I don’t see how it’s necessarily a scam to sell municipal tap water as bottled water, as long as the packaging isn’t claiming this to be “mountain spring water” or some such thing.
Aquafina is still purified tap water, no outcry detected.
I wouldn’t say “regularly”, but it’s at least occasional in my household. Bought and consumed a half-gallon container last week when ill, since I found myself craving OJ.
It is really amazing once you start looking at food labels. For instance Lucky Charms has less sugar than most granola.
A few years ago I had a hankering for the frozen concentrated lemonade of my youth and I had a hard time finding it in the supermarket. I found it, but it took a lot longer than expected. I’m only mildly surprised Minute Maid made this decision.
Our municipal water sources are one of the greatest accomplishments of civilization. I find it odd there are entire industries devoted to getting us to spend serious money on products to either improve what comes out of the tap or outright replace it with bottled water.
My doctor (at a famous four-letter clinic) commented about me saying I drank orange juice nearly every day because I thought I would benefit from the vitamins. He wasn’t so much concerned about sugars, but rather for the same amount of sugar and the same amount of vitamins, I should just eat an orange. His reason was the pulp from eating an orange would add fiber to my diet.
You realize even fresh oranges have sugars.
All fruit does.
Oh, crumbs! This is how I make my Orange Julius recipe!
Will anyone else still be making frozen orange juice concentrate?
Of course they do, but eating the whole fruit means you’re getting fiber that makes you feel fuller than you do when just drinking the juice.
Avocado disagrees (mostly).
The biggest reactions I’ve seen to the news is people who use the concentrate undiluted as part of some recipe. They’re reacting like upper Midwestern church moms of Campbell’s stopped making cream of whatever soup.
Any product can be scammed. I’ve made this argument before about my love of bottled spring water. The stuff I buy is a trusted major brand, and the label lists the spring location the water came from and the mineral analysis. It’s always cheap and sometimes when it’s on sale the price must barely cover their transportation costs. And it’s delicious, in exactly the pure natural sense you’d expect cool spring water to taste.
All in my head? No. Once, running low on spring water, I poured some tap water into an empty spring water bottle and set it on the counter to take with some pills. Later I forgot that it was tap water and took a big swig and almost puked! In fact our tap water is objectively not that bad, and my friend claims that it tastes better than his. But it has chlorine and other shit in it and I hate the taste. To me it’s like the difference between a fine wine and one which has been allowed to oxidate for several days – they’re both wine, but one is drinkable, and one is not.
As someone that has a degree devoted to creating drinking water in the US, I mostly agree. However, for those with hard water, that is not something that will be rectified by your municipality. It doesn’t make your water unhealthy, but it does cause issues with your water heater, your electric water kettle, your sinks/toilets, etc. As I said above, a simple inline filter can correct this, but there are whole house systems as well.
So, not odd that folks want to treat hard water. Also, I don’t consider my treatment to be “serious money”. Much less than what I pay for the water through my municipality.
We never had orange juice growing up. I don’t know if it was the cost or it didn’t make a good drink to go along with snacks.
But we ALWAYS had a pitcher of grape juice, made from concentrate. Absolutely delicious with a tuna sandwich, or our big treat was grape juice & popcorn while we watched TV at night. Hoo-wee!
My mom always made a full 2 quarts of juice from the can, even though it’s supposed to be just 1.5 quarts of juice. She was always conscious of our sugar consumption (spoiler: I became a Type-2 diabetic anyway) and also was frugal.
Some decades ago Harrah’s breakfast buffet in Reno had an automated orange juice. All the workers had to do was dump oranges in the top and cart the empty peels away from the bottom. One at a time the oranges would be sliced in two, force the two halves over a bullet juicer and then discard them. There was a big storage tank but the times I was there it was pretty superfluous – I never saw it more than a half-inch deep.
