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H.P. Hovercraft posted:you know what else can give you kidney stones? hard water in that case, citric acid helps destroy stones, so just chug mtn dew all day
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# ? May 8, 2019 06:03 |
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Shame Boy posted:also antacids that include calcium as an ingredient like tums, which i found out when i was real high in college and lost track of how many chewable tums tablets i had taken and woke up the next day pissing calcium crystals until one of them got stuck and i had to go to the hospital this story would be a funny anti-drug film to show middle-schoolers. altho if your stone-passing hospital experience was like mine, they gave you a shitton of opioids and sent you home with a month's supply of oxycontin, so on second thought maybe not
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# ? May 8, 2019 06:13 |
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:in that case, citric acid helps destroy stones, so just chug mtn dew all day i know you're joking, but mountain dew contains brominated vegetable oil, which is a halogenated hydrocarbon, in addition to being absurdly sweet. bromine is literally banned as a food additive in most of the world. whatever you drink, i'd stay well away from mountain dew (and other foods with bromine)
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# ? May 8, 2019 06:18 |
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I love when my water district changes sources occasionally and I get to Well, it probably just is lake water
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# ? May 8, 2019 06:30 |
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Upon further investigation our water does indeed possibly come from where I felt like it was and I’m not surprised about it at all
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:this story would be a funny anti-drug film to show middle-schoolers. altho if your stone-passing hospital experience was like mine, they gave you a shitton of opioids and sent you home with a month's supply of oxycontin, so on second thought maybe not yeah same lol Broken Machine posted:i know you're joking, but mountain dew contains brominated vegetable oil, which is a halogenated hydrocarbon, in addition to being absurdly sweet. bromine is literally banned as a food additive in most of the world. whatever you drink, i'd stay well away from mountain dew (and other foods with bromine) they removed that in like 2014 actually
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Shame Boy posted:yeah same lol not in the us. here
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Broken Machine posted:i know you're joking, but mountain dew contains brominated vegetable oil, which is a halogenated hydrocarbon, in addition to being absurdly sweet. bromine is literally banned as a food additive in most of the world. whatever you drink, i'd stay well away from mountain dew (and other foods with bromine) most of the flour you can buy at the store here has bromate in it too lol even china has it banned as a carcinogen
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lancemantis posted:Upon further investigation our water does indeed possibly come from where I felt like it was and I’m not surprised about it at all new orleans gets its municipal drinking water right outta the mississippi river part of their treatment process involves adding ammonia to it and whenever i'd tell people that they were never surprised then again i'm one of those weirdos that likes ammonia cokes so the tapwater there never bothered me
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Broken Machine posted:not in the us. here not that i don't trust the mountain dew fan wiki page that's only been updated twice since 2015, but they publicly announced they were removing it back in 2014 so i'm gonna need slightly more convincing like i can fully believe that they said that and never did it but i'm not finding any sort of article calling them out for it, and news outlets love calling companies out for using scary chemicals after saying they wouldn't do it anymore e: see later post Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 07:06 on May 8, 2019 |
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food chat reminds me of seeing an old ms buttersworth ad where they claimed superiority over plain old maple syrup lol imagine trying to pull that off now
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i found something from "pepsico beverage facts dot com" that says it still has it as of april 30th of this year so i guess that's a bit more reliable but it's weird that i can't find like, an official page with the ingredients anywhere e: I guess this is the official site? it looks like a goddamn domain squatter, what the hell pepsi
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the last time i visited the mountain dew fanwiki it was to see what flavor the one that looks like a bottle of cum was google told me that i had visited that site 4 times previously and i felt enough shame to wipe all my cookies and site history
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Shame Boy posted:i found something from "pepsico beverage facts dot com" that says it still has it as of april 30th of this year so i guess that's a bit more reliable but it's weird that i can't find like, an official page with the ingredients anywhere the reason i linked you to the fan page as opposed to the (somewhat hard to find) pepsi page is because it also helpfully provides other versions around the world for contrast
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lancemantis posted:food chat reminds me of seeing an old ms buttersworth ad where they claimed superiority over plain old maple syrup maple syrup is a fairly big deal around here, and someone sued McDs so they have to provide you with real maple syrup with your pancakes. they only do this if you ask, but it's some local pancake law that you have to provide customers with real syrup
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lol don't you dare say that about mountain dew
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# ? May 8, 2019 07:26 |
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i like the Trainmaster718
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Shame Boy posted:not that i don't trust the mountain dew fan wiki page that's only been updated twice since 2015, but they publicly announced they were removing it back in 2014 so i'm gonna need slightly more convincing it's still listed in the ingredients on the label as of this year. but i cant find much about BVO being shown harmful, wikipedia cites one guy who drank 4 liters of BVO soda/day and developed "bromism" which is either something people got a lot back when bromides were popular, or maybe something involving cartoon ponies?
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:it's still listed in the ingredients on the label as of this year. but i cant find much about BVO being shown harmful, wikipedia cites one guy who drank 4 liters of BVO soda/day and developed "bromism" which is either something people got a lot back when bromides were popular, or maybe something involving cartoon ponies? here https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29376436 more than you'd ever care to know
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Broken Machine posted:local pancake law
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The_Franz posted:a couple of years ago i met a guy with a phd from harvard who drinks 6 cans of coke a day. those are us sized 355ml cans so that's more than 2 liters in the US a large drink cup at burger king holds 40oz (1.18L) and there are free refills
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i wouldn't trust a food blogger who put crystal light in all his beverages either, but this is the website banner of the brand he explicitly cites I hate this as much as anything else posted in this thread so far. I would rather drive a Tesla covered in Elon Musk anime fan art than be this person
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:it's still listed in the ingredients on the label as of this year. but i cant find much about BVO being shown harmful, wikipedia cites one guy who drank 4 liters of BVO soda/day and developed "bromism" which is either something people got a lot back when bromides were popular, or maybe something involving cartoon ponies? 2-4 liters a day of mountain dew nearly killed him. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9140329
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Even if they took the bromine out that would gently caress you
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President Beep posted:fiji water. holy poo poo... not enough to pay orders of magnitude more than i should for water, let's import it in a pet bottle from an oppressive banana republic that can't even water their own people Broken Machine posted:i know you're joking, but mountain dew contains brominated vegetable oil, which is a halogenated hydrocarbon, in addition to being absurdly sweet. bromine is literally banned as a food additive in most of the world. whatever you drink, i'd stay well away from mountain dew (and other foods with bromine) i remember showing my high school chemistry teacher a gatorade bottle with BVO on the label in the 90s, and while he is legit a brilliant motherfucker (in a "why are you teaching in high school" sort of way) he's not, so far as i'm aware, a food scientist dude pulled a face and said "yeeaaaah...... throw that out and maybe don't drink halogenated hydrocarbons unless you have to for some reason?" Broken Machine posted:maple syrup is a fairly big deal around here, and someone sued McDs so they have to provide you with real maple syrup with your pancakes. they only do this if you ask, but it's some local pancake law that you have to provide customers with real syrup lol at canadians pulling faces when you tell them just how well maple syrup is protected in vermont
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# ? May 8, 2019 13:35 |
Canada has a million weird insular protective laws and the more you learn about them the scarier and racistier they get
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# ? May 8, 2019 13:40 |
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such as? the only ones i'm really familiar with are cancon on the airwaves and specifics about what you're allowed to call "milk" because of quebec, with an asterisk about yellow margarine
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yeah but canada also throws holocaust deniers in prison so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
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flakeloaf posted:such as? they had to rename mac & cheese to kraft dinner because it doesn't meet their cheese requirements (as it isn't actual cheese)
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Shame Boy posted:also antacids that include calcium as an ingredient like tums, which i found out when i was real high in college and lost track of how many chewable tums tablets i had taken and woke up the next day pissing calcium crystals until one of them got stuck and i had to go to the hospital cursed post
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Broken Machine posted:they had to rename mac & cheese to kraft dinner because it doesn't meet their cheese requirements (as it isn't actual cheese) that flows from the milk thing; see also "frozen dessert" and "milk beverage"
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# ? May 8, 2019 13:55 |
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we got the maple strategic reserve too
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Broken Machine posted:i know you're joking, but mountain dew contains brominated vegetable oil, which is a halogenated hydrocarbon, in addition to being absurdly sweet. bromine is literally banned as a food additive in most of the world. whatever you drink, i'd stay well away from mountain dew (and other foods with bromine) someone link to that bigpeeler thread
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Shame Boy posted:also antacids that include calcium as an ingredient like tums, which i found out when i was real high in college and lost track of how many chewable tums tablets i had taken and woke up the next day pissing calcium crystals until one of them got stuck and i had to go to the hospital i had 14 or so stones(they say 5mm is the largest you can pass - it's 7mm) before they figured out they needed to yank out one of my parathyroids afterwards i had to take 6+ tums a day to keep my calcium levels normal. what a trip.
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Broken Machine posted:then you're in the minority in rural maine I don't live in rural maine
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# ? May 8, 2019 14:51 |
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all of maine is rural maine
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infernal machines posted:all of maine is rural maine E I E I O
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# ? May 8, 2019 15:08 |
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Portland Maine is a really cool city
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I don't even get how is Liquid Death supposed to appeal to the watern***as crowd when they're all about broadcasting the act of drinking water to the world and it looks like an energy drink
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Vomik posted:Portland Maine is a really cool city lol
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