Tom’s World – 18JUL2025 – It’s the Real Thing

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For the last decade or 4, I’ve not had more than 1-2 soft drinks per year and most times not even that. Don’t ask me about craft beers though I don’t even do that now.

When I can get some of the new, I’ll definitely try though. My boyhood memories of the 6 oz bottles with condensation running down on a hot summer day—. When we first got picked bottles, we’d bet a nickel to see who had the bottle that came from furthest away; the bottlers had their location cast into the glass.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 18JUL2025 – Reason 2,412; Make Coke Great Again

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Reason 2,412: Coke is bringing cane sugar back to Coca Cola!

Not to hijack your thread, but this is HUGE!
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/trump-says-coca-cola-agrees-to-use-real-cane-sugar-in-us-drinks-its-just-better/
Monsanto hardest hit.

The taste difference between high fructose corn syrup and cane sugar is significant.
Here in Texas, I can buy “Mexican Coke”. It comes in a glass bottle and has cane sugar.
I buy it as a treat, not as my regular beverage because it is expensive (Glass costs a lot to ship) and inconvenient. (Glass breaks.)
But a cane sugar Coke in a can! Man, I’m lovin’ it!

Reason 2,411 for Why Donald Trump Has Made America Greater – Stephen Colbert Cancelled

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Stephen Colbert hates Donald Trump.  He has said incredibly vile things about him both in and out of office.  So, it must be especially satisfying for Trump to know that his term in office will outlast Colbert’s television show.  And that is a feeling I also share.  I think Colbert is an unfunny comedian and a joyless culture warrior of the Left who preaches a woke agenda endlessly and boringly.

Years ago, he was Jon Stewart’s straight man on the Daily Show when both of them tried to make Barack Obama seem cool.  Now he’s Dave Letterman’s failed replacement on the Late Show and he’s managed to kill off his side of late-night comedy.

Now granted, his $15 million salary is a big part of why the Late Show is being ended.  Broadcast and cable television no longer make much money.  An aging viewing audience and the pharmaceutical companies that advertise to them are reaching the ends of their roads.  By replacing Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon with cheaper talent (or forcing them to take a huge reduction in salary) the networks can probably get another three or four years out of this set-up but essentially late-night comedy is no longer a thing.

But that shouldn’t stop me from enjoying guys like Colbert and Stewart (yeah, him too) getting the old heave-ho.  By splitting their audience into Left and Right their viewership tanked and their employers lost a lot of money.

Now Fox has positioned Greg Gutfeld as the competition for Colbert and the rest of the unfunny late-night hosts.  And he’s killing them in the ratings because ABC, CBS and NBC have to split the same 50% of the audience while Fox gets 100% of the other half.  But more importantly I think he’s only making a fraction of what they make in salary and he appears on two or three different shows on the network.

Now the real innovation may happen when someone decides to be funny to 100% of the audience.  In other words, try actual comedy and make fun of everyone equally.  It used to work quite well in the old days before women, minorities and sexual deviants were declared sacred cows and placed off limits from mockery leaving only straight white men as the only punchlines for unfunny comics.

Well, anyway, we won’t have Stephen Colbert to kick around anymore.  But there is a rumor that MSNBC or whatever they’re going to call that place may hire Colbert to do what Rachel Maddow currently does but for less money.  This seems far-fetched but who knows.  When price tag becomes the most important consideration new possibilities open up.  How about Keith Olbermann?  He used to be Rachel Maddow in the old days and he doesn’t make any money at all presently.  If they gave him anti-depressants and shaving supplies, I think he’d jump aboard again.  And maybe after Whoopi Goldberg gets canned from “The View” she might be available for MSNBC.  Of course, if feeding her was part of the deal that could be costly.

Well, anyway, today was a wonderful day.  And if the recission bill gets approved in the House on Friday that will be a wonderful day too.

Guest Contributor – Tregonsee – 17JUL2025 – The People’s Food

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Chemist said

“Finally, as with anything related to NYC, there will also be a ton of graft and outright theft.”

Indeed in a little city near where I live there was an excellent grocery store part of one of the larger New England Chains. It was brand new, had good prices, all sorts of products, including very high quality produce and types of produce (Jicama, Star Fruit, Mangoes, Plantain etc) rarely if ever seen in New England Grocery stores. After about 3-4 years of operation, the chain closed it. I happened to know a person who was a relative of one of the managers. Shrinkage (i.e. Theft) was the main issue. But it wasn’t shoplifting or at the front of the store as they say. It was the back of the store, cases of stuff (canned, produce, meat) would come in the back and go right back out often to be broken up and sold to small stores and restaurants. Now, picture NYC and that Mamdani will try to use these grocery stores as a way to employ the indigent and his pals (but I repeat myself) and picture the scenario I just spelled out. Ultimately the stores would just be another sink hole for NYC taxes; they’d be losing money hand over fist from the day they opened.