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Real Fruit From Real People

Submitted by stevenl on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 6:50pm.

My container of Tree Top 100% Juice Apple Grape has the slogan "Real Fruit From Real People" on the label.

Not "For Real People." Not "By Real people."

"From."

The illustration portrays an orchard, and in the middle are, yes, people. Three of them. With baskets. Baskets filled with ... ?

I shudder to think of it.

By the way, the juice is pretty good in spite of the slogan.

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seeing "juice" in a whole new light

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 7:14pm.

revolutionary! How about them apples?

Glad

Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 6:07am.

to hear you're not sour grapes over this.

Phage Grapefruit!You say

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 7:44am.

Phage Grapefruit!

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Personally

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:04am.

I don't find this at all a-peeling.

Real Fruit from Real People?

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:11am.

Real Fruit from Real People? (Say, Sarah, you wouldn't be Sarah Purcell would you?)

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

I'll never tell

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:24am.

Merwyn would have to mention grapefruit

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:18am.

I love grapefruit juice but take statin drugs, which don't like it.

How you feeling today Larry?

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:27am.

How's recovery going so far?

I'm trying to dream up more fruit puns but I can't think of anything juicy. I like my puns to have a punch to them. Last time I ate grapes I was angry, so, you know, they were grapes of wrath.

Looking at it from the Core

Submitted by Ehver Green on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:27am.

Transcript of John Ratzenberger on Lou Dobbs (not my favorite, not by a long shot).

<...>RATZENBERGER: Oh, sure it is, especially the fact that there is no regulation in China. An article in the Boston paper¹ yesterday, I was down there, and the apple juice you're feeding your kids is coming from China. It's the concentrate, reconstituted apple juice. There's only one company, according to the article -- it's Martinelli's -- that uses American apples.

What happened? Did we forget how to grow apples in Washington or the upper state in New York?

I don't think so.

Yes, it's a big danger. It's a very big danger because all we're doing is feeding the dragon that one day is going to turn its head and come after us.

1. My year without 'Made in China', Sara Bongiorni, Boston Globe, July 19th, 2007 [HTML]

it's those damn wine lovers

Submitted by enpen on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:30am.

They have Eastern Washington going bananas over grapes instead of apples. It really is a shame, I think.

"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe

And the POPularity of

Submitted by Ehver Green on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:33am.

And the POPularity of corn is HOPping up the price of beer. Damn...

Impressive!

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:35am.

Good one EG, I can't even think of a counter pun now. :)

Does it violate the social

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:34am.

Does it violate the social contract to ask you to quit your wine-ing?

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Martinelli's is the only

Submitted by OperaGirl on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:18pm.

Martinelli's is the only apple juice I like! It's so yummy. I always attributed it to the bottle it came in. Especially the little ones!

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

hmmm

Submitted by enpen on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:28am.

Appearently OlyBloggers don't care where their juice comes from. Maybe we should start apple to get some real numbers on the matter?

"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe

groan

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:34am.

Olyblog pun-ishment at its finest.

Orange you glad that at

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:35am.

Orange you glad that at least we're not fighting?

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Aha...

Submitted by The Original Yoda on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 1:14pm.

...stevenl's apparent plan has come to fruition.

Ever wonder where hot sauce really comes from

Submitted by Guglielmo on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:25pm.

That's a surefire way to get

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:47pm.

That's a surefire way to get caught in a jam. That'd be a pretty pickle indeed.

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