Stacerella

So, I bought some of the new Lipton Ice Tea To Go packetts the other night in two different flavous, the Apple Cranberry and the Lemon something or other (it doesn’t matter). I cracked open three of the apple cranberry packs to pour in a jug of water and drank one cup of it. It’s yummy in an artifical way, but still good nonetheless.

However yummy it tastes, I take exception to the addition of sulphites to all of the Lipton Ice Tea To Go products on the market right now. Why are they there? How can Lipton justify this? Guess what - it’s not just this new product that features sulphites, either. I went looking for tea bags and the boxes all list sulphites on them. Why, I will never know. It’s not like these products will go bad the second you crack a box or tear into a box of individual crystals packettes.

There is no need for them in any of their products that I can see or understand. Lipton’s competition doesn’t do this as far as I could tell based on what was on the same shelves. Do you know what adding sulphite needlessly to tea means to the people like me who are looking for low calorie drinks that are advertised (as featured on the Lipton site) as being rated the second healthiest beverage right after water by doctors? It means my body goes into attack mode.

I have all kinds of weird blotches on my legs now. I look like I was standing to close to someone using a large roller to paint a wall blood red. My legs look like they have paint splatter all over them. And my ankles are swollen from the edema. This is a bitch to get rid of. Edema appears when the kidneys have been messed with. I can’t afford to have my kidneys messed with. I need them to be in perfect working order! This is precisely the kind of food fuckery we don’t need in North America but is allowed to go on daily. Sulphites are being using in everything now. It has to stop! This upsets me to no end, people!

It’s not like I can just take Benadryl and hope for the best because, while it’s a great product for those with allergies, it hasn’t been proven effective on sulphite reactions. And, really, who wants to be knocked unconscious for 12+ hours only to wake up the same intolerance reactions all over them? Not me. Taking heavy drugs like Benadryl is a waste of my time when all I’m guaranteed is a 50/50 chance of the reactions going away rapidly. I’ll put it to you bluntly: sulphites have no business being in teas in the first place!

What Lipton should be made aware of is the fact that sulphite reactions are different in every person. For me, it could quite easily enough been an asthma attack instead of my legs being attacked. What if it was a severe asthma attack, where my throat closes up? Do you know what I typically do when that happens? I run to make a hot tea to open up the airway and ensure it remains open from the heat and the tea properties. Oh, the irony!!!

*deep breaths*

Yeah, so… those of you out there like me… buyer beware. Although sulphites do appear on the ingredients label, I didn’t think to look before I bought the Teas To Go. I mean, who but Lipton would put sulphites in tea products?!?!

And for those of you from Lipton reading this, shove your products. I will never buy them again, nor will I be recommending them. You use food production practices I don’t agree with, therefore I never willingly buy your products again. None of them. I don’t care how many nutritionists you have stuffed up your asses… er, I mean, backing your paid studies, you will never convince me you have anything but inferior products to sell.

P.S.: This post will remain on this blog for as long as I own this domain. Lipton’s will have to sue me to force me to take it down. I want everyone in the free world to know about their food fuckery practices.

All the plans I had to get schtuff done this afternoon had to be scrapped in favour of spending loads of quality time with our throne. Enough time, in fact, that I must have done half of the sudoku puzzles in my book.

Good thing there are leftovers from last night’s dinner because I’m no mood to be working with food tonight. I can barely think about eating dinner at this point. I checked but I don’t in fact look as green as I feel right now.

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