Most all computer rooms, NOC’s, whatever you want to call them are. I don’t know if its good planning or luck. Hopefully good planning since its the room which requires at least one geek to occupy it 24/7.
Three hours into the shift, 1 liter down.
Alantus
In south carolina theres a entire row devoted to selling wine but only a small corner for beer.
It’d never work. There would be massive revolt. I’d be somewhere near the front.
OK soda never made it out of test marketing - I lived in MA when it was introduced. It disappeared within the year, I think, and wasn’t sold nation-wide. I approved of it, though I think I liked the 800 number better than the soda itself.
It sounds like some of you were bemoaning the passage of Jolt - you know that it’s alive and well, don’t you?
The olive oil in my cupboard has 120 calories in a tablespoon not 100 in a teaspoon.
Whaen I was a military dependent living overseas, you couldn’t buy soda in the commisary with your groceries. You had to make a trip over to the the convenience store for it. People drank just as much soda, they just planned their shopping to accomodate the extra stop.
You can’t pass laws to successfully regulate peoples eating habits any more than you can legislate morallity.
Not only is Jolt alive and well but now it comes in assorted flavors, including a lemon lime, the taste of which defies description.
…until the government puts warning labels on cans of soda!
“WARNING: Consumption of this product can result in obesity, diabetes, and zuts!”
That’s becuase Lubbock is in a dry county. I’m sure that the students of Texas Tech are grateful for the service that The Strip provides. 
Washington is another state with beer and wine in the grocery store, and hard liquor in the state liquor store.
When I was stationed in Mississippi in 1980 there was a franchise called “Beer Barn”. It was a drive-through beer and wine store (“hard” liquor – over 5% alcohol, was available only from state-licensed liquor stores, IIRC). You could buy draft beer by the cup!
I don’t recall if Mississippi had open container laws back then, but I suppose they didn’t. Otherwise how could you order a beer in a paper cup at a drive-through?
~~Baloo
<rant>I’m 120lbs, 6-10% body fat, yet I kill a two liter bottle of mountan dew in a day and a half. I eat mostly burgers (with bacon and cheese) yet I gain no weight. The reason americians are fat is not because of the food, we’ve always eaten like pigs, it’s because the majority of people DON’T DO ANYTHING! If people would get out of the house and go play, we would be a much healthier society. But people would rather sit and watch TV or chat mindlessly on a computer–however, it’s their choice to make, not yours.
as for the tooth decay aspect of soda, dental hygine quells that well enough (I’ve been to the dentest exactly twice in my life–no tooth problems here)
So stop whining about being fat, IT’S YOUR FAULT!</rant>
I believe it is 156.
Here is the real problem. If you deny me my sugar/caffeine fix in the morning, I might have to go on a shooting rampage. And I’m sure there are others like me. Think of all the senseless deaths that would occur because some of us choose not to burn more calories than we consume.
Guns don’t kill people, Coke-deprived junkies kill people!
Tennessee is also a Southern bastion of liquor laws. Beer is sold in grocery and convenience stores, but liquor and wine can only be sold in package stores (where, ironically, beer is banned). All liquor stores are closed on Sundays, and beer cannot be sold between 3 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Sundays. However, there are many counties that are completely dry and others that are somewhere in between dry and very strict.
And get this, there are actually police stings every once in a while busting old geezer gas station owners for selling beer on Sundays.
Sufficient retorts to the OP having already been issued, is anyone into Red Bull? And wasn’t that stuff banned in a few European countries?
I remember that stuff! We had it in Minneapolis for a summer. The ad campaign was great, but the soda was horrible. It tasted like “swamp water” to me (a mixture of every soda all together - orange, Mountain Dew, cola).
I didn’t realize that you could get hard liquor in any grocery store in America. In NY and MN, the two states I’ve lived in for any length of time, there’s only been beer in NY, and no liquor that I can recall at all in MN. I thought it was so odd when I went to England and they had gin in the grocery store…Oh, now that I think about it, you can get hard liquor at the Safeway on Market in San Fran. That store had everything, I guess it never occurred to me that the laws were different in CA.
The B-52’s had a lovely song called “Dry County,” so maybe there are some of those in GA as well?
redneck voice/ shoot! Y’all need to cum on up heeya to Michigan where y’all can baa liker at the grossery stoh any time uh the day /redneck voice.
That said, its great being able to pick up my wine or whatever at Meijers instead of having to make a special trip. The only time I can remember actually having been in a liquor store is when I was in the military and in Tennessee.
BTW, Tennessee’s famous county, Lynchburg, where Jack Daniels is made is still dry, to the best of my knowledge. I went down there with my mom for a tour of the distillery and it was so cool it made me want to take up drinking whiskey! Really, if you get the chance to go there, do. It’s a neat tour.
Aye, Lynchburg is still dry. Go figure.
I hate to debate diets with someone named Lumpy, but I think soda is one of the “neutral” items in any store.
Veggies are good, anything with high fat is bad.
There’s nothing wrong with soda. Every thin person, like myself, has quarts of it every day.
Banning soda is probably too harsh because it is so patronizing to assume that folks can’t handle the stuff. But something should be done about the marketing. It is no accident that Coke is interchangeable with water - the marketing boys have been hammering that point home for decades. I once saw a copy of Coca-Cola’s annual report; a huge headline over a shot of a water fountain read “because people still drink water,” in reply to the question of why marketing efforts must go forward. And go forward they do. Makes you posters who’re so dedicated to that morning fix seem like dupes (though no worse than smokers or pharmaceutical users).
But is it dangerous? Obesity, dehydration (colas are diuretic), kidney stones, diabetes… you be the judge. The stuff itself shouldn’t be banned, as long as we are a nation of adults, but the marketing should be looked at, if you ask me.