At my grocery store today, Coke was on a buy 1, get 2 free, and there was plenty of product. Having a little trouble moving your product?
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When I was a child, my grandparents had 2 refrigerators: one in the kitchen, and one by the back door that had nothing but six packs of glass Coke bottles from top to bottom. When a child was able to sit up and hold a baby bottle, they could have their own coke bottle (the small ones!) at Grandma and Grandpa's house.
That was several decades ago, and I still have enamel on my teeth despite drinking Coke all my life. I still have a healthy liver. And since normal stomach pH is <2.5, Coke or any other acidic drink isn't going to hurt it. In fact, if your stomach isn't below a pH of 2.5, preferably around 2.0, then your Lower Esophageal Sphincter won't close properly and you'll have a lot of reflux problems.
Coke is great to keep the drains and pipes in my house running freely too.
There are many reasons to argue against buying Coke products at this point in time, but the reasons you gave are not among them.
Soda used to be more of a treat, now it is often consumed several times a day. Yeah, and sugar was one thing but the HFCS is very bad. Our bodies don't know how to process it and it can destroy the liver. Now, non-alcoholic liver disease is a thing.
I have always been able to make soda last a long time, but I like the little cans they have now, even though they are a little more expensive. You get just a taste, which is all I really wanted anyway and I don't waste the larger can or feel compelled to finish it. That and I switched to drinking more sparkling water. I discovered what I was really missing was not the sugar et al, but the bubbles...
I love the Soda Stream machine I bought cheap on black Friday. It turns tap water into sparkling water and I create custom flavors from little bottles.
Unless carbonated water is a bad thing, I see no significant downside to my way of staying hydrated.
Yes exactly, the bubbles... scrubbing bulbs that wash down the sticky flem and bad tastes from foods, cigars, chewing tobacco etc..
The little cans are a great idea. I wish some of the sugar-cane sodas went to those.
Long ago I read a marketing book by John Sculley (CEO of Pepsi before his short stint at Apple) It was very interesting about the Cola Wars and how (and why) they introduced corn syrup. I think it was Coke early on that found that the bigger sized they made the bottles, the more people would buy. Then came things like the Big Gulp (which kept getting bigger and bigger) and Super Size.
OK, I will concede on the phosphoric acid part, but it's still bad for you in the amount most people consume. That said, HFCS is the liver bomb I was referring to. HFCS contains higher amounts of fructose which is converted to triglycerides in the liver. If you look up the history of HFCS in cola, it was only since the early 80's that it became a problem because that's when Coke started adding it to their formula. Before this, pure sugar was the sweetener of choice and is preferable in nearly every usage scenario aside from cost-savings.
My argument latterly has been that if you're eating enough sugar for the type of sugar to matter, you're eating too much sugar.
Sugar water isnt good for people
It's bad
Majorly bad
I agree, but I'll probably get killed in down votes....LOL