*sigh* Why Sonic?

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  • tmaryam
    tmaryam Posts: 289 Member
    The people saying reevaluate your relationship with food must be nuts. I would have poured it out too. 100g of sugar is almost twice what I consume in an entire day. I won't even bother figuring out the calories on that. I'd rather just not drink it.

    My sentiments exactly! I get heartburn just thinking about consuming that much sugar in one sitting. No, thanks, Sonic.
  • stiobhard
    stiobhard Posts: 140 Member


    They fail to mention this at the time of ordering, I'm glad I'm not a diabetic.

    and people wonder why mayors are trying to regulate drink sizes!!
  • thesupremeforce
    thesupremeforce Posts: 1,206 Member
    The people saying reevaluate your relationship with food must be nuts. I would have poured it out too. 100g of sugar is almost twice what I consume in an entire day. I won't even bother figuring out the calories on that. I'd rather just not drink it.

    Let's see the one's saying to reevaluate the relationship with food have successfully lost over 100 lbs... Are we saying to have something with 100g of sugar all the time nope, but it will not hurt anything in the long run and should be enjoyed.

    That's pretty impressive. You should be proud of that achievement. Not even being sarcastic.

    Now how about using all that experience to maybe empathize with people still working hard at things and offer support for making good choices rather than just eating all the things.

    This isn't so much about "eating all the things" as it is about the OP claiming that "it tasted good" and therefore must be "bad." THAT sort of thinking would be unhealthy. Granted, I doubt she actually meant it in quite that way, but some of the people around here take things literally.
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    So I stopped off this morning at Sonic to get a Diet Cherry Limeade but instead decided to get a Diet Cherry Slush. When I got to work I took a drink and paused, it tasted very sweet...too good to be diet. After a little research online, I found out that their slush base is full of sugar, as in 100 grams of sugar for a large slush. I had to wash it down the drain. The syrup was sugar free but the rest was not! I'm glad I followed my instinct that if something tastes too good, it's probably bad. >.<

    They fail to mention this at the time of ordering, I'm glad I'm not a diabetic.

    how in the world can they say its diet? do they say the regular has 600 calories or something and the diet is 300 calories??
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    So I stopped off this morning at Sonic to get a Diet Cherry Limeade but instead decided to get a Diet Cherry Slush. When I got to work I took a drink and paused, it tasted very sweet...too good to be diet. After a little research online, I found out that their slush base is full of sugar, as in 100 grams of sugar for a large slush. I had to wash it down the drain. The syrup was sugar free but the rest was not! I'm glad I followed my instinct that if something tastes too good, it's probably bad. >.<

    They fail to mention this at the time of ordering, I'm glad I'm not a diabetic.

    how in the world can they say its diet? do they say the regular has 600 calories or something and the diet is 300 calories??

    I see Sonic has "millions of drink combinations" but it's not on the 35 paged nutritional infomenu I saw. It appears the OP made up a drink and the 15 year old employee threw something in a cup to keep the line moving
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    The people saying reevaluate your relationship with food must be nuts. I would have poured it out too. 100g of sugar is almost twice what I consume in an entire day. I won't even bother figuring out the calories on that. I'd rather just not drink it.

    Let's see the one's saying to reevaluate the relationship with food have successfully lost over 100 lbs... Are we saying to have something with 100g of sugar all the time nope, but it will not hurt anything in the long run and should be enjoyed.

    That's pretty impressive. You should be proud of that achievement. Not even being sarcastic.

    Now how about using all that experience to maybe empathize with people still working hard at things and offer support for making good choices rather than just eating all the things.

    This isn't so much about "eating all the things" as it is about the OP claiming that "it tasted good" and therefore must be "bad." THAT sort of thinking would be unhealthy. Granted, I doubt she actually meant it in quite that way, but some of the people around here take things literally.

    And seeing the OP's join date, the disservice would have been to assume that they knew that barring medical conditions, foods shouldn't be off limits.
  • Jewlz280
    Jewlz280 Posts: 547 Member
    *sigh* I don't think anyone is getting it. The point isn't that it had calories. The point isn't that sugar is evil. The point is that she ordered something not having the time to look it up and when she got to where she could, discovered it could have hundreds of cals that didn't fit into her day. I would've poured it out, too. I'd rather have 300 cals of ice cream or steak or cookies vs. just a drink that won't satisfy or fill me up. I might waste 200 on beer sometimes, but that is also a planned high day. So I get it. It wasn't what she expected so instead of just drinking it, she did what worked for her and poured it out. So what?

    Anyways, I checked their site and they do NOT have the slush base listed. AT ALL. So... I messaged them. Because I want to know! I don't get slushes often, but once in a while when I am out running errands and I am hot, I will swing through and get a SF Mango one. Just because I love Mango! Well, under 'add-ins' they have it listed as zero. Which is nice! But... no list of a 'base'. Which is annoying. I'm not saying never drink it if you want it, I'm saying I want to know when I'm drinking it what I'm getting. If I KNOW I'm getting 400 cals and that is a decision I've made for my day then it's fine. But if I get something thinking oh, it's going to be some drink for zero or even just reduced and it's 400 cals.... NOPE. Not gonna do it. And OP, you live and you learn, ya know? So, now you know to go with whatever you originally planned or pull to the side and look it up on your phone or just ask the person at the window.
  • tripsup
    tripsup Posts: 3
    Hi, all! I see this topic is a bit old and seems to have fizzled and died a while back and may now seem irrelevant that I'm commenting on it, but here goes: I am a former sonic carhop. In my time working at sonic, many other carhops came and went. It's not a job many people hold for very long, and is often occupied by high school students that hardly care if your order is correct or not, so long as they get a few bucks out of it. Successful carhops will always try their best to get you what you want. I, for one, always tried to insure customers trying to order a "zero-calorie slushie", were well informed of what they were actually getting. This is not exactly something you can expect most sonic carhops to do. Half of them don't even know what they're serving people, anyway. They just ring up what you ask for and let you go on your merry way. Yes the menu says "zero calories" under diet cherry, mint, raspberry, blackberry, peach, and mango, but that is (as someone stated before me) just the syrup. At least once a day I had to deal with people asking for a "diet slush", and upon being told that there is no such thing, but I can still make a slush in those flavors, they get angry. ("Yes you do! I had one just yesterday!") anyway, long story short, stick to diet flavors in diet sodas or unsweet tea when it comes to sonic. (the sweet tea and green tea has an unholy amount of sugar in it as well)
  • fisherwomanjax
    fisherwomanjax Posts: 14 Member
    Never drink something thats not what you wanted. Dont mess up your plan and btw, thats way too much sugar for a diet drink... Sounds gross anyway =) keep up the good work

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