# 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:** 6
**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 6, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/101 "2026-02-06T04:41:20Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > @terentii and @wolfpup since we’ve established that you like tuna sandwiches I’m gonna dare you both to have a nice tuna sandwich (mayo, celery) on maybe rye or a Kaiser roll, with a big cold glass of grape juice. Gotta be Concord grape juice not the stuff that may be tinged with some cranberry or apple. > > Then get back to me let me know what ya think! You know, that sounds delicious. For reasons that are obscure to me, the kosher for passover grape juice is better than the regular stuff. Welsh’s kosher for passover is better than Welsh’s rest-of-the-year, and Kedem is a little better than Welsh’s. (We did a blind taste test two years ago before the seder.) Give it a try. ---
**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 6, 2026, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/102 "2026-02-06T04:43:34Z")
See I don’t put anything but celery and mayo in my tuna salad so I can’t speak to how the Concord grape plays with your other fanciful concoctions. So, don’t come at me if you mess up the delicate balance of flavors with all your other stuff Uhm…back on topic….whenever I made frozen oj I liked to take a bite out of it. Like the world’s best orange popsicle ---
**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 6, 2026, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/103 "2026-02-06T04:48:08Z")
I like celery, a little mayo, and a splash of lemon juice. I like that a great deal more than i like any other “mayo salad” (egg, chicken, etc.) and don’t really want to be adding extra ingredients to it. ---
**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 6, 2026, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/104 "2026-02-06T05:12:30Z")
**Nitpick:** The brand is **Welch’s** , not “Welsh’s.” ---
**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 6, 2026, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/105 "2026-02-06T05:45:05Z")
Oops. I knew that. 🥺 ---
**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 6, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/106 "2026-02-06T08:56:42Z")
Best thing you can do for tuna salad is one half Fugi apple diced up fine. Oh and cheapo pickle relish adds something. You’re missing a sweet ingredient. This is why you like grape juice with your sammiches. ---
**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 6, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/107 "2026-02-06T10:22:56Z")
I, uh, think you mean a **Fuji** apple. Fuji is Japanese, like the little guy on _ **McHale’s Navy** _. “Fugi” sounds like something from a sweaty locker room full of unwashed gym clothes. 🤢 🤮 ---
**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 6, 2026, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/108 "2026-02-06T10:47:52Z")
Reminds me of [fugu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu), personally. 🙂 ---
**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 6, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/109 "2026-02-06T14:09:20Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You’re missing a sweet ingredient. This is why you like grape juice with your sammiches. I prefer my sweets and savories in different bites. No sweets in my tuna salad, thanks. (Although weirdly, i like sweet pickle relish on hot dogs. But i almost never eat hot dogs.) ---
**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 6, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/110 "2026-02-06T15:49:05Z")
Yes of course _Fuji._ It was late and it kept auto correcting to Fiji. So I flubbed. Sorry. Sweet taste with savories are very normal. Apples with pork. Cranberry with poultry. Stone fruits with red meat. Cherry!! Not for everyone…but it’s a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/111 "2026-02-06T19:08:18Z")
Man, I remember when I was working in the grocery store back in October 1995, when so many people flooded into the store and started loading up on FCOJ because they’d heard that “OJ was Free!” ---
**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 7, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/112 "2026-02-07T02:25:30Z")
I go for Meadow Gold’s Passion Fruit/ Orange/ Guava, aka POG juice (also the origin of the 90s game fad). Nectar of the gods, it is. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/113 "2026-02-07T02:52:31Z")
When I was a kid we would get big bags of Valencia juice oranges and have fresh squeezed OJ. Valencia oranges have much tastier juice than navel oranges. The juicer was like this one (which is what I use today), but it sat high enough to slide a glass under. I’ve had mine for almost 50 years > **[Barfly® M37170 Jumbo Aluminum Juicer](https://www.google.com/share.google?q=yD50jhe1P4OoI5s86)** > > Craft your most creative and popular cocktails with this Barfly® M37170 jumbo aluminum hand juicer. The perfect addition to any mixologist's toolbox, this juicer allows you to add fresh fruit juices to your mixed drinks to create refreshing, out of... ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/114 "2026-02-08T15:45:12Z")
I’ll miss the cans of frozen concentrate simply because I live 3 flights up, no elevator, and have to seriously think about what to buy, what to bring up immediately, and what can wait in the car till the next trip. I like the juice in big bottles, but it’s really heavy for me when I’m bringing up a lot of other stuff, too. ---
**Author:** ![Lushka1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lushka1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lushka1953)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/115 "2026-02-08T18:43:20Z")
Absolutely! In the 60s and 70s we used them as curlers for wavy hair. They were hell to sleep on! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/116 "2026-02-08T19:30:50Z")
> [@Lushka1953](#): > > They were hell to sleep on! My friend never slept on them. She’d set her hair (relatively short hair) in the morning and let it dry through the morning. We lived in SoCal, so it dried pretty quickly. In fact I haven’t owned a hair dryer in probably 40 years. I always let my hair air dry. > [@needscoffee](#): > > When I was a kid we would get big bags of Valencia juice oranges We had a Valencia orange tree in our backyard (a dwarf lemon and a huge grapefruit tree, too.) They definitely were more for juice, but they were **great** for that. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/117 "2026-02-10T16:18:07Z")
I hardly ever drink any kind of juice as a beverage, but I hope somebody keeps making the frozen concentrate. I have a couple of recipes that call for orange juice concentrate that has been thawed but not reconstituted with water. It gives an intense orange-juice flavor without adding too much liquid. Orange extract, which is made from orange peel rather than orange juice, is simply not a good substitute. I have noticed in recent years that the concentrate is getting harder to find. If it goes away entirely, I may have to experiment with orange juice powder, which I’ve never tried before. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/118 "2026-02-10T17:38:22Z")
Every 3 days I’ll make a couple of gallons of green tea and toss in a can of frozen concentrated lemonade and a shot of grenadine (since the pink lemonade vanished locally about a year ago). Guess I’ll have to start juicing lemons, instead. Fuck. And don’t get me started on my missing Stoned Wheat Thins!! ---
**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 10, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/119 "2026-02-10T17:41:25Z")
You can just buy bottled lemon juice; ReaLemon is a commonly available brand and there’s usually a store brand right next to it on the shelf. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-minute-maid-frozen-cans/1027367/120 "2026-02-10T17:41:47Z")
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