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Buying the diet version of a food product by a mistake.
Diet Snapple, for instance, tastes like aspirin water. Yet, the labels are only slightly different, and neither looks like an aspirin label.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Dining | 10.22.2008 | Comments (10)
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"aspirin water" is a pretty accurate description of any non-carbonated beverage.
— isweatbutter posted 10/22/2008
Well, I hate when I mistakenly buy the not diet version. A girl needs her Aspartame!
— Hairnette Funicello posted 10/23/2008
'Diet' drinks in general! I'm no expert on this type of thing but surely unless you're drinking a couple of litres an hour the difference in calories is negligible?
— Stel posted 10/23/2008
I bought vegan cheese by accident once. Terrible!!
— jmc posted 10/23/2008
Last week, I accidentally bought devils food cake chocolate Entenmanns donuts instead of REGULAR chocolate Entenmanns donuts. I almost cried a little. I am VERY careful to avoid diet everything, however.
— Amanda posted 10/23/2008
I bought diet smartfood once... it was horrible.
— I know posted 10/23/2008
I hate it when I'm a diabetic, and I order diet soda, and I get a mouthful of Sugar. I'm not on a diet. I don't think I'm fat. Type 1 diabetes is no joke, please don't just assume I'm fat paranoid and drinking diet for shits and giggles. Maybe I'd like to enjoy soda without a coma? Eh!?
— A Jar posted 11/10/2008
Why is everybody hating on the people who'd prefer zero calorie beverages to 200 calorie beverages. Yeah, maybe I'm scared of getting fat. but you know, last I heard, being overweight wasn't so great for the health or the self esteem. And who wants to spend that extra 25 minutes on the stairmaster just for the joy of a drinking a Snapple?
— stinko posted 11/10/2008
Aside from those with autoimmune and (severe) metabolic disorders, no one would need diet products if they ate a reasonable amount of healthy food, or even mostly healthy food, instead of an unreasonable amount of creepy artificial molecules designed to approximate real food. But I would settle just for things not being called "diet" as this name and the industry it represents do really sick things (supported by mountains of psych research) to body image and understanding of the difference between healthy and thin. I wish more people would recognize what they're supporting when they opt for things marketed as "diet" rather than simply "low sugar" or "sugar-free". Oh, and artificial sweeteners taste like crap.
— Diana posted 11/11/2008
Happy to be a size 2. And I'll drink all the aspartame-contaminated beverages that I want just to stay that way. And, yes, I also think big is beautiful. Just not when it's me that is big.
— Stinko posted 11/12/2008
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