[Closed] Oh the irony

cant stand full fat milk myself, it tastes almost greasy/fatty, but I do like a sugar in my coffee, not 4 tho!

Really, what was the point in getting the skinny version?

Some people don't like full fat milk?

It's the same as the diet coke brigade. " I'll have a large bag of chips, 2 battered sausage, curry sauce, can I have lots of mayonnaise on my chips please..... Oh and a diet coke please".

As above, difference between full fat milk and having sweet coffee.

Maybe she prefers to build fat herself from the excess sugar rather than putting it in directly from milk.
Maybe she does whatever the funk she likes.
Maybe your feet smell.

"I'll have a large bag of chips, 2 battered sausage, curry sauce, can I have lots of mayonnaise on my chips please..... Oh and a diet coke please".

I see what you mean....Mayonnaise on chips??? FFS

As for diet coke, I prefer the taste of it. I use semi-skimmed milk for the same reason.

As for diet coke, I prefer the taste of it.

Me too. Except as a mixer, Kalimotxo is much better with proper coke.

It's the same as the diet coke brigade. " I'll have a large bag of chips, 2 battered sausage, curry sauce, can I have lots of mayonnaise on my chips please..... Oh and a diet coke please".

Or the type 1 diabetic 'brigade'

This hasn't really gone as you'd expected, had it, Cheesy? 😀

Mayo on chips is fine as long as you are in Belgium 😉

Mayo and Curry Sauce 😯 are you mad?

Well it's better than having the full fat milk AND the 4 sugars I guess..

Surely she just wanted a low fat drink?

Its a well known fact that diet coke dissolves the calories of any food you're having at the time.

Mrs Binners said the other day there was a bloke parked outside their office, with his window down, listening to a Paul McKenna slimming hypnotism thing..... while chomping away on a couple of pasties from Greggs 😆

Well done you ... if that's all you've got to be worried about.

or

Stop being a nosy get

Urgh Kalimotxo - how to ruin two drinks at once.

Diet coke may taste better but its a lot less healthy for you than full fat coke. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

Or the type 1 diabetic 'brigade'

It's type 2 which is usually related to diet and obesity, not type 1.

Mayo on chips is fine as long as you are in Belgium

or Amsterdam but only if it comes with a "Royale with cheese"

If they were type 2 it would be stupid, the fatty crap is what has made them diabetic.

Type 1 it hasn't, but [s]I[/s] they dont want all the sugar in the pop. (not saying its the healthy choice, just its not necessarily what has put them in that predicament)

MMMM cheesy chilli chips.......

Diet coke may taste better but its a lot less healthy for you than full fat coke. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I'll bite. Explain?

Diet coke may taste better but its a lot less healthy for you than full fat coke. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I'm going to have to ask why on earth that would be the case.

I reminds me of a bloke I met on holiday who said that there were no natural ingredients in diet coke. Leaving to one side that this is irrelevant, when I pointed out that there was quite a bit of water in it he said, barely pausing for breath, that I was clutchg at straws.

I see what you mean....Mayonnaise on chips??? FFS

That'll be one of the finest food combos known to man.

I'll bite. Explain?

Diet coke may taste better but its a lot less healthy for you than full fat coke. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

😯

Go on... How?

Link to any evidence for this sweeping fact?

[i](I suspsect you will just find lots of info regarding neither being something you should drink a lot of but nothing to say sweteners are categorically worse for you than sugar, they just **** you up in different ways.)[/i]

[url= http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aspartame ]ASPARTAME - There is a huge amount of negative information about it.
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Oh I'm aware of all the crap that is put about about Aspartame, most of it is nonsense by the way.

Oh and google is a search function, not a source of information.

ASPARTAME - There is a huge amount of negative information about it.

Link to a wonky Youtube vid, and you're in Kaesae territory.

Anyway, 4th, legitimate peer review study based, link down:

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) assesses the safety of sweeteners such as aspartame in the European Union. According to a 2009 report from its Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources Added to Food:

[i]Overall, the Panel concluded, on the basis of all the evidence currently available… that there is no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there is no reason to revise the previously established ADI for aspartame of 40 mg/kg [body weight].[/i]

Aside from the possible effects in people with phenylketonuria, there are no health problems that have been consistently linked to aspartame use. Research on artificial sweeteners, including aspartame, continues today.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/aspartame

With a little more forethought, both characters in the original story could have prepared for their day by making a flask of weak lemon drink and some small sandwiches wrapped in greaseproof paper. If they had sat outside, perhaps on a bench in a small park, the conversation could have revolved around them getting to know one another, maybe arranging to meet up again for lunch in a day or so.
A little give and take, a little compromise, then one day perhaps their hands might touch while passing a Ferrero Rocher and a dull ember may have turned into a full blown flame.

But no. Another opportunity to make the world a slightly nicer place has been lost, another

Oi! Crikey! Less loving, and more judging 8)

The King of Hobbies goes nowhere without a weak lemon drink!

Two fold on diet coke.

As already explained, aspartame is extremely bad and its long term affects are not fully understood.

Also, a lot of research has shown that the sweetners in diet drinks physically make you crave sweet stuff a short time after you've had one. Research showed that people will regularly reach for a chocolate bar or cake within 30 mins of drinking a diet soda.

tomhoward - Member

Type 1 it hasn't, but I they dont want all the sugar in the pop. (not saying its the healthy choice, just its [s]not necessarily[/s] absolutely, definitely not what has put them in that predicament)

FTFY, T1's an autoimmune condition.

As already explained, aspartame is extremely bad and its long term affects are not fully understood.

Well that's not actually true is it. Most of the research actually indicates that it is safe to use, hence why it is approved for use all over the world.

Also, a lot of research has shown that the sweetners in diet drinks physically make you crave sweet stuff a short time after you've had one. Research showed that people will regularly reach for a chocolate bar or cake within 30 mins of drinking a diet soda

In other words it's not actually the diet coke that's bad for you but the additional calories that you will injest that won't do you any good.

As already explained, aspartame is extremely bad and its long term affects are not fully understood.

So it's extremely bad, but we just don't know how yet?

Fair enough.

You choose what you want to do. I'm not going to spend 8 pages debating it. For me, I won't drink anything where there are serious doubts over the long term health concerns. The addition of Formaldehyde and formic acid in my stomach doesn't sound like a smart move to me. Anyway, your call.

Never understood why folk want to replace sugar in a drink which is at least natural with a man made chemical tbh. Its brilliant they market this as a supposedly "healthy choice"

as for being in a coffee shop - I dont drink coffee so I shall flame you both for making choices different from mine.

😆 @crikey

Too much sugar makes you fat though.

Never understood why folk want to replace sugar in a drink which is at least natural with a man made chemical tbh.

Haven't you got some looms to smash?

You want to choose to not drink diet coke that's fine but be honest about your reasons and don't try to justify it with "science" that is clearly false.

Never understood why folk want to replace sugar in a drink which is at least natural with a man made chemical tbh

I've never understood why some folk think that a naturally occurring chemical is necessarily safer than a man made one.

More importantly.
Was the coffee shop a Starbucks?

Anyway.

Back to the coffee shop. I think we were judging someone from afar, if I remember correctly.

Nothing false about it. Your choice though. They used to think smoking was harmless too.

Woooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaahhhh - back up there! [b]Smoking isn't harmless?!!![/b] 😯

Not if you have a mint afterwards.

So menthols are ok?

Yep.

Excellent. Would hate to have to walk the minefield that is the artificially sweetened mint market.

So menthols are ok?

Yep, saves you having to brush your teeth as well 8)

and you smell lovely as well

Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick with the diet coke thing. Maybe she'd already gone and bought a packet of mentos.

As already explained, aspartame is extremely bad and its long term affects are not fully understood.

And that's a scientific fact. There isn't actually any evidence for it, but it's still a scientific fact.

Presumably you could fix the ill effects with some healing crystals anyway. There's about the same amount of evidence that they work.

I see the STW wing of The FFB* have assembled quickly this morning. 😀

* Food Fascist Brigade

Some representatives from Coca Cola on here too by the looks of things.

and you smell lovely as well

*flutters eyelashes*

*flicks back hair*

*Winks*

Yes that's spelt with an "i".

Haven't you got some looms to smash?

I like that 😀

Some representatives from Coca Cola on here too by the looks of things.

Alright, own up. Who is Santa, and who are the polar bears?

It's all about Pepsi Max anyway. Diet Coke is alright but gives you frothy, fizzy burps. Pepsi gives you solid, deep and vibrant burps.

Some representatives from Coca Cola on here too by the looks of things.

Yeah, we're all part of the conspiracy.

Diet Coke probably isn't great stuff, but there really isn't any evidence that Aspartame is bad for you. What makes you think you know better?

Yes that's spelt with an "i".

You spelt it wrong then.

Some representatives from Coca Cola on here too by the looks of things.

Some representatives from Coca Cola on here too by the looks of things.

Oh no, I work for companies that are much much worse than coke.

You spelt it wrong then.

😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉

Or the type 1 diabetic 'brigade'

I'm a busy man, I can't waist my time asking people their personal circumstances when I wish to judge them from afar.

Oh no, I work for companies that are much much worse than coke.

Disney?

Also, a lot of research has shown that the sweetners in diet drinks physically make you crave sweet stuff a short time after you've had one. Research showed that people will regularly reach for a chocolate bar or cake within 30 mins of drinking a diet soda.

Wait - So bottle of full fat coke is better because although it [i]definaneltly[/i] has 53g of sugar in diet coke [i]might[/i] make me want a Mars Bar which has 35g of sugar and some fat.

Right. I'll take my chances thanks.

Dr. Pepper Zero FWT

Disney

Steady on. My standards might not be high but there's no need for that sort of accusation!

It's the same as the diet coke brigade. " I'll have a large bag of chips, 2 battered sausage, curry sauce, can I have lots of mayonnaise on my chips please..... Oh and a diet coke please".

I love marinating cheap sausages in diet Coke and feeding it to kids

LHS - Member
The addition of Formaldehyde and formic acid in my stomach doesn't sound like a smart move to me.

sighhhhhhhhh

despite extensive research there has never been any proof that aspartamine yields significant amounts of formaldehyde in the body, it would have to break down into methanol first and then into formaldehyde then formic acid to do anything nasty

the amount of methanol yielded from 10 litres of diet coke would only be a few microlitres of methanol- you would get more liberated from 2 litres of fruit juice and that is still way below any toxic level

besides which diabetics consume lots of the stuff and have doen for years and they dont get cancer and die all over the place

Carry on then. Your choice. From my experience as well you only see fatties drinking diet coke.

Sweetener science is very tricky and conspiratorial - the giant corporations that own the big two have been in a science war for decades about this stuff now, and Big Sugar in the US is owned by a handful of incredibly right wing families that engage in dirty politics. They all fund psuedo-scientific research that knocks their competitors.

From my experience as well you only see fatties drinking diet coke.

Oh well if its from your experience then it must be true. It definiately won't be influenced by your apparent food issues.

[i]Stands up, looks arround[/i]

Oh, I've just seen a thin person drinking diet coke. Maybe I shouldn't trust you "experience" afterall.

Depends on what your classification of thin is.

From my experience as well you only see fatties drinking diet coke.

I sometimes drink diet coke. I'm not fat.

What is your definition of thin then? (pretty sure id be a fatty in your world 😉 ), just so i know what to drink at lunch....

Go to London fashion week.
Lots of very, very skinny women drinking diet coke.
Any other experiences you want to share?

Carry on then. Your choice. From my experience as well you only see fatties drinking diet coke.

I think that you deserve your very own "defence" for that. Perhaps the "people failed to agree with me so I rather pathetically insulted them defence".

*wobbles belly*

*Goes off in search of some Diet Coke*

What BMI to be able to drink diet coke?

LHS, are you idave?

What BMI to be able to drink diet coke?

I'm 1.78m tall and weigh about 67kg at the moment, which I think puts me about a 21 BMI. Am I allowed Diet Coke?

If it helps I'll be eating salad for lunch, though the salad does have chorizo in it.