Blatant Citrona Peddling...
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Ryanc2002 | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:28 pm     Gotta love the obvious zoom in on the Citrona bottles! |
Cyn | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:32 pm     thye just asked them to have a citrona before anything else, that's all we ask girl announcer says. |
Pirate | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:34 pm     They do the same thing on Survivor. If you have a high paying sponsor, you gotta plug the product. |
Ryanc2002 | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:35 pm     Yeah but, it's kind of dumb when the contestants are telling me it's nasty. LOL |
Wcv63 | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:36 pm     Amy did a wonderful little plug, holding the bottle next to her face and saying that Citrona is "America's Choice". |
Ryanc2002 | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:36 pm     I thought she said "Amy's choice" |
Hardywins | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:40 pm     She's chugging it down, must be good! |
Missy2 | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:40 pm     Subway... |
Rissa | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:41 pm     OK, dumb question alert. What the heck is Citrona? Obviously not something we get up in the Cdn. west. LOL |
Ryn | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:46 pm     Malt beverage with vodka in it - a show sponsor |
Wcv63 | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:48 pm     Could be Ryan....it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. |
Scorpiomoon | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:49 pm     She did say "Amy's Choice". |
Lobster | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:54 pm     You're close, Ryn. There's no vodka in it. It's one of a glut of "Malternative Beverages." I started a thread in Gen Disc about them a while ago. None of them are really doing all that well, at least in my store, but companies keep coming up with them. The Sauza Diablo does taste like a margarita. |
Aerojunki | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:54 pm      |
Cyn | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:55 pm     ame's on her second one already. |
Rissa | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 07:59 pm     Thanks all. From the pic, it looks like a vodka cooler but no vodka, eh? What's the point of that? LOL |
Ryn | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:04 pm     I assumed it had vodka in it since it was made by Stolichnaya - thanks for clearing it up |
Earthkitten | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:11 pm     When I first saw the thread, I was thinking "citronella" LOL. Why would Amy be drinking citronella? Oh, Citrona! Hehe |
Max | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:17 pm     No vodka because then they skirt the rules about advertising of hard liquor. (You can run beer and wine ads all day long on TV, but you can't advertise vodka and whiskey. One network was going to start doing it and got ridiculed so much that they changed their plans.) Plus, in states where alcohol sales are controlled by the state government, hard alcohol cannot be sold in regular stores, only in state-run package stores. So, by coming out with a "malternative" beverage, the big companies get to compete in the beer/wine aisle at your local Safeway, etc. stores without having the state control sales. Easier access = more sales. There are LOTS of these beverages out now, some with very clever marketing. Tom's Hard Lemonade comes to mine as one with a great ad campaign early on. Zima is the only one that is really advertised as a malt beverage. The rest try to disguise that so that you think you're drinking something with vodka or another hard alcohol in it. Guess that tactic works to some degree. |
Calgaryperson | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:28 pm     I am an underage person, but it is a "premium malt beverage" lemon flavored. COOL! LEMON FLAVORED MALT LIQUOR! CAN'T WAIT TIL' I'M LEGAL DRINKING AGE, AND CAN DRINK THIS STUFF! |
Cyn | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 09:24 pm     yep, she just verified that she did say, "amy's drink." she thought she would do a product plug for 'em cause they're not doing too good. |
Cyn | Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 09:30 pm     would like to add that now she's outside with eric and lisa and saying citrona - this is the worse fu*k'n drink on the planet. it doesn't work. |
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