Pretty unrelated, but reading this story reminded me of this one time I was traveling to Maine for a ski trip with a hippy girlfriend and some of her college friends. Her friends were pretty off beat people that were very into dumpster diving and really wanted to go dumpster diving at an industrial juice production facility along the way. Anyways, fast-forward to me in an actual dumpster pulling out crates of expired-ish juice. One of my girlfriend’s friends was like, “wait, don’t take this one — it has aspartame in it.” I just remember thinking like, I’m waist deep in a literal filthy dumpster right now, I am not sure I get to have any right to be choosy about what is/isn’t healthy!
The juice was pretty good though.