Mother and Full Throttle: When Energy Drinks Go Sour
Globetrotting Garrett started it with his down under caffeine experience.
Not to be outdone, I happen to be in Australia for a few days… which makes me one of those special people who get to try the drink they call Mother.
Taste
Mother has the strangest taste. A weird mix of juice, sugar, acai berry, and malt. It tastes like someone took a bit of beer, mixed with with apple juice and a touch of ginger — and then threw in come caffeine. What on earth were Coca-cola thinking when they taste-tested this one?
Mother Nature
And what’s with the guy who named this? Did he have some issues going on? Did he have his Mom’s name tattooed on his arm? Or maybe it was a woman who came up with the name. Perhaps her biological clock was ticking so loudly she couldn’t think straight.
Actually Coca-cola were trying to be clever. The drink touts it’s “all natural energy sources” - so the name is some kind of spin on the term “Mother Nature”.
Mother = Full Throttle Mother
So what about Full Throttle Mother? I’m actually thinking it is a very similar formulation as the Australian “Mother” - after all they are both made by Coca-cola and they both talk about all natural ingredients and are both flavored with acai berry.
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yeah, few of us really made the “mother nature” connection, I think. More people made the “one bad mother (&&(&*^$()…..” connection.
I think that this soda is crap
stuff tastes like shit and it doesn’t do anything. so its worthless shit
I’m liking the Full Throttle Mother drink. It tastes like some of the ones I get at whole foods.
I only know one person who drinks it…and he’s kinda insane. Most disgusting can of crap I’ve tried and I drank caffeinated lyche juice once XD
Sticking to my RedBull and RedEye.
I used to work at a very large pub here in Perth, we sell a lot of red bull and monster (jager bombs, jagermonsters etc)… the rep for Mother came in and gave us a couple cartons for all our staff to try. I dont think one single can got finished, I took one sip and poured the rest out. Ginger in an energy drink? Lol. The very few that managed to stomach the entire can said it did not buzz them anywhere near as much as what red bull or monster does. Monster FTW!
It’s probably just stale, majorly past use by date Coke which has been re-carbonated.
Michael Westen hasn’t swallowed 6 mothers, because if he did, he’d swear he found some cheap, nasty speed 
Mother is the best drink! I have a fridge full of it (it was 30 cents xD (thats 10 cans for three dollars… 100 cans for 30 dollars…) mwahaha)
Coke recycling formulation, made in Korea for the stupid consumers of Australia. Coke are a bunch of mother (&$(&*^$()……