• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        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.