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Posted: 6/19/2007 6:57:22 PM EDT
I had a strange craving for apple juice the other night as I was walking through Krogers. I never drink apple juice but saw the Kroger brand on the end cap and bought it.
Tonight I just got done taking a drink from the bottle and noticed a small marking that said "apple juice concentrate from China". WTF, how can it be cheaper to ship apple juice half way around the world than it is to make it here? Had I seen that it came from China I never would have bought it. Now I have to wonder what is really in it since I know that even with the concentrate being shipped half way around the world it was still the cheapest apple juice by far as it was the Kroger brand. It tastes fine but I think I'm going to throw it out. 
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Posted: 6/19/2007 6:58:01 PM EDT
[#1]
Melamine.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 6:58:06 PM EDT
[#2]
Labor
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Posted: 6/19/2007 6:58:31 PM EDT
[#3]
It'll turn you into a communist!
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Posted: 6/19/2007 6:59:00 PM EDT
[#4]
It's not really apple juice.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 6:59:25 PM EDT
[#5]
They use ethylene glycol as a sweetener in China. I'd watch those kidneys the next couple of days.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:00:31 PM EDT
[#6]
By drinking it , it makes you closer to being a communist. Your almost there.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:01:49 PM EDT
[#7]
commie urine
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:02:24 PM EDT
[#8]
Soylent apple juice! 
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:02:47 PM EDT
[#9]
They cut it with
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:09:08 PM EDT
[#10]
Because China's price level is significantly lower than ours. So our money will buy significantly more apple juice there than it will here. Everything is less expensive there, labor, land, natural resources, etc.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:10:14 PM EDT
[#11]
Me Chinese, me play joke.... ETA: And yes as a dirty white boy I do find pee-pee in coke to be hilarious. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:12:04 PM EDT
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How much can labor be? We have illegals to pick the fruit, you know the jobs that Americans don't want to do. After the apples are picked it's all pretty much an automated mechanical process here in the US. I don't see labor being much of an issue for something like juice. On the commie juice you have the extra transportation costs to port in China, dock workers loading the boat, US dock workers unloading the boat, and then transportation to the Kroger bottling facility. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:15:07 PM EDT
[#13]
Here's a pic of the juice and marking.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:15:39 PM EDT
[#14]
Infant slave labor.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:23:01 PM EDT
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I have it on good authority that the infant slaves arent given ladders. Keeps the overhead down. They stuff 'em in mortar tubes and arc 'em into the tree tops. After five years they let 'em climb down. Just sayin'. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:25:54 PM EDT
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Only if they have met the pickin' quota |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:28:33 PM EDT
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They gotta start school sometime. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:31:09 PM EDT
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As a geographer, I'm guessing that it is due to large government based subsidies.
It follows the same logic that it is cheaper for Jamaicans to buy powdered milk from the United States than to raise cows to produce their own. Free-market capitalism has become distorted by substitutes and the WTO. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:38:54 PM EDT
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Duhhh. It says, "concentrate from China." Their only contribution to the apple juice is intense thought. What's the problem???
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:40:03 PM EDT
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Most concentrates are not from the USA. Most of them are from China and South/Central America.
I think it's more of an availability thing than anything else. You buy what you can. Obviously some things have to be imported because they aren't native to the USA - stuff like Bananas I would assume, and of course some stuff only comes from the USA - like oranges and peaches. Maybe they use the USA Apples for important apple stuff - like Apple Pies .THey use the low grade Chinese stuff for old-people/infant food - stuff like apple sauce, apple juice, etc.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 7:45:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:02:47 PM EDT
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Ding We have a winner How it's done in the US You pay some Mexican $16-18 a bin to pick them, $8+ an hour to thin them $8+ an hour to prop the trees, property tax, water, equipment and upkeep of same, general repairs, fuel for the tractors, fuel and upkeep on the windmachines, insecticides, herbicides, bees (yes BEES), insurance (property, liability & hail), packing costs..................................................................................................................... Then after all that, your packing shed sends your culls to the processing plant (ie Tree Top, Seneca.....), they take their cut.  Then the wholesaler/distributor gets theirs. Cant leave out the supermarket. Orchardist gets $55 a ton.  on a good year. $7-20 a packed box depending on type, size and gradeHow it's done in China Force Chinese pheasant to do all the labor, communist government flips the bill on all the rest. Send to processing plant ran by communist government , and poison Lowball the price and sell to US wholesaler/distributor. Wholesaler/distributor sells to supermarket both getting big cuts. BTW, no law prevents them from using insecticides banned in the US.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:03:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:08:54 PM EDT
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They either have some damn skilled animal trainers over there, or their birds are just a lot smarter than ours. (Sorry, couldn't resist  )
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:11:00 PM EDT
[#25]
Chinese apple pie video |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:11:11 PM EDT
[#26]
How pathetic.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 8:16:13 PM EDT
[#27]
Yep, you can thank the minimum wage and various labor-related taxes for driving such production overseas. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 9:05:58 PM EDT
[#28]
I can't believe no one has laid claim yet!
Dibs on your guns! |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 9:38:16 PM EDT
[#29]
Dammit I was thinking the same thing. Between you and MrClean4hire I can't get a thread in edgewise! 
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Posted: 6/19/2007 9:42:49 PM EDT
[#30]
As long as it doesnt have Ecoli.
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Posted: 6/19/2007 9:51:09 PM EDT
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And farm subsidies... You 'must' pay this much for farm products, so we can keep Joe Family Farmer in business when it is not economically sound for him to be there... Gotta love that populisim.... |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 9:51:20 PM EDT
[#32]
BUT BUT BUT I thought only Wal-Mart sells stuff from China? Are we all going to boycott Krogers now?
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Posted: 6/19/2007 9:52:53 PM EDT
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It's all part of the communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.
Part of the Chinese advantage could be the exchange rate. Let the Yuan float and see if their apple juice is competitive. |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 10:26:31 PM EDT
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holy shit, 2$ fucking suits!!!! I know where im going next trip!!!!! im gonna get me like 20 suits, so im covered for the rest of my fuckin life! |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 11:30:10 PM EDT
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Bingo! Spot on! Have you ever seen a communist drink a glass of water? |
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Posted: 6/19/2007 11:52:17 PM EDT
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My sister went to the islands last year
I asked her to bring me back a bottle of the cheap local rum It was distilled in Kentucky  How do you distill a liter of rum, ship it halfway across the country, all the way across the Carribean, and have it come out cheaper than JAMAICAN RUM? |
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