"What if we took soda, made it even less healthy, served it in styrofoam cups, and added a massive carbon footprint to the whole thing?"
Also, that picture in the article of the drive-through with like 7 identical looking cars...
"What if we took soda, made it even less healthy, served it in styrofoam cups, and added a massive carbon footprint to the whole thing?"
Also, that picture in the article of the drive-through with like 7 identical looking cars...
That seems like an insane amount but if it includes shit like energy drinks and sparkling water I can see it.
In America, I've never met someone who drinks an occasional soda. Either they drink water, or they drink soda instead of water.
I drink an occasional caffeinated soda at work. I don't prefer it, but it's better than dealing with IBS issues from coffee.
IBS issues from coffee means free breaks
Do mixers count?
I drink water and coffee every day, but I like a ginger ale now and again. Maybe twice a week.
If you don't include energy drinks I probably only drink a soda every two or three months. I do have a friend who when he stays over I have to buy a bunch of soda cause he wont drink water, always thought he was the weird one though.
My gf was the same, but thats because she grew up on water from lake erie. The tap water where we live now is much better.
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i worked with this lady in a rural community. she was like maybe in her 50s and very kind, but she drank coke like a maniac. like just all day. she said she knew she should drink more water, but didn't like the "taste". it should be noted, much of the drinking water in the region had been contaminated by industry since before she was born, and it had also worked to suppress any government messaging / response about it, so there was just a vague cultural distrust of water by older people. also bottled water was generally more expensive than a soda from the store, and this community was plagued by extreme poverty (if you couldn't guess).
i, by contrast, grew up in the burbs and drank lots of soda because it was all over school, and at the shitty jobs i worked until my mid 20s, basically the only consistent perk was unlimited soda. i quit in my late 20s when i started hanging around people who made healthier choices and started accepting how fucked up it was, nutrition and health wise.
The second I started drinking beer, it became either beer or water when I went out. At home it's beet or water too.
Add in the occasional tea and lemonade, and this is basically me.
It's just a habit that's easy to fall into, and while sodas don't contain anything that's chemically addictive, sweet drinks spike your dopamine in such a way that they can become addictive anyway.
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I hear you, not drinking water is like... have you ever sweat before? The best drink ever is cold water when you're thirsty, because your brain is hard wired to give you the good chemicals for drinking it.
But still, I brought this up in another comment but I think 37 gallons in a year isn't nearly as much as it sounds. People need about 3.7 L of water per day (a gallon is about 4L), so the back-of-the-envelope amount of soda that the average person drinks is 10% of their fluid consumption. That's a 12 oz bottle of soda (one of these guys) per day.
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I bet it's similar to that of alcohol, where a small number of addicts drink half the soda and drive the average well above the median, but I'm not aware of data on this.
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I’ve had like one soda in the past five years
fuck
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I find bourbon is a great chaser for anything but rum, rum should be chased with more rum.
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Yeah that can't be median.
Daily water consumption is a little under a gallon, so 37 gallons per year doesn't seem like that much.
I bet it's like alcohol where the top 10% of drinkers drink 50% of the drinks, too.