Come with me as we make real Gen x orange juice. we use officially branded Tupperware pictures and cups and make some real orange juice from concentrate. Not buying it pre-made like the wimps these days do.
as an elder GenX'r You did well, but in the 70's we didnt have microwave ovens and the cans were paper with metal ends. Put the rock solid frozen can of yummy goodness into the Tupperware pitcher and fill it with hot water. come back in 20 minutes, remove the can and dump the water. Open the paper can and dump the lump of orange into the pitcher. pour in two cans of water then get the potato masher out and mash the orange chunk in the pitcher. Once fairly broken up pour in the last can and stir. Oh and there was a margarita mix that was frozen in the can. Same instructions, just add a can of tequila and some triple sec.
That's how we did orange juice in the 70s and into the early 80s. We never had a microwave till `85 though. And the tube that the frozen concentrate came in was cardboard with metal top and bottom. There was tear-off near the top. I don't remember defrosting it, but maybe we did. Anyway that's how we did it. One of those, plus three times filled with water, and the same pitcher and same glasses. My mom's kitchen was filled with Tupperware.
WOW. That Tupperware container just hit me like a ton of bricks. Don't know what happend to moms but I haven't seen it since about 1988. We didn't have a microwave until 84 so it was my job to chip the stuff out of the container and mix it up. :) Are those Tupperware jugs still for sale? I really want one.
@@happydaze7386 Yeah, I remember doing that too to get it loose so it can fall out. Never thought of using a microwave though as we put the water in and then stirred it up and kept chipping away at the block until it fully melted/blended in.
You really dont need to defrost it in the microwave, remember the old minutemaid cans had metal lids on them. Just dump and smash the concentrate with the wooden spoon as you stirred
I’m GenX (born 1971) and I still make my OJ using those frozen containers.. But I don’t microwave it.. I just pull it out of the freezer and stick it in the fridge for a day or two and let it nearly thaw to where I can pour it into my container.. And I don’t use tap water, instead using purified water bottles.. It’s better OJ than the ones store bought that are already made.
@@OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy Nobody I knew had one of those, but I do remember them as prizes on The Price is Right. I didn't know they were microwaves because I hadn't heard tell of a microwave.
@@LincolnHawk-bk5yr My dad was into tech; He bought the new things when they came out. We had a radar range and an original brick cell phone... back when they still referred to them as car phones. We also had a Beta Max home recorder that he brought back from Japan. It was probably the first one in New Jersey.
@@OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy I'm up in small town Canada. Our first microwave, I bought for my Mom, arrived in 1986. 85 maybe? I bought my first car phone in '92 for my Pontiac Sunbird. I've still got it. I have it sitting on the house roof, to hold the place down in case of a tornado.
I remember the frozen OJ. In the 70s and earlier, the OJ wasn’t sweetened. So we had to add in a little sugar so it cut down on the super sour. Tropicana was the first brand that was sweet.
Didn't have a microwave growing up in my early years we couldn't afford it. We thawed the oj in boiling hot water. It took much longer than the microwave but similar results.
Started the recycling programs at all the schools I attended & independent employer’s locations. As a member of GenX, the last thing I would want to do is be like the baby boomers.
@@MicahScottPnD Yup. It paid for things that the school would usually have the students do bullshit fund raising for (magazine subscriptions, wrapping paper, etc). Recycling cans & glass pays the cable & 420 bills these days. If people had taken the climate warnings seriously when presented in the seventies, we’d be reaping the riches of a lower global & oceanic temperatures, stable El Niño & Atlantic currents, and a stable global environment for our (collective) children.
In what world does Gen X not recycle? Clearly, some don't, but that's lazy. We collected recycling for charities when I was growing up, cleaned, sorted and bundled.
Anyone remember the Scotch Brand lemonade from Safeway? We never microwaved our juice cans just ran it under the hot water until the mass of orange juice or lemonade easily slid out of the can. Then filled the can with slightly warm water and mushed up the orange blob. It was decently cold right out of the pitcher. So no waiting. Those were the days my friend…
What?! That exact pitcher, same color and everything. But we got the frozen cardboard tubes with metal ends. Probably 2 or 3 house brand for a dollar on sale. Also, the microwave didn't rotate and we left the tube to defrost in the fridge or under hot water if in a hurry. Oh man oh man, the rare times when the frozen grape juice concentrate was on sale. That was the really good stuff...
We used glass pitchers until one day the Tupperware showed up. It was the mid seventies and my mom was so excited because now if the pitcher was dropped it wouldnt break, but I prefer the glass over the plastic.
There was no microwaves in my house as well as the cans had metal tops and bottoms so even if we did have one we had to let it thaw or stir till our arms fall off
I would run hot water over one end of the can, and then would fill one cup with hot tap water, stir until the frozen part was completely melted, and add two cups of very cold water, lol. That was my gen X OJ making experience. We also had the Tupperware pitcher, ours was like a deep orange color though.
Where did you find our old yellow jug, I've been looking for that for years ! We drank the frozen sunshine that came in the cardboard cans. I would pull off the white plastic rip-cord around the metal top and pop it off and then muscle the whole frozen mass out with a big wooden spoon, add 3 1/2 or 4 cans of water (makes more juice that way) and then stir the bejeezus out of it.
How about those large metal cans of Hi c , I remember punching holes in it with the sharp side of a can opener that was always stuck on the fridge via magnet
Didn't GenX OJ involve a white Ford Bronco, too? And that wooden spoon brings back some memories! 😮 That utensil single-handedly stopped me from mouthing off to my mom. Glad she didn't use TWO hands!
I remember waiting hours for oj and milk yeah had to mix the powder milk as well am i miss powder milk shit is so expensive now. Sometimes I couldn't find the spoon ,but than remembered where it was it had gotten broken on my ass cuz i fucked up
In circa 1985 to 1988 my mom swore up and down she was going to figure out who keeps taking scoops out of the frozen OJ and my Dad was her main suspect but in 88 I was getting a scoop and my Dad caught me to which he grabbed a spoon and in that perfect moment of father son bonding Momma came into the kitchen and we no longer had any lies to tell lol
We didn't recycle as people think of it today. We repurposed things. That plastic container the concentrate comes in doubles as a glass. We ALL had the margarine bowl collection right next to the Tupperware. We had mish-mash sets of dishes because family reunions, pot luck luncheons and funerals = plates and containers forgotten at someone's house. And you're a baby Gen Xer if you only remember plastic oj cans.
I still do it this way no microwave though just let it thaw in the sink no pre made here.guess I'm just the product of being raised by people from the depression era...
We got the original micro as a hand me down (just like everything else we.got);around 79 or 80 got the pong from 73' in 82' just as everyone else got the 2600 @tari . We All knew someone who had the stuff we didn't and all had a blast. Spot on brother with the methodology of how to make the Juice.
@@corinnewolfe-betz7478 I'm sorry but we just never had anything like this in the UK, we got our OJ off the milk man when they used to come round back in the day. It came in a milk bottles, so a pint of OJ in a milk bottle,
Born in 79,and still don't recycle, even though it's pretty much required of you to do so in most cities now. I just say fuck it and throw out any and all recyclables i have. And no, i don't really care about all the spare money i could making off the ton of recyclables i throw out. Cause I'm sure my fellow gen xrs will agree, who gives a shit.
