Is this illegal? (Cuban grapefruit juice question)

[Heidi]

So, I was sitting on the patio with my Swiss husband a few minutes ago, and he opens a carton of grapefruit juice, pours a glass half full and tops it off with cabonated water.

I reach for the glass and am just about to take a sip, when he says, "Don't drink that! It's illegal for you."

What the heck?

"Read the label," he says, handing me the carton of grapefruit juice.

Label says: "Ingredienti: succo di pomplemo a base di concentrator (USA/Cuba)" which means, roughly translated from Italian: "Ingredients: juice from conentrate of grapefruits from the US and Cuba."

Ya'll help me out here!

[clydefrand]

1. Don't drink it if you're taking certain medications. Look them up

on the internet to see if you can safely drink "any" grapefruit juice no matter its origins. Seriously...just in case there are those who don't know this fact.

If you're medicine free or if there are no contraindications for drinking it if you are taking medicines, I say drink up and enjoy it if you like it.

[Heidi]

4. I don't really like it.

But it's too early for a beer. :hi:

[radwriter0555]

2. Wow, I just remembered I smuggled cuban cigarettes from Mexico for

my friend, the last time I was there.

I had them in my pants pocket!

[Heidi]

3. Well, I have to admit . . .

since you broached the topic, that I did buy a package of Cuban cigars a few months ago, and used one of the labels in a recently commissioned painted collage. I'll see ya in federal prison, radwriter. :scared:

[radwriter0555]

7. Yep. Felons we are. We can be cell mates?

Top bunk please!

[GOPisEvil]

5. Stick it to the man! Drink it!!!

*raises fist*

[Heidi]

6. Best. Answer. Yet.

:rofl:

[Mutley]

8. Drink it, and report yourself to the US Embassy

:rofl: Go ahead, I dare ya!

[Heidi]

9. I think I'll wait . . .

until my petition for Swiss citizenship has been approved, and then I'll buy a round of Cuban-American grapefruit shots for all of my co-conspirators. :rofl:

[Mutley]

10. .

:rofl:

Wow, too funny. Did you actually drink it? How was it?

[Heidi]

12. Do you think I'd admit drinking it on a

public forum full of libruls so nefarious that the board is monitored by the Eff-bee-eye?

I hate grapefruit juice. I was just killing time until Beer O'clock. :rofl:

[Misunderestimator]

11. A beer for sure...

Perhaps a nice Cuban one.

[Heidi]

15. I'm there.

But the beer is German, not Cuban. Great suggestion; I just had to wait until the timing was right to act on it. :pals:

[flordehinojos]

13. can anyone please send a carton of the same grapefruit juice to the

following:

1. jeb "butinsky" bush.
2. poppy "poopard" bush.
3. condoliar lice.
4. karl kkk rove.
5. lourdes d'kendall and ricardo brown of Chanel 22 LA HORA DELA
VERDAD, MIAMI.
6. MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR of Chanel 22 MARIA ELVIRA CONFRONTA- MIAMI.
7. NINOTSKA PEREZ of RADIO PROGRESO and fromer right hand to
JORGE MAS CANOSA.
8. JORGE MAS SANTOS.
9. ILEANA ROS LEHTINEN.
10. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART.
11. MARIO DIAZ-BALART.
12. JOSE BASULTO.


}( :P :woohoo: :9 ;) :toast:

[Heidi]

14. I would be only too happy . . .

to send a 1 liter carton to you, and you could forward it on to the idiot of your choice. :hi:

[flordehinojos]

16. the words in this song-written many years ago, celebrate the sweetness of

the Cuban fruit which grows in the Caney region--

Frutas del Caney
Frutas!, quién quiere comprarme frutas
mango del mamey y biscochuelo
piña, piña dulce como azúcar
cosechadas en las lomas del Caney.
Traigo rico mango del mamey y piñas
qué deliciosas son como labios de mujer.

Caney de Oriente, tierra de amores
una florida donde vivió el Siboney
donde las frutas son como flores
llenas de aroma y saturadas de miel.

Caney de Oriente, tierra divina
donde la mano de Dios tendió su bendición.
Quién quiere comprarme frutas sabrosas
marañones y mamoncillos del Caney.

[bridgit]

17. not understanding...

illegal for you to drink :shrug: cause i thought the swiss were up the middle on a host of issues. should be even for you more like 'when in rome', no

[Heidi]

18. I think . . .

my husband was sort of having some fun with the fact that it's OK for an American to travel to Switzerland and enjoy a glass of US/Cuban grapefruit juice, but it's not OK for an American to travel to Cuba and enjoy it, or for Cubans to travel to the US to enjoy the same combination. (Husband is a very non-neutral Swiss guy. :shrug: )

[bridgit]

22. i kind'a what i was thinking too...

like we can't smoke their cigars no-how & all; hubby's always ribbing me like that about stuff = men...what can you do :shrug:

[Droopy]

19. I had to go with the beer option

Grapefruit juice is nasty.

[LastKnight]

20. so... just drink the juce from the american grapefruits...spit out

the juice from the cuban grapefruit... ;-)

that or pretend you got all the american Grapefruit juice... and your husband drank all the contraband for you...

that works

-LK

[Guy Fawkes]

21. Drink it... while you enjoy a nice cuban cigar.