What is this trash?

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Yesterday I read a recipe for yellow rice with orange juice as an ingrediant so I bought a six pack of 6 oz. cans of OJ. While brewing a pot of tea I grabed a can for drinking, poped it open and recieved the worst taste of this lifetime. I do not know what this watered down kool aid like trash was. Real orange juice bites back, you do not put it too close to your face, it will make your eyes burn, it will sting your nose; you will understand food acid. The stuff in the stores is safe enough for children to drink, not so with the real stuff. Being a native of Florida, I know orange juice very well and until you have drank the real stuff do notthink you have ever tasted orange juice.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), February 16, 2002

Answers

Mitch, I only drink the fresh-squeezed stuff. In Brazil, everybody has a o.j. squeezer, many have'em motorized. Was tuff visiting my Mom; she finally found hers, manual, of course.

-- Randal at home in Brazil (randal@onebox.com), February 16, 2002.

Hello Mitch,

I use to go to the fruit stands in Miami and drink some of the sweetest tropical (batidas) fruit shakes I ever had. All fresh squeezed! Coconut, sugar cane (garapo), orange, papaya, mango, pineapple, and more. I would go to Reyes Pizza and eat tropical fruit pizzas and a side order of managa cooked like french fries. At home we would have black beans and rice with a side of tostonies.

Here in the Ozarks its hard to find the same foods but, occasionally we do. We found plantains at the Walmart in West Plains sometimes and Meli will make tostonies or (if the plantains were ripe) plantaino duro. But, it is true, it is hard to beat the tropical fruits and their freshness, outside of Florida.

Sincerely,

Ernest

-- http://communities.msn.com/livingoffthelandintheozarks (espresso42@hotmail.com), February 16, 2002.


I can barely stand to drink the stuff from concentrate but the canned juice is undrinkable. On the old home place we had several grapefruit trees, eatin oranges and a Parson Brown juice orange. There were kumquats, tangerines, guavas and figs. My daddy had a clump of banana trees out back that he babied through infrequent freezing temps with blankets and a drop light. He'd cut the long stalks when green and hang them in the back room to ripen. They were the little lady finger bananas. Perfect for frying. Theres nothing like homemade vanilla icecream with bananas fried in a caramel sauce. This is makin me hungry. I'm gonna find some bananas. Blessings Peggy

-- peggy (peggyan2@msn.com), February 16, 2002.

I dont think OJ comes from a tree,,,does it ?

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), February 16, 2002.

Your right Stan, thats an old wives tale; everybody knows we get OJ from the lime green cows no one speaks about in polite company!!!??

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), February 20, 2002.


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