Down here the big citrus crop is oranges. You often see the big trucks towing a wire mesh trailer full of oranges on their way to the processing plant. Each trailer reportedly contains up to 19 million oranges. All so you can have orange juice with your breakfast.

We have a tangerine tree in our back garden absolutely bursting with fruit right now. In reminds me of that old Charlie Chaplin movie where he leans out of the window and picks an apple. Then he goes to the door and the cow is there waiting to give milk for his breakfast. This was a fantasy where he was explaining to Paulette Goddard how great it was going to be one day.

Well, we thought it would be great to squeeze our own juice for breakfast, until we found out it took 16 tangerines for one eight ounce glass of juice. To say nothing of all the pits that we had to pick out, approximately one million per eight ounces. Ah, the rural paradise!

There’s nothing like having a supermarket up the road and leave the tangerines to the birds and squirrels. That’s what I say.

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