One of The Last Orange Julius Stands in Southern California - Food Review At Empty Westminster Mall
A visit to a rare California Orange Julius stand in the Westminster Mall .
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welcome everyone head of the Wu here
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today number 19 of this current series
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where I focus on Southern California
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eateries today's episode is a little bit
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of a quest to see if there is in
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existence a place that used to be very
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well known across the country and I have
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heard there is one left there might be a
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couple but there is one in this vicinity
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in lunch county inside a mall in
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Westminster I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you and I'm gonna leave the bags
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here and take these accessories store it
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in my pocket travellin.light I know big
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the food I was thinking the same thing
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this is a quite the tasty mission there
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it is Westminster Mall we made it big
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the foot coordinates are showing 200
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feet away not far 15 miles per hour is
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all that is allotted because there is a
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speed hump
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I have to be completely honest I don't
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believe that I've ever tried an Orange
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Julius in my life if I have done so was
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when I was very young and I do not
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recollect the company started in the 20s
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and it was the official drink of the
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1964 World's Fair
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later on decades later the company Dairy
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Queen had an acquisition and started to
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carry their products but from what I
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read about a year or so ago they cut
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ties from that angle they are still
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affiliated but they do not have all the
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products and there's not many
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stand-alones left let's see if it's in
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there
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even though most of the stores are
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temporarily closed look over there
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a real Orange Julius still in operation
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that is so freakin cool there are some
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that still exist this is proof what are
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the odds out of all these that this is
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the one place that is open they've also
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expanded into the smoothie varieties but
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I'm gonna go with the original right
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there on the far end that's a strawberry
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banana but they do have other flavors do
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you have just the know we're
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old-fashioned the old-fashioned which is
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made with real fruit juice and what else
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is there that that's secret father's
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secret powders you have what sizes do
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you have you have like a large there's
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the three sizes
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okay I'm gonna probably get a large just
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the old school the old school Orange
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Julius for six dollars and thirty nine
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cents and the large jewel yes sir I got
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the price wrong I was looking at the
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prices for
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for the smoothies the originals 5:49 for
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the large favorite they have different
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flavors to them Pina Colada strawberry
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I'm just getting the straight up orange
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getting an additional soft pretzel
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sticks with zesty caso4 279 I gotta have
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something to go along with the with the
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beverage seven dollars and ninety two
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cents for all of it that's a pretty good
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deal for all that big drink and three
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pretzel sticks and this is case' I
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certainly don't see these too much
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anymore oh yes it's time it's definitely
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time I'm also very content that the mall
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itself at its doors open and that that
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one lone Cafe cafe spot it's the only
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thing in the cafe that's going what are
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what are the odds down the escalator I
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go and back up I just did this for the
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heck of it
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you know why not and this is what we're
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dealing with
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it was nice enough to put it in the
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smoothie cup because the other cups did
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not have that classic logo well the
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orange julius logo might have kind of
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morphed over over time but you can see
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in there the other the other the other
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cups were not like a see-through like
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this you'll see this see the goodness
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and they're swarthy all right try that
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try to ask him precisely what the recipe
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was and he said it was secret
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there's a secret so okay
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oh yeah creamsicle is the first thing
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that pops into my noggin a creamsicle
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oh you know those creamsicle bars it's
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kind of like a melted down version of
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that kind of thick
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kind of
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was a chunky
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oh my gosh that is
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it's okay what got me started on this
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whole thought process there's a couple
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of restaurants around around the area
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that serve something called an orange
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bang and I was hearing from some folks
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that the orange Bank is very similar to
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an Orange Julius but there is a little
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bit of a difference there are some other
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ingredients in here I can taste for sure
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what the heck is in this it's beautiful
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quite the amount of froth is kicking
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down in there whoo get a brain freeze if
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you don't drink it if you drink it too
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quick not too bad but you know you just
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kind of it just kind of sip it at your
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own leisure of maybe consumed about not
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quite a quarter maybe a fifth a bad
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probably a quarter just to give a
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example now I got to go into the pretzel
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bites gonna shift where I was stationed
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over to this little bench that's here
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located here in the shade I'm incorrect
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it's not in the shade at all it kind of
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teases the shaded area but it's not in
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the shade the shade is there pretty near
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the proximity of these palm trees though
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just right over my shoulder got that got
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the cheese on there
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a little bit of salt a little too much
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small salty but you wanted a pretzel
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that's a good combo it's good on its own
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obviously something about a salted
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pretzel
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it's the spot
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adding in a little bit of that cheese
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you got yourself a winning combo I don't
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get in there
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quite the opposite feeling at the toasty
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warm pretzel the very ice cold beverage
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like huh
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they're going head to head now that
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angle was very silhouetted it's my
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attempt at being somewhat artistic in
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the camera angles
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it's dripping there it's got a little
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condensation there coming off the bottom
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the bottom end there's a piece of the
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palm tree that's hanging out in this
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shrub if you can see the first few
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letters of the mall signage right there
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hang out kind of wish I could have
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gotten a few more pretzel bites
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those were tasty it is good to know
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however confirmed official it did say so
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online sometimes you never know to you
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show up in person Orange Julius exists
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in a small fashion I do not recall I
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stated this earlier I do not recall that
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I have ever had one of these I was kind
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of expecting it to be a little less
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frothy I don't want to say it's smoothy
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status because I know they do have a
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smoothy version and this is not the
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smoothy version but it is a little more
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frosty than I expected it
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I will try this again
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well not try it but I will get another
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one of these again if I'm ever in the
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area in this area or you know on the
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road Southern California does not have a
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lot of standalone orange Julius's around
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maybe other parts of the country other
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states might Dairy Queen also still they
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have a foot they have it they have a
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grasp on the name maybe I could stop in
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there they try the smoothie version out
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but they might not have the old-school
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version they may or may not have
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of a Sun is coming this is good because
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it's a little toasty out it's not not
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warmer than it has been the last few
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I'm eating a little lighter today
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obviously I didn't have a full meal a
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little bit of a twist on this series but
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I had I had to see with my own eyes Suns
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break if one still existed hmm melted
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