In the Mountain West, the ‘Dirty’ Soda Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
With locations now numbering in the hundreds, regional soda-shop chains are spreading far beyond Utah, where they first found popularity.

"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...

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.