Turns out Moroccan and South African oranges taste just like oranges so avoiding yankee oranges hasn't been much of an issue.
post
So that means there should be a surplus of OJ for Americans which should drive down prices in the US⦠right? Right? /s
it does. it also drives down the value of the dollar. net result is that you won't see a change.
That is only true if part of the final product is imported. Since this is about Florida OJ using Florida oranges, it should lead to a decrease in price. Alas, capitalism will not let that happen
if the effort involved in production stays the same and the currency depreciates, it would make sense for wages to go up. since they won't, the value of the product decreases. but since the currency has, again, depreciated, the dollar value of the product stays the same.
i think. i know nothing about economics.
Economists know nothing about economics. It's not a real science.
The Florida citrus industry where most of the juice oranges are grown is dying. Citrus greening has been killing the groves off. The tariffs are stupid but not the main price mover.

Florida orange production has also collapsed for a number of reasons. https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/
A lot of US OJ also comes from Brazil. With the tax on Brazilian goods it would be a nice opportunity for Canada and Brazil cut out the middle man.
A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that most oranges taste like stinky mud for the last few years?
Tropicana OJ has always sucked, but this year i noticed it has gotten so bad I would rather not drink it.
Simply is pretty good still, expensive tho
Raspberry juice has been a good replacement :3
No but i have noticed they are a lot less juicy, heat waves are affecting crop quality big time.
Yeah. Occasionally I find a good batch bit oranges have not been good recently. You could put it down to climate change or maybe just going for higher yields over everything else.
I'm not sure, feels like there's something more off... Almost like there's some kind of blight or fungus that's taken over
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease
Scientists working on this have been sacked to save money.
The OJ you buy is absolute junk anyway. The pasteurization process removes all flavour so they have to compensate with artificial flavours and extra sugar and it still tastes nothing like the actual fresh squeezed stuff you make yourself.
I've given up on OJ because of the fascist in chief. I'm hoping we can start getting OJ from Mexico
Thatβs alarming.
Canadians might have protein deficiency due to the sheer lack of bugs they are no longer digesting through their Floridian orange juice.
Florida is one of the most dumbass republican states that has been going after trans and gay rights for years.
Not drinking juice is worth it.
No more Tropicana. π
Oasis with brazilian oranges :)
Ty. I didn't know that Oasis used oranges from Brasil. I'll probably switch over to them.
I thought I didn't like orange juice. Then I tried orange juice while I was in Portugal. Turns out I just don't like American orange juice.
I canβt remember the last time I bought orange juice. It never tastes like oranges.
It tastes bad anyway. It's really hard to find decent OJ, never had a decent one from USA's oranges so either their oranges suck or they mess it up trying in increase shelf life
I admit I get non-american oranges to squeeze for juice... Only for occasional cocktail, I'm diabetic! I mean, it is pretty tasty stuff! lol
Orange juice was invested and marketed by growers to sell oranges waste. It's dumpster fruit.
Less distance transporting is a positive side-effect of buying [alternative products] locally.
COVID fucked my tastebuds and ruined the taste of oranges for me. The price and boycotts certainly don't help, but I wonder if my experience is a common thing.
Someone waa really proud abbreviating it OJ there.
Maybe it's just a US thing, but calling orange juice just OJ is very common.
Is that why he was called OJ Simpson?
OMG, is that why they called him The Juice?
Yup. Lots o oranges in mexico and pretty much everything grown in the sourthern us.
There is nothing that I can't live without. No orange juice, I will drink something else. No Las Vegas I will go to Spain. I plan on never going to america or buying anything from america for the rest of my life. The fact that they feel comfortable electing a pedophile rapist to run their country says all I need to know about them.
Can you even call it orange juice if it's a quarter pesticides and preservatives?
I remember when yearly batches tasted different now itβs all homogenized and tastes like uniform crap. We have pretty much eliminated 98% of american products. I will never have anything to do with the states ever again well beyond when the child rapist dies.
all 27 comments