• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Friends was in a supermarket the other day. He bought an item labelled “Liquid Death”.

    What the product actually was is something he never buys because he never needs it, but because of the fantastically insane name of the product he said he just had to buy it!

    That product? The one named Liquid Death?

    Do you want to know what it was?

    It was a 12 pack of 500ml cans of water

    This kind of marketing works, kids. Something so unexpected you just have to buy it!

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      3 months ago

      IIRC liquid death also has some very good policies.

      And it was originally created because drinking water isn’t cool, and musicians in bands wanted something to drink that looked like energy drinks or alcohol while staying hydrated. They mentioned bands filling empty monster cans with water as an inspiration.

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        3 months ago

        Only in America does the coolness of drinking water ever factor into anything, coca cola successfully brainwashed the entire country lol

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        3 months ago

        I saw 6 bands during 2 concerts last week, three of them kinda rock/blues, three of them metal. All of them drank water from normal water bottles while on stage. No one cared.

    • “Made by combining Ganges river water, Mexican tap water, and samples directly from the Fukushima reactor, Liquid Death won’t just slake your thirst, it will slay it for the rest of your life.”

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        3 months ago

        In essence, yes. It fills a small niche and a can isn’t as bad as a plastic bottle but in the end it’s water in a can.

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          It would be far less wasteful to set up the logistics for something refillable. Expensive initially, but once the logistics and the culture for it have been developed, cheaper too.

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      3 months ago

      Must be really nice beneath that rock your friend has been living under for literally years.

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      3 months ago

      I would never buy bottled water either, but I do have an unopened can of liquid death standing around because it’s such a fantastic can. Guests do ask me about it, or pick it up, sometimes. It’s always disappointing to them and that’s what I feed on.