Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade blamed for a second death, lawsuit alleges - eviltoast
Dennis Brown, 46, drank three of the highly caffeinated beverages before suffering a cardiac arrest in October, according to the suit.

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.

  • lad@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    To be fair, they also state in the same article that McDonald’s buns have the same amount of sugar. I would even suspect that every burger maker does burgers with high sugar bread cakes.

    But this is just gold:

    In a statement sent to the Guardian a spokesperson for Subway said: “Subway’s bread is, of course, bread.”

    Well, if you say so, I have nothing else to do but believe