tangerines

• “My first memories of what we called tangerines are of a fruit with a tighter, thicker skin, and a strong, sweet almost addictive flavour.”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

• “Little known fact: Mandarins aka tangerines, after the port of Tangiers where particular mandarin cultvars were shipped to the US, are not a cross between ranges and another citrus fruit.”

  anything-but-clementine clafoutis | smitten kitchen

• “nartjies= small sweet oranges with loose skin, I think they're called tangerines sometimes”

  Sceptical of Happiness

• “For decorations, Mr. Ong likes to fill his dining table with flowers, small potted plants or brightly colored fruits such as tangerines and kumquats.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Dessert Party That Isn't Cloying

• “Squeezing large melon like objects such as tangerines is a fantastic way to build up your finger-abs.”

  Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• “And the inspector found that much of the restaurant's shelf space was occupied by foods the owner claimed were for personal use, such as tangerines, homemade pickles and unlabeled frozen fish.”

  JSOnline.com

• “We will have extras such as tangerines, nuts and chocolates and of course mince pies but it won’t take weeks of shopping and we’ll not be spending a fortune.”

  All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » So this is Christmas

• “And if we have just 3 people in the Edwards 'community bypass the farmer's market to buy direct from the grower by traveling to the tangerine greenhouse in their eco-friendly, fuel-efficient, 60 mile-per-gallon-getting hybrid cars, covering 60 miles each (or 180 miles total), we find that they burn exactly the same amount of fuel as does shipping the tangerines by rail and truck 900 miles from Florida!”

  Current Event Hooks, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Presidential candidate wife Elizabeth Edwards 'giving up of tangerines for the sake of "buying local" to protect the environment, when doing so would actually make the environment worse off.”

  Current Event Hooks, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “In the grocery store, for example, I buy tangerines when they are in season not only because I love their flavor, but because they are presented in big, shining orange heaps, sometimes with wonderfully crackly dark green leaves mixed in.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

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