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Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 6:12amSanction this postReply
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You need to hang out with more treehuggers.  I mean capitalism is nice and all but you really have be objective about what you eat and drink.  I joined Wolf Moon Co-Op in Lansing in 1977.  In 1978, my wife and I joined Organ Mountain Co-Op in Las Cruces.  In 1980, we bought our life membership in the East Lansing Food Co-operative where we later served with the Board.  In Traverse City (2002-2003), it was Oryana.  Here, it is the Peoples Food Co-op of Ann Arbor.

You have to get away from that mass consumerist stuff... really...

Well known to all is
Blue Sky
http://www.blueskysoda.com/

A newcomer with props is
Jones Soda
http://www.jonessoda.com/files/pure-cane-sugar.php

And you can find this in the mainstream
Deerfield Trading Company
Walgreens private label brand

That we buy some of our organic, natural and local foods at Kroger -- a major grocery chain in the midwest -- we take to be a sign that we won the revolution, or at least on one front of it.

(Next thing you know, someone here is going to tell us that Fair Trade and Equal Exchange coffees taste better than Mrs. Folger's Crystals.)




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Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 6:08pmSanction this postReply
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That's cool that there are other soda's out there that have sugar. I had heard that they existed but have never noticed them at my local grocery store. The thing is, I *really* love Mountain Dew, and it's very nice for me to see it in my grocery store with sugar and at a regular price. I would probably not drink soda if I had to pay much more than 25 cents a can for it or had to go too far out of my way to get it.



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Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 6:32pmSanction this postReply
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I don't drink soft drinks very often. The Jones Soda cream soda has a smooth yummy flavor!



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Friday, May 15, 2009 - 9:31amSanction this postReply
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you hear about the tax they want on all sweetened beverages?



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Friday, May 15, 2009 - 6:25pmSanction this postReply
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Stupidest thing ever, Kurt.



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Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 7:12pmSanction this postReply
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We went shopping at Whole Foods tonight.  These are some of the sodas we found, none of them sweetened with corn syrup. 
  • Izze's (many flavors)
  • Boylans (many flavors)
  • Virgils famous for root beer, but others
  • Reeds Jamaican Ginger  (sweetened with honey)
  • Maine Root root beer and others
  • Knudsen's sweetened with fruit juices
  • 365 (Whole Foods house brand; many flavors)
It is nice to see that Pepsi has discovered cane sugar.  I guess someone thought there must be a market out there. 

(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 5/16, 7:13pm)




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Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 9:26pmSanction this postReply
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Michael, I'll second Reed's Ginger Ale; not only is it honey-sweetened, it's REAL GINGER. I stock up on it when the store near me gets it in, which is sporadic.



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Monday, January 4 - 12:06amSanction this postReply
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Throwbacks are in stores again for a few more weeks. I got myself another 6 months supply at Costco.




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Monday, January 4 - 4:24amSanction this postReply
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Feel free to consider this another vote of confidence for Jones - it's the only soda I actually /choose/ to drink.

Well, some flavours, anyway; I've never given their Thanksgiving-themed "turkey and gravy" flavour a try, and I doubt I ever will. (No, really, they really do make the stuff - as well as "mashed potato", "green bean casserole", and "fruitcake" - http://www.jonessoda.com/files/turkey04.html . The cranberry flavour of that holiday pack is the closest to a 'maybe'...)



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