This started when this summer, one time when it was real hot I was like.. I'm craving getting a country time lemonade can. Later look it up and they don't make them in cans. So for this test, only option was to get this "barrel" of it. Fuckin shit is big enough for a whole neighborhood. Does 24 litres. lol. There's this little scoop.. that'll do 2 cups or like a water bottle.
The "nutrition facts" panel on the back says lookout.. just having 1 cup of this shit is 22% of your max daily sugar. So a normal big glass is just under 2 cups, have two glasses of those and you're at your max 100% don't have more sugar ok.
Then when they say it's got vitamin C, they're not fuckin around. Check this out. Just 1 cup of this shit.. like who's gonna have only 1 cup, ok. But check this out.. 1 cup is 76% of your max vitamin c you're allowed to have during a whole day. That's only 68mg though. So it's not this warning, gonna killl you level, if you have too much. Think of a vitamin c chewable tablet, they're like 500mg. So you got some room there.. but this shit is like "Pepsi" where the kids 'll have, I don't know.. couple 2L in a day. You start to get into the 1000mg of vitamin C though.. that's being a bit too much. How many cups of this shit would you have to have to be in that danger range. A normal 2 cup big glass is already over.. that's 140mg. You'd have to have quite a bit.
2nd drink was the brisk.. that tasted "off".. but not so much you'd dump it out. When trying the peach shit, the brisk brand was "ok" but a bit off. This "lemonade" is more "off". Like come on. With all these drinks I keep thinking.. at least with fucking Tang.. in the 80's.. the shit would at least taste "good" ok. How come these big companies can't figure that out. The country time is made by KraftHeinz.. so at least that tastes "good".
The 3rd was this "organic". That tasted kinda bad. Here's the ingredients. Water, organic cane sugar, organic concentrated lemon juice, organic lemon juice, organic lemon extract. You'd think, putting sugar in there they could at least make it taste good, but no. Gonna try these other ones next before having more of this shit.
That lemon gin though.. pouring it in the glass by itself, it was like "blue" a bit. Let me get those ingredients. Water, gin, glucose-fructose, natural flavours, citric acid, color. You get this shitty plastic bottle instead of how it should be glass. Could be this fucking plastic seeping in. It tasted like to the point where you'd wanna dump it out, eh. It's that much "off". I'd have been way better off just getting straight-up, "gin". Wouldn't be this type of oh now you're getting poisoned.
I knock on the neighbor's door and ask, hey do you want some of this country time.. I got like a whole barrel of it. He says ok i'll come over with a container. He wanted a straight shot in the bottom of a cup to try this lemon gin. He had some and he's like.. this shit tastes bad, dumps out the rest. It does not taste "lemony" ok. It used to in the 80's.
Made by the mainstream Diageo, who's taking over everybody.
"Diageo is a British multinational alcoholic beverage company that was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan1 Since then, it has acquired many other brands and businesses in the drinks industry, such as:
Seagram’s spirits and wine business in 2001, which included Captain Morgan and Crown Royal1
Mey Icki, a Turkish liquor company, in 20112
Ypióca, a premium cachaça brand in Brazil, in 20123
A majority stake in La Hechicera, a Colombian ultra premium rum brand, in 20214
Chase Distillery, a British producer of potato vodka and gins, in 2021.
Diageo is also active in the fast-growing hard seltzer market, having bought Far West Spirits, the maker of Lone River Ranch Water, in 2021.
Diageo’s leading brands include Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Johnnie Walker, and Tanqueray1"
You'd think they'd make it so their lemon gin wouldn't taste like a dog's ass. Poisoning the people, that's what.
Tried some of this Tropicana, it's "ok". Ingredients: water, sugar, concentrated lemon juice, natural flavour. Says "no artificial flavours".
Just note that it's been tested and show that many of these pure juices or drinks have PFAs in them. Not enough for some to be intentional, but obvious water is not being filtered. I think there's a lawsuit again Simply which does Simply Lemonade (this was the one I would have drank) or something in glass. For lemonade, there has to be a significant amount of sugar added...because otherwise it's just lemon water. And no one who goes to get lemonade wants that.
I tried the rest of each of the mixes.. they were actually not bad compared to the peach drink debacle.
The president's choice.. that's from superstore.. here in Canada.. owned by Loblaws. Their own brand. The "original lemonade", ingredients: water, sugars (sugar/glucose-fructose), concentrated lemon juice, natural lemon flavour, gum arabic, citric acid. It tasted 'ok'.
Now you get something interesting.. those two you see on the back right in the pic. It's the PC, president's choice again.. but more "wholesome" however, not organic. Notice the container is the same as the Walmart great value. The ingredients were the same. Tasted the same too. These were actually "good". They gotta be refrigerated, that PC original, didn't have to be. It says, not from concentrate. The PC says, no artificial flavours or synthetic colors. Ingredients of both: water, cane sugar, lemon juice, natural flavour.
After trying all these.. cracked the 2nd bottle of lemon gin. I go.. ok we got enough mix here.. dumped out that organic PC, cause it tasted a bit "off". Was in glass though.. none of the others were. Then looking at the "brisk".. chemicals in there. Dumped that shit out. It tasted not bad though but fuck that.
Then I'll make a drink with going at these back two as mixes, eh.. the tropicana was ok but it didn't have cane sugar. Then when I make a drink it's like.. needs a bit more.. so I'll put a bit of this country time on top and stir it. haha. That country time is fuckin poison. Let me get the ingredients of that shit.
Just what every growing kid needs is some "titanium dioxide" in their diet. Titianium, eh.. sounds like "metal". You sure that isn't what they make the metal of the damn container with.
You should see the ingredients list of that "brisk" one, but I threw it out.
yeah I thought about getting real lemons, eh. I bought a couple lemons a few months ago and you peel that and eat some of it like an orange it'll wake ya up. But I betcha like you said, some of this stuff has to do with the "peel". I wonder if they use some of the peel but in the ingredients they just say "natural flavour".
So, you are drinking poison, and your complaint seems to be that you are drinking poison?
This started when this summer, one time when it was real hot I was like.. I'm craving getting a country time lemonade can. Later look it up and they don't make them in cans. So for this test, only option was to get this "barrel" of it. Fuckin shit is big enough for a whole neighborhood. Does 24 litres. lol. There's this little scoop.. that'll do 2 cups or like a water bottle.
The "nutrition facts" panel on the back says lookout.. just having 1 cup of this shit is 22% of your max daily sugar. So a normal big glass is just under 2 cups, have two glasses of those and you're at your max 100% don't have more sugar ok.
Then when they say it's got vitamin C, they're not fuckin around. Check this out. Just 1 cup of this shit.. like who's gonna have only 1 cup, ok. But check this out.. 1 cup is 76% of your max vitamin c you're allowed to have during a whole day. That's only 68mg though. So it's not this warning, gonna killl you level, if you have too much. Think of a vitamin c chewable tablet, they're like 500mg. So you got some room there.. but this shit is like "Pepsi" where the kids 'll have, I don't know.. couple 2L in a day. You start to get into the 1000mg of vitamin C though.. that's being a bit too much. How many cups of this shit would you have to have to be in that danger range. A normal 2 cup big glass is already over.. that's 140mg. You'd have to have quite a bit.
2nd drink was the brisk.. that tasted "off".. but not so much you'd dump it out. When trying the peach shit, the brisk brand was "ok" but a bit off. This "lemonade" is more "off". Like come on. With all these drinks I keep thinking.. at least with fucking Tang.. in the 80's.. the shit would at least taste "good" ok. How come these big companies can't figure that out. The country time is made by KraftHeinz.. so at least that tastes "good".
The 3rd was this "organic". That tasted kinda bad. Here's the ingredients. Water, organic cane sugar, organic concentrated lemon juice, organic lemon juice, organic lemon extract. You'd think, putting sugar in there they could at least make it taste good, but no. Gonna try these other ones next before having more of this shit.
That lemon gin though.. pouring it in the glass by itself, it was like "blue" a bit. Let me get those ingredients. Water, gin, glucose-fructose, natural flavours, citric acid, color. You get this shitty plastic bottle instead of how it should be glass. Could be this fucking plastic seeping in. It tasted like to the point where you'd wanna dump it out, eh. It's that much "off". I'd have been way better off just getting straight-up, "gin". Wouldn't be this type of oh now you're getting poisoned.
I knock on the neighbor's door and ask, hey do you want some of this country time.. I got like a whole barrel of it. He says ok i'll come over with a container. He wanted a straight shot in the bottom of a cup to try this lemon gin. He had some and he's like.. this shit tastes bad, dumps out the rest. It does not taste "lemony" ok. It used to in the 80's.
Made by the mainstream Diageo, who's taking over everybody.
"Diageo is a British multinational alcoholic beverage company that was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan1 Since then, it has acquired many other brands and businesses in the drinks industry, such as:
Seagram’s spirits and wine business in 2001, which included Captain Morgan and Crown Royal1
Mey Icki, a Turkish liquor company, in 20112
Ypióca, a premium cachaça brand in Brazil, in 20123
A majority stake in La Hechicera, a Colombian ultra premium rum brand, in 20214
Chase Distillery, a British producer of potato vodka and gins, in 2021.
Diageo is also active in the fast-growing hard seltzer market, having bought Far West Spirits, the maker of Lone River Ranch Water, in 2021.
Diageo’s leading brands include Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Johnnie Walker, and Tanqueray1"
You'd think they'd make it so their lemon gin wouldn't taste like a dog's ass. Poisoning the people, that's what.
Tried some of this Tropicana, it's "ok". Ingredients: water, sugar, concentrated lemon juice, natural flavour. Says "no artificial flavours".
Just note that it's been tested and show that many of these pure juices or drinks have PFAs in them. Not enough for some to be intentional, but obvious water is not being filtered. I think there's a lawsuit again Simply which does Simply Lemonade (this was the one I would have drank) or something in glass. For lemonade, there has to be a significant amount of sugar added...because otherwise it's just lemon water. And no one who goes to get lemonade wants that.
Thanks for that tip about the fucking PFAS.
I tried the rest of each of the mixes.. they were actually not bad compared to the peach drink debacle.
The president's choice.. that's from superstore.. here in Canada.. owned by Loblaws. Their own brand. The "original lemonade", ingredients: water, sugars (sugar/glucose-fructose), concentrated lemon juice, natural lemon flavour, gum arabic, citric acid. It tasted 'ok'.
Now you get something interesting.. those two you see on the back right in the pic. It's the PC, president's choice again.. but more "wholesome" however, not organic. Notice the container is the same as the Walmart great value. The ingredients were the same. Tasted the same too. These were actually "good". They gotta be refrigerated, that PC original, didn't have to be. It says, not from concentrate. The PC says, no artificial flavours or synthetic colors. Ingredients of both: water, cane sugar, lemon juice, natural flavour.
After trying all these.. cracked the 2nd bottle of lemon gin. I go.. ok we got enough mix here.. dumped out that organic PC, cause it tasted a bit "off". Was in glass though.. none of the others were. Then looking at the "brisk".. chemicals in there. Dumped that shit out. It tasted not bad though but fuck that.
Then I'll make a drink with going at these back two as mixes, eh.. the tropicana was ok but it didn't have cane sugar. Then when I make a drink it's like.. needs a bit more.. so I'll put a bit of this country time on top and stir it. haha. That country time is fuckin poison. Let me get the ingredients of that shit.
Country time ingredients: sugar, citric acid, tricalcium phosphate, sodium citrate, ascorbic acid, natural flavour (soy), potassium citrate, xanthan gum, titanium dioxide, tartrazine, sunset yellow FCF.
Just what every growing kid needs is some "titanium dioxide" in their diet. Titianium, eh.. sounds like "metal". You sure that isn't what they make the metal of the damn container with.
You should see the ingredients list of that "brisk" one, but I threw it out.
The key to good lemonade is saccharine.
Soak lemon peel/zest in sugar, they'll release their oils and make a sweetly tangy syrup, which you'd then add to the squeezed juice.
yeah I thought about getting real lemons, eh. I bought a couple lemons a few months ago and you peel that and eat some of it like an orange it'll wake ya up. But I betcha like you said, some of this stuff has to do with the "peel". I wonder if they use some of the peel but in the ingredients they just say "natural flavour".
Probably, yep. But in mass quantities like that they probably just grind up the entire fruit and strain it.
But that process of the sugars drawing out the oils is the ticket to, for instance, making a neighborhood hit lemonade stand with your kids.