Cleanup in Aisle 5

Last month while I was flying between Phoenix and the east coast, a lovely flight attendant asked me if I would like anything to drink.  I asked what kind of juice she had and after hearing the choices I opted for CranApple.  Now, I know it's not all juice, not even half, but this particular can of juice said "Does not contain any high fructose corn syrup."  So, I felt a little better.  I got a cup of ice, popped open the can and poured it in.  It was really refreshing!  A little sweet, but it was icy cold and had a tartness that really quenched my thirst.  It was the first time I had CranApple in probably the last 10 years.

Flash forward to today.  I am doing my normal Wednesday grocery shopping.  Shopping is pretty quick and easy for me anymore.  Fat free milk, some frozen entrees t bring for lunch, yogurts, fruit, some Cheezits, etc.  And then I remembered how refreshing my CranApple had been, so I went to the juice aisle, Aisle #5.  No sooner did I turn the corner before some young housewife, reaching for a bottle of juice on the top shelf, knocked it off the shelf.  Today most juice bottles are plastic, but if they hit a tile floor with enough force, the top blows off anyway and juice goes everywhere... as it did today. It was white grape or apple, because it was light in color.  You could hardly notice it on the light color floor except for the way the lights were reflecting in it. 

So, I went and did some other shopping and then went back to the now dry, but stickiest floor in the store, Aisle #5.  I was not going to miss out on my juice, which I now figured had been subconsciously stuck in the back of my head since US Airways flight #546.

Do you know how many different kinds of juices there are?  And I'm only talking about the ones that do not need refrigeration. It was easy to find CranApple, and CranRaspberry, Pomegranate Cranberry, CranBlueberry (yuk), etc.  But then I made the mistake of  looking a few shelves down and there was "Light" juices... 2/3 less calories than regular juice, flavored with Splenda and still the same amount of real juice that's in the other stuff.

So now my search is on for Light CranApple.

There was Light Cranberry, light CranPeach, light CranGrape, and there was light Apple.  But, do you think in a 15 foot section of shelving, 6 foot high, there was such a thing as light CranApple?  Nope.  There was even light WHITE Cranberry.  Where do white cranberries come from?  Albino farms? Go figure.

I searched high and I searched low.  Every so often I'd get a glimpse of something like light CranStrawberry and think I was getting close. 
I must have spent 20 minutes standing there searching for the only juice I wanted now...light CranApple.  I looked at the name brands, I looked at the organic brands, and I looked at the store brands.  Nada.
At one point I thought I'd buy a bottle of light Apple and a bottle of light Cranberry and MIX them! Brilliant! 
But then I began to think about the ratio.. what if got the ratio wrong and it did not taste like real CranApple?  What is the ratio, anyway?  Does anyone really know? 

Flash forward to now. I'm drinking a Diet Root Beer and there is not a drop of CranAnything in the house.  Maybe they were sold out.  Next shopping day can't get here fast enough.