Orange ya glad I didn't say banana again?

“A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away!” Willie Loman
The orange is actually a berry, for they have many seeds, called pips, fleshy pulp and derive from a single ovary. The citrus genus of berries is classed as hesperidia, which denotes a berry with a rough skin of oil filled glands encasing segments, or carpels, with juice-filled vesicles, which are really specialized hair cells. Most sources say the orange came from around China, paleontologists have found seeds as old as 20 million years; cultivated oranges appeared as early as 2500 B.C. The bitter orange was known in ancient Rome through her eastern conquests, but didn’t begin to spread throughout Europe until the Moorish conquests of the 11th century. Orange cultivation exploded near the end of the 15th century as sweet varieties made their way from India. Almost all citrus easily interbreeds to form many varieties, ranging from bitter to sour to sweet. Brazil has become the largest producer of oranges and orange juice, doubling the output of #2 U.S.A. The navel is the result of mutation at a Brazilian monastery, which are easy to peel and have few seeds. Valencias and Hamlins are popular sweet juicing oranges; blood oranges have a deep burgundy to slightly red tinged flesh.

If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. Audrey Foris