No need to panic, folks. I didn't see the Strawberry Daiquiri concentrate mix listed as discontinued. We're gonna be juuuuuust fiiiiiiiine.
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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.
My father is going to be so upset.
Truer words have never been spoken LMAO
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
… I am confuse.
You would take this frozen juice concentrate, mix this with copious amounts of whiskey, and then set it in the freezer. Because of the high alcohol content, it would not freeze like regular liquid. This was in anticipation of a family get-together around the 4th of July. Without judicious monitoring, the adult men would drink all of the punch before it was ready to be served.
Clear as mud?
We used to do one can of frozen OJ to one bottle of vodka. I don't think we ever gave it 3 days to freeze though. It was a pleasant slush.
We called it 'juice'.
They used the Minute Maid as a mixer with whiskey, which they would then freeze into a slushy/slurry thing. It would take about 3 days in the freezer to hit its "final form", so to speak. Very popular at their family's/neughborhood's/local 4th of July (U.S. Independence Day) parties.
The beverage was tasty/intoxicating enough that middle-aged male relatives and/or friends would try to sneak "just a cup" (not literally 8 fluid ounces / ~240 mL) before the beverage was made generally available to party-goers, and potentially even prior to the day of the party. This risks not having enough for the party itself, because of selfishness.
It's been at least 15 years since I've bought a can of the stuff. Too much sugar.
Nothing of value was lost
When I was a kid, I remember the grocery store freezers had a huge section devoted to racks of frozen concentrates. Now it's just a tiny little space at the bottom somewhere. I guess even that's going away.
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.
Orange juice, minus most of the water. Add the water back yourself, save the cost of shipping a larger/heavier item, and reduced packaging costs.
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.
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.
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
Juice concentrate, light beer and cheap booze? You got some advanced mixes
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The whole frozen OJ industry was based out of Florida, which has suffered a 90% decline in production, thanks to citrus greening disease.
take that Anita Bryant 😤
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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.
When I went on my big diet a couple of years ago (I've lost 100 lbs so far), I started having a "healthy breakfast" that included some sort of juice, usually orange juice. My diet was working well, and my doctor asked about my method, and I mentioned juice.
She immediately told me to stop drinking juice, saying "Don't get your calories from juice, it's mostly sugars, get your calories from real food." I stopped drinking juice, and while I can't identify the specific benefit of that, I can understand how a big sweet calorie bomb at the beginning of the day is not a good idea for weight loss.
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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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I used to eat this stuff straight from the can, with a spoon.
No shame in that. Diabetes maybe. But definitely no shame.
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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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