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Orange juice is essentially just sugar. Crickets are high-protein and low-carb. This makes sense intuitively...though I think "cricket juice" may need some rebr

Orange juice is essentially just sugar. Crickets are high-protein and low-carb. This makes sense intuitively...though I think "cricket juice" may need some rebranding.

Dumblydorr 7y ago
Apparently, milk companies lobbied to have almond and other forms of alternative milk rebranded as "nut juice."
- eitland 7y ago
  Kind of makes sense. It isn’t milk. It is good that big grocery isn’t allowed to mislead people so easily, but I’m less convinced than I was before I typed out my comment.
  - sthgrau 7y ago
    It isn't dairy, that is correct. Note however, that using the term 'milk' to plant liquids has hundreds of years of history in the English language.
    - eitland 7y ago
      Thanks, I wasn’t aware. Happy I was a bit careful with that comment.
      - cannonedhamster 7y ago
        Yeah it's only been recently since the nut and soy milk have started eating into the profits of dairy farmers that they've started being all up in arms. Look for vegan cheeses and vegi burgers to be the next targets. The also went after mayonnaise substitutes as well. It's just a move to use the legal system to student stifle free market competition.
        perl4ever 7y ago
        Well, there are a lot of products that are deliberately deceptive and apparently not being regulated sufficiently, so I'm not so quick to say "free market uber alles". For instance, I noticed recently that a drink that said it contained "natural flavoring" had sucralose in it. I guess sweet isn't legally a flavor maybe, but from the perspective of a consumer, it's hard to tell if this sort of thing is caused by finding clever loopholes or just by ignoring rules completely. You can't fall back on "just read the label" when you're given a mixture of contradictory, inaccurate, or ambiguous information that is training you to ignore the label.
stcredzero 7y ago
We used to drink "bug juice" at summer camp.

Orange juice is essentially just sugar. Crickets are high-protein and low-carb. This makes sense intuitively...though I think "cricket juice" may need some rebranding.

Dumblydorr 7y ago

Apparently, milk companies lobbied to have almond and other forms of alternative milk rebranded as "nut juice."

eitland 7y ago
Kind of makes sense. It isn’t milk. It is good that big grocery isn’t allowed to mislead people so easily, but I’m less convinced than I was before I typed out my comment.
- sthgrau 7y ago
  It isn't dairy, that is correct. Note however, that using the term 'milk' to plant liquids has hundreds of years of history in the English language.
  - eitland 7y ago
    Thanks, I wasn’t aware. Happy I was a bit careful with that comment.
    - cannonedhamster 7y ago
      Yeah it's only been recently since the nut and soy milk have started eating into the profits of dairy farmers that they've started being all up in arms. Look for vegan cheeses and vegi burgers to be the next targets. The also went after mayonnaise substitutes as well. It's just a move to use the legal system to student stifle free market competition.
      - perl4ever 7y ago
        Well, there are a lot of products that are deliberately deceptive and apparently not being regulated sufficiently, so I'm not so quick to say "free market uber alles". For instance, I noticed recently that a drink that said it contained "natural flavoring" had sucralose in it. I guess sweet isn't legally a flavor maybe, but from the perspective of a consumer, it's hard to tell if this sort of thing is caused by finding clever loopholes or just by ignoring rules completely. You can't fall back on "just read the label" when you're given a mixture of contradictory, inaccurate, or ambiguous information that is training you to ignore the label.

stcredzero 7y ago

We used to drink "bug juice" at summer camp.