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I reckon. I'm just not a big fan of diet anything.

I don't do diet cola, beer, cigs, or coffee. (Although, I'm not a complete purist when it comes to the cigs; I do insist on a filter. Got tired of spitting out little bits of tobacco.)

The only additional ingredient I allow to physically interact with my bourbon is H2O - and even here it is only allowed in limited quantities and also only introduced when in solid form.

Ice? That's cruel to the liquor. Dulls the taste via numbing your taste buds and diluting the drink.

A few drops of very cold filtered water and a quick swirl of the glass with your hand will do your whiskey good.

I'm a Southern boy and most of us like our drinks cold.

I used to keep my bourbon in the freezer. No need to water it down, that way.

A long time ago, I had more than a fair share of frozen vodka shooters. I've stayed away form frozen liquor ever since then.

Guys Guys!!



I've always wanted to use that smiley...

Palladin wrote: I've always wanted to use that smiley...

Glad to have given you the opportunity.

I already boycott Pepsi because they support HSUS, the Brady Campaign, and other anti-freedom groups.

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Ahh, yes... Back on topic. I guess I'll have to go back to drinking RC Cola. RC is less trendy, anyway.

Oh yeah!

OakRidgeStars wrote:Oh yeah!

A good ole boy's power lunch. Properly pronounced as a MoonPie and R O C coke cola.

@ Pallladin - drink RC and boycott Pepsi!

But, don't let any of this stuff near your bourbon!

i apologize if you know this already, scores of prolife groups are calling for a public boycott of food giant, PepsiCo due to their partnership with Senomyx, a biotech company using aborted fetal cells in the research and development of artificial flavor enhancers.

Pepsi is funding the research and development -- and paying royalties to Senomyx which uses HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney cells) to produce flavor enhancers for Pepsi beverages.

Senomyx boasts they have over 800,000 unique flavors for foods. The human tongue recognizes only 5 (salty, savory, sweet, sour and bitter). But cells expressing certain proteins produce a chemical signal when flavors are introduced, which determines if it's the proper flavor. The aborted fetal cells are not in the product itself.

"There are many options PepsiCo could be using instead of aborted fetal cells" noted Debi Vinnedge, President of Children of God for Life, the group spearheading the boycott.

The revelation -- a potential public relations nightmare -- motivated Campbell Soup to sever all relations with Senomyx.

However, PepsiCo continues their business relationship despite the abortion connection. They drew pubic ire earlier this year when they responded that "our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers."

When pressed further, PepsiCo attempted to pacify angry consumers with a form letter response insinuating they had been accused of conducting aborted fetal tissue research. Their duplicity again drew public outrage.

Bradley Mattes, executive director of Life Issues Institute, said, "While aborted fetal cells aren't actually in the product itself, the close relationship is enough to repulse most consumers. To our knowledge, this is the first time a food product has been publicly associated with abortion."

Boycott an American company? I dunno? I guess I have questions for y'all:

If the boycott meant losing more American jobs, would you still boycott them?

If this were a foreign company, but, met your ethics, would you support them? Meaning you would support foreign workers, not American.

My question is American Jobs versus Boycott, which wold you choose? Not saying they are tied together, just asking....

chuckjordan2 wrote:Boycott an American company? I dunno? I guess I have questions for y'all:

If the boycott meant losing more American jobs, would you still boycott them?

If this were a foreign company, but, met your ethics, would you support them? Meaning you would support foreign workers, not American.

My question is American Jobs versus Boycott, which wold you choose? Not saying they are tied together, just asking....

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That's a good pount; and Pepsi does have a lot of employees in the USA. But there's an even better reason to think very carefully about this:

Pepsi isn't a huge multi-national company everywhere. There are still a lot of local independent bottlers who have an exclusive franchise to sell Pepsi in a certain geographical area. Those guys must buy their syrup from Pepsi but are otherwise totally independent businessmen. They don't get to make decisions like the ones that have been complained of in these posts, and most of them probably agree with you guys. It is them and their local employees who will be the ones to suffer most from a boycott.

If you want to punish the people who are making the objectionable decisions, then boycott Pepsi's other non-beverage products like Frito-Lay, Quaker Oats and other stuff where they don't have innocent partners that are integral parts of local communities.

Jane28 wrote:i apologize if you know this already, scores of prolife groups are calling for a public boycott of food giant, PepsiCo due to their partnership with Senomyx, a biotech company using aborted fetal cells in the research and development of artificial flavor enhancers.

Pepsi is funding the research and development -- and paying royalties to Senomyx which uses HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney cells) to produce flavor enhancers for Pepsi beverages.

Senomyx boasts they have over 800,000 unique flavors for foods. The human tongue recognizes only 5 (salty, savory, sweet, sour and bitter). But cells expressing certain proteins produce a chemical signal when flavors are introduced, which determines if it's the proper flavor. The aborted fetal cells are not in the product itself.

"There are many options PepsiCo could be using instead of aborted fetal cells" noted Debi Vinnedge, President of Children of God for Life, the group spearheading the boycott.

The revelation -- a potential public relations nightmare -- motivated Campbell Soup to sever all relations with Senomyx.

However, PepsiCo continues their business relationship despite the abortion connection. They drew pubic ire earlier this year when they responded that "our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers."

When pressed further, PepsiCo attempted to pacify angry consumers with a form letter response insinuating they had been accused of conducting aborted fetal tissue research. Their duplicity again drew public outrage.

Bradley Mattes, executive director of Life Issues Institute, said, "While aborted fetal cells aren't actually in the product itself, the close relationship is enough to repulse most consumers. To our knowledge, this is the first time a food product has been publicly associated with abortion."

Whoever spreads these alarmist nonsensical chain e-mails should be executed via sewage drowning, because that what they're doing to use by spreading it further.

So now Pepsi....is PEOPLE?!?!!



The educated person in me would like to explain why "embryonic cells" actually don't mean "fetal cells"...but...why bother?

Hey Kreutz:

If there's an educated person in you, you ought to let him out once in a while. Maybe HE knows how not to be such a yankee.

dorminWS wrote:Hey Kreutz:

If there's an educated person in you, you ought to let him out once in a while. Maybe HE knows how not to be such a yankee.

this educated fellow did ace anatomy and physiology ein und zwei and organic chemistry as taught by a crazy phd evolutionary microbiologist who dissected salamanders for fun in his spare time.

Aaaaaaand told us cold chicken is remarkably similar in texture to the cats we dissected that we kept on trays in the fridges...we never did push to find out how he knew that.

My cats name was Patches. Our school didn't get homeless cadavers that year.

I would have named mine Hobo Patches Mark I.