After an office gathering this evening, we visited Barnes & Noble, which did not happen to have the book I was looking for. Oh well, it’s on Amazon and even with shipping, cheaper. Anyway,
To the mother whose pretty, immaculately-dressed 10-year-old daughter I saw carrying a Starbucks Venti-sized Mocha Frappuccino:
The “beverage” you gave your daughter at 7 in the evening on a school night has 500 calories, of which 150 are from fat. It has 67 grams of sugar (about 16 teaspoons) and packs 165 milligrams of caffeine, about as much as a large cup of strong coffee.
I’ll be the first to grant that the Frappuccino is delicious (though not as good as Coffee Hound’s Mocha Freeze), but was it a wise choice to give one to your kid? Remember, children are more sensitive to caffeine than adults are. Well, do whatever you want, but you will have ample opportunity to re-think that choice tomorrow morning as you drop your daughter off at school, irritable and barely awake.
What a grinch! Don’t you realize how many different industries are supported when we feed our kids crap?!
Sadly, most of those industries add no real value to society, and the world could do perfectly good without them, maybe even better considering their environmental impact.
Of course, the workers exploited by these industries would lose their low-paying jobs.
You’re right! How could I be so insensitive to the many people employed by the diabetes supplies industry? :red:
Gerry: Where in the world did you get the freakin’ idea that industry has any relationship to “add[ing] … real value to society. Commie pinko … I’m reporting you, comrade to the Limbaugh-Beck-Hannity-Dobbs secretariat.
WeeDram: I fully expect the doorbell to ring one day and find the brain police waiting outside.
On a serious note, one wonders how many parents like this one will ever realize that they were pushers of fat, sugar and caffeine as addicting chemicals.
Whats even worse is seeing a group of 12 somethings walking around a mall each holding a huge can of Monster Energy drink… Seriously? There is no friggin way anyone under 15 needs an energy drink. All kids have is energy. I guess like everyone else it fluctuates, but that seems to me to be absurd and unnecessary.