I work at a grocery store and since starting there back in November I’ve seen some crazy things. Probably the craziest thing I’ve seen is these Atkin’s diet followers. Over time I’ve actually gotten to know some of my customers and most of them have been mind raped into believing the low carbohydrate diet actually works.

Whenever I see them I always ask them how they’re doing as well as, if they’re on a diet, how’s the diet going. Over the span of about three months only one person has reported any loss…a whole five pounds. That’s right ladies and gentleman. Follow the low carbohydrate craze and you too can lose five pounds in three months. People are such morons.

For you Atkin’s lovers out there the full word is "carbohydrate." There’s no such thing as a "carb."

Chestnuts roasted by Brillski @ 07/14/2004 10:25 PM

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C2 definitely tastes different, more like new coke than classic coke

Chestnuts roasted by m othman @ 07/15/2004 7:54 PM

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I’ve tried both C2 & Pepsi Edge. C2 is closer to Coke than Pepsi Edge is to Pepsi, IMO. Ironically, the C2 has quite an "edge" to it; Pepsi Edge tastes a little watered down.

Both of them cost more than their full-sugar or diet counterparts. C2 was $2.50 for an 8-pack and Pepsi Edge was $2.00 for a six-pack. I did find Pepsi Edge in a 2-liter for the same price as regular Pepsi–not sure if that price will last.

Both of them contain sucralose (the sweetener that’s "made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar," like the Splenda ad says). Splenda by itself in the stores is kinda expensive.

C2 still contains those artificial sweeteners found in diet soda. Diet soda makes my head hurt, so I avoid it.

Pepsi Edge contains sugar & sucralose. It lost some flavor, but what’s there is all natural, at least.

I’m not a low-carb nut, but I’d love to see Pepsi Edge as a permanent product. Somebody finally made a soda w/o boatloads of sugar in it. C2 can hang, frankly, unless they get rid of the aspartame.

The government subsidizes farmers that grow sugar & oil crops (corn, soybeans, sugar cane, etc.), so food and beverage makers can pump tons of tasty sugar & fat into their products w/o much extra cost. That’s partly why McDonald’s supersized drink cup, up until they recently scaled back, held six gallons of soda and doubled as a homeless shelter. Jesus, when the drink is bigger than the rest of the meal, there’s a problem.

A few questions:

Was there a lot of soda available where anyone else went to school? I grew up in the 80s, and in school, soda was a privilege. There was one soda machine in the cafeteria, and you could only go get a soda during study hall by signing up. According to today’s news, more lunchrooms are starting to look like Taco Bell. Morley Safer did a piece about it on "60 Minutes a few years ago. My god, those kids were fat, and they were downing Pepsi like nobody’s business. They were like miniature Hutts, never happy but always looking for another bite of something. Morley had the gall to ask one of them to try eating a salad instead. They battered him & threw him in the fry machine.

Lotsa people probably remember "Pepsi Free," from BTTF 1, but does anyone remember the "Pepsi Free" commercial where everybody was singing to the tune of "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge? I actually heard the song in that commercial before I ever heard the actual song. Of course, I also can’t listen to the "Voodoo Chile" riff w/o saying "My Seven Bizzos" at the end.

Anyone like Lemon Coke? I think it tastes like Pledge.

What was the difference between Pepsi One and Diet Pepsi? Was it a calorie? If so, what was the point?

Anyone remember Pepsi Light (or Lite perhaps)? I remember a commercial with a bunch of athletic guys in towels in a locker room, all dancing in a line, singing:

"We loooove Pepsi Light/
Refreshing Pepsi Light/
That little drop of lemon
Makes it taste so right"

or something like that.

Any coincidence that the McRib is always paired up with a Dr Pepper in the value meal promos? I’ve never had a McRib, but if they go good with Dr Pepper, they HAVE to suck. I have a theory that McRibs are actually buried under the world’s glaciers, and as soon as a few million have been unearthed, McDonald’s starts running those commercials.

Anyway, long live Pepsi Edge.

Chestnuts roasted by Pat @ 07/19/2004 12:38 PM

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Pah to Coke C2. I am in Peru at the moment and Inca Kola is truly the greatest coke in the history of humanity. (I can not make any judgements on the quality of soft drinks in pre-history, I apologise)

Chestnuts roasted by Todd Bixelby @ 07/19/2004 7:06 PM

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