I always think of a part in a programme that Dr. Xand van Tulleken did -- explaining how the combination of fat plus sugar is highly addictive. Basically, try to eat a pot of cream on it's own; you can't It's too much. Same goes for sugar on it's own. However combine sugar with cream and it turns into the most addictive food-stuff on the planet. This is the basis for so much junk food/processed food and people that are used to eating that **** have just forgotten what real flavour is.
This 'sugar tax' crap is doing my head in!
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Yeah, it's the same with natural foods which are high in dietary fat too - like a good sirloin steak, on paper it has lots of saturated fat and there are lots of calories in a steak, but steak is really filling and satisfying, I always feel like I've eaten really well if I have a steak, (or any real meat including chicken for that matter) and don't want to eat anything else for ages.
I was always puzzled how I was able to sit and just churn through an entire tub of Pringles (500-600 calories) or a packet of chocolate biscuits (even more) without feeling even slightly full and in many cases still feeling hungry.
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Coke Cola knows from experience that altering the classic Coke receipe is a no no, just read up on the story of 'New Coke' which is something Coke Cola came up with in response to the Pepsi challenge.
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Coke, Pepsi, original Monster (smaller 440ml can now), Red Bull are the only ones that come to mind.
Rockstar had crazy sugar amounts prior, up to 355 calories in a 500ml can...! Down below 5g/100ml now though and tastes horrible.
McColls still seem to be selling the original stuff, something like 70g of sugar in the one I bought yesterday, absolutely orgasmic, I will be stocking up tomorrow.
re-carbonate this thread ?
from the same hymn book
I suppose it is popularist to save the children but don't the adults need similar medicine too ?
(but for adults is it alcohol, rather than sugar(diabetes/obesity) that costs the economy more.)
So seems a half measure , the products advertising, glamorization and association with sport clearly attract susceptible childreN/'adults', so like cigarettes, the end game is stop this and web/tv advertising too,
with appropriate 'consequences' picture on the plain brown drink cans.
Er? 
In Germany, they sell salt with natriumferrocyanid.
But together with energy drinks, things should be banned:
Coca Cola;
Pepsi;
Coffee;
Iceteas;
Fruit juices from concentrates with artificial sweeteners and other sweet liquids with artificial sweeteners resembling juices;
Cigarettes;
McDonald's everything.
In Germany, they sell salt with natriumferrocyanid.
But together with energy drinks, things should be banned:
Coca Cola;
Pepsi;
Coffee;
Iceteas;
Fruit juices from concentrates with artificial sweeteners and other sweet liquids with artificial sweeteners resembling juices;
Cigarettes;
McDonald's everything.
Do they contain sugar, though?
But prices reduction can come from lower production expenses, for instance.
If we can legally sell carcinogens in cigarettes, why can't they sell cyanide in Energy Drinks to cull some people? Surely as long as it's on the packet and a huge warning label attached, it should be equitable right?
Hell it'd be far cheaper than cancer causing cigarettes as well, remember 50% of NHS budget is spent on the last year of someones life, can't have a last year if you keel over in a few minutes.
Solved the housing crisis guys, don't thank me.
Hell it'd be far cheaper than cancer causing cigarettes as well, remember 50% of NHS budget is spent on the last year of someones life, can't have a last year if you keel over in a few minutes.
Solved the housing crisis guys, don't thank me.
These are the full fat ones in silver and red. They do a diet/no sugar one in silver and blue too but they don't taste a nice.
They say they contain sugar.
This is a perfect example of how idiotic our society now is. We have energy drinks that are low calories.
Do even the basic facts not matter any more?
Societies children are still not drinking them though
.. someone published post-sugar-tax coke classic sales, a few pages back, which are still sustaining.
.. but coke are potentially diversifying (running scared ? only peanuts $4B ) buying Costa
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Oh I will thank you. It's about time we had a mass cull
Could be sugar, or taurine