The current espresso-orange juice craze can be traced to a post by @bundaddy, a TikToker with nearly 800,000 followers who uses her channel as an outlet for her thoughts on everything from Roe v. Wade to shoe-tying strategies.
“I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Put espresso in your orange juice!” she enthused on March 1, 2022. “I haven’t seen one person who likes espresso and orange juice not like them together. You think that you won’t, but you will.”
App users took it from there, with coffee snobs, Italian nonnas, and, inevitably, orange juice brand representatives all offering their own verdicts on the beverage combo. Did it win everyone over, as Bundaddy predicted? Of course not, but the sheer novelty and the vast range of reactions provoked enough curiosity that TikTok user after TikTok user jumped on the bandwagon.
Coffee blogs and Buzzfeed had no choice but to report on the trend, and from then on, it was only a matter of time before the viral drink reached cafés—even social-media-agnostic ones. At the moment, the espresso orange seems to be on the same track as the espresso tonic before it: from kooky acquired taste to summertime staple.
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Does it deserve that status, though? Back at the Polish-Italian café, I photograph the gorgeous layers of my own espresso orange before stirring it all into a muddy ochre sludge. “Tag us if you post the photo!” the barista calls out to me. I promise him I will, but change my mind when I take a sip.
Reader, mixing espresso and orange juice is a terrible idea. For me, at least, it brings out the worst qualities in each component, making the coffee unpalatably acidic and the juice unpalatably bitter. Add in the fact that this version was made with pulp, and honestly, if I threw up in my mouth while I was drinking it, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the fluids.
I’m sure there are ways to make the drink taste good. Another café in my city has its own version made with orange blossom syrup instead of juice, and the so-called Spritzy Americano, espresso and soda water with just a splash of orange juice, looks promising, but these both require finesse on the barista’s part. Simply following TikTok’s lead and dumping a shot of espresso into a glass of OJ isn’t going to cut it.
Unless, maybe, it is? After all, when I told my friends about my espresso orange experience, every last one wanted to try it for themselves, vomit comparisons notwithstanding. As price hikes and COVID-induced staff shortages continue to ravage the hospitality industry, you can’t fault cafés for offering a summer special that’s cheap, easy to make, and hotly in demand. Even if, like me, most customers will probably only order it just once before going back to sipping their coffee and orange juice as the breakfast gods intended: individually.
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