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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] timidtaxidermist@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Oranges do taste like oranges.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Calling the fruit an orange came before calling the colour orange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I knew there was a conspiracy.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 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

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Florida citrus industry where most of the juice oranges are grown is dying. Citrus greening has been killing the groves off. The tariffs are stupid but not the main price mover.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Citrus greening

Good thing Trump shut down all the woke research to try and prevent this infection.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kingcong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago

well it is, but that science is chaos theory and they don't have any expertise in that area.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

it's a 200 million body problem, where it gets impossible after 3.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

You can keep the oranges in your house long enough to make juice?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 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.

[–] coriza@lemmy.world 14 points 2 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.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 11 points 2 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?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Tropicana OJ has always sucked, but this year i noticed it has gotten so bad I would rather not drink it.

Simply is pretty good still, expensive tho

Raspberry juice has been a good replacement :3

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, feels like there's something more off... Almost like there's some kind of blight or fungus that's taken over

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease

Scientists working on this have been sacked to save money.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

No but i have noticed they are a lot less juicy, heat waves are affecting crop quality big time.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Woo another thing I'm accidentally boycotting by coincidence