Nobody eats oranges like this, do they?

TheolderIgetthelessIknow · 23/04/2024 18:57

I'd only worry that he's more likely to choke with such a large chunk of food in his mouth. I once saw a grown man choking on an orange and, if it wasn't for the quick action of an off- duty policeman nearby, he would definitely have died.

MagnusCanis · 20/04/2024 23:55

5foot5 · 20/04/2024 20:53

Before easy peeler, satsuma type things, there was only one way to eat an orange. Cut it in half and then eat each half by biting in to the flesh and sucking / scraping it out with your teeth. When you had got all the best bit thus you turned the orange half inside out and scraped out the remaining bits of orange with your teeth.

Then repeat with the other half orange.

Then spend a while picking all the shreds of orange from your teeth and rubbing your face because the skin would usually sting a bit by now.

Actual correct procedure is to quarter the orange, consume the flesh in this manner and then wear the quarter of peel like a gumshield so you appear to have orange teeth.

fromaytobe · 20/04/2024 23:28

TheOriginalEmu · 20/04/2024 19:50

Kiwi skin is really nice!

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Nooooo!!!

I'm not a fan of raspberries and can't even eat a peach unpeeled, let alone a kiwi fruit.

babyhiding · 20/04/2024 23:25

Something Mr Bean would do lol but yeah it makes sense I guess he likes to cut to the chase

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BlowDryRat · 20/04/2024 23:22

Previousreligion · 20/04/2024 20:43

You can eat the skin. I never used to, but I do now and it's fine!

I don't understand how anyone can eat an orange whole. How big is his mouth?!?! Kumquat yes, orange no.

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"Orange" was a bit of a misnomer. He was eating clementines, not proper oranges.

I've just added kiwi fruit to my grocery order for next week so I can give the skin a go. I reckon @SocksAndTheCity is right and it will be like eating a hamster.

I'm very grateful that DS eats so much fruit. Less grateful for finding apple core and orange peel left all over the house though, in various states of decomposition.

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WildRosesForCathy · 20/04/2024 21:08

I don't eat oranges anymore as they give me migraines but when I did I had to pick every single scrap of pith off.

DS1 eats them whole, he eats apple cores as it's more convenient than having to, all of the kiwi and the weird crunchy bit of the banana that nobody else seems to like.

SocksAndTheCity · 20/04/2024 21:04

You've convinced me @TheOriginalEmu and @AuntiesWoodenLeg !

I hail from the days of halving them and eating them like a boiled egg or topping and tailing then peeling and slicing, but I will give the skin a go 😀

Bananadramallamas · 20/04/2024 20:58

I'd just be pleased they were eating fruit instead of crap tbh.

Irridescantshimmmer · 20/04/2024 20:57

Hahah

I can't fit a whole tangerine in my mouth, never mind a small orange 😂!!!

AuntiesWoodenLeg · 20/04/2024 20:53

SocksAndTheCity · 20/04/2024 12:18

When kiwi fruits first became widely available (and were considered extremely exotic) I remember a girl at my school who ate them whole and unpeeled, as you would an apple. It must have been like eating a hamster.

The "correct" way when they first arrived in Britain in the late 70s was to cut them in half and scoop out the innards with a teaspoon. Then c2000 an Australian temp in the office said it made her laugh to see us do this as in Oz they just bite into them like an apple. We were all horrified and exclaimed "Surely not the skin!" But she assured us it was just like the texture if a baked potato skin.

So I gingerly tried it one day, still convinced she was winding us up but fuck me, I've never looked back! So much less mess and hassle than poncing about with a spoon.

Re. oranges, if they're very small, I'll maybe eat it in two halves, but not sure my mouth is capacious enough for a whole one.🍊

5foot5 · 20/04/2024 20:53

Before easy peeler, satsuma type things, there was only one way to eat an orange. Cut it in half and then eat each half by biting in to the flesh and sucking / scraping it out with your teeth. When you had got all the best bit thus you turned the orange half inside out and scraped out the remaining bits of orange with your teeth.

Then repeat with the other half orange.

Then spend a while picking all the shreds of orange from your teeth and rubbing your face because the skin would usually sting a bit by now.

Previousreligion · 20/04/2024 20:43

SocksAndTheCity · 20/04/2024 12:18

When kiwi fruits first became widely available (and were considered extremely exotic) I remember a girl at my school who ate them whole and unpeeled, as you would an apple. It must have been like eating a hamster.

You can eat the skin. I never used to, but I do now and it's fine!

I don't understand how anyone can eat an orange whole. How big is his mouth?!?! Kumquat yes, orange no.

GingerScallop · 20/04/2024 20:00

Mine eats lemons like apples. With or without peel. Last time we ordered fish and chips then noted none of us had lemons. I looked up to see him finishing the 4th lemon wedge. Inside all eaten up and some of rind eaten up.
At least they are getting vitamin C OP

WibblyWobblyWeeble · 20/04/2024 19:57

I quarter them, then bite into each quarter.

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/04/2024 19:57

TheOriginalEmu · 20/04/2024 19:50

Kiwi skin is really nice!

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I always eat the skin on kiwi fruits too, can't understand why you wouldn't!

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/04/2024 19:56

A child in my class started to eat a banana sideways with the peel on. I don't think she'd ever seen one before.

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/04/2024 19:55

BlowDryRat · 20/04/2024 09:55

I've just watched 14yo DS peel an orange (a small one), then stuff the whole thing into his mouth like an oversized grape. He says it's "easier".

Surely, nobody else does this? The correct way to eat any size of orange is segment by segment.

I don't do either. I hate peeling oranges, as opposed to easy peel citrus like satsumas etc. I cut one first into quarters, then each quarter crosswise into eighths, and eat it that way.

sweatervest · 20/04/2024 19:55

i think this should be on tiktok asap tbh. i truly love the thought of that. hats off to the hidden talent of your ds, seriously.

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/04/2024 19:55

TellerTuesday · 20/04/2024 19:35

I can't imagine how long it would take to chew that way and the juice dripping down your face. So no, wouldn't be my chosen method.

I do have a (weird) friend that used to eat an onion like an apple though

Miners used to eat onions like that. The coal dust in their throats affected their sense of taste.

PickledMuffin · 20/04/2024 19:52

TheOriginalEmu · 20/04/2024 19:50

SocksAndTheCity · 20/04/2024 12:18

When kiwi fruits first became widely available (and were considered extremely exotic) I remember a girl at my school who ate them whole and unpeeled, as you would an apple. It must have been like eating a hamster.

Kiwi skin is really nice!

Floralnomad · 20/04/2024 19:40

desperatedaysareover · 20/04/2024 11:27

Mine does this, it’s more hygienic apparently. He’s got form, since he was about three he'd eat strawberries with the stalks on and the other day attempted to eat a muffin, case and all (he thought it was ‘fancy edible paper’ God help him) so at this point I’m just glad he will peel his bananas.

This should get an award for ‘post of the day’ 😀

TellerTuesday · 20/04/2024 19:35

I can't imagine how long it would take to chew that way and the juice dripping down your face. So no, wouldn't be my chosen method.

I do have a (weird) friend that used to eat an onion like an apple though

UghFletcher · 20/04/2024 19:03

I thought you were going to say chocolate orange 🍊

Easy peelers I could probably do a whole one, an actual orange I need to slice up and remove the pith

NavyTiger · 20/04/2024 18:51

I made my son a boiled egg once for lunch walked out the room 2 seconds to get a spoon to come back to him eating the whole egg shell and all