I used to work at a charity summer camp
where they saved money by serving milk or real fruit juice (to small children and staff alike) once a day, and one can of lukewarm soda with the rare after dinner snack/desert. With other meals (and as the only option besides sketchy tap water at any other time) they served "juice" made from fruit flavoured powdered drink mix, with half the sugar recommended by the package to meet nutritional guidelines (these were never explained, I suspect the guidelines went something like "save money by feeding them past date meat"). This "juice" came in colours, rather than flavours. Even though it was a camp for blind children, they quickly learned to request pink "juice" over purple "juice". I can't tolerate koolaid or the like to this day and only recently have been able to choke down non-carbonated lemonade.
( gracielou, Tue 13 Jul 2004, 7:44, Reply)