Diet Soda. The Best Advertising Ploy Ever.
02-21-2008 at 12:00 AM
Category: Uncategorized
Ever notice how a few simple words can complete change what we think about something? Take diet sodas. Pretty much everyone knows that soda is basically just empty calories. Let?s not kid ourselves. How much blue die number 14, Potassium Benzoate or Aspartame do you really need in your daily diet? Probably none. But then someone thought to throw in the word diet. Suddenly people think "hey, it says diet so drinking this must actually cause me to lose weight!" Never mind that it never actually said that there was anything good for you in it. Let's face it ? you're still drinking a candy bar; only this candy bar is slightly less bad for you than the regular (a.k.a. "Classic") candy bar. Yes, words are a powerful thing.
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