# U.K. Pubs & orange juice **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 31, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739 "2005-10-31T16:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739/21 "2005-11-01T14:36:17Z")
_Punter_ is a colloquialism for ‘customer’. ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739/22 "2005-11-01T14:36:41Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Could someone define _punter_? I’ve never known for certain what this means. The dictionary gives “gambler” as well as someone punting a ball. Is it a slang term synonymous with “bloke”? ‘Punter’ is just an informal Britishism for any type of customer. OB ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739/23 "2005-11-01T14:39:09Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Go back another ten years, and I might agree with you. I know for sure I bought my sister juice press as part of her wedding present thirteen years ago, and that they were popular and widely available items at the time. Sure, but is it in use, or gathering sticky dust on top of the kitchen cabinets? > [@](#): > > Moreover, while a 60s household may not have had a juice press, most would have had a lemon squeezer like [this,](http://minnamoora.freeyellow.com/pics/10471.jpg) so they could have squeezed oranges if they liked. As I recall, though, most people bought oranges to eat, rather than for juice. Sure, lemon juicers like that have been around for a long time, but they are wholly unsuitable for effectively juicing oranges; all that happens is you get about a tablespoonful of watery juice, then the skin splits apart. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739/24 "2005-11-01T18:07:22Z")
In Wambaugh’s _The Glitter Dome,_ he talks of how popular Irish coffee (coffee with Irish Whiskey) is among cops. It comes from the need to look like you’re not drinking on duty. You see an on-duty cop drinking from a coffee cup, and that looks innocent. Similarly, orange juice and gin looks pretty much the same as plain orange juice. I worked with a guy who went to the bar across the street for lunch. Just before going back to work, he’d order “the soup of the day, to go.” What he got was a double rum-and-Coke in a foam soup-to-go cup with a lid and a plastic spoon. He could safely walk past the gate guard with his “soup.” ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739/25 "2005-11-01T18:10:54Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Sure, but is it in use, or gathering sticky dust on top of the kitchen cabinets? > > Sure, lemon juicers like that have been around for a long time, but they are wholly unsuitable for effectively juicing oranges; all that happens is you get about a tablespoonful of watery juice, then the skin splits apart. Whaaaaa…? That kind works fine, you have to grip the orange half tightly while twisting the orange. I used that kind growing up (ours had a deeper resevoir to catch the juice), and while my orange press does a much _quicker_ job of it, it doesn’t do a significantly _better_ job of it. And it is normal to get about 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) of juice from a single orange. That’s what you get from an orange. Sometimes so-called “juicing” oranges will yeild you more. But for the average grocery store orange, a few tablespoons sounds just about right. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739/26 "2005-11-01T18:51:15Z")
The people were also aware they needed to keep the scurvy away, so it was an ingrained habit in many people. Also a reason for the older people eating rose hip preserves and marmalade. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-pubs-orange-juice/328739.md?page=1)