Orange Juice

[Tom Hendricks]

This is mostly for USA Orange Juice drinkers. Is it important to you if all the oranges that make up your Orange Juice beverage of choice, hails from the US?

My favorite OJ is Simply Orange, while reading the label this morning I was mildly shocked to learn that some of the oranges comes from outside the United States.

I'm as Patriotic as the next person and those damn OJ commercials make you feel like a huge heel if you get OJ made with oranges fom outside the US.

 

[RoJoHen]

As long as there's no pulp, I don't care where it comes from.

 

[Amaris]

Most of the food I eat comes from all over the world. As long as it's safe to eat, I've no problem where it comes from, including my oranges.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

As long as there's no pulp, I don't care where it comes from.

Right on! I hate pulp too.

 

[Hugh Mann]

I am Canadian, so I don't care.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Orange juice has always given me a headache in anything but small amounts. I only drink water, tea, alcohol and coffee. Oh and if it's REALLY hot, Diet Coke but I'm going to try quitting that this coming summer.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

This is mostly for USA Orange Juice drinkers. Is it important to you if all the oranges that make up your Orange Juice beverage of choice, hails from the US?

Not really. It's a global economy. If a company started laying off all its workers and sending all the jobs overseas that might be a different story, but if that's how they started out, I don't care.

My favorite OJ is Simply Orange, while reading the label this morning I was mildly shocked to learn that some of the oranges comes from outside the United States.

That is shocking(!). At least my favorite OJ, OJ Simpson, is still a fine, upstanding citizen of high moral character, so I can place my faith in that.

I'm as Patriotic as the next person and those damn OJ commercials make you feel like a huge heel if you get OJ made with oranges fom outside the US.

Are you patriotic? Have you ever had OJ made from Mandarin oranges, comrade?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

As long as it tastes good......i can take it smooth or with bits in it.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I don't mind where my orange juice comes from, as long as it's organic. I prefer my beverages without insecticides, herbicides, fungicides or any other -cides.

 

[Naira]

I am not from the USA, but replacing USA with my country (which happens to produce lots and lots of oranges), I say I don't really care as long as the juice tastes good.

That being said, I also don't understand why it's becoming increasingly difficult to find Greek oranges, lemons etc. here in Greece and I find ones imported from Latin America instead. They don't taste as good but I guess this is normal because there is no way these fruits have grown normally. They most probably grew in some container in a ship on their way here and not on their tree...

I have no problem with my fruit being produced elsewhere. But I also find no reason for this if they can be grown here instead.

 

[MacLeod]

Welcome to the global economy.

 

[Naira]

^ Yeah, I know...

A tomato is supposed to taste different than a banana or a lettuce, not just have different texture. Unfortunately, most of those fruit and vegetables have no taste at all. The ones that grow naturally taste so good, it is a pity that people are getting used to just munch food with no real taste...

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

When it comes to food, drink and groceries, I try to buy local whenever possible, for environmental reasons.

 

[Rarewolf]

Orange juice has always given me a headache in anything but small amounts. I only drink water, tea, alcohol and coffee. Oh and if it's REALLY hot, Diet Coke but I'm going to try quitting that this coming summer.

I don't get headaches very often, but a really strong orange squash works wonders for getting rid of mine.

I've not drunk coke for more than 8 years, it was the smell of someone's coffee (can't stand coffee) mixing with the smell of the caffine in my cola that put me off.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

A tomato is supposed to taste different than a banana or a lettuce, not just have different texture. Unfortunately, most of those fruit and vegetables have no taste at all. The ones that grow naturally taste so good, it is a pity that people are getting used to just munch food with no real taste...

I soooo agree! I've taken to growing my own lettuce, herbs and tomatos in buckets on my balcony. And as often as I can I buy veggies at small local farms. Fresh natural ingredients are so infinitely more tasty than this standardized industrially produced stuff with all its artificial flavourings and colourings or the veggies grown in gigantic factory-like farms with loads of fertilizer and all kinds of poisons.

Sadly, in a test made with blindfolded school children, not even 10% could recognize yoghurt with real strawberries. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the end of the world was near. The end of common sense and good food certainly is.

 

[B.J.]

As long as there's no pulp, I don't care where it comes from.

Right on! I hate pulp too.

Same here. I don't want to chew what I'm trying to drink. One of the few things my wife and I completely disagree on.

 

[thestrangequark]

^ Yeah, I know...

A tomato is supposed to taste different than a banana or a lettuce, not just have different texture. Unfortunately, most of those fruit and vegetables have no taste at all. The ones that grow naturally taste so good, it is a pity that people are getting used to just munch food with no real taste...

I totally understand what you mean, but I don't think growing naturally really has much to do with it, rather, it's freshness. Specifically regarding tomatoes: I think of all fruits and veggies I've ever tasted the biggest difference in flavor between a fruit bought from the store and one fresh of the vine is in the tomato. I know the reason for this doesn't have to do so much with how the tomatoes are grown as with how they are shipped. Tomatoes in the store are picked before they are ripe, and redden in transit. If they are pocked when ripe they will rot before they arrive at their destination -- that's why store bought tomatoes tend to taste so bad, and why you can notice the flavor improve the more local the fruit is: the store bought is bland, the farmers' market is better, and the freshly picked is the best.

As for orange juice, it's waaaaaaay too much sugar for me, so I don't drink it enough to think about where it's coming from. I do however prefer it with as much pulp as possible.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

So what's the scoop on Tropicana? That's my favorite orange juice by a mile; am I helping to destroy the planet by consuming it, or is it all OK?

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Some of the produce I buy comes from Mexico. All of the pineapple I eat comes from Costa Rica. I routinely buy food products imported from Japan, Spain, and Italy. It never once occurred to me I was being "unpatriotic."

 

[SmoothieX]

As long as there's no pulp, I don't care where it comes from.

My sentiments exactly. Pulp makes me gag.