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While most of us are reluctant to admit it, in the world of sports nutrition, we have all found ourselves suckered.
Yesterday I found myself wandering around a new Vitamin Shoppe that just opened near my home. I didn't really "need" anything from the store, as I was already stocked up on all my supplements. But since it was a "grand opening sale" and I had an additional coupon that I received at the gym, I found myself wandering the store looking for a "deal".
I grabbed a couple jugs of syntha-6, some glutamine, B-12, Milk Thistle, and some NO-Explode. I then went to the checkout, coupon in hand. The cashier was a comple idiot kid who was attempting to explain each item to me. He had no clue what he was talking about. When he finished ringing up my purchase, I handed him my coupon to save an additional 25%, he then said I needed to spend like $5.00 more to use the coupon. I then headed back into the jungle of junk that I didn't need. At a complete loss as to what else I was going to buy, I headed over to the protein bar section. Nothing stood out except this one box of "Elite Oatmeal" with 40 GRAMS OF PROTEIN... I grabbed the box of maple & brown sugar, examined it, read the box highlights such as where it said "delicious". Not thinking (I suffer short term memory loss, I guess) I asked the idiot at the register, "is this stuff any good?" He of course piped up saying that it tasted just as good as regular oatmeal. He rang up my box of $15.00 oatmeal and I headed home.
This morning I opened my box of $15.00 oatmeal. (btw, this is only 7 servings) I followed the instructions on the box. Sat down at the bar newspaper in hand expecting to take in a spoonful of delicious oatmeal...
I may as well just put a heaping spoon of shit in my mouth. I ate the first bite and immediatly knew...
I HAD BEEN SUCKERED!!!!!!!!
The box should have read "not fit for human consumption".
So post up your sucker stories.
Yesterday I found myself wandering around a new Vitamin Shoppe that just opened near my home. I didn't really "need" anything from the store, as I was already stocked up on all my supplements. But since it was a "grand opening sale" and I had an additional coupon that I received at the gym, I found myself wandering the store looking for a "deal".
I grabbed a couple jugs of syntha-6, some glutamine, B-12, Milk Thistle, and some NO-Explode. I then went to the checkout, coupon in hand. The cashier was a comple idiot kid who was attempting to explain each item to me. He had no clue what he was talking about. When he finished ringing up my purchase, I handed him my coupon to save an additional 25%, he then said I needed to spend like $5.00 more to use the coupon. I then headed back into the jungle of junk that I didn't need. At a complete loss as to what else I was going to buy, I headed over to the protein bar section. Nothing stood out except this one box of "Elite Oatmeal" with 40 GRAMS OF PROTEIN... I grabbed the box of maple & brown sugar, examined it, read the box highlights such as where it said "delicious". Not thinking (I suffer short term memory loss, I guess) I asked the idiot at the register, "is this stuff any good?" He of course piped up saying that it tasted just as good as regular oatmeal. He rang up my box of $15.00 oatmeal and I headed home.
This morning I opened my box of $15.00 oatmeal. (btw, this is only 7 servings) I followed the instructions on the box. Sat down at the bar newspaper in hand expecting to take in a spoonful of delicious oatmeal...
I may as well just put a heaping spoon of shit in my mouth. I ate the first bite and immediatly knew...
I HAD BEEN SUCKERED!!!!!!!!
The box should have read "not fit for human consumption".
So post up your sucker stories.
