So, pomegranate, then

[Kurt Bafokeng]

So, pomegranate, then

Mr Earp basically said what I said a bit later.

[Incandenza]

So, pomegranate, then

FF, pomegranate juice has been the 'it' thing for a while now. I think it's way too expensive.

The pomegranate craze is mostly the result of one woman, Lydia Resnick, who owns the juice company Pom with her husband. There was a New Yorker profile of her a while back, and she's a real character. She and her husband have bought different companies, none of them related to each other--Teleflora, the Franklin Mint, Fiji Water, and they started Pom after buying land with pomegranate groves on them--and have gotten really rich. She attributes her success to her refined palate--a dinner party trick was for her to be blindfolded and take a sip of wine and identify the grower and the vintage. It was Pom that has heavily marketed the health benefits of pomegranates.

[Wyatt Earp]

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How easy have they found it to market themselves in Australia?

[Purves Grundy]

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Whzt the fuck are blueberries doing on the "tasty" side of that chart?

Anyway, to business...

Based on that, oranges are both bland and fiddly, when they're quite obviously neither.

Bland, no.

Fiddly, oh yes, they bloody are. Maybe it's different for you North London types with your Burmese housemaids and that, but for those of us living on the urban frontline down in Wimbledon where we have to peel us own oranges it's a different matter.

You can't get started at all if you bite your nails or even if you are one to diligently manicure yourself. And if you have got guitarists fingernails then an orange leaves them looking like a smoker's fingertips and you have to spend a bloody age alternately gouging gunk from the nails of one hand to another until it's thickened enough to be able to flick away. It's like PickItLickItRollItFlickIt for Unionists. Then there's the thousands of 1-square-inch bits of peel to deal with. To say nothing of the pith (and eating oranges without removing every trace of white stringy bits is the sort of thing that would have Operation Ore on your case if I were in charge, fucking sickoes).

By the way; that cleansing people were briefly talking about. Is this the place to admit to a certain curiosity where that procedure is concerned? I installed a boiler a while ago in one of those Re-Aqua places that specialises in cleansing and the thought of those delicious ladies in their tight pseudo-medical tunics giving one a good cleansing...

[linus]

So, pomegranate, then

All of these fruits taste very good if you get really fresh specimens from a good stock. In the real world though, there is a wide discrepency in taste, most supermarket apples are horribly bland, especially the waxed ones. Same with tomatoes and most other fruits.

[Reed John]

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Thanks for that link FF, I'd not read that before and yet that's a very reputable source.

Then again, I'll soon be switching to a drug not on that list, so I'm probably good to go.

[SpanglyPrincess]

So, pomegranate, then

In the real world though, there is a wide discrepency in taste, most supermarket apples are horribly bland, especially the waxed ones. Same with tomatoes and most other fruits.

the 'real world'? is it not possibile to shop outside the supermarket in the real world? surely markets & greengrocers still exist?

admittedly it is hard to buy a decent orange or tomato in the UK but surely not impossible

proper oranges (Sicilian or Valencian) are great and not terribly fiddly either

[Wyatt Earp]

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And if you have got guitarists fingernails then an orange leaves them looking like a smoker's fingertips...

This is why God invented knives for peeling oranges and plectrums (plectra?) for playing the riff from Immigrant Song.

[Guest]

So, pomegranate, then

requires knife = fiddly

[Bored Of Education]

So, pomegranate, then

Sorry, WE, I forgot I had contributed to this thread and didn't see your question.

I was going for the humour with my post rather than the robustness of argument hence not including the "apparently" that my statement should have probably had

[Bored Of Education]

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Sicilian Blood Oranges in season are the bollocks

Any other orancge is a bit hit & miss. Sometimes too tart, sometimes too dry, sometimes the most wonderful taste ever.

The citrus Russian Roulette which makes life interesting