[OT] My uncle cleaned the house with Pepsi Blue

[PowerWordDumb]

Depends. Water doesn't taste as good as diet sodas, some could argue. Calories are about the same both in water and diet sodas.

So it's really a matter of opinion which is the best drink for diet.

I'm not gonna go all tree-hugger/granola-eater on you, but the chemicals they put into a diet pop to make it sort of taste like the real thing are not the least bit good for you. If you reduce it to strictly a calories/sugar discussion then maybe diet pop can look like a reasonable water alternative, but as soon as you look at the big picture you'd have to be a fool to choose diet pop and think of it as a healthy choice. Add to that the tendency of diet pops to make the body retain water rather than flushing through like water would, and it's actually counter-productive to drink the stuff.

You can prefer it all you want on a taste basis, but it's not even remotely a matter of opinion which is best for you. It's actually healthier to drink the real thing than the diet garbage, though water is better still.

18 million lab mice with brain cancer courtesy of aspartame can't all be wrong, and we've all heard the horror stories about the food colouring they use.

 

[Zogg]

It's actually healthier to drink the real thing than the diet garbage, though water is better still.

Because brevity is next to godliness.

 

[Aeolius]

...and we've all heard the horror stories about the food colouring they use.

Food For Thought

Tell me quick, oh do you know?
Where do all the colors go?
Foods of red and blue and green.
Mix together in my spleen.

No matter which I choose to eat,
Asparagus or purple beets.
Disappear within my bowels.
Evidence so strong and foul.

And yet this one thing I have found,
All those colors come out brown,
Aside from bits of corn, of course.
A most distasteful dire discourse.

Although I cannot prove my thoughts,
I shall share this one I've got.
Hidden 'tween the bowel and back,
Is a multi-chambered sack.

In goes red forever more,
All the colors are so stored.
Green and blue are tucked away.
Over by the black and gray.

And when a soul does pass away,
The coroner does have his day.
He takes the multi-chambered sack,
Packs it up and ships it back.

Back to where the meals are made,
Separated first by shade.
In goes green and in goes yellow,
Courtesy of our dead fellow.

Any excess adds a touch,
Crayons, Play-Doh, clay and such.
For with children it is true,
After all they eat those too.

Least we overlook a shade,
I shall guess where brown is made.
In the water treatment plants.
They gather that which soils our pants.

Extract the brown, no fault or harm,
Sell the corn back to the farm.
Ship it off, we dare not mock it,
Otherwise we'd lose our chocolate.

And so when you can oft' be seen,
Eating candies red and green.
Remember, should you die tomorrow,
All those hues had just been borrowed.

(written in haste several years ago)

 

[Zogg]

Amazing Aeolius.

Absolutely breathtaking.

ENCORE!

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Standing ovation for Aeolius! That was truly impressive.

 

[Kilmore]

Uh, wow. That should be set to music.

Anyways, I'm also wondering about the performance of Pepsi Blue as opposed to Windex. I'm assuming that Windex would win out in it's primary duty of cleaning glass, but the Pepsi product would be hard to beat in removing tarnish from metal.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

but the Pepsi product would be hard to beat in removing tarnish from metal.

In my experience, its primary strength is in removing lunch from stomach in a projectile manner.

 

[Pielorinho]

I think we're missing a point here. If the substance in question was alcohol or drugs, we'd all be telling you you've got a problem and you need to get help.

Good point. Next time, use blue curacao!

Baraendur,

I now feel this urge to replace my wife's Windex bottle with Pepsi Blue. Not for the reason you did, but more to just annoy her.

Lemme get this straight. Your wife has the Windex bottle because she does all the cleaning, right? You've got that sweet a deal, and you're going to make her end of it even suckier?

Dude, if I were your wife, it would suddenly be YOUR bottle of Windex.

Then again, if I were your wife, our marriage wouldn't be recognized in the United States.

Daniel

 

[Conaill]

18 million lab mice with brain cancer courtesy of aspartame can't all be wrong, and we've all heard the horror stories about the food colouring they use.

Not to mention that diet soda will still dissolve a copper penny in under 24 hours.

Pouring phosphoric acid on your teeth is not really a very smart idea...

 

[Ezrael]

At least our Coke tastes better than yours. Bottled coke tastes like crap in the States for some reason. Canned is okay, but in bottles it tastes off somehow. I noticed this every time I travelled for a conference, and thought it was just me being strange so I smuggled in some Canadian bottled coke and did a head-to-head taste test and proved it. At least in the New York, Pennysylvania and Florida areas your bottled coke is ass-tastic. I didn't try any in San Fran, so I can't say anything about your west coast distribution. Maybe they use a different plastic that tinges the flavor somehow?

Other way around for me. I thought Canadian Coke tasted like reconstituted human ass.

Mexican Coke, on the other hand, I dearly dig. In the glass bottle, nothing touches it.