Dear German Neighbours… 4.24€ for a can of Red Bull Cola bought at a gasoline station is even by our standards very, very expensive. Greetings, your friends in Switzerland.

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  4. I’m in the Zurich airport right now, I’ll check on the price of a Red Bull here and report back after dinner.

  6. At least it is organic… Although both ‘organic’ and ‘bio’ are a stretch for sugar water, at least if you follow the word origin.

  9. Dear Swiss friends,

    this is why we don’t buy stuff at autobahn service stations. But then “energy drinks” are already a scam — just expensive sugary water with less caffeine than an average cup of coffee — so, as we say where I come from, they must have seen you coming.

    Greetings, your Anglo-German neighbour.

    PS: Return the can to any grocery store and get back the 25 cent deposit.

  11. I mean, a) organic cola b) from a notoriously expensive company c) on the autobahn including d) deposit of 25 cents.

    Same with petrol – one only buys something there in the greatest of emergencies.

  16. After i paid 18 swiss francs for a falafel in Zürich, the entirety of Switzerland has lost the right to complain about food prices.

  17. Yeyeyeye Switzerland.
    You guys wanted to sell me a bottle of water 0,5 at the airport for 5 sfr.

  20. Just go into a grocery store or pay more for easy access to groceries near the Autobahn or at night. Greetings, your friend in Germany 😀

  25. In Greece you might get this for half the price, but you are getting paid 5x times more in Switzerland than in Greece. I don’t see why you should complain.

  26. Gas stations are generally more expensive, and a gas station on a border access road even more and if it’s a transit road even more so you basically found a gas station that has all the requirements to call the highest price 🙂

  27. Wanted to buy a drink from a vending machine in the airport. My mom gave me two euros. Went there and saw they were all 3.50 euros … returned and resigned to death by dehydration and hypoglycaemia.

  29. Did I miss the part where you describe how you were forced to buy it?
    In Germany, we have one great philosopher called Christian Lindner who, in all his wisdom and true belief once stated: „Der Markt regelt das.“

  32. Ask me after 28 Franken for a Coke and a small Sandwich at Suisse Gas Station and 60 Franken for Schnitzel with beer at a Restaurant – dear neighbour – your country is nice and people are really friendly and nice – but next time I make myself enough Stullen and take Sirup with me.

  36. Oh, fuck you Swissy…

    I was just in Switzerland last week and paid 14 Frncs for 2 half liter bottles of still water.

  38. I love the people that complain about the prices at special places like train and gas stations.
    Like duh… Then why are you buying something here?
    I know its cheaper in a supermarket.

    Its the convenience you are paying here.

    Signed by someone working in a shop in a trainstation.

  40. US resident here. I miss Red Bull Cola. So delicious but unlike other local colas it actually had flavor so people didn’t like it and it didn’t did well in local markets.

  41. That’s why you never buy stuff on the autobahn. Better check if you can do a short detour on stock up.

  43. I mean… you’re buying it at just about the most expensive place possible, short of a festival.

    They recently had 0,33l cans on offer for like 0,89€ in our local supermarket.

  44. An der Autobahntanke kauft man auch nichts, wenn es nicht unbedingt sein muss.

    Außerdem bekommst Du 25 Cent zurück, also hab dich nicht so. 🙂

    Das ist wie wenn ich mich aufrege, dass ich im Café auf der Bahnhofstraße über 20 CHF für zwei Bier zahle.

  46. Dear neighbor, you can thank our common, other neighbor with the funny eagle in the flag. That’s where it’s from.

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