Question RE: Fresh juices on the beach

[dash]

Might be a good time to remind people, who haven't already, to get their Hepatitis A vaccine. Hep A transmitted through water and food. Even washed raw veggies. Recommended by CDC for all countries outside Western World.

[sunluvinlaurie]

Tony is the juice guy that calls out 'arangg juice' 'maango' 'papaya'. He is a fantastic guy. His process -- after a day selling his juice he stops to buy fruit for the next day which he washes, he also washes out his juice bottles. He awakes the next morning very early to squeeze and bottle his juice. He travels with his juice in coolers with ice as he walks the beach. I have been drinking his juice for many years - MANY different bottles - and have never gotten sick.

[sabu]

I always buy my juice from Merlyn who has a fruit stand in front of Moondance Villas. After I finish the juice, I wash out my bottle with hot water before returning it to Merlyn. She is not happy if you don't bother to clean your bottle before you return it. I know it's not fully sanitized but she does a very low volume of fresh juice - sometimes me and my buddy are her only customers and she squeezes the juice to order so you know it's fresh. She even peels the oranges before squeezing so there's no bitterness -- which she claims is why she has the tastiest fresh juice on the beach. She also likes to warn against the beach vendors claiming the juice is old, watered down or cut with tang.

Merlyn is a real character and can be a bit caustic but her face lit up this year (after she lost a lot of weight from last year) when my buddy says to her "My god Merlyn you're looking like a swim suit model." Cracked her daughters up.

[brownsd54]

It is questionable what exactly is in the bottle. The seller may say that it is freshly squeezed O.J. but is it fresh, and is it even squeezed O.J. We bought some freshly ground Blue Mountain coffee from a guy on the beach. It was in a burlap sack just like you would find at the Hi Lo but the sack looked like it was sewn up by hand. The guy said they buy the beans, open the package and then grind them. They then sew the burlap back up. Sounded like a believable story but when we tried it, it was definitely not Blue Mountain coffee. Probably high mountain coffee bought at the Hi Lo and sold as Blue Mountain coffee at double the price.

I thought all vendors selling consumables on the beach, had to be licenced and subject to inspection by the Tourist Security. I’m pretty sure that the jerk chicken barrels are licenced.

And while we on that, where are the Tourist Bureau Security? You know, the ones in the white shirts and pit hats. Two years ago you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one of those guys walking the beach. This year, maybe one or two every second day and even then mostly sitting in the background texting.