Origin of Orange Juice?

[The Masked Doodler]

Straight from my history teacher, I'd like to know if this is fact or not!

"Orange juice wasn't always an important part of breakfast," says he, "but a long time ago, one orange crop didn't fare so well. It got old, and so they just mashed it into juice, touting it as 'an important part of your healthy breakfast!' and that's why we have orange juice every morning."

Well, that's the jist of it anyway. Weird guy, my history teacher was. So, fact or UL?

[Embra]

The Culinary Historians of Ontario report that:

Orange Juice was first mass produced and mass marketed when there was an over production of citrus in California in the mid 1910s. Citrus growers were contemplating a plan to destroy one-third of the orange trees in California when pasteurised orange juice was invented. With pasteurisation and a national railway system, orange juice could be shipped from the sparsely populated agricultural state of California to the population centres to the north and east.

About breakfast, the report says:

Orange juice played a part in the Americanisation of breakfast, as orange juice replaced the more British stewed fruit at the breakfast table.

Mmmm, stewed fruit...

I like the line

...the sparsely populated agricultural state of California to the population centres to the north and east...

Ah yes, the sparsely populated California....

[BringTheNoise]

It just SCREAMS Urban Legend to me, but that's just a feeling and I don't have any cites.

ETA: And now I look silly.

[The Masked Doodler]

Huh. Thanks Embra! Turns out he was right, and I owe J five bucks, but all in the name of truth.

BringTheNoise, if it makes you feel any better, I told several of my friends that it was quite obviously an urban legend. Guess how silly I'll look now!