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"  It&amp;#039;s been a bad day for Four Loko. After a long series of articles about the alcoholic energy drink&amp;#039;s dangers, it was finally banned in Washington state. Which means it&amp;#039;s been a pretty bad day for Eddie Huang, the man behind New York City&amp;#039;s Xiao Ye, and one of Four Loko&amp;#039;s biggest proponents, who wrote a long essay in defense of the drink on his blog. But the notoriously talkative chef is not going quietly: Huang announced that, starting this Thursday, his restaurant will be hosting a special Four Loko night every week ($3 a pop from 6 to 11 P.M.) in protest of the legal crackdown. We talked to him from his kitchen about the controversy, his favorite flavor, and the importance of cheap malt beverages. My thing is, I think they&amp;#039;re targeting something that isn&amp;#039;t necessarily worse than what else is out on the market, but just because of the branding and the people it attracts, they&amp;#039;re shutting it down. I remember when we were kids, we would go to this smoothie shop and we would pour half a bottle of rum into a smoothie. And those had vitamins and energy in them. Or you go to the coffee shop and get a Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts frozen coffee and put Kahlua and vodka in it. You can do all kinds of crazy things \u2014 Four Loko just makes it easier and cheaper for us. People are saying, &amp;quot;Oh, these kids.&amp;quot; These kids were forced to drink ten cans of Four Loko. If you forced someone to drink ten cans of Steel Reserve they&amp;#039;d probably be sick, too. I just think it&amp;#039;s dope. It gets you tore up. I think it&amp;#039;s hilarious. It looks like they jacked a BAPE logo \u2014 it looks like BAPE camouflage.  I like the grape one. Watermelon is disgusting. I like the lemonade. Cranberry-lemonade isn&amp;#039;t bad. I kind of like it all. I just don&amp;#039;t like the watermelon one. It just doesn&amp;#039;t taste like watermelon. It tastes like a Jolly Rancher with Robitussin. That&amp;#039;s the one I&amp;#039;ll add Hennessey to and then it doesn&amp;#039;t taste so bad. Four Loko Thursday is going to be a fun party. We&amp;#039;re going to keep doing them every Thursday. I joked around about people wanting to get blackout, but I don&amp;#039;t want anyone to get hurt. I&amp;#039;m going to follow all the laws according to the State Liquor Authority \u2014 I&amp;#039;m not trying to give them problems. I just don&amp;#039;t understand why Four Loko is being blamed. It&amp;#039;s not energy drinks. It&amp;#039;s bad parenting. Every time something like this happens in America, they want to blame the product. People are doing this themselves. It&amp;#039;s not like they&amp;#039;re giving it out at school lunches. I kind of got beat up in the New York Times for doing kooky stuff with Xiao Ye so I&amp;#039;m going to try staying away from cooking with Four Loko. I already cook with Cheetos. I went to five schools in seven years when I was a kid. I always got kicked out of school. So it&amp;#039;s nothing new for me. It&amp;#039;s not like I&amp;#039;m trying. I always speak my mind, I always say what I&amp;#039;m thinking, and it always gets me in trouble. MORE DRINKING WISDOM: HOW TO KEEP THE LATE-NIGHT PARTY GOING &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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