@dpease@Fe2_O3@pmarin Some years ago, I was on a cruise ship touring the Hawaiian Islands. My go-to thirst quencher is usually just ice water, but the water onboard tasted awful, so I started experimenting with the other available drinks. Most were too sweet for my taste, but I found that a mix of the iced tea and lemonade really hit the spot. I (naively) was kind of excited about my “discovery”, until I learned the Arnold Palmer was already well established. But I still prefer them as my ice water alternative.
@dpease@Fe2_O3@macromeh I hate sucky water! Who knows what’s in that cruise ship tap water. Even high-volume Reverse-Osmosis systems don’t cost that much relative to the cost of building a cruise ship. Surprised they do not have one for dining service.
At home I always use an RO system. When I go on a trip especially in an RV I take a few gallons with me which usually gets me to my destination (which also has an RO system)
@Fe2_O3@macromeh@pmarin hey, never had a comment show up on the front page before. Thanks Meh
Just to follow up, yes, lemonade and iced tea is an Arnold Palmer. However the iced tea is generally unsweetened in my experience which cuts the sweetness of the lemonade. If you actually mix both of these, it’ll be quite sweet. (Unless you’re one of those people for whom Splenda tastes like foot, in which case it’ll be quite foot-y)
Colorings a side, Splenda is nasty stuff, I actually thought food and drug took it off the market. According to the world health organization, it is a cancer, causing agent within, called aspartame
Splenda is a trademarked brand of sucralose. Aspartame is an entirely different artificial sweetener, also marketed as NutraSweet.
Opinions vary regarding the safety of both, but aspartame has far more data in its favor.
Aspartame is unsuitable for use in baking and must be avoided by people with the rare genetic disorder phenylketonuria (which inhibits metabolism of the common amino acid phenylalanine). In all other contexts, I would choose aspartame over sucralose without hesitation.
Colorings aside, Splenda is nasty stuff. Chlorine based, it is known to cause gastrointestinal difficulties decreasing the good gut bacteria and causing weight gain.
@craigcush@zollars23 Don’t get me started about the risks of dihydrogen monoxide. I’m told it has caused thoudsands of perfectly healthy people to die of asphyxiation.
@cinoclav Yet there are entire industries set up for it. Some of them aren’t even overtly addictive. Apparently there are a lot of people willing to pay money to poison themselves, knowingly or otherwise.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I don’t want to pick on or leave out any specific choices, so I won’t attempt to list them here.)
@cinoclav@xobzoo maybe I’m biased but Big Pharma seems to want to sell stuff at huge prices that just keeps you “sick but alive” enough so you keep the revenue stream going. If they actually kill you the revenue stops. I don’t doubt that there are pharma executives that analyze stuff like this and make PowerPoint presentations on maximizing the profit/death balance.
I bought the sweet tea version in store a while back, and all I have to say is that it was nasty. I kept trying to water it down to maybe have a drinkable liquid, but I ended up throwing the entire box away.
Anyway, you just pour one into your glass, mix with water, and you’re ready to go: sweet tea or lemonade with zero sugar and zero calories.
Considering these are designed to be used in a 2 quart pitcher that better be one pretty damn BIG glass.
In fact, even in a half gallon I find these type drinks to be way too strong/sweet. My usual practice is to mix the Wyler single bottle packets (designed for a half liter bottle) into a half gallon of water…about an eighth strength… So this deal would make me about two and a half 55 gallon drums!
How about fresh organic lemons and organic natural cane sugar and make a refreshing pitcher of lemonade? Enjoy your beverage in moderation and then move on to filtered water for the rest of your hydration needs. Same for tea. I personally enjoy iced tea without sugar with a twist of lemon.
@accelerator I just priced organic lemons at the nearest Whole Foods. Enough to make a half-gallon of lemonade would be almost eleven dollars…
I’m going to just stick with water…
Specs
Product: 36-Pack: Splenda Peel & Pour Sweet Tea & Pink Lemonade Drink Mixes
Model: 722776005460-6142025, 722776005484
Condition: New
What’s included?
OR
Price Comparison
$37.98 (for 36 pods) at Walmart
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, May 19 - Tuesday, May 20
Can I put these in my Keurig?
(Yes, /s)
I regularly drink sugar-free lemonade. It is a good price.
dang, I checked the ingredient list and it looks like these contain splenda
@agnesnutter I checked the deal name, and it looks like these contain splenda
@catthegreat (that’s the joke but thank you)
@agnesnutter too early and not enough caffeine! The joke, it sailed! Haha
I hate Splenda, so that’s an easy no!
@Kyeh
/image how about No?
Is Red #40 the one from crushed up fossilized bugs or is it the one from beaver anal glands?
@mike808 Beaver anal glands are used for imitation vanilla flavoring, not color.
@ciabelle I noticed you didn’t answer about the bugs. So that’s a yes.
@ciabelle @mcanavino Red 40 is a synthetic color from mixing acids (mostly sodium salts). Nothing natural in this particular dye.
For anyone is trying to avoid dyes…
Pink Lemonade contains Red 40
Sweet Tea has Yellow 5, Red 40, and Blue 1
You could get one set of each and mix them for 128 oz of Splenda Arnold Palmer
@dpease isn’t there some alcohol required for a traditicional Arnold Palmer?and minus the Splenda.
@dpease @pmarin adding alcohol makes it a John Daly. An AP is just lemonade and tea.
@dpease @pmarin and I think the pink lemonade makes it a Dinah Shore or a Patty Sheehan.
@dpease @Fe2_O3 @pmarin Some years ago, I was on a cruise ship touring the Hawaiian Islands. My go-to thirst quencher is usually just ice water, but the water onboard tasted awful, so I started experimenting with the other available drinks. Most were too sweet for my taste, but I found that a mix of the iced tea and lemonade really hit the spot. I (naively) was kind of excited about my “discovery”, until I learned the Arnold Palmer was already well established. But I still prefer them as my ice water alternative.
@dpease @Fe2_O3 @macromeh I hate sucky water! Who knows what’s in that cruise ship tap water. Even high-volume Reverse-Osmosis systems don’t cost that much relative to the cost of building a cruise ship. Surprised they do not have one for dining service.
At home I always use an RO system. When I go on a trip especially in an RV I take a few gallons with me which usually gets me to my destination (which also has an RO system)
@Fe2_O3 @macromeh @pmarin hey, never had a comment show up on the front page before. Thanks Meh
Just to follow up, yes, lemonade and iced tea is an Arnold Palmer. However the iced tea is generally unsweetened in my experience which cuts the sweetness of the lemonade. If you actually mix both of these, it’ll be quite sweet. (Unless you’re one of those people for whom Splenda tastes like foot, in which case it’ll be quite foot-y)
“AI” is the Red Dye 40 of society.
@DrunkCat Have you tried using it to colour your hair? That could help you win them back.
@yakkoTDI Please resubmit your comment in the form of a showme prompt.
(Since @yakkoTDI apparently got held up in traffic, I’ll deliver his expected line:)
This is a sweet deal.
@phendrick Thanks for having my back.
@yakkoTDI No problem. But I was worried that my world was changing yet again.
Splenda-No!
/showme a exploding pitcher of Arnold Palmer
/showme an exploding Arnold Palmer
/showme an exploding picture of Arnold Palmer
The /showme command is a member feature. Join membership to try it out.
Splenda?! Are we going to have to throw hands?
@AaronLeeJohnson
/giphy kool-aid man fighting
Don’t believe them when they tell you that sucralose is perfectly stable and safe.
@uwacn do you have any legitimate, peer reviewed studies proving it, or just tiktoks from barefoot health influencers in grocery stores?
@uwacn @zollars23 C’mon now! We all know that The Food Babe is an expert on things like this!
Colorings a side, Splenda is nasty stuff, I actually thought food and drug took it off the market. According to the world health organization, it is a cancer, causing agent within, called aspartame
@craigcush
Splenda is a trademarked brand of sucralose. Aspartame is an entirely different artificial sweetener, also marketed as NutraSweet.
Opinions vary regarding the safety of both, but aspartame has far more data in its favor.
Aspartame is unsuitable for use in baking and must be avoided by people with the rare genetic disorder phenylketonuria (which inhibits metabolism of the common amino acid phenylalanine). In all other contexts, I would choose aspartame over sucralose without hesitation.
@craigcush @Rowsdower https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/health/the-3-worst-drinks-that-increase-your-risk-for-alzheimers/
Colorings aside, Splenda is nasty stuff. Chlorine based, it is known to cause gastrointestinal difficulties decreasing the good gut bacteria and causing weight gain.
@craigcush wait until you hear about salt! It’s made of Sodium and Chlorine, a toxic metal and a poisonous gas! Nasty stuff!
@craigcush @zollars23 Don’t get me started about the risks of dihydrogen monoxide. I’m told it has caused thoudsands of perfectly healthy people to die of asphyxiation.
Poisoning your customers seems counterintuitive.
@cinoclav Yet there are entire industries set up for it. Some of them aren’t even overtly addictive. Apparently there are a lot of people willing to pay money to poison themselves, knowingly or otherwise.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I don’t want to pick on or leave out any specific choices, so I won’t attempt to list them here.)
@cinoclav @xobzoo maybe I’m biased but Big Pharma seems to want to sell stuff at huge prices that just keeps you “sick but alive” enough so you keep the revenue stream going. If they actually kill you the revenue stops. I don’t doubt that there are pharma executives that analyze stuff like this and make PowerPoint presentations on maximizing the profit/death balance.
@cinoclav What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. (I heard that somewhere once)
@cinoclav Paging Philip Morris! Philip Morris to the lobby, please.
I bought the sweet tea version in store a while back, and all I have to say is that it was nasty. I kept trying to water it down to maybe have a drinkable liquid, but I ended up throwing the entire box away.
@tlaughner too sweet or just plain gross?
@molin123 It was sickly sweet, and it left a terrible aftertaste.
Considering these are designed to be used in a 2 quart pitcher that better be one pretty damn BIG glass.
In fact, even in a half gallon I find these type drinks to be way too strong/sweet. My usual practice is to mix the Wyler single bottle packets (designed for a half liter bottle) into a half gallon of water…about an eighth strength… So this deal would make me about two and a half 55 gallon drums!
@chienfou and as we learned in Breaking Bad you can always re-purpose the 55 gallon drums for human recycling.
I’ve tasted this stuff exactly once in my life - and that was too much. Stuff is NASTY.
Thanks for reminding me of how awful it is to have tastebuds sometimes.
How much caffeine in this?
/showme Arnold Palmer throwing a box in a dumpster
@mediocrebot
Guess he figured nobody would recognize him with the mustache and goatee…
How about fresh organic lemons and organic natural cane sugar and make a refreshing pitcher of lemonade? Enjoy your beverage in moderation and then move on to filtered water for the rest of your hydration needs. Same for tea. I personally enjoy iced tea without sugar with a twist of lemon.
@accelerator I just priced organic lemons at the nearest Whole Foods. Enough to make a half-gallon of lemonade would be almost eleven dollars…
I’m going to just stick with water…
@Limewater I found Organic Lemon Juice not from concentrate at Costco for ~ $0.07 ounce.
Recipe:
8 oz (1cup) lemon juice
48 oz.(6 cups) water
1 cup sugar.
I have a Lime tree growing in the house so Limeade (Limewater
) is always my go to.
@accelerator I agree. Your new proposal would be a lot more economical than using fresh organic lemons…
@Limewater
But still over 4x the cost of this product.
@accelerator
How do you get the flowers pollinated?
@chienfou I have a Mexican Lime bush that is self pollinating. I help it along with a small soft hair artist’s paint brush.
@accelerator
I did that to my Meyer lemon when it was small.
I think Dr. Death(AKA John F. Kennedy Jr.) would have banned this stuff.
@Johncv I think you mean Robert F Kennedy Jr
@Johncv @mappiahpadi
Abundant Money and power doesn’t always end well.
/youtube glad I’m not a Kennedy
The pink lemonade is all right, never tried the ice tea
The SideDeal promo box with the font used at the top I swear I read it as “built for 6402” and I was like, “how long was I sleeping?”
/showme Arnold Palmer running a lemonade and tea stand on a street corner with a sign that says 36 for $9
@mediocrebot highly-disturbing
@Jebbielax I guess when it sees “Arnold” it thinks Schwarzenegger and adds more muscles.
@dave /showme Palmer the golfer working a kids lemonade and ice tea stand with a sign that says “36 for $9”
@Jebbielax Nothing like a good glass of Lemonsade. Or is that Lemon Sade?
@Jebbielax
The slash show me is a mehmber feature (and needs to be on it’s own line)
Get your red dye lemonade mix before it’s banned!
Splenda never makes me feel very splendid…
i wish they were mixed, 18 of each, that would be a great buy…
Can I get the rules for that card/dice/scrabble game they are playing in the video? I can’t believe I watched the video.
@jweber1145 You forgot the domino part of the game.
I can’t believe you made me watch that video.
@yakkoTDI is the song still stuck in your head too? Someone was paid to make that video so we might as well watch it. Yeah that makes me feel worse.
DONT CANCEL ORDER
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