Satsuma watch

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WHERE ARE THE SATSUMAS?? I’ve been looking for a couple of weeks ans they usually appear at the end of October, but there are none to be found in Aldi, Waitrose or Co-op. I remember there not being any around last year either so suspect that this is all down to bloody Brexit. And, no, tangerines or clementines or “easy peelers” are not an acceptable substitute.

Has anyone spotted any? They are my favourite fruit and I look forward to them all year.

I thought clementines were the official “Christmassy” orange?

What’s better about satsumas?

what are the ones Lidl do in the nice orange box, with the leaves still on?

There have been some in Sainsbury’s here. Bizarrely they have been around over the summer, which seemed wrong!

Glad to see this back, thank you @Wjdbxb ! And good spot @MaturingCheeseball with your hidden gems.

@devonsevon11 satsumas taste nice, all the others don't. Everyone else in my family think I am bonkers for even being able to tell them apart but this thread is a sanctuary for those of us who do.

I have probably said this before but I wonder if it's a genetic thing, like being able to smell asparagus in wee. Maybe we perceive the flavours differently to most people. Because it is not subtle. Satsumas taste delicious whereas I could barely stomach eating an easy peeler, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.

Yep @Mogwatch , we here are most definitely in possession of discerning tastebuds. I wonder if there are any jobs for official satsuma tasters? Sort of like a truffle pig…

Last year I found the motherload in our local farm shop at the garden centre. Other than that is was very hit and miss as to wether any of our local supermarkets had satsumas.

Yes I find the others too sharp. Really dislike grapefruit and that is where easy peelers go taste wise for me…..

Yes, the "easy peelers" label seems to get randomly applied (Morrisons here), and though they are usually a tight-skinned variety, occasionally they are satsumas.

I can remember when there were only tangerines, and you got one in the bottom of your stocking from Father Christmas. Apart from that they were strictly rationed by my invariably skint DPs, and we only had them at Christmas anyway.

defini Sainsburys

@Mogwatch I didn't know being able to smell asparagus in wee was a genetic thing. Definitely me. I am also someone for whom coriander tastes like soap. And obvs satsumas are in a class of their own, completely different from everything else, and having seen this thread again I am immediately going out to see if I can find some. Well met, fellow satsuma lovers. :)

I have found my people! I've been ranting about this for years. Fucking "easy peelers" 🙄. They never are, either, compared to a proper tangy satsuma.

Sainsburys and Ocado are usually good although Ocado has been more hit and miss in recent years.

Plenty of satsumas in our big Tesco

I'm on my second lot (read 4 bags) so far, they're a little on the smaller side, but the flavours been good.
Not seen them anywhere else yet, I keep checking m&s but no joy yet!

None in my local Big Tesco and there’s no Sainsbury’s near me. Will try M&S tomorrow as they had some lovely ones last year 🤞

I'm doing my on line tesco shop right now. Yesterday there were none. Just checked again and they are there!! But not great reviews. Dry and tasteless apparently. Still, I'll give them a go.

Has there ever been a greater wrong than "easy peelers"??

Anyway I've had two bags in Sainsbo so far. They weren't the greatest specimens. Off to try the coop.

The M&S ones weren’t in a bag, but individuals, and labelled “easy peelers”. But my discerning eye spotted the potential and, sure enough, I could declare them “satsumas”.

Those dry mini things, even if labelled satsumas, are contravening the Satsuma Descriptions Act.

I ordered some from Sainsbury's yesterday but they substituted them with very pale looking easy peelers.

Sainsburies has some. Yes, they are different and I love them!

I saw a nice necklace with a tiny tangerine on it in a local shop
Was very excited at the thought of a satsuma watch!
I do love a satsuma

I get satsumas from my local vegetable shop .
DH said his father got a satsuma and ONLY a satsuma for Xmas 🎄. Rationing after the war .

Not too small, fire stick remote for scale.
I'll have another look in m&s, don't think they had any loose anything though.

They look very pleasing! Bottom-of-stocking worthy, in fact!

Which ones have the extra pith attached to the longer curve of each segment and can be peeled away as a web by a carefully appblied fingernail? So satisfying.

I've been looking as well.

DH said I need to check the bags to see what variety they were , but like others here I can see in one glance if they are satsumas or orange balls of disappointment.