A Juice a Day

Citrus C befriending egg-drop soup

I (Alta) almost always buy Citrus C when I buy juice. My reasoning is that it gives me the largest amount of vitamin C for my money's (D-bal's?) worth: 2000% of your daily value, according to the nutrition facts! If I feel like I might get sick, I just pre-emptively down a bottle of Citrus C and I immediately feel invincible. What about taste, you say? It's actually not that sweet and a little on the thick/pulpy side if you don't shake it well, but I enjoy its slight hint of guava and its healthy-tasting grapefruit/citrus feel. Yes, healthy is a taste, and it tastes like Citrus C.

Rating: 4 (yes, positive 4!)

Would drink again?: If you need to ask this question, you obviously didn't actually read the blog post.

Lemonade is another entry in the saga of "Odwalla screws up all flavors." It's too concentrated, too tart, and really not worth my d-bal for that giant jug. Meh.

Rating (-5 to +5): -2. Probably harsher than it deserves on its own, just because Odwalla screwed up such a nice flavor.

Would drink again? No, and I love lemonade.

Procrastinating on: Midterms (!!!)

Chocolate Protein basking in the sun with a very large number of lamp-posts in front of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

I (Alta) think this "juice" isn't too bad, and I chugged half a bottle at lunch. Odwalla's chocolate protein really should not be categorized as a juice at all. It is pretty much identical to chocolate soymilk (Silk brand), which is to be expected, I guess, since the other Odwalla Protein tasted like vanilla soymilk. If you're not really into chocolate soy milk though, you might not like this (Helena didn't). Even I agree though that it seems like something about the drink could be improved -- maybe some more chocolate flavor? Maybe be a little less soymilk/protein-y and more watery? Or maybe we shouldn't have sampled it in a subway station after it had been unrefrigerated for an hour?

Rating: 0

Would drink again?: Only if someone gave me a bottle for free and I had a sudden urge to intake a large amount of protein really quickly.

Hey, Helena and I (Alta) have finished writing and recording The Juice Song, which features Helena singing and playing guitar, and Alta singing and doing percussion (shaking a juice bottle and hitting the ground with our rainstick)!
Download juicesong.mp3
In case above link dies, stream:

A music video is in the works.

The Juice Song Lyrics:

I was just a juice so chill
Until this fateful day.
Now I'm on this epic quest
And nothing will stand in my way.

I've watched a lot of movies
Where true love is found.
I hope I can do the same
After all this running around.

Hey!

CHORUS:
Juice, juice, juice, juice,
Where is my juice?
Juice, juice, juice, juice,
I want my juice!

x2

Yeah!

I don't want a pillow,
I don't want a cow,
All I want to have,
Is time with this juice, somehow!

I've searched the world, high and low,
But my dream's elusive,
I really can not find
Where my perfect juice is.

Hey!

CHORUS x2

Yeah!

I almost got drunk,
And I barely escaped,
I jumped into the next aisle,
And emerged unscathed

I don't know when I'll succeed
In finding this bottle of delight.
But as long as I'm alive,
I'll be looking day and night.

Hey!

CHORUS x2

Yeah!

Pomegranate Strawberry (Odwalla):
Helena -1
Karthik -1
Granton +1
Jeddy +1.5
David +3
Anonymous +2.5
Pomegranate (Naked):
Helena -3.5
Karthik +1
Granton +3.5
Jeddy +3
David -1
Anonymous +1
Pomegranate (Odwalla):
Helena -3.5
Karthik +1
Granton +3.5
Jeddy +4
David -1
Anonymous +1
Pomegranate Acai (Naked):
Helena -4
Karthik -2
Granton +1.25
Jeddy -2
David 0
Alta -2
Anonymous 0
Pomegranate Blueberry (Naked):
Helena -3.5
Karthik +2
Granton +2
Jeddy +2
Tony 0
David +4
Alta +2
Anonymous +2.5
Cherry Pomegranate Power (Naked):
Helena -4.5
Karthik +2
Granton 0
Jeddy -3
Tony -2
David -3
DK +1
Alta +1
Anonymous -1
Pomegranate Limeade (Odwalla):
Helena -0.5
Karthik +2.5
Granton +3
Jeddy +1
Tony +1
David +3
Alta -2
Anonymous +3

I (Alta) have decided to hijack this blog post and advertise Caltech Student Solar Initiative's Renewable Energy Credits! How it works: You give us $20, we give you a sticker, and your laptop is in effect powered by the solar panels we installed on top of Watson Lab! Unlike in other renewable energy credits though, the money will actually be going towards future sustainability projects at Caltech. Buy one by either emailing me (altafang@caltech.edu), buying online here, or finding me in my room. Thanks!
CSSI's website has more information.

We're screening juice club shirts this weekend, along with Dead Alley, and we are probably going to screen a few extra shirts, which you can purchase for 5 dollars. Comment or tell us if you're interested in one! You can pay $5 or more if you'd like, a lá Radiohead.

The following image is going on the front center:

On the front side, there will be a juice bottle saying "drink me".



















Finally, on the back, it will have our url.


We haven't quite decided on a color scheme yet. Possibly white on purple?

As you may or may have not noticed, we are several posts behind. As a result, we may post juices out of order, as we are now (honestly, we are starting to forget what older juices taste like). I hope this does not induce stress in any obsessive-compulsive readers we may have.

Tropical is the least complicated juice I've seen thus far. Just orange, pineapple, apple, banana, and passion fruit, with no weird weeds or compounds. It's pretty decent and probably tastes like what orange+pineapple+apple+banana+passion fruit tastes like in your head, in case you're wondering. Of course, by decent I mean a slight negative rating because I still won't buy it. I don't like pineapple that much, which seems to take up much of the juice's composition. Sorry.

Rating (-5 to +5): -0.5.

Would drink again? At a party where the only beverages are mystery pink punch and this.

Procrastinating on: Math. (And Interhouse.)