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It's Thursday, August 30th, 2018. From Slate It's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Starbucks is putting its deck it in Frappuccino on a diet looking to reduce the drinks high sugar levels which have scared away increasingly health conscious consumers and hurt sales.

Some versions of the drink contain more than twice as much sugar as a standard Snickers bar and far more calories.

A 16 ounce mocha Frappuccino contains 410 calories compared with 250 in a 1.86 ounce Snickers bar.

Well, here's the solution. Starbucks is rich, buy out Snickers and double the calorie in a Snickers and you avoid the comparison.

But does this ever work? Not the Snickers thing. The idea where you have a product, a tasty, but terrible for you product and that product gets some bad press or someone actually looks at you.

But the calories of the product and then the makers of the product say, okay, we're going to make it less terrible for you but also less tasty and everyone will be happy as a result.

No, that never works. Did Snackwell's Save Lady Fingers? They did not. Did Lays with Olesstra save Lays with nice greasy oil? They did not.

Did all the menu items with a heart on them at the Olive Garden counteract the endlessness of their breadsticks? I just checked their breadsticks like the heart in a Celine Dion song are still going on.

It's just a stupid, stupid American instinct and it never works. A Frappuccino. Frappuccino, what a ridiculous word. A Frappuccino on a diet is a worse Frappuccino and we don't want a worse Frappuccino.

Just drink a smaller one or just drink them less often or I don't know. Don't have to Frappuccino week. Have one. If Fred can't fit into his chinos because of a Frappuccino, who needs to go on a diet? Not the Frappuccino. It's Fred Frappuccino. What do you expect from a Frappuccino? It is a Capuccino which has some calories to begin with and then you add a Frapp and like I quoted in the Wall Street Journal, you top it with Mocha.

Gee, I wonder how we could get this Mocha Topped Frapp combined with a Capuccino to have fewer calories. Well, you know those three caloric substances you combined? How about one less of them? It's like a liquid sugar turducken. A sure turd drunken. Look, my words and your ears are not going to combine to get us out of this Frappuccino problem. This is more a problem of the gut, not the mind. We want that Frappuccino. It can't be argued away via the head.

Now you will excuse me as I tuck into my Rudy Tutti fresh and fruity breakfast special and wonder just how much more fruit I can add to make it truly, truly healthy. On the show today, I should be able to feel the strange and confusing motivations of an archbishop who is accusing the Pope of a great cover up. But first, Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of American history and political parties who thanks to the long view of history can put our worry and dread in the future.

In perspective, that perspective being it is in fact quite warranted.

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