HFCS, or well, Fructose, is a very *simple* sugar. it breaks up into instant calories without any effort at all.
the result is that you can actually not REALIZE you're drinking more sodas because unlike "sugar" based drinks, they're not in any way filling at all.
the other curse is the saturation factor, particularly in sweetened tea. they put so damn much in there that you can't actually taste the tea at all.
and in coke, it DOES taste different. get a bottle of kosher coke next lent (leading up to passover) and a bottle of regular. if you can't taste the difference, fine, forget it.
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the result is that you can actually not REALIZE you're drinking more sodas because unlike "sugar" based drinks, they're not in any way filling at all.
the other curse is the saturation factor, particularly in sweetened tea. they put so damn much in there that you can't actually taste the tea at all.
and in coke, it DOES taste different. get a bottle of kosher coke next lent (leading up to passover) and a bottle of regular. if you can't taste the difference, fine, forget it.
but i can, and the difference is huge.