{"id":1915,"date":"2024-05-27T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:24","slug":"candy-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"CANDY JUICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was a carbonated soda available in Haiti literally called “Candy Juice”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

This strikes me as a better, more descriptive term for what we currently call “soda” or “pop”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

I was in the grocery store yesterday and overheard a couple talking as they stood in the candy juice aisle.<\/p>\n\n\n

The woman was perplexed because her child had requested blue Mountain Dew candy juice and she could not find it on the shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n

This brought several questions to mind:<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Why do our groceries have an entire aisle dedicated to candy juice when it is nothing but carbonated high fructose corn syrup in a rainbow of colors?<\/li>\n\n\n
  2. Where does that blue dye come from?<\/li>\n\n\n
  3. Does your child really need all that extra sugar in his diet? (I looked it up: 12 teaspoons of sugar per “serving” of Mountain Dew candy juice. Twelve!)<\/li>\n\n\n
  4. Why, in God’s name, are we putting such substances into our own bodies, let alone the bodies of our children?<\/li>\n\n\n
  5. How long can our species survive on such a perverted diet?<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n

    Overhearing this conversation and still aching from the fact that I had earlier purchased (and consumed) a rather large bag of addictive smores-flavored candy made me decide it might be a good time for another extended fast.<\/p>\n\n\n

    Melissa is out of town until Thursday, so it is an ideal time. I had decided to start this morning. I made it easily until about 4:00 pm when Sarah suggested we go see a movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

    My spirit was willing, but my flesh was weak: I couldn’t resist movie theater popcorn.*<\/p>\n\n\n

    I will start again tomorrow. I have never put blue Mountain Dew into my gut – and I never will. But even so, my system could stand a reset.<\/p>\n\n\n

    * We watched Fall Guy<\/i>. I don’t regret eating the popcorn – even though Sarah always insists on making it swim in the theater’s “butter” – because it was the best part of the movie. Current American movies are about as substantive and edifying as our diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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