Ribena.

is the best drink ever. You'd think having just turned 18 I'd say something like Fosters (don't get me wrong I'm a huge huge fan, despite some argument) but nahh. I actually don't like drinking that much any more. I almost feel like I've outgrown it a bit, which is weird. I mean, if I go out and don't drink it's not a big deal, but if I don't have at least 2 cartons of Ribena a day, I just don't function properly.
Does that count as addiction? If so, at what point does it become unhealthy? It's full of antioxidants (what actually are they?) and it's not like smoking, I don't think you can get Ribena-related cancer.
Or can you? It might have aspartane or something in it, and according to the Daily Mail pretty much everything you lay your eyes on nowadays is going to give you terminal cancer any minute now.
It makes me so mad.
I think of all the people that come into Lush (one of the places I work) and grill me on how much we use something called Parabens (preservatives) because they've read all these scare stories on how if they use anything with even the slightest hint of a Paraben in they're going to drop down dead. It's stupid really, because I then have to talk them through the fact that if there are any parabens used, there's less than 0.01% used in the product, and the ones we use (Methylparabens, Propylparabens) have been around since the 1930s, and there have been no news scandals to date about human deformation or fatality due to it, so why bother frightening the british public??
ANYWAY. The point is, I reckon I'll have had too much Ribena if I turn into a giant blackcurrant, with skin the same colour as my hair. But until then I reckon I'm safe.