Christmas oranges

[plonq]

We bought the traditional box of Mandarin oranges on our way home from work last night.  I tossed a couple in my lunch today (and ate them both shortly after arriving at work), and I'm already thinking that we may need to buy another box later this week.  =9

I peeled one last night, dropped the segments into a glass, and covered them with iced vodka.  The vodka picked up a very subtle orange flavour, but the orange slices... yowzers!  If they'd been dipped in dark, semi-sweet chocolate they could have induced spontaneous orgasms.  As it was, they were really good.

[Edit]
Calling up the Environment Canada page and seeing things like this:

make alcohol that much more appealing.

Comments

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

Mandarin oranges are nummy. About equally popular to regular oranges around here; given your comment I take it that is not the case there?

[plonq.livejournal.com]

You can generally get them here year-round - canned, it not fresh - but they are mostly a Christmas tradition over here. In the weeks leading up to Christmas you see stores stocking them by the crate load.

Typically we buy them a box at a time, with each orange individually wrapped in tissue paper.