• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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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.

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      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.

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        My old man was drinking like a gallonof OJ (boomer logic of vitamin C, juice is good for you, etc.) a week until the doctor said he was pre-diabetic lol.

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    Twice a year, used this for a family punch recipe that never tasted quite like it did when we were kids. I guess it’s dead.

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    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.

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    Future generations will never experience making this stuff with too little water to create a mixer that hides the taste of cheap booze.

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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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    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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      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?

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          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.

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            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 🤷‍♀️

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    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.

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    Get used to this kids. The economy is shrinking faster than a Republican hard-on when they see 18 year olds with blue hair and nose rings.

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    Dang, I often use these for baking if I want to add some flavor to a cake or something. They’re fun for mixing into carbonated water, too!

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      I use Mio or other “flavour enhancer drops” for carbonated water to make all kinds of different sodas. My favourite is either cherry blackberry or pomegranate. I know it doesn’t help with the cake situation, but hopefully you can at least still make some fun water.