🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: houston.eats
Article #698

Re: Drink Ripoffs

#698
From: Tracey
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 05:37
26 lines
2650 bytes

Felix wrote:

> "Chris Barnes" <chris@txbarnes.com> wrote in message
> news:ankcf3$khd$1@news.tamu.edu...
> > 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).
>
> Yes, Chris... that is what I'm assuming.... good catch, though... nothing's
> funnier than morons at McDonald's filling up on high-calorie, high-fat food
> getting their diet soda <in a whisper> "I'm watching my weight".

But, are you looking at their total diet, or just this one meal?

--
http://tracey518.tripod.com/
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3D9E7AD8.604DF097@yahoo.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!twister.austin.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
References: <3D9A3164.C5EB3D21@yahoo.com> <andt6e$532$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net> <anj6pv$j6l$1@news.tamu.edu> <5mgn9.8046$817.4232@nwrddc04.gnilink.net> <ankcf3$khd$1@news.tamu.edu> <a0ln9.1641$Mw4.1397@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10bedf,de2479c8d44eed6
X-Google-Attributes: gid10bedf,public
X-Google-Thread: 109097,de2479c8d44eed6
X-Google-Attributes: gid109097,public
X-Google-Thread: 10b82c,de2479c8d44eed6
X-Google-Attributes: gid10b82c,public
X-Google-Thread: 10c1f9,de2479c8d44eed6
X-Google-Attributes: gid10c1f9,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-04 22:42:06 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!twister.austin.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
Message-ID: <3D9E7AD8.604DF097@yahoo.com>
From: Tracey <tracey12_12@yahoo.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: houston.eats,houston.general,austin.general,tamu.general
Subject: Re: Drink Ripoffs
References: <3D9A3164.C5EB3D21@yahoo.com> <andt6e$532$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net> <anj6pv$j6l$1@news.tamu.edu> <5mgn9.8046$817.4232@nwrddc04.gnilink.net> <ankcf3$khd$1@news.tamu.edu> <a0ln9.1641$Mw4.1397@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 28
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 05:37:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.243.129.241
X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com
X-Trace: twister.austin.rr.com 1033796279 24.243.129.241 (Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:37:59 CDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:37:59 CDT
Organization: Road Runner - Texas