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EIGHT BUCKS A GLASS? September 23, 2013 12:04 pm ER

Oranges must be expensive in Norway, they don’t grow there, they have to be shipped in from the Mediterranean. Norway is also a very prosperous country, so you’d expect retail prices to be high.

Although juice is much cheaper as a frozen concentrate, lets go for whole, fresh fruit, at the retail level…

According to

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Norway ,

the median grocery price of a kg of fresh oranges is 20 Norwegian Kroner or about $3.40.

An average orange weighs about 200g and yields a 1/4 cup of juice. (Yeah, this is all on the internet) So a kilo of fruit should render up about 5/4 cups, or enough for a ten-ounce glass.
Yeah, its expensive, but not eight bucks.

According to Bloomberg, orange futures in New York City were at $1.40 a pound this summer, which is probably considerably less than supermarket prices, So Norwegian and American juice prices are comparable.

  • No...I said nine dollars. by Jody 2013-09-23 12:16:50
    • "I have expensive taste." by ER 2013-09-23 12:45:28
      • Ehhh, I don't like orange juice anyway.;) by Jody 2013-09-23 13:24:32
      • Check this out: by TB 2013-09-23 12:40:33
        • Okay my fine feathered friends...apparently orange juice by Jody 2013-09-23 13:29:38
          • About a kilo (of salt, that is) by ER 2013-09-23 13:05:14
            • What do fresh oranges cost in Florida? by TB 2013-09-23 13:15:32
              • Mme Reclus prefers California Navel Oranges. by ER 2013-09-23 14:26:40
                • I don't look at prices either. by TB 2013-09-23 15:23:56
                  • JUst for the record. by ER 2013-09-23 19:00:05

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