{"id":32481,"date":"2013-02-09T00:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/the-horror-of-things-that-taste-good.html"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T07:33:23","slug":"the-horror-of-things-that-taste-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/the-horror-of-things-that-taste-good.html","title":{"rendered":"The Horror of Things That Taste Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so let me be a contrarian.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll confess that, as a bottle baby, I probably intrinsically react positively to consistency in my food. I will also confess that I&#39;m not a big fan of fresh fruit because &#8230; well, one piece might be fabulous, and another piece might be way past prime. Sometimes that holds true to separate bites of the same piece of fruit.<\/p>\n<p>(Plus sticky fingers from juices leaking all over, but I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, I&#39;m probably programmed to actually think well of something like this. But, heck, I don&#39;t think there&#39;s something necessarily wrong with formulating juice components to create a consistent taste. \u00a0I mean, in this particular case, it&#39;s not like the are adding in sodium benzophosphate agar gum sulfite to preserve flavor. They are simply blending different juices to create a consistent juice flavor, even if the stock that arrives tastes differently.<\/p>\n<p>If it was a winery, it would be called art.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/cdn.theatlanticwire.com\/img\/upload\/2013\/01\/31\/Simply_Orange\/thumb.png&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/business\/2013\/01\/who-wants-nice-tall-glass-coca-colas-algorithmic-orange-juice\/61667\/'>Who Wants a Nice Tall Glass of Coca-Cola&#8217;s Algorithmic Orange Juice?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCoca-Cola won&#8217;t say how it makes its best-selling Simply Orange orange juice, but one thing is for sure: It&#8217;s not so simple.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EfoGVJLVK3W' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so let me be a contrarian. I&#39;ll confess that, as a bottle baby, I probably intrinsically react positively to consistency in my food. I will also confess that I&#39;m not a big fan of fresh fruit because &#8230; well, one piece might be fabulous, and another piece might be way past prime. Sometimes that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/the-horror-of-things-that-taste-good.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Horror of Things That Taste Good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41388,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/why-do-toothpaste-orange-juice-taste-so-bad.html","url_meta":{"origin":32481,"position":0},"title":"Why do toothpaste + orange juice taste so bad?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Mar-14 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And now you know.(The mint, or cinnamon flavors are there, of course, to cover the fact that toothpaste tastes pretty bad. 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