The Cellar / Sumo Oranges

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/07/2024 2:15 am

This is the first I've seen these in the store, they had a display right at the entrance of Sumo Oranges and Clementines.
The Sumo were $9.99 for 6 of them, very easy to peel, only a couple seeds, tastes like a navel orange.
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**Posted by monster** 1/08/2024 1:27 am

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.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/08/2024 2:46 am

Just for the hell of it I looked on Amazon. Said the season in January through April.
Sumos
~ 8 lb for $79.99
~ 4 lb for $42.60
~ 3 ft sumo Mandarin tree $129.97 + $9.99 shipping

The pictures of the Dekopons looked the same as the Sumos
Fresh Dekopon Tangerines Oranges 2 lb $28.33
Kejora Fresh Jumbo Dekopon Mandarin 4 LBS $42.99
Sumo Dekopan 3 lb for $7.99 This one...
$2.62 each ($3.49 lb) and this one had good reviews

They also had...
Satsuma Mandarins - 4 lb $30.00
Fresh Satsuma Mandarin from California 4 lb $32.99
Satsuma Mandarins - 2.5 lb $26.40
Satsuma Mandarins - 6 pound box - $33.00 shipped to cont. US, $39.00 ??? WTF ?

Lot of bad reviews on most of them, dry, rotten, moldy

**Posted by tw** 1/08/2024 11:36 am

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.

**Posted by Flint** 1/08/2024 1:32 pm

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

**Posted by monster** 1/08/2024 1:57 pm

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

**Posted by Flint** 1/08/2024 5:38 pm

..you're right, they are different sometimes, but I didn't realize that was a whole different type..

===the more you know

**Posted by tw** 1/09/2024 10:16 am

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

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

Last edited by tw (1/09/2024 10:16 am)