April 12, 2008...11:56 pm
What I love no. 17: Getting the peel off in one go
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Soooooooo satisfying. My dad, who is great, used to score my oranges “like a flower” for my lunchbox every day so that I could peel them easily with my podgy kiddie fingers. To this day, I always, always, always try to get the peel off in one (apart from the bit at the top I cut off automatically). If you manage, as I did this morning in the above picture, you can eat the orange, then carefully close up the flower again and try to trick your sister into thinking there is still fruit in there. See also: bananas.
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April 22, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Surely I never fell for the empty orange trick?!
April 24, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Ha, I bet she got you with the old boiled egg shell upside down, though…
Helen, I’m not sure how much credibility you would have had in my school with your little magical orange flower. Isn’t the accepted method of lunchbox orange preparation to slice it into individual mouth-sized segments, allowing the peel to be inserted between lips and teeth after eating, resulting in the ever-hilarious orange gumshield effect?
Having said that, I had to start asking my mum to secretly break the skin at the top of the banana in my lunchbox. There’d been a few times where I just hadn’t managed to crack it open myself, and it had got all bendy, and I’d had to put it back in the box and pretend I wasn’t hungry after all. It wasn’t like I was going to put my hand up and ask for help from the dinner lady.
April 24, 2008 at 10:05 pm
The most useful thing I ever learnt from a sermon in church was that monkeys always open bananas from the bottom because it’s much easier. Try it next time you’re struggling with the stalk end. You’ll never go back.
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