Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Idiot of the Day - Me or Tropicana?
We were shopping at Von’s yesterday and saw a new product - Tropicana Sugar-Free OrangeAde. If you know me well, you’ll know that I’m a sucker for new products. If it’s not beer or diapers, then I’ll probably notice it when something new is added to the shelves at our local grocery store. What can I say, I’m the ultimate consumer. Plus, I get bored with the same ol’ same ol’. So, back to the “OrangeAde”. It tastes fine, much like Tang, but a little more flavorful. What galls me though…the big ol’ claim of “real fruit juice”. Seriously, it’s 1%. ONE PERCENT. My saliva probably has more fruit juice in it after today’s trip to Smoothie King, where I got my delicious Blueberry Heaven smoothie.
Clearly, I’m never going to be the head of the FDA, but if I was, ONE PERCENT fruit juice would not count as being made from “real fruit juice”. I think for anything to count as “real fruit juice”, it ought to have at least 51% fruit juice.
I should really make another entry for stuff that I like, but what the heck, I’ll be audacious and put this into two categories. If my blog was a beverage, it would still count as me writing about “real fruit juice”, as the entry will be more than 1% about Tropicana OrangeAde. Anyway, as I was saying…here’s some new stuff I like: the new bottled Starbucks Mint Mocha Frappuccino. Apparently it’s a limited offering for summer. Since it’s bottled, surely we should be able to have it year ‘round. After all, we take our groceries home, right? Are we only allowed to have ice-cream in the summer too? Well, I was bold, it’s still spring here and I got Ben & Jerry’s Marsha Marsha Marshmallow (Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Chunks & Toasted Marshmallow & Graham Cracker Swirls) - for one, what a great name; for another, yum! You’re going to get tired of this, but yet another tasty Starbucks creation - frappuccinos (the in-store kind, not the bottled ones) made affogato style, which means they make the frappuccino, then drizzle either chocolate or caramel over it, then add an espresso shot. I highly recommend a tall (the larger sizes don’t have the intense flavor of the smaller ones) caramel mocha frappuccino with caramel.
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I am with you on the juice thing. A mere one percent of juice does not make a product “juice”. It barely has any juice in it!
The new Ben and Jerry’s ice cream sounds divine! I had to laugh when I heard about the newest Ben and Jerry’s flavour “Dave Matthews Band Magic Brownies”, especially since last year’s sewage dumping is still fresh in the minds of Illinois residents!
Expat on 05/06 at 08:41 AM -
Okay, the sewage thing…gross. But the ice-cream - vanilla ice cream with raspberry and brownie
swirls, oooh, must have. Hmm, I didn’t see that one at the store. I’m not a big ice-cream eater,
but once every six months, I have a several day period where I want it. I love anything raspberry
and chocolatey together. Plus, “magic” brownies? Who could resist.
Flippy on 05/06 at 03:17 PM -
OK, so it only has 1% fruit juice. I’m Diabetic and I must say that it taste very good. You never commented on how good it was. What I find amazing is that my wife tasted it then bought the regular one with sugar and she said it almost taste the same. It’s definitly better than orange Gatorade or Powerade and it might even help the average OVERWEIGHT American shed a few pounds.
Joe Fox on 04/13 at 10:31 PM
