I am a speed freak, y'all, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Not "speed," the illicit drug kind, but speed, the state of moving very very fast, and in my case, staying awake and speeding through work until 4 am.In the past, I relied solely on caffeine and personal adrenaline to keep me awake. If I drank a full cup of regular coffee at 5 PM, I'd be awake for the next 12 hours as if it were the middle of a Thursday morning. I never believed the people who said I would develop some sort of "immunity," but I have. Today, I could drink four cups of coffee and still conk out on the couch in about 10 minutes.
Enter: energy drinks.The first time I ever tried Red Bull, I threw up, about a half hour after downing about half the can. This wasn't even in a bar or club where most people are mixing the stuff with alcohol - I was working late for a software development company. It was miserable. I pretty much vowed that unless I had been wandering the desert for forty days without a drop of liquid, I would never touch the stuff again.
Every once in a while I would try whatever the hot new energy drink was on the market, just to see if perhaps the industry had made some grand discovery of how to make them taste good and not cause me to get sick to my stomach. Nope. The formula was always the same: bad bad aftertaste, but in a prettier can, but still, bad afteraste.
UNTIL. Someone made me try Tab Energy. It's not new. Tab Energy has been around now for about a year or so (maybe longer, but I hadn't been paying attention), and we know how long Tab had been around. However, it wasn't until the end of last year that I tried the energy drink. I fell in love. Really really fast!
The drink still falls victim to some of the typical energy drink problems. There is a slight artificial sweetener aftertaste, but other than that, to which I am pretty much now numb to artificial sweeteners after drinking two cans of Diet Coke (on avergae) for the last six years, Tab Energy is not bad in taste. Of course, I can't help but love the pink can.
I drank one can on Tuesday afternoon. I haven't slept yet! (Just kidding). But it did have the same high energy effect that I used to get from coffee.
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