To be fair-have you ever tasted some tap water? Where my aunt lives, it’s well water that tastes like sulfar. And she has to use a water softener, so it’s horrible.
Our own water has a slight metallic taste, so we buy bottled water. I do re-use one bottle that I refill with tap and put in the fridge to keep by my bed at night-but that’s it. Other than that, I usually make Kool-Aid.
My Darling Marcie recently bought a juicer for just over $100.00; she juiced every fruit and vegetable known to man for maybe two weeks. Now the thing just sits on a kitchen counter, abandoned. It is stationed next to some sort of food processor device that has met the same fate: she processed every damn thing we ate for maybe two weeks and then decided it was more trouble that it was worth. Each of these devices have to be field stripped for cleaning and putting them back together isn’t especially easy and I, naturally, have to do the cleaning and assembly because she just doesn’t understand mechanical things and besides, I’m a man and those things are a man’s job. I wish she would just stop watching late night home shopping television programs.
I just got back from Wal-Mart regarding my curiosity about Listerine. The regular Listerine was $6.32, while Advanced Tartar Control Listerine was $6.97. I looked at their respective labels. The active ingredient list was exactly the same in the same proportions. I still can’t tell what makes one “Advanced” other than the name. The Whitening Listerine Pre-Rinse, however, had totally different ingredients.
Has she bought you a Snuggie yet?
Dude, KOOLAID is just sugar and food coloring . . . and you supply your OWN water.
These new “water” drinks are marketing genius: the same old shit, sold as “water”–which is good for you! necessary for life! Obviously it started with all those nasty flavored waters, like lime flavored seltzer, etc. Talk about your slippery slope.
(And talk about “drinking the KoolAid.”)
Not yet, but I’m sorry to say that she did buy me a guitar because I gave away my old one due to arthritis in my hands that made it impossible to play. But she knew I missed it and tried to make me happy, bless her heart.
lissener, not only do you supply the water, for Kool-Aid, but in the unsweetened kind, you supply the sugar too.
Totally off-topic, but if my sister had known that there was unsweetened Kool-Aid, it would have saved her a good deal of trouble when using it to dye her hair. Ah, high school.
There’s no evidence for this. In fact, the main factor in how much stuff leaches from the plastic into the water is how long the water is in the bottle. So an old bottle that you filled today yourself is healthier than a new bottle that has had the water in it for a few weeks between the supplier filling it and you buying it.
Not that there’s any real risk of stuff leaching from the plastic bottle in any significant amount anyway.
Okay, I understand the rant, but I can also see the utility.
When I was a kid, my mom would have loved a product like this one. Particularly once my brother and I were big enough to be fetching our own beverages without having to ask an adult to pour it, but young enough that my mother could still expect to exert some control over what we did and did not put in our little bodies. Which was probably a seven or eight year span of time. One of the things she was keen to control was our sugar intake - and she was well aware that fruit juice has a lot of sugar in it. Buying undiluted juice and then watering it down yourself doubles the amount of large bulky fluid-containing objects in the refrigerator (not a desireable outcome). Not to mention the fact that if we knew that there was a foodstuff containing more sugar somewhere in the house, we were totally capable of locating and consuming it. My mother dealt with this knowledge by not having anything that did not suit her notion of what her children should be consuming in the house at all. My dad had to leave the house to get a Coke. There were sizeable stretches of time (months on end) wherein there was only milk and water to drink in the house. She’d have happily paid the same amount for watered down fruit juice in the name of not having the full-sugar juice available at all in the house.
When we were too young to fetch our own drinks, it wasn’t a problem. When we got to be teenagers and any reasonable expectation of my mom being able to control our diets went out the window, it wasn’t a problem. For the years in between? My mom would have happily bought this so as to have one more way to keep a lid on my brother’s and my own rampant urge to locate and consume sugar.
In at least one of these instances, they do it by adding pear juice as a major portion of the juice no matter what flavor is in big letters on the label’s front. It’s not so much a cheap way to get 100% juice with no watering down, as much as for:
– Drinkability, since pear juice has a more neutral flavor so people will be able to drink more and thus buy more since it the flavor is not as strong.
– Sweetness, so it will taste more like the sodas people are used to.
– And yeah, so they can claim it’s 100% juice. If they just added water I bet it would taste nearly as good to everyone who isn’t a major sugar fan but then they couldn’t claim 100% juice.
Another example of this is the “whipped” yogurts. Four ounces for the price of six!
I thought bottled water was a ridiculous waste of money and effort, until I moved to an area where the tap water tasted like it came from a very chlorinated swimming pool.
Now, the people who buy mineral water- they’re dumb. It tastes like the tap water at my grandparents’ house used to taste, when it was picking up extra gunk from the pipes and running brown.
Well the have a buy one get one free coupon on their website, so not only are you getting a full bottle of juice, but also a bottle of water for free. What a deal!
Cherry Cola isn’t sold in Spain.
The best floats I had in the US were made from Cherry Cola and vanilla ice cream.
Dagnabit.
Aha! Regular Coke, a twist of grenadine and vanilla ice cream. 