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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I'm seeing influencers advertise these everywhere. Are these actually good?

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you enjoy what's essentially lightly carbonated and highly caffienated sugar water, then they're pretty good.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    If you want heart palpitations.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Compared to the amount of coffee a lot of people drink, these aren’t that bad. There’s no sugar at least.

    A standard run of the mill large coffee has more caffeine than one of these, and people guzzle those down.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    White Monster (pictured) tastes like... orange pop that's less sweet, much more citrus and has something else going on akin to saltiness at the same time; maybe it's an umami-flavour. It is genuinely delicious. I have now tried the rest of the Monster line-up and despised them, they are all fit for the pit. I haven't tried any other energy drink.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I don't get the appeal. It tastes like energy drink flavour.

    With so many funny and interesting flavours monster and most other energy drinks have, choosing the basic energy flavour is just bland.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I love the whole "this vegan shit is easy" meme format

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (19 children)

    If you live in a first world country, living vegan is honestly not a problem at all. And of course I'm not counting the US here. These guys are just poor people that are challanged enough already.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's actually cheaper in the US, to note. The lowest income groups in the US are the one exactly the most likely to be vegan or plant-based

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I think I would have a tough time with going full vegan. Vegetarian sounds like I could do it easily. I enjoy a lot of vegetarian dishes regularily and will often prefer vegetarian options over meat based dishes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Can always start there then keep going. I will say a lot of people who ultimately go vegan also thought they never could do it. There's some communities on lemmy with some good recipes if you want inspiration

    !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works

    !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    I mean, your country can be rich but it does not mean it's easy being vegan and even if its, often there is still an economic impact on going vegan that poorer people cannot afford

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Even with subsidies, it's still cheaper if you compare to whole-plant based diets and real world spending data. It's only the pre-made plant-based meats and similar that are more expensive because they don't yet have the same economies of scale

    Seems like you are from Italy based on your instance? Studies have found overall costs lower in Italy for plant-based diets

    https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    Yeah in Italy overall the price of meat is higher than plants but where i live, if i compare the quantity of meat and plants needed for a full meal, they are almost at the same prices especially where i live since we have plenty of meat to export anyway, the point was not about me but about others, i could prolly be vegetarian with little problems (not vegan, i could not) but I am not very healty so i'd rather not gamble with what i eat too

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Doesn't monster energy contain taurine?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Yes but don't be fooled by the name: Taurine is called like that only because it was first discovered in bulls but it's present and produced by many other animals and micro organism; as much as i know most of the taurine is today produced either by synthesis or by harvesting what some micro organisms produce

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bacon wrapped white monster is the shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Sodas and energy drinks actually aren't vegan. Something about animal gelatin being used in production?

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