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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Given Utah's obsession with "Dirty Soda", you'll be able to pick out a person from Utah just by their smile soon.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

I was thinking the exact same thing lmao

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Gonna look like those Loney Toons piano teeth, falling out one by one.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Simply put, a dirty soda is your typical fountain soda, but with added ingredients such as heavy creams, flavored syrups, candy pieces or fruit juices.

Flavoured syrup is just what fountain soda is made of, so that seems fine. Fruit juice seems fine.

But who the fuck wants heavy cream or candy pieces in a soda? Seriously?

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is what happens when you have a whole society of judgemental teetotalers whose only outlet is mindless treat consumption.

At least straight edge hard-core people have the community and anti-conformity part down.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Well, you see, they have a complicated relationship with beverages over there in Mormondia. Like all religions, Humans find a way to get little God Loopholes, performing unheard-of rules lawyering antics, that eventually arrive at a conclusion of "Cola / Soda is fine with God". I can't speak to the candy pieces, that just has to be some kind of capitalist "innovation" on their part. I'm pretty sure the heavy cream is supposed to provide them some kind of replacement for the "coffee" aesthetic / sensory experience, that is if coffee was carbonated...

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

never head of an italian soda or a root beer float?

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

so is that dr. pilk? drilk pepper?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

i don't know what it's called, but it's lazy; just use ice cream instead.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clearly I'm insufficiently american since I haven't heard of either of these, but I don't want dairy in anything with carbonation. It viscerally disgusts me.

I'm the same for Ayran, I'm fine with regular Ayran but carbonated Ayran is disgusting.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

they're definately acquired tastes and you're better off staying away.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Milkis/calpis

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Cream in soda actually slaps. Cream goes well with all kinds of sweet things and having it in sugary drinks is common, plus a lot of sodas already have cream flavored varieties. Can't vouch for the candy though

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Cream in soda actually slaps. Cream goes well with all kinds of sweet things and having it in sugary drinks is common, plus a lot of sodas already have cream flavored varieties. Can't vouch for the candy though

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Wow that is not what I think of when I hear dirty soda and I was wondering how I didn't know that Mormons were notorious for sipping lean.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Getting florified tap water from the next state over and opening a booth at the Utah state Faire to hawk my miracle water that helps protect your teeth from the deep state dentists with one cup a day and charge like twenty bucks for a growler.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Save yourself ten dollars by bringing your own 64 oz growler and swapping bottles!

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Utah be like:

geordi-no fluoride in the water

geordi-yes microplastics in the water

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

There are two cities where I live that are fairly close to one another (3 hour drive). One banned fluoride, the other didn't. The one that banned fluoride had way more antibiotics use during pediatric dental procedures - and other fun facts like that, because their teeth were rotting out of their heads.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago

incredible. powerful.

finally, some leaders are taking a stand against the vain devil's bones sometimes called "teeth".

also, fluoride interferes with the chemical receptors in your third eye and makes it difficult to understand the spiritual appeal of Joe Rogan.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Now do lead you fucking cowards

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

wojak-nooo: “Nooo! You see, that would HuRt ThE eCoNoMy! Besides, have you read the psychological effects of lead? Lead makes you a macho man!”

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yes! We must retvrn to traditional flavorings,not this artificial bullshit! Wine tastes best with the sugar of Saturn after all.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For context, this was done in Albera not long ago.

Calgary, after decades of agitation by anti-fluoridators, removed fluoride from the water.

10 years later, they brought it back.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5224138/calgary-removed-fluoride-from-its-water-supply-a-decade-later-its-adding-it-back

https://calgaryjournal.ca/2021/11/22/the-contentious-timeline-of-fluoridation-in-calgarys-drinking-water/

Yes, there IS such a thing as too much fluoride. Technically you can die from an overdose of WATER. That dangerous H2O substance can kill you if you ingest too much. Not a joke, water intoxication or water poisoning is real. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/water-intoxication

Point is, fluoride is certain doses is safe and highly effective in preventing tooth decay. There are literally decades of studies.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, there IS such a thing as too much fluoride. Technically you can die from an overdose of WATER. That dangerous H2O substance can kill you if you ingest too much. Not a joke, water intoxication or water poisoning is real. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/water-intoxication

nerd Water can also be deadly at very low concentrations

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Homeopaths vindicated

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Helping to rid the body of those pesky luxury bones as quickly as possible.

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink water?

[–] muirc@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

I guess we can all make some money investing in dentistry supplies manufacturers and local dentist shops out there?

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Libs btfo

There will no longer be chemicals in the water to make the frogs gay

[–] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

There are some countries that don't fluoridate their water, but my understanding is they do other things like have more comprehensive dental healthcare or they make it up with fluoride from other sources. Like in Japan the toothpaste has like 100x the fluoride it does in the US since they don't fluoridate the water there.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Dumbass decision

[–] medium_adult_son@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, they are doing little to keep the Great Salt Lake from drying up, killing the brine shrimp and birds that depend on it.

It will also release large amounts of arsenic and other toxic substances into airborn dust as it dries up.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/10/16/studies-great-salt-lake-dust-is/

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago
[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Time for someone to plan for a release of Big book of Utahan/Utahnese smiles.

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so utah is banning flouride in water, for people's health- let me guess, if elon musk wants to dump a bunch of sewer goop into their water supply tho that's not banned?

That's called "entrepreneurship"

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago