Blood oranges ROCK! Mike On Aug 3, 2013 4:44 PM, "Gary Hurst" <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the best oranges i've ever eaten were blood oranges bought at a grove in > central florida > > i at a diner in bradenton last year at a diner and the bus boy was carrying > a glass of orange juice. i told him that i bet that orange juice came from > a can, probabl purchased at walmart, and the juice came from brasil, even > though there are nothing but orange groves for miles around him. he just > laughed and told me that this was true but the irony of it never struck him > till that moment > > i once went to see the mixon groves in bradenton. had a cup of fresh > squeezed. commented that it tasted like tropicana. young richard mixon (i > told him that he was not a crook. somehow it's funny to me but i imagine > it's less funny when you've heard it from 10,000 other tourist)( just > laughed and asked me what i expected it to taste like given that tropicana > orange juice is bradenton oranges > > of course, today your tropicana orange juice is no longer all bradenton > oranges as housing is worth more than groves, so they just buy their > oranges from brasil like everybody else. > > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net > >wrote: > > > By law Florida citrus must be picked green, passed in the early 1900's > > when it took a week to get to New York. > > > > Stupid law, there is nothing as good as properly ripened Florida oranges. > > Almost impossible to find now, though, as the best growing area is now > > houses. > > > > Peter > > > > > > ______________________________**_________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/< > http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com< > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > > > > > -- > *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars > > * > *www.BuyEUROparts.com* > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
