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A really pathetic moment
18 years ago
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I quit soda about a month ago. I was doing really well. And I still am, I've been desugared and decaffienated for the entirety of it.
But today I spent fifteen minutes in a Circle K staring at a litre of grape soda, having an epic battle of thoughts, each side warring for that sparkling purple liquid.
God. I had no idea how much I was addicted to this stuff. That poor confused cashier. xD
But today I spent fifteen minutes in a Circle K staring at a litre of grape soda, having an epic battle of thoughts, each side warring for that sparkling purple liquid.
God. I had no idea how much I was addicted to this stuff. That poor confused cashier. xD
A selection of various flavors, or that lonely little white pull tab that dispenses the tap water?
I've done well to cut out soda unless I'm eating out. Now I just need to eat out less.
DRINKIT, DRINKIT, DRINKIT!!!
The pope said that, I think.
"I can't believe the size of your meatloaf, dude."
"Your mom can't believe the size of my meatloaf!"
Well, I had a friend who took it further and would reply "Your mom's house."
"This train station is full of guys."
"Your mom's house is full of guys!"
Mixing this along was the phrase "in your face," which we made into "In your mom's face!"
Finally, we saw the video for Metal By Numbers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko in which at one point Brian Posehn replies "You're the news! YOU ARE!"
Thus, your momma's face's house is in the news.
Still, my favorite mama joke of all time may be: 'Yo mama's so fat she has smaller fat women orbiting her.' Love the mental image.
You should have told the Cashier that the Grape was the One Soda, and that you needed to take it to Mount Dew to cast it into the mixing machine!
Least it doesn't have that corn syrup in it, though. that's the BAD shit.
keep to it, soda's ok little by little, but a diet of it can't be good.
LIKE TEA
TEAAAA!
PRO-TIP: put the lemon/lime wedge UNDER the ice so you can refill the water as many times as you want and it never really looses the flavor.
FACT: This method cures non-alcoholic drink addictions
I have yet to give up sugar though. I need to get easy energy somewhere, and I don't get headaches when I don't have it for 48 hours or so.
I'd break my addiction to soda too. But... I drink Ginger Ale and Fresca. The sugar is bad for me, but no caffine to make me a twitch bastard. So I have only half of the incentive to stop. But to keep going, I have pure deliciousness.
NORI LOVES GRAPE SODA!
She does?
You want it...don't you?
Take your weapon. Drink it.
STRIKE ME DOWN WITH ALL OF YOUR HATRED and your journey towards the Dark Side will be COMPLETE.
See, I used to drink Pepsi all the time. I would buy 12-packs four, six, eight at a time when the gas stations had them on sale. For the most part, I was good about keeping it to two cans a day, though every so often I'd drink more. Then I moved about a thousand miles to Missouri, and haven't been able to get a job yet, so I'd been trying not to spend money on "non-essential" things like soda.
The other day, though, I went out and got myself a 12-pack of Pepsi.
I may be an addict, but sipping a can of Pepsi made me feel incredibly better. Though, to be honest, I think it was more of a "getting back to the life I left behind" rather than any actual addiction. I'm trying to keep it to one a day, though, just to make the pack last longer.
(Oh, and I can't stand diet anything. The artifical sweetener leaves such a horrible aftertaste that it makes me gag. Whenever the waitress mixed up the drinks and handed me a diet, my friends would laugh at my reaction. Now, I can tell most soft drinks by smell.)
Soda is bad because of high fructose corn syrup, which gives you all of the calories of sugar without filling you up. A tall glass of orange juice works like a snack for me, and at nearly 300 calories, it better should! Meanwhile people can down a whole two liter of soda (900 calories) and still be hungry for some snacks.
As long as you stay active and burn that energy, a little soda is fine. Just avoid the 44oz big gulps and stick to 1-3 cans per day, spread out.
Seems like you have better restraint than me.
Splenda good. Nutra Sweet bad.
But grape, man? =P Ew. No soda should even try to taste like a fruit. They fail. They fail hard.
Congratulations, you are my exact opposite!
So I switched to regular 100% fruit juices (it's gotta say 100%--"beverage","cocktails" and "drinks" aren't usually 100% juice, but often have HFCS as sweetener) with no extra sugar other than the fruit itself, and dilute them anywhere from 1/2 to 2/3 with seltzer, cutting the amount sugar compared to the total volume of liquid. I'm down a pants size over the past year, probably due to that change in tactics.
And oh yes, I too find Splenda to be about the only tolerable artificial sweetener.
I haven't used the powdered mixes in a long time..they foam up much too much for my taste.
It worked. For a while.
Then the bastards at work changed me schedule so I had to get up at 6AM.
Bastards. Now I need soda to function in the morning.
Sounds funny? Do a little bit of exercise, THEN try drinking soda. It's hopeless. :P