My wife now knows not to insist on pure cranberry juice, but rather to request a 100% juice blend and not "cocktail" (the cocktail is what the juice blend goes in). I finished the battery acid myself over the course of a few weeks, out of pure Floridaman cussedness. It was not pleasant.

I like it mixed with bubbly water.

Just cut it with equal parts vodka and ice.

That is the exact use case for which it was an abysmal failure.

On the plus side, after they combine, you can poop twice as efficiently because it'll burn you an extra butthole, LOL.

More seriously, at what ratio? The running theme here seems to be that it should be nowhere near the top of an ingredients list.

That's a mixer, not a shooter

It should be sold in chemical supply houses, or maybe restaurant supply houses, but at any rate, it needs to come in a white bottle with black letters and be sold from something called a "supply house."

It turns out there's a newer category that still does the apple and white grape juice, but only that, not the high fructose corn syrup and water from Cranberry Juice Cocktail. I believe the blend is done to skew it more cranberryish as well. That's apparently what my wife was thinking of.

I mean, water is a solvant, quite often used in industrial applications...

If you want a real shock, start adding sugar and keep track of how much you have to add to make it palatable. It’s basically like drinking soda.

Technically correct. As the internet has known for decades, this is the best kind.

You just mix this with water to get what you want. It's much cheaper than the sugary cocktail crap that's mostly apple juice anyway.

If it's not sweet enough, you can add sugar.

Any liquid's a shooter if you shoot it.

That stuff is amazing and delicious, but you havrnto cut it and add sweetness.

If you’ve got a UTI, it’s fantastic until you can get antibiotics. I don’t know why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.

After a couple I don't taste shit anyways.

why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.

Mix in powdered magic mushrooms. Works like lemontek to make the trip shorter and more intense, and masks the difficult-to-get-down flavour.

You gotta put in enough vodka to cover the cranberry taste. Strongly recommend a 2 drink limit on those.

Or buy a product where they've already done that for you. This shit should not be sold on the juice aisle. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.

Im not wild paying cranberry prices for apple so I prefer pure cranberry and cherry. I do blend them myself though more than drink them straight.

You really REALLY love cranberries to be able to drink this straight. I eat raw cranberries so I love it but its bitter AF

lol I remember the first time I tried pure cranberry juice

I went through this PRECISE experience.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7824375/

Just drinking a lot of water is the best non-antibiotic treatment. Cranberry juice does not significantly impact an active UTI infection. Other much smaller studies indicate that it may be helpful, but the more robust studies show no real help.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29046404/

Other studies do show that cranberry juice can help reduce future UTI occurances though.

At least once!

By that logic you could have a “shot” of straight vodka!

I mean - you can see how that’d be crazy, right.

Equal parts vodka and juice, top with bubbly water, so about an ounce or two.

10-20% total max.

Well now I want to try 100% cranberry juice. I can drink it while picking cranberries in Stardew Valley.

Everyone that has tried 100% cran.

My wife loves tart cherry juice. The good stuff. So I kind of know what you mean

Or if it shoots you. Eh? Think about it.

LOL, Nope! Not takin' the hit on this one!

Edit: Zimbabwe is on point. Credit to @krashmo@lemmy.world

Tart cherry juice is great. Easily drink it straight.

I'll add water to cranberry juice though.

My ex had several UTIs and she said the cranberry helped the pain more than anything.

Accidentally drinking industrial solvent has to be a daily problem for a lot of people around here because a ton of stores stock Fabuloso (soap) with the juices.

I love that stuff, but yeah for sure it's a real punch in the salivary glands.

When I was in Zimbabwe I went in several stores that had things like brake fluid and various solvents stored in plastic bottles with labels that look exactly like fruit juices and bottles of water. It would shock me if no one had ever accidentally drank some of one of those.

Edit: found the picture

I kept looking for pure cranberry juice and could never find it. Always blended stuff. Finally found it and quickly found out why it's always blended.

Seriously though you get used it and I think it tastes pretty good now. It's certainly out of place in our everything-is-sweetened food industry though.

I should try this, I feel like it's not as bad as you guys all make it sound

Well that's because you got sprouts brand not the crantastic Oceanspray

Hey when's that check coming through

Ice. You need ice.

Edit the universe tells me I also need vodka

You pick your own fruit in stardew?

Uh, none? Ice cubes (if it's ice cold, it's fantastic) for daytime, ice cubes and vodka if I have an occasion to drink

Uh, which good stuff I do not know my cherry juices

You can also take cranberry pills for the uti. We tried this route for my sil's uti. Whoopsie poopsie it turned out to be the beetus and we made it worse.

If you know your pancreas is healthy, go for it but those Rx uti pills are cheap and effective if you get them on the reg

Dude okay you got me beat. I make the cranberries at the appropriate holiday meals every year. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK the last other person in the family who loved cran died last year. I am going to have to start making less than a gallon.

It's really not lol. You can tell in this thread those who do a bunch of sugar and those who don't

Given the title and being a plastic bottle, I was expecting:

I can fix this, invite me over.

And I'm a totally different beast, from Mass. I went to the bogs to get the freshest of the fresh cranberries in season. Also was there for King Richards Faire

/RIP Delores, you passed away too young.