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Nobody eats oranges like this, do they?

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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.

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AmaryllisChorus · 20/04/2024 18:50

Ukholidaysaregreat · 20/04/2024 18:28

OMG! Cross post! Dangerous Orange snacks!

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Weird synchronicity. Let that be a warning from the universe to your son, @BlowDryRat Grin

nineseasaway · 20/04/2024 18:39

I’d be more worried at choking eating it that way..

Iloveanicegarden · 20/04/2024 18:36

When I was teaching Home Ec one of the first things the students prepared (to develop knife skills ) was fruit salad. I would take great delight when demonstrating to tell them to make sure they got 'all the pith off' It always got a laugh!

Gorgonemilezola · 20/04/2024 18:33

I love the bit in Cranford where Miss Matty and Miss Deborah Jenkyns repair to their rooms to suck their oranges as they cannot be eaten in a genteel fashion.

Blingismything · 20/04/2024 18:32

The 'fancy edible paper' had me in literal stitches. 😂

Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 20/04/2024 18:29

Small easy peelers I eat a few segments at a time, not a whole orange. Larger ones I don't peel but instead quarter and just leave the peel when eating. Have to be quatered by equater and then pole to pole to reveal the flesh rather than segmenting pole to pole both times.

Ukholidaysaregreat · 20/04/2024 18:28

AmaryllisChorus · 20/04/2024 18:27

Please tell him not to do that. My brother did that once when he was younger and choked on the fibrous pithy bit in the middle. We had to turn him upside down because he was turning purple.

One segment at a time!

OMG! Cross post! Dangerous Orange snacks!

Ukholidaysaregreat · 20/04/2024 18:27

This thread has really made me laugh. I think from a Health and Safety perspective you need to split the orange into smaller amounts. I once choked violently on just one segment of orange and had to be shaken by the ankles! None of my family having been First Aid trained evidently or they could have just smacked me on the back. So I say eat them individually.

AmaryllisChorus · 20/04/2024 18:27

Please tell him not to do that. My brother did that once when he was younger and choked on the fibrous pithy bit in the middle. We had to turn him upside down because he was turning purple.

One segment at a time!

BoudiccaOfSuburbia · 20/04/2024 18:24

“Easier” 😂😂

I love teens.

AhBiscuits · 20/04/2024 18:23

I might shove a few segments in at once but you have to crack it open to make sure you get as much pith off as possible.

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 20/04/2024 18:23

TuesdayWhistler · 20/04/2024 15:36

My dad used to buy really small oranges ,he thought they were great and really sweet..

I'd try them and found them so sour that I could feel my face turning inside out until I could see last Wednesday.

He'd eat them whole.. I'd feel ill listening to him..

I hate oranges. Vile things. Like satans orange bollocks.

Were they not kumquats?

Houseinawood · 20/04/2024 18:20

Mine once took the biggest bite of an apple that he could but his mouth got stuck in the apple 🍏 both top and bottom teeth and he couldn’t see as it was over his eyes 😂😂he could get it out with his hands as it was well and truly wedged in - I have to say I laughed and I did rescue him eventually

Akamai · 20/04/2024 18:19

If it's an orange rather than easy peeler, I can see his point.

Trying to segment oranges is pretty hard!

Fannyfiggs · 20/04/2024 18:12

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.

Whether I laugh at this or not depends on how old your DS is.

If he's five I'd say 'Awww wee soul', but if he's 25 I will laugh and point 😂

NobecauseNo · 20/04/2024 15:41

For the small types I normally go this approach but half at a time.

shoppingshamed · 20/04/2024 15:39

I've just had an orange, I can report that I ate some single segments, some double depending on how it came apart. It was too big to eat like a grape

babybrum · 20/04/2024 15:39

As a child I'd eat kiwis whole with skin on and leave nothing but the stalk of an apple

babybrum · 20/04/2024 15:38

I eat one half whole and then the other if we're talking easy peelers😂

TuesdayWhistler · 20/04/2024 15:36

My dad used to buy really small oranges ,he thought they were great and really sweet..

I'd try them and found them so sour that I could feel my face turning inside out until I could see last Wednesday.

He'd eat them whole.. I'd feel ill listening to him..

I hate oranges. Vile things. Like satans orange bollocks.

ADHDGURL · 20/04/2024 15:33

😂😂 made smile..

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BlowDryRat · 20/04/2024 14:39

I used to peel the segments too. Very satisfying.

DS did it again this morning, in front of his friend who was similarly appalled.

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AlmostCutMyHairToday · 20/04/2024 12:50

When I was that age I went through a phase of peeling the 'skin' / membrane off of each segment, like some kind of surgeon. At least his way is quicker!

effoffwind · 20/04/2024 12:30

I could try this if was from Terry's !!

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.