Actually, now that I think of it, and in relation to Lemur866’s point, I should have been suspicious with a bottle of lemonade that claimed to be “100% juice”–that should have tipped me off, right there.
I think you just need to get naked.
I’ll take a Naked Juice any day of the week, along with Genesis Juice or Odwalla if I happen to be at a place that carries any of the three.
Ginger lemonade? That sounds delicious. Where do you buy it?
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What I was hoping for was something like “water, lemon juice, cane sugar, cranberry juice” which is the ingredients list on the kind I normally buy, except that one’s a ginger lemonade and so has ginger in place of the cranberry. I’m all for sugar in my lemonade, but… grape juice?
I’m familiar with the “drink” and “cocktail” modifiers, and don’t buy juices with such on the label. I guess I’ll have to start policing the labels for unexpected fruits, too ;).
New rule: labels that emphatically insist “100% juice!” are probably hiding something.
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Yes, but if they label it “100% Juice!”, then they can’t put any sugar or HFCS in it. So there are all these new juice blends out there like cran-pomegranate-guava-mango-peach-pineapple-kumquat, and they all say 100% juice, and they’re all flavored [white grape/apple/pear] juice.
You want regular lemonade that’s not made with juice you’re gonna have to, you know, buy the non-“100% Juice!” kind.
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB]
Cranberrape?
Crape?
just Crap?
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I’m thinking Cranber Rape won’t go over so well with the marketing people. 
[QUOTE=zweisamkeit]
The people (America in general, or at least people who create food for us) who put sugar and shortening in peanut butter, sugar in regular bread, and (my personal favorite) put high fructose corn syrup in a bottle of corn syrup*.
- I was making marshmallows this Christmas. Every damn corn syrup, from Kroger to Karo, had: INGREDIENTS: Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup.
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I’m pretty sure my organic corn syrup does not, because I remember that being the reason why I bought the stuff.
[QUOTE=Lemur866]
You want regular lemonade that’s not made with juice you’re gonna have to, you know, buy the non-“100% Juice!” kind.
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Right. I think my mental disconnect happened when I forgot that lemonade isn’t “juice”. Had I stopped to think about the "100% juice part, it would have made more sense. 
[QUOTE=Aesiron]
Ginger lemonade? That sounds delicious. Where do you buy it?
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Genesis Juice, baby.
[QUOTE=Genesis Juice]
Sipping this organic ginger lemonade is like being kissed – sweet and spicy, slightly tart, totally delicious. You’ll be feeling the love all day. Made in small batches by juice lovers like you in the heart of Oregon.
Ingredients: 23% juice. Purified water, organic lemons, organic agave nectar and organic ginger
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So I was wrong–apparently they’ve gone from cane sugar to agave nectar. They were recently bought out by an acquaintance of mine, Toby of Toby’s Family Foods–so if you have a store that carries Tofu Pate or Toby’s salad dressings (Toby’s Chunky Feta, highly recommended) you might start seeing Genesis Juices soonish.
Damn it. I used to live in Oregon but haven’t for two years now. All the more reason to move back.
[QUOTE=NajaNivea]
Genesis Juice, baby.
So I was wrong–apparently they’ve gone from cane sugar to agave nectar. They were recently bought out by an acquaintance of mine, Toby of Toby’s Family Foods–so if you have a store that carries Tofu Pate or Toby’s salad dressings (Toby’s Chunky Feta, highly recommended) you might start seeing Genesis Juices soonish.
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Immediately after the ingredients list:
Right. One bottle is one-and-a-half servings. We all drink two-thirds of our lemonade and save the rest for later. (It will go with the top third of the next bottle to make a serving.)
They go to the Pit along with the 100%-juicers. And then there’s Reed’s so-called “Ginger Beer” that’s sweetened with pineapple juice…
[QUOTE=rjk]
Immediately after the ingredients list:
Right. One bottle is one-and-a-half servings. We all drink two-thirds of our lemonade and save the rest for later. (It will go with the top third of the next bottle to make a serving.)
They go to the Pit along with the 100%-juicers. And then there’s Reed’s so-called “Ginger Beer” that’s sweetened with pineapple juice…
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Don’t most containers have portion sizes like that?
ETA: Agreed about Reed’s. They should be beaten soundly. With sticks.
[QUOTE=Drain Bead]
I’m pretty sure my organic corn syrup does not, because I remember that being the reason why I bought the stuff.
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What brand? Tell me! I didn’t think to look in the dirty hippie section at Kroger (as I fondly call it :)); I just went to the baking aisle and got pissed, heh.
They shouldn’t be allowed to call it Cranberry Juice Cocktail unless it has vodka in it.
[QUOTE=zweisamkeit]
The people (America in general, or at least people who create food for us) who put sugar and shortening in peanut butter, sugar in regular bread, and (my personal favorite) put high fructose corn syrup in a bottle of corn syrup
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(Bolding mine) To be fair, raised bread has to have some sugar in it; it’s what the yeasties eat so they can grow big and strong, and fart out the CO[sub]2[/sub] that makes the bread puff up.
But, yeah, there’s an awful lot of sugar in American processed food.
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They shouldn’t be allowed to call it Cranberry Juice Cocktail unless it has vodka in it.
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I’ll sign that petition!
[QUOTE=DesertDog]
(Bolding mine) To be fair, raised bread has to have some sugar in it; it’s what the yeasties eat so they can grow big and strong, and fart out the CO[sub]2[/sub] that makes the bread puff up.
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No it doesn’t. I bake bread often enough, and there’s no sugar in it whatsoever. The flour has the food the yeasties need. Besides, if there’s residual sweetness in the bread, it means the yeasties haven’t eaten the sugar.
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
They shouldn’t be allowed to call it Cranberry Juice Cocktail unless it has vodka in it.
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Me three.
You know, part of the problem with these pseudo-cranberry drinks is that it just doesn’t taste the way you expect it to. When I see CRANBERRY, I think tart, so when the drink turns out to be predominantly sweet, I’m disappointed. If there is some way of measuring the sweetness and sourness of the drink, they could put that on the label and people could get an accurate idea of what it tastes like before they buy it.
[QUOTE=WF Tomba]
You know, part of the problem with these pseudo-cranberry drinks is that it just doesn’t taste the way you expect it to. When I see CRANBERRY, I think tart, so when the drink turns out to be predominantly sweet, I’m disappointed.
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Imagine my consternation on cracking open a cranberry-lemonade and getting a mouthful of white grape juice!