…and it’s breakfasttime, and, as it is wont to do, my mind wandered. This time, it wandered to the label on my ridiculously-large carton of orange juice.
“Extra pulp”, it says. Now, I’m a supporter of pulp in orange juice. Something is missing, in my opinion, if there’s no pulp. However…this ‘extra pulp’ thing makes me vaguely uneasy.
I mean, do I really want my OJ consorting with strange pulp? Who knows where this extra pulp has been? Where did it come from? (OK, I know where it came from, probably, but why let that get in the way of a good rant?)
But, yeah…I wonder if the folks who perform these pulp transplants realize how unnatural their actions are. Do they hear the screams of the poor, innocent oranges that are having their pulp sucked out for shipment to some strange vat of OJ?
I’d take ‘extra pulp’ any day of the week. If it’s Tropicana you’re talking about, the taste of the EPOJ is - at least to me - more ‘full-bodied’, richer that your average ‘with pulp’ (also made by Tropicana). I also like the feel in my mouth of all those little bits swimming there.
And the beauty of it is: you don’t pay an extra dime for this feast for the taste buds.
Screams of the oranges crushed in the process: Urban Legend.
Of course, the “extra pulp” is taken out of the orange juice sold to people who don’t want any pulp in it.
Weirder than normal? There isn’t any weirder than “normal”.
I don’t want to rain on anyone’s OJ parade, but don’t you think that extra pulp just means that their straining methods are just a little different than the regular pulp. I don’t think they are exporting pulp from other oranges to your carton. Do you?
I don’t know if this was the work of a tricky trapped air bubble, but I’ve actually been served an OJ where the straw was standing up in it, …, at an angle. Was incredible, and no, no glass contact at all!!! I was truely amazed, with hind-sight, I now wish I had recorded the moment photographically, you know, to show the grand-kids who thinks OJ comes in a pill, along with the rest of your breakfast.
I love pulp, so long as my milk doesn’t come that way.
Ah, what more can one ask for, than to be loved by Welfy?
And, like I said, I don’t mind pulp in OJ. I rather prefer it that way. However, the ‘extra’ pulp concerns me. Is it mundane and pointless? Certainly. Will it stop me from drinking extra-pulpy orange juice? Probably not. But I still want to know.
Exactly how pulpy is this orange juice? Is it still a liquid or does it come out of the container in a piece? If the latter, I think perhaps you should check the expiration date.
