hotlama
07-15-2008, 04:04 PM
Read the comment quoted below. This guy thinks it's possible for candy to be a gateway drug. I loves fireballs and pixi sticks as a kid. I guess that means I am a "tweaker".
What do you think? I guess I better stop letting my kids eat fire balls. Oh, and the snorting pixy stick thing. I never did it but I knew several friends who snorted them for the sugar high and they are all successful adults who aren't "tweakers".
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/new-teen-health-worry-energy-in-a-can/
You don’t have to wait ’til your kid is in HS to find out if he’s likely to be a seat-belt-eschewing tweaker later in life–if he gravitates toward super sour or super hot candy, that’s a clue, too. I noticed this in the 80s: the kids that went for the atomic fireballs and the so-sour-it-makes-your-eyes-well candy were the ones who liked fireworks and three-wheelers. In due time these were the kids who got mohawks and eight earrings, skateboarded themselves into hospitals regularly, and drank, smoked and snorted themselves in and out of rehab. Those of us who favored chocolate candy and did not, for instance, see what it’s like to snort the contents of the Pixi Stix (rather than simply trading them and the MaryJanes and rest of the Halloween trash haul to the future drug addicts in exchange for edible candy), we chocolate eaters were the ones who remained in school until graduation, whereupon we went to good colleges and adopted safe coffee habits and sedate red-wine drinking. Want your kid to grow up to be a long-lived bore? Don’t wait for the Red Bull years: take away the gateway candy now.
What do you think? I guess I better stop letting my kids eat fire balls. Oh, and the snorting pixy stick thing. I never did it but I knew several friends who snorted them for the sugar high and they are all successful adults who aren't "tweakers".
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/new-teen-health-worry-energy-in-a-can/
You don’t have to wait ’til your kid is in HS to find out if he’s likely to be a seat-belt-eschewing tweaker later in life–if he gravitates toward super sour or super hot candy, that’s a clue, too. I noticed this in the 80s: the kids that went for the atomic fireballs and the so-sour-it-makes-your-eyes-well candy were the ones who liked fireworks and three-wheelers. In due time these were the kids who got mohawks and eight earrings, skateboarded themselves into hospitals regularly, and drank, smoked and snorted themselves in and out of rehab. Those of us who favored chocolate candy and did not, for instance, see what it’s like to snort the contents of the Pixi Stix (rather than simply trading them and the MaryJanes and rest of the Halloween trash haul to the future drug addicts in exchange for edible candy), we chocolate eaters were the ones who remained in school until graduation, whereupon we went to good colleges and adopted safe coffee habits and sedate red-wine drinking. Want your kid to grow up to be a long-lived bore? Don’t wait for the Red Bull years: take away the gateway candy now.