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by papreclip 1834 days ago
To be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda
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Huh yeah... you can see unhealthy people put away a 2 litre bottle of something like Coca-Cola without thinking twice, but that would seem like an obscene quantity of orange juice or something to almost anyone I think.
When I was a deeply unhealthy teenager (about the same time I was regularly going through a 30-pack of Coke in a week) I would frequently also drink a gallon jug of orange juice in a day. I still (decades later) have to keep an eye on myself around that stuff; all the variants of sugar-water are reserved for special occasions these days.
Yeah, a 32-oz juice isn't a fairly common "medium" size, and you don't usually get a juice (with free refills!) included in a combo meal
Turns out people will drink more of something if you make it a little addictive. Hell, the drug of choice has changed but it's even baked into the name.
Heh, come to my primary care clinic, I’ll introduce you.