Posted on 02/24/2023 12:18:13 PM PST by algore
The borg — "blackout rage gallon" — has become the drink of choice on college campuses across the country.
Made with half water, half vodka, a caffeinated flavor enhancer and a dash of powdered electrolytes, the drink has been hailed by many students on TikTok as a hangover-proof party staple.
Binge drinking, which involves consuming an excessive amount of alcohol over a short period of time, remains a widespread issue that many college administrators have struggled to control. But as borgs go viral, some harm reduction advocates — who don't condone binge drinking — have said the trend may actually mitigate the dangers of college drinking culture.
“When it comes to substance use prevention, harm reduction recognizes that people are going to make their own decisions when it comes to alcohol and other drugs,” Erin Monroe, a creator who is credentialed in substance use prevention in New York, told NBC News in a message. "But there are strategies we can use to reduce some of the risk."
When making borgs, drinkers get “complete control” over what they’re drinking, and can pace themselves appropriately, Monroe said. She described borgs as “really solid harm reduction,”
One of the earliest TikTok videos about the borg dates back to March 2020. The drink, which became more common in the wake of social distancing and other Covid prevention measures, is especially popular for tailgates and outdoor parties.
"after covid the whole 'communal drink' thing kinda went out the window for us," one TikTok commenter said on a video about the drink. "borgs came out of necessity."
College students began posting more about the drinks last year, just as their spring semesters were wrapping up. It gained popularity throughout the fall semester as students posted tutorials and videos showing off their jugs, which are personalized to the drinker's taste.
In a video posted in October, for example, one TikTok user made a borg with a bottle of Skyy vodka and Kool-Aid. Another TikTok user made a snow day borg with MiO, a packet of Liquid IV and a can of the sparkling energy drink Celsius.
Borgs are topped off by labeling the jug with a punny name. Showing off borg names like “Soulja Borg” and “Our Borg and Savior” has become its own TikTok trend.
Other clever borg names include “Brown v. the Borg of Education,” “SpongeBorg” and “Borgingham Palace.”
“really solid harm reduction,”
Kids now days have become sugary metro-transexual wimps
in my Collage days a friend and I would get 1/5 of mezcal, and then a 1/2 gallon of vodka for a chaser, no electrolytes, no bwondo caffeine mixer, no fruity juices.
And we drank them straight from the bottles the were in
LOL. These millennial college kids act like “hangover proof” drinks and hangover “cures” are a new thing.
I went off to college in the late 1970s and we had Guyana Punch Parties. It was an ungodly mix of all sorts of alcohol, with grape kool-aid thrown in as a sort of "mixer".
It was impossible for any drinker to have any sort of control. That stuff was so strong it crept up on you before you knew it. One drink was more than enough -- but most people were on their third or fourth before they realized that one was too much. Pacing yourself was not in the cards.
Metro-transexual lightweights.
In honor of National Margarita day, 1/5 each of Tequila and Triple Sec, 12oz lemon juice, 12oz lime juice. Mix together and pour over ice. If/when lips go numb, keep drinking and just try harder not to spill any!!
Amateurs.
We called it purple passion in my college years and it was made with grain alcohol and grape juice
The 80s had “trashcan punch”.
To this day, I still can’t stomach any fruit punch drinks.
The only fruity thing I might have had in college was peach or peppermint Schanpps. Other than that, it was typically beer, without any fruity flavors like they have today.
I like beer with fruit flavors, but it certainly isn’t what I drank in college.
Ha! We had a garbage can full of grain alcohol, some crappy kool-aid and a couple of hunks of sherbet thrown in at our fraternity parties. The guys in our fraternity rarely drank it. The chicks loved it and it was rocket fuel.
Half water and half vodka with some flavor powder sounds lame-0.
I’ve had that stuff before. They said it was vodka, but a former roommate suspected it was grain. I downed two large glasses of it and was on a third when the drunkenness hit me like a train. I ended up barfing in my dorm room, but somehow had the presence of mind to clean it up.
That was one bad night.
“We called it purple passion in my college years and it was made with grain alcohol and grape juice”
Today in some elite Dem areas of the country they have something similar called ‘purple drank’ which is used instead of going to college.
That’s what Saint Travyons was drinking when George Zimmerman shot him.
It’s gross. Made with cough syrup and snapple or some crap like it.
And skittles. Total ghetto, so yes elite dems.
“We are the Borg…” - Star Trek
Changing the drinking age to 21 sparked some of this. Kids get started on liquor where we started on beer (3.2 in NC).
Halcyon days. Next morning you felt like someone had hit you with a tire iron to the back of your head.
My first experience with purple passion was about one month into my first year at UF, the movie Animal House was popular and we had a Toga party with a Sorority, women in Togas, drinking purple passion was an experience for a freshman in college
Ha ha. Agree. Nothing new under the sun.
Learn how to freakin’ funnel a beer you retarded try-hards!
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