Sugar-Coated Intervention

Apr01

Sugar-Coated Intervention

by dgriff13 on 2013/04/01 at 12:00 am

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Heh, the Weird Kid’s response in the last panel makes me think of this early strip, which is a great characterization of the Weird Kid in general.

If I ate any of the super sugary cereals in the morning now, my stomach wouldn’t be to happy. Not that I’m some crazy health nut, but I have cut out some of the really bad things (cereal, soda, pop tarts, cake, stuff like that)…. and it’s true that your body adapts. I can also no longer drink stuff like Mountain Dew- it gives me the shakes and a headache now.

However…. chocolate, ice cream, coffee, red bull… those are some things I just can’t quit entirely! What are your food vices?

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capesnbabes

Ahhhhhh yes… JOLT Cola. Is that still around? That was my breakfast of choice in college… TWICE the Caffeine and TWICE the sugar…
- qka
  
  The tagline is “All the sugar sugar and twice the caffeine”.
  
  The deal was that Jolt is made with regular sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. Aficionados claim there is a taste difference. Hence their love of Mexican Coke or Kosher Coke, available only at this time of year, for Passover. No, I am not joking about Kosher Coke. But it’s not in all markets.
  - capesnbabes
    
    Huh… back in the 90’s, in southern Virginia, I could have sworn the tag line was “Twice the sugar, Twice the Caffeine”. Maybe they changed it since then? In any case, the only time I see Jolt Cola any more is when I’m traveling to different cons outside the Washington DC area because I never see it around here any more.
    Then again, I never see RC Cola either and that used to be a staple drink fro my family when we lived out west.
  - dgriff13
    
    I want to find/try this soda with real sugar! Watching my weight lately, and I have fitness people telling me how baaaaaad artificial sugars (and HFCS) are for you! Better to just have a little regular soda.. with real sugar! Regardless, I hardly drink soda anymore.
  - qka
    
    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola#Jolt_Cola_in_North_America
- dgriff13
  
  I have never actually tried Jolt, but there’s this drink around here (PHI, Jersey) called Boost that’s kinda like it. Except, it’s not carbonated.. and the idea of “flat soda” really turns me off. I tried it once just to say I TRIED it. Kinda like gatorade but with 10x the caffeine LOL. Is Jolt carbonated?
  - capesnbabes
    
    Yeah, Jolt Cola was/is carbonated.
    Years ago… I want to say between ’88 and ’92, 7-Up came out with something called 7-Up Dots – I believe that’s what the name of it was. It had red floating dots in the bottle. THAT was a pretty weird soda to drink – which maybe explains why few people have ever heard of it or why it’s no longer around.
Michael Corley

Count chocula makes me whimper as well.
- dgriff13
  
  That was my first sugar cereal! I begged and begged for it, and my mom let me have it at my first sleepover. It was… everything I wanted it to be.
tmcelmurry

Man, Jolt Cola is awesome! Yet it is so hard to find, but man what a drink. I love that the weird Kid knows the only way to properly dispense Pez is with a Star Wars Inspired Pez Dispenser. I can hear this one saying “Feel the sugar inside of you, turn to the sweet side.”

My food vice is Pittsburg Hotlinks. I came to know and love these grease filled wonders when we moved to Pittsburg, Texas at the age of 14 and I have had a love for them ever since. These are probably the worst things I can put into my body by far, but yet you get me near somewhere that makes the authentic Pittsburg Hotlinks I’ll grab me a bottle of Tabasco and some Saltine Crackers and down a dozen or more without blinking an eye.
- dgriff13
  
  great– you noticed the Darth pez dispenser! :0DI have never heard of these hotlinks. I assume they’re like greasy sausage with some juicy bi-products thrown in, LOL!

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