Yes Chef
Well-known member
A catsuma, surely?
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[Food] Where can I get a decent satsuma?
- Thread starter Me and my Monkey
- Start date
A catsuma, surely?
Live by the sea
Well-known member
- Oct 21, 2016
- 4,718
Decent greengrocers or marks and spencer.
If you have ever had a satsuma I think we can let this one go...
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
BensGrandad
New member
Give it another month and I will look in LIDL as most of their fruit and veg is quite good.
Norman Potting
Well-known member
But not surprised, Shirley?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Post of the decade
Very kind, but I think you're over-egging it
Raleigh Chopper
New member
Yes you did, that isn't a Satsuma it's a Clementine or a small Orange.
It's too Orange and shiny to be a Satsuma. A Satsuma would never be used as a feux egg yolk, whereas your Clementine is a dead ringer.
Mr Putdown
Well-known member
That’s not necessarily always correct. Owari Satsumas are one of the smaller varieties which have a hard skin, unlike your Brown’s Select, Louisiana Early and Early St. Ann Satsumas which are easier to peel. The Armstrong Early is generally the variety that has loose, puffy skin and often tastes of nothing.
These days most supermarkets get round all this by describing whatever they are selling as ‘easy peelers’ or the like, saving themselves from specifying if it’s a clementine, satsuma, mandarin or a tangerine. The only exception is round Christmas when satsumas will be labelled as such as that’s what people expect. It’s bloody annoying as they taste completely different but you don’t know what your actually buying.
Boroseagull
Well-known member
Plenty of mandarins here, including a tree full of them in my garden. Try to find mandarin rather than satsuma which now only sell to the UK market. Mandarins have easy peel skin and much more flavour.
Or we could smuggle then in from Northern Ireland. Any satsuma runners out there?
Mr Putdown
Well-known member
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,892
There could be problems with the NI locals though, dealing in black market Satsumas may be viewed as heresy by the Orange Order ?
You could hide them in bags of cocaine
Mr Putdown
Well-known member
When is a Satsuma not a Mandarin and not a Tangerine
When it’s a Citrus unshiu rather than a Citrus reticulata or a Citrus tangerina.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
When it’s a Citrus unshiu rather than a Citrus reticulata or a Citrus tangerina.
Show off.
Mr Putdown
Well-known member
Lindfield by the Pond
Well-known member
When it’s a Citrus unshiu rather than a Citrus reticulata or a Citrus tangerina.
This is a question I have asked myself for many years, but never been bothered to research/get an answer. On seeing this question, I gleefully scrolled down to find this answer. I'm with Thunderbolt - show off. I am still none the wiser, although now more inspired to find the answer, although in the time it has taken me to reply to this thread, my curiosity could probably been answered. NSC seems to waste too much of my life
