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Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 10:12 AM

Even the pulp free kind you get at the store has some particles in it, and I can always feel them (And it gets twice as bad when you get to the bottom). I about sh!t myself the other day when I opened my fridge to find the pulp-free OJ container I hadn't used in a week had suddenly separated into two visibly distinct layers. Now I find I have trouble finishing off the bottom of containers because the 'pulp-free'-ness just gets worse and worse the lower you go.

God I hate pulp.

Jawbone54 · Jun 8, 2006, 10:18 AM

"Pulp free" actually just means, "We cant wait to see you gag when you reach the bottom, pulp haters!" I despise pulp. I've just come to accept that if I want orange juice (which I do quite often) that I'm going to have to continue to build up a tolerance to chunky orange pieces.

TETENAL · Jun 8, 2006, 10:20 AM

I never had pulp in orange juice, so the anser is, no, apparently it's not hard to remove it.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 8, 2006, 10:24 AM

I love pulp. I always get extra pulpy orange juice, it is like porridge!

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I never had pulp in orange juice, so the anser is, no, apparently it's not hard to remove it.

Being a bitter skeptic, I say you are merely immune to the mini-particles that find their way in.

That or you Germans take your pulp-removal as serious as your... I'd better stop now.

jokell82 · Jun 8, 2006, 10:34 AM

I don't hate pulp, but I usually get pulp-free OJ. Can't say I've ever found pulp in a glass that was supposed to be pulp-free, even at the bottom.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

I love pulp. I always get extra pulpy orange juice, it is like porridge!

Yes, I feel the particles cross my lips and I have to resist the urge to start chewing.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by jokell82

I don't hate pulp, but I usually get pulp-free OJ. Can't say I've ever found pulp in a glass that was supposed to be pulp-free, even at the bottom.

Now I'm certain you people are just clueless. The only truly pulp-free OJ is the fake stuff... like Sunny D.

Railroader · Jun 8, 2006, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Even the pulp free kind you get at the store has some particles in it, and I can always feel them (And it gets twice as bad when you get to the bottom). I about sh!t myself the other day when I opened my fridge to find the pulp-free OJ container I hadn't used in a week had suddenly separated into two visibly distinct layers. Now I find I have trouble finishing off the bottom of containers because the 'pulp-free'-ness just gets worse and worse the lower you go.

God I hate pulp.

Sheesh. Next time, try shaking the container before you pour each glass, that way you get an even amount of pulp in each glass throughout the whole container.

I like to chew my orange juice. I buy "Heavy Pulp" Torpicana.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Railroader

Sheesh. Next time, try shaking the container before you pour each glass, that way you get an even amount of pulp in each glass throughout the whole container.

That's missing the point, isn't it?

cybergoober · Jun 8, 2006, 10:39 AM

What's wrong with pulp? What would happen if you actually bit into an orange?

olePigeon · Jun 8, 2006, 10:42 AM

I always get Home Style Extra Pulp from Tropicana. I like the pulp.

jokell82 · Jun 8, 2006, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Now I'm certain you people are just clueless. The only truly pulp-free OJ is the fake stuff... like Sunny D.

Guess it all depends on what you buy. Never had a stray pulp here.

Doofy · Jun 8, 2006, 10:46 AM

No pulp in my Bud.

TETENAL · Jun 8, 2006, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Being a bitter skeptic, I say you are merely immune to the mini-particles that find their way in.

Trust me. I hate pulp. There is no pulp in any brand of orange juice unless it's the "with pulp" kind (which I hate).

Originally Posted by Dakar

That or you Germans take your pulp-removal as serious as your... I'd better stop now.

Our what? Ambitions to take over the world?

I guess it's a matter of "national taste". If most Americans like a little bit pulp, then that is what is produced, and if Germans don't like it than that is what they get.

Eug Wanker · Jun 8, 2006, 10:52 AM

I like the Asian orange pop. They add pulp to several brands of their orange-flavoured soft drinks.

Makes it actually drinkable. I don't much like orange juice or orange drinks without pulp.

TETENAL · Jun 8, 2006, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

The only truly pulp-free OJ is the fake stuff... like Sunny D.

Not true. Orange juice from orange juice concentrate is not "fake". It's just water removed, transported, water added. The end result is practically identical 100% orange juice. And there is 100% orange juice that is not made out of concentrated orange juice (which is sort of a waste trucking the water from Spain here when there is already water here, but anyway) and this too doesn't have pulp.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by cybergoober

What's wrong with pulp? What would happen if you actually bit into an orange?

You won't catch me doing that.

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Trust me. I hate pulp. There is no pulp in any brand of orange juice unless it's the "with pulp" kind (which I hate).Our what? Ambitions to take over the world?

I had a TV quality joke, but I'm too scared someone on the forum would freak. I try not to make too many waves around here.

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I guess it's a matter of "national taste". If most Americans like a little bit pulp, then that is what is produced, and if Germans don't like it than that is what they get.

Then I envy you.

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Not true. Orange juice from orange juice concentrate is not "fake". It's just water removed, transported, water added. The end result is practically identical 100% orange juice. And there is 100% orange juice that is not made out of concentrated orange juice (which is sort of a waste trucking the water from Spain here when there is already water here, but anyway) and this too doesn't have pulp.

My parents must have been purists then. I can't say I'm VERY well versed in OJ.

Originally Posted by jokell82

Guess it all depends on what you buy. Never had a stray pulp here.

Well, its not like I skimp. I've had Tropicana & Simply Orange with less than satisfactory results.

cybergoober · Jun 8, 2006, 11:02 AM

I still don't understand the aversion to pulp, but then I love to just eat oranges.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by cybergoober

I still don't understand the aversion to pulp, but then I love to just eat oranges.

If I wanted food in my drink, I'd just eat the food, right?

Albert Pujols · Jun 8, 2006, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

I like the Asian orange pop. They add pulp to several brands of their orange-flavoured soft drinks.

Makes it actually drinkable. I don't much like orange juice or orange drinks without pulp.

I don't know if you've ever tried Orangina, but it's some of the best stuff I've ever tasted. It has 2% pulp in it, just the right amount.

forkies · Jun 8, 2006, 11:21 AM

drinking this would kill you

eltrut · Jun 8, 2006, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I never had pulp in orange juice, so the anser is, no, apparently it's not hard to remove it.

Yeah, that's in Germany. For some reasons, German's never get any pulp.
But the roange juice in Germany also stinks, compared to most US juice. It never tastes as fresh as some premium brands sold in the US>

ort888 · Jun 8, 2006, 11:21 AM

Pulp is good. I buy the OJ with extra pulp.

eltrut · Jun 8, 2006, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Not true. Orange juice from orange juice concentrate is not "fake". It's just water removed, transported, water added. The end result is practically identical 100% orange juice. And there is 100% orange juice that is not made out of concentrated orange juice (which is sort of a waste trucking the water from Spain here when there is already water here, but anyway) and this too doesn't have pulp.

LOL, if you can't taste the difference between OJ from concentrate and OJ from non-concentrate, you either had real shitty non-conc OJ, or you taste buds are dead.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by forkies

drinking this would kill you

The kryptonite to my Superman.

The Godfather · Jun 8, 2006, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Even the pulp free kind you get at the store has some particles in it, and I can always feel them (And it gets twice as bad when you get to the bottom). I about sh!t myself the other day when I opened my fridge to find the pulp-free OJ container I hadn't used in a week had suddenly separated into two visibly distinct layers. Now I find I have trouble finishing off the bottom of containers because the 'pulp-free'-ness just gets worse and worse the lower you go.

God I hate pulp.

I love pulp.

You sir should be buying Tang.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by The Godfather

You sir should be buying Tang.

Why? Does my not wanting pulp preclude me from the being allowed both the health benefits and enjoyable flavor of real OJ?

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 8, 2006, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by The Godfather

I love pulp.

You sir should be buying Tang.

Oh gross doesn't it have some sort of fuel in it or something?

i have to admit it tastes sorta good though.

SSharon · Jun 8, 2006, 11:48 AM

I don't mind pulp, but my sister hates it. I remember being bored one year and filling a tropicana carton labeled Pulp Free with OJ from an Extra Pulp container I had.

d4nth3m4n · Jun 8, 2006, 11:51 AM

pulp > no pulp.

this is quite the polarizing question. kinda like boxers or briefs but much more subjective.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

pulp > no pulp.

this is quite the polarizing question. kinda like boxers or briefs but much more subjective.

Or Coke or Pepsi.

Kenneth · Jun 8, 2006, 11:54 AM

I prefer pulp here, it just makes the Oj looks more realistic than pulp-free.

eltrut · Jun 8, 2006, 11:54 AM

Aaargh. I hate Pepsi with pulp. Yuk.

olePigeon · Jun 8, 2006, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

The only truly pulp-free OJ is the fake stuff... like Sunny D.

Sunny Delight is f*cking nasty.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Kenneth

I prefer pulp here, it just makes the Oj looks more realistic than pulp-free.

More realistic? I must being missing something.

cybergoober · Jun 8, 2006, 01:36 PM

*shrugs* Run your OJ through a fine sieve as you pour it then if pulp bothers you that much.

Still no one has explained what it is about the pulp that is unappealing. Does it just feel weird in your mouth? Does it make you physically ill? I mean you're drinking the juice that comes from this fruit that contains pulp. Seems reasonable to me that there might be some pulp in there.

Eug Wanker · Jun 8, 2006, 01:38 PM

I wish it were easier to get apple juice with pulp.

Goldfinger · Jun 8, 2006, 01:38 PM

Pulp is necessary. Pulpless orange juice is synthetic crap.

ort888 · Jun 8, 2006, 01:41 PM

Who remembers this stuff? A thick syrupy drink with small gelatinous balls floating in it. Yum!

http://joelavin.com/orbitz.html

Goldfinger · Jun 8, 2006, 01:46 PM

damn it, useless gerbil

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

Pulp is necessary. Pulpless orange juice is synthetic crap.

No, its orange juice instead of orange purée.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 8, 2006, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

Who remembers this stuff? A thick syrupy drink with small gelatinous balls floating in it. Yum!

http://joelavin.com/orbitz.html

Ya I remember that stuff, never got to try it though. I don't think the bubbles were the problem as Bubble tea is quite popular. Apparently the drink just tasted really bad on its own.
I kinda new it would be a problem when it was mentioned in popular science before it came out.

The company Clearly Canadian almost went under because of it and they are a huge company with many other products.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by cybergoober

Still no one has explained what it is about the pulp that is unappealing. Does it just feel weird in your mouth? Does it make you physically ill?

Originally Posted by Dakar

If I wanted food in my drink, I'd just eat the food, right?

Originally Posted by Dakar

Yes, I feel the particles cross my lips and I have to resist the urge to start chewing.

Let me put it this way. When you're walking around and you run into a swarm of mosquitos, do you like the feeling of them flying into your face and such? Because that's what its like finding pulp in liquid.

Originally Posted by cybergoober

I mean you're drinking the juice that comes from this fruit that contains pulp. Seems reasonable to me that there might be some pulp in there.

Call me picky, but when I buy something labeled pulp-free I expect it to be pulp-free, not low-in-pulp.

d4nth3m4n · Jun 8, 2006, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

I wish it were easier to get apple juice with pulp.

it is- buy apple cider.

scaught · Jun 8, 2006, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by eltrut

Aaargh. I hate Pepsi with pulp. Yuk.

very random. haha.

the thing that bothers me with the tropicana and asst'd brands of orange juice is they seemed to have changed their pulp policy. it used to be you would get orange juice with pulp, or without. the with pulp seemed to have a normal amount of pulp, a naturally occuring amount of pulp, and this was satisfying. then they started in with no pulp, some pulp or lots of pulp. the some pulp and lots of pulp having a damn strange amount of pulp. the some not enough and lots of being just downright strange.

davesimondotcom · Jun 8, 2006, 03:10 PM

If you don't like pulp, get yourself some Tang and leave the orange juice to those of us who drink it the way it's supposed to be made.

scaught · Jun 8, 2006, 03:16 PM

really, i prefer my orange juice freshly squeezed, but squeezing a dozen oranges for a half liter of mother****ing delicious juice is a bit disappointing.

Dakar · Jun 8, 2006, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by davesimondotcom

orange juice to those of us who drink it the way it's supposed to be made.

Nah, you people are just too lazy to make it right.

olePigeon · Jun 8, 2006, 03:23 PM

What's the big deal, anyway? Everyone knows Lemonade is better than Orange Juice.