Jennifer Lopez clarifies ‘orange drink’ bodega order after backlash

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Bronx go-to bodega order went viral in March after the singer mentioned an “orange drink” that “if you know, you know.” However, New Yorkers did in fact not know about the drink, and they ruthlessly roasted Lopez, 54, on social media.

Some of them visited different Bronx bodegas to find the unspecified orange drink, and shared their failed experiences on TikTok.After staying quiet about the topic for two months, Lopez elaborated on her favorite orange drink — and acknowledged the fan backlash that came with it — in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar published Wednesday. “Haha, I know that there was a lot of talk about it,” she said. “But the orange drink was basically … it’s just a plain orange drink.”Lopez continued: “It came in a little plastic container with a little bit of aluminum foil over it.

And it wasn’t called anything except orange drink or grape drink or whatever. There was orange, a grape, and a fruit punch.”“And that’s why I said, ‘If you know you know,’ because you bought it in the bodega and I used to go after school and get that for like..

I mean, this is many, many years ago, it was worth 25 cents, and I got it with a bag of potato chips,” she added. “And that was like my after-school treat for myself.”Lopez talked about her go-to bodega order from the Bronx in her 2022 interview with Vogue for their “73 Questions” series.In the footage, she said that she’d ask for a ham and cheese on a roll, a small bag of chips and an orange drink — adding about the unspecified drink, “If you know, you know.”When the clip went viral, New Yorkers decided to search for the orange drink at Bronx bodegas.