My family is widely considered to be weird by people at our church, for avoiding things like refined sugars and seed oils (which is really quite odd, since our church is well-known for teaching abstinence from things like coffee, tea, alcohol, and tobacco all in the name of health, but are perfectly fine with donuts and potato chips).

We went to a potluck at my church yesterday evening, and a lady there offered my 9 year old daughter a can of soda, saying, "It's fine. It doesn't have any sugar in it." My daughter wisely and politely declined, and later, when I checked the ingredients, the first 2 were carbonated water and high fructose corn syrup. 🤦‍♂️ And that's saying nothing of the various added acids, "natural flavors", and colorings.

So this meme really hit home right now. 😅