Do you drink soda?

[lightbulb27]

Coke, pepsi, 7 up, RC, Root beer?

Why?

This is some nasty swill. Why do people drink it? If you'd like me to save you $100,000 in your lifetime here's some advice. Stop drinking this crap, stop smoking.

There'... you are a lot richer now and you don't have to complain about "billionaires".

Your dentist recommends you ignore this post and keep drinking man made acid water.

I'm drinking MORE soda

I'm drinking LESS and less soda

I don't drink it at all

Other

No/none

Updates

11 mo

Imagine all the bottles and cans going into the ocean. It's insane what we are doing as higher end monkeys, drinking poison sugar water, discarding our trash into the oceans. What are we... a bunch of media programmed robots?

Time to give up soda except for rare occasions. The challenge is on.

[Lliam]

I quit drinking Coca Cola and Pepsi Co products years ago, partially because they are terribly unhealthy, but mostly because of their corporate cultures.

On hot days, I'll occasionally have an A&W root beer or a Jarritos soda (mango, mandarin, or some other flavor).

There is a place in the town near us that has a wonderful burger menu and their own ice cream and root beer brands. And they have old fashioned car hop service. My wife and I go there occasionally for sandwiches and will sometimes get root beer in a frosty mug, or a root beer float, or a chocolate malt.

There is a pizza place that we love. When we go there for pizza, I admit that I'll have a Mug root beer from the machine along with my pizza.

But I generally don't drink soda or any bottled products.

I fill liter bottles of water at home with our own well water. And we squeeze lemon, orange, pink grapefruit and mandarin juice from our own trees.

During the summer, I sometimes buy 1/2 gallons of pineapple or tropical juices to keep in the frig.

[lightbulb27]

That's fun, enjoying life. Root beer... sassafras... I like these old fashioned flavors and these sodas do go well with pizza. I gave it up, couldn't find good ones. Most were high fructose corn syryp which is too strong to me. Thats good you have old world available!
Pineapple juice is a good treat.

[exitseven]

@Lliam In the next town there was an A&W root beer place that had the best burgers on the south shore. They also had car hop service and the girls would wear poodle skirts and roller skates. The local gear heads would hang out there on Saturday and show off their restored muscle cars. I ue to love to take my kids there. It was a real slice of Americana.
Then an McDonalds was built next door. There is a used car business on that lot now.

[Lliam]

@exitseven. That car hop place sounds great. It reminds me of movies like American Graffiti. It's a joyful part of American history.

[exitseven]

@Lliam It really was like that. The hamburgers were exactly like the Howard Johnson hamburgers I had as a kid. I think that they got the recipe from them. HoJos was the first chain restaurant and probably only existed on the east coast.

[Levin]

That stuff is nasty, yes.

It's just poor bang for your buck, treats, anyway.

What absurd amount of sugar is in a can of coke? Think it's something ridiculous like 35g.

That's almost two chocolate bars of sugar. And believe me, chocolate is infinitely more worthy 'bad habit' than that crap!

Also, no word of exaggeration, my work colleague literally drinks over 2 litres of diet coke per day. If she hasn't pre bought a 2l bottle from the cheap supermarket, that's a habit of £10 a day. She is on the waiting list to have some benign mass removed from her body. I would try to link the ingestion of foods to one's health outcomes, but that's too much of a 'conspiracy theory' so I don't waste my breath.

[lightbulb27]

100%. I can't believe the people at work fill up 64oz bottles and do 2 to 3 of those a day.

A can of coke is fine if you are racing in the tour defrance and need quick energy. Otherwise, it's overload.

I figured out long ago... our system... permits people to kill themselves slowly, for profit. Just not allowed to kill oneself fast.
Yes, gotta wonder when the class action lawsuits hit. It's sad, but kids are brain washed and do't know anybetter. Once indocrinated into the junk food system, they are hooked druggies. It's up to the parents to protect them.

[strateguy632]

35g is around 10%! How is 10% ridiculous too much?

[Screenwriter]

I love a can of Diet Coke since it doesn't have the sugar that rots teeth, but I regularly drink hibiscus cucumber rose tea or plain water.

Coke is expensive. I wait for and look for sales. Therefore, it's a treat. No sales recently, so no Diet Coke.

To drink sugared soda all the time is a bad habit. Gave that up decades ago. Know fake sugar isn't best thing, but its advantages of saving teeth are tops. So try to mitigate negatives by drinking water and iced or hot tea. I'm hydrated!

[7Phoenix7]

Not really anymore...

These days I try to drink a lot of water. I do like vitamin water though... and I LOVE coconut water... fresh from the coconut.

https://img.freepik.com/premium-photo/fresh-coconut-water-glass-wooden-board-drinking_45583-1137.jpg

[lightbulb27]

yes those are tasty. I like vitamin water, but it's some serious swirl of chemicals.

[lightbulb27]

the bottles of VW are the best, they hold up better and fit in a bike cage. Convenient refillable.

[7Phoenix7]

What do you normally drink? Besides water

[lightbulb27]

Tea at home so can control the sugar and flavor. Cappucino sometimes.

[7Phoenix7]

There are so many different flavors of tea... that's a good option. And homemade like you said, to control the sugar.

[lightbulb27]

We traveled thailand and I discovered Thai tea... big fav!

[7Phoenix7]

Ooo interesting... does it taste anything like chai tea? I love chai tea...

[lightbulb27]

chai tea also fantastic fav, as long as fresh made. can make your own. It's it's own thing, kinda like a red tea. gotta try! The world is now your oyster and available to your door in 1 day! just add milk.
www.amazon.com/.../B09124TZ9N

[7Phoenix7]

Added to cart! 👍

[FreyaRed]

Sometimes a light cola but it's not pepsi or coca cola, those sodas are too sweet and taste weird

[DryGermanGuy]

I drink soda in its original sense: water.

[lightbulb27]

bubbling goodness from the ground!

[Shiprex]

I have an apple tree and this year had about 4-500kg of apples that I took to the apple factory to make into Must (the juiced from crushing and pasteurising) and that has been my go to drink for the past 5 months. I gave a load away to friends and they enjoyed it as it's almost thick with flavour.

[strateguy632]

But fruit juice had sugar too!

[Shiprex]

@strateguy632 yeah natural sugar not the added stuff in excess proportions

[lightbulb27]

Cool!

[Unit1]

Sometimes. And if i do, i always look for the zero sugar variants or it won't be put in my cart. I limit it to 0.5 liter. I believe it is within a safe limitation.

My dentist recommends me drinking just water.

[lightbulb27]

dental work very expensive. From what I've heard that is worse than the sugar kind. But who knows, maybe if you believe it's good, then it's good for you.
bon appetite.

[Unit1]

Right. I still don't trust soda drinks. However tasty it is, it masks the harmful ingredients involved.
I don't know any real world cases besides on the internet, where moderate tooth damage was caused by the acids or something. But those People i reckon drank that stuff like it's water or like they're in Mexico.

[strateguy632]

Really? Don't you know ORANGE JUICE is ACID and sugar! Cola is same. Cans N PLASTIC are RECYCLED.

If people don't buy cola they still BUY drinks... same pay therefore not save any money!

I did buy n drink cola, But when coke took a stance about voter i. d. i boycotted them. "bill also implemented voter ID requirements".

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coca-cola-ceo-georgia-quincey-b1825244.html

[NathanDavis]

a couple times a month, at least... only the classic Coca~Cola

[lightbulb27]

that's not too bad.

[NathanDavis]

been like that for the last eleven or twelve years... I used to drink it every single day, when I was a kid... lol

[lightbulb27]

you are just over the peak and starting to head downhill. you'll have to make some changes down the road, your body will force you. But being forced to change is a long ways off unless the rest of your habits are bad.

[NathanDavis]

I'm actually in the best shape of my life... lol

and I do a general check up twice a year... just in case

[Anonymous]

I know the effects it causes such as increase in diabetes, weight gain, stress/anxiety/depression, rotting teeth, and other health ailments. I really don’t drink pop. I find Coke too sweet, Pepsi is meh, and the others aren’t great. I guess once in a blue moon I’ll have ginger ale or an orange soda with a slice of pizza but I mostly drink water or green tea.

[lightbulb27]

that makes sense!

[petitedollbabee]

I have a soda once every few months, as a change. Otherwise I only drink water, no coffee or tea.

[lightbulb27]

Water is good! good call! occasional is not a problem so much.

[NicholasRedone]

Milkshake? 😄 Frappe? 😁

[petitedollbabee]

@NicholasRedone Nope 😁

[molonski2]

It's horrendous stuff , completely no required in today's world , and just so unhealthy.

[lightbulb27]

agree, should have a social tax included in the price.

[molonski2]

Yes , most certainly high sugar should be taxed , standard coke is 30 teaspoons of sugar.

[strateguy632]

To @molonski2 quite an exaggerated ftom 3 tablespoon in a can serving to "30 teaspoons".
That error is why you think "horrendous" but if you knew 20% is reasonable.

[molonski2]

It's as tobacco was in the 70s , this stuff is a killer , it's not if , it's when.
Utterly horrendous poison.

[molonski2]

But you consume as much of it as you wish.. or choose , it won't be my problem..

[NicholasRedone]

I've been hitting the soda for years

Pepsi, complete me 🥤 lol 😈😈🙃😋

Yes I have the dentist soon

[lightbulb27]

liquid drugs! what's your pancreas say if it could speak?

[Anonymous]

Yes. It's the only addiction I have. At least I drink non sugary pop (coke zero and zero carb mountain dew). But I wish i could quit altogether. Especially since it contains Phenylketonurics which I've read is bad for your heart.

[lightbulb27]

It’s addictive isn't it. A good day to stop

[Anonymous]

I only drink one can 3 times a week for a weekend treat.

Coke Zero No Sugar.

Better than Classic Coke anyway

[lightbulb27]

That stuff not good for you… rsch it. Its not worth it.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I love Soda and do drink it. The key is to rinse your mouth so tooth decay doesn't happen from all the sugar.

[lightbulb27]

What about your pancreas though?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Have to live life with joy. I'm going to die anyways at some point.

As long I don't abuse drinking soda then I will contuine to drink it.

[zagor]

Trying to cut back from a couple days a week to a couple days a month.

[lightbulb27]

Addictive chemicals… sad stop 100%

[Staximus]

I work at a restaurant and a gas station and have all the free soda I can drink, and I've had like 2 sodas in the past year. I worked at a bar for 3 years before that and had like 6 sodas in 3 years. Before that I worked at the same gas station for 3 years and had maybe 10 sodas in 3 years. Before that I worked at another restaurant for 3 years and had maybe 20 sodas. Every one of those sodas had ice to the top of the glass, so they were really like half a soda each.

[massb]

Soda not really I drink juice like fruitopia and water bit it's just as bad I think

[lightbulb27]

Agree. If high fructose corn syrup is poisonous. A good day to stop put $ in jar for something else

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Yes, once or twice a week, I do.

Preferably, Coke Zero or classic Coke.

[JailyneMariaHamza]

i hardly drink it anymore

[lightbulb27]

Good. Is life good in Jordan? Never met anyone from there... that I know of.

[JailyneMariaHamza]

yes it is besides terrorism and border security clashes

[lightbulb27]

Ok, thank you. Terrorism there… never heard of

[PeachyPie93]

I enjoy Pepsi max and all the sugar free shit drinks.. but Pepsi max I can only have once a week because it does damage to the gut lol.

[NicholasRedone]

Lol 😂😆 I had to laugh at the part about manure 🤣

[exitseven]

I do not drink as much as I did. Maybe 3 or 4 bottles a week. I gave up beer a long time ago. I do not smoke or use illegal drugs. I do not eat a lot of junk food. I enjoy a Pepsi on a hot day while I am working in the yard.

[Anonymous]

Sure, can't afford a dentist and have no issues with billionaires outside of the WHO/WEF neighborhood

[Flower7]

How did you come up with the $100,000 amount?

[lightbulb27]

Guess. Likely 2x if smoke too

[lightbulb27]

5 cans a week * $2 * 52 weeks * 70 = $36400 cash, invested. Compound interest $184,000!
Quit smoking take someone over $500,000!
This does not include dental and health issues, social cost of disposing all those bottles and cans, laundering the stains out of your clothes.
I just made you so rich! ;)

[AviatorTom]

I'm drinking less soda than I did when I was younger. Most of what I drink now is water, followed by cold tea.

[Amii_Hex]

Fanta is my favourite one yeah

[lightbulb27]

never had. enjoy!

[Amii_Hex]

well i found out through youtube documentary that the USA has a diffirent fanta than Europe, one that is much much worse both tastewise and especially health wise. Its kinda funny because Fanta is generally considered one of the most unhealthy sodas here in Germany and EU in general, but i saw this youtube video of a guy comparing it to American fanta and he was mind blown how much healthier our fanta was, which was just weird to see haha

[lightbulb27]

Oh not weird… its stupidity. Europe protects its food supply to some degree. Outs preys upon our ignorance. They had to find use for all the corn so make fuel additive (ethanol) and corn syrup. They are killimg us slowly w it and makenus sick… then send us through an expensive disease system. Its a very sick country. Be very careful… freedom is good… but dangerous…

[Valdemort]

Rarely. Probably about 10 times in the past 3 years.

[Drumlin2001]

I love it. But trying not to drink it. Too expensive and rots teeth

[strateguy632]

As wimpy kid pointed out, " it rots teeth that sit in it all night, so we DON'T soak our teeth in it all night."

[Crazzyyworld]

I used to drink every freaking day when I was on a diet. Diet soda makes me feel full. But I lost weight I don’t need diet anymore so I stop drinking

[adventurous-1]

I enjoy a flavorful sparkling water, does that count?

[MysticDevice]

So where is your $100,000?

[lightbulb27]

invested in vacations!

[Jupiter1]

I enjoy Coke but I have been avoiding carbonated beverages since the they give me gas pains. Sometimes, I might cheat on weekends.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Its rare that I have any kind of soda. I drink mostly water and milk.

[TonyMetal___86]

It's a part of my life, my house ain't allowed to be empty from soda

[NicholasRedone]

The Board of directors of either soda, deserves honourable mentions to people like yourself - to rounds of applause at stock meetings 🫣🎉😋

[NicholasRedone]

You keep those places turning ⚙️

[TonyMetal___86]

@NicholasRedone that is true, for over 30 years i have been drinking pepsi or coca cola on a daily basis, if i want to calculate how much i paid for all these years for the soda company, it's a worth a fortune 😄

Now i'm drinking less, only with lunch...

[TonyMetal___86]

@lightbulb27 i'm not trashing the ocean because i rarely buy plastic soda bottles, i only buy glass bottles of pepsi...

[GlowUpGirly5]

No it's disgusting taste like suguar and syrup

[GlowUpGirly5]

This is more of an American thing

[lightbulb27]

Agree, Europe... cans are much smaller and it maybe a 'treat'. Here, it's a staple food. Americans... we are really dumb, mind programmed, and sick. Fact.

[GlowUpGirly5]

We drink seltzer water the closest thing to a soda accept it has real fruit blended

[lightbulb27]

Good call!

[GlowUpGirly5]

Try that it's healthier.

[lightbulb27]

we have in the house, not my 'cup of tea'.

[dragoblack]

Straight up drinking flavored corn syrup? Eyck gross. I usually go for carbonated water or carbonated fruit juice if i want something fizzy.

[LadyBecks]

I very rarely have soda

[IslaTheWitch]

not anymore... 8 years clean :D

[Anonymous]

I rarely drink it, because I prefer natural juice.

[TheStaleMarshmellow]

I smoke the pepsi

[Nerdvana]

Does baking count?

[Vickie06]

I drink sparkling water.

[Sinthia99]

I never liked soda.

[MemeSupreme]

barely

mostly water

[Agape93]

Rarely

[SleepingHazard]

Only coke every once in a while.

[Jennz6]

Soda is not good for you

[Circushowcowboy]

I Iike cherry coke and Mountain Dew

[KittygosMeoWW]

I do

[FenixG45]

Yes, but only on special occasions now!

[Sabretooth]

it's good.

[NicholasRedone]

Its so good 👍🏻😊 I love it while I'm still not 45 lol 😆 or 65 lol 😆

[Sabretooth]

@NicholasRedone better than bee4... especially, that bottled piss that my father drinks.

[jahaims]

Nope

[Bonnaroo]

I drink it sometimes