General Chat

What about the lemon and orange jelly fruit slices (are those the Just Jellies?)

They were covered in sugar, very sweet and sickly, arranged in a circle in a cardboard box.

Wow Carol busy busy! :-)

I tried to get some of those tiny crackers to go on the tree one year.

Couldn't find any as little as I remembered.

There was always a red jelly in the centre of the display of orange and lemon slices.

The chocolates I was thinking of were Neopolitans :-D :-D

Also we used to make the place cards to sit at the table,and decide where everyone was sitting, the 3 of us always tried to avoid sitting by Mum as she would keep saying eat abit more,and have more greens :-0 :-D ;-) Nan always had to have an exit so she could have her sneaky fags in the garden :-D

I had some individually wrapped tangerines from my local greengrocer at the weekend.

Lavender - I too recall those orange and lemon slices in a round box :-D

mandarin orange v. tangerine v. clementine v. satsuma
Friday, December 11, 2009

Mandarin oranges are oblate, loose-skinned, easily eaten sweet or tart citrus fruits that can range from egg to grapefruit size. Mandarins were brought to Europe from China in 1805, and their name derives from the bright orange color of the robes worn by Chinese officials at the time. There are many varieties of mandarin oranges, including tangerines, clementines, and satsumas.

Tangerines have a deep red-orange exterior, and are named after Tangier, Morocco, the port through which they first reached the West.

A clementine is a seedless hybrid of a tangerine and a bitter orange, cultivated in Spain and North Africa. Although they were named for Father Clément Rodier, an Algerian monk, clementines were probably developed in Asia.

The satsuma is a Japanese variety, with a very easily peeled skin. Most canned mandarin oranges are satsumas.

Why are tangerines so hard to find?
WHO, WHAT, WHY?
The Magazine answers...


For most of the nation, tangerines are associated with a Christmas stocking.

The orange citrus fruit was traditionally found nestled there with no more than some nuts and a few chocolate coins - if you were lucky - so their discovery was sometimes tinged with disappointment.

But the frustration these days is when asking for tangerines while shopping in one of the major supermarkets. The chances are that the reply will be they are not stocked. So why have they disappeared?

It all comes down to fashion and names, according to fruit buyers for the big supermarkets. Tangerine is the old name for mandarin, which is a generic term for the citrus fruit of several trees. The name started to be phased out in the 1960s, in favour of its more exotic-sounding alternative.

any more nostalgia?

Ann so the info on your last two posts at 1038 and 1039 seem to differ re tangerines as they have a description of both mandarine and tangerine that are not exactly the same.

Yes,,,,,,,,,a proper skipping rope was a christmas favourite,,,,,large wooden handles with ball bearing ,painted with multi coloured hoops and a good strong rope, one always seemed to make its way into the presents.

oh and a box of hankies,,,,all embroidered with little flowers,

and bath cubes with matching talc crept in at about aged 12/13 usually from a relative...then it became something I bought mum..... :-D

where did the net chocolate stocking go? nowdays they are used for pet christmas treats, :-D

I kept the net stockings I used for the children for years, same ones every year, Never seemed the same not using the net ones. A couple of years ago I found one in the decorations box. It must have been 50 years old. I don't think i have got it now. :-D

Yes bath cubes and bath salts. We had an elderly couple living with their daughter and family next door to us and I used to make them up a little box of presents when I was about 11-14 years old. I'd make a decoration out of twigs and baubles, fill and decorate a glass jar with bath salts, that sort of thing. The bath salts always seemed to be Rose, hate the synthetic rose smell now, wonder if they hated them then. :-D

a whip and top - great fun - taking one to school and in break time dashing in the classroom to use the blackboard chalks to colour the tops - brill :-D

Great thread Ann,so many memories of long ago :-D :-D

Avon Pretty Peach bubble bath, and Aqua Manda when I was older :-D

Jackie Annual of course...

Judy and Bunty Annuals for me!

:-) :-) :-)

French knitting - an empty cotton reel, 4 nails in the top, a ball of 'rainbow' wool and a crochet hook.

or a cardboard milk bottle top with the "straw" hole pushed out - then wind wool around and around the top and cut the edges and hey presto - you have a pom pom!!!

Pom pom makers!

http://www.sewandso.co.uk/ran2264-0.html

A Girls World :-D :-D