I used to live almost exclusively off of diet soda (usually diet coke or diet dr.pepper), like two cans a day.
Then I switched to tea (mostly green tea and rooibos) and lost 3 pounds of water overnight. I swear they put something in those diet sodas on purpose to make you bloat up like a balloon.
I still drink one occasionally, but my pants fit me better when I don’t. 
Doesn’t diet soda like kill ants if you pour it all over them or something? Yeah, really bad for you. 
Philo
You can kill some animals with chocolate too, but that ain’t gonna stop me from eating it!
That’s true: you can kill a dog with chocolate.
There is a caffeine analog in chocolate called theobromine.
In humans, it’s a smooth muscle relaxer and a mild mood elevator.
In dogs, who metabolize it differently, it’s a toxic hallucinogenic.
Just because it’s bad for a critter doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. The converse is also true: just because an animal can eat something and be ok doesn’t mean it won’t kill a human.
–James
the boxers got into a box of Ester Price (a local chocolate that I think is MUCH better than Godiva) and ate about 2lbs of it on Friday. It didn’t hurt them, but I almost did when I got home and found the empty box!!!
I asked my mom once what Dr. Pepper tasted like and she said it tasted like prunes. Is that true? I like prune juice but I don’t like sodas that much so I’ve never had a Dr. Pepper.
NO. And that’s from someone who has both in the fridge. NO.
I really do sometimes think I live on Dr. Pepper. I have been known to make a “Dr. Pepper” run, as opposed to a beer run.
Actually, several teaspoons of corn syrup. 
My step-sister lives in Texas and tells that several people she knows who make regular trips south into Mexico (strictly to balance the population flow ) to bring back cases of Coca-Cola. Apparently, the US sugar tariff is high enough that Coca-Cola is cheaper to make with corn syrup in the US. In Mexico, (and I guess a large part of the rest of the world) Coca-Cola is still made using sugar. The taste difference is easily noticed (I have tried this illicit Coca-Cola), and I won’t drink the US version of Coca-Cola again. From what she says, the Coca-Cola distributors have complained loud and long about the amount of Coca-Cola being brought back since it has cut heavily into their sales.
dave boling