It's undoubtedly the Tropicana. Otherwise, you wouldn't have brought it up. But gosh, what else is there? Sodas are out, of course. That should be obvious to everyone. Fruit juice has even more sugar and the only thing in it that could slow the absorption (the fiber) has been removed.

And of course, we now know water is bad, because the horrible, horrible Michelle Obama reminded us to drink water and we'd rather eat broken glass than admit that Michelle Obama has a point, and might have advised us to do something harmless, or God forbid, good for us.

So, I guess the only thing left is milk and alcoholic beverages (excluding wine, since that starts a fruit juice). So, if you're a teetotaller (as I am) and lactose intolerant, I guess your only recourse is to die of dehydration.

Even people who are into juicing aren't into the bottled stuff. The juicing people insist it has to be drunk within a couple hours of making it or it loses all the health benefits and there's no point.

I think the best way to "juice" if you must drink your vegetables, is to do with something that utilizes the whole vegetable, such as a Vitamix. That leaves everything, including the fiber. Of course, it's a goopy mixture, but they add water to it. It's just drinking pulverized vegetables with water.

Fortunately, you can put rum in either.

I'll stick with the Coke. At least it's honest about what it is. And hey, caffeine.

I'll stick with cocktails and Scotch, thanks!

Not sure "honesty" and a reference to Coke products belong in the same sentence, considering their bottled water, Dasani, includes epsom salts, to make you thirstier, so you drink more of their water.

When I was a kid, if you went into a restaurant, and ordered juice, usually available only at breakfast, it was served in this tiny four oz glass.

Probably about all you needed or could afford.

As with anything else, the dose makes the poison, and no one needs two hundred calories worth of fructose gulped down, in 8 minutes.

Coffee and unsweetened ice tea are my preferences. And the amount of cream and sugar in the coffee isn't enough to trigger a carb response.

"I guess your only recourse is to die of dehydration."

HA!

If you think about it, every single thing you eat or drink these days is bad for you.

Meat? Milk? Nope, growth hormones, clear cutting to make way for the farm land, and, well, PETA.

Fish? Nope, oily anal leakage, mercury poisoning, and, well, PETA.

Grains? Nope, chemical fertilizers*, carbs, and clear cutting.

Fruit? Nope, sugar, genetic modification and chemical fertilizers*.

Vegetables? Nope, genetic modification and chemical fertilizers*.

(* If industrial farmed)

So you might as well eat whatever the hell you want, cause you're gonna die from eating it anyway.

Nowadays, I'd rather eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut than drink a glass of orange juice.

Not sure "honesty" and a reference to Coke products belong in the same sentence, considering their bottled water, Dasani, includes epsom salts, to make you thirstier, so you drink more of their water.

And yet, some of my fellow conservatives act like corporations are veritable angels.

Die, corporate scum!

I drink my coffee black, Jim P. Sugar is poison, and the cream would just make me break out. I drink tea unsweetened also.

Has anyone else here ever had the misfortune of being at a kid's birthday party where the parents serve "healthy" juice instead of soda?

They all run around from the energy from the juice screaming their heads off. Hell, its pure hell, I tell ya!

"Not sure "honesty" and a reference to Coke products belong in the same sentence, considering their bottled water, Dasani, includes epsom salts, to make you thirstier, so you drink more of their water."

I would file this under "taking advantage of the gullible". They deserve each other. I was referring more to Coke itself. And oddly, Coke is not without health benefits. The caffeine helps some people (like me) concentrate. And it's good for nausea.

Patrick, a teaspoon of sugar, or a sugar cube, has 4.2 grams of sugar, approx.

So you could brew your own ice tea, and add as much sugar as you like. The odds of you adding 9 teaspoons to it are low, it would be pretty foul if you did that. I say that as a sweet-tooth.

Or drink water. Or milk. Or coffee.

Or water with a small shot of juice, for flavor. Or hell, water with sugar fruit syrup if you add just a spoon or two.

Or beer. Or non-alcoholic beer.

All of these options have less sugar.