Blood, anyone?
Wow, okay, I am not making this up.
Check out a new product coming out in January...
Blood Energy Drink
"New from the makers of Mana and Health Energy Potion comes Blood Energy Potion: the world's first synthetic blood beverage.
The fruit punch flavor packs 4 hours of energy along with iron, protein, and electrolytes. Not only does Blood Energy Potion have a similar nutritional makeup to real blood, but it has the same color, look, and consistency of blood.
Get real blood nutrients without that real blood taste! The re-sealable transfusion bag style pouch provides the convenient delivery of fluids for vampires and humans alike! Contains no real blood, just synthetic!"
- quote and photo from the Urban Collector website, where you can preorder the drink.
http://bloodpotion.com/ is the company's official website, but there's not much there yet.
From a marketing standpoint, I can totally see where they're coming from what with all the vampire books, movies and TV shows that are popular right now, but their advertising copy is cracking me up like whoa.
Fruit punch flavored blood?! LOL tell me that isn't just a little funny? And this line: "Get real blood nutrients without that real blood taste!" Um... were there a lot of us sitting around, randomly drinking blood and going "mleh! Man, I wish I could get this without that dang real blood taste..." ?? XD
The funny thing is that a couple of years ago, I would have seen a product like this and gone "ew gross!" but now I can tell how much Vampire Knight has corrupted me because I don't think it's gross, I find it interesting and amusing and... *coughsandwhispersreallyfast* I might actually feel a little tempted to try it, if I ever happened to see it in the grocery store or something.
Although I would feel rather embaressed taking it through the checkout lane. It'd probably be kind of like buying condoms, you know? Where you're trying to act all like: "oh yeah, those are for someone else..." and not fooling anyone.
I'm all amused now though because I'm sitting here imagining what our VK vampires would think of such a product. I wonder if it would puzzle them to death, the idea of fruit punch flavored blood. Considering they like the flavor of the original, I'm getting the greatest mental images of say, Aido trying this stuff and making an OMG I just swallowed pure sugar face and suddenly deciding that blood tablets weren't so bad after all. ;D
LOL or Zero has some and is going to give it a try to see if it really does work like blood or not, and Kaname sees him, doesn't know it's fake and is all like "what are you drinking?" *takes a sip... tries not to spit and chokes it down*
Kaname: *thinking Zero likes it and trying to be polite* "Um..." *cough splutter yuck* "how... interesting..."
Zero: "You think so? Because I thought it was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted..." LOL
I wonder if Shiki and Rima with their pocky sweet tooth or Takuma with his interest in fun/odd things would actually like it.
So what about everyone reading this? What are your opinions? Would you try a drink like this just for the heck of it, or is the weird factor too high?
Check out a new product coming out in January...
Blood Energy Drink
"New from the makers of Mana and Health Energy Potion comes Blood Energy Potion: the world's first synthetic blood beverage.
The fruit punch flavor packs 4 hours of energy along with iron, protein, and electrolytes. Not only does Blood Energy Potion have a similar nutritional makeup to real blood, but it has the same color, look, and consistency of blood.
Get real blood nutrients without that real blood taste! The re-sealable transfusion bag style pouch provides the convenient delivery of fluids for vampires and humans alike! Contains no real blood, just synthetic!"
- quote and photo from the Urban Collector website, where you can preorder the drink.
http://bloodpotion.com/ is the company's official website, but there's not much there yet.
From a marketing standpoint, I can totally see where they're coming from what with all the vampire books, movies and TV shows that are popular right now, but their advertising copy is cracking me up like whoa.
Fruit punch flavored blood?! LOL tell me that isn't just a little funny? And this line: "Get real blood nutrients without that real blood taste!" Um... were there a lot of us sitting around, randomly drinking blood and going "mleh! Man, I wish I could get this without that dang real blood taste..." ?? XD
The funny thing is that a couple of years ago, I would have seen a product like this and gone "ew gross!" but now I can tell how much Vampire Knight has corrupted me because I don't think it's gross, I find it interesting and amusing and... *coughsandwhispersreallyfast* I might actually feel a little tempted to try it, if I ever happened to see it in the grocery store or something.
Although I would feel rather embaressed taking it through the checkout lane. It'd probably be kind of like buying condoms, you know? Where you're trying to act all like: "oh yeah, those are for someone else..." and not fooling anyone.
I'm all amused now though because I'm sitting here imagining what our VK vampires would think of such a product. I wonder if it would puzzle them to death, the idea of fruit punch flavored blood. Considering they like the flavor of the original, I'm getting the greatest mental images of say, Aido trying this stuff and making an OMG I just swallowed pure sugar face and suddenly deciding that blood tablets weren't so bad after all. ;D
LOL or Zero has some and is going to give it a try to see if it really does work like blood or not, and Kaname sees him, doesn't know it's fake and is all like "what are you drinking?" *takes a sip... tries not to spit and chokes it down*
Kaname: *thinking Zero likes it and trying to be polite* "Um..." *cough splutter yuck* "how... interesting..."
Zero: "You think so? Because I thought it was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted..." LOL
I wonder if Shiki and Rima with their pocky sweet tooth or Takuma with his interest in fun/odd things would actually like it.
So what about everyone reading this? What are your opinions? Would you try a drink like this just for the heck of it, or is the weird factor too high?
Labels: blood, blood energy drink, vampire knight, vampires
