Lets All Reach For A Water

            There’s some serious shit going on in the world of soda land. The Coca Cola bears are eating people. Well metaphorically at least. And probably not eating in a necrotizing way, but probably more in a rapidly multiplying cell better known as cancer kind of way. Yeah that’s right, put the bottle down.

            We do live in a day and age where our food is tainted with more chemicals and preservatives than Michael Jackson was filled with to keep his face together. Not to digress, soda, for better or worse, contains both preservative and chemical. Now granted, there are natural sodas out there, but lets also look at the fact that the overwhelming majority of soda consumers are drinking a Coke or Pepsi product. So we will stick to that demographic.

            And first let me say, that at one point…I’m sorry let me start again, at NO point has Coke ever been a safe product. Since it’s inception, it has been laced with either small amounts of cocaine, hence the name, or phosphoric acid, or a combination of the two. That’s like if Hitler and Stalin came in a can.

            Phosphoric acid, which is the only ingredient of the aforementioned two that still remains, is known for its affinity to rot teeth, remove rust, and yet still provide that tangy sour taste you get in soda.

            Yes melting your teeth sucks, but it gets worse. The phosphoric acid is not the cancer initiator. Actually that would be high fructose corn syrup. This is a new study, and I’m not trying to tell you what you should do. Just making people aware.

The true face of evil.

I think the irony in the situation is that we have now these “limited time only” versions of Mountain Dew and Pepsi floating out there, known as “Mountain Dew Throwback” and “Pepsi Throwback” respectively. However there is only one difference between the original and their Throwback doppelgangers…they don’t contain high fructose corn syrup.

Instead they contain REAL SUGAR! Hell, we even get the old school logo’s!

So at this point, we have come to substituting chemicals, processed and reprocessed corn, for the real thing, and made it a limited time commodity. What the fuck happened in soda land?

It just pisses me off that we pay ridiculous amounts of money for soda these days, only to feel like a total jackass when they dabble it with REAL ingredients in front of us. Fuck that.

Should consumers really have to pay more, and only have a limited time, to make an unhealthy drink just slightly less unhealthy (it’s still unhealthy)? Can’t these companies just try to invest a few more dollars for the well being of its consumers, especially after studies like the one above are published?

Hopefully these companies can pull their heads out of their asses and realize that this stuff isn’t good. Look, they must drink it too, I’m sure they are up to their fucking ears in the shit. But this is just common sense.

Look I drink soda too once in a while so I fall victim to this too. Everybody once in a while indulges, and there are some people who never drink it which is awesome too. But let’s just all reach for some water.