The use of optimal in that statement seems far-fetched.

First of all, if this:

said "black people in general", how quickly would he be re-banned?

Second, I agree that aspartame is immediately recognizable in all food products, liquid or otherwise, as are any other chemically-derived sweeteners, which all have an awful aftertaste. I have never not noticed when something I was consuming had it.

Third, I'm very surprised my casual guess about the difference between calories in regular and diet set off such a debate. I was really pulling a random number out of thin air. I don't drink soda often so I have no clue what the calories are for either.

Finally, I feel that the topic of fat shaming might be appropriate for this thread because I'm not entirely convinced it's my or other peoples jobs to get mad about strangers being fat. I know it probably shouldn't bother me, but hey, I already posted on it once.

Edit:

PS, this:

is wrong. Drinking too much liquid can be bad, as can drinking no liquid. But those are both entirely dependent on other factors that have nothing to do with a glass of water or whatever.

I used to believe the above quote was true as well, until I read some science. There's this whole wing of hippies that is obsessed about food, spouting stuff like that quote and they got their claws into me at a young age. Still working on undoing the damage.

^^ I don't know anything about science behind it, or hippies. Drinking while eating is just something I've never done, and always seemed strange to me.

So you will get a burger/sandwich/steak/pasta and sides but won't have a glass of water/soda/beer with it?

People that don't drink while they are eating.

You're an idiot, as is anyone who thinks that men and women differ only in anatomy. And the difference is way more than what is culturally derived. This fact is blatantly obvious to anyone except those who are willing to disregard everything their life experience has shown them, in favor of the teachings of post-structural feminists and anyone else who can't understand that "men and women are equal" can be true while "men and women are the same" is false.

This is truly bizarre

Since I live in AZ and have been raised to drink a ton of water, I can't physically finish a meal (actually like 3-4 bites) without having something to drink. I am a big alcohol drinker, but when I go out to eat, I usually finish a beer before I get my meal and then have 3-4 sips of it during my meal because I am downing 2+ glasses of water. My favorite restaurants are the ones that give you a 32+ ounce glass of water or a water pitcher on the table. Waitresses that don't keep my water filled while I eat are the worst.

trob888, where are you from? my old German relatives didn't drink anything when they ate.

USA#1

oh, then no excuse

Do waitresses/waiters give you a funny look when they ask what you want to drink and you say, "nothing?"

i think hes just trolle, nobody drinks absolutely nothing with a meal.

I used to.

You seem a bit like an idiot for inferring all of that without me having said any of it.

Two can play at this game.

how oblivious do you have to be to not know that you're the bizarre one here?

A guy I used to work with was incredulous that anyone would put jelly or jam on a peanut butter sandwich. Him not wanting it is fine w/e, but he'd be shocked at anyone having pb&j.

edit: nvm, at no point do I say I'm not the bizarre one

Then pick better words next time because the statement ...
... implies that you think everyone else besides you (since the vast majority of people do in fact drink while they eat) is wrong or odd, and you are right or normal.

You're conveniently ignoring wrong as in unsuitable or undesirable. And lol at thinking I say anything about "everyone else besides [me]." I even threw in the little "imo" at the end there.

Hey man, I am just pointing out that responses like
and
Are largely due to your wording imo. Just sayin' dude
/derail

TBadr, you're overreacting. Everyone understands what it means to say something sucks or is weird.

I guess i'm nit-picking and that's probably why I let it go after just two posts certainly don't want to derail such an entertaining thread over some silliness.

He's is like Elwood Blues, plain white toast with nothing to drink.

people who put ketchup on french toast instead of syrup