2003-03-31»
the iraq of snack»One of my most important yet life-threatening jobs at NTK is to stop Dave deleting all the Linux and cryptography crap and inserting another twenty pages or so of his in-depth sweetie and crisp reviews. It's like holding back Niagara. Hopefully, his new project, SnackSpot, will take off some of the pressure. Although, reading through it, it's actually managing to make me even more scared:
It's the first true frozen delivered breakthrough since South American last year. Now don't get me wrong, SouthAm was a fantastic time to be, well, even on the fringes of product development like I was; it was like the early Blackburn rave scene, or Northern Soul in the 70s, neck em and go for it, the whole business support centre felt like an orgone box, it was rocking its tits off.
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Private Energy [is] a "premium-priced ginseng-enhanced energy drink" from the (Netherlands-based?) adult entertainment company. The drink's imminent UK launch will presumably incorporate the same "attractive collector-style cans featuring some of Private's most popular stars", while the ginseng content is intended to enhance "adult activities" (ie, voting? driving a minibus with less than 17 seats and weighing no more than 3.5 metric tonnes?) This shouldn't be confused with the (also imminent) UK arrival of alcoholic "Viagra Pops", like Roxxoff, which have been criticised on the grounds that alcoholic drinks "should not suggest any association with sexual success". Nonetheless, feel free to get in touch with any sightings/ trial results you have of those - or performance enhancements you've noticed with other energy drinks, like Lucozade Solstis or RAC 124.