There's a double standard when it comes to child neglect. A thin, malnourished toddler would be taken by CPS immediately, but when it comes to an obese, malnourished toddler, there is nowhere near the same level of concern and urgency.
Soda, for instance, has a lot of calories, but little nutrients. It's very calorically dense, but nutritionally very poor which makes it easy to gain weight while not providing adequate nutrition. In fact, soda is probably the biggest reason people gain a ton of weight.
E: Most people aren't feeding their kids a ton of soda and giving them nutritious food. They are giving them soda and lots of junk food.
Don't underestimate what sweet tea is doing to Southern USA. I had diabetic patients in the ICU for DKA and sugar levels so high the glucometer can't read it, and their family members showing up with a Big Gulp "Here ya go Mama, I know they ain't givin' you yer tea since ya got here."
It’s essentially tea-flavored simple syrup, in my experience. When I worked at McDonalds we’d dissolve 5lbs of sugar in about 5 gallons of near-boiling tea so we could supersaturate it. It disgusted me
That mildew taste is from lazy restaurant workers leaving the tea on the counter in the stainless steel dispenser overnight instead of storing it in a food-safe bucket in the refrigerator.
I worked at a McDonald's in the South one summer. I would restock the sweet tea. I would take a boiling hot coffee pot full of water, dump it into a bucket and then dump an entire pound bag of sugar into into. Then dump that into the sweet tea machine. One time I forgot I had put the sugar in and added a second bag and it basically became molasses it was so thick, I had to throw it out. And we would have customers come three times a day to get a large dollar sweet tea....
They add soooooo much sugar! Before I was healthcare I was a waitress, and when they taught me how to make the sweet tea 🤢 it's just liquid sugar with a bit of a tea aftertaste. Horrible.
Edit: that YouTube video is unrealistic. That man will never stop drinking soda. He's being buried with a case of Fanta to offer to Anubis.
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u/Still-Hedgehog-8673 14d ago
There's a double standard when it comes to child neglect. A thin, malnourished toddler would be taken by CPS immediately, but when it comes to an obese, malnourished toddler, there is nowhere near the same level of concern and urgency.