Soda in the US is batshit crazy, and has gotten way worse over recent decades. People will have the equivalent of a couple of candy bars worth of sugar with a l

Soda in the US is batshit crazy, and has gotten way worse over recent decades. People will have the equivalent of a couple of candy bars worth of sugar with a lunch (and then do it again for dinner... plus have the equivalent of one or two more candy bars between meals) when they'd probably be grossed out by the idea of having a pile of skittles or something with their burger. But liquify it, and it's fine I guess? We have free refills (was rare until some time around the late '90s—see the '80s film Gleaming the Cube where there's a sign on a Pizza Hut in a scene near the end of the movie advertising a special on pitchers of soda, which probably seems weird to anyone used to just having their soda constantly topped off, or walking to the fountain and doing it themselves) so it's easy to thoughtlessly sip down three or four glasses of soda with a long meal, and to-go sizes at fast food joints have ballooned in size in the last 20 years or so, like, the medium sizes are often larger than what I'd have classified as a large before.