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Now, I gotta stop eating brown rice. Phosphoric acid is part of what went wrong with my teeth. I used to guzzle Peopsi.

Organic or GMO?

Hey... if the tree huggers want recycling, they should pay some attention to this. The idea is to make the project easy and convenient, even for for people who don't care about environmental issues.

So, it's not all about save the planet anymore? Recycling is now yesterday's news? Good to know.

Steel cans never had to be separated from other trash because a big magnet would always draw them out at the dump site. Just pick, drop and process. You can't do that with aluminum cans. Steel > aluminum

If the ingredients are there, there will be one. Not a matter of "if" but "when". Just like the Yellowstone volcano.

And you just pointed out another natural flavor. If they could cover up and hide such ingredients under a generic term, then how do you really know what you're consuming?

"Known" allergens. Seriously... anybody could be allergic to any substance. All it takes that one in a hundred million longshot to surface.

That might have been true, way back before reverse engineering.

About what?

No big loss. I haven't drank Hi C since I was three.

Okay... so, Pepsico is going to leave itself wide open for major liability claims in federal court when somebody happens to have a severe allergic reaction to one of the "at least two" ingredients that it decided to cover up and hide under one generic statement as opposed to identifying and listing them as required under federal labeling requirements. What's retarded, again?

I'm saying it's not even a substance - it's an opinion of taste, nothing more.

If she read it, she'd probably wonder why I was "eavesdropping" and then I would answer with something like, "Turn the volume down. You don't have to scream and bark like a drunken Ferengi when you're in a store".

Look at other food and beverage claims. "... with natural lemon flavor" meaning, it tastes like natural lemons. That's not an ingredient, it's an opinion. That's done excessively all throughout the food and beverage industry.

I just finished off a can of UCC original blend coffee. Ingredients: water, sugar, milk powder, coffee, emulsifier. Are they trying to cover up anything? Are they making implied claims about how its flavor is "natural"?

How about the person furnishing the money. You think she doesn't care?

Nobody... directly anyway. Just the use of the word, "natural" in something composed primarily of toxic, artificial chemicals is enough to give a false impression of healthfulness to the most gullible and stupid of culture. "natural flavors" can be interpreted as, "Well... at least it has the flavor of something natural." It doesn't even need to be an actual ingredient or set of ingredients.

No, they just throw in buzz words like that to make it sound healthy for you. It means nothing most of the time. Phosphoric acid is not at all a healthful substance to drink.

You don't. Somebody else probably does. The world is more complicated than just you.

It can be be as much as zero. Really... those chemicals just "naturally" taste that way.

Why are you even arguing about this? Eleven are more than eight, shit head.

I'm not gonna buy a can of Pepsi just to prove something to you. Count the tea ingredients and then count the ingredients on your own can of Pepsi.

What am I dodging? I don't have any Pepsi in the house and yes, there's hfcs and phosphoric acid in Pepsi. What do you want? The carbonated water, perhaps?

Nothing like a good co-dependent relationship to complicate your world with paternity suits and bogus rape charges.