Mmmmm... Freshly Squeezed Fish Juice (not from concentrate)

Alex and I are both primarily visual people, so it didn't faze me at all when he accidentally brought home Tropicana Heart Healthy O.J. with Omega-3s instead of the Tropicana Ruby Red. We differentiate Tropicana's by the colored stripe on the carton, and their two stripes are pretty damn similar in shade.

I drank some yesterday, and to be frank it tastes kind of gross. The juice can't cover up that they've added Omega-3s to it. But, whatever, we'll just finish the carton, right? Waste not, want not.

This morning, I started reading the carton (as one tends to do at breakfast), and listed under the ingredients are three types of FISH: anchovies, sardines, and tilapia. THIS ORANGE JUICE CONTAINS FISH.

"Fellas, don't drink that Tropicana. There was a fish, in the juicer!"

I don't think you should be allowed to do this. Look, I read every label with a list of ingredients, I honestly do, but who would think that you had to read the ingredients of orange juice? It should not be called orange juice if it contains more than oranges that have been juiced. It even says "100% Pure Orange Juice" on the label. SQUEEZED AND PROCESSED FISH IS NOT ORANGE JUICE. It should be called orange drink, hell, I'll even give you orange juice drink. I would much prefer however that they came right out and said:

TROPICANA ORANGE & FISH JUICE BLEND

I don't think anyone would buy it, but that's the point. They shouldn't. We shouldn't. Talk about food processing, there's something ookily disgusting about this. I shouldn't have to look at traditionally vegetarian foods to make sure they're still vegetarian.

I mean, fish? In my juice? Eugh. When are we going to stop this asinine food processing nonsense. First, the slow transformation of yogurt from real food to non-vegetarian foodstuffs, then Cinnamon-Frosted Pig Parts, and now Fish Juice?