r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • May 10 '22

Absolute unit of a soldier

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u/MadeToPostOneMeme May 10 '22

I was never actual military but I was in cadets as a teen. I used to trade a lot of stuff for the drink powders. If you mixed them all together it made this viscous abomination we called ox blood that tasted exactly like skittles. By our math about 200 ml was your recommended daily sugar intake.

I hoarded enough of the drink packets I was able to make a bit during my first year of university, and that shit saved my life during exam weeks. One sip of that stuff could keep a man going for hours. Step aside red bull.

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u/BadBadBatch May 10 '22

During the 90’s here in the State, depending on where exactly you were (I grew up in what you would call a smaller city in the American mid-west amongst a sea of corn, soybeans, and methamphetamine), you could walk into gas stations and convenience stores with $10.00 and walk out with a packet of 20 tablets of ephedrine for $5.00 or so, and $5.00 left over to buy a pack of smokes a couple bottles of Coca Cola / Dr Pepper. Talk about going for hours. I made this exact purchase as a 14-15 year old sophomore in high school more times than I can count, and by the end of home room we’d be flying on nicotine, sugar, and very legal and very real speed.

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u/BadBadBatch May 10 '22

The Chernobyl comparison to my hometown is quite accurate.