Juicin’ (Off the shelf edition)

Posted on 19. Mar, 2007 by John Roblinsky in Hunting Aides

I’m not going to lie.  The weather was total shit last week in DC and we chose to take a week off. Usually bad weather makes for great hunting since the quails and pencil-necks stay indoors but cougars still need to feast. In honor of our rest we’re devoting this week’s topics to getting back on the horse/cougar, manning up, no more breaks, and getting the job done. Basically a week on how to put that extra strut in your stamenstride.

As we all know caffeine is an easy and convenient way to give a jolt/ buzz/ spunken-sprank to your day. But getting your daily dose of caffeine from cola and coffee is so 1960s. Today you can choose from energy drinks, gum, and mints which are sexier and easier to conceal for those moments you need a boost but don’t want to look like you get worn out so easily. Thanks to Life Hacker we found out about Energy Fiend, a blog devoted to caffeine. Energy Fiend has all the details on different ways to get seriously juiced with caffeine. One of interest to me was Stay Alert Energy Gum that looks like it was developed for the Army! Nothing like employing the government’s secret weapon to help break a wild cougar.

Being addicts of energy ourselves, HC recommends Redbull—naturally, since we mix it with every sort of alcohol we come across (here and here)—and VOJO mints. Energy Fiend seems to like Penguin mints, but the packaging/size of VOJO mints makes Vojo far superior. Christ, VOJO’s case has a mirror on the lid and the mints look like E—sort of a letdown if you get one from a friend for the first time, but at least you get an energy boost!  Note: both Red Bull and VOJO rank low on the amount of caffeine, but both have Guarana as an ingredient. I’ll post more on this baller Brazilian plant later in the week.

Tags: caffeine, energy, food, mints, vojo