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GF brought home a 3 pound bag of navel oranges

there's only 5, MASSIVE oranges in the bag.

so by that logic each of 'em is roughly 3/5ths of a pound.

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@nautilee do those even count as oranges or are they grapefruit at that point

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@Felthry

grapefruits are a separate type of citrus entirely with a different flavor and color

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@nautilee yeah, I know--I was being kinda facetious

grapefruit is about that size though

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@Felthry

yeah for a second I was afraid she might have grabbed the wrong fruit I had to double check the bag

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@nautilee apparently grapefruit is actually a hybrid between sweet (navel) orange and pomelo (and sweet orange is itself a hybrid of pomelo and mandarin) so they're surprisingly close to the same fruit for two fruits that are not the same fruit

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@nautilee citrus taxonomy is *weird*

*every* citrus fruit is some kind of hybrid of three or four progenitor fruits, the mandarin, pomelo, citron, and sometimes papeda

of those, the mandarin and citron are the only ones that are really worth eating; the papeda is supposedly incredibly bitter, and the pomelo is like a grapefruit except the peel is like half the thickness of the fruit

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@Felthry

meanwhile these fruits are... confusing? the flesh is grapefruit colored, they're grapefruit size... but they're in a bag marked "Sweet seedless oranges" and they've got the classic navel second fruit growth inside the top of the main fruit body.

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@nautilee they might be a different strain than normal? Do they taste like oranges?

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@nautilee it seems like the larger fruits always taste blander, it's like there's a fixed amount of juice per fruit and when the fruit is bigger it's less concentrated

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@nautilee i don' think that's actually the case, but it feels like it a lot of the time

it's why we go for smaller apples and stuff when we get them from the store

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@Felthry

fair! Tbh I do know of a couple of exceptions right off the bat - fuji apples taste pretty great no matter the size so I much prefer the huge ones of those.

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