Contains 300% Juice?

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I'm having problems conceptualizing this, and it's not just the Old Crow at work.

On the side of a can of frozen concentrate grape juice: "Contains 100% Juice (when properly reconstituted)"

Now, I started to think, "Okay, if I add too much water, then it's less than 100% juice, right?" Made sense to me until I thought... "What happens if I don't add enough water?"

If it's 100% juice when I add 3 cans of water, what percentage juice is it right now?!?
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
and it's not just the Old Crow at work


Haha. Are you SURE?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Are you SURE?


I only had the one. I'm not alone tonight, although I'm the only adult here, dig?

Besides, if you can explain the math to me, maybe I'll concede that the old bird is working on me... right now, I think it's just fatigue. And the fact that the claim doesn't make any sense!
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I had the same epiphany with the "Real Cheese" thing. If it ain't, it ain't!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Huh????
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's 100% deconstituted juice. If you didn't add enough water to it, it would be 100% partially constituted juice. Too much would of course make it less then 100% reconstituted juice (light juice, watered down juice, flavored water, etc). As for what percent juice it is now, it's 0% juice, it's frozen. Juice is a liquid, unless you've added some qualifier like 'deconstituted' to it, then when it's solid it's not juice. Of course, if you've done something like drink it since posting the question that chances things, in which case the question might be "What percent juice am I?".
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Huh????


Ok, so I had some help from Jack too!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
What percent juice am I?".


I believe "juiced" would be the better term ::::::running::::::
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Besides, if you can explain the math to me, maybe I'll concede that the old bird is working on me... right now, I think it's just fatigue. And the fact that the claim doesn't make any sense!


Elephaino...

Vodka + milk + mocha squirty drink stuff = incoherent response to baffling question.

There are some things humans aren't meant to understand. I think the juice question falls under that category.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

I only had the one. I'm not alone tonight, although I'm the only adult here, dig?


I dig, and you're right, that claim doesn't make any sense. If it's 100% juice when it's diluted, then that must mean it's MORE than 100% juice in it's current undiluted state. It makes no sense, and I'm stone cold sober.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
That reminds me of Steven Wright when he said he bought some powdered water, but didn't know what to add.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
It makes no sense, and I'm stone cold sober.


Maybe you have to be sufficiently dilluted for it to make sense. Have some more Old Crow.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
what do ya add to powdered water anyways?
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Does that mean that it's 200% juice if you add half as much water as it calls for?

Wait a minute... doesn't 100% juice imply that there is NO WATER at all? That it's all juice? So why should you need to add water in the first place?

Is water 100% water?

Oh man, now I'll never fall asleep. Thanks Pseudo.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think it is 100% juice, less 75% of it's water content, when in concentrated form. When the recommended water for complete reconstitution is added then it is 100% reconstituted juice.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
But it doesn't say, "reconstituted juice." Simply that it will be 100% juice, "when properly reconstituted." Maybe that's splitting hairs.

What's more troubling right now is the White Grape Juice Cocktail that I picked up today... I didn't realize it was a "cocktail." It's only 20% juice when properly reconstituted...
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
What's more troubling right now is the White Grape Juice Cocktail that I picked up today... I didn't realize it was a "cocktail." It's only 20% juice when properly reconstituted...


Hmmm, I guess you could try leaving out the water. That might make it closer to 100% White Grape Juice.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just mix it with the Crow and call it even.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
How funny! What good suggestions have been made. Leave it to greywar to come up with that last one. It sounds pretty final.