I'm Hungry!

[shateredsoul]

http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BA7TnabiZhm4S5Jv7jbkxA?select=ouGxH-YQbqeak2Sxgozc2A

[HaRuMaN]

My heart stopped just looking at that...

[shateredsoul]

Carne Asada Nachos... sooo bad for you, yet so good



http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/HXxkpdT0C1yBtWTNm320mA?select=busSu16kLjNfD0ysdL7j1g

also home of burritozilla

[Hoopz]

My heart stopped just looking at that...

Is that a Diet Pepsi can in the pic?  If so, it can't be bad to eat all that since they're drinking a diet soda!

[SNAAKE]

  at the diet pepsi

[jamesjones626]

at the diet pepsi

i don't eat fast food to often, but i love how the cashier looks at me like I am a real brown eye for ordering a diet pepsi with my meal.  I just don't like how i can taste all the sugar in pepsi or coke, so i prefer diet.  I don't order diet soda because I'm watching my weight, i just prefer to drink it.  Plus sometimes all the sugar in a large soda can make sick.

[RayB]

Plus sometimes all the sugar in a large soda can make sick.

So can Aspartame.

[shateredsoul]

at the diet pepsi

i don't eat fast food to often, but i love how the cashier looks at me like I am a real brown eye for ordering a diet pepsi with my meal.  I just don't like how i can taste all the sugar in pepsi or coke, so i prefer diet.  I don't order diet soda because I'm watching my weight, i just prefer to drink it.  Plus sometimes all the sugar in a large soda can make sick.

If you live in the USA it's not sugar.. it's corn syrup =/. I blame corn syrup for all the fat kids! not video games

I'm going to try that Hamburger in August.. when I'm back in Los Angeles for a week.  I'm planning on splitting it with some friends.. we'll see.

[Silas (son of Silas)]

If you live in the USA it's not sugar.. it's corn syrup

Pepsi Throwback uses real sugar I believe.

[SavannahLion]

If you live in the USA it's not sugar.. it's corn syrup

Pepsi Throwback uses real sugar I believe.

So does Mountain Dew Throwback and Heritage Dr Pepper and yet they're impossible to find anymore. 

[HaRuMaN]

I've hoarded some of the pepsi and mountain dew throwback.  Occasionally, I'll pick up some Coke that's made in Mexico, still made with sugar.

[HaRuMaN]

Give it a few months.  All this 'throwback' nonsense will be permanent.

I certainly hope so.  I don't drink a lot of soda, but when I do, I prefer the sugar-based ones.

[Mauzy]

If you live in the USA it's not sugar.. it's corn syrup

Pepsi Throwback uses real sugar I believe.

So does Mountain Dew Throwback and Heritage Dr Pepper and yet they're impossible to find anymore. 

I could never even FIND Heritage Dr. Pepper around here. Everyone who carried throwback (I've got a couple in storage...) never got it, though my local IGA (the only place that still has Throwback too) just started selling Mexican Coke and Mexican Fanta.

[jamesjones626]

you can find mexican pepsi and mexican coke everywere over here, i live in california.  Like the rest of the west coast california is just an extension of mexico.  Jones soda i belive uses cane sugar.

[shateredsoul]

At the costco here they sell cases of Mexican coke =)

It's funny how things have change in terms of what is considered green and the recycliing.  When i was a kid (80s to 90s) my family and I would go to Mexico every year. The soda system worked differently than in the USA (not sure about today, but back then at least). Over there all the sodas use to be in glass bottles. You always... always had to return your glass bottle to the vendor after finishing the soda kids sometimes took their soda in these clear plastic bags they used to have (they'd throw a straw in it and tie a knot). If you broke the bottle you had to pay for it or replace it.  They kept these bottles so that they could exchange them for new drinks when when the coke truck came by every week. It used to cost more to buy one if you didn't have a coke bottle to exchange. The soda company would then wash the bottles and reuse them, I'm not sure how they cleaned them but no one ever became sick from these.

Then in the late 90s they introduce the plastic and canned beverages.  Those are becoming more and more popular.  So let's be green and recycle those plastic and canned beverages. Just like in the USA a few years back, no one really recycles and there's really no means to do this, but the thing that bugs me is that the system that was in place before (exchanging and reusing glass bottles) was probably much more "green" than recycling is if you consider the effort it takes to create and recycle those materials. 

Anyways.. here in Cali we have pro corn syrup commercials

"You're going to give your kid that to drink? but it has corn syrup?

Oh and what's so bad about corn syrup?

Uhhhh  uhhh"

Has anyone seen these commercials? .. their angle is a little funny.  You think it's bad, but why is it bad, You don't know? Oh.. I guess you're stupid! STFU and drink corny syrup! Then they site the one study they had commissioned to show that corn syrup had no side effects when consume in moderation.

a simple google scholar search  gives you about 3 actual research articles (not second hand info that can sometimes be misconstrued) on the first page that questions the safety of of this sweetener.http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=corn+syrup

[Benevolance]

That would be very savvy marketing.

[RayB]

The soda system worked differently than in the USA (not sure about today, but back then at least). Over there all the sodas use to be in glass bottles. You always... always had to return your glass bottle to the vendor after finishing the soda ---8<---

We had something like that where I lived in Quebec in the 1970s but it was generic soda, not Coke. My grandparents used this service, and I remember hating the sodas, as they tasted like crap. The same service also delivered potato chips in big tin containers which you'd also return. Kinda weird thinking about this now. A "Junk food to your door" service.

[shateredsoul]

The soda system worked differently than in the USA (not sure about today, but back then at least). Over there all the sodas use to be in glass bottles. You always... always had to return your glass bottle to the vendor after finishing the soda ---8<---

We had something like that where I lived in Quebec in the 1970s but it was generic soda, not Coke. My grandparents used this service, and I remember hating the sodas, as they tasted like crap. The same service also delivered potato chips in big tin containers which you'd also return. Kinda weird thinking about this now. A "Junk food to your door" service.

we never had chips in a can, we had the same kind of chips that they have here in the USA. well the packaging was the same, just different flavors.. I swear as a kid I hated the flavors. Everything had something spicy in it, everything. I like spicy food now, so I'm ok now (and now they have non spicy options). 

The sodas were clean and always tasted good, and if those cokes are REALLY from Mexico, then they might be produced form reused bottles. Seriously, it was always very clean.

[shateredsoul]

Did your milk come in bags?

The milk came from cows  , you just had to boil it (here in the us we Pasteurize it instead).  have any of you guys ever tasted non-pasteurized milk? I hate real milk.. it tastes really sweet.  The bags were only so the kids could A) not break the bottles B) leave and not have to come back to return the bottle and C) we thought it was cool for some reason.  I've never had milk in a bag.

[RayB]

Yes, we had milk available in bags, but my parents also bought powdered (*ick!*).

[Silas (son of Silas)]

Pepsi throwback is available in the UK from Americansoda.co.uk. I have a can in front of me on the table. (and 24 cans of MUG in the fridge also from them  )

[Fordman]

Did your milk come in bags?

Actually, there is a milk company in Detroit that is test marketing milk in bags, kinda like a Capri-Sun juice pouch!

Fordman

[helenk579]

at the diet pepsi

i don't eat fast food to often, but i love how the cashier looks at me like I am a real brown eye for ordering a diet pepsi with my meal.  I just don't like how i can taste all the sugar in pepsi or coke, so i prefer diet.  I don't order diet soda because I'm watching my weight, i just prefer to drink it.  Plus sometimes all the sugar in a large soda can make sick.

me too

[Benevolance]

I prefer my milk to expire.

[shateredsoul]

I prefer my milk to expire.

I've heard that in the UK food goes bad (including milk) really quick.  This is what should happen when food is fresh.  Here in the USA our milk can last us a while before going bad.  Same things with fruits and veggies.  I think grease is the least we have to worry about  .

[patrickl]

The French love this sterilized milk too. It tastes horrible. It's one of the things I hate about going on vacation there (right after the French themselves). Besides, the sterilization kills the good things in the milk too so you might as wel drink water.

[shateredsoul]

It's funny how we think the taste of pasteurized milk is normal, in Los Angeles, California restaurants can be fined for selling non-pasteurized cheese.  For health reasons.. 

My parents ate non pasteurized cheese, milk, yogurts all their life. I drank pasteurized milk product most of my life and I'm lactose intolerant now and so is my wife, sister in law, a bunch of friends (and many ppl from my generation).

[Silas (son of Silas)]

They don't really refrigerate food in the UK, nor does it travel long distances. 

That's right Jim.

We also use salt as our currency, we believe the world is flat, we marry members of our immediate family as a matter of course.

We're hoping to introduce refrigeration, refrigerated trucks and pasteurization soon to the UK, but we need to abolish slavery and give women the right to vote first.

Anyway... Must dash, I'm off to have tiffin tea with the queen (and other commonly held mis-conceptions about our backward island) 

[patrickl]

It's funny how we think the taste of pasteurized milk is normal, in Los Angeles, California restaurants can be fined for selling non-pasteurized cheese.  For health reasons.. 

Well there could be a lot of bacteria in raw milk. Are supermarkets allowed to sell raw milk (products)? In the Netherlands they can only sell pasteurized milk and in the discount stores you can buy the un refrigerated sterilized junk. Raw milk (products) can only be bought from a farm. To avoid confusion I guess (so pregnant women don't accidentily buy raw milk).

My parents ate non pasteurized cheese, milk, yogurts all their life. I drank pasteurized milk product most of my life and I'm lactose intolerant now and so is my wife, sister in law, a bunch of friends (and many ppl from my generation).

Yeah, it's nice that they don't want to subject us to bacteria for health reasons but in the end it just makes us weaker, causes allergies and generally makes us less resistant to actually harmful bacteria.

[shateredsoul]

maybe you'll discover ice cubes for your beverages too

[Silas (son of Silas)]

maybe you'll discover ice cubes for your beverages too

OK You got me.. We as a nation do have a 'thing' for 'cold' drinks at room temperature, or only slightly below.

But hey, first things first, to get to the point where we can put ice cubes in drinks we'd have to learn how to refrigerate things first  

I heard British scientists are busy trying to copy both the new ice box and Granpa's air cooling system as can be seen in Disneys Carousel of Progress. Nifty idea that; reckon it'll catch on.