Re: Drink Ripoffs

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From: Chris Barnes
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 15:34

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Felix <youdontneedto@emailme.com> wrote:
> And, boy, aren't you showing them buy refilling it before leaving...
> consider that a 12 ounce soda contains about 120 empty calories,
> drinking two 32 ounce cups of soda gets you about 600 calories.  Yep,
> getting fat is the best way to get your money's worth.  FYI, you'd
> have to walk or run 6 miles to burn off 600 calories (and that
> doesn't even touch the calories from the quarter-pounder/Big Mac and
> SuperSize fries you ate with that.

You're assuming the person isn't getting a Diet Drink (which usually
have almost no calories).

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From: "Chris Barnes" <chris@txbarnes.com>
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Subject: Re: Drink Ripoffs
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