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Should those 64 oz. sodas be banned?

The trouble isn't the big sodas. It's the mentality behind them, where we want more more MORE! We aren't satisfied with smaller portions, and so we're a nation with an obesity epidemic. Also, let's be honest. Soda isn't that expensive to make. Look at the pricing models in the movie theatre for the best example. 6 bucks for a "small". Then another dollar for one size up. Think you're really getting another dollar's worth of soda? I think not! They make a bigger profit when they sell you a bigger soda, so the more reasonable sized options aren't even there anymore. It's the profiteering, and the preoccupation with big-ness that's our problem. The trouble runs much deeper than the big sodas.
 
Paschendale said:
The trouble isn't the big sodas. It's the mentality behind them, where we want more more MORE! We aren't satisfied with smaller portions, and so we're a nation with an obesity epidemic. Also, let's be honest. Soda isn't that expensive to make. Look at the pricing models in the movie theatre for the best example. 6 bucks for a "small". Then another dollar for one size up. Think you're really getting another dollar's worth of soda? I think not! They make a bigger profit when they sell you a bigger soda, so the more reasonable sized options aren't even there anymore. It's the profiteering, and the preoccupation with big-ness that's our problem. The trouble runs much deeper than the big sodas.
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I used to own a restaurant, albeit 20 years ago, and I can attest that soda is not that expensive. At least not in relation to other overhead and other food items. In fact, it's one of the highest profit items for a restaurant. Many restaurants now, chains, etc, especially, run an almost zero profit on their main food to entice people in then hit them hard for drinks and other side items.

Changing tangent, I think the attack on sodas and other sugary drinks is off-target. Yes, they're the obvious and most-easily demonized examples, but sugar and sweeteners has pervaded almost everything that is pre-packaged and processed. As just one example, when is the last time you looked at the ingredients on a jar of spaghetti sauce? High fructose corn syrup will be one of the first, if not THE first, ingredient listed. Do we really need that much sugar in pasta sauce? And where's the outrage on that?

I am not one who will trot into a thread and smugly proclaim how better I am because I don't "eat that crap", but I can claim that I do make my own pasta sauce precisely to avoid all the unnecessary sugar and sweeteners. Have been doing it for about 5 years now.
 
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Paschendale said:
The trouble isn't the big sodas. It's the mentality behind them, where we want more more MORE! We aren't satisfied with smaller portions, and so we're a nation with an obesity epidemic. Also, let's be honest. Soda isn't that expensive to make. Look at the pricing models in the movie theatre for the best example. 6 bucks for a "small". Then another dollar for one size up. Think you're really getting another dollar's worth of soda? I think not! They make a bigger profit when they sell you a bigger soda, so the more reasonable sized options aren't even there anymore. It's the profiteering, and the preoccupation with big-ness that's our problem. The trouble runs much deeper than the big sodas.
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Then don't go to the movies if you feel so stronly about that.
 
Speaking of intent: I will just keep using one of my big ass pretty bags to smuggle drinks and candy into the movies. Hate me if ya want. lol
 
Kali said:
Speaking of intent: I will just keep using one of my big ass pretty bags to smuggle drinks and candy into the movies. Hate me if ya want. lol
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I know it's not right, but with prices being that high I really don't blame people for wanting to sneak stuff in.
 
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