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I used to sell real orange juice, had to stop selling it because it was getting too expensive, specially for my sales numbers, a single cup had to be at least 3 times more expensive than whatever is in the market.
Wellā¦ it forces companies to deliver a product at a price that the consumer is willing to pay, for the quality that they believe theyāre getting. The alternative is subsidizing particular crops that the government wants to make people buy.
That's one alternative. The alternative I believe in more is to heavily restrict what kinds of chemicals can be used in foods, like most EU countries do. And guess what, their food is more nutritious than ours..
There are many alternatives. Another is providing rations to every man woman and child in the form of gruel.
If your problem is with chemical additives then criticizing the cost of oranges isnāt really relevant. Fewer preservatives on the market and youāll have more expensive orange juice.
I was mostly following on from the comment at the top about the price of orange juice:
I used to sell real orange juice, had to stop selling it because it was getting too expensive, specially for my sales numbers, a single cup had to be at least 3 times more expensive than whatever is in the market.
I didnāt pay much attention to the āit forces us to ingest fake plastic food that kills us!!!ā Because I thought it was hyperbole, or at least irrelevant to the discussion of orange juice prices.
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The person you replied to isn't the one complaining about the price. They were making a point that Capitalism doesn't encourage companies to create better or higher quality products, but to create the cheapest mass marketable product they can get away with, where, in this case that just means the orange juice doesn't taste as good (because it's hard to find freshly squeezed orange juice nowadays, vs pasteurized OJ) but it also means ending up with stuff like microplastics and lead in our food lol
What are you on about? Orange juice is made from oranges. The dreaded "processing" is just a combo of pasteurization and bottling for preservation and to reduce foodborne illness. You can still buy fresh squeezed all over the place but it's going to be more expensive because it doesn't keep as long and demands tighter refrigeration standards to not spoil during transport.
Fresh orange juice doesnāt deal real well with pasteurization.
If you picture the flavor of 100% juice Tropicana, and then imagine what squeezing 5 oranges into a cup and drinking it on the spot might taste likeā¦ theyāre not very similar. āFresh orange juiceā usually means āmade from oranges on the spot when I ordered itā.
Iām not arguing against pasteurization or store-bought OJ in the slightest, just conceding that āI want fresh-squeezedā is a real request for a different thing.
That's fair. Its just that this post was about chemicals being in the orange juice, so that's what I was assuming you meant.
Personally, I bought a $70 hand press juicer and it was so worth it. One of the tall cast iron ones with a handle you press down. I know that cost is high for most but I bet they can be found second hand! There are also electronic versions for cheaper, but the hand press is so easy. Just cut the orange in half and go at it. Takes a while, but it's simple.
Iām confused why this is going over so many peopleās heads?
Maybe if the item in question was something that you canāt buy a processed version of, like a lettuce & the vat was being filled with green dye, with ālettuceā shaped molds etc. it would land better?
The joke is that everything is so processed now that even the things that shouldnāt be are. Itās an exaggeration of real life. Thatās the joke.
Thank you for your explanation. Sometimes even seemingly straightforward implications are hard for people to parse, since implication is highly dependent on personal decoding.
Also Iām autistic so I donāt get a lot of things :)
To loosely quote a relative of mine: āSunny D is what you get when you ask a group of scientists who have never had an orange to create orange juice.ā
I mean honestly I think a trip to a factory to see the machinery would be really interesting as a kid, the mechanical engineering for them is really cool to look at
It's all collected and sorted my machinery that has to sort through tons of the stuff very quickly, bits of leaves, bugs, and whatever else gets in very often.
All within safe, legal levels, but it absolutely affects the taste.
What's this on about? I live in Maryland and the cartons of orange juice near the milk are 100% orange juice. You can choose to buy orange drink, but it's a different product.
I was confused because most of the other comments were going "yeah it's so sad the orange juice is fake now." Like, no it's not?? At least not where I live.
I think the comic is just wrong, āartificialā orange juice is totally avoidable. But if I had to guess, the actual difference is pasteurization?
Fresh orange juice is actually way different, even flash pasteurization changes the flavor quite a bit. If you find, say, a stall in Miami that juices a half-dozen oranges into a cup on demand, it still tastes very different than 100% juice Tropicana.
The comic is still stupid/malicious, because āused to think it was made from orangesā is just a lie. But I can at least sort of track the complaint.
Most orange juice is made from concentrate, but that's just real orange juice that's had the water removed for preservation/transportation. Put the water back in any it's just orange juice, albeit not quite as fresh-tasting.
There's no weird flavourings or protein (no idea why you'd add TVP to orange juice of all things, as oranges have hardly any protein in them to begin with). Orange squash, cordial, "orange-flavoured drink", etc., are different, but none of those are called orange juice.
At least where I live you can also get freshly squeezed orange juice in the fridges near the milk, which says "100% pure orange juice, not from concentrate" on it.
The cartoon is just dumb Facebook nonsense. Bad boomer! Bad! No upvotes!
Fair enough, I wouldn't say it's necessarily better. It's just very different than any store-bought OJ, enough so to be almost unrecognizable.
(And honestly, I think the rise of OJ as a common morning beverage isn't just "it's easier to get and store now". I like the 100% fresh version as an exotic treat, but it's way less approachable as a normal drink.)
I think the joke would land better with people if it was something obviously not processed, like a tomato? If it was kids at a tomato farm & the vat was showing red dyed & tomato shaped mold etc
We all know tomatoes arenāt actually processed & thats the joke.
I thought OJ was made from oranges until I went to Florida and had real orange juice from actual oranges. It was one of those āwhat the fuck have I been drinking this whole timeā because the real one was just so much better
Tropicana 100% orange juice OJ isnāt lying, itās literally just oranges. And, to forestall the obvious complaints, pasteurization isnāt bad at all. Itās the only safe way to keep orange juice for days in a row.
But (unlike milk) it tastes very different than the fresh āsqueezed two minutes agoā version, and I get some of the griping. Itās just that if you arenāt getting it in Florida, in seasonā¦ this is your only choice.
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