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TexasStooge · #1 Postby **TexasStooge** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:27 am

Booze-flavoured ice cream chills activists

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - A new vodka-flavoured ice cream launched in Australia has provoked an outcry from groups worried it would give children a taste for alcohol.

The booze-flavoured Illicit Vodka Cranberry Magnum ice creams hit the shelves just months after biscuit-maker Arnott's new Tia Maria Tim Tams and Kahlua Slices prompted fears that the liquor-laced biscuits would encourage children to drink.

"These products normalise alcohol and suggest to people that they ought to be thinking about alcohol just about every hour of the day," said Geoff Munro, Community Alcohol Action Network director on Saturday.

"It introduces children to the taste of alcohol at potentially a very early age and I think that should be avoided," he told Australian Associated Press.

Streets, which makes the Magnums now on sale in Victoria state as part of its "vice-cream" range, said the ice creams contained only vodka flavouring and no alcohol.

The firm's marketing general manager David McNeil told the Herald Sun newspaper the ice creams were promoted only to adults. He added that rum and raisin has been a popular ice cream flavour for 30 years.

#2 Postby **streetsoldier** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:37 am

Vodka, rum, brandy, OK; ouzo and retsina, NO WAY! :eek:

GalvestonDuck · #3 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:22 am

Ouzo? Just knowing where it comes from makes me never want to try it. :eek:

#4 Postby **vbhoutex** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:35 am

GalvestonDuck wrote:Ouzo? Just knowing where it comes from makes me never want to try it.

WIMP!!!!!

You need to experience Ouzo at least once in your life!!!! Better yet, you need to to have friends from Greece like Susan and I do. Alas, they live in Athens, Ga. now so we don't get to see them. Had some great times with them with plenty of Ouzo laced in with the wondrful Greek food.

GalvestonDuck · #5 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:23 am

vbhoutex wrote:
GalvestonDuck wrote:Ouzo? Just knowing where it comes from makes me never want to try it.

WIMP!!!!! You need to experience Ouzo at least once in your life!!!! Better yet, you need to to have friends from Greece like Susan and I do. Alas, they live in Athens, Ga. now so we don't get to see them. Had some great times with them with plenty of Ouzo laced in with the wondrful Greek food.

LOL! I *might* try it sometime in my lifetime. First I heard about it was on an episode of CSI and they mentioned that it was a product of the island of Lesbos. That right there made me say "Uh...no, thanks!" It wasn't an anti-Greek remark on my part. Just an anti-Lesbian jab. :wink:

Remember, I hate that term. Wasn't born there and I don't live there so I don't like to be called one.

TexasStooge · #6 Postby **TexasStooge** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:37 pm

Courtesy of Yahoo! News/Reuters

A new vodka-flavored ice cream launched in Australia provoked an outcry on April 3, 2004 from groups worried it would give children a taste for alcohol. The booze-flavored Illicit Vodka Cranberry Magnum ice creams hit the shelves just months after biscuit-maker Arnott's new Tia Maria Tim Tams and Kahlua Slices prompted fears that the liquor-laced biscuits would encourage children to drink. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)

GalvestonDuck · #7 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:49 pm

Nope, you haven't read it all yet.

What good does it do to protest something by faking the controversial action that you're trying to protest about others protesting about? (Does that make sense?)

Anyway, here's the link. Warning...there's a pic. But it's really not what you think it is. It's fake.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 0405184110

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