When I worked in the grocery store, we sold them when they first appeared.  Delicious, but way too expensive, even for our customers.  That was 5 years ago.  I saw them in other local (big chain) stores at the time, but no-one was buying and they rapidly disappeared again.

They are like huge versions of the satsumas I enjoyed as a child in the UK, and you don't generally get those here.  Occasionally they show up as bagged clementines or mandarins.....but they taste totally different and are so much easier to peel.   I do miss satsumas.

monster wrote:

.....but they taste totally different and are so much easier to peel. 

If an orange is easier to peel, then is it really appealing?

Never mind.

 

Flint wrote:

how do these compare to the "Cuties" seedless mandarins? do y'all have those?

 
Cuties is just a brand here. It's not always the same type of fruit. Sometimes they are smaller and harder to peel and taste like clementines and sometimes larger and easier to peel and are sweeter

 This is the first I've seen these in the store ...

I remember seeing them in the 1950s.  Was told they were tangerines.
 

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