To All,
While rummaging through that emporium of the off-beat,Trader Joe's, I found a curious fruit called an orange. Let me say first that the color is off-putting. You would never want to have this stomach-turning color in your kitchen, except possibly at Halloween. The first person to eat this fruit must have been brave indeed. The variety I tested is called a naval orange since it is eaten by naval personnel to avoid scurvy.
The fruit is round, and the outer peel reminds one of the uniq, but it lacks the appealing asymmetries of the uniq. Also, this puny fruit is considerably smaller than a uniq. The peel does not display the cuttability of the passion fruit since it is too soft. Watch out and don't cut your hand. Keep an aloe leaf handy. If you throw the peel into the trash, expect it to stink up your kitchen until trash day finally comes. The smell is pungent enough for a perfume.
Once you have removed the peel, you find an uappealing, fishbelly white under-peel. You can with difficulty remove it, though the nutritionistas will howl since, you guessed it, as usual, the most revolting part is the most nutritious.
After peeling, I gathered my courage, put a piece into my mouth, and bit down. It was unpleasantly squishy, and juice shot all around my mouth.
If you eat fruit so that you can delight in caressing the seeds with your tongue and playing spitting games with them, the naval orange denies you even these simple pleasures.
The verdict: Visually revolting, a hazard to peel, too squishy, stinks up your kitchen. Maybe someone will make a drink of this fruit.
This fruit illustrates one of the drawbacks of modern society, namely the ascendance of the marketeers. In Germany they tried to popularize this fruit by calling it an apfelsine, i.e., a Chinese apple. These out-of-control marketeers thought that by combining the familiar (apple) and the exotic (Chinese), they could hoodwink people into spending their hard-earned money on this turkey.
