I used to always prefer frozen OJ to canned.
I hated canned orange juice as a kid! ( I would still hate it now)
Happy memories - the frozen orange juice concentrate was a key ingredient for this wedding punch served at 2 family weddings (mine and my sister’s)
Cranberry Apple Wedding Punch
6 cups cranberry juice (48 oz.)
3 cups apple juice (24 oz.)
¾ cup lemon juice (6 oz.)
1 ½ cup frozen orange juice concentrate (12 oz)
2 28-oz bottles club soda or ginger ale, chilled.
Chill all ingredients, thaw orange juice but do not prepare. Mix first 4 ingredients. Add soda just before serving.
If using ice rings, they should be made from frozen club soda or frozen carbonated water.
makes about 16 cups (for 30 servings in 5 oz punch cups)
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I don’t drink OJ at all, save for the very rare occasion when fresh-squeezed is available, although I much prefer grapefruit juice.
The New Yorker had an article about OJ production in the US, and if I’d been an OJ drinker before that, I wouldn’t be one now.
Dare I ask about canned frozen OJ? 
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I remember drinking a mix of frozen oj, a raw egg and milk. Maybe a spin on an Orange Julius.
I can’t remember the last time I drank frozen, but husband loves it fresh, and it is in all its glory locally (NorCal) right now.
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Interesting! My mom used to make me a drink with fresh OJ, a raw egg, and sugar. This was in the 70s. I always assumed it was a “Germany in the 70s” thing, but I guess some versions of this were more international than that.
It was called “Zuckerei” = sugar egg. It didn’t suck, but I’m not sure of the point TBH.
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I thought a main ingredient of an Orange Julius was vanilla?
Montreal has its own version of, or equivalent to, the Orange Julius, the Orange Julep.
Orange Julius originated in Los Angeles in 1926.
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For the most part stand alone Orange Julius locations are no more. They are available at Dairy Queen who have owned the brand since 1987.
Dairy Queen and Orange Julius usually share space in Canada now, too.
Years ago there was David Letterman Top Ten List, “The Least Popular Mall Stores.” One of them was Brown Julius, (ewwww!.)
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This was not an Orange Julius by any means.
I don’t understand this comment. I have never seen canned OJ that was not frozen (concentrate).
I remember old, old school canned OJ, before frozen or not from concentrate. There’s some still around. Pineapple and tomato juice is more common but here’s OJ. The issue with canned OJ, you could often taste the metal. More common are the 6 oz tiny cans.
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In the olden days, before everything was packaged in plastic, OJ came in 6 oz cans. v-8 still comes in cans.
I guess I’m old enough to remember this (64), but I have never seen it. Maybe because I never looked for it. Growing up we always used frozen concentrate.
I do buy pineapple juice in cans - those little cans - perfect for blending into a fruit smoothie . . . . have never had it straight up.
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My parents would most often buy pineapple juice in the can. But I remember OJ in the can…and the taste. I think the canned stuff got replaced by frozen, plastic bottles and small cardboard containers in the fridge. Also perhaps less of a West Coast thing given oranges groves in CA.
In Canada, these was a shelf stable canned orange juice that was not frozen. It came in metal cans. Personal sized cans or large cans for families. It tasted metallic. Very common on planes and trains in the 1980s.
Frozen orange juice, frozen lemonade and frozen limeade usually came in cardboard cans with a metal lid.
There was also orange juice in plastic containers with metal foil lids that had a similar off taste.
Frozen OJ from a frozen can tasted better.
