The Fast Food Thread

Harshaw

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I have tried again and again to go diet, but I can't find anything I can stand. Funny thing is that there are a couple of the no/low sugar Monster and Rockstars that I can drink no problem. The only way I can give up soda is to stop smoking, cuz it's that taste in my mouth after smoking that water can't take away.
 

Xevy

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Coke Zero is pretty good. It's completely different than Diet Coke. Diet Coke is like... bitter acid and Coke Zero tastes much, much closer to regular Coke. I'll still drink Diet Coke, but it's night and day. Diet Dr. Pepper is probably the top tier diet drink though.

Giving up soda for water seems like a good idea, until you end up peeing 14 times a day.
 

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I drank a lot of Diet Dr. Pepper before I quit soda. It was definitely the best.
 

Fifey

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Diet dr pepper just tastes like flat dr pepper so it's not the worst.but I'd still just rather drink less and have normal soda.
 

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You get used to it. I used to hate Diet Coke but I was trying to lose weight back in my 20's and I just bought a 24 pack and drank one can of it per day. By the time the 24 pack was gone I was fine with diet and now I very much prefer it to the sugary stuff. Even being the hardcore caffeine addict that I am, if I am at someone's house and all they have is regular soda I will drink water instead, not out of willpower but just because I don't want it.

I agree that Coke Zero and diet Dr. Pepper are among the best tasting ones, but I also like diet sunkist and diet mtn dew.
 

Mures

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you have a mental block with fast food.

It is scientifically unavoidably good tasting.

I'm sure like many here, I (and wife) eat healthy 5 out 7 days of the week. On our cheat day, we'll get a fucking 5 guys burger, fries, stop by Mcdees, grab some nuggets, more fries, cuz it just tastes good.

If you really don't find fast food tasting good, you're just fucked in the head, you're "thinking" it's so bad for you, you mentally vomit it up with your repressed feelings of guilt.

atm, currently cooking up a nice 3oz/6oz slab of sous vide steak, so it's not like we're eating like rabbits and having salad all day.
No those things are just literally disgusting. Can you tell me with a straight face wendy's "new"(the ones they got a year or three ago) fries don't suck ass? I never was big on taco bell so that isn't a stretch for me and mcdonalds is well, mcdonalds. I could still eat a tailgate pack of cane's chicken fingers and feel no remorse though because that shit is delicious.

Speaking of diet drinks, I stick to one a day now, but I've been drinking diet ginger ale and I wasn't too keen on ginger ale originally, but really like the stuff now.
 

Khane

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A friend of mine from high school was a candidate for soldier of the year and had one of the top PT test scores in the entire US Army, and he used to wash down a bag full of double whoppers with a protein smoothie for lunch almost every day. He basically ate all the healthy shit AND the full McCheese diet concurrently. He did not drink soda. He drank milk by the fucking gallon even on a hot summer's day. Seriously, it was gross, we used to work at a kayak rental place and he would down an entire gallon of milk while hauling kayaks around in 90+ degree weather.
How old was he when he was doing this? Because people seem to discount the fact that if you're active when you're 18 you can eat pretty much anything and still be physically fit. Do that shit for 10 years and by the time your 30 you'll start having health problems and by the time you're 40 you'll need to make serious changes or face the consequences.
 

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We should just call all foods and drinks by their chemical names so all the pseudoscientific hipsters starve themselves out of existence. People who think aspartame is unhelathy can probably be convinced that dihydrogenated monoxide will kill them too. Also it can never be organic.
 

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How old was he when he was doing this? Because people seem to discount the fact that if you're active when you're 18 you can eat pretty much anything and still be physically fit. Do that shit for 10 years and by the time your 30 you'll start having health problems and by the time you're 40 you'll need to make serious changes or face the consequences.
The benefit is that is also really easy to get fit when you're young. Luckily I started religiously working out around when I turned 19. My idea of a good pre-workout meal was scarfing down a $5 box of General Tso's chicken complete with heaping spoonfuls of white rice. At 30 now I can sort of feel my body slowing down a bit and going hard at the gym requires a bit more recovery time than it did when I was a teenager and early 20's. But now my body is pretty much in maintenance mode which is easier than slimming down and add muscle mode. But the unfortunate part is so many young people feel good and healthy just because they're young that they don't start going to the gym until later in their life.

I'm also lucky that I never really liked carbonated beverages. Even in high school I drank more Hi-C from the fountain than soda so it made giving sugary beverages up completely when I wanted to get into shape extremely easy.
 

Sutekh

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It's definitely my favorite. Sometimes I put some ice in it, to kick it up a notch.
They have these little packets that they started selling in the stores where you can dip it in water that's been heated for a bit. Not sure if many grocery places in the US carry it but sometimes you can find a whole store dedicated to it. I might not be saying it right but I think it's called "tea". I really like that.
 

BrutulTM

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My brother is a refinery electrician and he says that everyone at his job has been using that Mio stuff in their water constantly. That has to be a coup for some marketing genius that got a bunch of union electricians to start drinking overpriced kool-aid.
 

Sutekh

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Like 95% of the people that do menial labor jobs I've seen drink that garbage. I tried it once when it came out and nearly puked because it tasted like straight artificial sweetener.
 

Crone

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Can't toss a blanket statement, because different brands, and even different flavors in those brands are all very different I feel.

Although, to be honest, I agree that all the Mio ones suck ass. However Crystal Light ones have all been pretty dang good. Kool-Aid ones were pretty terrible. Not sure how they could mess up what they are known for. After finding some fav flavs from Crystal Light I've just stuck with those.
 

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It might have been said but I think the real problem with diet soda is it tricks your body into an insulin response thinking that it has ingested glucose when in fact it has not, contributing to higher insulin resistance (DIABETES)