innocent drinks and such

With my recent unfortunate teeth troubles I have been gulping down quite a lot of fruit smoothies and of course especially my favourite brand Innocent. When I once upon a time discovered that my local supermarket sold Innocent cartons with my two favourite flavours, mango and passionfruit, and strawberry bananas, I was very happy indeed.

Sadly they have recently discontinued offering them though. The same goes for the great Swedish brand Brämhults, who also offers great freshly squeezed fruit juices and rather nice smoothies. (And the Brämhults communication dept is really friendly on Twitter too.)

Instead they only seem to sell Chiquita fruit drinks, which for many reasons is not something I like. At all. Yes, one could definitely use one's consumer power and complain about this, but until I do, I shop for Innocent elsewhere.

So needless to say I was borderline ecstatic when I discovered that the nearby where-I-spend-my-weekdays-these-days supermarket (the supermarkets of supermarkets, one could easily get lost in there) sold several Innocent flavours, that I could have for lunch.

The first new-for-me-flavour I tried was the apple, kiwi, lime one. A lovely colour, but a flavour that didn't appeal to me at all, too harsh and sourish for my taste-buds. I blame the lime (which is about all lime is good for, blame). I spotted a blueberry, pomegranate, acai tucked in the fridge too, I'll try that next time instead.

Ever since I first spotted Innocent beverages (years ago, on one of those great UK-holidays) I've been quite smitten by not only their wonderful products, but their style and writing, humour, company ethics and overall attitude. Seems like a great place to work. At least the UK headquarters. The Swedish affiliate doesn't seem too interested in acknowledging/interacting with people expressing interest in working with them (should the opportunity rise)... Just sayin'.

But, the smoothies in general still rock, big time.