It’s been at least 15 years since I’ve bought a can of the stuff. Too much sugar.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
It makes something kind of like flat Fanta.
At that point I would just drink water.
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.
My guess is they just couldn’t concentrate.
Its a shame it has to be diluted.
Water we going to do?
Really trying to squeeze this joke aren’t we?
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?
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
Given the choice between Flint water and Coors Light, I’d take the Flint water, thanks.
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 requires reducing it 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.
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
Used to make margaritas that way in college. Get the frozen limeade mix and replace half the water with equal parts cheap silver tequila and triple sec. Slice up some fresh lime on top if you’re feeling fancy.
They’re really good but will absolutely wreck your shit.
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.
Good riddance.
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.
i stopped buying juice, too much sugar and hfcs, now its sparkling water, or unsweetened tea
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.
It’s amazing how American diets are dictated by marketing agencies from NY. Eggs, bacon, juice, cereal were all marketing campaigns, not organic choices.
People used to eat leftovers and pie for breakfast.
Fr just eat food you like, and stop when youre full. Prioritize whole foods if you can but it really doesnt even matter that much as long as youre maintaining a balance.
Barring an addicition or other ED, this works for most people i know to stay healthy
the NY area in the 1800s at 8 million pies a year.
My old man was drinking like a gallon of OJ (boomer logic of vitamin C, juice is good for you, etc.) a week until the doctor said he was pre-diabetic lol.
I used to eat this stuff straight from the can, with a spoon.
No shame in that. Diabetes maybe. But definitely no shame.
I’d take a little nibble of the ice before making the juice.
Hell yeah. It’s like a really good orange freezie, right?
I was more fond of fruit punch, or five alive, but yes =)
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.
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.
yea. there used to be two full doors or more in the freezer for just frozen concentrated juices. now there’s one little tiny shelf and all the variety is gone.
there’s more profit in “premium” refrigerated “ready to drink” product.
I guess cornering the market in Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures will be yet another anachronism, like taping a show or dialing a phone
I need to watch this movie still. I’ve been wanting to watch it since it was brought up in a infotainment video I watched on YouTube. Now’s the perfect time to watch I guess.
I rewatched it a couple years ago for the first time in decades. It holds up surprisingly well for an 80s comedy. The scene where they explain how the futures market works is basically right out of an economics text book. Like, literally. I believe they got an economics professor who wrote one of the most influential text books to consult on those parts of the film.
If you want a fun chaser, watch Coming To America right after. There’s a bit of an easter egg cameo.
What movie is that from?
Department of Agriculture strikes again lol
Not if it involves a guy in a monkey suit
They will take my frozen OJ from my cold sticky hands.
They probably will.
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
