Gli enti di beneficenza per l’alcol avvertono il colpo di Buzzballz da 99 centesimi “progettato per attirare i bambini”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/24/alcohol-charities-warn-99p-buzzballz-shot-designed-to-appeal-to-children
di YchYFi
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They should issue a statement describing it as “designed to appeal to childish people” and kill its sales.
Children should just have their Glen’s “the exciting vodka” and be happy with it! It’s how we managed back in the day!
This isn’t chocolate cigarette. Kids like neon lights as well, better ban stripclubs and casinos from using them lest they appeal to children. And some bars and pubs even sell ice-cream. Outrageous.
Look – i get that advertisers are scum and definitely do market to children where they shouldn’t, but this feels like a bit of a stretch. Is it because they 99p? Is that pocket money pricing?
Feel like this is just that story about Hooch alcopops from the 90s recycled
This has been going on since alcopops came along. They can appeal to children all they like, kids can’t buy it. And it they can, they can buy anything and this colourful ball has nothing to do with it.
Everything is about ‘protecting the kids.’
We just raided the family drink cupboard, drinking anything from whisky to 1960 Greek airport spirits. With sweets designed to look and act like cigarettes. Bright colours aren’t remotely necessary.
It is just a form of controlling the population. Kids can’t even legally buy them and they still want them banned.
But kids cant lerally buy them so why does it matter?
Same could be said about fruity cider and all alcopops
I am in Mallorca rn and all I see is these Buzzballz everywhere. A full fridge in almost all shops and super markets.
because it’s cheap bright and round? so how about we triple the size and triple the price? That should please the charities right? Right… 😐
I’m fucking sick of hearing that everything that tastes nice or has bright colours is “designed to appeal to children.” As if adults only enjoy black and grey and boiled cabbage.
I suppose the real challenge then is to design things so that they only appeal to 18 year olds and not 17 year olds.
Have the arbiters of alcohol container design managed to pinpoint at which point in ones life this appeal-inflection point occurs?
Seriously, this has been said for decades and over the years we’ve had Hooch, WKD, Smirnoff Ice, Breezers, and adolescent drinking has stayed the same or gone down even though they are all brightly coloured and fruity.
It would be great if the “please think of the children” lot could let us adults have some fun, not everything needs to be bitter, sour, smokey or boring, as it’s the same for vaping.
I don’t even drink and been sober 15-16 years and I’m fed up of this shit.
I was out last night and saw loads of these odd little bottles rolling about in the streets. Literally the first time I’d spotted them and now here’s an article. These drinks also, apparently, appeal to people who can’t be bothered to find a bin.
They were on clubcard prices at one point. My local Tesco had a huge basket of them right next to the cheapy fridge. Nobody touched them. The only one that’s slightly drinkable is the baileys one.
Haven’t we got the lowest youth drinking ever? Doesn’t seem to be working
Bloody hell I want to go wherever they’re only paying 99p for these scrumptious little breakfast snacks
Im not so sure on this one. As an adult who enjoys cocktails because it actually tastes nice to drink, buzzballz are great. And im sure many people but probably more late teens 18 to 20 enjoy it for those reasons.
Alcohol doesnt have to taste like shit to enjoy them
I had no clue what these were until I went on jury duty and saw one of the defendants chug these down. Can’t say the judge was impressed.
I don’t drink but I hate this culture where anyone who tries to make being an adult fun gets criticized for trying to corrupt children.
It’s dumb, why can’t adults have colourful fun things?
I’m 39 and love a buzz ball.
Please tell me where they’re 99p
Just wait till the Government finds out that these things have about 30g of sugar per ball. Then they’ll really pull their finger out.
Are they sure it’s not just designed to stand out amongst the rows of similar cans and bottles of alcohol?
Not everything with bright colours is designed to appeal to teenagers, teenagers would drink alcohol from a plain green bottle with no label on it it was alcoholic and cheap enough.
“The new product is being pitched as a nostalgia buy, with the company behind it rolling out an ice-cream van called the 99 Liquor Whip, serving the shots at university campuses this month”
I think that is where the 99p thing is coming from.
It’s nonsense especially considering that 99 flake ice creams are like £3 now.
I was in a shop recently and a grown man flounced up to the counter and bellowed “Do you sell Buzz Bombs?!” and the look the cashier gave him was superb.
Just saying the name takes e very drop of authority out from under you.
Well it’s a good job we’ve got alcohol licensing that stop children buying it! Problem solved
Why does everything on the market have to be modified based on how children respond to it? There is a particular kind of person who also try to ban/censor things becusse the age their children happen to be at the time aren’t old enough to consume it.
Good. Today’s kids aren’t drinking and that’s not what this country is about. Too much looksmaxing and not enough spewing and crying.
I’m a huge advocate for underage drinking anyway. By the time I was 18 me and my mates were bored with it. All the nerdlings that didn’t do anything dodgy before 18, got a job and went nuts going on nights out at 18 every weekend drinking absurd amounts and being exposed to way worse things. In fact I visited my home town over Christmas and the same nerdlings were still pissing it up in their 30’s on the weekends. None of my friends I grew up with drink more than a couple of times a year for special occasions now. More advertising to kids.
Nice flavours are the reverse of children unless it’s foie gras or truffle flavoured.
That’s all i hear when I read this guff, same with the vape debate. I can’t get past it.
Are there literally not better things to worry about…? I’d much rather see kids having fun slamming a few shots these days than surgically addicted to their drones.
This is coming from the same kinds of people who were scared that Regal Blue packaging and mentholated cigarettes “appealed to children”, as if any child would ever get excited by old man cigs for farmers.
I swear they’d say orange juice appeals to children because of its inherent orange colour and lobby for all fruit juice to be dyed brown if the childhood diabetes issue got much worse