Shame. This stuff was a staple in college. It was a few bucks cheaper than “fresh” orange juice (which is a lot of times from concentrate itself)
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.
I’m a childless 26yo and I’m upset. Does that include the adli’s brand orange juice too? If it does not, then I’m less sad.
Truer words have never been spoken LMAO
No need to panic, folks. I didn’t see the Strawberry Daiquiri concentrate mix listed as discontinued. We’re gonna be juuuuuust fiiiiiiiine.
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.
It’s been at least 15 years since I’ve bought a can of the stuff. Too much sugar.
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.
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.
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’.
Good riddance.
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.
Here’s a great video on why! https://youtu.be/9wSQ9Zk_9gQ
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.
Lasts longer
No, the British stuff lasts forever, but it tastes like ass. We call it “squash” and it’s just fruit flavoured sugar syrup. It makes something kind of like flat Fanta.
I still bet the frozen stuff lasts longer. And it tastes like juice.
It makes something kind of like flat Fanta.
At that point I would just drink water.
Yeah, water is infinitely preferable.
It’s honestly made so worse by the fact that the average British mum will read the package directions, go “Oh no, that’s way too much” and proceed to add about a tea spoon of syrup to about a gallon of water, making something that vaguely hints at the concept of flavour, but ends up tasting mostly of dirty bath water.
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.
Yah, uh… was the Tang white? Because that might not have been Tang.
Hmm
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.
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.
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 😤
Great read, thanks!
I use it for duck à l’orange
I can’t read duck à l’orange without thinking about this sketch:
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.
Well I guess Johnny 5-Alive is dead.
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
80 years is a good run!
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.
My local grocery store has two other brands besides minute maid.
Donald Duck
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.
