Astyanax FYI the oranges your state grows are many for juice it’s really all they are good for, the climate is wrong such that they do not mature to a product that consumers will buy or want to buy. So to answer your question the price of oranges for us is still reasonable, and entirely disconnected from the US (unless you wish to annex that part of the world too) at which case the cost of the oranges you buy to consume will increase.
I looked up what was in this “syrup”: > Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Cellulose Gum, Salt, Caramel Color, Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate (Preservatives), Sodium Citrate, Natural And Artificial Flavors.
Of course you like it more, its a product crafted to feed your pleasure centers in the brain while using the cheapest ingredients possible while being stable on a shelf for years on end, so you can stock up on the stuff, the plastic container will eventually allow the water to sublimate out making the goop even more concentrated. Eventually it will solidify into a sort of sticky crystalline block which will separate out some of the colour and flavour elements.
