Have you ever looked at a tree and thought, 'Can I drink this?'
- If your bit depends on the audience being too stupid to remember that fruit juice exists, it's a bad bit.
- American dairy products often contain trace chemical contaminants from sources much scarier than trees. Link
- Interestingly, wood pulp does have a history as a food additive, but it's less of a "millennial nonsense" thing and more of a "ripoff scheme sometimes attempted by the agro-food establishment during periods of lax government oversight" thing. Link
The obvious joke here is "If that substance is being marketed as 'beer', and if we've all agreed to tolerate this, then we're already on level 2."