Ad Nausea: The War On Sugary Drinks

Here is New York City’s latest piece of propaganda in the new cola war, this being the war on them not between them.  It is a delicious glass of human fat globules, to remind you that drinking soda makes you a fatty fat fatty.

This is the thing: I do rather prefer a refreshing seltzer to a jumbo cup of cola.  But!  This kind of nanny state finger-wagging inspires the knee-jerk response of “well how ’bout I knock back some shots of Jolt cola and chase them with a liter of Mountain Dew just to spite ya?”  Not to mention it is just vomit-making, that image.  Which is soon to be plastered “in 1,500 subway cars for three months.”

I should look into getting in on the ground floor of the soda smuggling business now, right?  Running barrels of Mr. Pibb across state lines for profit? Surely that’s going to be the new black market.  [NYT/City Room via The Doree Chronicles]

From the Dept. of Awful Ideas

This is why we can’t have essential things:  “Water is the lifeblood of all living things, without it there would be no life on Earth.  Water is the matrix of life, binding us to all living things and the Earth.  Water is Ed Hardy Water.”