Florida Citrus Center's Free Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice In Pictures

A recent weekend roadtrip to Ginnie Springs in High Springs, Florida with a beautiful girl found Short Order investigating the "Free Orange Juice" billboards on the Florida Turnpike. Pictured above is Bill Koki, a worker at one of several Florida Citrus Centers where the free juice is distributed out of...

By Jacob Katel

August 26, 2009

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A recent weekend roadtrip to Ginnie Springs in High Springs, Florida with a beautiful girl found Short Order investigating the "Free Orange Juice" billboards on the Florida Turnpike.

Pictured above is Bill Koki, a worker at one of several Florida Citrus

Centers where the free juice is distributed out of a souvenir shop that

doubles as a Florida citrus shipping order house. Bill says "I like it

here, a lot of very friendly people from around the world come here.

It's usually busy on the weekends."

The OJ is free, no strings attached, and provided courtesy of Jennings Citrus, a company started by Alabama immigrants after they moved to Florida in 1949 and saw a market for Florida citrus shipping after demand grew out of their sending goods by train to friends and family back home.

Here are some more pictures.

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