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Water that dinosaurs drank is still consumed by humans, and the amount of freshwater on earth has not changed significantly for millions of years.
To a hip-hop fan, if not to a banker, the allusion is obvious: purple drank is a kind of instant moonshine, originating in the Houston rap scene, and consisting primarily of cough syrup and 7UP.
While reading a sentence like Het boek is goed or De drank is warm, an English speaker might wonder whether this really another language, or merely "The book is good" and "The drink is warm" typed with elbows.
"Purple drank" is itself a slang term — along with "lean," "sizzurp" or just "purple stuff," among others — for a mixture of cough syrup (particularly in a prescription-strength version that contains codeine) and soda, which is closely associated with the rap scene in Houston.
How often and how much he drank is a controversial issue, debated in Poe's lifetime and also by modern biographers.
This past December, Drank's creator, Innovative Beverage Group, reported sales just shy of $1.5 million through the end of September; Drank is currently available in more than 45 cities, mostly in the South.
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