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crabapple
11-14-2007, 01:40 PM
Ferret just loves those satsumas.
I used to live at this house that had a satsuma tree. No one watered it and it produced a small handful of oranges one summer. The poor tree looked sad, like a skeleton. Leaves all dried up. So neglected.
While I was working on Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, I decided to start watering the tree and I bought some fertilizer also and mixed that into the soil.
I turned the hose on under the tree one morning and drove off to work. Once I got to work I realized the hose was on back there! "Oh my god, I left the water running! I'll be back in half an hour!"
I went back, turned the water off. There was a lake around the tree now. And I could faintly hear the tree sighing and cooing, "Thank you! Thank you. Ahh, it's been so long since I had a good drink."
I kept watering the tree for a month or so. It was summer again, and time for the tree to do its fruit thing.
Hundreds. Hundreds! Hundreds of oranges begin to appear. Little green globes. This is not a huge tree. But it has decided, you know, to PRODUCE. I mean really produce. I water it some more to keep those oranges fed, you know?
That summer and for Halloween and Thanksgiving? Around a thousand oranges, maybe more. Off ONE tree. All seedless and sweet, sweet like you wouldn't believe! And they peel like nothing. Often I was to be found squeezing the oranges by hand and making cups and cups of fresh squeezed juice from these things.
Thank you, Tree! You are AWESOME.
Ok crabby......take a deep breath and slowly step away from the latte........thats it........thats it........now repeat after me
POO-NUTS...POO-NUTS......POO-NUTS.
there....don'tcha feel better.
Disease
11-14-2007, 01:48 PM
So a Satsuma is a type of Orange?
So a Satsuma is a type of Orange?
Don't encourage him.....he's obviously gone quite mad.
novakru
11-14-2007, 04:35 PM
That is so freakin awesome crabby :) I totally get what you're saying.
crabapple
11-14-2007, 04:54 PM
Novakru understands......novakru gets it...this tree, it was so small, I mean, it was too small to climb. It was almost a pigmy tree, not more than fourteen feet tall or 14 feet wide at its bushiest part. Think about it. And the oranges, they didn't stop!! They kept appearing and appearing, and every day I would go out and grab a BOX of oranges off the tree. We had fresh orange juice whenever we wanted! And I took the peels and mixed them into the soil under the tree, you know, to serve as natural fertilizer. Everyone I knew had as many SEEDLESS oranges as they wanted, whenever! Do you realize how cool seedless oranges are if they taste good? They're so easy to eat.
_____V_____
11-14-2007, 05:18 PM
ORANGES!! 1 here, 1 there...everywhere!:D
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa47/c1iswe/Picture363.jpg
How would it taste when blended with a poo-nut I wonder...
Roderick Usher
11-14-2007, 10:29 PM
I love the satsumas growing in my yard!
crabapple
11-14-2007, 10:35 PM
I want the tree....how much for teh tree?
All I have is little firebonnets chili peppers on a big bush outside!
Freak
11-15-2007, 01:25 AM
Due to my acid reflux I can not enjoy oranges or orange juice.And /i used to adore them as a child.Stupid acid reflux.
ferretchucker
11-15-2007, 07:30 AM
You are now officially god!
Check out these two videos of me to do with satsumas. The third one is dedicated to you crabby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPH7oQYa8yM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MAeufufx2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i99nGtbZphE
crabapple
11-15-2007, 08:20 AM
Ha ha! See, Ferret understands the orange thing. Sorry to Freak though about the acid reflux thing...can you have a mild orange drink like Orange Whip? Those have just a little bit or orange flavor and are not really tangy.
ferretchucker
11-15-2007, 08:24 AM
Satsumas are the single greatest wonders on this earth.
crabapple
11-15-2007, 08:33 AM
Sigh.....when I had that tree, and it was fruiting the way it was, I was eating six or seven a day. They weren't sour at all! Just sweet and bright and happy. Probably the best tasting little oranges I ever had!
When an orange is seedless and you can eat it without worrying about the seeds, that is something awesome.
ferretchucker
11-15-2007, 08:41 AM
no seeds, no bitterness, the skin peels off without any struggle or puncturing the segments. Sigh.
missmacabre
11-15-2007, 09:06 AM
I like oranges, but only when I cut the segments open and eat what's inside cause the membraney skin stuff is bitter. I got some really good oranges one time but I went back and got more and they were really sour. Tangerines are awesome cause they're sweeter and less frustrating.
Only orange product I don't really like is orange juice with pulp. I'm OCD and very texture oriented so the pulp really bugs me.
ferretchucker
11-15-2007, 09:21 AM
I love all the little bits, and although I don't like the outer skin or pith, I'll eat the rest.
Freak
11-15-2007, 07:34 PM
Sorry to Freak though about the acid reflux thing...can you have a mild orange drink like Orange Whip? Those have just a little bit or orange flavor and are not really tangy.
I'm not sure if I could or not but I wouldn't try it casue when I get my attacks from having things I'm not supposed to have they can be really bad.It's like having a bowling ball sitting on top of your stomach.It sucks hardcore.
ferretchucker
11-16-2007, 06:41 AM
unlucky. Is there any medication that can help out or something?
Disease
11-16-2007, 06:51 AM
I don't see what the big deal is with seeds... you just spit them out. I mean....
hammerfan
11-16-2007, 07:05 AM
I'm not sure if I could or not but I wouldn't try it casue when I get my attacks from having things I'm not supposed to have they can be really bad.It's like having a bowling ball sitting on top of your stomach.It sucks hardcore.
You know there is medication for it, right? I have reflux and I take Prilosec OTC every day and haven't had a problem in 5 years. If that doesn't work, I highly suggest you see a doctor.
ferretchucker
11-16-2007, 07:24 AM
I don't see what the big deal is with seeds... you just spit them out. I mean....
But they're just annoying.
missmacabre
11-16-2007, 09:09 AM
I don't see what the big deal is with seeds... you just spit them out. I mean....
It's a textural thing again, for me. If I'm eating something it has to be all one similar texture or it really grosses me out to the point of gagging.
Even if I'm walking I have to have both feet on the same texture. can't have one foot on the grass and one on pavement or anything like that. Or walking on a lenolium floor and stepping in sometihng sticky or carpet at the movies and stepping on popcorn. Freaks me out so bad. Also the texture of mud.
It's kinda a big deal.
crabapple
11-16-2007, 09:21 AM
Okay...it's uh.......let me see if I can describe this accurately. When an orange segment has...a seed, or more than one seed, you have to look at it. You don't want to bite the seed, so before you eat the segment you have to sort of check it out, hold it up to the light, and then you can see the seeds, but you have to avoid them. Or sometimes you hold the segment up and a seed is hidden in there where it doesn't show...
Anyway...so you begin eating the segment and a part of your mind is enjoying the flavor but 12-14% of your synaptic processes are devoted to what I call "seed consciousness" or "seed awareness." That means you're losing out on 12-14 percent of Orange Joy Happiness Sensation, and that's a big percentage! Over the course of several oranges, this percentage adds up, and it's like for every six oranges you eat you missed out on the enjoyment of a whole orange!
With a seedless orange, which is clearly a wonderful thing, you get 100% Orange Joy Happiness Sensation and that is certainly to be...uh, preferred.
Disease
11-16-2007, 09:23 AM
I like spitting the seeds out of Oranges, it gives me simplistic pleasure... Now Watermelons, that's a different story... They kill the fun!
crabapple
11-16-2007, 09:25 AM
Oh, no, no, you have it backwards, it's watermelon seeds that are fun to spit across the room, and orange seeds that command all the unpleasantness and evil. I mean.......wait a minute.
(checking notes)
PR3SSUR3
11-16-2007, 09:31 AM
Something about people who want the fruit but dislike the seed going on here.
For the anti-seed crowd: a metaphor?
I would go out and grab a BOX of oranges off the tree.
That's some tree.
:eek:
Disease
11-16-2007, 09:44 AM
Oh, no, no, you have it backwards, it's watermelon seeds that are fun to spit across the room, and orange seeds that command all the unpleasantness and evil. I mean.......wait a minute.
(checking notes)
I prefer the seedless watermelons, other wise you spend more time spitting seeds than eating watermelon.
With an orange I can walk down the street and when I come across the occasional seed there is always something to aim for.
ferretchucker
11-16-2007, 11:30 AM
watermelon seeds are great, because the fun of eating a watermelon is getting messy. Oranges you just want the sweet nectar inside and to feel the little segments of each segment burst open releasing heaven inside your mouth. So soft, so easy to eat, so mess less. The seeds destroy it when you come across their hard texture it ruins the entire feel of the tangsumrange.
Disease
11-16-2007, 11:50 AM
I don't eat the seeds, it's like eating fish, you sense the seeds/bones...