# RIP Minute Maid frozen cans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367 "2026-02-04T17:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/61 "2026-02-05T01:16:20Z")
I don’t see how it’s necessarily a scam to sell municipal tap water as bottled water, as long as the packaging isn’t claiming this to be “mountain spring water” or some such thing. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/62 "2026-02-05T01:49:53Z")
Aquafina is still purified tap water, no outcry detected. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/63 "2026-02-05T02:01:51Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I bet it’s been a decade or more since I’ve had orange juice. > > Do people still drink it regularly? I wouldn’t say “regularly”, but it’s at least occasional in my household. Bought and consumed a half-gallon container last week when ill, since I found myself craving OJ. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/64 "2026-02-05T02:20:44Z")
It is really amazing once you start looking at food labels. For instance Lucky Charms has less sugar than most granola. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/65 "2026-02-05T02:45:49Z")
A few years ago I had a hankering for the frozen concentrated lemonade of my youth and I had a hard time finding it in the supermarket. I found it, but it took a lot longer than expected. I’m only mildly surprised Minute Maid made this decision. Our municipal water sources are one of the greatest accomplishments of civilization. I find it odd there are entire industries devoted to getting us to spend serious money on products to either improve what comes out of the tap or outright replace it with bottled water. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/66 "2026-02-05T03:53:46Z")
My doctor (at a famous four-letter clinic) commented about me saying I drank orange juice nearly every day because I thought I would benefit from the vitamins. He wasn’t so much concerned about sugars, but rather for the same amount of sugar and the same amount of vitamins, I should just eat an orange. His reason was the pulp from eating an orange would add fiber to my diet. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/67 "2026-02-05T04:03:27Z")
You realize even fresh oranges have sugars. All fruit does. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/68 "2026-02-05T04:17:47Z")
Oh, crumbs! This is how I make my Orange Julius recipe! Will anyone else still be making frozen orange juice concentrate? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/69 "2026-02-05T04:19:31Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You realize even fresh oranges have sugars. > > All fruit does. Of course they do, but eating the whole fruit means you’re getting fiber that makes you feel fuller than you do when just drinking the juice. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/70 "2026-02-05T04:21:43Z")
Avocado disagrees (mostly). The biggest reactions I’ve seen to the news is people who use the concentrate undiluted as part of some recipe. They’re reacting like upper Midwestern church moms of Campbell’s stopped making cream of whatever soup. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/71 "2026-02-05T04:36:11Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > 30-some years ago there was an exposé of a company that sold bottled water, back when it was just really becoming a thing, in (clear plastic, milk) gallon containers for $1.09/gal. This was when it was 10 gal/1¢ from your tap. It was the _exact same_ city water that came thru the tap, just run thru a filter & put in a container for a 1000x markup. Bottled water has it’s place, like when out & about, but I have _severely_ limited how much I buy since seeing that piece. Pure profit scam on their part! Any product can be scammed. I’ve made this argument before about my love of bottled spring water. The stuff I buy is a trusted major brand, and the label lists the spring location the water came from and the mineral analysis. It’s always cheap and sometimes when it’s on sale the price must barely cover their transportation costs. And it’s delicious, in exactly the pure natural sense you’d expect cool spring water to taste. All in my head? No. Once, running low on spring water, I poured some tap water into an empty spring water bottle and set it on the counter to take with some pills. Later I forgot that it was tap water and took a big swig and almost puked! In fact our tap water is objectively not that bad, and my friend claims that it tastes better than his. But it has chlorine and other shit in it and I hate the taste. To me it’s like the difference between a fine wine and one which has been allowed to oxidate for several days – they’re both wine, but one is drinkable, and one is not. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/72 "2026-02-05T04:46:56Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Our municipal water sources are one of the greatest accomplishments of civilization. I find it odd there are entire industries devoted to getting us to spend serious money on products to either improve what comes out of the tap or outright replace it with bottled water. As someone that has a degree devoted to creating drinking water in the US, I mostly agree. However, for those with hard water, that is not something that will be rectified by your municipality. It doesn’t make your water unhealthy, but it does cause issues with your water heater, your electric water kettle, your sinks/toilets, etc. As I said above, a simple inline filter can correct this, but there are whole house systems as well. So, not odd that folks want to treat hard water. Also, I don’t consider my treatment to be “serious money”. Much less than what I pay for the water through my municipality. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/73 "2026-02-05T04:51:09Z")
We never had orange juice growing up. I don’t know if it was the cost or it didn’t make a good drink to go along with snacks. But we ALWAYS had a pitcher of grape juice, made from concentrate. Absolutely delicious with a tuna sandwich, or our big treat was grape juice & popcorn while we watched TV at night. Hoo-wee! My mom always made a full 2 quarts of juice from the can, even though it’s supposed to be just 1.5 quarts of juice. She was always conscious of our sugar consumption (spoiler: I became a Type-2 diabetic anyway) and also was frugal. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/74 "2026-02-05T04:52:06Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Produce had an orange juice machine that they’d use to process oranges as they started to soften, which also meant they were sweeter. That juice was popular, let me tell you, and it sold out quickly when they had it. Some decades ago Harrah’s breakfast buffet in Reno had an automated orange juice. All the workers had to do was dump oranges in the top and cart the empty peels away from the bottom. One at a time the oranges would be sliced in two, force the two halves over a [bullet juicer](https://assets.katomcdn.com/q_auto,f_auto,w_500,dpr_2/v1517272780/products/080/080-JC4/080-jc4.jpg) and then discard them. There was a big storage tank but the times I was there it was pretty superfluous – I never saw it more than a half-inch deep. ---
**Author:** ![Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reindeer_flotilla/32/3024_2.png) [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reindeer_Flotilla)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/75 "2026-02-05T05:26:45Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Special mention to Sunny D for showing up in searches for “orange juice” despite the 98% lack of being juice. > > Less than 2% juice > [Sunny D](https://www.walmart.com/ip/SunnyD-Tangy-Original-Orange-Juice-Drink-1-Gallon-Bottle/10308038?classType=REGULAR&athbdg=L1600&adsRedirect=true) “It’s like somebody poured a bottle of perfume into orange juice!” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/76 "2026-02-05T05:53:29Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > But we ALWAYS had a pitcher of grape juice, made from concentrate. Absolutely delicious with a tuna sandwich, or our big treat was grape juice & popcorn while we watched TV at night. Hoo-wee! > > My mom always made a full 2 quarts of juice from the can, even though it’s supposed to be just 1.5 quarts of juice. She was always conscious of our sugar consumption (spoiler: I became a Type-2 diabetic anyway) and also was frugal. I love tuna salad sandwiches, and I love grape juice, but I never considered the two compatible. For me, a tuna salad sandwich requires either tomato soup or some other kind of compatible soup, or clamato juice, either by itself or in the form of a Caesar if you’re of drinking age – something tomato-based. Don’t ask me why – that’s what my senses tell me. But when it comes to ready-made grape juice, I’m just like your Mom. I pour it into an empty spring water bottle until it’s about 3/4 full, and then fill up the rest with spring water. Perfect! It’s not so much being frugal as cutting the sugar content, and just giving it a lighter taste. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/77 "2026-02-05T08:58:01Z")
Tuna salad sandwich and a bowl of creamy oyster stew with tiny crackers and lots of butter—mmmmmmmm! 🥰 Beverage of choice in this case: cold lemonade! Tomato soup goes with a grilled cheese sandwich—thick, gooey, and dripping with butter. Almost any kind of cheese will do, but sharp aged Cheddar is best. Toss in a piece of crisp fried bacon, a dash of hot sauce, and a cold Coke—pure Heaven! 😇 Grape juice? A nice simple buttered baguette and some delicious French or Italian cheese will do. Makes me feel like I’m basking on the shores of the Mediterranean. 🤗 ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/78 "2026-02-05T12:14:32Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > It is really amazing once you start looking at food labels. For instance Lucky Charms has less sugar than most granola. I wanted some granola to mix with my oatmeal, and was amazed at how sweet most of them are. I ended up with a “trail mix” that had the least sugar per ounce of all the trail mixes on the shelf. It’s good, but it’s still sweeter than I’d like. I’m dubious that any juice is healthy on balance, unless you are deficient in vitamin C or something. I suspect a lot of the nutrition (and not just the fiber) stays behind when you juice it. Juice is a nice treat, though. That reminds me that i bought some bottles of juice i want to mix. (Cranberry, Cherry, and .. blueberry, I think.) I love “red juice” with strong greasy foods, like canned sardines. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/79 "2026-02-05T12:34:11Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > after 80 years This makes me feel wistful, which is REALLY weird because I’ve never purchased a single can of that stuff in my entire life and neither did my parents when I was a kid. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/80 "2026-02-05T12:52:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > creamy oyster stew Or clam chowder—maybe even better! 😍 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367.md?page=5)