It’s bug juice!
It is Stuff, and it is Purple, and that is all you need to know.
Tried Sunny D once. Even the ordinary Sunny D is too damned sweet! What the hell was California Style? Diabetes in a bottle?
Sunny D used to be for people who were too poor to afford orange juice. Now it costs MORE than orange juice does.
Go figure…
Anyway, other than mixing Sunny D with vodka, I never enjoyed drinking. It left a waxy taste on my tongue like it was cold ready-sweetened paint.
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It took me a moment, but
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Is that like Purple Jesus?
Those are OK, but I have a mild nostalgic longing for Capri Sun. It taught a generation that in a pinch a straw can be a lethal weapon.
…and yet still be incapable of piercing a few microns of plastic and foil.
That’s a myth. I accidentally drank some, mistaking it for a tall glass of Crystal Pepsi.
I voted for soda, as it’s my preferred drink, but I have nothing wrong with Sunny D. I would prefer it over many sodas, actually. It’s definitely better than OJ, and most purple drinks (unless they are made to taste like real grapes).
The only thing objectionable about Sunny D is the same thing objectionable about orange juice–that weird bitter taste you get in the citrus fruits. But at least you can get Sunny D Smooth, which removes that aspect.
Sunny D Classic is just sweeter orange juice with other citrus flavors thrown in. They’re both artificially flavored. In fact, I’m pretty sure the different between Classic and Smooth is which orange juice flavorings they mix in.
Interesting article. I wonder if that really counts as “artificially flavored,” though. It sounds like natural flavors being re-added to orange juice that has been processed. Regardless, the only orange juice I’ve ever liked was freshly squeezed OJ. None of the packaged brands I’ve ever had taste like actual oranges to me. Sunny Delight certainly doesn’t taste like oranges, either, but it’s not pretending to. I think of it as a Tang-like citrus drink.
In the 90s it was too easy to confuse water with foul foul Crystal Pepsi so to be safe no one drank water. It was a dark time.
My middle school friends and I scoffed at swill like Sunny D and Crystal Pepsi. We only drank the finest Clearly Canadian money could buy.
Well I loved Crystal Pepsi. Kids used to sneak it in with their lunches and pretend it was water, since soda pop was not allowed. Except on Friday afternoon, when we had one soda in the last class of the day as a treat. Sorry for the side track, but early-mid 90s nostalgia was taking over…
I’d rather drink my own bathwater than Sunny D. That stuff tastes like the glucose “cola” they give to pregnant women to test for diabetes - in fact, it may be the same stuff! :eek:
It’s sugar, water and purple.
Dave Chappelle explains: NSFW:
In truth, none of those. But if those are my only choices I’ll take OJ - extra pulp, please!
I really only drink water, and the occasional coke-a-cola when I’m out and my energy is flagging.
ETA: Oh! And coffee, of course.
I’m starting to wonder about that myself! I quit drinking it in college…can’t remember what I replaced it with though.
I think bug juice is something mixed at kids’ camps? In any case, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have Everclear, unlike Purple Jesus.
Falcon Lake,Manitoba. Summer of '87. Purple Jesus (equal parts grape drink and everclear) in the Jet Spray machine. 10 cents a dixie cup. Good Times.
Sunny D was disgusting in the 90s, and I have no reason to believe it got any better.
Surprising no one else has mentioned that…
(Dave Chappelle bit. Naughty language)
Ingedients: water, sugar, and (of course) purple.