Health
Whole Foods pulls "all" Kombucha from shelves.
When you're in Whole Foods tomorrow to pick up your organic free-range sustainable humanely slaughtered coconut chicken skewers, you might see some people staring forlornly at an empty shelf. Why? The kombucha's gone! Oh, overpriced fermented tea. Where'd you go?
Today Whole Foods, a key driver of the stuff's mass consumption, has pulled all kombucha from their shelves because testing revealed that the it might be slightly more alcoholic than permissible by law. (.05 percent.) Some extremely skinny people are extremely upset right now. But what is kombucha? Put down your Diet Coke. Place your baby in your uncool baby carrier that isn't made out of sustainable free trade cotton. Turn down your adult contemporary music. Here's what you need to know.
Kombucha tastes terrible
Objectively, kombucha tastes (and smells) really bad. It's sort of sour, sort of sharp, like cough syrup that's been in the medicine cabinet too long, or a lacrosse player's inner thigh. But nobody drinks kombucha because of the taste! They drink it because...
