Women can begin making an argument for their senses of humor when I start to hear some ziggy-zoggy-ziggy-zoggy-hoi-hoi-hois.

Is the connection really between income levels and soda drinking? I mean directly. As a former once-a-day soda drinker myself, I stopped largely for the financial reasons. Didn’t make sense to spend months of rent money in a year on something so terrible for my body. If soda was the cheapest thing on the shelves, OK, but hey there is water from a tap, for free at most restaurants, and sometimes bottles of it at gas stations for $1 or less.

I understand the links exist, but I don’t know if you can make the argument that poor people would rather buy, say, Naked Juice or green tea or even coffee at a gas station but only have the cash for Coke.

Fast food restaurants could be a contributing factor. Anyone who has eaten at one knows it is always cheaper to buy a value meal than individual items, and it takes a lot of willpower to ask for water over soda because “I want to get my dollar’s worth.” And yes, I do agree that poor people eat more fast food for economic and convenience reasons.

Just, at the moment, I’m not buying the “rich people can avoid the soda glut because they have access to more options.”

Those freshly microwaved Lean Cuisine meatballs must have left nasty burn marks.