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Blogs > RelaxedandFun102 > Food, Sex, and More Food

Buy Spanish Clementines, not California  

RelaxedandFun102 72M/72F
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12/5/2013 7:54 am
Buy Spanish Clementines, not California

If you like oranges, you should like clementines, wWhich is in the same family as the Mandarian orange and very hard to tell the difference from the peel other than it is slightly smaller, just slightly, and the taste of the fruit itself.

If you don't like oranges, you may like clementines.

I love orange juice, but I don't like oranges, but I love clementines.

I don't like oranges because they are too juicy, the juice runs all over my mouth. They are tough, they are chewy, the segment separations are chewy, they have a very chewy pith, they are hard to peel because the skin sticks to the orange segments plus the skin is thick, and they have seeds/pits.

Recently I bought clementines from California and encountered the same problems but less, but still the same. The California clementines tasted like oranges and all of the same problems including seeds! Clenentines are not suppose to have seeds/pits.

The California clementines have sseds because of cross pollination from bees! The California clementine farmers have talked about suing the bee keepers to keep their bees away from the clementine crops.

Most imported clementines come from Spain though they do come from other parts of Western Europe.

Spanish and European clementines don't have the problems that the California clementines have including the seeds. They are juicy but not too juicy. They peel easier, the skin is thinner, I like the taste better, they are not as juicy, and they don't have seeds!

Buy America! I'm sorry, I want to, but not this time.

For the history on Clementines. They are an offtake of the Mandarian orange which has been around since 2000 B.C. They were grown in California since 1905 but didn't really start hitting a stride until the 1997 Florida orange frost. They were being brought into the U.S. from Spain since 1982. At that time, the exporation of Clementines was controlled by one family in Spain.

The season for Clementines from Europe, mostly Spain and Morroco, and California is November to February, with a reduced crop from March to May. Then the Season switches to South Africa but mostly Chile and Peru from June to August.

tigerlady555 104F
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12/5/2013 9:52 am

 I recently bought a box of cuties clementines & they were wonderful! very tender & full of sweetness. Thin peeling & peeled easily. I agree with you clementines are much nicer than oranges. I will keep my eyes open for the other clementines - thanks~
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RelaxedandFun102 72M/72F
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12/7/2013 2:56 pm
    Quoting tigerlady555:
    I recently bought a box of cuties clementines & they were wonderful! very tender & full of sweetness. Thin peeling & peeled easily. I agree with you clementines are much nicer than oranges. I will keep my eyes open for the other clementines - thanks~
Tiger Lady, I checked the box label and stickers. I also had bought Cutie Clementines! My first experience with California clementines. Maybe they are from different field locations in California? Try the Spanish, it will say from Spain on the box. Let me know what you think of those. Thanks for reading my blog.


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