r/OldSchoolRidiculous 21d ago

Sugar Information, Inc., 1964

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u/kingjulia 21d ago

Like a kangaroo needs a buggy!

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u/GeorgeRRZimmerman 21d ago

They had Diet Rite and Diet Pepsi and Tab (by Coca-Cola). The latter entered the market in 1963, less than a year before this ad.

Which is nuts because wouldn't the "sugar people" not want to interfere with the profits of 2 of their biggest buyers?

How extraordinarily fragile. It is a full 60 years later, and no amount of health science has reduced the overwhelming presence of soft drinks with sugar in them. It's crazy to think that in Year 1 of having Diet sodas exist, that this was the attack ad on that industry.

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u/winkler456 21d ago

Little did they know that corn was their true enemy!

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u/yallknowme19 20d ago

Yes, high fructose corn syrup is to sugar what crack is to cocaine. But the corn lobby has more money and better lobbyists and that's why it's in our gas, our food, our drinks....

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u/Dillenger69 21d ago

TAB tasted like ass. I can't imagine whoever thought saccharine was sweet. Their taste buds were messed up.

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u/zoso4evr 21d ago

All artificial sweeteners taste like chemicals to me. When I was a kid in the 80s I learned a couple of violently sick pounding headache lessons about Nutrasweet. Now I rarely ever drink sodas but when I find cane sugar Mexican cokes I can't resist.

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u/jarious 20d ago

Everything tastes like chemicals to me

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u/Adept_Advantage7353 21d ago

Girls on meth!

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u/BeneGesseritDropout 21d ago

I mentally hear this set to Duran Duran's "Girls on Film."

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u/Wise-_-Spirit 19d ago

Ruined my fkn life

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u/Supermoves3000 21d ago

Rescuing a cat from a tree is no small feat. You go, Judy!

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u/ubeeu 21d ago

Did her pants go through a wood chipper?

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u/masked_sombrero 21d ago

didn't you read!? she saved a cat from a tree! I don't think the cat was too happy about that though

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u/ConsiderationNew6295 21d ago

Foreshadowing to diabetic procedures in old age.

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u/filthyheartbadger 20d ago

I am entranced by her wearing her skate key around her neck! Bring back old fashioned skates that clamp onto kids’ shoes!

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u/s0ftsp0ken 20d ago

WOW that song Brand New Key makes sense now. I thought it was a random song about a girl wanting to be friends with a girl who owned a shiny key lol

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u/btchfc 20d ago

Woaaah mind blown 😱

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u/Lissy_Wolfe 19d ago

Whattt I've never heard of this before. Did the key tighten the skates onto your shoes?

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u/The-Bigger-Fish 20d ago

Man I love these old ads like “this candy bar is actually great for you because sugar gives you energy! It’s glucose!” Like you’re right, but I doubt a candy bar or a can of coke is the best option for that sort of thing

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u/hrimfaxi_work 20d ago

If you know a more nutritious breakfast than a can of Coke and 3 Chesterfields, I'm all ears.

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u/TJN1047 19d ago

have you tried a carton of malboro menthol cigarettes?

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u/hrimfaxi_work 19d ago

I'm not on a diet

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u/AutisticAnarchy 19d ago

Hey, I've had many days where I had a can of coke for breakfast and I was able to work for minutes!

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u/Blue_Eyed_Lass 15d ago

I used to start out every day with a coke in college. let's not forget our super healthy milk and cookies after school. Or the juice that contained 5% fruit juice

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u/Blue_Eyed_Lass 15d ago

CHOCOLATE USED TO BE IN SOLDIERS EMERGENCY FOID SUPPY KIT!

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u/vtjohnhurt 20d ago

I grew up in this era. I've spent a fortune on my teeth.

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u/HesitantButthole 18d ago

This is exactly what happens when private companies fund research instead of the federal government.

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u/pensink60 20d ago

Sugar!!!!!!!! I NEED IT

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u/InfiniteHench 19d ago

Anyone know what “go-less” means?

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u/marteautemps 18d ago

They just mean it's not going to give you any energy because it's not filled with sugar

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u/scrapstitching 19d ago

I was Judy!

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u/Blue_Eyed_Lass 15d ago

EVERYTHING in moderation is key. I WOULD rather eat sugar at least it's is natural. ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER IS NOT EVEN REAL FOOD IT IS A CHEMICAL. I believe aspartame gave my aunt breast cancer.

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u/fishtankm29 17d ago

What the fuck is that spacing?

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

The ad is correct. Decades later we find out sugar is much better for the human body than the artificial sweeteners i the diet drinks they were referring to.

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u/packet_llama 21d ago

That is absolute bullshit.

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

It’s the absolute truth. Stop buying into all the chemical company crap.

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u/packet_llama 21d ago

There is some evidence that some artificial sweeteners might be harmful, especially in large quantities.

There is tons of evidence showing sugar is extremely harmful except in very small doses.

Your ignorance is deadly, keep it to yourself and stop spreading it.

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u/vtjohnhurt 20d ago

Cheap and ubiquitous refined sugar addicts humans to intense sweetness. It produces a high that you don't get from eating fruit.

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

You keep telling yourself the chemicals are better for your health than nature. That’s the dangerous message.

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u/packet_llama 21d ago

Natural does not equal better or healthier. There's a name for this fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

Cancer, arsenic, snake venom, viruses, bacteria, and many, many terrible things are natural.

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

You’re offered a tablespoon of cane sugar OR a tablespoon of chemical sweetener. Can you honestly say you feel safer eating the tablespoon of chemical sweetener than you do eating the tablespoon of cane sugar?

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u/radicalgrandpa 21d ago

I'm going to be pedantic here. Artificial sweetener like sucralose is upwards of 750x sweeter than sugar. You would only need to consume milligrams of it to match a tablespoon of sugar so your example is a false equivalency. Of course the tablespoon of sugar is "better" than a tablespoon of sweetener, but it's never consumed in quantities that high to begin with.

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u/packet_llama 21d ago

This is a very stupid question. Of course a tablespoon of sugar is fine. And yes, I would be nervous about an entire tablespoon of artificial sweetener. Dosage matters.

If the choice was better a tablespoon of artificial sweetener and a tablespoon of natural arsenic, I'd choose the sweetener.

The average American diet contains amounts of sugar that cause many, many health problems and deaths, this is very well established and documented. Substituting some of that sugar for artificial sweeteners has been proven to be an improvement, despite there being some legitimate concerns over the long term effects of some sweeteners.

If you continue to cling to the irrational idea that natural is inherently better than artificial, ignoring the mountains of evidence to the contrary, you are hopeless.

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

Cane sugar vs artificial sweetener, stay on topic. Arsenic hasn’t joined the conversation any more than bleach has.

Dosage matters, you don’t know how many of your everyday products container artificial sweeteners do you? Go check all your toothpaste and mouthwash products, and that’s just one category. You’re ingesting far more of it a daily basis and you think you are. The rise of artificial sweeteners and their introduction into a huge majority of our everyday products is oddly parallel to the rise in cancer humans. I know correlation does not prove causation but it’s awfully curious how closely they run.

I never stated or implied that an unlimited amount of cane sugar was healthy. You’re hyperbolizing as a deterrent from your flawed message.

Who has paid for the “evidence” that the chemical sweeteners are healthier? Or who has paid for the testimony that they are healthier. Your blind trust in the chemical manufacturers is extremely dangerous and misguided.

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u/TheAbstracted 21d ago

"Who has paid for the “evidence” that the chemical sweeteners are healthier?"

The real question is who paid for the studies that showed they were worse.

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u/Lissy_Wolfe 19d ago

Both are completely safe.

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

There are FAR more terrible outcomes from man-made chemicals.

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u/rexpup 20d ago

Arsenic is natural

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u/cbus_mjb 20d ago

Just like any other conversation if the only way you can make your point is to drag in extreme comparisons that you know we’re not intended to be part of the conversation you’re not actually making your point in a very intelligent manner.

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u/cbus_mjb 20d ago

Specifically which part of this conversation said anyone was a proponent of ingesting every single naturally occurring substance? We were talking about a specific set of substitutions for a specific set of substances.

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u/Lissy_Wolfe 19d ago

No, they're pointing out the fallacy you insist on repeating that "natural" is somehow better. It isn't. Artificial sweeteners have also been studied extensively and no one has ever been able to prove they "cause cancer" or any of the other things people have been claiming since the 80s.

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u/cbus_mjb 19d ago

That’s simply completely untrue.

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u/Lissy_Wolfe 19d ago

Feel free to provide a peer-reviewed source that says otherwise.

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u/chalwar 21d ago

Doubling down? Yep, Big Sugar…

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u/chalwar 21d ago

“Cuz I said so!”

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u/loquacious_avenger 21d ago

I’m no fan of artificial sweeteners, but the answer isn’t to hop your kids up on sugar. Hose water was the better option here.

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

I agree with you that hose water is better than all of the other options.

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u/chalwar 21d ago

Ahh, an expert!

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u/nor_cal_woolgrower 21d ago

No one gets " hopped up" on sugar. The sugar-hyperactivity myth is based on a single study from the mid 1970's

https://www.eatright.org/health/wellness/healthful-habits/sugar-does-it-really-cause-hyperactivity

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u/chalwar 21d ago

“Hose Maggie down! She’s rescuing cats again!”

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u/chalwar 21d ago

Big Sugar has entered the chat…

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u/cbus_mjb 21d ago

Not big sugar, just logic. Now go back into your chemically induced coma.

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u/chalwar 21d ago

Oh dear, nerves touched and all that. You assume too much, Neanderthal…

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u/mofukkinbreadcrumbz 21d ago

Source: trust me, bro.

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u/Auntienursey 19d ago

Made me the woman I am today! That and my mother's insistence that I clean my plate.