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Re: Drink Ripoffs

#729
From: John Smith
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 01:21
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"Tracey" <tracey12_12@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3D9F33B6.DA887929@yahoo.com...
>
>
> John Smith wrote:
>
> > "Tracey" <tracey12_12@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:3D9E7AD8.604DF097@yahoo.com...
> > >
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Nope,  just making a generalization about people eating at McDonald's in
the
> > first place.  If you are eating your lunch or dinner (or breakfast) at
> > McDonald's, chances are the other two meals probably aren't much better.
>
> I don't think that is necessarily the case.

That's why it's a generalization... and I used the word "chances"...
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