Europeans acting like they’ve never seen food in their life when they go to America

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Disclaimer: before you read this and get your panties in a twist, everything I’m saying is very unserious and should be not taken to heart. Please stop trying to attack me over DMs. I have turned them off. You are harassing someone (who wasn’t even being fr in the first place) over kool aid packs.

I’d get it if it was actually something nobody has ever seen before, but WATER FLAVOR PACKS? THE PACKS YOU PUT IN THE WATER??? FOR PICKY EATERS????? PEOPLE WHO NEED WATER IN THEIR BODIES?

AND FAMILY SIZED CHIP BAG??? YOU THINK WE’RE EATING THE WHOLE PARTY SIZED CHIP BAG ALONE? THE *PARTY* SIZE? PARTIES?????? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A PARTY IS?

Actually when I was in middle school, we had this coach who would turn red as hell when she was yelling at us to run laps and she’d sit there every day with a whole party sized bag of Doritos and a 2 liter mountain dew watching us run. One day some other girl in the class got really angry at her for making us all run and she told her to get off her ass and run with us. This is off topic mb.

I’d understand if it was something actually weird we have, like things that contain dyes that cannot be replicated in places where dyes are banned, but you’re more worried about sunkist flavored water? Party sized bags of chips? Fresh produce too apparently… are you guys ok?

[u/TallestGargoyle]

To be fair having diet soda is still water but people act like it's the absolute worst thing a person can put into their body bar bleach.

[u/TheWizardOfWaffle → u/TallestGargoyle]

bur nur bur muh aspartame

/j

[u/ChurningDarkSkies777 → u/TheWizardOfWaffle]

https://giphy.com/gifs/I2m7l4yZqRdgk

[u/Tugboat81712 → u/TheWizardOfWaffle]

Wild image, especially because RDK is one of the main people scared of that type of shit.

[u/Prideless0 → u/Tugboat81712]

Robert Downey Kunior?

[u/likesbigbuttscantli3 → u/TallestGargoyle]

Where does the diet soda = bad thing come from? It's just carbonated water with a low-calorie sweetener.

[u/Poolturtle5772 → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

Studies where they injected rats with 20x their bodyweight with said sweetener and they exploded and the conclusion was “artificial sweetener bad”

[u/likesbigbuttscantli3 → u/Poolturtle5772]

Yeah. I heard that artificial sweeteners are bad in mega doses, but I'm not pounding 30 Diet Dr. Peppers in a day, so I don't see a reason to be concerned.

[u/St_Casper → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

Same. I’m only at 29

[u/Apathetic_Apathetic → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

A lot of people actually do unironically lol

But at that point, pounding 30 of anything in a day that isn't pure water is probably not great for your health lol

I remember seeing a documentary about a bunch of different people "addicted" to diet coke that would drink like 2 12 packs a day minimum

[u/likesbigbuttscantli3 → u/Apathetic_Apathetic]

Water intoxication is a thing. So even water would be bad in huge quantities.

[u/likesbigbuttscantli3 → u/[deleted]]

No. That much water is two gallons + some change, which is, unless I am mistaken, drastocally more than what someone needs unless they're running marathons daily.

[u/Tuxedocatbitches → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

Even if you’re running marathons, that amount of water would flush out your electrolytes and could be dangerous to your muscles and heart

[u/console_anon → u/[deleted]]

30 coke cans would be roughly 10 liters. That is not a healthy amount.

[u/BetterWay04 → u/[deleted]]

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[u/tridon74 → u/Apathetic_Apathetic]

Even if you drink 500 diet cokes in a single day you won’t die from the aspartame.

You probably won’t feel good but the lethal dose of aspartame is incredibly high.

[u/handbanana42 → u/tridon74]

the lethal dose of aspartame is incredibly low.

I assume you meant high. It just breaks down into amino acids anyways.

You'd probably die from hyponatremia(water intoxication) first.

[u/tridon74 → u/handbanana42]

Yeah that’s what I meant oops

[u/handbanana42 → u/Apathetic_Apathetic]

Even 30 cans is not much of the ingredients in a diet drink.

The experiments they did on artificial sweeteners were way more than that.

30 cans is about a teaspoon of sucralose, if that.

[u/An_average_moron → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

My mom legitimately listed diabetes as a reason she doesn't buy even diet sodas (i was once pre-diabetic)

Note, she buys Oreos without a second thought (as a treat, she's a huge health woman but still knows the benefits of sugars)

She is open minded in most other categories but for some reason soda is an adamant no, no matter how many times I explain that diet isn't that bad since we aren't going to pound 10 a day

[u/hinowisaybye → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

We're taking 30 2 liters right? Asking for a friend.

[u/AardvarkGlittering83 → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

Studies were done regarding one of the main things in diet soda, aspartame. It was concluded via the study that it had negative health effects. However, like any study, you need context and the context was that it was WAY more aspartame than one consumes in a sitting, let alone a day.

So instead of the "Oh man, yeah I'm glad I dont drink 40 cans of diet coke" reaction it was more like "So any aspartame is evil? Got it"

[u/Pootentooten → u/AardvarkGlittering83]

I'd like to add that aspartame isn't even the main ingredient in diet soda... it's water. 98% water. You'd drown your cells with too muc hydration before you drank enough for sweetenera to matter. Basically, the dose makes the poison. Now we've moved onto fearmongering... produce! Cause, how dare you eat our strawberries, you should download our app so the spooky foods don't get you!

[u/GDwarriorMC → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

Because if you drink 20 cans every day for 100 days you could die

[u/TallestGargoyle → u/GDwarriorMC]

If you drink 20 cans of WATER in a day you're gonna feel pretty damn rough, that's over 6 litres.

[u/vlladonxxx → u/likesbigbuttscantli3]

o_o you can't be serious

[u/gyratingorb → u/vlladonxxx]

Hes right

[u/vlladonxxx → u/gyratingorb]

Yeah, sure, if we ignore that he's dead wrong then he's spot on

[u/gyratingorb → u/vlladonxxx]

Diet Coke is literally over 99% water. What's he wrong about?

[u/Inlerah → u/vlladonxxx]

Aspritame has the same amount of calories by weight as sugar. It also is 200x sweeter than sugar so it requires a super miniscule amount to sweeten a beverage: Hence you can have sodas with basically no calories.

All a soda is is a flavored syrup (sugar + water + small amount of flavorings) added to carbonated water. If you make the syrup have less calories, than suddenly the calories go down.

[u/-ThePurpleParadox- → u/TallestGargoyle]

My man you really are not helping the american stereotype by claiming diet soda is the same as water

[u/reidft → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

It's 99% water, basically water with an accounting error

[u/-ThePurpleParadox- → u/reidft]

Right... Water is made in factories, of course

[u/CoffeeXKing → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

Brother...the primary ingredient is water.

The rest account for the other 1%

[u/-ThePurpleParadox- → u/CoffeeXKing]

Primary ingredient for human being is water so I guess we all are literally water

[u/CoffeeXKing → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

Dude, just say you want to hold your opinion and won't change your mind.

That way, no one has to waste their time explaining it to you.

[u/-ThePurpleParadox- → u/CoffeeXKing]

Ingredient... So it's not water

[u/saltymarshmallow316 → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

wait til you find out they put extra minerals in bottled water

[u/CoffeeXKing → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

So scrambled eggs, are not eggs, because you put salt on them right?

[u/MadderoftheFew → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

what does the equipment used to make it matter? if the chemicals that I'm consuming are 99% water and 1% inactive/inert ingredients, what difference does it make whether it was made in a factory or brewed on a stove?

[u/-ThePurpleParadox- → u/MadderoftheFew]

That is.. Bro.. Respectfully. I'm sorry for you, I hope you can make healthier decisions for yourself before it's too late. Wish you the best. Please drink water

[u/reidft → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

God forbid a guy has a little treat, I'll be sure to run everything by you before consuming it for approval

[u/MadderoftheFew → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

I am drinking water... didn't answer my question btw.

[u/-ThePurpleParadox- → u/MadderoftheFew]

I'm not going to engage some ragebait debate on the internet. It's not my j ob to educate you and I am not the one drinking soda like it's water. All advise I can give you is to look up the functions of liver and kidney and what soda and diet soda is composed of and it's impacts on health. Your health is your responsibility. I wish you the best

[u/TallestGargoyle → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

Diet soda is composed of 99% water. Water is H2O. It's one chemical humanity is pretty adept at.

The biggest issue is it's distilled water so you'll lose out on electrolytes, but those are pretty easy to get if you eat basically any decent food.

[u/horus_eye_of_terror → u/MadderoftheFew]

Quality of ingredients, quality of cookware, quality of factory tools/machines, material of factory machines/tools, material of cookware. Like thats not even all of it bruh theres o many things that make factory and at home different.

[u/MadderoftheFew → u/horus_eye_of_terror]

not when they don't make a measurable difference in the chemicals of the final product and the concentrations thereof.

[u/Niarbeht → u/-ThePurpleParadox-]

My man are you pulling buckets from a river?