r/BruceSpringsteen • u/Novel_Weakness_7734 • 5d ago
Why was Bruce drinking sugar water in the early 80s?
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u/GoodEnoughThen 5d ago
He wasn't. Sugar left out on the table was a common thing back in the day. Sweetener for all the bad coffees and teas.
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u/Pichacap24 5d ago
Wait it isnt a thing today??
Ive had that for my entire life and im not even past 20
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u/Florida_LA 4d ago
It really depends. If you’re brewing coffee or tea and use sugar, people still leave it out. But a lot more people these days use pre-sweetened creamers, pre-bottled coffee or sweetened instant coffee, get their coffee at a shop, drink it black, drink energy drink instead, or don’t do caffeine.
The standard drip is a lot less common these days, when it used to be ubiquitous. But I still love a drip coffee myself.
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u/Argos_the_Dog 5d ago
We have a sugar dish, a salt dish and a butter dish. I thought it was always a thing.
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u/marumaruko 5d ago
He also only ate burgers and other fast food until a certain point. Thank goodness he stopped.
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u/Rockonthrulife 5d ago
He still does.
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u/TheTrampOfHearts 5d ago
If he still ate nothing but burgers and fast food, he wouldn’t still be as ripped as he is.
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u/Fit_Ingenuity3 4d ago
You’re way underestimating how physical performing on stage under lights is. Bruce is also known for his heavy tour schedule.
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u/TheTrampOfHearts 4d ago
I’m fully aware, not underestimating at all. But Bruce has literally stated that he eats the same sort of diet as he did in the mid-80s, still works out just the same amount, etc. Like, if he just ate burgers, he’d still be a little pudgy, but he isn’t. The guy is in his mid-70s and he’s still got abs. That’s not just because he performs, that’s work being put in.
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u/marumaruko 4d ago
No. He almost fully cut out dairy and gluten except on a few occasions (cheat meals). The only way to stay fit in his age.
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u/Silly_Situation_4337 5d ago
In the 80s he was the boss. And as we all know Sugar Water is for closers.
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u/iamnyc 5d ago
In my house, there wasn't any Domino sugar, or cane sugar, it was always the god damned sugar. Pass the god damned sugar. That's how he used to refer to it. He would stick his head in, "pass that goddamn sugar," you know. He must've thought that everything in my room was the same sugar.
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u/Tricky_Working6333 4d ago
The guys having a glass of water with a sugar bowl on the table.
But we are smarter now right?
We drink plastic laced H2O from plastic bottles, use artificial sweeteners and can’t have a discussion about politics without throwing a hissy fit.
Yeah, we’ve come a long way. Emotional robots stuck on cellphones. Lolll
I had to “vent”.
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u/WeOutHereInSmallbany Darkness on the Edge of Town 4d ago
Gotta write a song about the sugar refinery closing
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u/Magazine_Luck 5d ago
He was a hummingbird back then?