January 12, 2010
Gimme some sugar baby
10:51 AM | Posted by
Nex911
Ok, So I'm Canadian. This affords me some wonderful things like almost free health care, an appreciation for good beer, a greater awareness of the world and my place in it, a toque* and an understanding of the game of hockey. Something that it does not get me however is Pepsi throwback.
Why do I want Pepsi throwback? Why? Well, because it's made with real sugar of course. I want it because I'm old enough to remember what things used to taste like before they stopped using sugar and starting using HFCS** Why did they do this? Was it because Sugar is BAD FOR US AND SPONSORED BY TERRORISM? Nope. It's because HFCS is cheaper. An interesting read on the subject can be found here if you want to get deeper into that can o worms.
**High Fructose Corn Syrup or HFCS for those of us in the know is made when you take corn and fuck around with it until it changes from glucose to fructose. The result is super sweet super cheap sugar substitute that is now found in tons and tons of different products. The side effect from this is really bad things for you are now cheaper. The side effect from this is people eat more of the really cheap bad for you stuff. The side effect of this is over 30% of the American population is obese, not just fat but obese. Being obese is defined as having a 30 BMI or more, to put this in perspective a 5'5" person would have to weigh 185 pounds to be obese.
This certainly falls under the heading of "no damn good" but wait there's more. HFCS is now and has been for a while been made with genetically modified corn. Stuff that has been genetically modified has been changed by mad scientists to make them more gooderest. These nice guys make the corn have higher yields, are more resistant to insects, more resistant to changes in weather, faster times from plant to harvest and so on and so forth. Now guess what happens? You eat this stuff in massive quantities, you eat your yummy made with HFCS bun, with your genetically modified beef and your genetically modified cheese and your genetically modified tomatoes and now you're genetically modifiedly fucked in the ass.
I don't care how many studies are done that try to convince me that this stuff isn't bad for me. They are paid for by the companies that make the products they are trying to prove are safe which in my book means that they are going to be a little biased. I refuse to believe that with all this whacky shit we're eating now that one day something is not going to trigger in our DNA and next thing you know our currently dormant tails will all start to grow again. Although no doubt having a tail would be super sweet it would still be a mark under "no" in the things that should happen to the human species list.
All I want is my made with sugar drink.
Coke is made with sugar in Mexico supposedly maybe I'll just go to Mexico.
*Toque - A wool hat that most hosers wear in Canada eh?
Why do I want Pepsi throwback? Why? Well, because it's made with real sugar of course. I want it because I'm old enough to remember what things used to taste like before they stopped using sugar and starting using HFCS** Why did they do this? Was it because Sugar is BAD FOR US AND SPONSORED BY TERRORISM? Nope. It's because HFCS is cheaper. An interesting read on the subject can be found here if you want to get deeper into that can o worms.
**High Fructose Corn Syrup or HFCS for those of us in the know is made when you take corn and fuck around with it until it changes from glucose to fructose. The result is super sweet super cheap sugar substitute that is now found in tons and tons of different products. The side effect from this is really bad things for you are now cheaper. The side effect from this is people eat more of the really cheap bad for you stuff. The side effect of this is over 30% of the American population is obese, not just fat but obese. Being obese is defined as having a 30 BMI or more, to put this in perspective a 5'5" person would have to weigh 185 pounds to be obese.
This certainly falls under the heading of "no damn good" but wait there's more. HFCS is now and has been for a while been made with genetically modified corn. Stuff that has been genetically modified has been changed by mad scientists to make them more gooderest. These nice guys make the corn have higher yields, are more resistant to insects, more resistant to changes in weather, faster times from plant to harvest and so on and so forth. Now guess what happens? You eat this stuff in massive quantities, you eat your yummy made with HFCS bun, with your genetically modified beef and your genetically modified cheese and your genetically modified tomatoes and now you're genetically modifiedly fucked in the ass.
I don't care how many studies are done that try to convince me that this stuff isn't bad for me. They are paid for by the companies that make the products they are trying to prove are safe which in my book means that they are going to be a little biased. I refuse to believe that with all this whacky shit we're eating now that one day something is not going to trigger in our DNA and next thing you know our currently dormant tails will all start to grow again. Although no doubt having a tail would be super sweet it would still be a mark under "no" in the things that should happen to the human species list.
All I want is my made with sugar drink.
Coke is made with sugar in Mexico supposedly maybe I'll just go to Mexico.
*Toque - A wool hat that most hosers wear in Canada eh?
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i like you already.
if it's any consolation, i will ship you some pepsi throwback or mountain dew throwback or underwear.
on a serious note, i think genetically modified foods are exactly why i'm now gluten intolerant. you can find eleventy billion patents on gluten if you do the searches. someone somewhere is always trying to make it just a little stickier and my body just can't metabolize gunk. spunk, yes...but not gunk. so, now after thanksgiving dressing and a slice of pecan pie, i'm left with a food hangover that makes me sleep 18 hours straight. bad news. and it makes life pretty fucking inconvenient. i'm not even supposed to eat canned soup.
now i just sound whiny so i'll shut the hell up. good post, though.
like i said in my profile, getting divorced was the best decision ever. i still can't tolerate gluten but my life plays much like an episode of jerry springer. out of my control. so, maybe stress still plays its part
mmm...corn syrup. mexican coke tastes better. it's all in the sugar. and you can find the glass mexican bottles in a lot of convenience stores. I dont know if you've seen the adds, but theyre advertising that theyre making pepsi with sugar for a limited time. haha. why would they do that? it tastes better, just make it with sugar and raise the price. on the off chance that I'm having a soda, I'd pay for quality
"Something that it does not get me however is Pepsi throwback."
"Why do I want Pepsi throwback? Why? Well, because it's made with real sugar of course."
Good game. Insert $.25?
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