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Shot this in an end-cap cooler case at the grocery store yesterday.<\/p>\n
I have long been known to comment on the fact that so many of the insta-foods\u2014particularly those marketed to children\u2014seem to have colors in place of flavors. Finally, someone has closed the conceptual loop by producing the Crayons\u00ae Fruit Juice Drink<\/a>.<\/p>\n The product’s Web address, http:\/\/www.drinkcrayons.com\/<\/a>, would seem to say it all.<\/p>\n Ironically, this product is marketed as a healthier alternative to many kid-oriented fruitish juicoid products: all-natural (for what that’s worth: the USDA is pretty spotty on the use of the term), no high-fructose corn syrup, 30% juice, 90 calories per 8 ounce serving (only 7 calories less than a can of Coke<\/a>). Not bad. Not great<\/em>, but not bad. Certainly appreciably less like drinking a real Crayon than would be the case with, say, a bottle of Sunny Delight<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hmm….upon further reflection, perhaps drinking a Crayons\u00ae Fruit Juice Drink really is<\/em> more analogous to ingesting an actual crayon. After all, crayons contain natural ingredients as well (wax, paper), and as many a parent of a toddler will tell you, they can be taken internally with relatively few adverse side effects.<\/p>\n Following this logic, then, drinking something like a Sunny D or a Snapple<\/a> would be more akin to, say, sucking on a purple Sharpie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shot this in an end-cap cooler case at the grocery store yesterday. I have long been known to comment on the fact that so many of the insta-foods\u2014particularly those marketed to children\u2014seem to have colors in place of flavors. Finally, someone has closed the conceptual loop by producing the Crayons\u00ae Fruit Juice Drink. The product’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-fright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}