Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 19, 2023

“Liquid Death” perhaps?

More likely to be high fructose corn syrup.

Where do the countries get off interfering with business? Their governments need to back off and let their businesses decide how much addictive ingredients their products contain. And let them get their own ineffectual food and drug administration to “regulate” these businesses. And then if there is any consumer push back after thousands become obese, their pharmaceutical companies can make millions selling diet pills. Then they can use some of their profits for lobbyists to influence their governments to lesson any “activists, nuisance”regulations./s

Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes were originally called Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes. They removed “Sugar” from the name but not from the cereal.

I rarely got Pop as a child, just Kool-Aid, or off-brand Kool-aid

Good one! But, as long as it’s real sugar…

PS Note the truly non-polluting (even noise pollution) lawn mower. Just used one myself the other day.

But Mountain Dew has at least some real mountain dew in it, doesn’t it?

At boy scout camp the orange and purple concoctions were called tigerpis and pantherpis respectively (not respectfully). Accent on second syllable.

They’re not just dyed! They’re also carbonated, flavored, and probably caffeinated. :-D

The soft drink I remember best from the 40’-60’s was Coke. Especially liked the bottles from the refrigerated water tubs. Ice formed in the neck of the bottle when I popped the top. Really what I needed on a sweltering summer day. Then they brought out modern drink machines. Worse yet, they changed the formulas. I said goodbye to Coke and eventually most other soft drinks.

My doc calls soda, ‘empty calories’, as it contributes nothing that is healthy for most of us. But I can’t deny, in those early days, ‘health’ was not the first thing I thought of when it came to a cold Coke on a hot day.

I remember that. Weren’t the bottles 10 or 12 ounces? Now the kids suck down 64oz. big gulps! They also changed the formula when they went to plastic bottles.

“Dyed sugar drinks” I love it!!

That’s, “Carbonated dyed sugar,” if you please!

It’s usually corn syrup, Frazz, and I’m surprised at you for not knowing that. Since never consuming it is something you can act superior about.

Lemon-lime soda DOES taste like lemons and limes plus sweetener. At LEAST as much as lemonade tastes like lemons. And if I wanted to be preached at about my drinks of choice, I’d probably be reading some vegan knob’s blog, not a comic strip.

A very long time ago when Budweiser still advertised “Beechwood Aged” I got a tour of the Bud brewery in LA. Their aging tank consisted of a 20ft diameter by 40 ft long tank with a 12 in diameter pipe coming in on one end and a 12 in dia pipe leaving at the other end. There was a collection of Beechwood sticks in the bottom of the tank. The aging process was however long it took the “Beer” to flow from one end of the tank to the other. Gotta love truth in advertising.

Come to think of it, what exactly is a ‘natural’ flavor anyway?

“FLAVORED dyed sugar” let’s not forget.Not to mention that’s no less than THREE opportunities to insert the word “artificially”

Now that we have an obesity/diabetes epidemic in out country, let’s reverse engineer it to try an understand it. Let’s start with: since so many different folks from so many differing environments are obese, what do they all have in common? Most probably it’s the food. More specifically, the additives in the food that are engineered so you want more (quantity) and have the long term obese effects. And with a dominant low activity culture and an ineffectual diet industry, obesity as an outcome seems like a no brained. Just like when it was made public the connection between the additives in tobacco and lung cancer. The solution for me was to take control of what I put into my body.