Thursday, December 28, 2017

Water of multiple life forms

Year-end cleaning out my desktop brought these photos I took at Wegmans a couple of months ago. (When I run out of things to marvel at on the road, Wegmans never lets me down.)


These containers are in a refrigerated case in the prepared fruit-and-veg aisle. (That’s where you go if you’re too pressed for time to slice apples, peel carrots or chop celery. It’s also the place where you can relieve yourself of discretionary income for the convenience.)

In case you’re not sure what this is, it’s 32-ounce bottles of water-and… lemon slices, watermelon chunks, cucumber slices and pineapple chunks.


And here’s what you pay for water flavored according to someone else’s specs:


Yes, $3.49 for a quart of water with a handful of fruit or veg in it. In a container that I hope to God you’ll at least put in the recycling.

However, here’s the part that I find disturbing: the disclaimer on the label warns that this very expensive water “May contain Crustacean Shellfish, Eggs, Fish, Milk, Peanuts, Soy, Tree Nuts, Wheat” on account of the handfuls of fruit and veg being tossed into the bottles in a “shared preparation area”.


Maybe wanna toss your own fruit-and-veg into your own purified water?



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