satsumas don’t have seeds/pips?

don’t know?

god i love satsumas, i’m going to get some at lunchtime

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don’t ask me! i am the question asker.

although i think one of them might be a hybrid. oh hang on, a nectarine is totally not like a citrus fruit is it? it’s more like a plummy peach. scrap that one.

A nectarine is nothing like a satsuma. A nectarine is like a smooth-skinned peach.

ha, xpost!

well then what’s a Mandarin then?

A chinese person

ok i checked my answer on wiki, i’m half right.

I’m ambidextrous.

they are all farmers’ attempts to make fruit less sticky and are therefore ALL THE SAME.

i think bitterness might have something to do with it. i think a satsuma is a kind of mandarin.

A clementine, a tangerine and a satsuma are all citruses. Satsumas have a looser skin, plumper segments and a sweeter, less complex, less sharp taste. They are particularly popular in the UK, though less so than they used to be, and citrus farmers are increasingly abandoning their cultivation in favour of other varieties.

Clemintines tend to be smaller than tangerines, and have a thinner skin. I don’t think they ever have seeds, either. Tangerines are more like oranges than the others, really. They have seeds.

A nectarine is like a peach but with smooth skin. yes. This was achieved by crossing them with a plum, I believe.

I may well be confusing mandarins and tangerines. Mineolas (sp?) are another one. I think they might be a cross between one of the others and a grapefruit.

who are you the.. fruit.. man?!

i looked up nectarine on wiki (i’m allowed that one, right?) and it says nectarines are just a variety of peach but just happens not to be fuzzy. i always thought it was to do with plums, but perhaps not.

I like clementines best, is the only thing I really need to know, when I go to the shops. And nectarines, but as has been noted, they have nothing to do with the others.

I’ve heard of “tangelo” too, but I’m not sure what that is.

I only heard the “nectarines are non-fuzzy because they were crossed with a plum” think recently and I fear I may have been sold a pup.

DL—if you too thought they were related to a plum, how could you have confused them with a citrus?

Well a peach must have been crossed with something smooth-skinned to make a nectarine, so why not a plum? That seems quite logical.

Google picture search (that’s allowed, right?) for tangelo reveals:

citrus farmers are increasingly abandoning [satsuma] cultivation in favour of other varieties.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Well a peach must have been crossed with something smooth-skinned to make a nectarine

I too have now looked up nectarines and your premise is wrong (well, according to this authoritative-sounding page):

Mmm those tangelos look tasty!

Ledge—I heard a Spanish man a citrus-growing association interviews on the radio last year about it. He was politely saying “satsumas are for those with rather undeveloped tastes and only the Brits haven’t completely moved on to better citruses”.

DL—if you too thought they were related to a plum, how could you have confused them with a citrus?

Cos I am stupid, ya get me (YGM?) ?

“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine — how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.”

John Keats

agree. eating a satsuma is like something that the cast of “look around you” would do, these days.

Haha, undeveloped tastes—yes I have a sweet tooth! I like the tangier ones too, but the easy peeling is what sells satsumas to me. I never eat oranges, far too much like hard work. (xpostage)

From that authoritative-sounding page :

Nectarines will sometimes appear on peach trees, and peaches sometimes appear on nectarine trees

So nectarines are smooth-skinned variations of a peach which just randomly happen as if by accident?? Mutant peaches. This seems ludicrous.

satsumas are for those with rather undeveloped tastes

food snobbery ahoy. why i oughta!

yeah, why are oranges that much more popular/famous? they are so messy! is it cos that’s all we used to get and the other citruses are a relatively exotic newcomer?

i just ate a satsuma/clementine/somethign or other and it tasted really bitter and now my fingers smell of bad breath.

Oranges make me sneeze :(

It’s because oranges are better than any of these innit.

i spend too long stripping the white shit off tangerines. satsumas peel really easily, great for eating in a hurry. or something.

oranges take about half a day to eat, best to use a knife.

Clementines are the greatest of all wee oranges.

The Trouble With Oranges is that they are not suited to the slovenly ways of my adulthood. When I was a kid, I’d usually eat fruit at the table. In that context, they reward the formal pace imposed by being seated with a plate, a knife and a napkin. Sometimes my mum would cut them in half and serve them like a grapefruit, for breakfast. Other times, we’d cut them into eighths and suck them off the skin.

A sastuma, in particular, is more like finger food, by comparison.

Mandarin isn’t a chinese person either, it’s just a language.

or a certain group of dialects, to be precise

Mandarins were chinese rulers, back in the 19th century.

They were abandoned in favour of straighter fruits.

Mandarins are not the only fruit.

Dude! Did you watch Belgian telly the other week? Some guy—a (hahah) celebrity cook—came on telly to explain this!

Sadly I have forgotten the difference. If I’m not mistaken a clementine is of the mandarine family, right? And a satsuma is a Japanese fruit? Harder skin? Err, no, I’m thinking of something else.

mandarin = china orange

satsuma = japanorange

clementine = lost and gorn forevah

doglatin IS a celebrity cook innit! pukka.

clementine is orange juice mixed with clam juice innit, you can make a philips screwdriver with it by mixing vodka.

it’s like clamato juice and bloody ceasar.

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Clementines always taste a bit green for my liking, and they’re too pippy. I like a sweet, easypeelin’ satsuma.

Surely the real question here is: do I dare to eat a peach?

Clementines are the popcorn chicken of the produce world.—Mr Chr1st0ph3r Cpr3k, 2003

Depends on which continent you’re on, emil.y.

Minneola is a town in southwestern Kansas

recently i’ve had a Pluot, which is a plum/apricot hybrid. it looks like a big fat apricot with streaky red on the skin, and is a livid purple on the inside. tastes ok.

and i’ve also had a Graple, some kind of apple/grape monstrosity. looks like a granny smith but tastes like it’s been dipped in whatever they make grape koolaid out of. way way unholy and fucked up. only redeemed by daydreaming about earth crisis fans flipping out about vivisectionists and putting a garbage can through my manager’s door (he gave me said graple)

I have never heard of the ‘Satsuma’.

I recall satsumas being individually wrapped in red paper proclaiming their illegality in most states.

One is orange, one is green, one is yellow, one is purple.

For around 1300 years from 605 to 1905, Mandarins were selected by merit through the extremely rigorous imperial examination.

what about those things they sell only in small crates—I think they are called “cuties” stupid name, great tasting tho, are they a breed of clementine or satsuma?

clementines rule, satsumas are ok, HONEY tangerines are grebt—other varieties so-so, Nectarines pwn peaches, mineolas & tangelos are tasteless. any more questions?

oh yeah, blood oranges pretty much the best of the citrus lot

Blood orange juice is king of the juices.