Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Funko pops are a disgrace to pop culture and permanently stain multiple franchises, especially ones that don't have much merch in the first place

(Before anyone asks, my sister used to watch this ad nauseam.)

Dried fruit CAN be healthy, you just have to look for the brands that don't throw sugar and other questionable things into the mix.

I have something shipping from Amazon via USPS currently, but it's through a third-party seller and is only fulfilled by the big A.

They add sugar to dried fruit in the US? What kind of nonsense is that? Dried fruit is already sweet enough as it is, why would you want to add even more sugar?

For the same reason it's added to many things... So it lasts longer.

It's not only in the United States either. Basically every comercial brand will add sugar to dried fruit. It's a natural food preservative.

This is also why jams and marmalades are so high on sugar. It's not only for flavor.

@Yosheel Dried fruit on its own is already more than 50% sugar, it lasts for years without any additives.

Mmm sugar with extra sugar....what a terrible idea

Of course, some fruits are naturally packed with sugar. Like grapes.

Many other fruits are actually bathed in sugar before drying though.

The big risk with dried fruit is mostly how easy it is to consume them in larger quantities. You can fit many many more raisins than grapes in the same cup, for example.

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take this.

That one swordfight game on Wii Sports Resort you could win by flailing your wiimote around...

I still play that game from time to time. It gives you a warm 2009 feel.

Fun fact: Your post has 33 more words than it needs to.

Hands off my twice a month cereal consumption. 53rd US Amendment

Somehow I get dragged into Pokemon GO raids when I just want to stay home and watch The Golden Girls >: U

The US uses a lot of artificial sweeteners and preservatives too, including abominations like corn syrup. It's really hard to find alternative products sometimes....

But yeah, some of our stuff is mondo-sweet and/or salty. I can better understand from watching my own diet how people from other countries think our food has too much sugar and whatnot.

Whenever I go to the US the one thing that always gets me is how sweet beverages are.

Iced tea in particular seems to go from "no sugar at all" straight to "2 cups of sugar in every bottle" with no in betweens.

I liked the wakeboarding and airplanes games.

Here in Indonesia you can find a lot of Junk Foods (Really Dangerous foods, not McD / KFC / Carl's Jr / etc).
Usually made by Low Economic peoples.
The foods / drinks maybe look yummy, but some of them are added with Dangerous Chemical ingredients. Let me tell you foods / drinks you should avoid in Indonesia when you see Suspicious food / drink stand.
1. Meatball. Added with Borax to make it chewy. Even worse, there was a rumour if some peoples used Rat flesh for ingredients.
2. Chicken dish. Some peoples use DEAD Chicken as ingredients, Not Fresh Chicken.
3. White Pepper. Some peoples added with Whitening powder to fool the buyer.
4. Ketchup. Made of Red Dye liquid for paper, some Rotten tomatoes.
5. Chili sauce. Made of Almost Rotten Papaya & Low quality chili.
6. Salt. Beware of very Crystalized salt because that made of Well Grinded Glass powder, Not a Salt at all.

It’s like they have to use ALL available sugar south of the Mason-Dixon. Blegh!! I wanna taste the tea, please. Same with my coffee (straight black, 2 ice cubes)

@Anti-Matter that's absolutely horrifying!

There's a really old classic Mexican movie about an extremely poor widower who almost ends up killing his only son with bad chicken. Since he could only afford the cheapest chicken.

His intention was giving his son a proper Christmas dinner.

@ReaderRagfish
The DEAD Chicken i meant was Chicken which died by disease or not being killed by human. In other words, a Corpse Chicken.

Roadkill is probably healthier than a diseased animal...

Then again who can say if the roadkill wasn't sick before...