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Maybe you want to have a cup of tea instead? Way more cheap and healthy. Or buy some off-brand soda. It is just as much garbage as coca cola but at least it's cheap.
Or just water.
Yes, of course. Preferably tap water.
In America? Maybe not the best idea. Especially if you're in, say, Jackson, Mississippi.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/in-jackson-the-tap-water-is-back-but-the-crisis-remains
Ok, in some places you might want one of those bubblers at home, I guess.
What's the point of this comment? 99% of counties in the US have safe drinking water and the few that don't get called out for it like this. This is probably a better situation than most countries - including yours
Where did you get that 99% figure from? Because I suspect you made it up.
Especially since:
https://www.multipure.com/purely-social/science/top-10-states-worst-public-water-ratings-united-states/
More information:
https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-americans-drink-potentially-unsafe-tap-water-how-does-your-county-stack
And then there are the substances which municipal water supplies don't even need to get out of their water-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_in_the_United_States#Substances_for_which_there_are_no_federal_standards
You may want to dig into the stat some more to get a handle on how bad the situation really is.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't my point what with my link being about tap water. The thing the person I was replying to was talking about.
What? No no no. Clearly soda is the healthy option. You can never be too cautious.
Got it. You're totally ignoring my point that water straight from the tap is too unsafe to drink in multiple U.S. municipalities and are just trolling. Have fun with that.
Exactly, it's unsafe, making pop the safer option.
Yes. Everyone knows soda is extremely healthy. It's pretty much good for every major organ system! Kidneys, bones, pancreas, soda, soda, soda!
I just need a sugar delivery medium. Preferably one that is socially acceptable.
Have you considered eating?
Coca cola is a little below 3€ a bottle (1.5l if i'm not mistaken) house brand is what the price should be at most: 0.89€.
I agree soda dependence isn't a good thing, but there's not much evidence diet soda is any less healthy than tea.
Diet soda contains sweeteners that are suspected to cause cancer. Granted, you'd have to drink a couple of liters of diet soda a day before you need to be seriously concerned, but tea has one big advantage: It contains as much sugar or sweeteners as you add to it, so there's that.
Except there's been a ton of reasearch on it and the best/worst they can come up with is "results are inconclusive".
I am not discussing if soda of any kind is more unhealthy than tea or not. You can drink as much soda as you want. Just don't bullshit yourself or anybody else. You only have one argument: "I like soda, don't take away my soda from me." It is not a good argument but it is all you've got.
What a weird response to that….
Wait a minute are you telling me that their isn't a sugar fairy dumping copious amounts of sugar into my tea when I turn around?!?
Please tell me it ain't so. Then I might actually have to take accountability for my actions and I can't do that.
That particular fairy must be employed by the dentists' lobby, I guess 😂