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        Well this is far from the official fancy version but basically I roast the duck on a rack in a deepish roasting pan with Lawrys seasoned salt, some five-spice or pie spice, and about halfway through I pour the thawed but not diluted concentrate over it. Baste as it caramelizes to glaze the bird, and when it’s done pour all the dripping into a gravy separator so you can leave most of the fat behind. The cooled fat goes into the freezer. It’s very nice useful fat but you won’t want any today, because your whole house smells like duck.

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    To be fair, we stopped buying their frozen juice around 20 years ago when the off-brand juices became just as good and Minute Maid started putting increased amounts of sugar in most of them (and jacking up the prices of the others).

    Then probably 5 years later, we just stopped buying juice altogether and went back to eating fruit and making smoothies from frozen fruit.

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      Yeah I drank OJ like it was going out of style until I realized it was rotting my teeth and making me fat, just soda with fresher taste (and more acid). They don’t give juice to kids anymore. It was a scam. Fruit is awesome tho, I try to eat a couple pieces a day.

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        My old man was drinking like a gallon of OJ (boomer logic of vitamin C, juice is good for you, etc.) a week until the doctor said he was pre-diabetic lol.

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    What weird timing. My husband and I were just telling our daughter how there used to be so many different types of frozen juice and now there’s hardly any.

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    Future generations will never experience making this stuff with too little water to create a mixer that hides the taste of cheap booze.

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      My money is that someone will start pitching it as a green alternative. Dry / powered soaps are hot again because you’re not shipping and storing a bunch of water.

      If coke was smart, they would’ve put this green and brown tube, and called it “Juice, by Ecofruit”

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        Energy wise it’s a wash whether it’s concentrated or not. Concentrated requires reducing it which is just boiling it down (under a vacuum apparently to reduce temps needed), and then freezing during transportation. Non-concentrated weighs more so more energy for transportation and more packaging, and still needs cooling. So they come out comparable afaik.

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      Yeah… water… we definitely weren’t using light beer to water down our hard liquor with this stuff

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    Twice a year, used this for a family punch recipe that never tasted quite like it did when we were kids. I guess it’s dead.

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        Are there other brands in the US? In Canada they’re the only manufacturer left.

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          I can’t name one, frankly, but they exist. I had been getting the store brand for going on 20 years now because it’s been around that long that store brand has been better than name brand.

          I don’t buy often, just when I’m hankering for chicken a l’orange.

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        One of the ingredients is only ever available name brand. I haven’t found limeade made by anyone else in store.

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    Growing up in the 90s we often had this frozen concentrate in the freezer. But I hardly ever drink juice now, and prefer to eat oranges over drinking juice.

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      Same. The adults who raised me bought diet soda and always had a jug of fruit juice in the fridge for the kids.

      Why yes, they did always vote Republican. How did you know?

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          No, but the ignorance of blindly believing the TV (when it says that aspartame and sugar-rich fruit juices are healthy beverage options for kids) sure is.

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            I think that was just the 90s. “Health food stores” were like 90% vitamins/supplements and 10% terrible bread and bulk bins of brewers yeast and brown rice.

            My family went to the heath food store a lot, voted blue and marched against nestle and the gulf war. And we drank a lot of concentrated orange juice.

            We thought juice was heathy 🤷‍♀️

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    I guess cornering the market in Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures will be yet another anachronism, like taping a show or dialing a phone

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    I never cared much for the orange juice, but minute maid frozen lemonade concentrate is amazing. I’m going to miss that one for sure.

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    Get used to this kids. The economy is shrinking faster than a Republican hard-on when they see 18 year olds with blue hair and nose rings.