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[–] 44 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Turns out Moroccan and South African oranges taste just like oranges so avoiding yankee oranges hasn't been much of an issue.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Can confirm. Oranges do taste like oranges.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    notice how the color matches the name? That cannot be a coincidence.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So that means there should be a surplus of OJ for Americans which should drive down prices in the US… right? Right? /s

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    it does. it also drives down the value of the dollar. net result is that you won't see a change.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That is only true if part of the final product is imported. Since this is about Florida OJ using Florida oranges, it should lead to a decrease in price. Alas, capitalism will not let that happen

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    if the effort involved in production stays the same and the currency depreciates, it would make sense for wages to go up. since they won't, the value of the product decreases. but since the currency has, again, depreciated, the dollar value of the product stays the same.

    i think. i know nothing about economics.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Economists know nothing about economics. It's not a real science.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    The OJ you buy is absolute junk anyway. The pasteurization process removes all flavour so they have to compensate with artificial flavours and extra sugar and it still tastes nothing like the actual fresh squeezed stuff you make yourself.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    That’s alarming.

    Canadians might have protein deficiency due to the sheer lack of bugs they are no longer digesting through their Floridian orange juice.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Woo another thing I'm accidentally boycotting by coincidence

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Florida orange production has also collapsed for a number of reasons. https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    A lot of US OJ also comes from Brazil. With the tax on Brazilian goods it would be a nice opportunity for Canada and Brazil cut out the middle man.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that most oranges taste like stinky mud for the last few years?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. Occasionally I find a good batch bit oranges have not been good recently. You could put it down to climate change or maybe just going for higher yields over everything else.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I've given up on OJ because of the fascist in chief. I'm hoping we can start getting OJ from Mexico

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