8.7

Amount in gallons (= to 33 liters) of orange juice consumed per person in the U.S., down precipitously from 12+ gallons (47 liters) just six years ago. Orange juice manufacturers are worried. The big problems: orange juice is pigeonholed as a breakfast-only beverage, and its high sugar content is out of sync with modern food choices.

Wine Labels

Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
To simpleton sages and reasoning fools;
This moment’s a flower too fair and brief
To be wither’d and stain’d by the dust of the schools.
Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue,
But, while they are fill’d from the same bright bowl,
The fool who would quarrel for difference of hue,
Deserves not the comfort they shed o’er the soul.

—Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet, from Irish Melodies, Vol. II

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