Is 'cutting' your orange juice with filtered water trashy?

[Anonymous]

Depends who you are.

Short cut for you - If you do something to save money because you are poor, it’s trashy according to DCUM. If you do something to save money because you are a cheapskate, but you are also rich, it’s not trashy - you are smart. If you do it to save calories and you are fat - it’s trashy because DCUM thinks being fat is trashy and you don’t deserve the small joy juice brings you so you shouldn’t have it at all. If you are thin and you do it to save calories (and you also write a comment on every NYT Cooking article to say the recipe is “too sweet”) then it’s not trashy, you are better than all of us disgusting slobs who like sweet things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's on the trashy side if, say, you are a hotel that advertises breakfast with orange juice, but you water it down to save money without acknowledging that to your guests.

If you are doing it for yourself, or for other people not paying for it and expecting undiluted then it isn't trashy. It's just diluted.

That's my point. Cutting/diluting orange juice has trashy roots -- poor families would add water to the jug to "stretch" what was left in the container, right?

WOW, OP. Seriously?

[Anonymous]

But what if it's NOT filtered water? Then you are pure garbage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends who you are.

Short cut for you - If you do something to save money because you are poor, it’s trashy according to DCUM. If you do something to save money because you are a cheapskate, but you are also rich, it’s not trashy - you are smart. If you do it to save calories and you are fat - it’s trashy because DCUM thinks being fat is trashy and you don’t deserve the small joy juice brings you so you shouldn’t have it at all. If you are thin and you do it to save calories (and you also write a comment on every NYT Cooking article to say the recipe is “too sweet”) then it’s not trashy, you are better than all of us disgusting slobs who like sweet things.

OMG this- so ridiculous to hear about how they halved the sugar or whatever, particularly with baking- just don’t make the damn cake, Gwyneth. No one want to hear about your agave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But what if it's NOT filtered water? Then you are pure garbage.

LOL, LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's on the trashy side if, say, you are a hotel that advertises breakfast with orange juice, but you water it down to save money without acknowledging that to your guests.

If you are doing it for yourself, or for other people not paying for it and expecting undiluted then it isn't trashy. It's just diluted.

That's my point. Cutting/diluting orange juice has trashy roots -- poor families would add water to the jug to "stretch" what was left in the container, right?

WOW, OP. Seriously?

Apparently "poor" means "trashy." Good to know that OP thinks all poor people are trashy. Whether or not you dilute your OJ is the least of your problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends who you are.

Short cut for you - If you do something to save money because you are poor, it’s trashy according to DCUM. If you do something to save money because you are a cheapskate, but you are also rich, it’s not trashy - you are smart. If you do it to save calories and you are fat - it’s trashy because DCUM thinks being fat is trashy and you don’t deserve the small joy juice brings you so you shouldn’t have it at all. If you are thin and you do it to save calories (and you also write a comment on every NYT Cooking article to say the recipe is “too sweet”) then it’s not trashy, you are better than all of us disgusting slobs who like sweet things.

I laughed because it's true. So many on here seem to think that being poor is, in itself, trashy and makes you trash. Or being fat, or deviating from the ideal in any way, really; while bending over backwards to justify anything that wealthy people do. It speaks much more to their own anxiety and fear and snobbery than to anything in the real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's my point. Cutting/diluting orange juice has trashy roots -- poor families would add water to the jug to "stretch" what was left in the container, right?

OP, where did you grow up, and what is your family heritage and socio-economic background? I'd like to know where you picked up the use of "trashy" as a shorthand for poor. Tell us more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's my point. Cutting/diluting orange juice has trashy roots -- poor families would add water to the jug to "stretch" what was left in the container, right?

OP, where did you grow up, and what is your family heritage and socio-economic background? I'd like to know where you picked up the use of "trashy" as a shorthand for poor. Tell us more.

Joining you here. Please tell us more, OP!

[Anonymous]

I always add sparkling water to my apple juice or orange juice. Makes it much more refreshing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But what if it's NOT filtered water? Then you are pure garbage.

Audibly laughed.

[Anonymous]

FYI pediatricians said no juice to prevent kids from having that icky faux juice that is actually just sugar syrup colored with dye. There is now some concern that kids who don’t get exposed to different types of fruit juices young have a more limited palate for fruits and vegetables. In fact, your post that OJ is a little “thick and sweet” is highlighting my point. A little OJ now and then is okay for kids. I make my kids fresh fruit smoothies and give them OJ every two weeks or so, and I drink oj (in a tiny euro sized glass) about 2 times a week. It’s fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI pediatricians said no juice to prevent kids from having that icky faux juice that is actually just sugar syrup colored with dye. There is now some concern that kids who don’t get exposed to different types of fruit juices young have a more limited palate for fruits and vegetables. In fact, your post that OJ is a little “thick and sweet” is highlighting my point. A little OJ now and then is okay for kids. I make my kids fresh fruit smoothies and give them OJ every two weeks or so, and I drink oj (in a tiny euro sized glass) about 2 times a week. It’s fine.

But any more juice than this and you are GARBAGE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI pediatricians said no juice to prevent kids from having that icky faux juice that is actually just sugar syrup colored with dye. There is now some concern that kids who don’t get exposed to different types of fruit juices young have a more limited palate for fruits and vegetables. In fact, your post that OJ is a little “thick and sweet” is highlighting my point. A little OJ now and then is okay for kids. I make my kids fresh fruit smoothies and give them OJ every two weeks or so, and I drink oj (in a tiny euro sized glass) about 2 times a week. It’s fine.

What? No. "Real" juice is a real problem at common intake levels.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI pediatricians said no juice to prevent kids from having that icky faux juice that is actually just sugar syrup colored with dye. There is now some concern that kids who don’t get exposed to different types of fruit juices young have a more limited palate for fruits and vegetables. In fact, your post that OJ is a little “thick and sweet” is highlighting my point. A little OJ now and then is okay for kids. I make my kids fresh fruit smoothies and give them OJ every two weeks or so, and I drink oj (in a tiny euro sized glass) about 2 times a week. It’s fine.

Almost all OJ sold in stores is fake sugar syrup colored with dye. Which is why doctors warn against juice. It's just sugar.

I still give my kids juice here and there. Especially in the summer or when they are sick. But I do not let them drink it the way I drank it growing up in the 80s which is ALL DAY EVERY DAY.