Man dies on way home from Panera after having three “charged” lemonades
Man dies on way home from Panera after having three “charged” lemonades
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Man dies on way home from Panera after having three “charged” lemonades
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walking home from a Panera in Florida
It was inevitable.
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Too many kids in these comments going to bat for corporations. The future is lost.
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I only see one?
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Are you going to sue the coffee bean producers as well when you drink too many cups and die?
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Sounds simple but...
- Charged lemonade has 390 milligrams of caffeine. Coffee has 95. That is an insanely caffeinated beverage.
- There have been stores that haven't marked the lemonade as caffeinated.
People don't suspect lemonade as having caffeine let alone vastly more than a red bull (111 mg)
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I just checked, and a 20 oz serving of “Charged Lemonade” contains 260mg of caffeine. For comparison, a 20 oz cup of Dunkin coffee contains 270mg.
I find it deeply concerning that a customer can buy this stuff without knowing it’s caffeinated, but it isn’t any more caffeinated than coffee.
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To be fair, they generally advertise it as regular lemonade and market it with an unlimited refill deal. I've drank 3 green teas before while at a Starbucks over a few hours. These lemonades contain far more caffeine than a similar sized cup of coffee. This is the second death linked to it now.
It's not wild to think you might drink 3 refills of a lemonade during a visit to a restaurant, but it is unusual to think you might drink 3 times the maximum recommended dose of caffeine doing so.
Edit: back of the napkin math. 3 large lemonades = 12.3 cups of coffee.
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Dude these lemonades have medically unsafe levels of caffeine.
Bartenders can't serve someone to death, restaurants can't serve unsafe food.
Your take is absurd. This is the second person to die from panera lemonades.
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Better put up even more warning signs, instead of you know, actually restricting how many a person could be served.