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Four Loko Party Is Back On...With Some Minor Adjustments

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Eddie Huang with his favorite drink
Eddie Huang would like to clarify a few things about his blackout-inducing Four Loko party on Thursday, which was previously reported to be cancelled because unlimited drink specials are illegal. He told Eater, "The NY Daily News misquoted me. I told the writer really clearly that the party was still going on but that I would change the special from all-u-can-drink to something else. We're doing $3/Four Loko at the bar." He's also speaking out against the mulled-over ban of caffeinated alcohol drinks by the SLA, which Chuck Schumer is getting behind again.

Back in July, Schumer accused drinks like Four Loko and Joose of targeting kids by making the product taste like candy and hiding the alcohol content. Now he's campaigning for a state ban of those drinks, and is allying himself with the family of a 17-year-old who died after drinking Four Loko. A few stores upstate have already pulled the product from the shelves because of the negative attention, but one student said, "I think by driving it underground it would just make a bigger market for it. Like kids would probably wind up using it more.”

However, as Eddie Huang so eloquently argues in his blog, banning the drinks won't keep kids from giving themselves alcohol poisoning. We highly suggest reading the whole post, but here's the gist: "Alcohol doesn't kill people, stupid people kill people. Some of my homies are a bigger threat to society drinking coconut water than me with a four loko. Without four loko, people will just drink something else."

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  • m015094

    Is Chuck Schumer an idiot. Why don't we just go back to prohibition, because that worked SO well.

    Four LOKO isn't even that bad. Haven't these people ever heard of MD 20/20 or Wild Irish Rose?

    http://www.bumwine.com/

  • turkishjade

    So rather than use existing legislation to crack down on stores selling alcohol to minors, he wants to create a whole new law that would put a Small Business owner out of business?

    He seems less of a senator and more of a Budweiser employee trying to kill the competition.

  • Madly Hatting

    Hold your Four Loko's up!!

  • Kojak

    "Without four loko, people will just drink something else."

    Agreed. There's shit that'll fuck you up FAR more than Four Loko

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