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Re: Drink Ripoffs

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From: Tracey
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 16:16
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Felix wrote:

> "PR" <rahimhan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:anj6pv$j6l$1@news.tamu.edu...
> > I usually go inside drink one full cup and fill it full again when I'm
> > leaving.
> > I'm sure many other do the same.
> > so McDonalds get ripped off too.
>
> You are not ripping off McDonald's.  The cup, straw, lid cover, ice and soda
> costs McDonalds .10-.15 cents (if that much).  You would need to sit there
> and refill your cup at least 10 times to "rip off" McDonald's.
>
> 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.

Better read up on physiology again.   How many baseline calories are required
for men and women each day apart from exercise?
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