Stuff White People Like: GC Race War 2008

[skylark]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

And maybe because a regular glass of kool-aid has like 32 grams of sugar in it.

Still healthier for kids than soda, with all the high fructose corn syrup. My mom would make regular koolaid sometimes, but not all the time or anything. Soda was only for like, birthday parties or eating out or something. We drank a lot of cranberry juice (that ocean spray cranberry cocktail stuff) when I was growing up, and looking at the labels now, I'm betting it had just as much sugar as koolaid (although slightly better vitamin content).

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by skylark

Still healthier for kids than soda, with all the high fructose corn syrup. My mom would make regular koolaid sometimes, but not all the time or anything. Soda was only for like, birthday parties or eating out or something. We drank a lot of cranberry juice (that ocean spray cranberry cocktail stuff) when I was growing up, and looking at the labels now, I'm betting it had just as much sugar as koolaid (although slightly better vitamin content).

what ...? no Sunny Delight for anyone???????

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

what ...? no Sunny Delight for anyone???????

We weren't allowed to have Sunny Delight when I was a kid. My mom would only buy real 100% juice. She refused to buy anything from the non-refridgerated juice aisle (plastic-bottled apple juice, grape juice, cranberry juice, fruit punch, etc.). She would only buy orange juice (with pulp) or the Dole juices (ex: orange-strawberry-banana). Other than juice, the only other thing we would have to drink is milk.

And I'll admit that I'm one of those people that will water down juice (if it's the plastic-bottled juices). Sometimes I'll get the diet juices (like diet V8 splash) because they're not as sweet. But I don't like the artificial sweetener aftertaste.

I think I've only had Kool-aid a handful of times, like at a friend's birthday party or something like that.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

what ...? no Sunny Delight for anyone???????

My family didn't have Sunny Delight when I was a kid*, but I discovered it in college. I was crushed when I found out it had pretty much no relationship to real juice. I was just slurping highly caloric sugar water.


*We always had the kind of orange juice you make from the frozen concentrate. Anyone?

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

My family didn't have Sunny Delight when I was a kid*, but I discovered it in college. I was crushed when I found out it had pretty much no relationship to real juice. I was just slurping highly caloric sugar water.


*We always had the kind of orange juice you make from the frozen concentrate. Anyone?

My Mom always made the frozen concentrate orange juice as well. In fact she went on some health kick for a while and would use the frozen concentrate to sweeten things in order to cut down on the cane sugar.

My ex-boyfriend's mom would always add a few spoonfuls of frozen concentrate orange juice to her Kool-Ade after she made it. I have no idea why...

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

My Mom always made the frozen concentrate orange juice as well. In fact she went on some health kick for a while and would use the frozen concentrate to sweeten things in order to cut down on the cane sugar.

My mom did that, too.

It's like what we do now with things like vanilla extract, lime juice, and orange juice--using it for sweet potatos and stuff.