Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Conversation Bites Tiny Tangerine is Serious Citrus
Posted by Dana Kopp Franklin on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:38 AM
No, what really fascinated me was the variation in size amongst the tangerines. I'm used to the traditional corporate food industry imperative to cultivate fruit in uniform sizes, shapes and colors. While the color of these citrus orbs was a consistently deep, passionate orange, the sizes were wildly diverse.
- The world's tiniest tangerine shown in comparison to my husband's Hank Aaron baseball. I have cheated only slightly using perspective.
Finally, you may ask, how did the word's tiniest tangerine taste? I cannot say. It was so small, I lost it.
I was hoping to take it for a snack at work. It may be somewhere deep in a crevice of a coat pocket, or tucked in a corner of a currently unused purse. Web research indicates honey tangerines last only a few days outside the refrigerator.
We'll see what turns up some day: the world's tiniest dessicated tangerine, or some furry, moldy little globe now beyond our imagining.
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Oh my gosh. Is this what awaits in the new world of nonstandard, organic fruit? So small we lose them in our purses?
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