Panera Bread’s highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade is now blamed for a second death, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

Dennis Brown, of Fleming Island, Florida, drank three Charged Lemonades from a local Panera on Oct. 9 and then suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on his way home, the suit says.

Brown, 46, had an unspecified chromosomal deficiency disorder, a developmental delay and a mild intellectual disability. He lived independently, frequently stopping at Panera after his shifts at a supermarket, the legal complaint says. Because he had high blood pressure, he did not consume energy drinks, it adds.

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    1 year ago

    if a company sold that shit with alcohol levels slamming right against safe daily intake levels in a single cup,

    It’s not in a single cup though, that was my point. It’s in a giant fucking monstrosity of a cup, and this dude drank three of them.

    This is like if someone drinks a case of hard lemonade and is surprised to get drunk!

    I’ll cut some slack because the dude was mentally handicapped but this is entirely predictable.

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      1 year ago

      It is a single cup though. A cup isn’t defined as being 8 oz, a cup is a thing that you drink out of. 30 Oz is a big cup, but it’s a pretty normal amount of lemonade. Three full 30 Oz cups might be a lot of lemonade, but that much lemonade generally has around 0 milligrams of caffeine

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        1 year ago

        A cup is commonly defined as 8 oz. There is no way that drinking a full 30-oz “cup” three times could be construed as “a single cup” by any definition.

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            1 year ago

            In that sense, stating an amount of caffeine per “cup” is completely meaningless, since they can be most any size. It could mean a coffee cup (5 oz) or a 7-11 Team Gulp cup (128oz), or anything in between or beyond.

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              I would argue that stating an amount per 8 oz is completely meaningless, and that we should instead state the amount in each cup size that the restaurant sells

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                11 months ago

                Seems pointless, especially if free refills are involved. He could have just as easily drank 11 8-oz cups if they sold them in that size. All it does is make it sound crazier at first glance without changing anything about the facts.