there were boxes of them in our local morrisons when i popped in for a couple of bbq things on saturday, about 6 different varieties. all priced 2 quid so i rang the mrs to ask our 2 boys if they wanted me to buy them and they could pay me back. There was only 1 of the white bottle left called meta moon which drew sharp intakes of breath down the phone, and another multicoloured one were duly put in my hand basket. Cueing up at the self service check out a clinically obese overtly tattoo'ed woman in her 50's standing behind me tried to take it out of my basket, she couldn't get it cos it was pinned down under other stuff. She then asked my how much i wanted for it, i said they're 2 quid and theres crates of the stuff as you walk in (you stupid cow), so she waddled off full speed as i put my shopping through. As i was walking out the same woman was shouting at me "theres no f-in meta moon left'.
it was at that point i realised i could have probably scammed a tenner out of her, if only i knew my prime a bit better.
On the Luke and Pete Podcast, there was a listener wrote in about his experience with Prime.*
So this listener's story goes that, let's call him John. John is a dad, and his 12 year old son is obsessed with Prime, his group of friends takes turn to stake out the local corner shop whenever they take delivery of it and they swamp in whenever a delivery appears and buys it all.
So John went shopping one day and found the Meta Moon, took it home, the idea was that so he can been seen by his son drinking it. But instead he emptied it into the sink and filled it with Whiskey and Ginger Ale. He put the lid back on and showed it to his son "look what I found today in the shops". He put it in the fridge and asked his son that's his and not to touch it. But he then got summoned by the missus to do some DIY, and when he returned an hour later to find the bottled had disappeared and his son had taken it to his room, and finished it all. The kid could not understand why he was feeling a a bit weird. John didn't want to tell his wife that he had accidentally spiked his own son so he went "I think our son has a mild allergic reaction to caffeine!"
The news spread to other kids' parents about it and sooner or later, all the kids' parents banned their kids getting it and they no longer stake out the local shop for Prime.
* Side note, on the show, Luke & Pete are on this mission to make the drinks unpopular, by asking all men in their age (30's and up) seen drinking it, making it uncool, it's like a joke kind of thing.