Soda

“I mean, that is unexcusable that we're, you know, Coca-Cola is making, you know, $8 billion or whatever it is from taxpayer money to give soda to kids who are then on Medicaid and bankrupt the system, and like 38% of teens have pre-diabetes.”

“Late last year, there was a really interesting set of videos that were authenticated. The discussion was: should food stamps be allowed to be used to purchase soda? And someone from the American Heart Association was asked on this panel, what do you think?”

“To me, that seems a little bit like a movie that I'm hoping isn't real. But in the end, I think they took soda off the list of things that could be purchased with these stamps. I believe that's the outcome because there was enough social pressure because of social media and this just went wild.”

“And so, what happened is we done a bunch of brain work. We put together a creative campaign on how we're the future of the soda or future of soda is now called poppi. And we brought this creative to life and we saw it.”

“That's what we did at poppi. We have cola, we have root beer, we have cream soda, we have all of these flavors that people grew up, and we're just better, right? And so, instead of being like, hey, we're poppi, we also have ashwagandha and lion's mane, and we have 38 other ingredients that nobody actually cares about, versus, hey, we're gonna make this 89% less sugar.”

“Where fructose earns its reputation is in the form that it arrives in. Liquid sugar in soda, for example, or other high-fructose corn syrup-laden beverages, which are very calorie-dense, don't make you feel full and are trivially easy to consume.”

“No. And in fact, in Mexico, when they tried to put a tax on soda, it got fought by the big, by the Coca-Cola. And the tax was reversed.”

“I was drinking these sodas. They had these sodas that you could buy in like liquor stores in LA that were filled with caffeine. And I would write. They were like death soda. It was like skulls on them and they were blue and they had like hot sauce on them and shit. They were crazy sodas. That's the PlayStation shit. They were really good. And I got addicted to them and I'd buy them, buy the case.”

“putting sugar in everything. And then kids started drinking sugary sodas and eating sugary candy and that stuff gets stuck in your teeth. He's like, I think that's the cause of it. Yeah. And probably high fructose corn syrup's probably just as bad or if not worse than actual sugar.”

“But they were basically saying that there's some issues with how the body breaks it down. When you drink a soda, just think about that. Where in nature do you get 20 grams of sugar just in liquid form and you just pump it down? Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug.”

“And whenever I post about non-nutritive sweeteners in the comments. There's always one or two or three people who say, all I did was cut out soda and I drank diet soda instead and I lost 50 pounds or I lost 75 pounds. I even have 1%. I lost 100 pounds. That's the only thing I did. Wow. I mean, that's a pretty massive lever to pull.”

“It was all junk food like chips, noodles. Damn. Soda. You know, water condiments. So no protein, none, none, none, none whatsoever. And I didn't think about that part, you know, because I was working out like crazy and I was getting shredded.”