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| therippa |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 1:27:50 PM
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
* 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
* >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
* >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
* >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth. |
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| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 04:18:00 AM
I'll just only eat ben and jerry's and drink water (while I still can). |
| dan p. |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 9:42:23 PM
it isn't in water.
yet. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 9:19:47 PM
Well, a real update on the War against HFCS...
I bought a V8 Splash fruit drink at my on campus snack shop today. After I walked out I took a sip, and something did not seem right. I checked the label, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!!! I was so pissed I threw the whole damn thing in the garbage. That shit really is everywhere. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 4:43:15 PM
i've done coke off a barbed wire fence while masturbating. that's a rela challenge. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 12:52:00 PM
I've done coke and masturbated before...what a marathon.
AHAHA |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 11:27:05 AM
quote:
Originally posted by jsemon2
i wondered why this thread was so damn popular and come to find out you guys are masturbating all over each other while doing coke.
You're jealous that no one's doing it over you. |
| jsemon2 |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 11:01:51 AM
i wondered why this thread was so damn popular and come to find out you guys are masturbating all over each other while doing coke.
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| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 10:51:34 AM
John, you're a class A clown. |
| jsemon2 |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 10:11:30 AM
1000, bitches!!! |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 02:33:50 AM
Dan, nothing will help compensate you for that. |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 01:30:08 AM
363! |
| dan p. |
Posted - 02/04/2007 : 2:06:52 PM
haha. i'm almost at a cool 3000. and that will help compensate for my tiny dick.
i mean. . .what? |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/04/2007 : 1:05:02 PM
1200, bitches. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 02/03/2007 : 6:41:21 PM
yes, real maple syrup is expensive, but trust me, if you want maple syrup, spring for a bottle. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/03/2007 : 4:30:47 PM
Does it? |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/03/2007 : 4:05:13 PM
Yeah, real maple syrup's okay, but it gets expensive. It reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry takes his own syrup into the coffee shop. |
| Robin |
Posted - 02/03/2007 : 2:46:08 PM
As long as it's REAL maple syrup not that Mrs. Butterworth crap we all grew up with. Of course if you grew up in New England you at least got the real stuff some of the time. I love maple syrup Peace, Robin |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 02/03/2007 : 02:51:44 AM
maple syrup is still ok though, right? |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/02/2007 : 7:59:54 PM
All hail the Anti-High Fructose Corn Syrup Federation! |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 02/02/2007 : 01:40:48 AM
Hmmm . . . I think therippa has stolen something from john stewarts's fridge.
I think one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen is butter flavored cheese salt! If you are adding that to your popcorn, might as well just eat a stick of butter with popcorn on it topped with melted cheese. . . KRAFT cheese *shivers*.
. . . I think I'm going to hurl . . . |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/01/2007 : 11:57:35 AM
We're all gonna die, I guess. <infinite sarcasm> |
| therippa |
Posted - 02/01/2007 : 11:36:34 AM
I think this product basically sums up everything we've been talking about in this thread...
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| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/01/2007 : 10:53:23 AM
Corn dogs? You're on the road to ruin, guy.
Hating on renewable and recycled goods now, huh? I can't win in here. |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 11:27:23 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dan p.
define "need." do you "need" your computer? do you need a cd player? high speed internet? i would go out on a limb and say that no, you don't. you'd still be alive if you didn't have them. you're talking about priority. an anti-consumer magazine isn't high on your list of priorities, is what i'm gleaning from your post. that's fine. it's not on mine, either. what about someone for whom the magazine is higher on the list of priorty? not everyone shares your priorities, so what is there that's "weird" about it, really?
but, all of that aside, even if you buy only what you need, and i mean the barest of essentials, you're still a consumer. unless you grow and make everything you eat, drink, wear, live in and use, you're a consumer and no amount of philosophy can change it.
Do we ned Tim Reynolds though?
. . . . Hell YEAH!
. . . . and corndogs, gotta have corn dogs, they ease the pain.
"what I want is what I've not got, but what I need is around me" |
| AGirlNamedPsycho |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 9:18:49 PM
Didn't Adbusters start up a line of sneakers? They had the big black scribble dot on them that AB employs, they were called Blackspot Shoes or some damn thing. I read their mission statement, it sort of reads like a PR guy's wet dream, anti-consumerism or no. Excerpt: "For round one, we'll launch our TV campaign, and if any network refuses to sell us airtime, we'll haul them into court. Then, if this recycled-tire, organic-hemp Unshwoosher really takes off as a new kind of cool in the sneaker industry, we'll use every penny of profit on kick-ass social campaigns and anti-corporate marketing." Kick-ass social campaigns hits me the same way it does whenever someone says "there's this cool dude called Jesus" or "funky-fresh salads"... you get the point.
I'm not anti AB or anything, but when they do and say weirds like this it feels like slippery slope time. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 8:13:35 PM
i don't think i could bring myself to spend 8 dollars a magazine, and i am a decadent man. how decadent? i eat gold. in fact, right now i'm chowing down on a bag of doubloons.
actually, i don't spend 8 dollars on it because i don't have 8 dollars. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 4:19:08 PM
Haha...Dan P. says it's ok that I buy Adbusters.
Its contributing authors are highly variable and come from a broad spectrum of fields and walks of life. It's more of a well designed forum-du-jour. Forget it's content, magazines with its vision and desire for true democratic thinking are few and far between. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 3:50:36 PM
define "need." do you "need" your computer? do you need a cd player? high speed internet? i would go out on a limb and say that no, you don't. you'd still be alive if you didn't have them. you're talking about priority. an anti-consumer magazine isn't high on your list of priorities, is what i'm gleaning from your post. that's fine. it's not on mine, either. what about someone for whom the magazine is higher on the list of priorty? not everyone shares your priorities, so what is there that's "weird" about it, really?
but, all of that aside, even if you buy only what you need, and i mean the barest of essentials, you're still a consumer. unless you grow and make everything you eat, drink, wear, live in and use, you're a consumer and no amount of philosophy can change it. |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 3:13:19 PM
I understand why it costs 8 bucks, it's more of the irony of there being an anti-consumerism magazine that I find interesting.
Surely if I don't need to buy shit I don't need, a magazine dedicated to anti-consumerism would be somewhere at the top of the list |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 1:41:34 PM
let me elaborate on what hrw is saying.
money for any medium comes from people, advertisers, or both. magazines with ads for things in it are going to cost you less because the money the magazine is making is coming from advertisers mostly, with a little amount coming in from subscriptions. it's no great mental leap, then, to understand that without ads, the money has to come from somewhere. that somewhere is the people who buy the magazine. you're paying adbusters the money that advertisers normally pay.
the "anti-consumerism" concept comes into play in that there are no ads at all. the only thing you're getting is the content of the magazine, the writing and the pictures. anti-consumerism isn't a great term for that, though. i'd call it anti-advertisment, because if you buy something, not matter what it is, you're a consumer by definition. either way, it makes perfect sense that it costs $8. don't confuse what's called "anti-consumerism" with "giving things away for free." |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 10:20:43 AM
You don't understand an anti-capitalism magazine that sells for $8? It has no ads. There's no money in people, just business...thanks America! |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 04:05:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by AGirlNamedPsycho
Quick Update:
I had a sip of some Coca Cola today and it turned my stomach a bit. I had to toss the rest of it, ughk.
I'm reminded of an Adbusters story of someone who did something similar, and she went like a month with no sodapop and then wound at a McDonalds somehow and ended up violently ill... don't remember the particular issue, but I didn't take it seriously at the same - Adbusters is incredibly left left wing, probably to the point of nigh-propaganda - but after this little personal test, I totally buy it. Yak.
My opinion of adbusters (being a super-left-winger myself)...I don't understand an anti-consumerism magazine that costs $8...it's more shit you don't need to buy |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 01/31/2007 : 03:04:05 AM
But is the Dr Pepper I'm drinking right now ok? Well, I drank a cherry coke earlier, I'm screwed. |
| AGirlNamedPsycho |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 10:39:42 PM
Quick Update:
I had a sip of some Coca Cola today and it turned my stomach a bit. I had to toss the rest of it, ughk.
I'm reminded of an Adbusters story of someone who did something similar, and she went like a month with no sodapop and then wound at a McDonalds somehow and ended up violently ill... don't remember the particular issue, but I didn't take it seriously at the same - Adbusters is incredibly left left wing, probably to the point of nigh-propaganda - but after this little personal test, I totally buy it. Yak. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 4:24:27 PM
***THREAD CLOSED*** |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 4:11:49 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dan p.
here's some fun: take a couple of sleeping pills and see if you can jerk off before falling alseep.
No matter what happens, you win! |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 3:46:29 PM
here's some fun: take a couple of sleeping pills and see if you can jerk off before falling alseep. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 02:35:53 AM
Just wait, soon we will be discussing masturbation. |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 01:33:39 AM
wha was this post about again?
lmao |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 3:42:41 PM
i only drink rarely. only a couple times a year.bi don't pretend to be super healthy in my diet, though. my eating habits aren't very good. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 3:06:18 PM
I love Bombay Sapphire. What a fantastic gin. When I drink, I try to get Vodka Cran with 100% juice or organic juices, etc. I do like beer. No HFCS in there. |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 1:53:47 PM
quote:
Originally posted by gnome44
Not to point you out, Dan...but it's funny how people often seem to leave alcohol off of their drinking lists (me included)...especially relatively healthy people.
I've known a lot of people who say something along the lines, "I only drink water." And they are usually very sincere in that they don't drink even tea, milk, juice, or anything else. But then they usually end up say, "Oh yeah, and beer."
But I suppose (aside from effects of abusing alcohol) that it's probably not all that bad for you.
It's mostly "natural" anyhow...
I drink vodka tonics mostly...this weekened I checked the label of my tonic water and discovered it contains HFCS...what the fuck?
Time to move on to martini's I guess (bombay sapphire is the bomb) |
| gnome44 |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 1:40:20 PM
Not to point you out, Dan...but it's funny how people often seem to leave alcohol off of their drinking lists (me included)...especially relatively healthy people.
I've known a lot of people who say something along the lines, "I only drink water." And they are usually very sincere in that they don't drink even tea, milk, juice, or anything else. But then they usually end up say, "Oh yeah, and beer."
But I suppose (aside from effects of abusing alcohol) that it's probably not all that bad for you.
It's mostly "natural" anyhow... |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 1:20:00 PM
language is very powerful, and if you're not careful, tricky people can and will fuck you over, sans lube. that's why i'm so up-ass about it. the more precise you are with language, the less likely you are to be caught at unawares by some marketing or advertising bullshit.
as far as drinks go, i'm off soda. actually, i'm off everything except water. not vitamin water, or flavored water. just plain old, no-bullshit water. i'll have me a glass of milk every now and again, just for calcium, or i'll eat an orange.
oh, and straight vodka. i hate mixing it with other things. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 12:50:46 PM
As much as I abhor 50 Cent and his 'music', he was a large factor in an anti-childhood obesity campaign for which I give props. Plus VitWater contains 'crystalline fructose' which is essentially a fancy derivative of HFCS. |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 12:30:17 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hopeful Rolling Waves
That is why 'natural' is such a bungle of a word, and 'food' manufacturers love it. Take Vitamin Water for example, what I thought was a great alternative to super-sweet electrolyte replenishers, turned out, admittedly, to have used monosodium glutamate (MSG) under the auspices of 'natural flavors.' What a cocking. Had to stop drinking the shit (allow me to endorse R.W.Knudsen's Recharge drinks here, great stuff AND healthy, Tropical Blend is great...love that hibiscus.)
Anyway, Dan and Nick just make the point of how language can be used to FUCK PEOPLE OVER...see also lawyers, doctors, and high-ranking government officials.
People are not smart (well-educated?), we need help figuring out what is good for us. There is too much out there to consider and with business trying its damnedest to squeeze every last dime out of us under false pretenses, someone needs to step in and give the food industry a serious regulating.
Can I get a witness?
Wow, I didn't know vitamin water had MSG in it. I used to drink the lemonade variety a lot, until I found out 50-cent has a controlling share in the business. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 12:26:11 PM
That is why 'natural' is such a bungle of a word, and 'food' manufacturers love it. Take Vitamin Water for example, what I thought was a great alternative to super-sweet electrolyte replenishers, turned out, admittedly, to have used monosodium glutamate (MSG) under the auspices of 'natural flavors.' What a cocking. Had to stop drinking the shit (allow me to endorse R.W.Knudsen's Recharge drinks here, great stuff AND healthy, Tropical Blend is great...love that hibiscus.)
Anyway, Dan and Nick just make the point of how language can be used to FUCK PEOPLE OVER...see also lawyers, doctors, and high-ranking government officials.
People are not smart (well-educated?), we need help figuring out what is good for us. There is too much out there to consider and with business trying its damnedest to squeeze every last dime out of us under false pretenses, someone needs to step in and give the food industry a serious regulating.
Can I get a witness? |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 12:01:08 PM
You got me - I didn't really think that far. I was just trying to figure out the invisible line between every single thing in the world being natural and nothing at all being natural, while still sticking to the dictionary definiton.
Perhaps we could say tea mixture itself is unnatural, but each specific ingredient is natural... |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 11:46:11 AM
why would you say that it doesn't apply to a being with a brain? what's the rationale? because it wasn't made by "nature" directly? any construct or action made or performed by any being with a brain is unnatural? then you have to admit, by your own reasoning, that honest tea, or any drink outside of milk, water and juice, is completely unnatural. let's take honest tea, for example. does nature by itself produce it? or do humans mix the ingredients? probably humans make it. therefore, by tericee's reasoning, it is unnatural. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 10:31:59 AM
I champion this to everyone in my personal life that complains of lack of energy, poor digestion, or general want for weight loss: eat and drink nothing with HFCS in it. You'll be amazed at the amount of stuff that you can't eat--very effective, in other words. |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 07:04:06 AM
There is a move afoot to force companies to remove the word "natural" from the label of anything that contains HFCS. The lead organization in the fight seems to be the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Regarding the discussion of precise language, here's my take on natural...
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition) defines natural as 1. Present in or produced by nature: a natural pearl. 2. Of, relating to, or concerning nature: a natural environment. 3. Conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature: a natural death. 4a. Not acquired; inherent: Love of power is natural to some people. b. Having a particular character by nature: a natural leader. c. Biology - Not produced or changed artificially; not conditioned: natural immunity; a natural reflex. 5. Characterized by spontaneity and freedom from artificiality, affectation, or inhibitions. See synonyms at naive. 6. Not altered, treated, or disguised: natural coloring; natural produce. 7. Faithfully representing nature or life.
quote:
Well, if we get specific, everything is natural. Hence this, a beaver builds a dam, that's natural. So, a human building a house, that's natural. We came from nature, just like everything else on this planet, so everything that comes from us is part of nature.
At first glance, definition #1, which includes the natural pearl example, seems to support Nick's comment. But perhaps we can say that the transitive property (i.e., if something that nature made went on to make something else something else, then it's still natural) doesn't apply when a being with a brain is involved. Therefore a beaver's dam isn't made by nature, it's made by the beaver. Same thing for a bird's nest. Same thing for HFCS. (An oyster has no brain, so the pearl made by an oyster can still be considered natural.)
Definitions #4.c and #6, however, support the claims of those who say that HFCS is not natural. |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 01/29/2007 : 02:18:00 AM
Well, if we get specific, everything is natural. Hence this, a beaver builds a dam, that's natural. So, a human building a house, that's natural. We came from nature, just like everything else on this planet, so everything that comes from us is part of nature.
Now, what we normaly call unatural is natural things we create to imitate other natural things that we don't create. Typically, the natural stuff we create isn't as good as natural products not created by us. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/28/2007 : 5:53:48 PM
oh no, i completely agree. those additives, which are "sythesised in labs" (good, descriptive word choice. made in labs doesn't sound sound as alien and bad) used for flavor and color are all artificial. that is to say, they mimic the color and flavor of another thing. but they still aren't "unnatural." they're just artificial and bad for you. mostly i'm just arguing definition. precise language is awesome. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 01/27/2007 : 3:31:14 PM
Honest Teas rock. I love the Green Dragon especially. I just wish they weren't so expensive, but it's a nice treat when I do get them. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/27/2007 : 3:14:41 PM
Yeah, ESPECIALLY PVC.
Dan, artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives are not natural, but you can go ahead and conjure up an argument about how if it exists in nature it's natural; but that shit is synthesized in labs so to those of us who care, they are, for all intent and purposes, artificial. |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 10:11:02 PM
Ya, everything is natural... especially plastic. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 9:22:31 PM
they can do that because everything is natural. even though it might not be good for you. |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 1:07:17 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Robin
All that HFCS is no good and it's in seemingly "Natural" soft drinks too.
I know, they put the crap in Hansen's soda and still call it "natural"! |
| Robin |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 12:22:34 PM
Well said! Yes, Honest Teas are my fave with the mint being the best when I don't want any caffiene. Tazo sometimes makes a bottled tea that is also really good. TIMe. All that HFCS is no good and it's in seemingly "Natural" soft drinks too. Drink more water!Peace, Robin |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 09:16:20 AM
What kind of 'iced tea' may I ask? A lot of 'teas' on the market are loaded with the same shit that you'll find in soda, so it's risky business. Honest Teas are probably my favorite bottled teas. First Nation Peppermint I dominate regularly. Moby's (of Play fame) bottled tea, Teany Teas, are also solid; and neither are filled with sugar, colorings, or preservatives.
To anyone on here is drinking soda on the regular here, I offer this statement: You're all grownsed up now, you don't need 42 grams of sugar to make something taste sweet.
I do understand the plight of the shitty dieter to a certain extent, considering the mass distribution of 'foods' containing insane amounts of sugar, fat, caffeine, salt, etc. I don't expect that everywhere in the country has as many places to get natural and organic foods at a reasonable price as New Jersey does. However, your body is a system, and the goal is to make any system work at optimal output. If you put shit in, you will get shit out, simple. |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 11:21:16 PM
I waz drinking soda massively, and I have tried drinking a lot less. I now drink ice tea more than soda, and I have lost at least 20 lbs and dropping. |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 2:51:27 PM
I'll try it if I can dredge up the willpower... |
| AGirlNamedPsycho |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 1:08:20 PM
You know, I switched almost entirely to water and coffee as a sub for soda. I dropped like 5 - 10 lbs by just NOT drinking soda. This was like two weeks ago. Flipping sweet.
I keep losing all my fucking water bottles though. So now I have to go buy one of those Green Tea liter-tall things... grumble |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 01/22/2007 : 10:19:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by tericee
I saw the Will Smith movie, "Pursuit of Happyness" last night and thought that his son (played by Smith's son, Jaden) looked somewhat like the little boy in Boondocks. (Not quite as angry though.)
Ya that was a pretty good movie. I also watched The Freedom Writers this weekend which wasn't too bad either. Jaden did a really good job. I didn't know it was his son till afterwards though. |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/22/2007 : 1:30:32 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Robin
OH! He does doesn't he? How was that movie? Peace, Robin
I saw it about two weeks ago...I thought it was average. It's always fun seeing a movie set in your home town, but it really didn't do it for me...especially considering I found out his internship was in fact a paid one ($1000/month) |
| Robin |
Posted - 01/22/2007 : 12:44:06 PM
OH! He does doesn't he? How was that movie? Peace, Robin |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/22/2007 : 07:07:19 AM
I saw the Will Smith movie, "Pursuit of Happyness" last night and thought that his son (played by Smith's son, Jaden) looked somewhat like the little boy in Boondocks. (Not quite as angry though.)
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| tericee |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 05:56:40 AM
Cool. I didn't realize Boondocks had gone from comic strip to TV. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 10:47:56 AM
Love The Boondocks. |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 06:34:49 AM
quote:
Originally posted by therippa
[quote]Here's a video clip I just uploaded to youtube about high-fructose corn syrup...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMPkdEQIh8
I'll have to watch it when I get home; can't get to YouTube from work anymore.  |
| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 9:19:54 PM
What happens when I drink a Dr Pepper? |
| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 6:42:58 PM
Anyone here ever watch Mythbusters? They did a whole show where they did nothing but dispell the myths about what Coke can do. Unfortunately it can't do anything cool like dissolve a steak in 3 days, but it did work well as chrome polish... |
| therippa |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 5:33:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by tericee
This may be true, but keep in mind that Coca Cola (and virtually all non-diet carbonated beverages, with the notable exception of Jones Soda) is made not with sugar, but with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).
There is evidence that HFCS makes people more prone to obesity than regular sugar...
Here's a video clip I just uploaded to youtube about high-fructose corn syrup...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMPkdEQIh8 |
| jsemon2 |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 5:23:01 PM
vanilla coke, that was so 4 years ago. |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 3:56:12 PM
The coke here in Germany -- and most of Europe, as far as I've been able to determine -- is made with suger (zucker) so when I do feel the need for one, I drink the German kind. The Germans recently started carrying Vanilla Coke, too, which I love!
Apparently the reason they can still use sugar is because a) they make their sugar from beets, and b) there is no government subsidy of the corn industry. Apparently, we make sugar here with sugar cane, which is a very expensive process, in part because of federal tarrifs and/or taxes. On the other hand, corn is highly subsidized in the US, which makes HFCS cost only pennies.
So between artifically jacked up sugar prices and artifically low corn prices, HFCS ends up being much cheaper than cane sugar. But only because the government has meddled so much. Argh. |
| Robin |
Posted - 01/17/2007 : 12:15:50 PM
This is absolutly true. The coke of my childhood was made with sugar and in much smaller bottles. I don't usually drink soda of any kind it's so horribly sweet, but I recently had a soda called Moxie that was a version of the old coke.It came in a very small bottle and had no HFCS just sugar. It tasted exactly as I remember coke did.Peace, Robin |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/17/2007 : 11:33:48 AM
quote:
Originally posted by therippa
* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
This may be true, but keep in mind that Coca Cola (and virtually all non-diet carbonated beverages, with the notable exception of Jones Soda) is made not with sugar, but with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).
There is evidence that HFCS makes people more prone to obesity than regular sugar... |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/17/2007 : 11:30:05 AM
A whole 'nother epidemic in its own right. |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 7:07:42 PM
That's why I just stick to drinking rum. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 3:29:53 PM
Man, soda. What a fucking epidemic. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 3:19:40 PM
you forgot things:
1. tastes great.
2. bubbles are fun. |
