Until this moment I completely forgot about those things

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      15 days ago

      Same. The problem is all manor of oniony posts sound like a “normal” Trump Tuesday.

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      Same. But there actually are movements to get rid of sugary drink vending machines. It has been done in some places, thought he could be referring to that.

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        They removed sodas from our school vending machines and replaced them with yoohoo and other non-carbonated drinks with the same sugar. Carbonation is not the problem! Now they’ve put sodas back, but only diet ones, so I’m not sure that’s better.

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          Too early to say for sure, but artificial sweeteners might be bad for kids.

          Their bodies are still calibrating on how sweetness translates to calories.

          Diet sodas are very sweet but provide no calories.

          So their bodies might take it as a general rule either that very sweet things are safe to consume in excess, or that their expected intake always falls short of their actual intake so they should overeat across the board.

          Again, it’s too early to say for sure, but there are enough plausible concerns that I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s fine.

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    I just recall having a soda vending machine in highschool and being told students weren’t allowed to use it. This was placed in the lunch room next to where we all sat, not a teacher’s lounge.

    We had a designated smoking area if you were 18 though.

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        Was the 90s, before the nationwide ban on smoking in public places and restaurants. Which I think happen very shortly after I graduated… I recall a protest about allowing smoking on campus at college.

        Anyhow the highschool I went to wasn’t exactly with it. Basically was in the boonies and under the radar of national regulations. I kind of feel like they just let the seniors use the space to avoid conflicts with the aggressively redneck families that populated the area. Same went for all the lifted trucks waving confederate flags, no one was about to start that fight.

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    Wow, that brings back memories. Discontinued in 2003? I guess we were among the last classes to enjoy its sugary goodness at lunch.

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    Finally, he floats a policy I can get behind! Add dunkaroos and Sobe and I’m in.

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    With that emulsifier that was just banned in Mountain Dew and other fruit drinks I find it hard to believe Fruitopia will ever come back. My first temp job ever, way back in the late 90’s, was literally shaking bottles of Fruitopia to make them look homogeneous.

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      Gotta have your daily nutritional amount of bromine!