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Related: About this forumHow High-End Juices Extract Money From Consumers
I usually make my coffee at home. Otherwise, I resort to the machine in the nearest office kitchen that produces terrible espresso from those hermetically sealed ground-coffee pods. But every once in a while I yield to absurd Midtown Manhattan coffee prices and buy a delicious, extortionate latte.
When I went to Dean & DeLuca last week, I spotted cold pressed juice. The 16-ounce bottle listed its ingredients: kale, apple, mint, lemon and ginger. I had never purchased one of these juices before, but enough bickering trend pieces have been written about the stupidity or sanctity of the trend that I understood the general concept of the juice: Reset your metabolism, drink your calories, swap lunch for liquid.
I handed over my credit card and the bottle of Joni Juice and learned something more startling about the impact of these juices. The cashier handed me the receipt. It cost $12. I gasped and requested a price check. He said, Im sorry, I should have warned you.
That juice cost 6 cents per calorie. At this rate, filling my daily calorie requirement would cost $132. The average American family spends a little over $20 each day on food.
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VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Best $59 I've ever spent.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Whole fruit makes much more sense.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Yes, I'm being a bit snarky. I've also learned to look at the prices of things before I buy. And why I almost always pay cash for everything, especially food.