Potable "Coolah": Ameripolo?

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I have found the least extreme, mildest-mannered energy drink. IT'S this lemon-flavored deal that is supposedly based on some Aussie drink called Polo. It seems to appear only intermittently at groceries/convenience stores. I cannot depend on its presence.

Is Polo an energy drink? Is Coolah available on your continent? Can anyone compare the two? Why is it so scarce?

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

polo? i have not heard of any drink called polo

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

The whole side of the can talks about how Aussies like to hunt cassowaries with their boomerangs and then enjoy a delicious Polo with the boys. Weird marketing.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha WAAAHT?

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure the aboriginal elders were you know, out hunting 400 years ago and pulling cans of soft drink out of ponds and whatnot.
(arent cassowaries long extinct?)

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Marketing execs be on shrooms.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

So WTF is Polo then?

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

No idea! Apart from being mints, and a horsey game. Not a drink tho! :)

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently peopple get to make up whatever shit they want about your country. WTF?!?!?

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Coolah actually tastes like Japanese drink C.C. Lemon, but with more caffiends.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Polo has to be something real because they attribute some kind of copyright courtesy to it on the side of the can.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Not SOLO, surely?

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

Solo is the traditional drink of the extreme sports loving white man, LOW ON FIZZ SO YOU CAN SLAM IT DOWN FAST!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed, it is Solo!

Cadbury Schweppes now makes an energy drink in the US called Coolah Energy that refers to the Australian Solo as its inspiration. It uses the tagline "Energy from Down Under".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(soft_drink)

I'm glad that mystery is solved.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

OH. Well now it makes sense!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

Even tho Solo isnt an energy drink, heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I love that Wiki entry:

When he enjoyed his can of Solo at the end of the ad, "the man from Solo" would drink it in such a way that he'd spill it all over his chest. He has since become proverbial in Australia for spilling drinks on one's self.

... it is??

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 November 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

it's light on the fizz so you can slam it down innit

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 12 November 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

and therefore get it all over yourself

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 12 November 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

this thread title took me a long time to read
and even now i only half understand it

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 November 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

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