to want Blood Oranges to be called Blood Oranges?

[WitchWay]

Yum yum, blood orange season at the moment - one of my favourite fruits & the local greengrocers has them advertised as exactly that: Blood Oranges. Not so the local supermarkets, oh no - Ruby Oranges if you please. Apparently people don't like the term "blood" FFS & it puts them off buying them. It's a vegetable - well, a fruit, but you know what I mean - vegetable matter. How could it possibly have blood in it??

[Thatisall]

I think it just shows how supermarkets will do whatever they think will sell more. Including changing the name of fruits and veg to more 'consumer friendly' ones. Bit daft of you ask me.
If you fancied being pedantic (I love being pedantic) why not email them asking when they'll get blood oranges in? All you an find are thee poxy ruby ones.

[WitchWay]

That's a good idea

[Chippednailvarnish]

Now I want one and I don't have one

[SuburbanSpaceperson]

I would never eat one as a child because of the name, so it does make a difference. It used to drive all the adults around me demented, they would explain over and over that it wasn't blood and I would still gag at the thought of eating it. It's too late for me because I know that ruby oranges are really blood oranges, but if they had always been called ruby oranges I may well have eaten them.

[ArgyMargy]

So that's why I never see blood oranges any more!! Love the name, love the fruit. YANBU.

[Suelford]

Their "real name" is citrus sinensis, who cares what nickname is used?

[mmmmmchocolate]

Please tell me which supermarkets are selling them! I haven't seen a blood orange in years!

And yes they are blood oranges not frigging ruby reds.....

[ChrisTheSheep]

I also have a blood orange craving now! (I'm hampered by gestational diabetes as well as not actually having any blood oranges...)

[BookroomRed]

Blood orange season is the one good thing about this dank, chilly time of year!

[Snowdown]

Waitrose were calling them blush oranges last year. I haven't seen them this year - has something happened the harvest?

[BeaLola]

Love them.
Waitrose do the fizzy blood orange drink as ?ell. ...fab fab fab

[steff13]

We have blood orange popsicles. Yum.

[catsmother]

Those San Pellegrino cans come in a blood orange flavour - and they're bloody (excuse the pun) lovely (though expensive). No qualms about labelling them as such, and the name doesn't put me off.

As for supermarkets - go into any one of them around Halloween and you'll find an ever increasing (year on year) variety of ghoulish themed food, think "lemon and slime" for example, which must presumably sell or else they wouldn't go to all the bother of repackaging and renaming - if only temporarily. Or does everyone's squeamishness disappear at that time of the year only ?

[ZingSweetApple]

YADNBU

I hate the term "Ruby Orange" and told the kids it's called Blood Orange.
same in Hungarian.

supermarkets arw fucking dicks for trying to change things like that.
I'm waiting for the time the term "Black/White coffee/tea" will be seen as racist.
mark my words, it's coming!

I also wonder if "Hand Cream" is disablist and offensive to people with no hands

[ZingSweetApple]

mmmchoc

I bought them at Tesco.
my kids love it. Any minute now they will be playing vampires, no doubt!

[CrohnicallyFarting]

It's like the fish- supermarkets were struggling to get people to buy pollock, so they renamed it Colin!

[SanityClause]

Although, to be pedantic, Zing, black coffee isn't black, and neither is white coffee white.

I am old enough to hate the fact that kiwis are now called kiwis. Their correct name is Chinese gooseberries. But perhaps that's racist?

[DirtieBertie]

Their "real name" is citrus sinensis, who cares what nickname is used?

Citrus sinensis will get you any old orange though. The OP wants blood oranges.

[ZingSweetApple]

well I'm not white either, closer to green when morning sickness strikes!

[WitchWay]

Sue Citrus sinensis that's "Chinese Citrus" isn't it?

I haven't seen them in supermarkets this year yet either. Bought mine in the local greengrocers.

[TamerB]

I bought some in Lidl and they were labelled 'blood oranges'.

[Doodledumdums]

Sainsbury's do! I currently have a bag of blood oranges sitting in front of me, and they are definitely labelled 'Blood Oranges.'

[ZingSweetApple]

Tesco - definitely Ruby Oranges.

wankers

[WitchWay]

Ooh good for Sainsbury's & Lidl!

Slightly disappointed by one of my blood oranges - it only had one tiny capsule of "blood" in a completely orange orange
Still delicious though

[thedogwakesuptoodamnearly]

Zing, I think you mean "coffee without milk"