No, but if you’re a fucking diabetic like I am, having a no-sugar drink with a cheeseburger makes perfect sense. I used to mock people who did the diet-drink-with-burger thing until I realized that there may be more to it than a glib joke. Y’all should try doing the same.
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They eat that high fat high calorie meal all the time - sometimes people are eating healthy 98% of the time and losing weight (but still overweight) and McDonalds is just CONVIENENT right now - or maybe they allow themselves a McD’s cheeseburger and fries for every ten pounds. Its judging based on one timeslice.
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That the only reason to drink diet is to lose weight. In addition to “some people really do prefer the taste” there is the “some people don’t want to mainline corn syrup into their pancreas” problem. Obesity isn’t good, diabetes isn’t good either - some people are only managing ONE (yeah, they should probably manage both, but its their life.)
I get the “joke” it just isn’t a funny one.
Oh yeah, definitely! If you’ve ever been to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, we all bring coffee and stand around after the meeting and smoke cigs. I haven’t been in a few years, but I think the junkies have stayed the same.
Speaking as a former fatty, I’ll go on record saying that I hate diet soda. I always have and probably always will. If given the choice, I’ll drink a sugary Mt. Dew any day. My first username here wasn’t ‘Dewaholic’ for nothing.
I think it’s ridiculous to judge someone based on seeing them at McDonalds ordering a diet soda. Like Dangerosa said, it could be a treat based on the fact that the 250 lb person used to be 350 lbs., but you don’t know that, right?
After you start drinking diet pop, eventually you don’t even notice the difference.
Diet ice-tea, however, is another story all together. Yech. And Splenda. Splenda is nasty.
I’ve heard that a lot, but I’ve tried to make the switch several times and I just can’t stick to it long enough to acquire a taste for it.
I’ve switched to water. Although, if I cheat and have a soda at all, it’s a regular and I’ll drink a soda a day for a week before I go back to water again. It’s best I just stay away completely.
There’s nothing like a regular Pepsi with pizza, though. Mmmm. Nummies!
It’s a trick question! McD’s doesn’t have a bacon cheeseburger.
Hrmm? I got all those items off the nutritional info for McDonalds. Though it was probably McDonalds Canada, so maybe they don’t have a bacon cheeseburger in the states?
The disconnect comes from the misunderstanding of why people drink Diet Coke. Non diet-drinkers assume that people drink diet in an attempt to lose weight, while the vast majority of diet-drinkers drink Diet Coke because they like the flavor, and they have no concern whatsoever about caloric count. So people making the joke think they are being clever, while people who drink diet can’t understand what is so funny. It’s not just fat people who come across this misunderstanding. I’m a thin person who drinks diet, and occasionally someone will say, “you’re not fat, why are you drinking Diet Coke?” Which to me is akin to saying something like, “you’re not fat, why are you eating an apple? Have a twinkie instead.”
So for those who think the “joke” is funny, note well: most people who drink diet soda do so because they like the flavor, no other reason, therefore your joke is not funny.
What? Should we be okay with people being fat? There are many reasons that the scale of obesity in this country will have tremendous impacts on our society and economy. It isn’t entirely each individual’s fault, but with two thirds of America overweight, don’t tell me that there hasn’t been a lapse in personal responsibility.
Your mileage obviously varies. I’m diabetic and wish like hell I could have a regular Coke without my blood sugar going up the dial. And of course, I’m also aware that regular soda has about 160 empty calories, so I drink diet soda to keep all that corn syrup out of my body. I drink diet vanilla, diet cherry, diet Pepsi Jazz, diet Dr Pepper cherry vanilla, anything with some flavor to mask the basic diet cola taste. Not even Coke Zero does it for me. When I’m at a fast food place, most of the time I’ll take diet Coke or Pepsi because it’s the only thing available. When I’m at home, it has to have some flavor. I do not drink diet soda out of preference for the taste, but because it’s healthier for me than the alternative.
Also refuting what neorxnawange said: where’s your cite that most diet drinkers do so because of the flavor? I lie outside of your generalization. I DO NOT drink diet soda for the flavor.
I’m also a diabetic, and switched to diet after I was diagnosed. Usually I drink water, but Coke Zero rocks! I wish more places had it, as well as Diet Dr Pepper…
Exaggeration, maybe, but just because you happen to not be part of the vast majority doesn’t instantly refute what was said.
I drink diet soda for the flavor AND lack of sugar/corn syrup. Win win!
I am currently in possession four 12-packs of Diet Pepsi (They were on sale: Buy two, get two free) and one 24-pack of Diet Coke. Mwaahahaha!
I’d like to see that “vast” majority as well. I’ve been a diet soda drinker, but only because type II diabetes runs in my family and its one way to keep my blood sugar levels from ever being problematic. I’m not heavy. And no matter for how long I’ve maintained diet drinking - I’d still much rather drink regular soda. I don’t doubt that plenty of people drink diet and prefer it, but I’d love to see some stats.
I went back to regular when I gave up gluten, figuring that without bread, baked goods or pasta in my diet, a little non-nutritional carb was ok.
I think the joke is stupid, and I drink diet soda, and I still won’t think this is true unless you’ve got a cite. True, I find regular sodas very sugary and sticky now, but that’s because I’ve become accustomed to diet after about 15 years of drinking them.
Much like I find 2 and even 1 percent fat milks to taste waaaay too creamy because of years of drinking skim milk. I can remember back to the days when skim milk seemed like nasty-assed shit.
Diet Pepsi is liquified snake shit. Gross gross gross. You may say there is no difference, but my husband has taste tested me blindly, many a time (filling up at a gas station fountain or whathave you) and I can tell when he’s given me Diet Pepsi IMMEDIATELY.
If I were stranded on a desert island with a case of diet pepsi, I’d take my own life.
This is not an exagerration.
This reminds me when Coca-Cola had that one jingle back in the 70s or 80s…
“Just for the taste of it…Diet Coke!”
It just sounded so much more fun to sing the same melody to the gf/wife…
“Just for the fuck of it…Diet Cock!”
First thing that I did when I lost my 70 lbs. last year which was one of the EASIEST things to do was go from regular soda (3 or 4 cans a day @ 150 calories each) to diet soda or water, which saved about 1 lb. of fat PER WEEK…which means I lost about 50 of my 70 lbs just by switching to a diet soda. It also helped to get a grilled chicken salad at McDonalds as well with the low cal dressing which is also an easy decision to make when regular dressings usually run 190-220 calories for the packet.
But I do remember being that “fat guy was drinking diet coke, LOL”. Still about 30 pounds overweight, but damn, I feel a hell of a lot better now than I did back then, regardless of what skinny little shitheads spout off. For all they know, the “fat guy drinking the diet coke” who might be 400 pounds might have been a fatter guy months or years before at 500, 600, etc. pounds.
Just a couple of anecdotal points:
Long before we met, my husband went from over 320 pounds to his current 220 pounds. What did he change? He switched to diet soft drinks.
I drink Diet Coke because I prefer the taste now. When I switched it was because I loved carbonated drinks but didn’t want the extra calories.
My husband can eat a hamburger and a few fries and not have his blood sugar skyrocket. He can’t even take a sip of a regular pop without it going through the roof. There are a ton of diabetics in the world, and there is a ton of sugar in regular pop and very little hunger satiation in it.
Neat simulpost.
Mmmm…Dr. Pepper…I have no trouble finding Diet. Including Diet Berries and Cream. I also happened upon a case of Caffeine-Free DP, which I’ve never seen before.
(BTW, do they still make “Jolt!”? Wait, upon edit, I looked on Wiki and see that they do.)