Food. Love it. I love to eat. Eating is good. I also don't like being a fat disgusting fool. So, even though I do love to eat, I also exercise to burn off all that food I ate. But. There is a problem. Ya see, with everyone becoming fat bastards now days, companies are making "low fat" versions of things, and making the "normal" versions less frequent on super-market shelves. Here is a list of the few things I hate in their low-fat varieties:
Whadda you think?
>I also exercise to burn off all that food I ate.
>Whadda you think?
You get it a lot better than most of the society you live in.
I have a bit too much weight myself but I'm not touching Aspartame, for instance.
I was raised on a lot of diet foods. Consequently I find regular colas too sweet (root beer and other kinds of soda are okay though) and whole or 2% milk to taste vaguely of rancid butter.
I'm still overweight, though, so it's no panacea.
I absolutely hate the diet version of the new drink Tropicana Twister. I loathe drinking it, but since it's a drink I have readily available I do. Something about the Diet version leaves a sickening aftertaste in your mouth - going down it's a great drink, but afterwards it's a killer.
Agreed. I was raised on diet sodas, and I can't touch the regular stuff. But the worst thing is that all the health Nazis are whining that diet drinks are bad for you, too. Orange juice is bad, too. Causes cancer and has TOO MUCH CARBS! Honestly, people, make up your freakin' mind. I won a few sessions with a personal trainer who had the nerve to tell me that the food supply in the US was "abysmal." His words exactly.
Just enjoy your fizzy goodness. There are far worse things in this world that many consume than aspartame.
What the FUCK?! We can buy food at a supermarket, eat it, and not die. We don't starve. Organic is well and good if you can shell out extra for it, but on $60 a week for food, I eat pretty fucking good. I have garlic bread with fresh garlic BUTTER. As in I melt a stick of butter and chop in a full bulb of garlic. It tastes fucking GOOD on high-carb Italian bread.
I don't like the taste of whole milk... it tastes like drinking solid fat.
Honestly, if you work out and eat the Bad Things in moderation, you'll be fine. It's OK to have a few Oreos, just not an entire package.
I always found the diet aftertaste to be clean and refreshing. It's the regular aftertaste that's sickening and sticky in your mouth.
>Just enjoy your fizzy goodness. There are far worse things in this world that many consume than aspartame.
That logic is broken, but let's not argue about that since I seem to agree with you anyway. I should probably mention that I don't like artificial sweeteners at all - heck, I think even glucose syrup is kind of bad. Sugar and honey are really good, the other stuff is either weird or weirder. I've only become a tiny bit less "childish" in my sugar tastes when my soft drink habits switched towards Schweppes and quinine some time ago.
The thing that bugs me about aspartame is the idea that one can eat yummy stuff without taking any "responsibility". No diet is good without excercise, and few diets are dangerous with it. Some stuff is still bad, but at least one should get full value by enjoying it A LOT on those few occasions.
I agree, but I think that drinking soda with aspartame is slightly less swift to cause Serious Health Problems than drinking regular soda. If you drink a can a day, think of the calories that aren't converted to fat over time. It adds up, but it's not going to hasten or slow down one's demise from obesity. "Oh, I can drink diet soda and eat a Big Mac every day; it's OK because the soda is tehs diet." That I don't like. I hear you. I'm also all about enjoying the bad stuff in moderation (e.g. REAL butter on garlic bread, but having lentils as a carb most of the time; avoiding red meat but having a thick, juicy rare steak on limited occasion, etc.) but I reiterate that regular soda just tastes sticky and unpalatable to me. :-/
I can't stand sugar and honey, though. I drink a lot of tea, and whenever I have black tea, I want to sweeten it. However, sugar and honey simply don't mix in, no matter how fast, slow, high, or low I stir it in. It ends up being a big glump of sweet at the bottom and completely unsweetened at the top, and with black tea, it really needs a little bit of sweet to bring out the flavor of the tea itself.
This might be a DQN, but what is quinine? I'm too lazy to look it up.
>I can't stand sugar and honey, though.
Well that's cool, looks like we have pretty much the same opinions on this but quite different tastes.
>This might be a DQN, but what is quinine? I'm too lazy to look it up.
I don't know about DQN, but I'm happy to get an opportunity to ra...explain this!
Standard wikilink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine
"Quinine, C20H24N2O2, is a natural white crystalline alkaloid having antipyretic, anti-malarial and analgesic properties and a bitter taste. It is a stereoisomer of quinidine.". It is the classic anti-malaria drug, traditionally extracted from tree bark, and still used against resitent malaria.
Supposedly gin and tonic comes from Brits mixing gin into their anti-malaria drugs to make them taste better: tonic water very much gets its taste from quinine. Other than tonic water, it also gives taste to at least Schweppes Bitter Lemon (/similar drinks). The drug solution is/was much stronger than the soft drinks, and must really be quite horrible-tasting.
Finally, as a bonus quinine seems to be fluorescent: transparent tonic water should therefore glow under a black light. I am yet to try this though. I just love quinine to death.
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So I can throw a party and make blacklight-awesome drinks? Dude, that makes me yearn for the cocktail waiter trays from the Batman movies where whats-his-name was directing, the ones with black lights on 'em, and serve drinks on those...
So basically, you just mix some quinine into ginger ale? Do you have straight quinine, or do you mix in tonic water? I should give this a try...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_water <- The picture shown here is about the sum of my quinine-glowing knowledge.
age because the thread got bothered by those two ^ talking about Tonic water :'/
Sorry. :-(
One thing I can't stand is the premise of low-carb alcohol. Look, if you're drinking enough booze to matter how many carbs it contains and how it'll impact your diet, you've got bigger problems as is. Booze is fine, but "ZOMG TEN BEERS HAVE TOO MANY CARBS, MAKE ME LOW CARB BEER" is basically illustrating the need for class struggle right there. :-/
Diet food tastes bads and doesn't fill me up. The only edible diet foods are fruits and vegetables.
Pepsi MAX is the work of the devil.