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Originally Posted by Antagon

One would hope so. Only tried OC once and thought it was pretty disgusting. Didn't taste much apart from the sugar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ

the hm it's got a different i can't explain but the "bouquet" is different from the modern orange. i wish i had a better language to describe taste, like more knowledge of the chemicals that make it up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonoid

https://producegeek.com/heirloom-navel-oranges/
as you notice the article isn't very descriptive of the actual taste. i could only resort to a comparison.

anyway my hypothesis is that the soda (which is ancient) was attempting to imitate this old orange flavor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange...#Navel_oranges