# Hippie Shopping **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322 "2008-04-21T23:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/1 "2008-04-21T23:34:50Z")
I just got a little chuckle standing in line at the grocery. I’d just finished unloading our cart when a couple of young dudes pulled into the line behind me. Clearly they were poor college age kids, one with dreadlocks and both looked a little on the scruffy side. In their basket, they had: [ul] [li]2 12-packs of toilet paper; and[/li][li]6 bottles of Juicy Juice, assorted flavors[/li][/ul] Now, I was under the impression that apple juice is constipating, but high fiber juices (cranberry?) may actually help unplug you. It looked like those fellas were in for quite a ride. :eek: I couldn’t help but lean into my husband and whisper to him to check out the cart behind us. We both got a good chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/2 "2008-04-22T06:30:02Z")
IANA food scientist, but does cranberry juice have any fiber at all? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/3 "2008-04-22T06:37:22Z")
They were probably planning to mix a teaspoon of LSD with all the juice, and then put little droplets of it on the toilet paper and cut them up. ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/4 "2008-04-22T08:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] Now, I was under the impression that apple juice is constipating [/QUOTE] Not in my experience :eek: [tmi] Pasturized apple juice is only slightly…encouraging to my system. Whereas apple cider, especially the unpasturized kind from the local orchard… :eek: is right. [/tmi] I do have a chronic intestinal disease, though, so YMMV and all. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/5 "2008-04-22T10:52:20Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] They were probably planning to mix a teaspoon of LSD with all the juice, and then put little droplets of it on the toilet paper and cut them up. [/QUOTE] Seriously? I’m pretty naive when it comes to the subject of recreational drug production, but I would have expected you’d need a hardier paper than TP. I might also be easily whooshed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/6 "2008-04-22T11:03:08Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] IANA food scientist, but does cranberry juice have any fiber at all? [/QUOTE] 4.6 grams of dietary fiber for every 100g. I believe prune juice is the best choice for adding fiber to your diet, but it’s got a helluva reputation for making the consumer seem older than they are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/7 "2008-04-22T11:48:27Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] I might also be easily whooshed. [/QUOTE] Whoosh… with multi-colored trails… with “Dark Star” playing in the background! But sweat it not, the pink elephant beside you got whooshed, too. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/8 "2008-04-22T12:01:16Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] I believe prune juice is the best choice for adding fiber to your diet, but it’s got a helluva reputation for making the consumer seem older than they are. 🙂 [/QUOTE] For the not just old but _old and grim,_ there’s canned saurekraut juice. Drink a can of that and try & leave home. Imagine a parakeet claw holding a water balloon closed. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/9 "2008-04-22T12:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] For the not just old but _old and grim,_ there’s canned saurekraut juice. Drink a can of that and try & leave home. Imagine a parakeet claw holding a water balloon closed. [/QUOTE] That gets a 10 on the “impressive image” meter. I’m just curious if the “hippie” connotations of the purchases in question might be better interpreted as preparation for some other activities… (nudge, nudge, wink wink) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-shopping/446322/10 "2008-04-22T13:04:39Z")
Eh, there are times when I make trips to the store where someone might go :dubious: at the random combo of items. In the “hippies” case, it might be nothing more than “need some TP, hey, look, Juicy Juice is on sale!”