New and improved; or, Why I want a juicer.

[thirdthoughts]

The other morning Allen was making a quick trip to the corner store, and I asked him to pick up a V-8 Fusion for me. That's the newish juice V-8 is making that's actually 100% juice (usually primarily carrot and apple, and then whatever flavor on top of that). He accidentally got me a V-8 Splash instead, which, while I was addicted to them in

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[sassymngal]

That is so dumb and lame. I'm sure they did that to reduce the overall calories, since juice and high fructose corn syrup is so high in calories. But you're right to be annoyed. I think that artificial sweeteners should have to be prominently displayed. We have such pathetic food-labeling laws, because the food industry is so powerful at lobbying against them. Grr. I loved living in Ireland because they (the EU) had awesome vegetarian labels (as well as labels for allergy-causing ingredients) on products, so I didn't have to scour the labels for chicken stock, beef tallow, etc.