sodium

I had a conversation at work today with a salesperson. He called me over to his desk, gesturing with his whole hand to illustrate that I should make haste.

"So I went to a waterpark with my sister this weekend," he begins, "and we decided to have lunch." This sounded important. I decided to stay.

After he described in great detail what kinds of food they ate (I wasn't really even listening), he got to the point, "She had some chips and a water or something, but I had Gatorade. She said, 'Oh, I can't have many of these chips. There's too much sodium in here. You should look at your Gatorade.'"

The whole point of this story is that Gatorade has an extremely high sodium content. Higher, apparently, than a bag of chips.

I attempted to explain that, as a sports drink, Gatorade has a certain sodium "expectation", if you will, to live up to. Sports drinks = calories + sodium + electrolytes... They're basically bottled yak sweat. This didn't seem to make sense to him: I don't really know how to respond to a blank stare, as it turns out. So I told him to look at the salt content of a milkshake sometime.

It's totally going to blow his mind.