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Okay, the truth is I'm not really plugged into the social life here at work. There are multiple reasons for it, but I think it's safe to say that my co-workers and I move in different worlds.
So, every once in a while, I'll do something for purely social reasons. Part of me hates myself for it (why on EARTH should I have to play these social games?) and part of me figures that if it means I don't have to gather by the water cooler and compare shoes and novelty necklaces every morning, it's worth it. So, today I brought candy for the candy jar. Pixie sticks, white chocolate peanut butter cups, Smarties, and caramel eyeballs.
Due to some tricksy childhood memories of downing a mountain of Halloween candy with no ill effects, I had two peanut butter cups and four pixie sticks. I might as well have injected pure sugar into my veins: I now feel like crap. The last time I had candy was months ago anyway - I never have it, but I want to know when I lost the iron stomach that could eat a bag of Halloween candy, and then read in the car on the way to the spinning tea cups and have merely flushed cheeks to show for it.
Anyway, my question is: Why would candy make someone sick to their stomach?
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Do you realize how many pixies are killed to make one pixie stick? That thought always gets my stomach roiling. Posts: 5957 | Registered: Oct 2001
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If you haven't had candy for a month, you have to build up your tolerance gradually. And somehow white chocolate peanut butter cups sounds really, really disgusting.
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I thought they sounded pretty good when I first saw them in the store, but after eating one I'm going to have to agree with pooka. They were utterly repellant somehow. I didn't throw up or anything, but I kind of felt like I'd have been better off doing so.
I've noticed that cheap chocolate has that effect on me in general though. If I eat a hershy bar, I'll A)not enjoy it--it being nasty, waxy cheap granular crap masquerading as chocolate and B)feel a little ill after. Even with higher quality stuff, like Dove, I'll often feel nauseated if I eat much of it (much being, say, three squares of the stuff). With really high quality dark chocolate, though, I can eat and eat, and never feel ill from it.
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quote:Why would candy make someone sick to their stomach?
It's possible that you might be suffering from sugar induced dehydration. You eat all those pixie sticks. They hit your stomach and make a really high osmolarity solution. This basically sucks the water out of the rest of your tissues and cause head aches and nausia.
Try drinking about of liter of water and see if it goes away.
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quote: Okay, the truth is I'm not really plugged into the social life here at work. There are multiple reasons for it, but I think it's safe to say that my co-workers and I move in different worlds.
So, every once in a while, I'll do something for purely social reasons. Part of me hates myself for it (why on EARTH should I have to play these social games?)
I so could have written this. Posts: 3956 | Registered: Jun 2001
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