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I have been catching a ton of crap around the house lately (all of it good natured), because my honey caught me watering down a glass of juice. I've done this for as long as I can remeber, the reason being it's generally just too sweet for my liking. She thinks I'm just about the strangest thing going.

Am I alone here, or do I have any brethren among you?

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I rarely drink juice, and when I do it's usually V8. Unless I'm drinking vodka with cranberry juice, then I let the ice do the watering for me...

I've been drinking 1/8 OJ and 7/8 water for a while.

I water down chocolate milk with regular milk too.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Why not just buy chocolate syrup, and chocolatize the milk as you see fit?

Good to know I'm not alone in the juice department.

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some cranberry juices are too acidic for my liking, but they are still so damn tasty... I will water them down a bit as well.

Also, I do it with those fruit flavored drinks as well.

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Usually about 3:1 here, for me and for my kids.

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Can't back you up on the juice, but I do both with milk. Mix my own or water it down with milk if it is store-bought.

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Rynar, you should turn it around and give her **** for NOT watering down her juice...

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Darksiege
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Because for some reason, the chocolate milk from the store tastes better than milk with syrup in it.

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Holy shitsnacks!

The only places I've ever seen juice watered down are with small children, due to the sugar, and a movie in high school about an eating disorder.

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I water down my orange juice... with iced tea! Somewhere around 2 to 3 parts iced tea to 1 orange juice. It is delicious.

I suspect this varies quite a lot, though, since iced tea varies quite a lot. There is a local iced tea here that is pretty good for this, since it has a fairly basic bland taste to it. I haven't had it in quite awhile, but if memory serves Arizona iced tea has a rather strong herbal taste to it (as any teas should, I guess?) which would probably not be so good in this mixture.

The only problem is that I get used to this, then regular iced tea tastes like a weak shadow... :p

Yeah, this would be good. On cruise ships (which have unsweetened ice tea) I mix it with lemonaid in a similar ratio.

Rynar:

I suppose it depends on whether you're using crappy "from concentrate" juice or not. If so, adding more water becomes no different from how it was made to begin with.

The only real orange juice is freshly squeezed from oranges. (Side note: I love ordering orange juice when in Florida.) Not-from-concentrate cartons like Tropicana are okay, but the pasteurization process still damages the flavor somewhat. In either case, adding water to them is just wrong...

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Well, I make the juice according to the directions if its a concentrate. From there, I almost always do 1/2 juice and 1/2 water.

The only other straight juice we buy is cranberry juice and that's usually 1/2 - 2/3 water, the rest juice.

A full pint glass of juice (what we drink out of) might as well be a can of soda.

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Other than orange juice (the real deal), I always water down my juices. For the same reason. Too sweet.

We call this an "Arnold Palmer" stateside. Well, California-side, at least.

I water down some juices for my kids, sometimes. And orange juice for myself, sometimes. It can be pretty overpowering straight up (sorry, Taly).

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You guys should just switch to Kool-Aid

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I'll drink about half a bottle, and then I'll add cold water to it, shake it up. The 2nd half always taste better.

Some things taste horrible when watered down, though!

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I think she just found something to tease you with and is having a lot of fun with it.

Truth is, watering down your juice is pretty normal, it is even done for you before you get it. Do you know of any brand that doesn't add water to concentrate? Do they get it back to the same percentage it was before it was made into concentrate (for transportation)? Who knows. You just happen to disagree, and don't you disagree with a lot of things anyway? She expects you to accept that whatever the juice company did was right? Right.

By the way, if you don't know about Juicy Juice, highly recommended - http://www.juicyjuice.com/About/Default.aspx - it is a kids juice drink, but it is just juice, nothing added. If you want to add water to taste, that is your preference.

Watering down your juice, your vinegar, or even your wine, is a long tradition dating back at least to Ancient Rome, where their troops drank watered wine and watered vinegar as part of their daily ration while on the march. Even today, wines already come watered. What is taken from the barrel is rarely exactly what you get from the bottle. Some people choose to water their wine because, to their taste.

Is it always a matter of taste? No, sometimes it is economy. During the great depression, many people watered down pretty much anything liquid to stretch it. After the depression, many people continued to do so, not just because it stretched the cost out, but because they had grown to prefer the taste. Juice has a lot of sugar in it, as a diabetic i don't drink much of it, grumph, grumph. used to love that stuff full strength. However, I can water it down and make smaller portions drinkable for me.

All of this is nothing new Rynar, your Lady just found a way to tug at your man card and is having fun with it. Start telling her that if it was good enough for Roman Legions on the march, it is good enough for you.

Be careful about watering beer though, the tradition for that is a little harsh

http://www.consumerbuyguide.com/guides/ ... /beer.html

Babylonians

In the ancient Mesopotamia, beer had a central role in commercial life and religious rituals. It was used for paying workers in the production of twenty varieties of beer sold in the city of Babylonia( two litres per day), and during funerals it had a propitiatory role to celebrate deaths’ memory and assure them of a peaceful rest, offering a precious liquid to divinities. It was spread the credence that Ishtar’s power and force, the goddess of life, were reinforced by beer, whose power could not be weakened by Nusku’s power, the God of the fire. In an article of the “ Hannourabi Code”, dated back to 1700 b.C., it is written that those who watered beer before it was sold, were drowned into the same beer. In Babylonia, there were red, stout, blond, aromatised, light and strong beers, and some that did not come from barley, but from some kinds of dark and tasty cereals called kurrunnu made with spelt, a red colour cereal like grain, while sikaru were the traditional ones that came from barley.

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It's the carageenan. All the thickeners. I prefer to mix my own, I don't like the 'creamy' texture.

What is... juice?

Water, tea or coke...

I have been known to water down coke...

Unless the juice specifically states to add water, I don't ruin it by adding water. Especially not Orange Juice, the best of the juices ever. Then again, I have an orange tree in my yard that I make orange juice from, so I never have to buy it.

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You Sir, as I have long suspected, are a wuss.

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Agree with Adrak.

I boil about 33% of the water out of my juice, then add HFCS and pure granulated sugar to the point of saturation.

My snack with this drink is pixie sticks poured in the middle of laffy taffy then dipped in caramel.

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Won't be able to do that in Idaho.

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