OK,

so a couple days ago I was with a guy and we were using his poppers. I noticed in the bottom of the bottle some beads. He was using Jungle Juice Plus or Platinum (don't recall which) in the really large bottle

I've seen these beads before, but not in the smaller bottle of JJ Plus that I currently have with me. Are those things that people have added to make them better or last longer? If so what are these beads?

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Montrose & Clarendon in Chicago

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Objection! Asked and answered, Your Honor!

OK, screw it. Yes, we've answered this one before, but it's a fast and easy response and will save the poster from having to sift through a zillion ancient poppers posts...

The beads are nothing. They are plastic. They do not change the chemical proprieties of poppers. They do not make them last longer. In fact, they'd probably make them evaporate a TINY bit faster, if anything.

They are shakers, just like the ball you hear rattling around in a can of spray paint. Shake the bottle of poppers, move the little ball around, stimulate more molecules to waft up into the empty space at the top of the bottle, producing, in theory, more vapor to inhale.

So the question becomes "do they work?" Eh. Sort of. Generally speaking, by the time the bottle gets so low that you might benefit from shaking the little pellets around, the poppers are usually stale anyway. Sometimes you see guys vigorously shaking their bottle about -- and some guys do so even without the little balls.

They are actually quite unnecessary. Rush brand started this many, many years ago, calling the plastic balls "Power Pellets," which made for a nifty marketing slogan to put on the bottles. I noticed them start to appear in Jungle Juice about a year or so ago, but there's no catchy slogan to go along with them anymore, at least not on Jungle Juice.

Not every bottle of JJ that I get has them. No clue why this is. Maybe some are older.

If anyone wants these little pellets and finds they come in handy to provide "shaken, not stirred" poppers, they can just save them and plop them into any new bottles they get that don't have them already. Or add two! Or three!

A handy tip from from Helpful Scruffy: I sometimes use the little pellets to "mark" new bottles from old bottles. If I add three pellets into a bottle, I know it is the newest and freshest one I have. Devise your own code! It's fun!

PS: I dumped a tiny bit of dregs from an old bottle down the kitchen sink a few days ago, but failed to catch the little pellet before it went into the disposal. If these get stuck under the blades, it can jam the unit, but as long as they are floating free, they grind up no problem.

Mystery solved.

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