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U.S. orange juice shipments plummet as Canadians find Florida OJ hard to swallow (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

Can confirm. Oranges do taste like oranges.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I knew there was a conspiracy.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

Citrus greening

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

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 1 month ago

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

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month 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.

[-] RinseChessBacked@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] coriza@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month 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 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

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.