Delicious drink, but not healthy for people with blood sugar problems.
In the first half of the 20th century, just about all bananas sold in the marketplace were Gros Michel variety. But a fungus came along and virtually ended that type as a profitable crop. Since the 1960s, stores have instead been selling Cavendish variety of banana, which is all most of us know, but not the same as the Gros Michel.
If the Citrus greening disease continues to get bad, we may need to find some sort of similar replacement crop. Or else do without oranges entirely.
BTW: “Gros Michel” means “Big Mike” for those who follow Obama and his lovely wife with the banana.
Oh yah, well I’m selling the car and buying...CA oranges instead.
Capitalism, catch it!
We are importing more Oranges from Brazil than we use from Florida. Brazil is the #1 Orange grower in the world.
OJ’s back in the news again! Who did he kill now?
Resident Biden is the worst person to ever claim to be President after having been declared President by a reflexively-treasonous Democratic media.
There is Texas and CA and interestingly Louisiana for other citrus producing states, including oranges. Thanks to labor activists and the EPA— US citrus has been overtaken by Brazil, who pay their labor next to nothing and follow zero environmental protective chemical/pesticide restrictions. This is why— caused by our own EPA— they are so worried about the environment no other country does anything about. China also, of course.
For perspective, the largest crop, in 1999, was about 240 million boxes
Besides citrus canker, a strong property market for the last 20+ years has taken a lot of farms out of production as well.
LOL!
This should be a classic FR post...gotta go get popcorn.
Immana hold out for pork bellies.
People still drink orange juice? Such a 1950’s thing. It’s 2022.
-SB
I grew up in Florida and drank grove fresh juice for 35 years, which pretty much spoils you for life.
I moved to the USA West Coast in the 1990s and actually found some really good OJ in the stores for a premium price.
By the 2000s, it did not matter what price you paid. All the OJ was marginal, and I just moved on to water and V-8 juice.
Around 2020, V-8 started messing with its formula, and I had to give up on that, too.
Today, I am 100% H2O, and I really miss the OJ and V-8 I used to drink every day.
Glad I don’t do citrus.
In my locale, bacon was $4-5/lb pre-covid and is now $8-10/lb. Makes no sense because ham is about the same. Both are processed somewhat similarly. Nitrate/nitrites and smoked.