Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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germans don't mind getting diabetes because their private health insurance will cover it and it's worth it when in exchange you get an unimaginable number of great flavours of fritz-spritz?
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Manawyrm | Sarah
(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari there's also a _lot_ of public health scare/BS/FUD about sweeteners in the culture here.
as someone who's allergic to many sweeteners I still think that crap is in too many products, but yeah...
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@manawyrm it should always be a personal choice… i hate how in the uk, the introduction of a sugar tax led to previously sugar-only soft drinks being reformulated to be a mix of sugar and sweeteners. worst of both worlds
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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or maybe germans don't see a need for sweetened uncaffeinated flavoured drinks when they can drink unsweetened uncaffeinated flavourless drinks (sparkling water)?
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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man the way fritz-spritz is available seemingly everywhere will end me. how am i supposed to avoid the temptation of rhubarb spritzer or apple spritzer or melon spritzer or
Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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sparkling apple juice is objectively one of the greatest soda types and yet it's so uncommon in places i've lived other than germany. and this applies to so many kinds of fruit juice. but in germany they've fixed that… but at what cost
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mcc
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@hikari Afaict you can't even get it in all of Germany! It seems to be only Bavaria.
i love apfelschorle