Internet is Shocked to Learn That Sugary Drink Has Lots of Sugar...
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I think the problem here is a classic example of Trevor's Axiom. [https://vimeo.com/194900488]
What's happened is this:
1. Starbucks has released a deliberately fancy drink that's basically designed to be put on Instagram and Snapchat.
2. A bunch of people uploaded photos of the Unicorn to their various social media gloating mechanisms.
3. A bunch of other people, annoyed at the banality and triviality of the first group, decided that they'd tell those people who stupid they are by pointing out that the drink is absolutely terrible for you.[footnote]Classic health supremacism. When will healthy, fit people stop harassing us lonely fat people for our life choices?! If I decided that I want to eat a bucket of extra-crispy KFC chicken with an ice-cream and mayonnaise topping in front of the TV wearing only a pair of underpants, then by God, you can just try to stop me![/footnote]
4. A third group of people, annoyed at the banality and triviliality of the second group, decided that they'd tell those people how stupid they are for having successfully noticed that a sugary drink contains a lot of sugar.
5. With the axiom's chain reaction now in effect, a foolish onlooker has attempted to resolve the dispute and stop the Unicorn from reaching critical meme-mass by breaking down the entire process, but he has failed to recognise that he is now part of a fourth group of people, annoyed at the banality and triviliaty of the third group, and that all he is doing is being inexorably drawn into the vicious cycle of self-righteous meme-ery.
What's happened is this:
1. Starbucks has released a deliberately fancy drink that's basically designed to be put on Instagram and Snapchat.
2. A bunch of people uploaded photos of the Unicorn to their various social media gloating mechanisms.
3. A bunch of other people, annoyed at the banality and triviality of the first group, decided that they'd tell those people who stupid they are by pointing out that the drink is absolutely terrible for you.[footnote]Classic health supremacism. When will healthy, fit people stop harassing us lonely fat people for our life choices?! If I decided that I want to eat a bucket of extra-crispy KFC chicken with an ice-cream and mayonnaise topping in front of the TV wearing only a pair of underpants, then by God, you can just try to stop me![/footnote]
4. A third group of people, annoyed at the banality and triviliality of the second group, decided that they'd tell those people how stupid they are for having successfully noticed that a sugary drink contains a lot of sugar.
5. With the axiom's chain reaction now in effect, a foolish onlooker has attempted to resolve the dispute and stop the Unicorn from reaching critical meme-mass by breaking down the entire process, but he has failed to recognise that he is now part of a fourth group of people, annoyed at the banality and triviliaty of the third group, and that all he is doing is being inexorably drawn into the vicious cycle of self-righteous meme-ery.
Like a circle of bulimic snakes eating each other. On...Instagram?bastardofmelbourne said:I think the problem here is a classic example of Trevor's Axiom. [https://vimeo.com/194900488]
What's happened is this:
1. Starbucks has released a deliberately fancy drink that's basically designed to be put on Instagram and Snapchat.
2. A bunch of people uploaded photos of the Unicorn to their various social media gloating mechanisms.
3. A bunch of other people, annoyed at the banality and triviality of the first group, decided that they'd tell those people who stupid they are by pointing out that the drink is absolutely terrible for you.[footnote]Classic health supremacism. When will healthy, fit people stop harassing us lonely fat people for our life choices?! If I decided that I want to eat a bucket of extra-crispy KFC chicken with an ice-cream and mayonnaise topping in front of the TV wearing only a pair of underpants, then by God, you can just try to stop me![/footnote]
4. A third group of people, annoyed at the banality and triviliality of the second group, decided that they'd tell those people how stupid they are for having successfully noticed that a sugary drink contains a lot of sugar.
5. With the axiom's chain reaction now in effect, a foolish onlooker has attempted to resolve the dispute and stop the Unicorn from reaching critical meme-mass by breaking down the entire process, but he has failed to recognise that he is now part of a fourth group of people, annoyed at the banality and triviliaty of the third group, and that all he is doing is being inexorably drawn into the vicious cycle of self-righteous meme-ery.
I don't follow current (or any) Starbucks trends, probably because it's a US thing and corporate marketing exercises are about as interesting as a fresh morning turd nestled on an ants nest. But am aware of the food/drink industry's love of sugar and society's casual yet mostly oblivious addiction to it. People are just being people as per usual.
While a lot of people claim to like coffee, dark and without sugar or milk, they ussually buy something very different. A place that serves coffee light gets to claim some of the romanticism of coffee with taste that most people actually like. What taste do most people actually like? Well, sugar of course.sanquin said:
Don't get me wrong, maybe you personally really do like dark coffee but most people don't seem to buy that, as much as they buy the soft sugarry stuff. I know I can't blame people for preferring sugar. I drank a sip of coffee once. I was thouroughly disgusted by that vile bitter taste.
Touche008Zulu said:
I do want to know why the hell there's so much outrage over this. I mean, people being to dumb to realize that the obviously sugary drink is full of sugar aside, I once took up drinking Ice Caps from Tim Hortons, but then I was told those are full of sugar and my rection was "oh. Ok, better cut back on those." I didn't loose my shit. ...oh wait. It's the internet. Never mind.
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Wait wait wait, hold the phone. You're telling ME that a drink topped with whipped cream is full of sugar? Why I NEVER!
I'll first say that the Dutch are very much into coffee. Often with little milk and sugar. And I am Dutch. With that being said, I drink my coffee with very little milk (like, 1/4 or less of one of those small milk cups restaurants/cafes often have) and about two to three tea spoons of sugar. So I do like my sugar yes. Though I sometimes drink my coffee with only 1~1.5 teaspoons of sugar when I'm a bit tired. For some reason, that bitter taste is great when I'm tired.Pseudonym said:
For the record...
The version I see the most people (on Facebook and other social media) complaining about is the 16oz grande, which has 410 calories and 59g of sugar, or worse, the venti, which has the fabled 76g of sugar.
See how conveniently the serving size is cut off from this graphic.
Nobody ever lists the size or mentions the 12oz (has 280 calories and 39g of sugar), it's still bad but well within the range of other sugary drinks.
Even weighing it against a standard 16oz Dunkin Donuts Coolatta, that has 490 calories, 69g sugar, worse than the unicorn.
Also it's a temporary promotion that expired today, not that it matters because, while pretty, the drink tastes sour, not like what a lot of people would expect or enjoy when drinking something named after a unicorn.
The version I see the most people (on Facebook and other social media) complaining about is the 16oz grande, which has 410 calories and 59g of sugar, or worse, the venti, which has the fabled 76g of sugar.
See how conveniently the serving size is cut off from this graphic.
Nobody ever lists the size or mentions the 12oz (has 280 calories and 39g of sugar), it's still bad but well within the range of other sugary drinks.
Even weighing it against a standard 16oz Dunkin Donuts Coolatta, that has 490 calories, 69g sugar, worse than the unicorn.
Also it's a temporary promotion that expired today, not that it matters because, while pretty, the drink tastes sour, not like what a lot of people would expect or enjoy when drinking something named after a unicorn.
Speaking of Gravity Falls, considering the flavor was sour, rather than sweet and was named after a unicorn, the first thing I thought about was the episode in which the girls beat the crap out of a unicorn for being self righteous and rude.Tank207 said:
I'm not surprised at all that people are shocked. The average person has almost no clue when it comes to nutrition or diet. I stopped getting surprised about the level of ignorance around food a long time ago.
