I had never heard of this, but after looking into it, apparently cocoa beans must be fermented to develop the chocolate taste, and otherwise taste extremely bitter. European chocolate would also be made from fermented cocoa beans.
Why would this be a reason to stay away, though? Fermented foods are great. Sourdough bread, wine and beer, sauerkraut… mmm.
I wonder if he was referring to Hershey’s use of butyric acid.
Worth it!
I slowly weeded out sugary drinks of all kinds from my diet over the last few years, wish I had done it earlier. The final straw was Gatorade, which is just so damned orgasmic after a 5 mile run in mid-summer. Once in a while I will still have something with added sugar (Orangina, or its canned doppelganger San Pellegrino), but that’s maybe once or twice a month now.
If you don’t already know about Nuun tabs, you might wanna.
Huh. Thanks for the tip. I was going to switch to Pedialyte.
You had me until the gluten theory. My wife strongly indicates for gluten intolerance. We were both skeptical at first, but she removed gluten from her diet and quickly saw improvement. More convincing: she has subsequently conducted inadvertent double-blind studies with supporting outcomes. (Meaning: she has accidentally and unwittingly consumed foods with gluten and soon after had clear signs of problems with digestion, joint pain, and nausea. The correlation seems pretty clear-cut.)
So anyway, at least some people really do seem to have gluten intolerance.
(also, thanks BB for the Boris Johnson Saddy Waddy deepfake post that led me to this band. I appreciate it)
I can! 
One per month it is, then.
I grew up on that filth… sometime in the last 20 years I switched to diet… which is probably worse and now I’m on to that filth called la croix (or the local generic version). Lately I find myself preferring the plain completely unflavored sparkling water. Please just tell me it’s not the damn bubbles because I’ve figured out that’s the only thing I want. (well occasionally with some gin).
edit: how long to undo the damage from growing up? or is it a lost cause?
I kind of feel like you’re missing his point by quoting a single sentence from his comment. Not saying I agree with his point just you’re not really addressing it.
That is actually the hypothesized mechanism for the observed effect. The metabolic results differ from the body’s perception of caloric intake, throwing the endocrine system into chaos and resulting in over-eating.
To use an automotive metaphor, it’s like running lower-oxygen air through an engine. The engine runs rich, adjusts, then when oxygen levels return to normal, it runs lean, causing detonation. Next thing you know, you’re getting a new engine.
It’s not the bubbles, it’s the lack of ice.
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Who needs soft drinks anyway?*
*Aside from an occasional Moxie.
Their product matrix is less than wholly scrutable, and their color/“flavor” alignment baffles often. They redid their labeling within the last year, so there’s two sets of everything in the supply chain these days. But they are the only thing I’ve found with:
That last point makes it the electrolyte supplement that I’ve found hardest to oops a bottle with, a benefit the value of which should not be overlooked.
Well I went from 6 Mt Dews a day down to just one in the morning. Everything in moderation?
