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rinueSince I was told by my doctor to drink a lot of cranberry juice, I've been drinking about a liter a day of Ocean Spray Light Cranberry, which is made with Spenda instead of sugar and consequently doesn't make me feel intoxicated. (I usually drink juice in shot glasses and avoid soda, because although I can swallow down tequila with very little effect, a screwdriver or rum and coke will floor me almost immediately, including if you take out the liquor. No idea why I have this reaction to liquid sugar. Blood tests have been run but have turned up nothing conclusive.)
Anyway, on the side of the jug, it says "no artificial colors and flavors." And I know what they mean in a food-labeling sense, which is only tenuously connected to what words are used to represent it. However, if Splenda isn't a way of adding the flavor of sugar without adding sugar, an artifice of sugar, the edges of reality have to collapse a little. Unless, of course, the insistence is that "sweet" is not a flavor, in which case there is a threat to more than just the edges of reality.
Anyway, on the side of the jug, it says "no artificial colors and flavors." And I know what they mean in a food-labeling sense, which is only tenuously connected to what words are used to represent it. However, if Splenda isn't a way of adding the flavor of sugar without adding sugar, an artifice of sugar, the edges of reality have to collapse a little. Unless, of course, the insistence is that "sweet" is not a flavor, in which case there is a threat to more than just the edges of reality.
