Behold KFC’s Mega Jug drink size: 64 oz of liquified sugar.
I saw this on BuzzFeed the other day:
Apparently KFC is joining the fight against childhood diabetes by agreeing to donate $1 to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation every time someone buys a Mega Jug of Pepsi.
Just to be clear, a Mega Jug is 64 oz of liquified sugar—an entire half-gallon. That’s almost a six-pack of regular 12-oz cans—800 calories—all in one offensively huge plastic cup.
KFC’s direct style of damage control seems aimed at canceling out the harm caused by offering a half-gallon serving size. “Drink up,” they seem to be saying, “we’ve got you covered.” But customers would probably benefit more if they just slapped a warning label directly onto the drink, the way that tobacco companies do for packs of cigarettes.
June 10, 2011 at 8:31 pm, john charles webb jr said:
The fast-food industry sees the customer as a ‘crash trst dummy’ . . . .
95% of Diabetes symptoms literally disappear within one week when one aligns his or her diet and steps away from highly-processed foods like sugar , wheat and chemical innundations .
June 10, 2011 at 8:31 pm, john charles webb jr said:
The fast-food industry sees the customer as a ‘crash trst dummy’ . . . .
95% of Diabetes symptoms literally disappear within one week when one aligns his or her diet and steps away from highly-processed foods like sugar , wheat and chemical innundations .
June 10, 2011 at 8:31 pm, john charles webb jr said:
crash test dummy
not trst
June 11, 2011 at 6:47 am, Anonymous said:
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June 11, 2011 at 2:08 pm, Jana Elizabeth said:
please say this is a joke. please.
June 12, 2011 at 10:14 pm, Sarah Hart said:
Not healthy but if you go to kfc for nutrition you’re an idiot. The charity supports kids with juvenile diabetes aka type 1 diabetes an auto immune form of diabetes. No one knows why children get it but it has got nothing to do with drinking too much soda/poor diet.
The promotions not that bad when you know sugar does not cause diabetes, unless you’re the kind of person who gets butthurt about Ronald McDonald House or cupcakes for cancer research, let the fatties help sick kids
June 12, 2011 at 11:15 pm, Roslyn Ritz said:
Sale of soft drinks should have the same restrictions as alcoholic beverages. The rise in diabetics in the U.S. is due to the abnormal amount of these drinks consumed by the public…..particularly children. Why are children not taught of the value of consuming water to quench their thirst. Fifty years ago, the drink of choice at most family dinner table was plain, old-fashion water and the population was healthier than today. Sugar is a killer.
June 13, 2011 at 3:15 pm, Ross Cameron said:
Fun fact: Most soft drinks in the United States nowadays are NOT made with sugar. They are made with High-fructose corn syrup, Corn syrup is the problem, not the sugar.Why is that? Sugar is a simple carbohydrate that the body is able to break down easily, that’s why eating a lot of it results in what would be called a “sugar rush”, you body is basically getting a blast of energy at once. As a moderated part of your diet though, sugar can be a nice source of immediate energy.Meanwhile corn syrup is a more complex substance, and is more difficult for the body to break down. Because the body can’t break it down faster, it stays longer, and so as more is consumed it ultimately builds up and causes problems such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc. And it’s not like soft drinks weren’t widely consumed prior to now, products like coke and pepsi have been around, and have been popular for ages, and there was not really any noticeable problem until about the mid-90′s about a decade after company’s began switching from sugar to corn syrup.
June 20, 2011 at 7:27 am, Anonymous said:
This is pop science that anyone who passed high school science would know is nonsense. Sugar is sugar, regardless of the source.
June 24, 2011 at 3:36 am, InRecovery said:
There are definitely different types of sugar and some are easier to breakdown than others. Fruits, for example are complex carbohydrates (read: sugar), but are actually healthier than simple carbohydrates, because it requires more energy by the body to break them down and thus the body expends energy to counteract the calories consumed. Corn syrup, however, is not a complex carbohydrate, but a simple one, just like pure sugar, except it is like sugar on steroids. It is a conglomerated mass of simple carbohydrates that provide quick energy but the body makes little effort to process them so the caloric impact is actually quite heavy, especially considering most people drinking a soda or two or three are sitting down doing nothing with themselves most of the time. So, while yes, the first poster is wrong, there is a difference in sugars. And regardless of all this, the soda craze of our country is ridiculous, and way too far ingrained, and very very damaging indeed. Nearly every single soda commercial is about how drinking that soda is a lifestyle choice, and makes you a cooler, better person, and blah blah blah…its absolutely horrible. And, this is coming from a soda addict, working very hard to break the chain.
June 13, 2011 at 12:05 am, George Fisher said:
A bucket of grease and a jug of Coke… yup, that’ll scare off diabetes LOL
June 13, 2011 at 12:05 am, George Fisher said:
A bucket of grease and a jug of Coke… yup, that’ll scare off diabetes LOL
June 14, 2011 at 1:29 am, Dan Allen said:
This is so sick, sad and wrong, that I don’t even have the words…
June 28, 2011 at 1:28 pm, Chase Walton said:
Just get a diet drink with the mug. No sugar. Duh. Or or…., huh! Water!
August 24, 2012 at 11:40 pm, Barry Law said:
OK really
August 25, 2012 at 12:52 am, Jim F Bartley said:
Now, if they were ONLY selling sugar-free (Diet) Pepsi, and making that point in their ads, it would be less of an awful thing. Locally on PEI, a fundraiser company was selling large CHOCOLATE BARS for the same cause….
August 25, 2012 at 3:44 am, Maureen Rolfe-Smith said:
Sounds very intelligent thing to do ….NOT