Vitamin Water

When I was little, my mom worked during the day. So, during the summer, she would enroll us in EVERY VBS AROUND. I think there was one summer that we were in at least six weeks of VBS.

There is a very distinct VBS-snack-punch flavor (Baptists, Lutherans, Protestants...this flavor is denomination-blind).

Today I re-kindled my mediocre feelings for this flavor. I bought a Defense - Raspberry-Apple Vitamin Water. The taste of vitamin water (all both flavors that I have tried) reminds me of snack time at Vacation Bible School. With every sip I could picture the black-top, craft time, saluting the flag, Bible drills, singing hymns...I could picture the time I was sent home from a friend's house after telling the joke with the word "fart" in it (the one I had learned during VBS).

As the reddish liquid (which, I must give you credit here, Vitamin Water, for my mouth did not have even a hint of the reddish tint typically associated with colored beverages such as Gatorade and Kool-Aid) poured out, my memories came flooding back.

Vitamin Water, I think you owe someone an apology. You have, quite clearly, stolen this recipe and marketed it to unknowing adults. However, I have already made a decision to re-visit your shelf, tomorrow, and try XXX- Açaí-Blueberry-Pomegranate and Revive - Fruit Punch.