I work for a “coffee shop” and we serve an iced slushie that you may or may not have heard of.
For all of the fucking idiot parents that are coming in on a regular basis buying all 6 of their spoiled rotten children iced cappuccinos: you might as well be buying them four extra large double-doubles.
You stand in line and bitch about your annoying children and your soccer mom priorities, yet you’re serving your children 6 bazillion cups of caffeine in this one drink… and you wonder why they’re driving you fucking nuts?
Really? You’re worried about drugs? I would be worried about the damn slushies… —Concerned Parent
This article appears in Jul 29 – Aug 4, 2010.
…and more ketchup/catsup for the fries from scary clown place. no sugar in that either*snort
Hear, hear! Stop giving kids so much junk! They need sugar detoxes, not ritalin.
some of these people would be like horrified if they saw someone give their kids like a sip of wine or something; but a masssive dose of caffeine is fine huh?
I’d imagine they’re dropping the kids off shortly after at their ex’s place for their court-ordered, weekly visit.
I’m glad someone said this before I did! I want to smack any parent I see giving their kids caffeine like this! I know it’s none of my business and they can raise their kids their own way… but there is something seriously wrong with giving your kids caffeine.
Im glad someone bitched about this also! I hate when I see parents giving their kids junk like this!
one of y’all didn’t happen to be the hippy on the hill smugly shaking your head at the pop drinker, were you?
Really?
what messed up parents do that?
How about some real fruit juice?!
Argh, soccer moms…..worse ever. They should be slipping a few Graval into those drinks for their spawn.
My son loves white tea.
souinds like someone needs a good jolt of java themselves.
there’s very little caffeine in white tea
I grow my own herbs to have an annual supply of herbal teas. No caffeine and it’s free! Timmies never sees a cent of my money, nor do I find myself standing daily in the Timmies ovine line for my fix. Parents who think nothing of starting their kids off on a caffeine addiction at an early age have no idea what they are doing to their kids. But how fifferent is drinking ice capps from allowing unlimited access to pop which is also heavily sugared and caffinated?
same difference ol, and what other kind of herbage are you growing? ^^^ fifferent…teehee
Doesn’t caffeine in excessive quantities stunt your growth?
…or maybe that was just a myth/lie my parents told me so I wouldn’t drink it when I was little 😛
Kids nowadays don’t scare easily. I saw that British guy in the States trying to convince kids that chicken nuggets are gross, and upon seeing what actually goes into so-called “chicken” nuggets, kids proceeded to eat them.
When my sister was little, the science teacher showed the class what happens when he threw a gold fish into a glass of pop. My sister was mortified, and never drinks pop.
Hear hear. I’m currently working at a zoo, which frequently has me working the ice cream stand. It seriously boggles my mind how many times I come across self-absorbed soccer moms screaming away at their indecisive hyperactive kids before ordering 20 fucking ounces of sugar and frozen hydrogenated oil product for them just to get them to stop screaming. Makes me want to lean over the counter and smack them.
NewToHalifax – actually, on the British version of the same show he scared the kids shitless using the same demonstration. It was just the US version where the kids were crawling over themselves to eat the crap in spite of the process. I’m still not sure if that’s hilarious or really sad.
Does caffeine stunt your growth? I’m not very tall and I have been drinking tea since I was a pipsqueak. But since everyone in my family is short, is it genetics, or because we all love tea?
no escaping the gene pool hollah
No. Caffeine has no effect on growth.
Someone just said to give kids fruit juice?!?! Do you know how much sugar is in that shit? I don’t care how “real” it is, I don’t even drink ‘real fruit’ juice. My high school got rid of the diet pepsi machine to put in a Tropicana Twister machine. Smart. I only drink the juice with no added sugar, which is a significantly less amount that regular juice. I’d recommened sugar-free juice but you all seem to hate artificial sweeteners :P. I’ve been drinking them for years now and I still have only 2 arms and no tumours. I also don’t smoke, so this is my vice ;D.
juice in baby bottles…quick route to rotten roots
I have heard of people putting kool-aid and pop in baby bottles 🙁
Real juice does have a lot of good vitamins and things too though – it’s like eating fruit, and when you have fussy kids (NOT babies – rotten roots is right, pg), sometimes it’s a good way to get them some extra nutrients. But watch the labels. And last time I checked, it may have natural sugars… but NO caffeine!!
There are only several commercially prepared juices that have no added sugar, that are sweetened by naturally occuring sugars. Orange juice, apple juice and pineapple juice. Everything else is loaded with added sugar and therefore never seen in my grocery cart. I always diluted the apple, orange or pineapple juice with water for baby bottles further limiting the amount of naturally occuring sugar. My own fave summer refresher is a jug of ice cold water to which has been added the juice of 1 fresh lemon (and/or lime). No added sugar. No chance of scurvy…hehe!
wtf do i know, i drank tang “the astronauts drink” when i was young…but my teeth are great
good old tang the magic space cadet juice 🙂
…squeeze-a-snack, cocktail weiners, cheese balls, tom collins….cocktail parties in the 60’s woohoo
I grew up on tang too! Even bought some for nastalgic reasons. They even have flavours other than spacesuit orange now, some pretty tasty. That nasty looking and difficult to remove white residue on the emptied glass jug cured my nostalgia pretty quick though. And now BEEP has gone the way of the dodo. What’s a juice junkie to do but make lemons into lemonade!
the powder reminds me of pixie-sticks…now there’s a healthy snack^^^
Tang is a fantastic drink mix. It had to be said.
pixie sticks , lick-a maid (hmmm double entendre perhaps) barrets powder stuff with the licorice dipper thingy those were the days yea baby 🙂
it’s fun to be an old fart^^^
does anyone remember hostess : orange(probably tang powder) grape and cherry potato chips; they only lasted for a short while I’m thinking like 74-75 approx. paingirl?
Tnag is even good for cleaning out your dishwasher! (so WHAT the heck is IN that stuff??) Though I must say, lick a maids were my favourite *mouse ears*
nope don’t remember those martym, probably living in the wrong province. i remember drinking lots of kool-aid. that shite stained your mouth, can’t imagine what it did to the innards. but hey i’m fine “who said that”?^^^
how about the poor mans kool-aid it was 5cents instead of 7 cents ; Freshie hmmm member that 🙂
Maybe the moms are purposely getting the kids jacked on caff so they’ll crash like an old whore after her last dick of the night.
hey ya old bag…thanks for the imagery. i like your succinctness
oh my that’s a nice thought 🙂
Freshie….mmmmmm….martym, we Newfie kids only ever got Freshie instead of Koolaid. Pixie sticks are still obtainable at that freakish candy store I just love so much. Even the jumbo size…mmmmmm…sugar rush!
Lick-a-maid! I LOVED that shit! That and nerds and popeye fake cigarettes (“candy sticks” now — and they took the red off the end).
My mom always gave me kool aid too. And my grandmother gave me and my cousin tang and fruit roll ups. And popsicles. And I don’t have one cavity — perhaps because i was taught proper oral hygiene from a young age? Who knows.
I fucking MISS sugar!
AND FREEZIES!
Apparently there’s sugar free freezies, but from that bitch where the OP got the serious shitz…no thanks.
Don’t blame ya PK, stay away from the shit inducing freezies. Mmm… fruit roll-ups. I had one a couple years back, but they don’t taste the same. I wonder if taste buds change after puberty?
do they still have those GIANT freezies like 3 feet long; there wasn’t too much sugar in those used to go kinda mental after eating? one 🙂
Posted by newtohalifax on August 4, 2010 at 6:43 PM:
“When my sister was little, the science teacher showed the class what happens when he threw a gold fish into a glass of pop. My sister was mortified, and never drinks pop.”
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Holy crap!!! Are you effing serious man? That is wrong for so many reasons.
Of course if you put a fish into a saturated solution of carbon dioxide it will die horribly. What an awful thing to do.
Carbonated water has no ill health effects in humans in normal amounts.
Putting a fish in pop, in front of kids? Sick. This person should be fired immediately for cruelty, pop science with no basis in fact and sensationalism.
What an unbelievable idiot.
Here, make this comparison: Let’s say my dainty and gentle grade one teacher Ms. Smith decides to demonstrate that carbon dioxide over a certain concentration is fatal to all animals. Ms smith puts a hamster in a glass tank and turns on the CO2… the kids watch the small rodent struggle and convulse and then die….
Nice lesson for the kids, yeah. Un – fucking – believable. Bet the teacher is a biology grad.
Apple juice made my kid as jumpy as an addict, so I used to have to water it down or mix it with other juices. No soda or sunny-d in our house. He loved milk though, so it was all good. He’s 21 and still drinks at least a litre a day.
Not only do I remember (eating and throwing up) those Hostess Chips, I remember that the vodka and “orange” at the Misty Moon was friggin TANG.
They DO still have those giant freezies! Went camping a couple weeks ago, stopped by a little quickie mart and man-oh-man, I ate that whole thing… was more wired than a frat boy with 7 jaggerbombs in his gut frosh weekend. Weeeehooooo!
yea baby cheap sugar ye-ha !
i’m off to buy some hoppy, malty, bubbly stuff…thirsty rawk
Um . . . it’s “Lick-M-Aid” a.k.a “Fun Dip” . . . not “Lick-a-Maid.”
All the same I guess, now that I think about it.
And, ooooooohhh I LOOOOOOVED it as a kid.
I did try it again a few years ago and it just didn’t taste the same.
Probably because Nestle owns it now.
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–Ruby
malty bubbly stuff hmm sasparilla ? 🙂 my sugar fix of choice back in the day was strawberry fruitella omfg i would eat at least one pack a day two if i had the dough 🙂
I’d rather Lick-a-Maid. I’ve heard the French kind will stimulate your senses.
Nobody Nowhere, good to see you sorting things out again.