Heh! There are days when I wish I could just let go of all those manners my mother taught me and say, “Suck it, bitch!” Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon. I save those sorts of things for people I love.
This isn’t really a flame or rant so it’s not Pit material. It’s coming close to a poll on preferred sweeteners but still general enough that MPSIMS is probably the best fit.
Off it goes.
Well, that part there’s no arguing with . . . don’t bother searching for information about artificial sweeteners on the internet. The internet is the world’s biggest soapbox for any loony with an agenda, and a disproportionate number of loonies seem to have selected artificial sweeteners as their agenda.
You really thing Splenda users are a fringe group or something? I bet it’s just that it’s new enough that a lot of restaurants haven’t thought about stocking it yet. I don’t think there can be any argument claiming Sweet ‘n’ Low (which is saccharine) tastes better than Splenda. Saccharine tastes godawful.
Cafés mostly seem to stock it, but they probably put more effort into coffee sweeteners than most restaurants. I don’t add anything to my coffee, but the cafés I go to all seem to have those yellow packets.
It’s not a difficult question. Equal is aspartame; Splenda is sucralose. They’re entirely different - the chemicals aren’t even similar.
You are far too generous in your appraisal. It not only hasn’t been conclusively proven, there’s just no evidence at all for those claims. Which doesn’t stop people from believing whatever silly claims they hear, of course . . .
Thank you. If 10 calories is going to push you over the edge, you’re far too close to begin with.
I seriously want to know how eggs toast and coffee can total $40. Really, I’d like a breakdown. For those prices I’d not only expect Splenda, but a happy ending as well.
If I were inclined to spend $6 per egg for four eggs, $3 per piece of toast for four slices, and $2 per cup of coffee, I might not be interested in having 1000 packets of Splenda for $28.90 (2.89 cents per pack) since the places that are charging that much better have every damn thing I can think of.
BTW, you did ask, right? You didn’t just assume they didn’t have it by what was on the table did you? Sometimes you have to ask.
As far as cost and profit goes, they don’t charge you for sweeteners. The more you use, the less they make from that 3 cents worth of coffee. Is it in their best interest to stock Splenda, Equal, Sweet & Low, regular sugar, cane sugar, brown sugar, pure aspartame, and whatever else you might want?
This is Pit worthy?
You can justify $40 for less than $2 worth of food? Wait, were they condor eggs?
Bring your own damn Splenda if it’s so precious to you. IMHO your indignation is completely unjustified. I’m sure that the $100 dinner you mentioned was the most highly nutritional meal one could ask for. You are, after all watching every calorie that goes into your body. Right?
Are you simply stupid, or deliberately throwing a tantrum to annoy the OP? Are you simply unaware that restaurants nicer than Denny’s exist? People pay large amounts of money for food all the time - if you’re really shocked by this, then my “stupid” theory is almost certainly correct.
For the record, I far prefer the saccharine-based Sweet 'n Low to Splenda (and both of them to Dread Aspartame). I would be a shell of a man without Tab.
Hear, hear! Splenda is excellent, saccharine is great, but aspartame tastes like concentrated bitterness.
I put 4 or 5 packets in one cup of coffee. I choose Splenda over sugar mostly because it disolves faster. That much sugar sits on the bottom forever.
Restaurants nicer than Denny’s exist? I had no idea. :rolleyes:
Why? Are you talking about a few eggs, toast and coffee?
You’re favorite thing in the world is to argue with people. It seems you like to champion “lost causes”. Please use your super-powers to justify the OP’s assertion that lack of Splenda is almost criminal.
If you went out to get eggs, toast and coffee, how much would it cost? Be honest.
Please show us where the OP made any such assertion.
I’m just as annoyed that the local greasy spoon where I like to have breakfast ($2.59 for 2 eggs, grits, and toast) doesn’t have Splenda. I have to take it with me. And no it isn’t for weight loss, as I’ve said it’s because it actually disolves into the coffee.
Wow, Opal, I thought you’d been here long enough to recognize sarcasm.
Did you think I was referencing an actual crime?
Maybe some quotation marks would have cleared that up. Maybe not.
This is an unfair assumption.
Personally, I avoid obvious sources of sugar when I can (I’m not obsessive about it or anything) because diabetes runs in my family. I drink a lot of coffee and while I’m sure a 100 or so calories a day will not have any affect on my weight, it might on my health. It may be in vain, but I like to think that I am doing something proactive for myself.
That said - I like Equal better than Splenda or Sweet n Low so I always carry a few packets in my wallet. I never want to count on a restaurant having it and I certainly don’t expect my friends and family to keep it on hand for me.
Let’s take this one step at at time, then. So you concede that nicer restaurants than Denny’s exist. Are you aware that they generally charge more?
Why are you throwing this tantrum? What do the OP’s breakfast choices have to do with anything? Maybe those few eggs were in an omelet made with truffles and caviar. The point is, what’s it to you?
I don’t see what you’re getting at. You threw a fit because the OP spent more money on breakfast than you wanted them to. Do you understand why that would make you come across as somewhat unhinged? Do you really expect to do things like that without being called on it? After all, the OP already said that they don’t wish to discuss the subject anymore - it seems pretty inappropriate for you to decide to castigate them further because you don’t happen to like their breakfast choices.
Where did the OP assert anything like that? Hmm? Where did the OP claim that not serving Splenda was “almost criminal”?
It depends what exactly I got for my money - because “eggs, toast and coffee” can obviously differ quite a bit from one another. It depends what the restaurant was like - is it a greasy spoon, or a place where the waiter uses comically-oversized implements to sprinkle pepper on my food? What city am I in? You’d expect to pay more for a similar meal in some places than others, depending on the cost of living.
And wait - you still haven’t answered the big question. That being - what’s it to you? What the fuck importance is it that you have to self-righteously rake the OP across the coals for spending more on breakfast than you would? Maybe the OP has more money than you, and goes to expensive places deliberately to avoid the risk of running into someone like you.
That wasn’t sarcasm, it was a straw man.
Obviously not. But you were pretending that the OP had made some ludicrously hyperbolic argument, presumably in order to ridicule that argument. That’s called creating a “straw man”; it’s an argument technique that is generally not well-regarded.
Don’t try advanced punctuation - you haven’t shown much facility with what you’ve been using so far, and adding quotes would probably be beyond you. Quotes are used primarily to mark quotations - stating that the OP had directly said something that they didn’t is generally considered bad manners.
Sounds like a good solution.
[complete tangent] But that’s still only 40-50 calories: less than half the sugar than in your typical can of Coke (110 cal). The amount of sweetness routinely dispensed in processed foods is somewhat bothersome to me. [/complete tangent]
Aspartame was in the news recently; there’s a study out of Italy suggesting a link to leukemia. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/21/opinion/edsweet.php Stay tuned though, it’s just one study.
When I started Atkins about three to four years ago, I was supposed to give up coffee. That was the one thing I determined I couldn’t do. BUT, I drank it with creamer and sugar. Lots of sugar. I figured I would drop the sugar, keep the creamer as long as I measured it (few carbs) and all would be well. Holy cow did it make a difference once I got used to it. I can’t even drink coffee with a sweetener of any sort in it now. Even a flavored non-fat latte from SB only gets the 2 pumps instead of the normal 27 or whatever it is or it’s too sickly sweet for me.
Generally, regular coffee (forgive me, instant at the moment - my grinder and good stuff just got packed for the move) and a tablespoon of Coffeemate. Can’t even stand milk or creamer nowdays; has to be coffeemate. But, I do drink more coffee than the average bear, so…10 cals from creamer (no longer on atkins), or 10 cals from sugar…creamer, please. Or, if I must, black entirely rather than sugar or creamer.
Yumm…anyone got some nice Kona they wanna share with the packing-deprived? I’ll be in LA in a few weeks…
Inky
Obviously not, but you were implying that the OP had said not serving Splenda was a really big deal. The way I read the OP, that isn’t what they said. They were merely disappointed and confused about the lack of Splenda. And I agree with them–I wonder why it isn’t offered more places as well, and am disappointed when it isn’t. I try to remember to bring it with me but I sometimes forget.
Seems to me like you are having some sort of bizarre tantrum over pretty much nothing, to me. Just because you and I can’t afford to eat expensive places like that doesn’t mean no one should be able to.
Har har har! Solution. Cute. 
The OP went to brunch at a nice restaurant.
Brunch at a nice restaurant is much more than eggs, toast and coffee.
Doing a google for “brunch menu eggs toast coffee” and clicking on the first link gets me this
2x Eggs Benedict - $28.00
2x Cappucino - $6.00
Tip - $6.00
Total - $40.00
Having an anonymous person on a message board ridicule you for spending that much: priceless.