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Permalink Reply by Chuck Lin on March 23, 2009 at 9:29am

No wonder! Pizza is horrible for me. One slice and I'm way over. I think they load the sauce with sugar too. Sometimes I'll order the "white" pizza, eat the cheese and throw the rest out. I know food choices for diabetics today are much better than the previous generation of diabetics but sometimes it makes me want to scream!

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Permalink Reply by Sarah M on March 23, 2009 at 9:32am

When my husband and I go out to eat (which isn't often), he sometimes asks me to taste his soda if he's not sure it's diet. I can can mostly tell the difference between diet and regular. We've never run into him getting the wrong soda yet, but that would be a mess for him to fix!

Many, MANY years ago, (as a teenager and long before I knew a thing about diabetes) I did waitress at a diner, I never would've given any medical thought of a person ordering a diet. If they asked for diet, they got diet, but never any thought as to why, or how serious of a mistake it would be to give regular. I really hope I never gave a regular soda to a diabetic by mistake! I feel the seriousness of diabetes is not understood at all!

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Permalink Reply by Janice Barton on November 3, 2009 at 2:27pm

I am positive that this has happened to me at least once. While traveling to Dallas, my husband and I stopped at a Burger King (I know, I know!). I love root beer, so I ordered a small DIET root beer. It tasted soooo good, I drank the whole thing, and bolused for my hamburger and the DIET root beer. 2 hours later, my BG was through the roof! I am somewhat high when traveling by car and sitting, but not ever that high. I suspected that the server thought, "Oh, I'm out of Diet root beer - I'll just give them the REGULAR. They'll never know the difference." I think that is what happened. So, I always order water when eating out - YOU NEVER KNOW!

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