Wonder what kind of environmental damage would happen if one crashed. Are they properly prepared for a captain having one too many screwdrivers?
If the carton isn’t lying and I’m getting “Real Florida Orange Juice,” I sure hope it wasn’t on a ship. That would be a wild logistics chain just to send it West.
But also: I can drive around orange orchards in my area. Where’s the “Real California Orange Juice?” Motherfuckers be putting it on ships and sending it to Florida, I bet.
I think, and don’t quote me on this - we grow better oranges in CA, so they are sold as actual oranges for eating.
Not necessarily better but definitely different, California has a dryer milder climate that renders a thicker peel and sweeter fruit in Valencia oranges which is a contrast to Florida’s hotter and wetter climate producing juicier, tarter fruit with a thinner peel. But yes California has “table” oranges and Florida has “juice” oranges
https://sciencing.com/difference-between-florida-california-oranges-7517478.html
Also California production is outpacing Florida production because of premature fruit drop due to climate change, and less available labor due to a migrant labor shortage.
https://citrusinsider.org/2023/05/22/florida-production-numbers-serve-as-californias-warning-signal/
Yo! Thanks for bringing the receipts. Love me some thicc sweet oranges.
I think you should go home now, Devin. Take a right on San Vincente, cross the bridge, then take the 405 north until you can’t take it anymore.
Whuuuuut are YEUNH doing heeeere?
That’s why I don’t like the oranges out west! Thanks for this TIL.
I seem to remember milk is on a higher level of pollution danger than gasoline. I can’t (in a super quick Google) find confirmation of that, but I found this link talking about milk using up all the available oxygen in water and killing fish. I don’t imagine a billion gallons of OJ doing any favors to waterways.
I think it’s a matter of scales.
A tanker truck of milk can saturate a small stream, but a ship full of OJ is still a drop in the ocean.
You’re a proponent of “dilution is the solution to pollution” I guess.
That’s pretty highfalutin!
A friend of mine worked on the control system for a new “Oranjoduct”. A bona fide refrigerated OJC to a port. It’s wild.
Username checks out. Also maybe naranjaduct?
Laranjoduto de São Paulo
Ah Portuguese. My Spanish proficiency is low enough.
Orange juice doesn’t really retain flavor for very long. Most use added flavors. If you’ve ever bought orange juice from an orchard in florida you’ll know the difference. Doesn’t seem to really be practical to do this but I guess people prefer non-frozen for the name at least.
