This is funny because just today I heard people saying you should switch to aspartame because new studies have shown that sucralose can break down your DNA and be bad for you and make you sick.
The closest I could find to an actual source basically said that if you drank an entire 18-wheeler truck full of soda that was sweetened with sucralose in one day then you’d probably get sick. Well, duh. If you drink that much of anything in one day you’re gonna have a bad time.
My son and I were discussing artificial sweeteners the other day, and I commented that they leave a film on my teeth. He had no clue as to what I was talking about. Now, he’s on a different level of the spectrum than I, so I did take into account that his sensory issues are different from mine. But even after saying, “well, you know the feeling you get in your mouth when you haven’t brushed your teeth in a while?”, and he still didn’t get it.
We both agreed, though, that they usually leave an aftertaste.
Not to mention that ubiquitous chemical, hydrogen hydroxide (AKA dihydrogen monoxide).
I find I’m so used to aspartame that soda or tea with either sugar or sucralose tastes funny. And don’t get me started on stevia; it seems to have a hint of licorice flavor. (Not to mention dougia or frankia.)
The chemistry of sucralose bothers me. It’s sucrose with three of the hydroxy groups (-OH) replaced with chlorine. Seems a little too weird.
I guess I got used to any aftertaste to aspartame after so many years. But saccharin definitely has an aftertaste. And the duringtaste isn’t much good either.
He had a Mtn Dew Baja Blast Zero and said it had a foretaste.
Yes it does. I once worked for a company that touted stevia and it did absolutely have that licorice taste.
But dougia and frankia - are those real things? And if so, why? I knew a guy named doug and I certainly wouldn’t want to eat anything flavored like him.
Fortunately that was just a joke. We have a breakfast restaurant nearby that’s really good despite the “natural food” theme (e.g., kale smoothies). For your tea you have a choice between sugar in the raw and stevia. You can ask for Equal, in a whisper of course, and they will sneak it to you.
My two artificial sweetener cents.
Once about 15 years ago I tried Diet Coke. It was horrible.
I love licorice but cannot stand stevia, so there’s something else there that’s unpleasant / unpleasant as well. Monk fruit also, bleeegch.
100% unbelievable. how could you go to Italy, take a historical tour, and NOT know what you are standing in is ancient?
I mean, there are people who think the Colosseum was a power station and that it’s being covered up by “the government”, so… more like 80% unbelievable, I think. 
I’m just glad it wasn’t an American this time.
honestly, that was my first thought, too – “omg, some American did WHAT?”
Can I just hit him over the head with a Bolgonese sausage?
People are ignorant/stupid/et al, no matter what their age, race, religion, creed, country of origin, culture, ad nauseum.
“Folks, I want to tell you; it is really simple. I’ll show you how to change America. A hundred-fifty years ago, or 200 years ago when the Blacks were slaves: Did they ever go to Washington, D.C., and have a rally 200 years ago to protest against slavery? No. What did they do?”
I never once thought that, in this day and age, I’d hear someone suggest that slaves could have gone to have protests and rallies, but didn’t because they just thought sitting around and praying was the way to go. This guy is so wrong in so. many. ways.
The entire Christian fundie community is so wrong in so many ways.
Watch “Shiny Happy People”. It’s sick, how these people “raise” children. And scary, too. Not just dumb - because even if deep down in their hearts-of-hearts they don’t believe it, they HAVE to act like they do, all the time.
Oh yeah, and he married off his daughter to a known sexual predator and lover of cruel child porn.
A Florida family that allegedly formed a faux church and made over $1 million by falsely selling toxic industrial bleach as a miracle cure for HIV, cancer, COVID-19, and other diseases is now standing trial in Miami.
The Grenons have reportedly decided to represent themselves during the trial. But the Herald noted that they declined to give an opening statement, an intriguing legal move.
Despite federal court orders to stop selling MMS in 2020, the Grenons kept the business going. “We are practicing ‘civil disobedience’ against this unjust order! Civil disobedience is permitted in the US Constitution, peaceably of course at first, if possible," the Grenons wrote in a letter to a federal judge. “NOTE: The 2nd Amendment is there in case it can’t be done peaceably.”
(emphasis added)
Yeah, how’s that 2nd amendment bluster working out for ya?
