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Default Friday, June 4th, Dinner

On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 2:41:19 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-06-09 1:14 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 6:51:18 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> > cean Spray "100 % Juice Cranberry" has no added sugar. It is 100%
> >> juice, but not all cranberry juice. The cranberry is sweetened and
> >> supplemented with grape juice.
> >>
> >> I have tried pure cranberry juice and I can tell you that it is way
> >> too tart for most palates. I had bought it for my mother because
> >> she used to get kidney stones regularly and thought it might help
> >> get rid of them. She would have gone for the cranberry cocktail but
> >> she was diabetic, so she wanted to try the unsweetened stuff. I
> >> love cranberry but I could not handle that stuff without diluting
> >> it and sweetening it a bit and neither could she.

> >
> > They have to call that stuff "cocktail" because calling it "cranberry
> > juice" would be illegal. The important part is that it's
> > "drinkable."
> >

> I am not sure about the labeling laws everywhere, but there are a lot of
> very deceptive descriptions of food protects. 100% juice is one of
> those. People make the mistake of reading 100% pure juice as being 100%
> cranberry, orange, apple or pineapple when it is more likely to be some
> of the labelled juice, often a concentrate, supplemented with a lot of a
> much cheaper juice.


I'd say that the only drink that could rival cranberry juice and Vodka is maybe Welch's grape soda:Vodka 1:1

But FOUR Loko's sour grape 14% can rival that.