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Fri. 12/02 - Pilk & Cookies: Santa's New Fave?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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AriZona Iced Tea is joining the hard beverage movement. Pepsi is joining… Big Milk? And scientists have got some new, practical tips for training your body to wake up earlier and actually alert. Sponsors: Uncommon Goods, Get 15% off your next gift at uncommongoods.com/cool American Musical Supply, Use code COOL at https://ter.li/AmericanMusicalSupply-COOL for $20 off your next purchase of over $100 Links: AriZona Celebrates the Launch of Boozy Teas With a Totally Tubular '90s Pop-Up (AdWeek) Hard iced tea teaser (AriZona Iced Tea, Twitter) Old AriZona Iced Tea history episode (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Pepsi® Invites Fans to Join the Naughty List This Holiday Season With "Pilk" And Cookies - A New "Dirty Soda" Holiday Tradition (PR Newswire)  Pilk and cookies tweet (Lindsay Lohan, Twitter)  #pilk videos (TikTok) Put a Little Milk in Your Pepsi, Says Pepsi (The Takeout) I Drank Pepsi Milk And I Hate You All (BuzzFeed News) Hot Dr. Pepper episode (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Can you become a morning person? Sleep scientists say it is possible with these key tips (Inverse) Scientists discover secret to waking up alert and refreshed (Berkeley News) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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sunexpress.com and secure your seats today it's friday december 2nd 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Arizona iced tea is joining the hard beverage movement. Pepsi is joining big milk. And scientists have got some new practical tips for training your body to wake up earlier and actually alert.

0:57.0

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:02.1

The brands are added again.

1:05.3

Ramping up for the holiday and end-of-year market has got them causing all sorts of mischief. Arizona iced tea,

1:13.4

the company famous for its garrishly decorated tallboy cans of forever 99-cent flavored teas,

1:20.6

tweeted simply yesterday, we're hard. The tweet was accompanied by a meme, the one of the stick figure eating cereal and then spitting

1:29.0

it out in disbelief, and in this case, the meme was showcasing how Arizona iced tea now has a

1:35.1

hard, as in alcoholic, line. The company hasn't revealed any more details just yet, but I should

1:42.2

note that the hard tea line was actually released over the

1:46.0

summer in Canada. Debuting at a 90s-themed pop-up in Quebec in August, hosted by Creative

1:52.7

Agency Mischief, the 5% alcohol teas are a collaboration with Molson Coors, at least in Canada.

2:00.5

No word yet on details here in the

2:02.4

U.S. like when they'll launch, who they'll partner with. Presumably, they'll be in the same

2:07.9

four flavors offered in Canada, lemon, peach, ginseng and honey, and a half-tee, half-lemonade.

2:15.3

All we do know for sure is that they won't be 99 cents a can.

2:20.5

In reply to that expected question on Twitter, Arizona iced tea said, quote, that's a public

2:26.3

safety hazard, end quote. But on the even weirder end of the spectrum, Pepsi is trying to make Pilk a thing.

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