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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Turns out Moroccan and South African oranges taste just like oranges so avoiding yankee oranges hasn't been much of an issue.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Can confirm. Oranges do taste like oranges.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    notice how the color matches the name? That cannot be a coincidence.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    So that means there should be a surplus of OJ for Americans which should drive down prices in the US… right? Right? /s

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    it does. it also drives down the value of the dollar. net result is that you won't see a change.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Economists know nothing about economics. It's not a real science.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Florida orange production has also collapsed for a number of reasons. https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Woo another thing I'm accidentally boycotting by coincidence

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that most oranges taste like stinky mud for the last few years?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I've given up on OJ because of the fascist in chief. I'm hoping we can start getting OJ from Mexico

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    That’s alarming.

    Canadians might have protein deficiency due to the sheer lack of bugs they are no longer digesting through their Floridian orange juice.

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    No more Tropicana. πŸ–•

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oasis with brazilian oranges :)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ty. I didn't know that Oasis used oranges from Brasil. I'll probably switch over to them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Nobody wants their orange stuff.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Fuck your fake healthy sugar water

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can’t remember the last time I bought orange juice. It never tastes like oranges.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Tastes like spray tan anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oasis OJ is pretty decent. Their oranges are probably still American apparently Brazilian, and they're Canadian owned and produced. I don't usually like mango juice but their exotic mango is excellent mixed with a bit of soda water.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    Orange juice was invested and marketed by growers to sell oranges waste. It's dumpster fruit.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Less distance transporting is a positive side-effect of buying [alternative products] locally.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Someone waa really proud abbreviating it OJ there.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Maybe it's just a US thing, but calling orange juice just OJ is very common.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yup. Lots o oranges in mexico and pretty much everything grown in the sourthern us.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Everything he touches turns to shit.

    Literally his whole life.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    How are Mortimer and Randolph doing on FCOJ futures?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you even call it orange juice if it's a quarter pesticides and preservatives?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I remember when yearly batches tasted different now it’s 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.

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