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Crud. I forgot to add that the oil should be divided in this recipe- use 1/2 cup to start and the rest if the mayo is too thick for your tastes.

Also, adding a little roasted garlic to the mayo for sandwiches is just Heavenly. Of course, if you are going to the trouble of making homemade mayo it isn't much of a stretch to make the bread and create a leftover turkey sandwich that is actually yummy. hee hee

Homemade Mayonnaise is very easy and cheap to make. You can serve it plain or liven it up with herbs, sriracha sauce, or anything else that comes to mind. See the link below for a video instruction. The most important tip is to use a healthy, neutral oil, such as canola oil. The recent mass-marketing of extra virgin olive oil mayo is more about tricking consumers (since most of us know olive oil is healthy) than for achieving optimum flavor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOymdsYMoqQ

I don't put ranch on anything! Gross tasting stuff.

I absolutely love ranch on my pizza. Granted, I am a middle-school student (though homeschooled), and got the idea from my (middle school, homeschooled) friends after we started dipping French-Fries in Ranch (that's justified in Mich--here most of the fries are way too greasy or way too dry). We decided to try it on our pizza--and it's great. Only Hidden Valley (tm) works though. Deep dish pizza doesn't need it, fortunately. A group fave for us is cayenne pepper, fresh black pepper, ranch, and tabasco sauce. I agree, if it's good pizza, it doesn't need condiments, but (1) pizza in metro-detroit isn't that good, and (2), it doesn't matter if it needs it--if ya want it, I say put it on unashamedly!

Nothing is better than Ham & Pineapple pizza dipped in Ranch.

I hated pizza until I tried it with ranch. Any type of pizza goes great with ranch really except Mexican style, I usually dip that in sour cream.

I totally agree with the consumers who complained. The design made Tropicana look very generic and unappealing. But, if you're going to make a change you need to go with it, people will get used to it eventually. I'm very surprised to hear they are changing back.

Now everyone who doesn't know this information is going to think their grocery store is selling old juice!

Hillary
Chew on That

I loved the new design. Before, I would buy whatever was on sale. Once I saw that beautiful new design, I was only buying Tropicana. Yes, it had some problems, which is odd for a national brand with as many resources as they had, but it was soooo much nicer than the other brands. It stood out on the shelf. It made a leap in the category without leaping out of it.

Also, I don't see the problem with looking like a store brand. I don't know if you've noticed, but objectively and subjectively, store brands are competing with and exceeding expectations of quality against national brands these days.

I'm sad to see it go.

I know it's a silly thing to be happy about, but I'm definitely happy about this. Whenever I see those Tropicana cartons at the market with their newfangled design, I wrinkle my nose at them with distaste. I know they were going for a clean and modern look, but it just did not work at all.

I can only hope PepsiCo. learned their lesson and do something about the new Pepsi logo, too :\

@Wicked - I agree. The first time I saw it in my fridge, I yelled at the wife for buying a generic brand of OJ instead of Tropicana. I wouldn't want to be the designer that came up with that awful idea.

Having tried to locate the "low acid" variety in a supermarket amongst all the varieties they apparently sell, it's a good thing they're going back to the original design. The only indicator of variety was tiny-font on the side of the carton and a little blue stripe near the top that was near-invisible when viewed on an actual, like, carton, which is, in fact, a three-dimensional object. *sigh*

Couldn't care less about the rest of the design, but when you can't find the one you're looking for at a glance, well, that's just silly.

I have noticed a similar design change in a number of big brand products including Tropicana and Kraft cheese where it seems to me they are going for a look almost mimicking generic or house brand products. I was wondering if this was in response to the economic conditions where they were trying to look like the cheaper alternatives? Of course it could be that all these products are under the smae umbrella crop. and as such hired the same marketing firm.

@Peggasus: 99 percent of the web is people complaining about stuff like this. ;)

@mcmvoices: They would be wise to keep at least that much of the packaging. The little half-orange cap is the best part of that design.

Meh... it was clean typography and simple design that was completely inappropriate for the product. It isn't enough for something to look nice. Branding exists to sell the product, not the designer. Typical these days, really. Some over-eager corporate type pairs with an overblown design agency to ruin what had been a perfectly good package and logo design. Pepsi got along fine by separating the soft drink and fruit juice lines for years (seriously... Coke drinkers seemed perfectly alright crossing the line to go to Tropicana over Minute Maid despite brand loyalty in soda). Why in the world do they feel it is necessary for them to share the same typeface now and stress the connection? That and it became virtually impossible to differentiate one Tropicana drink from another if you didn't notice the different color stripes at the top.

Oh well... sorry about the rant. In any event... the juice tastes the same in the end, I guess.