Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Tropicana Pure Premium

My son has a bit of a sore throat so I went to get him some orange juice. I normally buy the store brand, but I paused when seeing the pallet of Tropicana. We had driven by the plant in Bradenton, Florida. It was a huge complex with lots of railroad tracks to cross over.

Anthony T. Rossi started by shipping gift boxes of fresh fruit to department stores in New York City. In the 1950's, he developed a flash pasteurizing process that allowed for the fresh taste of juice to be preserved.

From a blog post by Garland Pollard on brandlandusa.com (click for a picture of the side of a train car discussing Tropicana):
We grew up and were always pals with Tropic-Ana. She not only graced the packages of Tropicana, but she was on the outside of the bright orange CSX freight trains that ran from Palmetto/Bradenton Florida to packaging plants up north.
I don't remember Tropic-Ana on train cars. Do you?

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