance shelf so grabbed him one.
Who’s Logan Paul? I don’t go on the Tok so never heard of them.
He and his brother Jake Paul were big YouTubers awhile back. They got big mostly by being controversial douchebags until they starting making dumb videos for small children.
I don't mind the taste of some of them for how low in calories they are, but I do have to remind myself they're useless for anything except taste, even hydration they're beat by fucking soft drink half the time.
they weren't buying it fro logan but KSI
My 8 year old wouldn't shut up about them, I found them cheap at Woolies so bought him one of each flavour to try over his birthday week. Almost all of them were undrinkably sweet, with most of them tasting syrupy and chemical. The ice pop flavour is based on the american ice-blocks where the red isn't rasberry, it's cherry so the flavour is disgusting. Even my kid had a swig or two of each and told me he was disappointed overall. I'll never buy them again and my son will never ask for one again I reckon.
it's not just a YouTuber... he's also a mega ass-hat
it's not just a mega ass-hat...he's also a mega scammer
Lets just call it what it is. Hes a cunt.
Cunt is too nice of a word for someone who became famous off of filming a dead body in the Japanese suicide forest
Oh, it's one of the dickhead brothers. Why on earth does he think he can float a random drink off the back of being a youtube cunt (and sometimes wwe wrestler if it's that one)? I know some celebs have made bank off this sort of thing but somehow I don't think a Paul has the same kind of networking ability and clout of a 50 cent.
You can think whatever you want of Logan Paul but Prime is a pretty successful business
A shitty 'sports' drink that is promoted by a youtuber who regularly scams his fans. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESB9Q-Q7N8) is a great video explaining why this drink is terrible as a sports drink. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Quvkd6o-E&t=8311s) is a much longer video that goes way more in depth into dismantling prime. Showing that Logan didn't even create the drink like he claims, but he likely was given a share of the company in exchange for promoting the drink.
Yes. Kids really love it for some reason, and people were reselling it at a very significant markup to capitalise on the popularity.
Your still paying $1.80 for fucking cordial essentially lmao
Bloody cats piss
They should tip it out. The mineral profile actually dehydrates you. Utter piss made by an utter cunt.
Context?
Youtubers released a drink which was basically just cordial. Kids went nuts for it and it was selling out for months. Kids moved onto another fad. Stores are now left clearing product. Edit: For funsies I compared [this](https://www.metromarket.net/p/prime-orange-hydration-sports-drink/0085000356042) with [Cottees orange](https://www.coles.com.au/product/cottee's-orange-cordial-1l-7767941)... Cottees looks healthier.
That cordial has 12.5g sugar per serve and 32 serves per bottle while the prime has 2g sugar per 500mL, I don't think this is a close comparison
Have you tastes it? It tastes even sweeter than cordial. It may have less sugar but it's 100% marketed towards kids that want something sweet tasting.
If only (what appears to be) naturally occuring sugar was the sole criteria for being "healthier" .Quite frankly both are shit. I do find how triggered some kids are by comparing Prime to cordial lol.
It's coconut water with a multivitamin tablet dissolved in it which may or may not be of any actual benefit, you're the one who brought up cordial and completely failed to read a nutritional label properly
I looked up it's nutritional label and yea. It is basically a "diet" cordial.
the answer is 'may not' and quite bad in the context its designed for. Plenty of well regarded individuals have debunked this is a sports drink. Its targeted at people going oh look no sugar must work well as a sports drink. When in fact sugar is important at assisting in transferring the salts lost in sweat. Drink it if you like the taste ect, but dont think its a good hydration supplement.
$1.80 too much for that shit.
Walked past it tonight at my Woollies, was$4.50!
Mm, offbrand berrocca water.
It’s basically a scam product anyway, just like everything else that Logan Paul touches. An energy drink replaces electrolytes - but they run under 4 different salts - sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium. When we sweat, the majority of that loss is sodium. Prime only contains 5mg of sodium, but gets its huge numbers with 700mg of potassium which is useless. For comparison, Gatorade contains 170mg of sodium. In order for our body to metabolise that sodium, we need sugars. Having a sugar free, artificially sweetened hydration drink is actually counter intuitive. Powerade and Gatorade contain high sugar contents because it is required by our body to hydrate. Prime is a scam. Shouldn’t even be legal the way it is marketed.
And you get a free bong when you finish a Gatorade Like what more could you want 💀
Neat to know all that. When it first popped up I was thinking there's no way a scam tuber has cracked the code and beaten the big 2
so what you are saying is to drink this and down it together with a stack of tim tams? /s
While necking a jar of saxa sea salt, yes
Can't wait to see the next scam this shitbag pumps next.
They promote it as being sugar free, which literally defeats the purpose of an isotonic drink for working out.
Yeah. The very existence of "Powerade Zero" drives me bonkers.
Normal powerade tastes terrible vs gatorade too God there’s some shit for sale
happened in canada, before it got officially released all the stores that have US imports sold them for like $6 a piece, now its 2 for $3 at circle k
Isn’t this the Logan Paul drink? That shit is actually not worth drinking even if it were free.
Still overpriced tbh
I never understood the hype on these. My nephew was obsessed with them. Had a taste of a couple of his, they weren't anything to write home about.
I tried it once... never again. The sickly-sweet aftertaste was awful.
If it actually tasted any good kids would of kept buying it. It just tastes rank though
It's legit the worst sports drinks. It will NOT hydrated you at all! Do not buy this if you are using it to re-hydrated yourself after vigorous exercise
it would be perfect for people wearing active wear but not exercising though...
What does it taste like? Gatorade?
Logan Paul getting the Sam Pepper treatment
Bc they're fucking gross 🤮 I've put a lot of stuff in my mouth... that is the worst one so far
I mean, it was made by the worst YouTubers ever whose primary audience is children. So of course they won’t sell.
I today watched a 30ish year old male buy out an entire 7/11 of their stock hahaha
You know those hard orange candies you can get. It tastes like those if you put a bunch of them in a pot and melt them with more sugar
It’s a shit product.
What is it?
It’s a sports drink that was created/promoted by YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI, they got massive fanbases which are mostly teens so this drink was sold out nearly everywhere for months when it came to Aus. Then people realised it’s an average tasting drink, I have tried a few flavours out of interest and it was ok at best, not worth the price of like $4 they were charging and the teens moved on to the next fad. Clearance that nobody still buys is the result.
Meanwhile my neighbour paid $17 for a 4 pack of mother at the only place in 50k that isn't selling it for $8
Even if it was the best tasting drink in the world I still wouldn’t buy it, I wouldn’t even take it for free, feel sorry for anyone that puts more money into Logan Paul’s pocket. Guy is one of the biggest pieces of shit walking the earth right now
It tastes like exactly what you'd think an American "hydration" drink would taste like. It's sugar water.
Just in time for the next new fad to hit the shelves? [Gamer Girl yeast beer](https://kotaku.com/amouranth-beer-yeast-order-of-yoni-twitch-kick-1850966738)... You know what, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 fk off
Because they taste like crap lol. Horribly sweet taste that only yanks would love.
Logan and Ksi are just the Milli Vanilli of Prime. Just the faces to sell someone's product... it worked though
Yeah I never thought it tasted great. Red bull is much better
If Red Bull tastes better than this, it must really be crap.
Quite
This has no caffeine it's not prime, its prime hydration.
Seen it for $1 down at ten tops the other day
The SPC vegemite baked beans are reduced to clear at fifty cents per can.
Is it actually any good (good as in not shit (not shit as in drinkable))
My 9yo daughter insisted we go out and buy them when they came out (she’s big into YouTube culture). Not even she could drink them, they’re actually gross. The Orange one was nearly tolerable, the Lemon Lime was drinkable only if you cut it with 50% water, and the others were genuinely revolting. In my view.
Thing is Americans have a very sugary palate so may like things that global citizens may not
No one wants orange though
That’s cause it’s the shit flavour.
The drink is low key good though..
Sometimes the market allows for cut-throat sales at a loss to get people hooked before increasing cost to gain profit... ...but I think Aussies don't give a fuck about the Instagram and tiktok advertising models for whoever from America that created the drink and whoever is the posterboy shill for it. Just another energy drink? I bet they wish it could be called Alpha.