My guess is they just couldn’t concentrate.
Its a shame it has to be diluted.
I use it for duck à l’orange
I’ve never had that but want to try it
Well this is far from the official fancy version but basically I roast the duck on a rack in a deepish roasting pan with Lawrys seasoned salt, some five-spice or pie spice, and about halfway through I pour the thawed but not diluted concentrate over it. Baste as it caramelizes to glaze the bird, and when it’s done pour all the dripping into a gravy separator so you can leave most of the fat behind. The cooled fat goes into the freezer. It’s very nice useful fat but you won’t want any today, because your whole house smells like duck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Buy another brand?
Are there other brands in the US? In Canada they’re the only manufacturer left.
I can’t name one, frankly, but they exist. I had been getting the store brand for going on 20 years now because it’s been around that long that store brand has been better than name brand.
I don’t buy often, just when I’m hankering for chicken a l’orange.
One of the ingredients is only ever available name brand. I haven’t found limeade made by anyone else in store.
Stopped buying it when they shrank the can years ago.
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.
Future generations will never experience making this stuff with too little water to create a mixer that hides the taste of cheap booze.
My money is that someone will start pitching it as a green alternative. Dry / powered soaps are hot again because you’re not shipping and storing a bunch of water.
If coke was smart, they would’ve put this green and brown tube, and called it “Juice, by Ecofruit”
Energy wise it’s a wash whether it’s concentrated or not. Concentrated required reducing it down which is just boiling it down (under a vacuum apparently to reduce temps needed), and then freezing during transportation. Non-concentrated weighs more so more energy for transportation and more packaging, and still needs cooling. So they come out comparable afaik.
Yeah… water… we definitely weren’t using light beer to water down our hard liquor with this stuff
Given the choice between Flint water and Coors Light, I’d take the Flint water, thanks.
As someone who grew up in Colorado and now lives in Michigan, this hits hard.
As someone who has only left the East Coast to visit Texas (primarily for the eclipse) and Mexico, I feel like I have to ask…
Do the Rockies actually taste like donkey piss and sadness?
Current generations including my own have already not had that experience.
Shame, “Get Laid Lemonade” got me through college.
This was the foundational element of my jungle juice recipe.
Bringing new meaning to Minute Maid.
oh ok
Oh, NOW you tell me about this
Minute Maid isn’t the only one who makes this. There’s usually a couple choices in the freezer aisle.
Could still use Tang
Just use powdered Tang, same results.
Well I guess Johnny 5-Alive is dead.
I used to eat this stuff straight from the can, with a spoon.
I’d take a little nibble of the ice before making the juice.
No shame in that. Diabetes maybe. But definitely no shame.
I guess cornering the market in Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures will be yet another anachronism, like taping a show or dialing a phone
Department of Agriculture strikes again lol
Not if it involves a guy in a monkey suit
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.
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?
Is diet soda and juice a reflection of one’s politics now…?
Yeah, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
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.
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 🤷♀️
What’s wrong with aspartame?
Nothing, at best there’s some iffy studies that inconclusively say it might be, possibly a carcinogen.
Maybe…
studies kept going back and forth how its a potential carcinogen. Likewise with stevia too, i suspect its a way to discourage stevia use and go on aspartame related drinks.
So, fun fact, when it was discovered you could freeze concentrate like this to vastly extend shelf life it lead to overproduction and unsustainable expansions
that is… fun?
Yeah, really weird to think about.
“So you’re saying we can just make as much Oranges as we want and you’ll take all of it?”
“Yes.”
And so they did.
and 80 years later their business failed
damn it
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.
The tea lemonade was bangin’ too
I just got into cider-making.
good timing
