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Cythereal posted:Speaking of old sodas, anyone remember Surge? It was all over the place for a while in the 90s, a lemon-lime drink that turned your tongue yellow, and then it just kind of vanished. Surge was recently put back on the market for a limited time in a full run of sizes, 6, 12 packs, 2 liters, etc. It's available, still, at many gas stations, usually as a 'tall boy' can around where the energy drinks are since it's got more caffeine than Mt. Dew, etc. (At least around here (Upper Midwest)).
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Coke did a promotion for the latest stranger things season a couple years ago to have a combo coke/new coke pack in their 80s branding. It is sickly sweet.
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Play posted:How is this a question? I feel like 90% of all people, at least, absolutely hate menthol cigarettes. I've only known a few people who smoke them out of the hundreds or thousands of people I've met in my life. Guessing you live someplace really ethnically diverse like Vermont? I mean most people don't like menthols because most people don't like cigarettes, but I'm not sure that's really the intent of the conversation
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The Bloop posted:Guessing you live someplace really ethnically diverse like Vermont? Not really, I grew up in California. Yeah menthols are probably a bit more popular among black people, I've seen that to be seemingly true, but I've definitely heard a lot more people exclaim how much they dislike them than anything else  Even amongst smokers.In any case, one thing I'm kind of proud of America for is how much the country has changed its relationship to tobacco over the years. Used to be probably one of the highest rates of smoking in the world but its changed quite a bit even in my lifetime and especially in the lifetime of my parents. I've been a smoker before, but not getting subjected to it in restaurants, bars or elsewhere (I remember people smoking in the drat post office in South America when I was there in the mid -2000s) is really nice.
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When I started smoking in my teens it was with menthol cigarettes. Cigarettes taste bad, so the flavouring helped. to develope that sweet sweet nicotine addiction
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Apr 6, 2021 18:15
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Cythereal posted:Speaking of old sodas, anyone remember Surge? It was all over the place for a while in the 90s, a lemon-lime drink that turned your tongue yellow, and then it just kind of vanished. Hahaha they literally put a surge promo vending machine in my high school and they were free for a week (limit one lol) and then a quarter after that. Everybody was running around on what is p much lovely bathtub crank for a month, fun poo poo lol. 
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I was a heavy smoker in high school, and then I progressed to only smoking when drinking, but I drank a lot for a long time. Next thing you know 20 years fly by! It's a gross habit, and took way too long to quit. Regarding soda-chat, I just remembered one of the few stories my dad has told me about his lovely childhood growing up on a central Illinois farm. My nutty farmer grandpa somehow got a deal on a shitload of honey. He wanted to make Root Beer, and decided to use the honey instead of sugar. They bottled it up and left it in the cellar, but for whatever reason the honey made the concoction extremely volatile. One day someone bumped in to the crates and it set off a chain reaction of exploding root beer bottles. I don't recall the specifics, but we're talking a lot of loving root beer here. I can only imagine how sticky that would be. Glad I didn't grow up on a farm.
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Apr 6, 2021 18:24
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been talking to my stepmom recently, the subject of death seems to come up a lot. we're all getting older so you think about it more. long talks about all the various dead relatives. most of them died of lung cancer. everybody smoked back in the day and the lung cancer just cut a swathe through 'em.
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verbal enema posted:i really need to stop smoking Same  
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:oof what a lovely post. Spanish died in ships on folds of our Coast! Old Glory!
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That's a drat solid breakfast plate right there. Mmmmm
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Play posted:In any case, one thing I'm kind of proud of America for is how much the country has changed its relationship to tobacco over the years. Used to be probably one of the highest rates of smoking in the world but its changed quite a bit even in my lifetime and especially in the lifetime of my parents. I was curious about smoking rates so I googled it. While many places list it as a percentage of the population who smokes Wikipedia has it as cigarettes per capita, which is probably much easier to calculate correctly, and the numbers kinda blow my mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_consumption_per_capita The US is about in the middle of the pack at position 68, and an average of about 1000 cigarettes per year per person. Andorra and Luxembourg easily take the top 2 positions with over 6300 cigarettes per year per person. That means the average person smokes more than 17 cigarettes a day. 
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Apr 6, 2021 20:37
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Yeah I've been dieting pretty seriously lately and right now I would destroy those plates
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not pictured: two slices of well done toast cut perfectly in half on the side, just out of frame
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Revins posted:not pictured: two slices of well done toast cut perfectly in half on the side, just out of frame 
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Tip posted:I was curious about smoking rates so I googled it. While many places list it as a percentage of the population who smokes Wikipedia has it as cigarettes per capita, which is probably much easier to calculate correctly, and the numbers kinda blow my mind. Did you miss this paragraph immediately above the chart? quote:The list is biased for some of the countries with the highest consumption, such as Andorra, Luxembourg and Belgium. These countries are known to sell cigarettes at lower prices than their neighbours, and as such attract foreign buyers. Andorra, for instance, is known for its duty-free shops where Europeans can find alcohol, cigarettes, electronics and clothes which can be up to 20 percent cheaper than in the neighbouring countries.
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:Spanish died in ships on folds of our Coast! Old Glory! *crickets*
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It kind of follows a pattern where developing and newly-rich countries smoke tons of cigarettes, which declines over time due to more awareness about smoking's dangers and the harm on society, and new regulations about where you can smoke and which taxes need to be paid. Which is why smoking was so widespread in the 50s but has declined pretty steadily since then.
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Apr 6, 2021 20:59
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You've hit the jackpot if you find a restaurant with blackberry in there.
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Apr 6, 2021 21:46
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orange marmalade was always my jam
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Play posted:It kind of follows a pattern where developing and newly-rich countries smoke tons of cigarettes, which declines over time due to more awareness about smoking's dangers and the harm on society, and new regulations about where you can smoke and which taxes need to be paid. Which is why smoking was so widespread in the 50s but has declined pretty steadily since then. So what you're saying is that smoking brings peak productivity to a country and once measures are enacted to start preventing it the country or society enters a period of long slow decline from its heyday. Very interesting.
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Revins posted:Detroit? yeah that's the rencen in the background of the 3rd pic
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not that id use jelly on cornbread, but this just gave me an awful memory of just how loving bad cracker barrel's cornbread is. god it's bad
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bring me the basket of bread, and make sure to include that one that's like eating a cake made out of sawdust, forthwidth
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other people posted:Did you miss this paragraph immediately above the chart? i'm also curious how it incorporates tobacco-adjacents. having been to mexico recently i flatly do not believe a smoking rate of 1/3rd of the usa's. cigarillos or just full on cigars are more of a thing than your standard marlboro but smoking is five thousand percent a more culturally accepted thing there than in 95% of america.
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My mother’s still burning Basic 305 menthol golds and will be until she dies. My grandmother smoked like a fiend and lived to be 82.
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Hell yeah baby. You’ll pry those li’l smuckers outta my cold dead hands
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boar guy posted:yeah that's the rencen in the background of the 3rd pic Im pretty sure that house is part of Little Caesars Arena now.
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It is amazing how bad Cracker Barrel's cornbread is. It's really bafflingly terribleRevins posted:orange marmalade was always my jam 
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Zero One posted:Im pretty sure that house is part of Little Caesars Arena now. they should have called it the $5 Hot-N-Ready Arena
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i have never entered a cracker barrel. always just felt like it was a racist restaurant
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bellows lugosi posted:i have never entered a cracker barrel. always just felt like it was a racist restaurant Well, it hasn't been the same since they fired Brad's wife. After 11 years of service no less.
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