Michelle Obama selling her new juice drink at Costco

[Anonymous]

I’ve learned from the Princess Kate thing to never judge. You never know what someone may be dealing with privately

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve learned from the Princess Kate thing to never judge. You never know what someone may be dealing with privately

It’s ok to judge her for her business ventures.

It’s not ok to judge her for her appearance and unusual behavior. Something seems very wrong in her life. She deserves better.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t plain water be a better option?

Of course it would! Now, how many people do you know —including kids — who only drink plain water when they’re thirsty?

Mine? Or sometimes OJ. Why is that so hard to believe that many kids have no desire for this fake crap?
DP

It’s not hard to believe. It’s also not hard to believe that lots of kids drink sodas and juice and slurpies and Gatorade-types of drinks quite frequently. If SOME of those kids consistently replace SOME of those drinks with something somewhat healthier, I’d count that as progress. For the kids who prefer and drink water, that’s great. This product is not for them.

Bullshit.

Replacing crap with another type of crap. This is full of sugar.

What's crap is barging around in this thread spreading crap. It has far less sugar than soda, juice, slurpies and gatorade. You don't know what you're talking about.

DP. Curious why you're defending this sugary drink marketed to kids. Could it be because your idol, Michelle Obama, is the one doing the hawking?

You're weird. I'm curious why you think this is somehow as sugary and unhealthy as the soda and other crap marketed to kids. You just sound weird, hateful and like you're trying too hard.

[Anonymous]

I really don't understand why she's selling something. Didn't she just have a second book come out? And Barack just had his third. I do not think divorce. I think maybe just boredom and searching for a new purpose post-presidency. She's talked extensively of trying to figure out what it's like to be a normal person. Maybe her selling a drink is her version of Michael Jordan becoming a baseball player.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t she a VC of sorts? Maybe this is one of the small businesses that she’s supporting.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve learned from the Princess Kate thing to never judge. You never know what someone may be dealing with privately

It’s ok to judge her for her business ventures.

It’s not ok to judge her for her appearance and unusual behavior. Something seems very wrong in her life. She deserves better.

Melania’s foreign accent is mocked in a thread title right here on this site.

Xenophobic hate is just fine on DCUM apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t she a VC of sorts? Maybe this is one of the small businesses that she’s supporting.

No, she founded the Plezzi Fizz brand. It’s her company.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t she a VC of sorts? Maybe this is one of the small businesses that she’s supporting.

Maybe.

But then she should make that clear.

And she should brand it as “supporting small businesses owned by women and people of color” or some such.

Because right now it just seems like she is hawking drinks at Costco to make a buck, and the optics aren’t good.

They have sold books and they get paid a lot to show up at events and speak. They have production deals. Etc. They should have plenty of money.

Although I wonder if they had a big payout for the chef who died at their vacation home? Hush money?

Anyway, i now think she’s just a money-obsessed celeb like every other celeb hawking products. I’m sure they have enough money to live a nice life, but now I believe she wants to roll like a rockstar. That’s her prerogative, but we are allowed to judge her for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that and looked it up. It's made with monk fruit so "better" for you than soda....

well that would be nice, but being the last ingredient on a long list does not the same as "mode with". I've seen other products that pull the same adding trace amounts of monk fruit after large amounts of different sugars.

[Anonymous]

Studies report that kids are drinking way more sugar-sweetened beverages now despite years of health guidance against doing so. Guidance to just drink water or milk is clearly not resonating for a large portion of the population. Kids are people, and people are biologically programmed to like sweet treats.

I hate stevia as a sweetener, but this is a better sweet beverage than something like a Capri Sun or Gatorade or especially a soda. Probably even better than straight juice from a glycemic impact perspective.

Harm reduction is the name of the game here. I approve.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that and looked it up. It's made with monk fruit so "better" for you than soda....

well that would be nice, but being the last ingredient on a long list does not the same as "mode with". I've seen other products that pull the same adding trace amounts of monk fruit after large amounts of different sugars.

Yes, adding trace amounts of monk fruit does not transform this into a “health” drink.

Who are they trying to fool?

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that and looked it up. It's made with monk fruit so "better" for you than soda....

well that would be nice, but being the last ingredient on a long list does not the same as "mode with". I've seen other products that pull the same adding trace amounts of monk fruit after large amounts of different sugars.

Yes, adding trace amounts of monk fruit does not transform this into a “health” drink.

Who are they trying to fool?

Are you the twit who keeps saying it's "sugary" and somehow every bit as bad as every other drink marketed to kids?

Do you know how to read nutrition labels?

Plezi 5g sugar
versus
Coke 25g sugar
Mott's Apple juice 28g sugar
Capri Sun 14g sugar
Country Time Lemonade 16g sugar
Sunny Delight 20g sugar

Do you know how to do the math to understand that it contains far less (25-30%) as much sugar as most of the regular alternatives?

Do you not know that monkfruit and stevia are natural extracts from fruit, have zero calories, do not affect blood sugar, and that are medically and scientifically considered to be much safer and healthier compared to chemically synthesized artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose?

Or are you just coming at this from the angle of "No, ze cheeldren must only be allowed to drink vater, like ve do in home country?"

Be honest, it's bound to be one of the two, either you don't actually understand nutrition, or you are out of touch with the realities of what kids are drinking. Either that or you are trying way too hard to find fault. Either way, you're weird and cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13865621/amp/michelle-obama-throws-soda-costco-warehouse-california.html

Michelle Obama surprised crowds at Costco when she was spotted giving a sales pitch for her new healthy drink, Plezi Fizz, at a Costco in Livermore, CA.

A TikTok video posted on Tuesday showed the former first lady standing in front of a stockpile of the drinks that were launched in March.

Have you tried her new drink? I have never even heard of it.

This is definite UN "Becoming"! The Obama's are millionaires since he left office and this is just greed and tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw that and looked it up. It's made with monk fruit so "better" for you than soda....

well that would be nice, but being the last ingredient on a long list does not the same as "mode with". I've seen other products that pull the same adding trace amounts of monk fruit after large amounts of different sugars.

Yes, adding trace amounts of monk fruit does not transform this into a “health” drink.

Who are they trying to fool?

Are you the twit who keeps saying it's "sugary" and somehow every bit as bad as every other drink marketed to kids?

Do you know how to read nutrition labels?

Plezi 5g sugar
versus
Coke 25g sugar
Mott's Apple juice 28g sugar
Capri Sun 14g sugar
Country Time Lemonade 16g sugar
Sunny Delight 20g sugar

Do you know how to do the math to understand that it contains far less (25-30%) as much sugar as most of the regular alternatives?

Do you not know that monkfruit and stevia are natural extracts from fruit, have zero calories, do not affect blood sugar, and that are medically and scientifically considered to be much safer and healthier compared to chemically synthesized artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose?

Or are you just coming at this from the angle of "No, ze cheeldren must only be allowed to drink vater, like ve do in home country?"

Be honest, it's bound to be one of the two, either you don't actually understand nutrition, or you are out of touch with the realities of what kids are drinking. Either that or you are trying way too hard to find fault. Either way, you're weird and cringe.

It's likely a MAGA who hates the thought of a wealthy famous black person daring to make even more while they turn a blind eye to everything Trump hawks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13865621/amp/michelle-obama-throws-soda-costco-warehouse-california.html

Michelle Obama surprised crowds at Costco when she was spotted giving a sales pitch for her new healthy drink, Plezi Fizz, at a Costco in Livermore, CA.

A TikTok video posted on Tuesday showed the former first lady standing in front of a stockpile of the drinks that were launched in March.

Have you tried her new drink? I have never even heard of it.

This is definite UN "Becoming"! The Obama's are millionaires since he left office and this is just greed and tacky.

LOL - so says the person who is fine with Trump hawking one failed scam or product after another -

Trump University
Trump Vodka (he supposedly doesn't drink)
Trump Steaks
Trump Magazine
Trump Airlines
and... ugly, gaudy, overpriced golden sneakers



Seriously, you people are in no place whatsoever to be judging Michelle Obama. None.

And you say Trump is awful for doing these things while Michelle is a-MAZE-ing! Guess she’s awful too?