To Wish That Nursery Wouldn't Send "Difficult" Fruit Home With DD?

[MadameOvary]

DD gets a fruit bag every week home from nursery. She saw the clementine, she wanted it.
Cue me spending ages attempting to prise off one centimetre of peel at a time with my very inadequate fingernails, only to be anbushed with a teflon-like coating of pith underneath which I managed to remove eventually after spraying myself with sticky, stinky zest.
And then, to top it off, the bloody thing had seeds in it, which pushed all my PFB buttons so I had to remove those as well.
At which point I realised it was probably an orange not a clementine and taking a knife to it would have been more sensible

TG the damn thing was edible. If DD had made her "sour orange" face I would probably have wept.

It's ok nursery, I don't have laundry or cooking or cleaning to do, I can spend half an hour peeling a sodding orange and wiping up the mess afterwards, can't I?

I was a teacher 6 years ago - my very tough, inner-city 11 yr olds loved Heads Down, Thumbs Up (and yes, it was a game that allowed me to surf the internet catch up on paperwork )

You know, if you roll an orange around on the counter top/table for a few seconds before starting to peel it, it makes it much easier to peel and the pith sticks to the skin.

I think oranges are difficult. They spit in yer eye, they dye you, well, orange, under your hangnails, and they look like a badly grated ball of creamy felt when you're done, which is always long before the desired perfect orange sphere point in our house.

Our oranges look like they've some kind of citrus scabies when I finish with them, so we stick to mandarins or cut 'em up like they deserve.

You have my heartfelt empathy, if they don't send home grapes you should egg their staffroom.

LOl at Tina's Noodle Time. yep, is a Chinese restaurant chain that my kids (ha! to other thread) think is the bees knees. They're particularly impressed with the menu being laminated to the table...

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Why does she get a fruit bag btw?

Ahhh -good tip from Linnet and empathy from Snigger. All is well...

to take home with her I mean.

so how do italians eat bananas?

Any why do nursery send home fruit bags? Is this common? (again)

FWIW I never buy oranges for this very reason - Clementines only in our house [lazy].

Haha- I played Heads Down Thumbs Up with my class today. It calms them down if they're having a feisty day!

I find the problem with all oranges and orange-type fruits is that you never quite know how it will taste once you get in. It can be really disappointing to put in that much work unpeeling it and then getting a sour mess.

Contrarily enough, pomegranates seem like they should be difficult, but I've never met a better kid fascinator than a pomegranate and a pair of tweezers.

Yes, eyebrow tweezers.

Judge on.

I was hoping someone else would ask this question first, but what is head down thumbs up?

Heads Down Thumbs Up is how teachers kept control in the '70s.

All the kids sit with their heads down and thumbs up, and someone comes along and puts their thumbs down and er...
I've forgotten

As MadameOvary began.... there are 4 children who are 'on', all the others have their heads down (eyes closed) on their desks with their arms resting by their heads with thumbs up. The 4 children each pick a child and press their thumbs down then return to the front of the class. The four 'chosen ones' have to guess who picked them. If they are correct they take their place, if not, the chooser gets to play again.

OMG!! It's sounds so boring but they love it!!

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ahhh, its tweezers for a pomegranate then... my mum used to give me a pin! i regularly pricked my tongue

op i sympathise

fantastic gadget

Apparently nobody is eating (and therefore buying) oranges these days as they are so "difficult"

We are all opting instead of bananas and grapes and other easy stuff.

Life in the noughties is just too short to peel an orange daaahling...

Oh you all know I meant "opting *for" bananas " etc

Why can I never write a post and not make a mistake gaaaahh

I'm 31 and I remember HDTU. Maybe my school was retro.

As for oranges. Pfffft. They're the cocklodgers of the fruit world, as far as I'm concerned. It's all take take take with them - peel me, remove my pith, extact my seeds, I don't know what's wrong with you my MOTHER had no problems serving freshly squeezed orange juice every morning.

thank you littledawley!
and Tina, PMSL at waking and calling the teacher Mum! Did that actually happen?