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How Is It Orange AND Strawberry?
At the same time!?!?
You can drink orange juice, strawberry juice, or orange-strawberry juice.
Orange-strawberry juice doesn’t come off the shelf in nature, but you can make it without too much effort. It’s a small feat of creativity.
For that matter, orange juice and strawberry juice on their own don’t come off the shelf in nature—not in quantity, anyway. If you want a pint, you have to make it. Idea and effort.
Fruit juice is delicious as a single flavor. It is delicious blended too. As long as you’re working with fresh, ripe fruit, you’ll be hard-pressed to make a bad fruit juice.
Capitalist-driven ad campaigns weary of trying to sell us “just orange” or “just strawberry,” so they come up with “orange-strawberry.” Fine — I mean, there are worse things capitalism could be selling. And when it’s a corporation selling a blend, we (in our role as consumers) often accept and welcome it. We recognize the blend as complex and ambiguous, and we’re OK with this complexity and ambiguity because the corporation has given it a moral license and a dollar value.
What we sometimes forget is that people are complex and ambiguous, that we give ourselves permission to be who we are, and that we have worth.
