"Easy Peelers".

We have two trees of ‘Ponkan’ oranges. Must be famous since one of the roads I drive regularly is named Ponkan. This orange is a type of tangerine I guess. They really taste good when sweet and people at work enjoy them.

Ponkans are especially enjoyable because they are easy to peel – hence the nickname of “easy peelers”. The skin just falls off in huge sections exposing great tasting innards. Navels are great too but forget peeling one of those babies unless you have some fingernails that are no longer needed. Better to just cut into chunks and eat.

Easy peelers tend to produce fruit in alternate years (i.e.one year’s good harvest followed by a year of poor yield). Our trees have only missed a crop one year out of the last eight. I could expound on our vast arsenal of horticultural tricks here but will digress.

This year we have a good crop of easy peelers. Every year they fool me as it doesn't look like there will be much fruit but they seem to come out of nowhere. That is good since four bags are going to work today and the halls will echo with those famous words “the easy peelers are here – yum yum.”