The nerve, actually having a "Digimon is better than Pokemon" debate on a Pokemon fan community site. In my day, good gentlemen and ladies sensitively deigned to keep their disturbing aesthetic fetishes to more accommodating venues. Also, they got off my goldarned lawn.
Anyway, I'm trying out one of those Mio things, the flavor concentrate in small, vaguely egg-shaped squeeze bottles (I've got sweet tea, which in one of its more authentic forms is a true gift from the South), and here on the front of the bottle is the phrase "NATURAL FLAVOR WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVOR". Of course the second you see something like that, you know the little ingredient paragraph on the back of the bottle isn't going to have more than one or two "natural"-sounding ingredients in it. Sure enough, after "WATER," the list of ingredients looks like someone upended an industrial chemical engineering textbook and all of the glossary fell out.
But aaah, that refreshing natural taste of PROPYLENE GLYCOL. Like summertime on the Georgia peach farm.
It's like the shifty cousin of that genius "chemical-free organic salt!" kind of marketing. (So, there's no chemicals in your box of organic NaCl molecules, yeah?)
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