What do you get when you stick a jacket in a blender?

Jamba Juice! Get it? 잠바 Juice? Yeah… Korean American jokes ftw.

Anyway, as some of you may know, a Jamba Juice opened up recently in the Illini Union, across from Serendipity. Having a craving for some good ol’ carrot juice, I indulged in a 16 ounce cup of orange goodness today.

I had tried some carrot juice from a Jamba Juice in either Chicago or Evanston several years before. It was really bitter that day and ended up scaring me away until, well… today. So with some minor reluctance, I decided to give it another shot.

It was delicious sweet short-lived satisfaction. It’s not exactly cheap, as it was around 4 bucks for 16 ounces. However, if you knew that it takes about a pound of carrots to produce a single 8 ounce cup of juice, you would realize that it’s not so bad.

It was definitely sweet, not the overpowering diabetes-fest glazed brownie sweet, but a concentrated form of the earthy goodness that only comes from carrots. The carrots they used weren’t half bad, and the woody bitterness was actually on the low side. The only qualm I have is that they top out at 16 and don’t have glorious 32 ounce cups of carrot juice for sale. che.

In the end, I approve.