I love Satsuma Mandarin oranges. You can peel them in five seconds, separate their seedless, sweet slices, and have a vitamin-C-rich snack in under a minute, and all without even getting orange juice on your hands. Satsumas rock.
(Valencias, hard to peel, seedy, and sour, do not, for the record, rock).


Incidentally, I think I may have chosen orange as this site’s main color because I like these oranges so much. I started designing it last winter, last time they were in season.
Ahh! Christmas oranges, Japanese oranges and now the much cheaper Chinese version. These are about as traditional to Canadians for the Chrstmas season as …well, maybe candy canes. Now the season is so much longer and they are in seemingly unlimited supply, but when I was a kid they were confined to the days around Christmas and almost inseperable from it in my memory.