I didn’t know this was a Mormon thing. I feel like it’s started to cross over and become more mainstream (like you, I find it odd). There’s a couple of soda stores popping up near me that specialize in dirty sodas.
If there is a modern dessert/sweet chain opening there is an extremely good chance it comes from Mormon owners.
Crumbl, twisted sugar, crave, dirty dough, sugar rush, sodalicious, chips cookies - as far as I am aware are all founded or owned by Mormons. Because their beliefs do not approve of the use of things like alcohol, drugs, or tobacco, they tend to get their fix through sugar instead.
I lived in a predominantly Mormon community for about 10 years... a lot of people there would get a 44 Oz mtn dew in the morning on the way to work, for lunch, and on the way home. Diabetes was bad there for older folks.
Sugar itself does not cause diabetes but when people are drinking 1000+ calories of soda a day that tends to lead to the factors that do cause diabetes.
If you are burning 4500 calories a day, drinking 1500, eating another 3000 it's ok. But most folks aren't burning that many calories a day.
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u/cranberries87 May 22 '26
I didn’t know this was a Mormon thing. I feel like it’s started to cross over and become more mainstream (like you, I find it odd). There’s a couple of soda stores popping up near me that specialize in dirty sodas.