{"id":337,"date":"2006-03-12T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/12\/tab-energy\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:30:32","slug":"tab-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/12\/tab-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Tab Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tab<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, there was a pretty pretty pink pop princess named Tab<\/a>, who preferred to be called the Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess. The Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess was a diet soda pop pioneer, appearing in 1963. <\/p>\n

Over the years, the Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess had gone through plenty of changes to prolong her popularity. However, despite switching sweeteners from cyclamate to saccharin to aspartame, she could not stave off the slowdown of her sales and soon she began seeing less and less of herself on the shelves. <\/p>\n

One Sunday, while staring at VH1, she saw Ashlee Simpson and came to the assessment that if the Simpson sibling could simulate being punk and become stylish, so could she. <\/p>\n

The Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess went through a punishing process to become punk by pumping herself with a power pack of herbal pieces, which produced quite a punch. <\/p>\n

She gobbled ginseng, guarana, taurine, and carnitine, which got into her gut. Despite being stuffed with 95 milligrams of sweet, sweet caffeine, she slimmed down significantly and was less than what she started with in the sixties.<\/p>\n

Her wardrobe was like something Jackie O<\/a> would wear. Her outer packaging pigment may have been pink, which she put on with pride, but she wanted to present herself in pink both on the outside and inside. So she soared to Los Angeles to see surgeons who could assist her with her situation. <\/p>\n

Vegetable juice was what they provided, which gave the Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess the inner pink pigment she aspired to possess, and now she was prepared to be popular again.<\/p>\n

So she was released into society as Tab Energy to see how citizens would respond to her sharp sassy taste. <\/p>\n

Some said she tasted sweet and sour like a Jolly Rancher and some jackass at some quasi-product review blog said she tasted like a vinaigrette salad dressing with a sucralose aftertaste. <\/p>\n

With considerable amounts of caffeine, B vitamins, and Chinese herbs, Tab Energy could be the consummate low-calorie caffeine kick Kate Moss could consume to keep awake in case cocaine wasn’t close by.<\/p>\n

Now the Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess personally felt that going punk helped her popularity. However, the Pretty Pretty Pink Pop Princess’ popularity probably won’t persist, because pretending to be punk didn’t work for Ashlee Simpson.<\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Tab Energy
\nPurchase Price:<\/b> $1.99 (10.5-ounce can)
\nRating:<\/b> 3 out of 5
\nPros:<\/b> Even though it tasted like salad dressing, I kind of liked the taste. 95 milligrams of sweet, sweet caffeine, more than Vault and Mountain Dew. Sexier than the original Tab, so I’d totally do her, but then again I’d probably do the original Tab as well. Easy to drink since it’s less carbonated. Five calories.
\nCons:<\/b> Tasted like salad dressing with a sucralose aftertaste, which many probably won’t like. Pricey for a 10.5-ounce can. Not a very manly energy drink. Ashlee Simpson’s attempts to be punk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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