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Health & Fitness

Box or bottle?

Most people who know me probably think I am about to talk about wine, but oh no YooHoo!YooHoo, in a box or glass bottle.  YooHoo is nostalgic to me and many other 40-somethings from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  A little history about it, promotions for YooHoo were done by Yogi Bera and the Yankees in the 1950's and 1960's when the company went nationwide.  So I broke down and decided I am going to splurge a little at the shore and buy some YooHoo for the kids.  I took it a step further, while sitting on the beach, I decided I am drinking one of these myself.  As a Mother, I am constantly holding back for calories or saving snacks for the kids.  I thought,  I am down the shore, I'm drinking a YooHoo.  I reached in pulled out what I thought would rocket me back to my childhood- hot days and a cold YooHoo.  I took off the straw,  punched the box,  and ... With pursed lips I sipped it through a tiny straw.  At first I thought yummy (because that is what I thought I should think).  However, the taste was there but the feeling was not the same.  The small straw meant no gulping.  The size meant that it was finished before I got started.  It left me unfulfilled and wanting.  So, DrPepperSnapple Group, I do not agree with your decision to use juice boxes for YooHoo.  I'm not even sure if it can even get cold enough in a box. There needs to be chill from the glass bottle.  So while it may be good enough for my children, who don't know any better, I definitely think I cannot take the disappointment again. 
By the way, if this blog had been about wine, there is no debate.  Bottle every time. 

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