[Food] Where can I get a decent satsuma?

[Yes Chef]

That is a fine looking satsuma. May I ask where you bought it?

A catsuma, surely?

 

[Live by the sea]

Decent greengrocers or marks and spencer.

 

[Questions]

I lied.

I saw this pic floating around online and thought I'd share it with the class. I don't even have a cat.

If you have ever had a satsuma I think we can let this one go...

 

[LamieRobertson]

M&S last years winner for me.

Ye but probably gone off by now

 

[BensGrandad]

Give it another month and I will look in LIDL as most of their fruit and veg is quite good.

 

[Norman Potting]

I put one on my cat this morning, and made it look like an egg.

Post of the decade

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You’ve no idea how disappointed I am...

But not surprised, Shirley?

 

[Easy 10]

Post of the decade

Very kind, but I think you're over-egging it

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I lied.

I saw this pic floating around online and thought I'd share it with the class. I don't even have a cat.

Yes you did, that isn't a Satsuma it's a Clementine or a small Orange.
It's too Orange and shiny to be a Satsuma. A Satsuma would never be used as a feux egg yolk, whereas your Clementine is a dead ringer.

 

[Mr Putdown]

The small hard skinned ones are actually clementines and the easier to peel larger ones are satsumas. Supermarkets, especially, often mix them up.

That’s not necessarily always correct. Owari Satsumas are one of the smaller varieties which have a hard skin, unlike your Brown’s Select, Louisiana Early and Early St. Ann Satsumas which are easier to peel. The Armstrong Early is generally the variety that has loose, puffy skin and often tastes of nothing.

These days most supermarkets get round all this by describing whatever they are selling as ‘easy peelers’ or the like, saving themselves from specifying if it’s a clementine, satsuma, mandarin or a tangerine. The only exception is round Christmas when satsumas will be labelled as such as that’s what people expect. It’s bloody annoying as they taste completely different but you don’t know what your actually buying.

 

[Boroseagull]

Plenty of mandarins here, including a tree full of them in my garden. Try to find mandarin rather than satsuma which now only sell to the UK market. Mandarins have easy peel skin and much more flavour.

 

[monty uk]

Maybe the EU could cut a deal with China and export them to China where they can be re-packaged as a non EU product then exported to us as " Chinese " ? That will please our swivel eyed Brexit loons ?

Or we could smuggle then in from Northern Ireland. Any satsuma runners out there?

 

[Mr Putdown]

Try to find mandarin rather than satsuma which now only sell to the UK market.

Are you sure

 

[vegster]

Or we could smuggle then in from Northern Ireland. Any satsuma runners out there?

There could be problems with the NI locals though, dealing in black market Satsumas may be viewed as heresy by the Orange Order ?

 

[Questions]

Or we could smuggle then in from Northern Ireland. Any satsuma runners out there?

You could hide them in bags of cocaine

 

[Surf's Up]

When is a Satsuma not a Mandarin and not a Tangerine

 

[Mr Putdown]

When is a Satsuma not a Mandarin and not a Tangerine

When it’s a Citrus unshiu rather than a Citrus reticulata or a Citrus tangerina.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

When it’s a Citrus unshiu rather than a Citrus reticulata or a Citrus tangerina.

Show off.

 

[Mr Putdown]

Show off.

One of my neighbours owns a fruit import business.

I may have had some help..

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

When it’s a Citrus unshiu rather than a Citrus reticulata or a Citrus tangerina.

This is a question I have asked myself for many years, but never been bothered to research/get an answer. On seeing this question, I gleefully scrolled down to find this answer. I'm with Thunderbolt - show off. I am still none the wiser, although now more inspired to find the answer, although in the time it has taken me to reply to this thread, my curiosity could probably been answered. NSC seems to waste too much of my life