Soda & Schools

MiDri · May 4, 2006, 12:12 AM

Do you go to a public or private school and enjoy the sweet taste of a cold soda?
To bad, they're mutually exclusive now!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/...drinks_schools

pr0digal jenius · May 4, 2006, 01:01 AM

and college students will continue to mix energy drinks with jager and vodka regardless....

lol...yea...thats really dumb...I drank a mountain dew every morning and a cherry coke at lunch every day in high school

Falstaff · May 4, 2006, 01:05 AM

All foods that begin or end in the world POP are not good for you young man....
sit up
eyes front
turn to page 21 and do the practice questions..

Ev!L-aLphA · May 4, 2006, 01:34 AM

yeah they took out all of our sodas in the begening of the year...
BASTARDS#$@$

MiDri · May 4, 2006, 02:06 AM

Man... I have no idea how i would have goten through highschool with out soda... I only got 4-5 hours of sleep... soda kept me from falling asleep...

Dark Lord · May 4, 2006, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Falstaff

All foods that begin or end in the world POP are not good for you young man....

those bastards can pry my pop tarts from my cold dead hands long after im gone.

oh, wait... not in HS any more.

pr0digal jenius · May 4, 2006, 02:17 AM

screw poptarts....try a struel

and nothing....I repeat NOTHING can top my brekfast of choice:
A box of powdered donettes and a Monster Khaos [heavily caffeinated fruit juice]

Dark Lord · May 4, 2006, 02:21 AM

i was never much of a breakfast person. pop tarts just made a great snack.

now my "breakfast" is normaly served at about 2:00-2:30 in the morning while im watching south park or X files. big glass of juice and a couple of hot pop tarts every night.

Falstaff · May 4, 2006, 02:33 AM

ummmmmm
donut..

Zelig · May 4, 2006, 06:22 AM

They took pop out of my school this year... I don't really care, though I guess it's a good move.

IvanV · May 4, 2006, 08:26 AM

That's utter bull. They didn't sell soda, or anything else for that matter, in my HS, but they sold everything, including alcohol, right next to it.

I really don't see how a bit of soda can harm anyone, even though personally I'm not a soda fan, I prefer fruit juice.

And it's not really going to change anyone's habits, for that you need to educate people, not just ban Coke from schools. (Quote: "The sale of sugar-carbonated sodas in schools is a tiny, tiny part of their overall volume," said Sicher. "Financially, on the big companies, it will have virtually no impact.")

Also, this time I may be blowing things out of proportions but, I thought that, in democratic countries, all that is not illegal is legal and ok and your right.

Another true nonsense is the decision to, even though sodas are banned from HSs, continue selling diet ones. If you look on a diet soda packadging, you'll most probably find a "max recommended daily dose", which you won't find on it's non-diet counterpart. Why? Because artificial "sugars" (they are not sugars, but I don't know the right word) are often cancerogenous, and thus much worse for you than normal sugar!

So, in the end, this is just a marketing trick, an attempt to show they care which won't really cost them anything and won't really do anything for anyones health.