I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn’t even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.
In case you’re wondering if we care about what you’re buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don’t fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am
edit: oh and I learned about a new pasta last week, that was cool
I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.
Running between the rain drops to not get wet, then diving into the lake.
Running between the rain drops
What did I just watch.
I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you’ll be an uptight bitch
Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.
It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.
Coke zero is worse for your health.
nobody who drinks Coke care for their health.
You prob believe vaping is worse than cigs too
it depends, some vapes are indeed worse than most cigs, i think most can agree with both being bad
in what situation is low temp vapor worse than burning smoke and ash in your lungs, ignore the chemicals, which are always better in vapes, even american spirit all natural tobacco have chemicals and aren’t really all natural, tar is always worse
Uhm, source??
I love how people just feel like artificial sweeteners must be bad for you. They’re okay. Not healthy, but way better than sugar.
Also: Coke can still be kinda unhealthy, other ingredients etc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
For transparency, here is another page that seems more in favor of Aspartame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
Here’s the conclusion of Yuka, which is a lot more on the “alarmist” side: https://help.yuka.io/l/en/article/r2x5e36paq-aspartame (note that the US FDA is considered as really lax compared to some other countries in Europe in terms of additives and health concerns worldwide)
Many studies show that artificial sweeteners doesn’t help with weight loss at all
Having less calories helps? Those ppl they studied likely didnt practice cico and ate more because they thought they saved calories from drinking less soda so they ended up at maintenence or over
If they studied ppl who thought they were drinking regular soda but it was sugar free than youd see wight loss, but they were aware that it was sugar free and 0 calories so they ate more
Move like a butterfly, sting like an insulin jab.
Can’t even afford to be an alcoholic to forget about your money problems anymore in this economy
Unironically. Half the appeal of booze has historically been that its cheap.
I kinda wonder how much of the decline of high school/college drinking has to do with sticker shock.
I mean I’m 20, when I have parties with friends (all my age/1-2y younger) we just split the costs. 5€ each max. And we all have a good time (or throw up, because some of my friends aren’t very aware of their limits lol)
Its so expensive to go out now in any city, have to pregame for anything, not spending 30$ on a shot
Yep, it’s very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it’s expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks
Margins on alcohol sales are fairly high, especially with high rates of industry consolidation over the last decade.
Retail alone collects a 20-30% vig on well standard hard liquor, for instance. Distributors can add another 40%.
The Gray Goose sticker price of $30 for 750mL includes an excise tax of $2.40 So around 8%, by comparison.
You call beer, junkfood and alcohol groceries?
That would be the um, joke
Look at Mr. Fatcat over here. Bet they salt their lentils too!
… you get lentils?
Not from a store!
From a lemon stealing whore?
I do have to say, JD Honey is delicious… can easily drink that on the rocks.
Try American Honey, I definitely give it an edge over JD!
Bleh! Try some makers mark straight up or with ice. It’s still sweet without that corn syrup taste
Ha, no worries. I have a decent selection I’m currently working on:
Blegh, but then it tastes like makers.
How about four roses small batch instead and we forget the sweet.
Real men drink Old Granddad BiB. As a bonus it will make the best Old Fashioned you will ever have.
Step 1: Wear a ski mask
Step 2: Shoplift?
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit?(Step 3 is getting caught and becoming a prison slave 🙃; So yes “Profit” just not for you)
Dress up as ICE and state that this is material needed to trap Irish thugs living illegally in the US.
You could also demand to see the kerrygold’s papers, and then leave with it.
Sooooo a mask, sunglasses, a hoodie and no identification? 🥷
At least the butter might come in handy (or by other limbs).
Ewwwww is that sugar free coke?
Coke zero is divine nectar
It doesn’t even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!
idk it reminds me of chai somehow
Looks like cherry coke zero.
Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you’re fucking up if you’re not using full fat coke
Though if the plan is to mix coke with that honey jack maybe the booze is sweet enough already
Disagree hard. Diet and Zero are sweeter than full fat coke. It comes out more with alcohol.
That stuff is so cloyingly sweet you’d have to mix it with water to approach something drinkable. A true alcoholic would have a handle of dewars white.
A true alcoholic would have there favorite drink. But yea, any alcoholic whos preference is liquor is unlikely to be buying a lower strength flavored jawn. Wish I could remember the name of the one liquorice flavored jawn, the fucking exception. Its the regular 40to45 percent, but was flavored. Dirt cheap. Only wrecked ass elder alchos bought it. Ill remember later.
Worked at the state stores for a couple years.
Also cheap bourbon > cheap scotch. Fight me.
jagermeister 70 proof or 35 percent abv. Commonly thought of as a knock you out liquor but actually pretty modest.
Probably more because of how easy it is to drink than raw strength… It’s way easier to put away a bunch of 70 proof sweetened liqueur than the same amount of alcohol worth of 80+ proof hard liquor, very easy to not realize how much you’ve had until way too late
I’ve used it instead of maple syrup on pancakes while camping. I intended it to just end up as a shit joke at my own expense, fucking around for shits and giggles, but it was legitimately sweet enough to work. Which is honestly pretty disgusting.
Mmmmmm boozy pancakes 🤤
I’m pretty sure that’s regular Coke zero, unless they’ve changed the packaging again
But yeah, something about the artificial sweetener just doesn’t work with alcohol
That’s why he got the Kerry gold he’s gonna stir it in there
Switching from beer to Coke Zero + rum/vodka for my drinks lost me a little weight. So much better for calorie counting.
But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?
I think the Jack D is for making bullet proof Jack D
Coke zero is decent
Diet coke is disgusting
Ditto Pepsi
I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in. Really frustrating to taste it in otherwise sugary drinks, like some of the Monster flavors.
For reference, I also think cilantro tastes like soap. No clue if that’s an indicator or not.
I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in.
The only artificial sweetener I get a nasty aftertaste from is saccharine. But I get a really absurdly foul aftertaste from saccharine, I can’t even compare it to anything because it’s easily the worst thing I have ever tasted in my life and I can’t think of anything even sort of similar. Glad basically nothing uses it any more, but it was more of an issue as a type I diabetic kid decades ago. Sucralose doesn’t give me an aftertaste at all though, neither does aspartame or acesulfame potassium.
My preferred sweetener though is stevia (I used to go to the local new age shop and buy just dried stevia leaves for my tea and such during the time it was legal to sell in any amount for any purpose as an herbal supplement so long as you didn’t mention it had a flavor which turned it into an unsafe food additive because fuck NutraSweet corp). It took such a ridiculous time to get approved because of NutraSweet, when stevia really should have fallen under GRAS status for the same reason things like tomatoes did - New World plant used in food forever by the natives, but wholly new to Europeans when they came to the Americas.
I think they reformulated Coke Zero and got rid of the sucralose. It uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
does drinking things with sucralose make your mouth have an aftertaste like carbonated and sweet vomit? if yes then i think i have the same thing
It’s very distinct. I wouldn’t call it vomit, but it’s a lingering chemical-ey taste.
yes exactly! in another comment i described it as a sweetened and carbonated bathroom potion made by a 6 year old. i shorthand that taste to vomit because it reminds me of how doing that little puke into your mouth after a big meal feels like…
pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn’t even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home
are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old’s bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated
Well, you did just describe my experience with diet Pepsi pretty well…
I recently discovered that there is a similar taste reaction to aspartame than there is to cilantro. It doesn’t taste like soap, but it tastes awful to some people. I can’t drink any sugar-free or diet drinks as they all taste horrific to me
dang! good to know
I hear this but I don’t understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I’ve had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.
I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go flavored sparkling water. I can’t do that fake sugar shit. It’s nasty.
But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.
ah man to me coke zero has this different flavor it almost tastes like black pepper or something? some kind of zip or zest. while diet coke is def the sweetest. regular coke now (after drinking diet soda for over a decade) or any corn syrup based soda leaves a weird aftertaste that i hate. but when i was younger i hated diet taste! haha
I’m the opposite, I prefer diet Coke and diet Pepsi. Chances are that you don’t like aspartame.
Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.
Gotta make up for all the sugar in the JD honey I guess
I am getting $15 dollar 3.5 grams of weed. You are doing it wrongly. Well weed tax but still.
KerryGold probably making half the bill, extortion, I tell ye!
Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won’t notice a difference if you switch to a generic.
Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.
Idk man that Irish butter pretty damn good
You should try the Beef and Milk. Free Range, grass fed.
The butter is to lube those cans before he slides them in the ol keaster.
Regular butter for cooking
Kerrygold salted for spreading
'tis the only way
Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven’t bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.
I do. I’ve had it on my bagels and it’s noticably tastier than with regular store brand butter. I usually don’t get it because it’s like 4x the price.
Well, we’re talking about mass market, supermarket butters in the first place here. Nobody is comparing these to boutique shop butters.
Beyond that, for me personally, I’ve always considered Kerrygold to be a very decent, better than Land O’ Lakes or store brand butter, but I have a preference for either Plugrà or Lurpak in my supermarket-available butter. Finlandia is also very good.
Hmh. Maybe I phrased that wrong. The one I had is also mass market, in the sense that they’re in quite a few supermarkets in several regions of one country.
Kerrygold is just ludicrously mass market, being available in a lot of supermarkets in over 100 countries.
Lol, clearly you haven’t been shopping at budget places in the US. The competition is Land O Lakes, “I can’t believe it’s not butter”, or store brand.
Where are you buying your butter, and what brand?
Well, I’ve been vegan for years, but I usually had this stuff, I think.
https://www.andechser-natur.de/en/bio-produkte/andechser-natur-organic-alp-butter-82-fat-250g
Kerrygold is good, but really good butter is on another level.
Good butter straight from a dairy farm is super dangerous though. You can suddenly find yourself standing in your kitchen, no memory of the last 45 minutes, the fridge door open, a greasy knife in your hand, breadcrumbs all over the floor, and half the butter gone. Gotta be careful with that stuff.
Prolly is. But I haven’t found much better at the stores around me.
I dunno, that looks like the USA and their butter sucks, man. It’s not even yellow, and they sell it in “sticks”. I was so glad to find Kerrygold there.
That’s decent stuff that I use on the regular.
Double blind test ‘em - fun and enlightening
Given the rest of the grocery list, I think it is unlikely that cooking will be involved.
That’s 2 days? Not a big drinker, are you.
Also, Jack Daniel’s? You don’t like real whiskey? You prefer pretend-whiskey lemonade?
I take it the coke is to mix with the Jack, which is acceptable.
If you’re getting a bottle of Blanton’s for a mixed drink I’m going to punch you in the throat.
Jack is never acceptable. Also, it’s coke zero. That’s disgusting. Proper single malt whiskey is not for mixing but there’s a lot of average blends which are perfect for whiskey coke.
I’ll take a Pappy and RC cola on the rocks, please
That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don’t want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
Drambuie is an old British honey and whisky liqueur.
You can even make something like it youself: https://www.seriouseats.com/diy-drambuie-make-your-own-honey-scotch-liqueur-recipe
Also you can make a Rusty Nail with some ice and a well Scotch.
Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.
Wow I’m going to Aldi tomorrow and will try this!
It’s a bit early in the year to forage for sloe berries. I picked so much when they were in season that I had pretty much filled a freezer shelf. Buying enough gin at once for all that would cost pushing 3 figures. Even at Aldi prices. But at least it should be comfortably over a years supply of berries so that I can restock when they are in season again.
Building my stockpile of gin so that I can ideally have bottles in rotation, plus it would let the gin age for longer if I have more than a years supply at once. I mean it is gin, it’s not like you go through bottles of it each night.
Crown Royal is Canadian. 🤷 Not sure if it’s available where you are though.
Thanks, I’ll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.
Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.
Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don’t know about honey flavored ones
Yeah I’m having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.
I use fake Red Bull because I think it’s overpriced, not because it’s not American.
Oh I feel you, I too think it’s overpriced, also I think it tastes like shit.
Have you tried Stag’s Breath Honey and Whisky Liqueur?
I’m sure there are others. Though liquor laws sometimes stiffle innovation so America tends to have more weird experiments of flavor.
It’s a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.
The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.
Isn’t that kinda dangerous? Also potentially illegal depending on where you live.
It’s definitely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. As in, “you can die” kind of dangerous.
But if you know what you are doing, nah, it’s perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don’t blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there’s pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don’t know about it, and neither does anyone else.
It can make you blind due to high methanol concentrations
This is largely false and due to prohibition era propaganda. You would need to be trying very hard to get enough methanol to be dangerous or deliberately add it.
Reminds me of a joke I’ve heard from a few people now. “Let’s drink faster, guys, it’s already getting dark.”
Sure, if you don’t know what you’re doing. But, as we eliminate all regulations in the US, we gotta learn how to DIY.
Enhanced flavor™
Sure, but anything that involves drinking spirits by the pint is going to be dangerous so who cares?
Only illegal if they catch you. He didn’t record his face.
You can brew your own lager or whatever for cheap too.
Not tried anything like that, generally prefer fermented fruits and bee juice.
Not as cheap as just plain alcohol. But yes, I home brew. Hops and Malt are not cheap, but sugar (insert any fermentable here, rice, cane sugar, corn, potatoes ext…) is.
My friend back when i was like 20 used to just brew some stuff using Alcotec TurboYeast and sugar, and then mixed concentrated fruit squash into it. Came out as like 12% and tasted like fruits, cost under 10p/litre. He was popular at parties
That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn’t buy any of those but the butter.
I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.
