/ Mark Frauenfelder / 11:09 am Fri Nov 18, 2011

Insane glee for orange juice

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What does mommy put in her kids' orange juice? (Via X-Ray Delta One)

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  1. It makes sense when you realize that methadone treatments are often given in a glass of orange juice.

    1. Yeah, it’s like eating four or five oranges, only without all that pesky soluble fiber to slow you  down metabolizing all the sugars.

  6. Baby wants to eat it with a spoon.  Junior can’t eat it without a helmet (not after last time).  Little Sally is more interested in the hand.

        1. That hand for scale is showing a lot more than six ounces. That’s a ten or twelve ounce glass filled to the brim, not a sane juice glass. Now, that may not have been what most people had on their shelves – but hey, that’s the suggested serving size.

      2. Orange juice gives diabetes now?

        There’s about, what, 12 grams of sugar (about equally fructose and glucose, which is what table sugar breaks down into quickly anyway) in 8 ounces (240 mL) of orange juice.  That’s about 85% of the sugar that’s in Coca-Cola. 

        It’s nice that it was once in a fruit, but yeah, too much fruit juice is a problem.

  12. To be fair, I tend to get about that happy with a nice glass of OJ, but it better be strong enough to walk up to me and offer itself as a tasty beverage.  I hate watery orange juice…  Iced tea has pretty much the same effect on my mood.

  13. Demonic or hopped-up kids aside… goddamn, that orange juice looks good.

    And yeah, the sixties-vintage “juice glasses” we had when I was a kid were five or six ounces. Barely wet yer whistle.

  14. > That hand for scale is showing a lot more than six ounces. That’s a ten or twelve ounce glass filled to the brim, not a sane juice glass …

    Yes, the glass holds six ounces of orange juice and four to six ounces of vodka. Drink up, kids!

    1. Screwdriver my old friend/I’ve come to drink with you again.

      Guess it goes to show we’ve always been a little bit batty.

      Now then. Drink yer damned OJ or I’m gonna have to go buy chubettes for your next school outfit.

  16. I remember drinking fresh squeezed Florida orange juice that we made from oranges off the trees in our yard in Clearwater, around 1971.  And I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but apparently little kids in other states didn’t get those individual sized triangular cartons of orange juice with their school lunches. 

    As far as I’m concerned, fresh squeezed Florida orange juice is the best tasting beverage in existence.   

  19.  Before juice boxes. I remember on trips to Florida a “MUST STOP” were interstate areas that would sell fresh squeezed OJ in  plastic globes shaped like oranges even with a textured skin on the ‘orange’. They had a green cap that could screw off so they could fill with OJ and a straw to stick in the top. Kid safe and travel worthy for the trip to Disneyworld. 

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