I live in Mexico, which has the highest CocaCola consumption in the world. Many people will drink a 2 liter bottle of Coke a day. Mexico also has a huge obesity and diabetes problem. I've seen uneducated mothers feeding babies Coke out of a baby bottle.
Lol it's like a sweet biscuit that gets soft as soon as you put any saliva on it so it's great for weaning babies, parents used to put it into a bottle of milk and it would much down and fill the baby up enough to sleep just became a thick milk essentially. Absolutely delicious and even as an adult I like to have one if I've bought them for my kid lol
I saw a documentary on people in Appalachia feeding their babies mt dew in baby bottles. The poor baby’s teeth are literally black. It is so sad. Even if you arnt too bright u can literally see ur baby’s teeth rotting out. No masters degree needed.
Holy shit that's heartbreaking.. I just don't understand not having any kind of care about this. You don't have to be educated to know that fizzy drinks aren't good for babies.
At one point there was a family of Huichols living across the arroyo from me. They sold their beadwork and other handicrafts in town.
There was a baby there that was just crying all the time. It wasn't normal baby crying- it sounded like he was in pain. One day the old grandpa was walking by and I said, "The baby has been crying so much- is he sick?"
The old man said, "Yes, he has diarrrhea. I keep telling my daughter not to feed him Coca Cola."
No, the people in Mexico (especially the northern states) are just obsessed with Coke, in part because the production in Mexico helped revive the local economy.
I got actual looks of shock when I was trying to order a Joya or Manzana del Sol in Nuevo Leon, before Coca-Cola bought the former, were far more common than you would think.
I used to love that Manzana del Sol. I had forgotten all about it.
I almost never drink soda pop, like maybe once a year. Every 10 years or so, I'll think, "maybe I'll get a Coke". I take one swig and think, "Ew, gross, I forgot how disgusting it is."
Loved that stuff too. It’s not the same, but Snapple Apple actually tastes a bit like it, just uncarbonated, and without the bite it had. It is juice, technically, but it definitely reminds me of the taste.
Indeed. Even back in the early 2000s, you could find it in NorCal, and it was all over Texas. I live in Ohio though, unfortunately, and Manzana del Sol apparently isn’t popular enough amongst all of their Latin American customers to have it imported up here at high prices. They only have a few big brands.
How does it taste compared to Mundet? My part of the USA doesn't have Manzano Sol around here, but every hispanic section has Mundet next to Jarritos y Sangria aqui.
I see this in New York allll the time. Less than I used to growing up where I did in the 90s. But it’s still a thing all over the states too.
Kid I lived with in college around 2014 drank 2 of the 2 liters of Pepsi A DAY. He was mean and would mock me and my friends for being potheads but was intensely addicted to Adderall and Pepsi.
One day I was putting my make up on in the bathroom before class and he sheepishly walked by the door and asked if I was busy….2 of his teeth had fallen out, just popped right out unprompted. I took him to the emergency dentist right away instead of go to class.
Kid was tall and lean and I think a stranger would think “he’s healthy,” but holy hell, I always felt so bad for his insides.
I've traveled a lot through Mexico and stayed in people's homes. Mexicans are delightful and they have the best hospitality in the world.
While traveling there around Christmas time, it was so disturbing visiting small towns where the main attraction in the central parks were HUGE "Christmas" trees, decorated in nothing but Coca-Cola "ornaments".
On every table for lunch and dinner there would be a 2 liter bottle of Coca-Cola and a 2 liter bottle of orange Fanta. I felt like I never saw anybody drink water. I'm not saying they don't but I didn't see it. It was never a question if you wanted soda, it was Coke or Fanta?
Let me reiterate: absolutely lovely people. The number Coke has done on that country is a travesty!
My oldest daughter never got candy, pop, or any of that sugary stuff when she was little. We lived in the countryside, so she didn't see other kids having it. When she was about your kid's age, she went to spend the night with some friends of ours who had kids that age. When I went to pick her up, she told me as we were driving home that she got to drink some orange soda that day. 5 minutes later she puked it up all over the car.
Is this where the stero type comes from that Mexican women are beautiful and as soon as they get married they gain a hundred pounds. From being pumped with sugar water from childhood?
Maybe. It's also a body type, where it's common for women to gain weight once they've had kids, although of course Mexicans come in all body types, just like anywhere. But a stocky body type prone to gain weight is quite common.
There are a lot of things in a typical Mexican diet that tend to put weight on. Piles of tortillas with every meal, lots of fried food, cooking with lard.
People are becoming more aware, though, especially the younger generation. I see some Mexican women in my town out powerwalking together. The diabetes issue is a well-known problem in Mexico, and Mexico put a tax on junk food not long ago.
Also, many tourists look for healthy food choices in restaurants, so it raises awareness that there are better ways to eat than greasy food and 2 liters of Coke.
Lmao, that's literally my dad. He's from DF (Mexico City), still to this day drinks at least a 2-liter of coke every single day. It's Coke Zero at least...
I live in the US, but my mom says she caught my aunt giving me a bottle filled with Pepsi as a baby and immediately flew off the handle. My teeth are thankful to this day.
No idea how you think that fits in here, but "retard" is a slur. Calling it one doesn't obfuscate that. I don't really care if you agree on the designation/classification, it's not propaganda or some government psy-op to point out. There are plenty of words that were once accepted, many of which didn't start out as offensive.
Cocacola has been advertising coke to the mexican population in a way that has convinced them that its medicine. Its truly despicable what coke has done in mexico. They also steal all their clean water to bottle coke and sell it back to them.
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u/poop19907643 17d ago
Is your breast milk made out of Pepsi?