>>some Tang and a donut - That's what they hooked us up with the
>>time there was a blood drive at my high school. Nowadays donuts are
>>probably verboten for PC health-consciousness reasons.
>
>Blood Services up here in .ca still gives out cookies, donuts show up
>if someone happens to swing by Timmies and feels like donating a box.

I don't donate blood anymore -- between difficulties in finding a vein to begin with, and far more failures to get a pint out of me than successes, I stopped trying -- but when I did, Red Cross here in NC gave out sugary drinks (both soda and fruit juices) and water, and a mix of sugary and salty snacks. Given that one has necessarily lost both blood sugar and blood pressure by donating, the idea is to try to restore some of that.

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