Mexican Pepsi and the decline of western civilization

[1AngryTaxPayer]

drinking regular soda is a fast track to being fat.

[Jenkay]

Originally Posted by JohnAlt

I saw throwback Pepsi in a supermarket as recently as last week but can't remember which one. Both throwbacks Pepsi and Mountain Dew are pretty common though.

Yeah, like I said, I didn't look that hard, at the time it was in limited release. I'm still curious to try it, I'll look for it again

[scratchNsniff]

Wow this thread really exploded in my absence!!

I am ALWAYS on the hunt for non HFCS soda, because in my opinion it is basically heroinized sugar and that's why we are all fat (I know, that's a huge generalization...) or a large percentage of us are because some people I know will drink tons of soda but then can't stand to swallow one glass of water...

I've had the throwback Pepsi and it's good, you can sometimes find it at Target. The Mexican Pepsi was just so-so, not like the Mexican Coke which is 1000x better than American Coke.

Soda used to be super cheap, but not any more since the price of corn has gone up as we are making biofuels from it. The farmers all said you can't make biofuels from a food crop because it will push food prices up and look where we are today: food prices just keep going up and up.

I don't know why the soda makers don't go back to making their sodas with real sugar.

[Jenkay]

Originally Posted by scratchNsniff

Wow this thread really exploded in my absence!!

I am ALWAYS on the hunt for non HFCS soda, because in my opinion it is basically heroinized sugar and that's why we are all fat (I know, that's a huge generalization...) or a large percentage of us are because some people I know will drink tons of soda but then can't stand to swallow one glass of water...

I've had the throwback Pepsi and it's good, you can sometimes find it at Target. The Mexican Pepsi was just so-so, not like the Mexican Coke which is 1000x better than American Coke.

Soda used to be super cheap, but not any more since the price of corn has gone up as we are making biofuels from it. The farmers all said you can't make biofuels from a food crop because it will push food prices up and look where we are today: food prices just keep going up and up.

I don't know why the soda makers don't go back to making their sodas with real sugar.

HFCS is cheaper, and most people don't care. It's a bottom line thing. I like the cane sugar sodas better taste-wise, and I don't feel like they leave that weird "film" on my mouth.. But I'm not fooling myself that they're any less bad for me than HFCS-sweetened sodas. Again, I drink like one soda every two months.

Cane sugar and HFCS have the same chemical effect on one's body. Sugar is sugar, and it all does the same thing. If people who drink 4 liters of regular soda per day were drinking the same amount sweetened with cane sugar, they'd still be fat and diabetic. HFCS is in EVERYTHING, though, and people consume so much of it, that it *is* a huge health problem. But again, it would be the same if it was cane sugar.

There's other reasons not to like HFCS, The corn (and soybean! take that you 'earth-first' vegetarians!) industry in general has been detrimental to the whole landscape of American agriculture, for one. But harping on how fattening/bad for you HFCS is kind of misses the point of why Americans are (in REALLY high numbers) fat and unhealthy.

(insert rant about people eating and drinking premade, packaged foods all day every day and having forgotten what real food actually looks and tastes like and that's why we're in this bad unhealthy mess we're in now blah blah blah..)

[hiknapster]

Anyone remember the New Coke brouhaha from the mid-80s? Well, prior to that we were all drinking coke with cane sugar. When they finally brought it back, tada, it had HFCS. It was a lot cheaper to manufacture and since Americans (me, too) are a bunch of sheeple we fell for it.

Kroger is a very large chain throughout the central portion of the country. They carry Mexican Coke. We buy it all the time. Jones soda is really good, too. All cane sugar.

[Sealtite]

I really like Pepsi, and I drink at least two bottles of it everyday. I know that's bad, but I don't drink alcohol like most people, so I figure it evens out. Anyway, I switched to drinking throwback about a year ago, and noticed that I never get heartburn anymore and I feel a lot better.