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> "drinking super sized gulpies from 7Eleven" Idle thought: what's the pH of bog-standard gulpies?† The sugar in them is definitely going to encourage bacteria
by grzm 9y ago
> "drinking super sized gulpies from 7Eleven"
Idle thought: what's the pH of bog-standard gulpies?† The sugar in them is definitely going to encourage bacteria, so I wonder what the relative contributions to tooth decay are from the gulpy itself and that due to the acid from the bacteria that feed off of the gulpy.
† Further idle thought: is gulpy/slurpy a pop/soda/coke thing?
- RobertRoberts 9y agoThe lady I knew specifically that literally destroyed her teeth would buy a couple 32oz "things" (I think it was called a "big gulp") and sip on it all day. Her molars were tiny bits of spikes sticking up in the back, it was nasty. I was 16 at the time and asked why she didn't stop drinking that stuff when her teeth got bad? She said something like "You think the coke is hurting my teeth?" (yes, she hadn't even considered it) So, I don't think the bacteria had time to grow, it was probably all dead from the coke. :P And it was diet coke, so no sugar to feed off of.