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>> No. 14583 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 2:13 pm
14583 The Great Apple Juice scam
"Tropical" pressed juice from Co-Op. 55% apple juice, the highest proportion of any juice in the product.
Volvic L'mon "Lemon and Lime". 21.3% apple juice, the highest proportion of any juice in the product.
Soda Folk "Blueberry Muffin Soda". 40.9% apple juice. A pitiful 3.1% blueberry juice.
Why are the big food corps padding out drinks with apple juice, the third worst mainstream juice after tomato and grapefruit? I want my lemon drink to be lemon, not apple.
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>> No. 14584 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 2:26 pm
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At the risk of leaping to the most obvious (but not necessarily correct) conclusion: apples are cheaper than lemons and blueberries.

There may also be some considerations about texture or blending that I don't really care much about, but I would bet on money being the main factor.
>> No. 14585 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 2:43 pm
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I invite you to blend/juice enough bluberries for a pint of juice and then both tell us how much it cost, and how you get on after drinking it.
>> No. 14586 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 3:13 pm
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Neither lemons nor blueberries grow very well in this country; blueberries fairly poorly and lemons only under glass - heated, in colder winters*. That and they both prefer ericaceous soil which is less common than not here. Too much lime in our soil. Blueberries are also quite small plants so never really produce the same fruit mass as a full tree can. Apples, on the other hand, do really well here. So that's going to count for at least some of the cost.


*The only citrus fruit hardy enough to reliably survive in this country is Poncirus Trifoliata, the Japanese Bitter Orange which is inedibly bitter. People still grow it here as it's quite fast to grow, has massive nasty thorns and can (allegedly) become dense enough to stop a car; so it's good for hedges if you really dislike people.
>> No. 14587 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:06 pm
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Apple juice is cheap. It's sweet, fairly bland, low in acidity and isn't subject to the sugar tax. It's the ideal base sweetener for juice drinks.

If you want to drink a glass of pure lemon juice then be my guest, but I don't think you'll like it. A litre of pure blueberry juice would cost about twenty quid.
>> No. 14588 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:19 pm
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I really like apple juice.
>> No. 14589 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:22 pm
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>>14587

This. The alternative, the way yanks do it, is just sugar (hfcs) and water instead of apple juice.

I'd like however to register the opinion that actually, not every smoothie needs banana. Maybe just once I want a smoothie that doesn't taste and feel a bit depressing. Just put some guar gum in there.
>> No. 14590 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:31 pm
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>>14588

When I first started interacting with middle class people when I went to uni, the discovery that pressed/not from concentrate apple juice was a thing and these posh cunts had been drinking it all their lives really did a number on me. I think a lot of self discovery and growing up was done dealing with the fact that this entirely foreign substance was normal, even the bare minimum these people would accept as apple juice.

I don't think I'd be where I am today had Nicola not bought a bottle of Copella that first week we moved into halls.

Of course now, as a well adjusted 30 something with no chips at all on my shoulder, I deliberately choose to drink the cheapest Aldi cartons. That'll show those smug bastards.
>> No. 14591 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:36 pm
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>>14590

How did you get that far in life without stepping foot in a supermarket juice aisle?
>> No. 14592 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 5:17 pm
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>>14591

I suppose as a teenager I didn't do much grocery shopping. Maybe I found myself in a juice aisle once in a while, but I doubt I was browsing the juices, certainly not the £3-5 bottles - juice comes in cartons and is 59p, so why would I be considering anything else? It wasn't worth looking at the good stuff, I wasn't going to buy it.
>> No. 14593 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 7:01 pm
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>>14589
I hate almost all fruit. I'm not a healthy eater, although I do eat enough vegetables to stay alive. But most fruit can do one. I bought a really mad smoothie once; it was like pomegranate and lime or something. I read the ingredients and almost threw up at all the rank shit I was also choking down.
>> No. 14594 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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>>14592
>It wasn't worth looking at the good stuff, I wasn't going to buy it.
Do you think that if you'd looked at the nicer stuff, you might have been more motivated to work harder? I'm asking for my own spawn-rearing purposes.

>>14593
I'm concerned about your glucinericone levels. Have you tried dehydrating/starving yourself until you find a level where you crave fruit? If you are a woman, getting pregnant is also a good way of finding that craving level, It will be healthier in the long run. You may also have some success working backwards from fortified wine.
>> No. 14595 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 7:20 pm
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>>14592
It's only 34p difference in Morrisons.

https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-apple-juice-from-concentrate-269054011

https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-100-cloudy-apple-juice-233147011
>> No. 14596 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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>>14594
>glucinericone
Never heard of it. Is this something blood tests at the doctor would pick up? Because I get plenty of those. The last one said I had low vitamin D levels, so I assume they do check these things (although apparently everyone has low levels of vitamin D, so perhaps they just guessed and never looked for anything), and I was once told I actually had too much iron in my blood. Will I get any noticeable side effects from wrong amounts of (presumably too little) glucinericone?
>> No. 14604 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 12:43 pm
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>>14594

>Do you think that if you'd looked at the nicer stuff, you might have been more motivated to work harder? I'm asking for my own spawn-rearing purposes.

I mean I was the first in my family to go to uni, so I think I was already as much as you could ask for in terms of council estate motivation. Just beat your children, or at least make them grow to resent you, then they will work their arses off to get away from you.
>> No. 14605 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 3:10 pm
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>>14604
Going to uni isn't an achievement, you just give them 3 or 12 grand a year depending on what year it was when you were 18.
>> No. 14612 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 6:08 pm
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>>14605

I remember getting into a cuntoff with a lad in 2010 because I said that a Masters degree today was kind of equivalent to what a Bachelors was in the 90s and he was extra naffed off when the Professor agreed with me. I did a PhD and knowing what I know now I wouldn't have bothered going to Uni at all. It's a Cult, a Scam, or Finishing School for the better classes depending on your socioeconomic status and/or level of commitment.

If I somehow manage to defy the odds and become economically viable enough as a person in my 40s to have a family I'll be telling my kids to be hair dressers.
>> No. 14613 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 6:50 pm
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>>14605

>Going to uni isn't an achievement

It is for someone who grew up like I did. Being alive past 30 is also a significant milestone.
>> No. 14885 Anonymous
31st December 2021
Friday 1:44 pm
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My Co-Op Jam Doughnuts have not just raspberry jam as is tradition, but also plum and apple. They can't keep getting away with it.
>> No. 14921 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 10:49 pm
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>>14885
Why are there not more purely apple doughnuts though?

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