Rica Orange Juice Sin Azucar

[Glenn Burke]

I think the best orange juice you can buy is the one you get at National and Jumbo, where they have a machine that converts whole fruits into fresh juice. Go early and you might get to watch the guy feeding the machine.

Since this is DR, I would not buy it because I don't know this:

- do they wash oranges before loading them into that machine?
- do they clean that machine properly and on time?
- how do I know that there's no rat or mouse or cockroaches or their feces in that machine that will be squeezed together with oranges?
- etc.

 

[JD Jones]

Go watch the process some day. You're questions will be answered.

 

[Glenn Burke]

Go watch the process some day. You're questions will be answered.

This is DR, I will watch it someday, and another day there will be a cockroach and rat feces squeezed together with oranges while I was not watching it. Thank you, but no thank you.

 

[JD Jones]

Do you think all of the restaurants you eat at have super high quality standards of food handling?

FWIW: Jumbo stores in the Dominican Republic are equipped with commercial-grade, automated juicing machines (e.g., Zummo, Zumex, or similar brands), which are common in Latin American hypermarkets. These machines are designed to wash, cut, and squeeze whole oranges in a single process, often in view of customers to highlight freshness.

 

[Glenn Burke]

Do you think all of the restaurants you eat at have super high quality standards of food handling?

I don't eat at Dominican restaurants. Because if you order a salad and they accidentally drop it on the floor, they will just scrape it off the floor, put it back onto your plate and bring it to you.

 

[Glenn Burke]

FWIW: Jumbo stores in the Dominican Republic are equipped with commercial-grade, automated juicing machines (e.g., Zummo, Zumex, or similar brands), which are common in Latin American hypermarkets. These machines are designed to wash, cut, and squeeze whole oranges in a single process, often in view of customers to highlight freshness.

There's no machine that Dominicans can't break or misuse or not maintain or clean properly. Maybe the machine is designed to wash oranges, but what if the water is simply not connected? If machine doesn't start without water, Dominicans will find a quick fix for that. Thank you, but no thank you.

 

[AlterEgo]

Mr Burke has left the building permanently. Enough is enough.

 

[chico bill]

I stopped buying that Rica 'sin azucar' juice about a year ago because of a very unstable quality. It was like some batches were good and others had some funny smell... the same thing with Dominican yogurts, one batch is normal, another one is too thick, another one is like watered down... you never know.

Exactly. Quality Control in DR does seem like a priority for any product or service.
I had a bad batch of coconut yogurt recently.
What seems consistent (so far) is Sosua butter. But for a while the mid-size tubs were gone and only the way-too-small or almost-too-big-for-refregerator sizes were in Playero.

 

[Fulano2]

This is DR, I will watch it someday, and another day there will be a cockroach and rat feces squeezed together with oranges while I was not watching it. Thank you, but no thank you.

When I lived in La Vega in the nineties I met a Dominican who had a bakery. He supplied almost all the colmados in la Vega with that “delicious” soft bread in plastic bags.
Proud as he was he invited me to see his bakery.
I was flabbergasted when I saw the amounts of mice in every process, even the bread being ready to be packed.
When I asked him about it he simply said it was unable to avoid.

 

[Fulano2]

Impossible to avoid I meant.