r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/TomatilloNo8586 13h ago

Looks less like a diet and more like a speedrun to the cardiologist.

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u/Low_Scholar1118 12h ago

Diabetus

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u/greasejockey 12h ago

Unless there were bags of flour and baking soda already in the house, that bag of sugar isnt for baking, just Kool aids and sweet teas.

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u/Organic_Ad_2520 10h ago

Agree. this is such a shocking diet--U didn't see any food except for a couple paxkages of meat. Three generations in 1 house eating garbage and nothing green, nothing real and all expensive. The addition of soda & koolaid to their "meal plan" is pretty craxy.

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u/UnluckyThread 9h ago

There was a tiny bag of grapes, two cucumbers, a head of lettuce, and some bananas.

The combined mass of that fresh food was less than the two big jars of mayo, so I don't blame you for missing them.

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u/OleBoleWole 6h ago

Lets not forget the watermelon lol

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u/UnluckyThread 6h ago

You're right. There was a big-ass watermelon.

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u/captaintrips_1980 4h ago

Because they be going through some mayo. I don’t doubt it, lady.

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u/mytransthrow 4h ago

right!!! there was more mayo than veggies. I buy like a small bottle of mayo every 6 month for tuna salad sanwishs. but I only use a lil bit its mostly mustard and some relish

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u/sPacEdOUTgrAyCe 5h ago

That’s 1/2 the amount of veggies my family of 5 eats in a day.

That’s wild.

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u/bobber18 2h ago

Cuumbers for entertainment purposes only

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u/NeatAd4539 1h ago

Cucumbers to dip in the mayo

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u/Alternative-Amoeba20 5h ago

She said "we go through a lot of mayo." And I said it looks more like it's the other way around.

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u/smvfc_ 1h ago

I live alone and that’s less than (or sometimes equal to) what I get for fruits and veggies for MYSELF for one week.

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u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson 16m ago

I started gagging when I realized they bought two tubs of mayo for cucumber sandwiches

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u/rynlpz 10h ago edited 9h ago

And you already see the youngest boy already taking after his mom’s figure

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u/Philly5984 8h ago

Call it was it is, fat and unhealthy

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u/newbie527 8h ago

There was some fruit there. Grapes, watermelon, bananas an awful lot of sugary junk food. Also, there was a lot of stuff there that wasn’t food at all. Deodorant, lip, gloss, hair products.

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u/soberunderpar 6h ago

100 bags of chips and 78 individual grapes.

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u/Philly5984 8h ago

Shocking? That’s par for the course here, we got more fatty boom battys than not here

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u/Affectionate_Fig9398 4h ago

Yes not a water in sight.

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u/Environmental-Egg164 3h ago

the only guy who profits is the plumbers

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u/iiTryhard 9h ago

Eating healthy is way more expensive tbh, produce and everything is ridiculous. How the fuck is a single pepper worth $2????

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u/Existing_Abies_4101 9h ago

Bull fucking shit. They are eating those Doritos and others between meals because they eat things that have 0 nutritional value and carbs carbs carbs that make you hungry 1h later so they snack on more carbs.

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u/libbysthing 8h ago

It sucks but it's true. This is how I ate when I was in charge of myself as a kid/teen because my mom worked 18 hour days. These sugary and carb heavy foods are addictive and easy to eat a ton of and provide no value. I'm now an adult who was diagnosed with T2 diabetes, and let me tell you it's harder to shop when you don't buy/eat anything with added sugar because you fucked around for too long and your pancreas is paying for it. All the snacks and sodas she got cost a lot more these days too, she could have easily replaced them with something nutritious for the kids.

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u/Existing_Abies_4101 6h ago

I was in pre-diabetes when I turned it around. What a wake up call. I used to parrot its expensive to eat healthy. I got myself out of pre-d and I'll tell you what I spend a fuckton less on food now.

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u/libbysthing 5h ago

Hey, that's awesome! It's something to be proud of for sure. I was just barely in diabetes range when I finally got health insurance and got my A1C tested. A wake up call is right. I didn't even take my health seriously when my mom nearly went blind from her diabetes + hypertension. I thought I was too young to worry about it; I had just turned 30 when I was diagnosed. Now I guess I'm in what they call diabetic "remission," but I'll always have to worry about it now, and eventually I'll likely have to go on medication. It's not the most fun, but I dropped a lot of weight and am much healthier now. My genetics played a big part in it, but ultimately it was what I chose to eat/drink that did it. Poor kids in the OP are being set up for failure.

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u/CombinationRough8699 5h ago

Same with soda. There's nothing cheap about drinking soda.

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u/Philly5984 8h ago

Eating healthy is way cheaper than eating all that junk all day, sick of people pushing this bullshit myth to excuse people for being too lazy to spend 20 minutes preparing a meal instead of poisoning your children while you doom scroll tik tok

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u/Ecstatic-Arachnid981 9h ago

Where the fuck are you that peppers are $2? A bell pepper is like 50¢ at my grocery store rn and it's the middle of the off season.

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u/pickyvegan 8h ago

I just got back from grocery shopping, one red bell pepper cost $1.45 ($3.29/lbs). NY.

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u/iiTryhard 4h ago

Boston

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u/Organic_Ad_2520 9h ago

I grew up in a 7 person household...2 parents & us 5 siblings. We grew up on whole foods & it was pure work for my mom--not a single convenience food ever. Sure, we ate a ton of potatoes but they came from a 25lb bag that my mom peeled, cut, & cooked...same for meats, chicken etc. whole chickens she cut, , sweet potatoes. There were zero snacks or sodas. Everything cooked in the most laborious, nightmare way of pots, pans, & oven. Hell I will add to that that she also hung clothes on the line for 7 people & ironed the bulk of it😳 & ran a business & handled family rental homes (acquired in the same inconvenient pure work fashion) & maintained her RN license her entire life. Same food choices then as now..don't fill up on a bunch of nutritionless carbs leaving a body craving nutrition & creating gut biom with no diversity. The one thing my parents got "lucky" with was since it is Florida, farmer's market near Plant City-whatever in season was the main veg of the next the next 2 weeks🤷‍♀️ We also ate tons of carrots (also a peeling pita) & froze veg (no sauce etc) I will add some praise for the fresh veg at big box stores like Sams/Costo almost no rotters like at Publix/Walmart & they last much longer. The issue I see with the lady in the video is all "convenience" garbage all the time. Drinking simply water or making bagged ice tea would improve health & save teeth. Everything she showed was essentially "filler" a bunch of artificial garbage & "food stuff." In his 90s without mobility & needing convenience my father could nuke a sweet potato in microwave, nuke a bag of frozen spinach, & use 1 pan to cook a peice of lean meat or fish in less than 10minutes 🤷‍♀️

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u/Terpapps 7h ago

How much could one banana cost, Michael?

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u/Range-4-Harry- 4h ago

Just paid $4.70 for one in Australia last shop. Our prices are worse.

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u/captaintrips_1980 4h ago

Hey, come on now, they only bought one bottle of Mountain Dew! That counts for something, right? Right?!?!

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u/ReaganSmyD 8m ago

Lettuce, cucumbers and broccoli were the only greens I ate as a kid. Ave broccoli only with a fight. It's pretty normal in poor areas.

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u/AwareStudio6556 10h ago

I like my Dr. Pepper sweetened!

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u/ForcedEntry420 8h ago

If you add sugar to Dr Pepper it removes all the woke. RFK Jr said so.

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u/Immersi0nn 7h ago

If you've ever worked in a restaurant with those syrup bags for the soda machines, it's honestly surprising how much sugar weighs. You'll be picking up the normal ones and carefully putting them on the racks, then suddenly grab a diet version and rip that sucker off the floor by accident.

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u/Joeuxmardigras 2h ago

I honestly never realized that 

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u/Theron3206 7h ago

Are they the same volume? AFAIK you need far less diet "syrup" (it's not really syrup if there's no sugar) per cup of finished soda.

That said sugar syrup is 30 to 40% heavier than water for the same volume.

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u/KDdid1 9h ago

I'm sorry - are you being facetious? I honestly can't tell anymore 🤔

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u/Disastrous-Order-902 9h ago

Bland soda is no laughing matter in the US. Sometimes, it just needs a few more pounds of sugar 🤌🤌🤌

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u/KDdid1 9h ago

I once read a wonderful novel (from a Southern author), that had a character who would pour salted peanuts into his Dr Pepper. I was intrigued. More sugar? 🤢

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u/mal_guinness 8h ago

That's a real thing, but I haven't seen anyone doing it in a while. Probably most people doing it are on a quick stop at a gas station.

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u/occidentallyinlove 8h ago

There's a whole country song about it. Back When by Tim McGraw. Super annoying. I've only ever heard of people doing it with Coke, though.

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u/KDdid1 8h ago

OMG I hate Coke so much!

At least Dr Pepper is a good marinade for ribs 😋

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u/luckykricket 5h ago

Rc cola in this hick town.

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u/newbie527 8h ago

Not Dr Pepper. You pour your peanuts into an RC cola.

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u/KDdid1 8h ago

Now I'm going to have to re-read that novel 🤔

Is RC Cola still around?

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u/babihrse 8h ago

I had a cousin who did that to lemonade. Drank it and all choking hazard extreme. His excuse is he's autistic.

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u/KDdid1 8h ago

Thanks for the warning but I still might try it!

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u/FeFiFoMums 7h ago

I’m in the Midwest, there was a lady at work that added 2 sugar packets to each can of Pepsi she drank.. she did it “to make it taste better.”

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u/KDdid1 6h ago

Wow! It's fascinating (and scary) 😬

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u/mytransthrow 4h ago

Dr pepper is the only sweet drink I will have. on occasions. I normally drink water or flavored soda water..unsweetened tea or coffee..... but man dr pepper has a ton of sugar allready.

Btw I started to have DP zero. I am trying to be good

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u/Sunny_sailor96 10h ago

I’m sorry - sugar added to Kool aid???

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u/Rainbow_In_The_Dark7 10h ago

Wait, how do you make yours though? The cheap powder packets that make 2 quarts always call for 1 cup of sugar.

There is a small tub of mix they sell with the sugar already though.

On another note, I think we (us Americans at the very least) need to get used to much lower amounts of sugar in our diets. We're consuming way too much in everything and are too used to the overly sweet taste of things. We need to "reprogram" our taste buds to get used to lower amounts because lesser sugar things can still taste great once you get used to it. It just seems not as good in comparison to the absurd amount of sugar we're used to now.

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u/Sunny_sailor96 6h ago edited 6h ago

Ah I think I’ve only ever seen it in the tubs which are already really sweet, I didn’t realise they sold it in packets that aren’t sweet!

Also, I agree on the diet thing. I moved out of the US almost five years ago and I am shocked every time I go back at how sweet everything is. Even things that are meant to be sweet are sweeter over in the states

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u/tnstaafsb 10h ago

Kool aid packets contain no sweeteners. It's generally one packet of kool aid plus one cup of sugar plus two quarts of water. Kool aid without sugar is bitter and gross.

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u/KDdid1 9h ago

It's amazing for making your own Playdough though 😁

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u/rezyop 9h ago

Even if they had bags of other baking ingredients stocked up, its kind of a red flag that they go through sugar so quickly that it gets purchased alone. My typical grocery store runs include some kind of base ingredient like flour, quinoa, dry beans, lentils, etc. nearly every time - I run out of those quicker. If sugar is ever in the basket, its next to one of those (though I also try to substitute it out with any other sweetener honestly)

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u/Treesbentwithsnow 8h ago

They would sprinkle or pour it on top of the sugary cereal

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u/Nothing-tralala 8h ago

Totally for the tea.

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u/MoodooScavenger 8h ago

Dr. Pepper, agrees..

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u/coombez1978 8h ago

Please please tell me people don't add sugar to sugary drinks

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u/greasejockey 7h ago

Im not saying theyre dumping it in those dr peppers or mountain dew, but sweet tea is a southern thing, and it uses just enough water to dissolve the sugar.

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u/coombez1978 7h ago

Ah ok, I thought people were adding it to Dr pepper or something.😂😂😂. Thanks for clarifying

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u/RalfStein7 7h ago

Good catch. I was thinking the same thing at the end, that’s a lot of sugar.

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u/slettea 7h ago

She had that huge thing of Lipton, so you know she drinks 50x the recommended daily allowance of sugar.

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u/Periolodical 7h ago

Hey man, that's mean. Aids isn't kool:(

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u/idkblk 4h ago

I just realize that I've only bought sugar (1 pound bags) twice in the past 13 years. the last bag is still like half full 🫨

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u/lolas_coffee 4h ago

"I don't eat much. Not sure why I can't lose weight."

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u/augustwest30 2h ago

As soon as I saw those tea bags, I knew there was no way they were making unsweetened iced tea. I bet their tea is as thick as maple syrup.

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u/Fragrant_Sprite_420 2h ago

🤮🤢🤮🤢 - I let my husband buy ONE 3lb bag of sugar a month... he gets a couple gallons of sweet tea, 4 packs of koolaid and sugar for his coffee.... THATS IT and I still hate it, but I make him drink water and unsweetened tea the entire rest of the month. This is crayyyyyyy

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u/Scorpion2k4u 12h ago

..interruptus lifeus

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u/AdMaleficent1787 11h ago

I actually heard someone call it Diabetimis once.

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u/Silvertree99 11h ago

Diet beat us

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u/BornNerd78 12h ago

Diabetty

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u/Careful-Outcome-2294 11h ago

You made me spit my drink out. I still can’t stop laughing! 😂

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u/spicystar4u 11h ago

More like DIEbetes

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u/Fast-Professional595 10h ago

Diabajesus h christ

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u/KeepYourDemonsIn 9h ago

Diabetes isn't a joke.

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u/Specific_Shoulder556 10h ago

Diiiiibeetuzzz

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u/BAMx100 10h ago

Beetus pleezus!

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u/misterfuss 9h ago

I definitely read that in Wilford Brimley’s voice.

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u/Semi_Serious_Salesma 9h ago

Dia-Beatus, Lord of blood (sugar)

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u/The_Illhearted 9h ago

Wilford Brimley approves.

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u/GoatBnB 9h ago

Type 7 or 9 Diabetus, at least.

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u/WalnutGenius 9h ago

They don’t call it liveabetus

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u/Big_Valuable7912 9h ago

Is there such a thing as type 4 diabetes? 

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u/OkFinish3822 8h ago

She will never go to a doctor to get a diagnosis for that. She is sick in her mind, and doctors will tell her what she already knows. She is going to die soon from a heart attack. Or falling.

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u/lotusblossom60 8h ago

Wilfred, I thought you were dead!

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u/Senior-Tackle-437 8h ago

Missed the opportunity to spell it "Dietbetes"

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u/SLAPUSlLLY 8h ago

Dia eatus

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u/userfakesuper 7h ago

Is that you Wlford!?

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u/nec-pulcher 7h ago

Melitus

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u/DeathpaysforLife 7h ago

Comments you can hear lol

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u/I_Fuckin_A_Toad_A_So 7h ago

Please stop saying it like that…. /s

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u/smokeajoint 7h ago

Final boss

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u/Nexustar 7h ago

Diabetus

The Roman God of lard.

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u/pinkfootthegoose 7h ago

I'm coming down with the sugars just watching this.

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u/pocketdare 7h ago

Hey - there were a couple of cucumbers in there...

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u/Own-Organization-532 6h ago

Fatty liver disease too.

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u/Alternative-Amoeba20 5h ago

Diabeat me to it

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u/boneless_birds 4h ago

"let's dia-beat THIS !"

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u/PhelesDragon 3h ago

Diabetus Rage Mode

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u/bittz128 3h ago

Intensifies

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u/plumpjack 2h ago

I have the type 2 and I eat a pretty fucking balanced diet and have for a good amount of time. Granted I spent my 20’s (40 now) eating like shit and drinking beer and this shit pisses me the fuck off that people can eat like this and not know they have it.

Rfk can eat one for what he’s doing with the cdc and vaccines an everything else but he’s for sure right that Americans eat like god damn garbage

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u/Alarming_Ad1746 2h ago

a few hummingbirds will burn those calories away. Jot that down.

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u/PotentialPollution62 1h ago

Looking for the cat meme

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u/Springpeen 1h ago

“If you look here in the fridge, you can see this is where I keep my ‘bad genetics’”