How is HFCS more sugary than sugar, exactly?

That’s only if your soda is ~355 mL, which is smaller than the smallest size the movie theatre near me sells. They’re a small theatre, so they have smaller sizes than the GIANT chain, but their smallest is still about 450 mL.

I hit puberty and suddenly couldn’t stand the aftertaste of sugar. People look at me like I’m batshit insane, but sucrose (cane, corn syrup, whatever) leaves a nasty bitter taste in my mouth. Aspartame leaves a weird plastic taste in my mouth, but I’ll take weird over nasty any day

The number of radically different things I’ve received ordering the ‘same’ cocktail is truly staggering, as is the frequency with which bartenders have absolutely no knowledge of the names of anything but, like, a Mai Tai and a Tom Collins. I no longer order cocktails by name without also having the recipe available.…