Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her noxious knavish nincompoops have naughtied again. This time, the state of Florida caught their plaques. The ridge area of Florida is one of the most important citrus-growing regions in the world, producing one-quarter of all citrus fruits grown. We're talking more than 200 million boxes of navels, Valencias, temples, tangerines, tangelos, red grapefruit, white grapefruit, and pineapple oranges per growing season. It's about an 8 billion dollar industry that provides over 150,000 juicy jobs in planting, picking, packing, pulping, peeling, squeezing, and freezing. If you stacked all the half gallon orange juice cartons that Florida produces in two years, you could climb that stack to the moon. Or you could have until yesterday Eartha Brute flounced into Florida, raided the ridge, and grabbed the grove. Your mission, gumshoes: bring in the Brute, get the groves back to their growers, and then corner that cunning conniver Carmen Sandiego.
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