No, it is NOT a giant persimmon from Australia! I normally think of this fruit as a tangerine, due to the size and ease of peeling the skin. The sign over it at Country Mart proclaimed this citrus delight to be a Clementine. I remember back when we had a librarian who harped and harped about it being "Clementine Season," and I wondered what in the Not-Heaven she was talking about.
Then I saw those commercials with the evil kids wanting revenge on their parents for taking their "Cuties." Which appeared to be...well...tangerines!
The label on the bag makes no mention of Clementines, tangerines, or Cuties.
Hmm...looks like this fruit is a Mandarin Orange!
Whatever you want to call it, I find it delicious. Had two of them for lunch. Uh huh. Nothing dainty or upper-crust about Val. She will jam miniature oranges into her face as she sees fit. And she also eats meat, watches TV (REALITY TV), and doesn't think she's better than those who don't. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I don't normally buy these treats. I was looking for vitamin C. The price on the 3 lb bag of oranges was prohibitive. The price on the 2 lb bag of tangerine/Clementine/Cutie/Mandarins was less. Not that Val is a pauper, mind you. But a lot of a regular orange is that thick skin with the bitter white stuff on the inside, so I might have paid for 3 lb of oranges, yet only gotten 2 lb of the edible portion.
Anyhoo...since Hick has by intention or happy accident infected me with his death-La-Z-Boy cold...I was looking for a natural remedy that might speed up my recovery. Lots of water, and some vitamin C. That's my self-prescription.
On Monday, I'll see a regular doctor. Oops! I mean nurse practitioner. It's a routine 6-month appointment to get another 6 months of my thyroid and blood pressure meds. How convenient that my sickness fell within that time frame! It's hard to get in to see a
I hope I don't catch anything while I'm there!
I love those Clementine things.
ReplyDeleteThey might replace oranges in the Christmas stockings!
DeleteMandarins are NOT oranges. They are still citrus fruits of course. But oranges come in two varieties, navel and I can't remember the other one; mandarins also come in varieties, one of which is clementine, another is Imperial and a couple of others I can't remember. One is called Honey 'something'. Tangerines are a different citrus again, being far more tart than any of the mandarins. I have discovered I can't eat oranges because I get hives, but I can eat a few mandarins per week when they are in season.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so...a clementine can be a mandarin, but not an orange or a tangerine. It's like one of those logic problems.
DeletePretty sure a Clementine is a real small orange.
DeleteOoh! I'm not about to enter this war! I will be Sweden. Or is it Switzerland? We all know that my geographical knowledge is about as good as my citrus fruit knowledge. Okay. I'm pretty sure it's Switzerland, because I seem to recall the phrase "Swiss Accord". Unless that's a kind of Honda driven over there...
DeleteDon't want to start a war here but I think they're all the same.
ReplyDeleteNow you've fired the first shot! Maybe you'll get a clementine in your MRE.
DeleteJust bought some mandarin, love citrus fruit.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on
A mandarin, by any other name, still tastes as sweet!
DeleteTangerines also peel a lot easier than oranges!!
ReplyDeleteThat is correct! Sometimes, the edible part of the orange is no bigger than a tangerine, when you get done peeling it.
DeletePerhaps more research is necessary. It's entirely possible that what I learned is wrong. On the other hand, as long as you're enjoying the fruits, who cares what they are called?
ReplyDeleteLast night, I was happily consuming my vitamin C when I SWALLOWED A SEED! Then I found two more in different sections. I cry shenanigans! None of the other mandarins had seeds!
DeleteI think a tiny orange sneaked its way into the bag! I also noticed, upon peeling that one, that its skin was thicker, and it was hard to peel, and had more of that white stuff under the skin. It was the same size as the mandarins, though. I'll have to be more cautious.