Shame. This stuff was a staple in college. It was a few bucks cheaper than “fresh” orange juice (which is a lot of times from concentrate itself)
No need to panic, folks. I didn’t see the Strawberry Daiquiri concentrate mix listed as discontinued. We’re gonna be juuuuuust fiiiiiiiine.
Shame. I never bought it but I did enjoy what it brought to the colours and shapes on the supermarket freezer shelf. RIP sideways orange black and white cylinder.
Uses to use these to make a whiskey slush that would take like 3 days to freeze and during the 4th of July weekend we’d have to protect the freezer from the uncles trying to “grab just a cup” early
It’s been at least 15 years since I’ve bought a can of the stuff. Too much sugar.
But this is the best way to get pink lemonade :((((
$8 for 26 quarts
It’s not the same :(((
Is that a powder or frozen concentrate? I don’t live near a Walmart so it is not easy to buy that brand.
It’s a powder.
I never understood why Americans freeze this stuff? Like we have juice concentrates in the UK, be we just keep them as a liquid in a bottle or as a syrup in a little squeeze thing.
This isn’t the same as Robinson’s orange syrup. It’s literally frozen orange pulp and juice that’s been concentrated down by evaporating off the water. It’s not remotely shelf stable, but what you get is literally the same orange juice you could buy in a box in the store, at a fraction of the cost because you save on shipping weight and packaging. It’s amazing stuff and I wish I’d had access to it back when I lived in the UK.
I think it has the longest life before going bad and it was a popular choice for low income families who wanted to stock up on stuff. I think it also became popular for food banks to hand out as well. Though we’ve moved away from that mostly. I rarely see people buy them anymore and if they do they likely do it by habit because they grew up in a family that used it.
I assume store brands and other brands will still keep making that stuff.
Yup. My Mom got these for years to save money and make sure we got enough vitamin C. I hated orange juice for a long time because whatever brand she bought was awful and had an overly sour, almost fermented tang to it. Went on a road trip with friends to celebrate graduation and my uncle served us fresh squeezed OJ at one of our stops. It was almost life changing.
It’s a relic from another time. For a very long time it was one of the only ways to keep fresh-tasting juice for long periods. There was a time when if you wanted orange juice when it wasn’t orange juice season, you would go grab a frozen brick of the stuff out of the freezer.
That or get Tang powder or something, which is pretty far from tasting like real juice.
I’d be wary of Tang… I was hopelessly addicted to the stuff in high school and, let me say, the withdrawal was quite unpleasant.
Lasts longer
No, the British stuff lasts forever, but it tastes like ass. We call it “squash” and it’s just fruit flavoured sugar syrup. It makes something kind of like flat Fanta.
I still bet the frozen stuff lasts longer. And it tastes like juice.
It makes something kind of like flat Fanta.
At that point I would just drink water.
Yeah, water is infinitely preferable.
It’s honestly made so worse by the fact that the average British mum will read the package directions, go “Oh no, that’s way too much” and proceed to add about a tea spoon of syrup to about a gallon of water, making something that vaguely hints at the concept of flavour, but ends up tasting mostly of dirty bath water.
Here’s a great video on why! https://youtu.be/9wSQ9Zk_9gQ
My guess is they just couldn’t concentrate.
Its a shame it has to be diluted.
Future generations will never experience making this stuff with too little water to create a mixer that hides the taste of cheap booze.
Yeah… water… we definitely weren’t using light beer to water down our hard liquor with this stuff
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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”
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.
Oh, NOW you tell me about this
Used to make margaritas that way in college. Get the frozen limeade mix and replace half the water with equal parts cheap silver tequila and triple sec. Slice up some fresh lime on top if you’re feeling fancy.
They’re really good but will absolutely wreck your shit.
Minute Maid isn’t the only one who makes this. There’s usually a couple choices in the freezer aisle.
Just use powdered Tang, same results.
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.
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.
It’s amazing how American diets are dictated by marketing agencies from NY. Eggs, bacon, juice, cereal were all marketing campaigns, not organic choices.
People used to eat leftovers and pie for breakfast.
Fr just eat food you like, and stop when youre full. Prioritize whole foods if you can but it really doesnt even matter that much as long as youre maintaining a balance.
Barring an addicition or other ED, this works for most people i know to stay healthy
the NY area in the 1800s at 8 million pies a year.
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.
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.
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?
Is diet soda and juice a reflection of one’s politics now…?
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.
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 🤷♀️
Yeah, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
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.
I guess cornering the market in Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures will be yet another anachronism, like taping a show or dialing a phone
Damn, even with the lower user count than reddit, I still have no unique thoughts :(
I need to watch this movie still. I’ve been wanting to watch it since it was brought up in a infotainment video I watched on YouTube. Now’s the perfect time to watch I guess.
What movie is that from?
Department of Agriculture strikes again lol
Not if it involves a guy in a monkey suit
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.
The tea lemonade was bangin’ too
This is what they get for making “never from concentrate” a seal of quality
