but by the end of the ride both my wife and I really felt out of fuel. The distance is well within our abilities, but we usually stop on training rides for lunch and that usually includes something like a turkey sandwich, a few cookies, maybe a coffee or a Coke.
Your comments are real "food for thought."
You pretty much demonstrate an average person's ignorance about diet and nutrition. There's probably no use trying to educate you. Anyone who claims to be "on training rides" and then chooses turkey sandwiches, cookies and Coke for fuel is obviously at their athletic "peak."
You win RC's "twisted
oral bowel movments award" - complete with particles of undigested protein.