957 Pepsi Ad tells it like it is
12-01-2013, 08:59 PM
Despite the over the top pepsi marketing line at the end, an interesting view on the perspective of society in the 1950s. Also funny how the uploader labels the video as "sexist".
Quote: (12-01-2013 09:03 PM)master_thespian Wrote:
"drink pepsi and you will be thin forever".
That is a hell of a lie. Actually, it is possible that pepsi in 1957 had maybe half as much sugar as a pepsi does today. Still won't make a woman thin
Quote: (12-01-2013 11:10 PM)Ensam Wrote:
Does make you wonder what kind of shit we think is healthy today that we're going to realize is killing us tomorrow.
Quote: (12-02-2013 02:32 AM)Katatonic Wrote:
Quote: (12-01-2013 09:03 PM)master_thespian Wrote:
"drink pepsi and you will be thin forever".
That is a hell of a lie. Actually, it is possible that pepsi in 1957 had maybe half as much sugar as a pepsi does today. Still won't make a woman thin
No it wouldn't, but it wasn't half as bad for you. They were basically using what is called organic sugar today. It wasn't highly refined, meaning that it was still bound to plant fiber and had to be slowly digested and absorbed into the body. That kept our blood sugar from spiking, which in turn kept our insulin production from spiking and processing a ton of extra energy that we can't possibly use, so we store it as fat.
Highly processed sugars like high fructose corn syrup and to a lesser extent regular processed table sugars aren't bound to those fibers, so we digest them immediately, which causes those spikes which make us fat fucks.
Purity in sugar is a really bad thing.
Quote: (12-02-2013 07:32 AM)roberto Wrote:
Either way, I think there's a lot of truth in the statement 'if your great gran wouldn't recognise it, don't eat it'.
Quote: (12-02-2013 11:49 AM)Sonsowey Wrote:
Quote: (12-02-2013 07:32 AM)roberto Wrote:
Either way, I think there's a lot of truth in the statement 'if your great gran wouldn't recognise it, don't eat it'.
It's probably gotta be your great grandparents by now, if not great-great.
I know my grandparents ate tons of packaged and processed junk. They were the first people introduced to that kinda stuff. My grandparents always had a cabinet full of all kinds of junk, I would love going there as a kid, eating all the sweets my parents wouldn't keep around.