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How much Coke is too much Coke?


#2

Gared

Gared

Damn... 2 cans a day is too much for me. 10 liters? That's one serious addiction.


#3

Silent Bob

Silent Bob


Uh, soft drinks.

The best way to start living healthy is to completely remove soft drinks from one's diet.


#4

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

This much is too much:



#5

Dave

Dave

I have one or two cans a day and that's it. It's the only caffeine that I get as I don't drink coffee.

10 liters? Insanity.


#6

Frank

Frank

The father's comments that he didn't think anything of it at the time, he thought it was like drinking water, are just as nuts as Coca-Cola's defense that they think there's no evidence drinking 10 liters of Coke a day can be a detriment to your health. The story is just a huge bag of insanity.


#7

Dave

Dave

Good thing this was in New Zealand. Were it the US Coke would be getting sued.


#8

Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Oh man. Ouch.

I used to drink way too damn much pop in high school (1-1.5L/day) and quitting cold when I was 19 is one of the best decisions I made. Now (I'm 24) I get the occasionally craving for pop and if I have one, I usually can't finish it, it's just sooo damn sweet.

10L/day. I can't imagine.

I feel badly for her and her family.


#9

Tress

Tress

I drink a can or two of Coke Zero a day, and I want to cut that out completely too. I can't imagine 10L.


#10

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Uh, soft drinks.

The best way to start living healthy is to completely remove soft drinks from one's diet.
Agreed.

I was drinking 2L of Mountain Dew per day as an undergrad. One day I was in the lab and measured out the ~250 grams of sugar that I was consuming every day, and about fell over. I stopped drinking it after that.

I now have the occasional Coke Zero or Diet Pepsi, but I haven't had a full-sugar soda in years. I am trying to cut soda out completely, but Mexican food and pizza wouldn't be the same w/o it!


#11

figmentPez

figmentPez

I find it hard to imagine ten liters a day of any liquid. That has got to be hell on your kidneys.


#12

fade

fade

Jeez you guys drink/drank a lot of soda. Maybe 2-4x a month. It starts tasting gross beyond that. It reminds me of downing maple syrup with bubbles.


#13

Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

pizza wouldn't be the same w/o it!
This is so true. I rarely have pop in my apartment and often eat pizza only to get a never-sated craving for some.


#14

MindDetective

MindDetective

Jeez you guys drink/drank a lot of soda. Maybe 2-4x a month. It starts tasting gross beyond that. It reminds me of downing maple syrup with bubbles.
Bro-fisted for the description. I periodically remind myself that soda is liquid candy. Still, I go through phases where I drink to much, such as the last week or two. :-\


#15

Tress

Tress

This is so true. I rarely have pop in my apartment and often eat pizza only to get a never-sated craving for some.
For me it's pizza, burgers, or hot dogs. I couldn't imagine going to a Giants game and having water with my hot dog. It would just be wrong.


#16

figmentPez

figmentPez

Jeez you guys drink/drank a lot of soda. Maybe 2-4x a month. It starts tasting gross beyond that. It reminds me of downing maple syrup with bubbles.
That's why I like this:
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Dry soda, it's got like half the sugar of most sodas, or less. I still only drink some every week or two, but I wish there were more sodas like this.

Although, Izze-esque is pretty good too.
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#17

Dave

Dave

I like to have a soda with pretty much any hot meal. I hate drinking plain water with food.

Where I really overdue my soda use? When I'm playing a video game. I'll drink when I get a breath and tend to drink half the can as I don't know when I'll be able to drink again. So I go through a lot. It's worse when I have a glass instead of a can because it's harder to determine the total intake.


#18

Gared

Gared

Yeah, it's the "mouthfeel" that gets me too, more often than not. The fact that it's technically a liquid, but really it's a syrup with carbonation. I still have a can of soda every once in a while, at work where they're free or at home if we order pizza, but not like when I was living with my parents and they kept a fridge in the basement just to keep soda and beer cold, and I'd have several cans a day.


#19

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I haven't touched pop in a long, long time with one exception: when I see a movie at the theatre. Then, root beer's the only thing that goes with popcorn. :D


#20

Frank

Frank

I like to have a soda with pretty much any hot meal. I hate drinking plain water with food.

Where I really overdue my soda use? When I'm playing a video game. I'll drink when I get a breath and tend to drink half the can as I don't know when I'll be able to drink again. So I go through a lot. It's worse when I have a glass instead of a can because it's harder to determine the total intake.
I'm the same with video games, which is why I had to just straight stop drinking soda when I gamed. I would grab two cans and before I knew I was done one of them, they'd both be empty. Mindless consumption.


#21

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I get a 20 oz bottle and split it between two days. I used to drink soda a lot, but have cut back quite a bit. I'd rather drink iced tea or flavored seltzer.


#22

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

10 liters a day could lead to water intoxication.


#23

GasBandit

GasBandit

How has this NOT been posted yet?!



Fun fact - before I gave it up (and cold turkey, THAT was fun), I was up to 2+ liters a day. Now I don't feel as clever and quick as I was back then. But everybody tells me I'm WAY less of an asshole.


#24

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Man, as a kid I drank way too much soda. As in, it was the only liquid I drank throughout the day. When I grew up and realized how incredibly bad that was for you, I cut soda out of my diet completely and now drink only water. It was a really hard transition to make, because I -really- fucking wanted a coke, but not buying it and stocking bottled water in my home instead eventually did the trick. Now water is delicious.


#25

GasBandit

GasBandit

Man, as a kid I drank way too much soda. As in, it was the only liquid I drank throughout the day. When I grew up and realized how incredibly bad that was for you, I cut soda out of my diet completely and now drink only water. It was a really hard transition to make, because I -really- fucking wanted a coke, but not buying it and stocking bottled water in my home instead eventually did the trick. Now water is delicious.
I hear you. When I was in my teens and 20s, Mountain Dew in the wide mouth can was the fuel that kept my afterburner going 24/7. Went through a 6 pack a day of those back in high school. As I mentioned, when I finally quit, I was at the point of buying a 2 liter of diet (my one previous concession, to avoid adult acne) on my way into work in the morning and it would be gone by the time I went home.


#26

Hylian

Hylian

I cannot imagine drinking that much soda in one day. Even when I did drink soda it was usually only 1 or 2 cans a day and even with that I felt bleh and decided to cut it out of my diet years ago.


#27

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

I drink 2 20oz Coke Zeroes a day. That's about it.


#28

BananaHands

BananaHands

I used to be terribly addicted to Wild Cherry Pepsi.

I made the move to La Croix and/or carbonated water (with slight flavoring) because I've found that I'm more into the carbonation than the sweet.

Diet/No-Calorie soda creeps me out because of aspartame.


#29

PatrThom

PatrThom

I tend to binge. And when I binge, it's almost exclusively on Throwback.

--Patrick


#30

fade

fade

I love water. I especially like it cold from the cooler at work. If I'm hot and sweaty, I like to imagine I just dipped it out of a mountain stream. Don't get me wrong, now. I do like soda, but not too much. I had two cans of Coke in one day a few months back because they were free, and bleh, that second one was nasty, and my teeth felt like they were wearing socks.


#31

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

I may be a fatass, but if there is one thing my parents did right by me and my siblings, it was getting us off cola. I will only on occasion have a Dr. Pepper, and that's only a small cup of it when I go out to a fast food place with other people. Usually I'm either drinking water or teas. If I try to drink a regular cola now, it makes me so sick that I will start coughing up blobs of syrup. It's disgusting! :puke:


#32

Cajungal

Cajungal

I'd been drinking a lot of Dr. Pepper 10 last year. This winter, I got a terrible sinus infection and completely lost my taste for it. I was drinking it mostly as a ritual; it got me through the second half of my work day. After two weeks of not being able to take anything in but water and soup, they just taste funny now. I'm back to the occasional club soda with a bit of lime or cranberry juice.


#33

Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

10L of coca cola is over 4000 calories...

Sweet mercy that's horrible.


#34

PatrThom

PatrThom

Empty calories.

--Patrick


#35

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

If I try to drink a regular cola now, it makes me so sick that I will start coughing up blobs of syrup.
That's completely disgusting.

I have no idea why I'm aroused.


#36

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

:unibrow:


#37

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker



Yeah, that is totally good for you.


#38

Dave

Dave

To put it in perspective:

Serving size: 8 oz
Calories: 100
Sodium: 30 mg (1% daily value)
Total Carbs: 27 g (all sugar carbs) (9% daily value)

Servings per 2 liter bottle? 8
Servings per 10 - 2 liter bottles? 80

Calories: 8000
Sodium: 2400 mg (80% daily value)
Total Carbs: 2160 g (720% daily value)

Ho. Lee. Shit. And that's if she didn't EAT anything!


#39

GasBandit

GasBandit

It was all about the caffeine for me. I don't like coffee, or I probably would have been a starbucks junkie.


#40

Dave

Dave

Each 12 ounces of Coke has 34 mg of caffeine. 10 - 2 liter bottles has 676.28 oz. That's 1,916.127 mg of caffeine each day. Why did she have a heart attack? Gee, I don't know.

By the way, Mayo clinic says that over 500 mg a day is dangerous to your health on an extended basis. This is nearly 4 times that amount.


#41

GasBandit

GasBandit

Each 12 ounces of Coke has 34 mg of caffeine. 10 - 2 liter bottles has 676.28 oz. That's 1,916.127 mg of caffeine each day. Why did she have a heart attack? Gee, I don't know.

By the way, Mayo clinic says that over 500 mg a day is dangerous to your health on an extended basis. This is nearly 4 times that amount.
Hell yeah. 200 or so a day was what I was getting, I think. Much more than that, and I turned into Foamy the squirrel.


#42

PatrThom

PatrThom

Much more than that, and I turned into Foamy the squirrel.
I would've thought you'd say Shakes the Clown, instead.

--Patrick


#43

GasBandit

GasBandit

I would've thought you'd say Shakes the Clown, instead.

--Patrick
No, believe it or not, I'm never a downer. I just can get a little... harsh... with excessive amounts of stimulants. And my metaphors get a lot more colorful and involve more orifices, more blunt force trauma, and generally come rapid fire.


#44

PatrThom

PatrThom

Try to avoid the Red Bull/Vodka cocktails, then.

--Patrick


#45

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Try to avoid the Red Bull/Vodka cocktails, then.

--Patrick
NO! well Red Bull/Jeager is fun.


#46

GasBandit

GasBandit

Try to avoid the Red Bull/Vodka cocktails, then.

--Patrick
Red Bull Jagerbombs were what really got me. But like I said... I went cold turkey off caffeine.[DOUBLEPOST=1360698557][/DOUBLEPOST]
NO! well Red Bull/Jeager is fun.
Ha! My brother from another mother.


#47

checkeredhat

checkeredhat




... I drink 1-2 cans every 3-4 months.


#48

Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Red Bull Jagerbombs were what really got me. But like I said... I went cold turkey off caffeine.
I still have a Jagerbomb every once in a while to celebrate things :)


#49

Enresshou

Enresshou

I drank an entire 2-liter in a day a couple times (mainly at my first job at a pizza place, where we didn't have water cups and the tap water was always lukewarm), but jesus. Ten liters a day? I'm of the opinion that her heart didn't "stop" so much as beat too quickly for the EKG to pick up.


#50

GasBandit

GasBandit

I drank an entire 2-liter in a day a couple times (mainly at my first job at a pizza place, where we didn't have water cups and the tap water was always lukewarm), but jesus. Ten liters a day? I'm of the opinion that her heart didn't "stop" so much as beat too quickly for the EKG to pick up.
Ha! It crossed over into the SPEED FORCE


#51

Enresshou

Enresshou

Hah; I remembered that episode of JLU after posting that, actually...


#52

blotsfan

blotsfan

The only time in my life when I drank a ton of soda was when I was a busboy. Employees could help themselves to the soda dispenser. I have a crippling weakness to Dr Pepper when its available.

Now I try to only drink soda as a mixer.


#53

Silent Bob

Silent Bob

For me it's pizza, burgers, or hot dogs. I couldn't imagine going to a Giants game and having water with my hot dog. It would just be wrong.
I was the same way, especially with pizza and Chinese food. Get an unsweetened ice tea or lemonade instead.


#54

Siska

Siska

I mostly stopped drinking soda after the age of 20. I just don't really enjoy the flavor anymore. Dunno why. Perhaps it's because I moved to the US and they don't use real sugar? Sometimes I crave fanta during the summer. But really, a few sips and I'm good. Craving satisfied. More than that and I feel like I am force feeding myself. Which I've finally come to realize is a really stupid thing to do with any junk food.


#55

LordRendar

LordRendar

I also don't enjoy the taste of softdrinks.I prefer drinking Bionade.


#56

Frank

Frank

That is a soft drink. Even though it's all-natural etc, it's still bad for you.


#57

Bubble181

Bubble181

Like others in here, I only drink pop/soda/bubbles/soft drink with certain meals or in certain places. With a Pizza Hut pizza, or a McDonalds hamburger, I do'nt think a good fresh orange juice will taste decent. Other than with that kind of crap, when you KNOW you're eating crap and drinking crap to match....Well, no.
Oh, also when I'm drunk and tired. I might have a coke then.

Otherwise, water all the way. I've had to cut back pretty hard, as I *was* going through over 10L a day at one point. Now I try to stick to a maximum of 4L of water a day...Which is easy on some days, harder on others.


#58

Kovac

Kovac

Back when I was a teenager I would drink a lot of coke when lanning with my friends.

I wouldn't have been drinking in an entire weekend what she managed in a day :confused:
Not even if there was a game of DnD mixed in.


#59

Gared

Gared

I have to admit to not actually reading the article linked in the OP; but according to the article on MSN, she also smoked 30 cigarettes a day. I'm sure that was a contributing factor in her death as well. Or the fact that the article said she "didn't eat much." Sounds like she was getting the vast majority of her nutrient intake from Coca Cola.


#60

Dave

Dave

If I had 8 kids and was in my 30's I'd kill myself with cigarettes & whatever else I could get my hands on.


It's a sad & strangely funny story, but I feel sorry for her 8 kids.


#61

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

She would have lived longer on Cutty Sark.


#62

Dave

Dave

According to ABC news she "had her teeth extracted several years ago.


#63

Gared

Gared

According to ABC news she "had her teeth extracted several years ago.
But of course, none of these things were signs that maybe, just maybe, she should have taken better care of herself; and therefor it's the soda industry's duty to prevent things like this from happening again by increasing the amount of warning labels on their products.



#65

strawman

strawman

If I had 8 kids and was in my 30's I'd kill myself with cigarettes & whatever else I could get my hands on.
:(

In other news, the unofficial spokesman of The Heart Attack Grill has died, unsurprisingly, of a heart attack.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/13/heart-attack-grills-unofficial-spokesman-dies-of-heart-attack/


#66

Frank

Frank

Holy shit, even with 4 patties, how do you manage 10000 calories in a burger? How fucking big are those patties? What kind of nonsense super saturated fat goo must be used everywhere else?


#67

Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Holy shit, even with 4 patties, how do you manage 10000 calories in a burger? How fucking big are those patties? What kind of nonsense super saturated fat goo must be used everywhere else?

Maybe the cheese is actually "cheese flavoured fat product"?

That really is a brutal number of calories if true.


#68

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Allerman was, at around 180lbs, not particularly overweight.
Predisposition is a bitch.


#69

Tress

Tress

Allerman was, at around 180lbs, not particularly overweight.
However, approximately 40 pounds of that was cholesterol built up in his arteries.

I shouldn't make jokes. A man died, and that's not funny. But it does seem poetic. Eating that food really is awful, and I don't know why people go there.


#70

GasBandit

GasBandit

However, approximately 40 pounds of that was cholesterol built up in his arteries.

I shouldn't make jokes. A man died, and that's not funny. But it does seem poetic. Eating that food really is awful, and I don't know why people go there.
The owner even told him, "if you keep eating this way you are going to die." The guy died at the bus stop in front of the restaurant.


#71

Gared

Gared

Holy shit, even with 4 patties, how do you manage 10000 calories in a burger? How fucking big are those patties? What kind of nonsense super saturated fat goo must be used everywhere else?
It's a 1.444kg burger with 2lbs of beef and what would appear to be 8 slices of bacon, sliced tomatoes, red onions, American cheese, and special sauce.


#72

blotsfan

blotsfan

They coat the buns in lard before cooking them. I wouldn't get the 4 patty one but I'd try a double. I'm sure it tastes really good.


#73

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

...and last year I could have eaten there free.


#74

strawman

strawman

...and last year I could have eaten there free.
Congrats on not being in that category anymore!


#75

Squidleybits

Squidleybits



#76

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

:eek:


#77

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I could do some bad things to a bottle of diet coke that big!!


#78

Dave

Dave

Holy shit, even with 4 patties, how do you manage 10000 calories in a burger? How fucking big are those patties? What kind of nonsense super saturated fat goo must be used everywhere else?
For each patty you can put on 4 strips of bacon. Please note that these 20 strips of bacon are NOT drained of grease and are put on the burger while still dripping.


#79

Cheesy1

Cheesy1



#80

fade

fade

Dammit Cheesy1 I laughed loud enough to wake up my wife.


#81

Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Not to sound like a broken record, but also the long-term effects to one's bone marrow that may lead to arthritis.


#82

Gared

Gared

Eh, I've already got problems with arthritis. Having a few sodas a month isn't gonna make a difference.


#83

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

boneitis.gif


#84

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Can I get my mom to give up the diet Dr Pepper? Not bloody likely.

Knee replacement is next week. Shoulders and other knee will eventually follow.


#85

LittleSin

LittleSin

I haven't had pop since I was, like, 4 or 5 years old.

There's a story behind that. ("When is there not, LittleSin?")

Jet has only had pop maybe three itmes under my watch...unless his Dad or grandparents sneak it to him when I'm not looking!


#86

strawman

strawman

Oh sure, deprive him of pop, but you don't mind if someone gives him a lemon slice!


#87

LittleSin

LittleSin

Oh sure, deprive him of pop, but you don't mind if someone gives him a lemon slice!
He BEGS me for lemons at the grocery store. He loves the friggin' things.


#88

fade

fade

I don't know why, but the word "pop" for soda rubs my ears the wrong way. Then again where I'm from it's no better. It's "coke", regardless of whether it's a coke, sprite, dr. pepper, etc.


#89

Cajungal

Cajungal

That confuses me so much.

You want a coke?
Sure.
What kind?


#90

strawman

strawman

I don't know why, but the word "pop" for soda rubs my ears the wrong way. Then again where I'm from it's no better. It's "coke", regardless of whether it's a coke, sprite, dr. pepper, etc.
If I'm out of my state and don't know what the locals call it, I use "soda pop" just in case. Everyone understands that.

I've been to places where people are honestly confused by "pop", though I don't know that anyone would ever be confused by soda.

But Michigan is pop country.

Coke is just wrong. If you ask for a coke here, you get a coca cola. But that applies to such a small portion of the US that its rarely an issue, and while soda pop sounds weird to them, they always understand it.


#91

figmentPez

figmentPez

That confuses me so much.

You want a coke?
Sure.
What kind?
When my family first moved to Texas we were at Burger King when the person in front of us ordered a "Coke Dr. Pepper"... We argued for weeks over what that meant.


#92

fade

fade

Coke is just wrong. If you ask for a coke here, you get a coca cola. But that applies to such a small portion of the US that its rarely an issue, and while soda pop sounds weird to them, they always understand it.
Yeah, but you would never order a generic coke any more than you'd order a generic pop. You'd ask for the specific brand if you wanted a specific brand. If you wanted anything, then actual coke was probably fine anyway.


#93

PatrThom

PatrThom

http://www.popvssoda.com/

What the heck is it with Missouri?

--Patrick


#94

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

now why isn't that page soda vs. coke?


#95

bhamv3

bhamv3

Before I joined the army, I had soft drinks pretty much on a daily basis, maybe 500 to 1000 ml a day.

Then I headed off to boot camp, where only water was available for a month. And boy did we learn to love water, what with all the marching and drilling and running, all in tropical August weather.

And after boot camp, the first thing I did when I went on leave was to head to the first convenience store I saw and grab a Pepsi and a Snickers bar. And I couldn't finish either one of them. Both were far too sweet to me. It was a completely mind-boggling experience, because I used to pretty much inhale them.

And then after I left the army I went back to my old habits.


#96

Covar

Covar

Yeah, but you would never order a generic coke any more than you'd order a generic pop. You'd ask for the specific brand if you wanted a specific brand. If you wanted anything, then actual coke was probably fine anyway.
What is a generic Coke? Coke is short for Coca-Cola. Now There's generic Colas (RC, Pepsi, etc.) but there's only one Coke.


#97

fade

fade

What is a generic Coke? Coke is short for Coca-Cola. Now There's generic Colas (RC, Pepsi, etc.) but there's only one Coke.
Not in a huge chunk of the US, where "coke" is a generic term like "kleenex" or "lego". That post followed up on a discussion a few posts up.


#98

Frank

Frank

What is a generic Coke? Coke is short for Coca-Cola. Now There's generic Colas (RC, Pepsi, etc.) but there's only one Coke.
Aren't there some parts of the US that just refers to pop or soda in general as coke?


#99

ScytheRexx

ScytheRexx

I used to drink soda heavily as a kid. However as an adult I find myself limiting my intake. I drink one cup of coffee in the morning, one soda during lunch, and then the rest of the day I drink water, milk, or juice. Works out for me and starves off the headache.


#100

Telephius

Telephius

Now There's generic Colas (RC, Pepsi, etc.)


#101

Covar

Covar

:troll:


#102

Kovac

Kovac

I don't know why, but the word "pop" for soda rubs my ears the wrong way. Then again where I'm from it's no better. It's "coke", regardless of whether it's a coke, sprite, dr. pepper, etc.
I quite like the sound of soda but after a lifetime of calling it soft drink I don't think that i'm going to change.

Not that I can drink it now that i'm eating and drinking in a healthy fashion. Now it's all water, tea and coffee.


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