Soft drinks are mostly corn syrup. Most “juice” drinks aren’t much better. Even things that claim to be water are soft drinks with different marketing. (Are we not supposed to notice that the second ingredient — “crystalline fructose” — is sugar?)
Lucky for me, back in college I dated a girl who drank Diet Coke. That’s what she always had in her apartment, so whenever I was there, that’s what I drank. After a while, “regular” colas started tasting sticky-sweet, and I couldn’t drink them any more. Of course, diet sodas have some stuff in them I probably shouldn’t be drinking for other reasons.
So what am I supposed to do, drink water? Oh … right.
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Review: Finishing Salt from The Meadow
Some people are wine snobs. Excuse me … connoisseurs. Others are chocolate snobs, or coffee snobs, or beer snobs. (I’ve heard some of them won’t even say they like beer — they like micro-brews.)
But did you know that you can be a salt snob? I’ve heard stories of people who bring their own salt to restaurants. I know that fleur de sel is the salt that chefs prefer. I’ve heard of pink Hawaiian salt and a few others. But boy, that’s just scratching the surface.
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